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In diesem psychologischen Thriller wird die Gerichtspsychologin Elinor Rabenstein zu einem Fall hinzugezogen, der sich jeder logischen Erklärung entzieht. Der Raum war verschlossen. Der Körper unversehrt. Und doch wirkt es, als sei dem Opfer etwas Entscheidendes genommen worden. Während die Ermittlungen voranschreiten, verdichtet sich der Eindruck, dass dieser Tod kein Einzelfall ist. Jemand folgt einem System, das ohne körperliche Gewalt auskommt – und den menschlichen Körper gegen sich selbst richtet.

Entre rêve, manipulation et réalité fracturée... Qui parviendra à quitter Brooklyn vivant ? Lorsqu'un architecte écossais accepte une mission à Brooklyn, il ne sait pas qu'il entre dans un piège délirant. Un club étrange, des nuits sans fin, des hallucinations... et la certitude que quelque chose, sous la ville, contrôle tout. Brooklyn Paradise est un roman noir, hallucinatoire et palpitant qui questionne les limites de la raison et de l’identité. En lire plus

An exhausted writer. A cottage on a dead-end road. Locals want her gone. Her ex is hunting her down. Don’t go down into the poisoned hollow... Leni is on edge. Fleeing the city and a stalking former boyfriend, she rents a cottage on an island to write a new book. But her vision of living in an...

Bouleversé par le décès soudain de sa conjointe, le journaliste et chroniqueur Martin Hoffson peine à reprendre pied. Miné par un retour imposé au bureau, il s’enlise dans la fatigue, récemment assailli de maux de tête aussi virulents qu’inexplicables. Jusqu’à ce que quelque chose vienne le happer dans son sommeil. Une entité oppressante, tapie dans l’ombre de sa chambre, lui offre la vision d’unautre monde, au bord de la rupture. Un monde où la tempête, déchaînée sur une plage en ruine, menace d’ébranler l’immense monolithe de pierre trônant à l’horizon.

Um den Verlust ihrer Schwester zu verarbeiten, begibt Kaya sich auf den legendären Pacific Crest Trail. In der atemberaubenden Wildnis der Westküste trifft sie auf Casper, einen Mann, der ebenso von seiner Vergangenheit verfolgt wird wie sie selbst. Zwischen kristallklaren Seen und dichten Wäldern wächst eine Verbindung, die beide nicht erwartet haben. Doch als ein erschütterndes Geheimnis ans Licht kommt, droht alles zu zerbrechen. In den Schatten der Berge lauert eine tödliche Bedrohung: eine Frau, deren Obsession keine Grenzen kennt.

The inspiration for One Battle After Another "Quite simply, one of those books that will make this world - our world, our daily chemical-preservatice, plastic-wrapped bread - a little more tolerable, a little more human . . . [Pynchon's] voice - absolutely unmistakeable and absolutely inimitable...

Au cœur d'un jardin où tout pousse - les plantes, les secrets, les appétits - se joue une histoire de désir et d'excès. Le jardin des Gloutons nous entraîne aux frontières de la tentation, là où la faim déborde la simple gourmandise et révèle ce que l'on est prêt à sacrifier pour assouvir ses envies. Entre murmure de feuilles et grondement des ventres, Alain Ruiz tisse un récit qui ausculte la mécanique de l'avidité et ses échos intimes. Une écoute envoûtante qui laisse un parfum de sève et de vertige, et pose une question tenace: quand tout est à portée de main, jusqu'où ira-t-on?

In the small, picturesque town of Oxford, Maryland, nine-year-old Anna Baker's life looks perfect from the outside. But behind closed doors, her world is crumbling. When her mother abandons her to a life of abuse, neglect, and homelessness, Anna learns early that survival means adapting to the unthinkable. From the streets of Cambridge to the psychiatric wards that tried to silence her, from teenage motherhood to medical neglect that left her broken, Anna's life becomes a relentless series of traumas that would destroy most people.

After a surprise proposal fractures her life into two parallel timelines, a speech pathologist must learn to trust her own inner voice in this hopeful and inspiring story about identity and belonging.

A Real Animal follows Lucy through the decade dividing college and real adulthood, as she navigates three distinct romantic relationships, reckons with the false promise of family intimacy, and seeks connection with the sublime and natural worlds. Lucy wants her life to be extraordinary. But this desire never seems to graft easily onto the smallness of her world. As a senior in college struggling to quell the destructive effects of a sexual assault, she gets a glimpse of a different plane of existence—more wild, physical, animal.

Everyone saw the murder happen. Now they want to know why. Nineteen-year-old Odette and eighty-year-old Amos were already famous. Their unlikely, heartwarming friendship captured the hearts of thousands of fans online. But when Amos is brutally murdered during a livestream and Odette is filmed...

In 2006, five privileged teenagers stood at the edge of a quarry and made a choice that would shape the rest of their lives. Amy McKinney went into the water. The truth did not. Twenty years later, the “Golden Five” are pillars of the North Shore—an architect, a nurse, a corporate titan, a detective, and a schoolteacher. They built careers, reputations, and families on a foundation of silence. Then the envelopes begin to arrive. Photographs from the bottom of the quarry. Objects thought lost to silt. Fractions counting them down.

Pre-empting novels such as the Booker Prize-winning "Time’s Arrow" by as much as 20 years, Counter-Clock World is a story of racial tensions told against the background of the year 1998, in which time flows in reverse as people are born old only to grow younger and younger.

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the...

Sabine and Rory Sugar seem like a perfectly respectable family to their new neighbours. They’re popular and friendly, their two teenage boys quiet and courteous. But when Rory starts staying late at work, and Sabine thinks she sees her son, Leo, in the woods apparently fighting with a girl, their seemingly perfect lives start to fall apart. And when the girl is reported missing and the police turn up asking awkward questions, Sabine must decide whether to lie to protect her son, or risk Leo being arrested on suspicion of abduction.

Theo Fester é um inteligente e poderoso magnata do Vale do Silício, empresário mundialmente conhecido e pai de três filhos orgulhosos, frios e bem-sucedidos – mas sua história inicial foi dramática. Filho de um sobrevivente do Holocausto, ele começou a empreender para sobreviver à dor de seu pai, à pobreza e ao bullying na infância, tornando-se especialista em se reinventar.

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high...

They say it’s always beautiful in Bethlam, Nevada. No place you’d rather live. The people are friendly, if a little nosy, and there’s no crime to speak of. Life is pretty perfect. But postal worker Hank Davies has started to suspect something is off in this idyllic little town. And he’s certain of that when he realizes the letters he’s been delivering are just blank pages. Hank isn’t the only one who’s noticed the oddities in Bethlam. One such person knocks on his window in the middle of the night, urging him to investigate his bedroom wall.

Un pequeño castillo de caza en Hungría, al pie de los Cárpatos, donde alguna vez se celebraron fastuosas veladas y la música de Chopin inundaba los elegantes salones decorados al estilo francés, ha cambiado radicalmente de aspecto. El esplendor de antaño se ha desvanecido, todo anuncia el final de una época. En ese escenario cargado de vivencias, dos hombres se citan para cenar tras cuarenta años sin verse. De jóvenes habían sido amigos inseparables, pero luego sus caminos se bifurcaron: uno se marchó a Extremo Oriente y el otro, en cambio, permaneció hasta hoy en su propiedad.

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19th- and 20th-century fiction and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.