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After her own mother mysteriously disappears, seventeen-year-old Alicia turns up on her godmother's doorstep and asks if she can stay. Carina can't say no to the godchild she hasn't seen in over a decade. And in a way, Alicia is the daughter she always wanted—she's so smart and driven, and definitely scholarship material. Carina is only too happy to help this brilliant young woman achieve her full potential. But husband Don and children Tegan and Arthur aren't so sure. There's something about Alicia… Is she just too good to be true?

The disregard of a dying woman's bequest, a girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage of an idealist and a materialist - all these narratives intersect at an estate called Howards End. The fate of this country home symbolizes the future of England in an exploration of social, economic, and philosophical trends during the post-Victorian era.

Vidas Secas conta a história de uma família pobre da região seca do Nordeste e sua luta diária por trabalho e comida para sobreviver e superar as dificuldades do ambiente árido em que vive.

A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our lives have meaning.

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author! A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an...

In a renovated Gothic church on Long Island lives Jonathan Hemlock, an art professor and a world-renowned mountain climber who finances his black-market art collection by working as a freelance assassin. Now, Hemlock is being tricked into a hazardous assignment that involves an attempt to scale one of the most treacherous mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps: the Eiger. His target is one of his three fellow climbers. The problem is that the CII can't tell him which one.

El gran regreso de Mario Mendoza a la ficción después de cinco años. Adán Santana, un novelista con el cuerpo desbaratado y maltrecho por varios accidentes sucesivos, con un precario estado mental, que menguó sus fuerzas y su espíritu, sobrevivió como pudo al encierro de la pandemia y ahora es un náufrago inmóvil. La humanidad no cambió un ápice tras la prueba extrema que experimentó y él, en medio de ese caos, no sabe cómo retomar el rumbo, si es que aún existe alguno, después de todo lo que ha pasado.

A desperate young man plans the perfect crime - the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old woman no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime - to transgress moral law - if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, and a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious, and social commentary.

Twenty years ago Emily Mills's father was murdered, and she found his body hanging in the backyard. Her younger sister, Madison, claims she was asleep in her room. Her older sister, Tara, claims she was out with friends. The tragedy drove their mother to suicide and Tara to leave town forever. The killer was caught. The case closed. Ever since, Emily and Madison have tried to forget what happened that night - until an eerily similar murder brings it all back.

It's 1921 in Widow's Peak, a gloomy fishing village on the south coast of New South Wales. Nineteen-year-old Missy Green fills her days helping her fisherman father on his trawler, and spending time with her grandfather, the town's reclusive lighthouse keeper. It's a dreary existence. Everything in her sea salt-soaked life is upended, though, when she glimpses something in the water—a mermaid ominously staring at her.

Dostoevsky’s narrator is the anonymous voice of the masterful novella. Retired and isolated from society, he is bitter, contemptuous, and contemplative as he presents his anecdotes and philosophical outlooks. Presented as an extract from the narrator’s memoirs, Notes from the Underground is divided into two parts. Opening with a monologue attacking Western philosophy, Dostoevsky follows this theoretical exploration with the anti-hero’s accounts of various destructive and restorative life experiences.

The Village Where the Fish Don’t Swim Straight is a haunting, lyrical journey into a coastal town that has slipped from history… and perhaps from reality itself. Once known for its proud fishermen and vibrant shoreline, the village now stands half-forgotten, eroded by storms, silence, and secrets no one dares to speak. At its edge lives a narrator who has returned to unravel why the sea behaves strangely… why the names of places are disappearing… and why the villagers seem to remember only what hurts.

Sloane is a quick-witted storyteller, with a flair for the outlandish. From psych wards to grave robbers, she’s witnessed some peculiar things in her nearly eighty years. But the story her daughter, Rynn, yearns to hear most, is the one story Sloane never tells. When, in 1954, inside the cozy nook of Riverton, Sloane watched helplessly as a shot ripped apart her idyllic childhood. After an aging Sloane has a brush with death, Rynn fears the truth behind that tragic night will stay buried forever unless she does the one thing she’s promised never to do—ask her mother to reveal what happened.

Lexie Brooker—a down-to-earth grandmother, retired landscape architect and dog lover—begins to question her reality. Is she imagining the strange new room in her apartment, the unfamiliar books on her nightstand, and the dead people casually chatting on her couch? Or has she somehow stumbled into a parallel version of her life? As Lexie navigates this bizarre new world, she must decide: does she want to return to her old life, and if so, how in any world can she find her way back?

Acusada de robo, vive confinada en la casa de un extraño, lo que da pie a una reflexión profunda y muy íntima que la protagonista pone por escrito en un cuaderno dirigido a un destinatario concreto: su primer amor, y con este ejercicio confesional da cuenta de su vulnerabilidad ante los hombres que aparentan protegerla, pero que de modo inexorable la van anulando hasta cerrar sobre ella los muros de una prisión de la que solo podrá escapar por medio de las palabras.

“[A] domestic drama with the adrenalin-fueled beating heart of a thriller.”—Elle “Beautifully written and carefully observed . . . King is a wildly talented writer.” —Chicago Tribune Fifteen years ago Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant at elite Fayer Academy. She has since become...

Touch the Grass is an emotional rollercoaster ride for the main character Jason, as he navigates through a series of dramatic changes and events in his life. The story unfolds through the lens of online influence on young people, how seductive it is even to the sceptic. It calls into question online recruitment of young people by vested interests, and how dangerous this is to society as a whole.

Arden Rivers has rebuilt her life and her walls brick by fragile brick, determined not to be defined by the shadows of her past. But when roses appear at her door—perfect, blood-red, deliberate—so do the notes. Intimate. Intrusive. Written by someone who knows her too well.

Process is an intimate and intense journey into the life of a young woman who has lost everything but still holds on to hope. Through trials and triumphs, she continues to live, documenting her tragedies and joys, sometimes crying as she types and laughing along the way. This book offers a relatable narrative for anyone, except perhaps younger children, though certain excerpts could resonate with teens.

In der meisterhaften Erzählung Der schwarze Mönch von Anton Tschechow gerät die Welt des Gelehrten Kowrin aus den Fugen und verliert sich zwischen Vision und Realität. Von seinem eigenen Ergeiz getrieben glaubt er einem übernatürlichen Wesen begegnet zu sein: Der schwarze Mönch. Es beginnt als Erleuchtung, wird aber mehr und mehr zu einem Strudel aus Größenwahn, geistiger Ekstase und seelischem Verfall. Intensiv zeigt Tschechow in dieser Novelle, wie schmal der Grat zwischen Genie und Wahnsinn sein kann.