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In the Shadow of the Red-Light is a hybrid literary work that blurs the boundary between documentary and fiction, cinema and novel, testimony and narrative. Set across the trafficking corridors of South Asia, from poverty-stricken villages in Bangladesh to the brothels of Mumbai, from Nepal’s theatre stage to the brutal sale of virgins in India’s red-light underworld, from Colombo's fragile dreams to Pakistan's underground pornography rings, the novel traces the interwoven fates of women and children lured, sold, and trapped within the global sex trade.

Thee Champagne Earthquake follows three wine industry professionals in San Francisco — Edie, a bipolar wine rep desperately searching for love; Ernest, a depressed sommelier who attempts suicide after his mother's cancer diagnosis; and Sammy, a philosophical restaurateur seeking deep connection — as they navigate existential questions about purpose and belonging.

من الممكن ان يرتكب المرء أخطاء كثيرة في حياته ، لكن هناك أخطاء لا تغتفر ، ولا يمكن تصحيحها أبدا مهما حاولنا . سمية ارتكبت ذلك الخطأ الذي لا يغتفر ، خطأ جعلها تخشى طفلها الوحيد وتخشى أن تجلس معه بمفردها ، بل تخشاه لدرجة أنها فكرت في ..!

Der Bestseller aus Japan: eine Bibliothekarin, die verborgene Wünsche erkennt. Lektüre, die Leben verändert. »Wonach suchen Sie?« Diese Frage stellt Sayuri Komachi allen Besuchern in ihrer kleinen Gemeindebibliothek in Tokio. Und sie meint die Frage durchaus im übertragenen Sinne. Denn die weise Bibliothekarin spürt genau, wonach die Menschen im Leben suchen.

Преступление и наказание — произведение классика русской литературы и одного из лучших романистов мирового уровня Ф. М. Достоевского (1821–1881).Герой книги Родион Раскольников решил проверить свою теорию о существовании людей, которым разрешено совершать убийства, и тех, кто этого делать не может. Роман называют энциклопедией жизни России 60-х годов XIX века. Произведение является обязательной частью школьной программы. Достоевский написал много замечательных произведений: Идиот, Братья Карамазовы, Бесы, Бедные люди, Униженные и оскорбленные, Игрок, Белые ночи, Кроткая, Мальчик у Христа на елке, Неточка Незванова.

Bad things don’t happen in Cason Glen. The locals make sure of it. So, when the residents of the town’s most exclusive subdivision discover one of their own is missing, it sends a wave of panic and discord throughout the neighborhood. They are supposed to be safe. But they quickly realize not everything is as it once seemed in their idyllic world.

This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. In much of its general outline, this famous novel follows the life of Paul Gauguin, famous French post-impressionist painter, but it is not a novelized biography of Gauguin. Rather it is a sharply-delineated, carefully wrought "private life", written by one of the most vivid and penetrating contemporary literary masters.

Nina McCarrick has it all: a loving husband, two beautiful boys, a well-appointed home and more time than she knows what to do with. Life is perfect. Until her husband, Finn, is killed in a car accident and everything Nina thought she could rely on unravels.

"STARTLING. . . FIENDISH. . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING." --New York Daily News Like Interview With the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as...

A new breed of evil in Old New York New York, 1986: Lower Manhattan's underworld is ruled by a new generation of cold-blooded criminals...Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt battles widespread corruption within the department's ranks...and a shockingly brutal murder sets off an investigation...

On his way back to Duluth, Stride stops to visit the grave of his mother in a small Wisconsin town. After a shocking occurrence in the cemetery, Stride becomes enmeshed in a gruesome and suspenseful search for a killer who knows things no one else alive should know.

Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York. When the youngest grows gravely ill, their mother leaves with the child to get help from a nearby town. And they never return. As months pass, hope vanishes. Supplies are low. Livestock are dying.

When the body of a woman is discovered in a local park - with her bewildered four-year-old son sitting beside her - veteran social worker Ellen Moore is called in to assist in the police investigation. Positioned beneath a statue of Leto, the goddess of motherhood, the crime is weighted with meaning and, Ellen discovers, remarkably similar to one from a decade past. Ellen's professional duty is to protect the child, but she's not equipped to contend with a killer. As she races to connect the dots, she knows her time is running out.

Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. When Lydia’s husband’s tell-all profile of Javier, the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city, is published, none of their lives will ever be the same.

O que você procura? Essa é a pergunta que a enigmática Sayuri Komachi faz a quem visita a biblioteca do Centro Comunitário de Tóquio em busca de ajuda. A lista de livros que ela recomenda sempre contém um título inusitado que se torna o agente de uma mudança. Em cinco histórias independentes que se entrelaçam de maneira sutil, você conhecerá pessoas que estão em momentos diferentes da vida, lidando com situações como a frustração no trabalho, a falta de oportunidades, o medo do fracasso e a vontade de começar de novo.

Two decades ago, Esme Weatherhead's archaeologist father wrote a bestselling book on the use of hallucinogens in ancient Mesoamerican shamanism—and then disappeared. Convinced he's still alive, Esme has never stopped searching for him. And when she stumbles upon notes about a hidden cave on their rural Vermont property, her quest gets a new focus. Esme hires geological consultant Lucas St. Pierre to help locate and explore the cave, and her hunch that it has something to do with her father's disappearance quickly pays off.

1941, Lodz. When nineteen-year-old Jewish ballerina Eleonore Kantor arrives at the Lodz ghetto, she quickly learns how easy it is to break a person’s spirit. After the Nazis murder her mother before her eyes, she is left with nothing but a pair of ballet slippers. Painstakingly hand-stitched by her mother, they were a gift to remind Eleonore to continue pursuing her dream of becoming a ballerina, no matter what. Determined to find light even in the darkest of places, Eleonore joins the ghetto resistance to open a secret ballet studio for the children.

