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Come tre fili sottili, s'intrecciano in questo romanzo le vite di tre donne lontane nel tempo. La prima è Virginia Woolf, ritratta nei suoi ultimi giorni e, con un salto temporale, mentre dà vita al personaggio della signora Dalloway. Nel frattempo Clarissa, editor newyorkese di oggi, compra i fiori per festeggiare l'amico più amato, e la signora Brown, casalinga californiana del dopoguerra, tenta di sfuggire alla prigione della sua vita matrimoniale.

From the outside, Frank and Grace seem to have the perfect family. He’s a loving husband, she’s a devoted wife, and together they have two happy children. But appearances can be deceiving. A strange series of misfortunes has left them reeling: an unexplained break-in, a catastrophic handgun accident, and a bizarre poisoning that’s left Grace feeling especially unnerved. Packing up their RV for a move across the country, they’re ready for a fresh start, expecting to leave all their problems safely behind.

When Danny and Joanne Lindstrom's camping trip in the Cascade mountains goes terribly awry, beautiful young Joanne is left alone and stranded in the savage wilderness. Her last hope is to rely on another camper, a tall stranger who seems to know the forest and the dangers there all too well. Without him, she will surely die; with him, her future is as unpredictable as the lowering clouds that envelop the mountain. He asks only that she trust him.

Sopravvissuto al grave incidente che gli è costato mesi di ricovero al reparto Grandi Ustionati, Learco Ferrari è riuscito a diventare uno scrittore. Ma soprattutto è un convalescente, che - tra pensieri che vanno e che vengono, tutine speciali che le fanno solo in Irlanda, traduzioni di manuali russi, le storie del Mullà Nasrudìn, libri di filosofia sufi, quella sua amica là di Bologna che si chiama Francesca, e molto altro ancora - tenta di tornare a una vita normale. Anche se in fondo, non essere mica tanto normale può anche rivelarsi un pregio.

In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight. Soon the two discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages, and the fear of losing his independence.

Vera and Thea are mother and daughter. Vera writes for the internet: she constructs identities and scenarios for brands to cater to the ideal consumer. Yet she also consumes the offerings of the online world herself: the addictive pursuit of a cure, the narratives she craves in which mother and daughter find a way out of the shared experience of chronic illness. She becomes preoccupied with a blog written by a woman named Claudia, a mother whose daughter also has a chronic illness.

New Year’s Day. A dog walker is enjoying the early morning calm in Birmingham’s Woodgate Country Park. At first he thinks it’s some old rubbish. His dogs are always digging up trouble. But it’s a mummified body. The victim is Nathan Troy, an art student who disappeared twenty years ago. Days later, a second body is found. This time it’s a fresh kill. And the ligature marks on the victim’s neck are identical. It’s been twenty years, but after all this time, forensic psychologist Kate Hanson knows that Nathan’s killer is back.

Nicholas has plenty of reasons to feel unstable: he’s fifteen, the child of divorced parents, living with his absent dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs, and an outsider at school. Then, one day in geometry class, he forgets how to breathe. The doctor says it’s just panic, but Nicholas suspects that his real problem might not be a psychiatric one: maybe the Greek god Pan is trapped inside his body.

סבא של מיכאל הוא סבא אחר, מיוחד ושונה. ויש משהו מופלא ומרתק בשונה ובמיוחד. סבא של מיכאל מתקן דברים בעולם. הוא איש חושב וחולם, אוהב ולפעמים נוקם. אבל תכונתו הנפלאה ביותר היא יכולתו לקחת עמו אל תוך חלומותיו את האנשים האהובים עליו ולהוסיף לחייהם ממד קסום ומרגש. מיכאל זכה בסבא שהעשיר את חייו. האם זו אגדה לילדים? האם זה סיפור פילוסופי, או פשוט סיפור פיוטי רב-קסם? ואולי כל אלה יחד, שלובים זה בזה ומעניקים לנו, הקוראים, את מה שלבנו מבקש, חולם ופוחד לגעת.

