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Somewhere beneath the quiet dirt of a small town, madness is waiting for Louie who has spent his life trapped inside a body the world refuses to look past. Nearly six hundred pounds of flesh, shame, and the crippling isolation is taking it's toll. Every day presses down on him with the same crushing weight as the family land he can’t leave… and the old dry well he can’t stop staring into. A decaying relic tied to a tragedy no one in town talks about anymore. A place Louie believes might be his only escape. Then the well starts whispering. From the darkness below, a voice calls his name.

Ethan and Claire are young Americans studying abroad in the hilltop town of Asolo, Italy — a place where time moves more slowly, and beauty lingers in the air like rosemary and old stone. They arrive together, in love and full of plans, but it doesn’t take long for the cracks to form. Then they meet Luca and Sofia — an Italian couple with their own history — and everything begins to shift.

Svält, som bygger på Hamsuns egna erfarenheter, beskriver en spirande författares sorgliga livsförhållanden, när han driver runt i Christiania och konstant kämpar för att skaffa sig det mest nödvändiga för att kunna hålla sig vid liv. Ofta får han inte mat på flera dagar, och han får då nöja sig med att tugga på ett träspån, vilket leder till att han får våldsamma humörsvängningar och hallucinationer, som hämmar hans produktivitet.

In Wahlverwandtschaften entfaltet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ein vielschichtiges Beziehungsgeflecht zwischen vier Menschen, deren Leben sich durch innere und äußere Anziehung dramatisch verändert. Mit psychologischer Tiefe, gesellschaftlicher Schärfe und symbolischer Dichte erzählt Goethe von der Macht der Gefühle – und deren Grenzen im Spannungsfeld von Ehe, Freiheit und Konvention. Ein zentrales Werk der Weltliteratur und bis heute viel diskutiert.

Romanen Skønheden af Rosalinde Mynster er en dark og dybt relevant fortælling om et internaliseret skønhedsregime, hvor alle grænser mellem skønhed, sygelighed og kærlighed er i skred. Groomed med hårlak og det perfekte smil bliver Nat sendt til børne-skønhedskonkurrencer af sin mor. Deres klaustrofobiske symbiose krakelerer, da Nat kommer i puberteten og bliver venner med Betty, som ikke giver en fuck. Den voksne Nat gør alt for ikke at ligne sin mor.

Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter verliert die Schauspielerin Nina ihre Stimme. Das Schweigen ihrer Mutter schnürt ihr die Luft ab. Zu viele Fragen sind noch offengeblieben: Was hat Irma so erschüttert, dass sie der ältesten Tochter nie die ersehnte Wärme geben konnte? Was geschah damals, in jenem letzten Sommer am Elbufer, als Ninas Schwester Katja über die grüne Grenze verschwand und die Familie für immer zerbrach? Auf der Suche nach verschütteten Wahrheiten folgt Nina den Spuren ihrer Familie ins tschechische Riesengebirge.

في أدراج مكتبه وتحت وسادته وفي جيب سترته تتناثر أوراقه في كل مكان .. لكنه يخبئها بعناية عن اعين الأخرين ..يحسبوت حاله الشرود التي يعيشها ما هي الا تأمل وتسبيح...

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.

An instant New York Times bestseller! ""Sharp, stylish and stunning...Foley's best yet."" — Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark ""It is an absolute bonkers delight (and I haven’t even mentioned the local bird cult yet …)."" — NPR, Best Books of...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and the modern classics My Sister’s Keeper, The Storyteller, and more, comes a “complex, compassionate, and smart” (The Washington Post) novel about a family torn apart by a murder accusation. When your son can’t look...

Bad Sex on Speed is a savage, careening, hyper-real nightmare of a novel, taking us to the depths of Amphetamine America. Told with no concession to traditional narrative, in the voices of those in the grips and on the fringes, the stories that emerge are at once devastating, hysterical, and - perhaps most terrifying of all - going on all around you, all the time. Stahl digs deep into the psyche of the most demented and dispossessed among us, returning with an unsparing vision.

This novel centers on the figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member of the dying class of the landed gentry, who spends most of his time lying in bed gazing at life in an apathetic daze, encouraged by his equally lazy servant Zakhar and routinely swindled by his acquaintances. But this torpid existence comes to an end when, spurred on by his crumbling finances, the love of a woman, and the reproaches of his friend, the hardworking Schtoltz, Oblomov finds that he must engage with the real world and face up to his commitments.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Who’s really following you on social media? The scam of a lifetime brings together two wildly different women in this page-turning thriller about greed, legacy, and betrayal from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear...

Franz Kafka’s haunting novella, The Metamorphosis, tells the disturbing tale of Gregor Samsa, a young man who awakens one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. As Gregor grapples with his shocking new reality, his once-loving family begins to recoil, viewing him as an outcast and burden. Through Kafka’s unsettling lens, this story explores themes of isolation, identity, and the fragility of human connections, as Gregor’s physical change mirrors his growing alienation from society.

Chris y Paulo pasan cuarenta días en el misterioso y desconocido desierto del Mojave, en una búsqueda que los llevará a enfrentarse con su realidad más recóndita, con sus miedos más íntimos, sus debilidades e inseguridades. Las Valquírias trata de la voluntad y de la capacidad de elección que tenemos, y de cómo nuestras decisiones determinan nuestro destino. Paulo Coelho nos abre las puertas de su lucha más personal y nos habla de la responsabilidad hacia sí mismo y hacia sus seres más queridos.

Frank Cotton's insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand's box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother's love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back - though the price will be bloody and terrible...and there will certainly be hell to pay.

Don Quixote, a man driven by chivalrous ideals and wild delusions, adopts sword and lance as a knight-errant to defend the weak, slay the ignoble, and win the heart of the farm girl he envisions as a princess. In his world of fantasy - where inns are castles, peasants are kings, and windmills are beasts - Quixote, his nag, and his sound but devoted squire, Sancho Panza, set forth on a picaresque adventure conceivable only to a man obsessed.

A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Updated for the 25th Anniversary with a new introduction by the author The blockbuster debut novel from “a preternaturally gifted” writer (The New York Times) and author of On Beauty and Swing Time—set against London's racial and cultural tapestry, reveling in...

Viaggio alle radici della nascita del clientelismo politico e della mafia. Una vicenda familiare che si snoda attraverso le generazioni e diventa il paradigma di una società.Un’opera che facilita la comprensione del presente e delle radici psicologiche dell’illegalità mafiosa.Adatto a: tutti, in particolare ai cultori delle radici dei fenomeni storici italiani; ai cercatori di chiavi di lettura delle vicende del presente.