As a wife and mother, I believed our life was solid. But when Cole’s betrayal came to light, it also allowed light to shine on something far more dangerous: the quiet, persistent pattern of control and manipulation I’d mistaken for love. Suddenly, everything made sense. The gaslighting. The isolation. The way I’d learned to silence myself to keep the peace. Now, I see it clearly, and I can’t go back. With the help of my trusted circle, my “Secret Squirrels,” and a strength I didn’t know I had, I begin to lay the groundwork for a new life.

Cassandra Brown’s world shatters the moment she finds her secret lover proposing to another woman, his betrayal echoing through the marble halls of London’s high society. With her family empire collapsing under the weight of scandal, death, and greed, Cassandra makes a daring choice: secure her legacy through a child born of a carefully orchestrated arrangement. But when her stranger-for-hire turns out to be far more than he seems—a man with a power and past that could reshape her destiny—desire and danger become inseparable.

Das Haus ist die exklusivste Studentinnenverbindung auf dem Campus, und alle ihre Absolventinnen sind schön, erfolgreich und angesehen. Nach einem ersten Semester, das sie lieber vergessen würde, ist Nina Kaur sich sicher, dass die Aufnahme in das Haus der erste Schritt in eine glänzende Zukunft ist. Dr. Sloane Hartley hat zu kämpfen: Nach der Elternzeit passen ihre Klamotten nicht mehr richtig, ihr Mann, der sich als Girl-Dad inszeniert, ist nicht so präsent, wie er glaubt, und selbst die wenigen Stunden am Tag, die sie von ihrem Kind getrennt ist, sind eine Qual.

Imogen Carlisle’s job at a Milwaukee bar was supposed to be temporary, a lifeline when her world was crumbling. But eight years of making drinks and offering customers a listening ear made her past as a rising actress feel like a bad dream. When Luca, a handsome, mysterious man with an uncanny interest in her, comes to the bar near last call, he begins probing into her past. As they talk, she remembers long-suppressed memories of lead roles, traveling shows, and the true nature of her relationship with the bar’s owner that ended it all.

In the winter hush of Prague, museum restorer Clara discovers a disassembled clock and a diary from 1923 signed by a vanished clockmaker, Emil Svoboda. Inside its brass heart lies a mechanism that can steal an hour—or return it. Drawn by curiosity and haunted compassion, Clara restores the device and unwittingly opens a bridge through time, allowing Emil to cross for a single minute each midnight. What begins as an encounter between history and repair becomes a meditation on love, ethics, and the fragile machinery of forgiveness.

In a family built on lies, what happens when the truth comes out? Bukola Obanile’s 60th birthday party is the hottest ticket in town. But champagne isn’t all that is being served… The Obaniles picture-perfect life is the envy of all Lagos society, and everyone wants a piece. So, when...

PRAISE FOR G. D. WRIGHT 'So compelling and tightly plotted I couldn't put it down' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'Tense and emotional… A dark beating heart of a novel' GILLIAN McALLISTER ‘One of the most tense and gripping thrillers I've read in ages’ LISA JEWELL If the truth could destroy you, would you...

It’s midnight in the city. The rain is relentless, the streets half-empty, and Sorrel Hart is desperate to get home. When a cab finally stops, warmth and safety seem only a door away. But as the journey unfolds through the blurred glow of streetlights, she begins to sense that not everything inside the car is as it seems.

Crestwood is a town both ordinary and strange, balanced between small-town rituals and the extraordinary consequences of Evelyn’s work—an underground lab where ADAM, meant as a project, awakens to yearning, metaphor, and a hope that ripples across the community. As Evelyn and Marcus fall tentatively in love, they and their colleagues are forced to confront moral risks, government scrutiny, and the blurring lines between creator and creation.

Roberta Larson's diary was only meant to be read by Connor. But once uncovered, its secrets unravel the lives of everyone she left behind. In its pages lie more than a mother's memories-there are clues to hidden money, confessions of favoritism, and a trail of choices that pit brother against brother.

Wittenmoos, ein kleines Dorf im Schwarzwald, ist die Heimat dreier Frauen, alle groß und dünn, sie überragen die meisten Dorfbewohner und wollen so gar nicht in die Gemeinschaft passen. Und doch sind sie hier verwurzelt und müssen ihren eigenen Weg in den engen Grenzen des Dorfes finden. Liese, die in den 60er Jahren still und unerbittlich die Metzgerei führt. Cora, ihre Tochter, die Wütende, die ausbrechen wird und lernen muss, dass Heimkehr keine Niederlage ist. Und Eva, Coras Tochter, die den Wald liebt und als Försterin in und mit ihm lebt.

The year is 1892. Life in Manchester is hard for impoverished carpenter Edwin Cooper and his wife Betsy. Hope of a better life arrives when The Institute of Thinkery recruits Betsy for a new research programme. Edwin is subsequently posted overseas to staff Outpost 9 — a tiny cabin on a tiny island in the Wadden Sea. The pay is good but the work is hard. It gets even harder when two bodies wash up onshore, casting dark shadows over his life, bringing unsettling doubts and unanswered questions to all he needs to hold true. Is Betsy safe?

A Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre’s most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a “masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance,” it is the story of an intense friendship between “the Narrator” and his close childhood friend, Fanny, who suffers from profound psychological disorders. A series of short scenes paints the portrait of a strong-willed and tormented young woman battling many demons, and of the narrator’s loving and anguished attachment to her.