In the heart of an old Southern house, Sarah Bennett unearths her family’s chilling connection to a sinister legacy. Driven by a protective instinct for her children, Sarah wrestles with fear and determination as dark secrets unfold. Her son, Ethan, is enchanted by an ethereal melody that beckons him to complete a tune that could either liberate a trapped spirit or plunge him deeper into the house’s malevolent grasp.

Kylo’s Lament is a slow-burning psychological horror that traces one man’s descent into madness as he battles an unknown terror. Dave has always found comfort in his routines, a stable office job, casual tennis matches with friends, and quiet evenings with his cat, Kylo. But everything changes the night he glimpses a reality-bending distortion creeping along his arm. At first, he dismisses it as stress or fatigue. At least, until it comes back. Over time, the strange static-like substance appears again and again.

Camille Bell never wanted to raise her husband’s mistake. RJ, the son of Ryan’s most public betrayal, was a constant reminder of everything she lost—the picture-perfect life, the adoring husband, the future she was promised. But instead of casting him aside, she did what no one expected. She made him hers.

When beautiful Jules Benton, a seventeen-year-old senior, goes missing after the spring formal dance in the small town of Watertown, Wisconsin, her father, Richard, becomes suspicious of Jules’ boyfriend, David Miller, and his involvement with her disappearance.

Kaveh Akbars faszinierender, von Presse und prominenten Leserinnen und Lesern gefeierter Debütroman führt vom Iran der 1980er-Jahre bis in die heutigen USA und ist eine Hymne auf all das, was uns bei der Suche nach Sinn und Bedeutung im Leben helfen kann: auf die Kunst, den Glauben an uns selbst, auf Liebe, Freundschaft und Mitmenschlichkeit. Nominiert für den National Book Award 2024. Cyrus Shams, 29, ist kein Meister des täglichen Lebens. Er schreibt umwerfend gute Gedichte und nimmt zu viele Drogen.

Emma is so happy to have moved from the city to her husband’s small hometown. James was strangely reluctant at first – but she convinced him their little cottage is the perfect place to settle down. The perfect place to give their six-year-old son a new life. But then a woman at the school gates asks Emma if she is really married to ‘that man’. ‘Which man?’ Emma asks. The woman replies…

Susan Chambers woke up feeling like she had been hit by a bus. Mostly because she had been hit by a bus. And Susan Chambers wasn’t so much waking up, as she was arriving in The After Death, the place between one life and the next. After forty-two years as a human, a freshly dead Susan must tackle some of the biggest questions in life, death and everything that comes after. Why are mosquitoes the way they are? What lessons can a soul learn from a single life? Does it really matter if you were a good person? Is there such a thing as a life that doesn’t matter at all?

After a devastating accident, a young athlete wakes up to find everything has changed—his body, his identity, and the way the world sees him. Struggling to reconcile the person he was with the stranger in the mirror, he is thrust into a reality he never chose. Friends, family, and even his own reflection feel unfamiliar, leaving him to question what truly defines him. As he searches for answers, deeper mysteries begin to unfold. His survival came at a cost, but was it worth it? And more importantly, is he still the same person inside?

Théo a 20 ans lorsqu'il quitte son Auvergne natale et poursuit ses études de lettres à Paris. Il ignore tout de la capitale où il n'a d'attaches que sa grand-tante Ange-Lise, seule personne à l'avoir toujours compris. La bourse qui lui est allouée lui permet difficilement de vivre.

Shaena has come to terms with her eating disorder and confessed it to herself and her Overeaters Anonymous group. However, her family and friends are oblivious to her bulimia, and she intends to keep it that way. Shaena soon realizes she may have to trust them and share her secret.

Virginia is a Jill—a professional Buffalo Bills cheerleader—living the life she’s always dreamed of. She spends her weekdays practicing, her weekends cheering, and her nights hopping between events and bars and clubs with her close-knit band of teammates, especially her best friend, Jeanine, whose dynamic friendship has given Virginia confidence in spades and allowed her to put aside her troubled past with her sister, Laura. But one Sunday, Jeanine fails to show up for a game, and all her calls and texts go unanswered.