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Dundee, 1812. Isabel Baxter awaits the arrival of Mary Godwin, a girl of precocious intellect and grand passions, sent north to cure an ailment no one understands. Nestled in woodland on the banks of the Tay, the Baxter family estate seems a perfect place for a troubled girl to recuperate. But The Cottage is a place of secrets, memories... and monsters. Haunted by sickness and loss, Mary steps with Isabel into a shared fantasy world of intrigue and desire.

Waffen SS Corporal Joseph Deckman wakes up one day to find himself in a hospital bed. How did he get there? His memory was failing him. An extraordinary series of events propel him from certain death on the Eastern Front into a totally different world. One that he thought he'd never find himself in.

Nach dieser Sache befindet sich Anna, die Heldin des Romans, in einem Sanatorium. Dort trifft sie auf Marija, die ständig Monologe über ihre tote Mutter hält, auf Elif, die sich jeden Tag ein neues Märchen ausdenkt, und auf Katharina, die Bundeswehr-Soldatin, die jede Nacht Rotwein mit Wodka trinkt. Und dann ist da noch Pepik, der blasse Flamingo aus dem Kurpark, dem Anna von ihrer Emigration erzählt, von der Zeit, als ihre Mutter aufhörte, ihr unsichtbare Kreise auf die Wange zu zeichnen, und der Vater sich kaum noch blicken ließ.

Step into the shadowy alleys of Victorian London, where fog clings to the cobblestones and secrets are buried beneath polished appearances. In this timeless gothic novella, Robert Louis Stevenson unearths the terrifying duality of human nature — a tale as gripping today as it was upon its first publication in 1886.

Ein Junggeselle hat seinen Alltag so organisiert, dass dieser aus den immer gleichen Handlungen zu immer den gleichen Zeiten routiniert und problemlos bewältigt wird. Bei einem seiner seltenen Konzertbesuche erregt die Mutter einer etwa gleichaltrigen Frau sein Interesse und er spricht diese (die Mutter) an: Die beiden treffen sich nun öfters und verstehen sich so gut, dass er glaubt seine Seelenverwandte getroffen zu haben. Dennoch verlässt er sie.

Her house sits on a flagpole. Her dog plays the saxophone. Yes, radio personality Callie Naylor has always followed her dreams. But lately, those dreams have begun following her. Ever since she learned to induce lucidity—becoming aware when she was inside a bad dream, then morphing it into something wonderful—Callie and her “technicolor Play-Doh brain” have had a lot of fun. But her increasing skill encroaches on territory previously held by her subconscious (aka “Sub C”), who retaliates via bizarre and sometimes dangerous daytime attacks.

Выйдя замуж за Нико, Мэгги обрела не только любящего мужа для себя и доброго отчима для своего десятилетнего сына, но и целую толпу новых родственников из клана Фаринелли: высокомерную и властную свекровь Анну, шумного, пылкого деверя Массимо с бесцветной женой Ларой и пугливым сыном Сандро, а также падчерицу Франческу, дочь Нико от сгоревшей из-за рака первой жены. Сколько ни бьется Мэгги, девочка-подросток не желает принимать мачеху, да еще между ними стоит стена семейной тайны... Но Мэгги с ее светлой душой и спокойным оптимизмом не собирается сдаваться!

Diana ist zurück aus Paris. Statt aufregender erotischer Begegnungen in der Stadt der Liebe sitzt sie zusammen mit Ehemann Oliver in der Paartherapie. Beide sind fest entschlossen, den Funken zwischen sich wieder zu entfachen, und bereit, dafür allen Anweisungen ihrer Therapeutin zu folgen. Doch dann sagt diese ausgerechnet: »Absolut kein Sex«. Diana und Oliver sind gezwungen, sich auf die altmodische Art zu verabreden: Inlineskaten, Kinoabende und zunehmend sehnsüchtige Gutenachtküsse.

Ich bin verloren. Und ich möchte nie gefunden werden... Eine neue New-Adult-Dilogie von Spiegel-Bestseller-Autorin Nikola Hotel. Die ganze Welt beneidet sie darum, mit dem erfolgreichen Footballspieler Jason Miller verheiratet zu sein. Für die 21-jährige Darcy ist es jedoch ein Albtraum, in dem selbst ein Lachen fatale Konsequenzen haben kann. Als sie auf einer Party ein unbekümmertes Gespräch mit dem attraktiven Ellis führt – etwas, das sie kaum noch für möglich gehalten hätte –, wird sie von ihrem Ehemann beobachtet. Sie hat nicht mit Ellis geflirtet.

