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Elizabeth Harker is the English wife of the next President of one of the most prestigious Universities in New England. But the day her husband's new role is announced, she discovers the news in the bed of her unnamed lover, a man with whom she has had a torrid affair and who also works at the University, whilst keeping a careful distance from her husband. Now Elizabeth realises that as the wife of the incoming President, all eyes will be on her and the University system is quick to remind her that her behaviour reflects not only on her marriage but on the university itself.

Elisas Leben ist eng getaktet. Als Landschaftsarchitektin hetzt sie von einem Projekt zum nächsten, immer erreichbar, immer unter Strom. Als ihr Vater zu einer Untersuchung ins Krankenhaus muss, willigt sie widerstrebend ein, für einige Tage sein Gutshaus auf Rügen zu hüten. Auf der Insel angekommen, ist Elisa entsetzt. Das Haus entpuppt sich als Sanierungsprojekt, der Garten ist von Brombeerranken überwuchert. Während sie versucht, das Chaos zu bewältigen, entdeckt Elisa etwas wieder: ihre Liebe zu den Pflanzen.

A literary fantasia chronicling one man's quest to understand his father and himself—a comic, psychedelic novel from the award-winning author of The Hundred Brothers Lost in the house he grew up in, haunted by the ghost of his younger sister and his strange, cruel parents, and with the love of...

An emotionally charged and propulsive puzzle box novel by Sam Rebelein, where a recently split couple must solve a haunted escape room together—or die trying. If you’re reading this email, YOU have been selected to participate in a C.A.C. Games Survival Experience! *scream emoji* Remember...

Seine Endzwanziger hat sich Hendrik Popom anders vorgestellt. Nichts will ihm so richtig gelingen. In seinem Agenturjob sitzt er seine Zeit ab, mit seiner Freundin lief es schon einmal besser, und dann ist da plötzlich dieser Mann – Popóm. Er ist fast doppelt so alt und dennoch weiß Hendrik: Dieser Mann bin ich. Zögerlich nähern sich die beiden einander an. Ihre Beziehung ist voller Rätsel, Zuneigung und Widerstände. Hendrik hofft, in seinem anderen Ich das zu finden, was ihm in seinem Leben fehlt – Halt und Zuversicht.

"For a heart-stopping moment, they're gone, as if swallowed whole by the darkness and the soil below. The earth seems to hold its breath, time stretching and compressing into an odd dreamlike sensation as I stand frozen, watching, caught at the edge of this unfolding drama."

From heartbreak to healing, from chaos to clarity, Dr. Misty Boggs-Lopez invites listeners into a deeply personal journey that feels both intimate and universally human. Written in a memoir style yet woven with elements of fiction, this story is inspired by true events—moments that shaped, fractured, and ultimately rebuilt a life.

A boy stands in a bathroom and discovers his face can change. Asa Greer is five years old when the mirror shows him something that should be impossible: the features of the boy next door, worn on his own skull. The borrowed face lasts three seconds. The cost is permanent. He will never smell his own skin again. Over the next fifty years, Asa consumes more than a hundred faces. Each acquisition deposits a blueprint into his nervous system and extracts an irreversible sensory payment.

Esausta e bisognosa di solitudine, una donna di mezza età abbandona il marito, gli affetti e il lavoro in una fondazione animalista senza avvertire nessuno. Fugge da Sydney per riavvicinarsi ai luoghi in cui è cresciuta e si rifugia in un piccolo convento di suore cattoliche nascosto nelle aride pianure dell'Australia rurale. Non crede in Dio, non sa cosa sia la preghiera e si ritrova a vivere questa strana esistenza solitaria quasi per caso.

¿Qué pasa cuando ya no quieres que te enseñen a vivir, sino entender por qué vives como vives? Registro para desobedecer el orden reúne diecinueve textos intensos sobre identidad, deseo, culpa y ternura. No promete felicidad. No ofrece recetas. Es una experiencia íntima, casi confesional, para quienes aún sienten hambre de sí mismos. Escúchalo si buscas lucidez. Si no, pasa de largo.

Every morning and every evening, it's the same. The bus. The man. The endless sprawl of his legs into her seat, his oblivious elbows in her ribs, the unspoken message: You don’t matter. Claire has spent years swallowing her anger—at work, in relationships, in life. But something about him makes the pressure build until there’s no more room inside her. One small violation at a time, he’s pushing her toward the edge. And today, Claire decides she’s done making herself small. When the breaking point comes, it’s fast.

The Case Files: Unresolved Issues is a powerful scripted audio drama that follows child protective services caseworkers Hope Matthews and Abu as they navigate the emotional, bureaucratic, and moral demands of protecting vulnerable children.

Mikage is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend, Yoichi, and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father), Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart.

A timeless story of isolation and inner torment, Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human follows Yozo Oba, a man who hides behind laughter while drifting toward self-destruction.

FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE ONE OF...

On a trip to the South of France, a shy young woman falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower. Although his proposal comes as a surprise, she happily agrees to marry him. But as they arrive at her husband's home, Manderley, a change comes over Maxim, and the young bride is filled with dread. Friendless in the isolated mansion, she realises that she barely knows him. In every corner of every room is the phantom of his beautiful first wife, Rebecca, and the new Mrs de Winter walks in her shadow.

William Stoner is born at the end of the 19th century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments.

For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pursuit of a "life of freedom." Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single blind turn of a card."

Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture...

The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.