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After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests and what follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots - even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't seem to catch a break, as he finds himself enmeshed in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the crosshairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime syndicate.

Finding a mysterious novel at her bedside plunges documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft into a living nightmare. Though ostensibly fiction, The Perfect Stranger recreates in vivid, unmistakable detail the terrible day she became hostage to a dark secret, a secret that only one other person knew - and that person is dead.

Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. But Celeste's devotion lies elsewhere. She has a singular sexual obsession: 14-year-old boys. In slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a monstress driven by pure motivation. She deceives everyone, and cares nothing for anyone or anything but her own pleasure. With crackling, rampantly unadulterated prose, Tampa is a grand, uncompromising, seriocomic examination of want and a scorching literary debut.

A man awakens in silence, surrounded by darkness. He believes he has died—but the truth is far more haunting. Unclaimed is a literary short story exploring memory, mortality, and the invisible thread that binds us to others. Told in lyrical, intimate prose, it reflects on the relationships we build—and what remains of us in the silence after we're gone.

At the luxurious Raven’s Hollow Lodge, bestselling novelist Zipporah Bazile arrives to write her next psychological thriller—a haunting story about a woman imprisoned in the basement of a remote cabin. When Zipporah ventures beyond her suite to explore the resort, strange events occur. Someone is following her on the trails, digging online for information about her life, and slipping a mysterious powder into her drinks. Her growing romantic connection with another resort guest only deepens her paranoia.

Worte haben Macht ... Das weiß Elodie nur allzu gut, seit ihr Exfreund ihren Körper als zu weich bezeichnet hat. Als sie für ihren Job bei dem Pariser Magazin Le Clic einen viel zu intimen Artikel schreiben muss, werden ihre Selbstzweifel lauter als je zuvor. Vor allem, weil der verflucht attraktive Redakteur Lucas ihren Text redigieren wird. Am liebsten würde sie sich von dem Frauenschwarm fernhalten, der in Paris für seine One-Night-Stands und seine schonungslose Ehrlichkeit berüchtigt ist.

Once a celebrated conductor, Arlen Quinn wanders a city that no longer sings for him. Haunted by the memory of a single, perfect note—and the silence that gave it shape—he leaves behind a life of applause and regret to chase something deeper than music: the presence of true silence.

Eris once believed that she could keep herself safe from the suburban beast that slithered around the swampland of a small town on the US East Coast. She hid herself away behind latches and bolts and locks, making a fortress of her family home. They called this recluse a witch, and if she had lived in another age, this suburban misfit would have been hanged or burned at the stake. Despite her fortress, the dangers still found Eris. As if myths and legends were true all along, her family was torn apart one snowy night when her teenage daughter was found dead.

After the violent –and very public – killing of a small-time drug dealer, an alienated young man with multiple personalities must determine if his hot-headed alter is responsible and how that will shape the “normal” life that he has struggled to create. THE CLASH INSIDE ME opens with a young man perched on a ledge and contemplating an unusual predicament: did he or did he not commit murder? And if he did, which of his alter-personalities will ultimately be held responsible? This captivating novel explores the ongoing courage necessary to cope with a serious mental illness.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alex Walker has always looked up to her perfect older sister. Maddie has succeeded in all the ways Alex has not: She escaped their hometown and seems to have put the memories of their unstable childhood behind her. But despite the different paths their lives have taken, the two sisters made a pact to spend one week together every summer. It was a promise they’d never broken . . . until now.

Bad things don’t happen in Cason Glen. The locals make sure of it. So, when the residents of the town’s most exclusive subdivision discover one of their own is missing, it sends a wave of panic and discord throughout the neighborhood. They are supposed to be safe. But they quickly realize not everything is as it once seemed in their idyllic world.

John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.

Nina McCarrick has it all: a loving husband, two beautiful boys, a well-appointed home and more time than she knows what to do with. Life is perfect. Until her husband, Finn, is killed in a car accident and everything Nina thought she could rely on unravels.