A man travels to Lisbon ahead of his wife to prepare their new home, while she stays in New York to oversee a research project on the neuroscience of memory and fear. Leaving behind a phase of their relationship indelibly marked by 9/11, the man revels in the Portuguese capital's temperate weather and the neighborhood's calmness, meticulously planning the details of their future.

When does silent compliance with an oppressive regime become unbearable? For Charlie Simpkins, the manager of a small vegetable shop in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, part of the West Coast People's Democratic Republic, the breaking point comes when he is asked to display a meaningless propaganda poster in his shop window. It is a seemingly insignificant act in a lifetime of obedience. But Charlie just can't bring himself to do it. This minor act of defiance, however, shows too much independent thinking on Charlie's part, setting off a chain of escalating consequences.

In the chilling silence of a remote Vermont house, Iris wakes to find herself chained in a sterile basement, a prisoner of the enigmatic Elias. As she navigates his unsettling kindness and cryptic promises of safety, Iris uncovers a notebook listing other women—Emily, Clara, Sophie—whose fates mirror her own. Haunted by her sister’s death and a secret she’s buried, Iris manipulates Elias’s grief to unravel his motives, only to discover their shared darkness binds them in a twisted dance of guilt and redemption.

In a world where hope feels like a distant memory and survival is a daily battle, eighteen-year-old Grace Whithorn is just trying to make it through another day. Haunted by the scars of her past—both visible and invisible—Grace has learned to navigate life with a sharp tongue, a cynical outlook, and a heart that’s been shattered too many times to count. But when a desperate late-night call to a suicide hotline connects her with Ethan Ford, a mysterious and brooding temporary headmaster with his own demons, Grace’s life takes an unexpected turn. Ethan isn’t like anyone Grace has ever met.

Franklin B Goodman wants to spread love wherever he goes. But love is an emotion he doesn’t understand. In Franklin’s dangerously warped mind, a damaged relationship is like a sick animal. He is willing to take extreme measures to nurse it back to health. And if that doesn’t work… …the only option is to put it out of its misery. On the other side of the River Mersey, murder detectives Nathan Cody and Megan Webley have their hands full with a manhunt to locate the killer of a beautiful and wealthy woman.

When single mum Lola Martinez's son, Luca, starts school, she feels that she'll never fit in with the yummy mummies in the playground. Confident, married to wealthy men, with ample free time, they are everything she isn't. However, Lola is invited into the inner circle, surrounded by seemingly friendly people, even if Lola's silence about her child's father puzzles them. Despite herself, Lola quickly becomes involved in playground politics, making as many enemies as friends. But then Lola is brutally murdered, her death rocking the close-knit community.

Mara è una giovane di Monteguidi, piccolo paese della Val d'Elsa, che all'indomani della Liberazione conosce il partigiano Bube, eroe della Resistenza, e se ne innamora. Con questo romanzo - pubblicato nel 1960 e seguito nel 1963 da una celebre versione cinematografica interpretata da Claudia Cardinale - Cassola si aggiudica il premio Strega e raggiunge il successo anche internazionale.

Our protagonist comes to in a basement, tied to a chair, with a man looming over her. But someone has a knife. We follow her as she emerges from captivity into an unnamed, nightmarish city, seeking some meaning to her new reality. As figures emerge from the night, some offering sanctuary, and others judgement, she keeps moving, making her way through this fever dream of a narrative. SUPPLICATION is a haunting, embodied tale of alienation, fear, and the quest for respite.

Este relato explora las complejidades del mundo del arte y la autopercepción del talento. La historia sigue a Jack Gisburn, un pintor reconocido, cuya carrera toma un giro inesperado cuando decide abandonar la pintura en la cima de su éxito y casarse con una viuda rica. La narrativa se desarrolla a través de los ojos del narrador, un conocido de Gisburn, quien reflexiona sobre la decisión de Jack de abandonar su arte. El narrador visita a Gisburn y su esposa en la Riviera, buscando entender la razón detrás de esta elección.

At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). Samad’s late-in-life arranged marriage produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal’s every effort to direct them.

Sundog is a powerful novel about the life and loves of a foreman named Robert Corvus Strang, who worked on giant dam projects around the world until he was crippled in a fall down a 300-foot dam. Now as he tries to regain use of his legs, he has a chance to reassess his life, and a blasé journalist who has heard of Strang’s reputation in the field arrives to draw him out about his various incarnations.