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From the author of the critically acclaimed What Alice Forgot comes a breakout new novel about the secrets husbands and wives keep from each other. Three women. One secret. And a letter that will change everything—forever. Tess. Rachel. Cecilia. Three women living three very different lives...

In a dorm room at her safety school, surrounded by corn-fed boys and contemptuous girls, Alice is losing her mind. Her first semester is spent clinging to middling grades between drunken hookups and roommate fights. The next brings sleepless nights, extreme weight loss, and effortless, compulsive energy, paused only by an unexpected summoning from the RA for evaluation.

Franklin B Goodman wants to spread love wherever he goes. But love is an emotion he doesn’t understand. In Franklin’s dangerously warped mind, a damaged relationship is like a sick animal. He is willing to take extreme measures to nurse it back to health. And if that doesn’t work… …the only option is to put it out of its misery. On the other side of the River Mersey, murder detectives Nathan Cody and Megan Webley have their hands full with a manhunt to locate the killer of a beautiful and wealthy woman.

Anne Lisbeth once rose above her station by serving as nurse to a noble child, enjoying comfort, admiration, and pride. But in doing so, she turned away from her own son, leaving him to grow up unloved, neglected, and ultimately lost to the sea. Years later, when the weight of her choices finally stirs, Anne Lisbeth is forced into a harrowing reckoning—one shaped by guilt, superstition, and the relentless voice of conscience.

The Garden of Survival by Algernon Blackwood is a deeply introspective and emotionally resonant novel that explores the fragile boundaries between love, memory, remorse, and spiritual endurance. Written in the early twentieth century, this lesser-known work showcases Blackwood’s mastery of psychological depth and quiet metaphysical inquiry beyond his more overt supernatural tales.

Het vervolg op de bestseller De jongen in de gestreepte pyjama volgt Bruno's zus Gretel, en verkent via haar op meeslepende en ontroerende wijze de nasleep van de oorlog en de effecten van een levenslang schuldgevoel. Gretel Fernsby woont al tientallen jaren in een luxe appartement in Londen. Ze leidt een ogenschijnlijk comfortabel en kalm leven, ondanks haar donkere verleden. Dan komt er een jong gezin wonen in het appartement onder haar. Gretel sluit aarzelend vriendschap met de negenjarige Henry, hoewel hij herinneringen bij haar oproept die ze juist probeert te vergeten.

The broadcast isn’t over. It’s just beginning.Juno Voss has spent years chasing dead frequencies—cassette tapes filled with static, half-buried transmissions, and voices that don’t belong to her. But when one recording speaks in her own voice—words she has never said—she’s pulled back into a conspiracy that was never meant to resurface.

When my sister asks me to help her have a child, I already know I will say yes. She has always dreamed of being a mother, and this might be her last chance. Not long after the embryo is created, my sister is killed in a tragic hiking accident. The grief of losing my best friend is unbearable, but in the days that follow, I realize there is a shimmer of hope: I can still fulfill her dream and bring her baby into the world. But no matter what I do, I can't stop thinking about my sister's last words to me. On the day she died, she said there was something she needed to tell me.

In 1985 Dublin, nineteen-year-old Anna Hughes is in thrall to Peter Gallagher, an older, worldly man. Introverted and naive, Anna is captivated by Peter’s experience, his wide circle of friends and his thirst for adventure. Her obsessive longing for him leads to marriage and, eventually, a crushing betrayal. When Anna meets a kindhearted Algerian man, she finds herself falling in love with him. Life with Karim offers stability and renewed hope and, slowly, Anna begins to uncover deeper layers of herself.

Als ein brutaler Doppelmord die Stadt Sawmill, Oregon, erschüttert, benötigt das FBI Autumns Spezialkenntnisse. Die Tochter des getöteten Ehepaars, die gerade ihr eigenes Leben beginnen wollte, verschwand in der Tatnacht. Wird Autumn bald klar, welchen Plan der gesuchte Täter verfolgt: Er will Paare bestrafen, die ihr Ehegelübde brechen. Die Zahl der Opfer steigt, und der Killer geht immer größere Risiken ein. Was als Suche nach einem neunzehnjährigen Mädchen begann, wird zu einem Katz-und-Maus-Spiel.

If you were invited to meet with God and encouraged to ask any questions you chose, what would you ask? One day Joseph was visited at work by a person who claimed to be God. The visitor invited Joseph to participate in a series of seven meetings—each with God. Joseph was asked to prepare a question for each of those meetings. Intrigued with the whole notion, but deeply suspicious of this person's intent and motives, Joseph decided to participate in the meetings, he was committed to challenge any and all of his visitor’s possible schemes.

Ailish McCarthy is not doing well. Her relationship with her mother was complicated and difficult, the grief following her death unnaturally prolonged. In order to escape them, she must resolve her past. Revisit it. Construct again, from memory, the family and friends who shaped her, the boy she could not forget, the changing Ireland which provided the backdrop for their lives. Under the guidance of her therapist, Ailish begins the process of examining her previous selves: anxious child, traumatised teenager, adult woman riven with a never-to-be-shared secret.

A poultry farmer is found strung up by his feet, electrocuted, his throat slashed – murdered in the same brutal fashion as the chickens on his farm every day. With their escape now on hold, Anna and her husband fear for her missing father-in-law. Has the animal-rights group taken its fight against cruelty to a murderous level? Or is this sleepy rural paradise hiding a darker secret?

Paris. Tessa Simonet lebt mit ihrem Mann Jules in einer abgelegenen Villa am Stadtrand von Paris. Eines Tages wird sie am helllichten Tag in ihrem Haus Opfer eines Übergriffs. In derselben Nacht begeht Jules Selbstmord. Ihre Familie und ihre Freundin Amelie unterstützen Tessa so gut sie können, wobei jeder seine eigenen Interessen verfolgt. Tessas Gefühlswelt wird zu einer Achterbahn aus Verunsicherung, Entsetzen, Verwirrung und Angst, als ein Mord geschieht. Sie traut nur noch wenigen Menschen und sucht beharrlich nach Antworten.

Defense Mech by Ray Bradbury is a haunting and psychologically rich science fiction short story that explores the fragile boundary between reality and illusion. Set during a tense voyage from Earth to Mars, the narrative follows Halloway, a deeply anxious man whose terror of space threatens both his sanity and the mission itself. In a desperate bid to protect him, the ship’s psychiatrist deploys an experimental psychological “defense mechanism,” constructing an artificial reality in which Halloway believes he never left Earth.

A Republican sniper of the Irish Civil War waits on a rooftop, pondering whether he can risk giving away his position by lighting his cigarette. He decides to take the risk, and faces the unexpected consequences. Written while the Irish Civil War was still ongoing, The Sniper was Liam O’Flaherty’s first published work (published 1923 in The New Leader), and went on to become his most famous.

Walter Schnaffs' Adventure, published in 1883, is a poignant tale that captures the essence of a Prussian soldier's struggle with the realities of war and his desire for peace. The story begins with Schnaffs, a stout and peaceful man, who finds himself in enemy territory during the Franco-Prussian War. His fear of battle and his longing for his family lead him to a desperate decision to surrender to the French forces. Despite his fear of being captured, Schnaffs decides to surrender to an unarmed villager, only to find himself as a prisoner in a French mansion.

Olivia has always believed that worth is earned through achievement—by any means necessary. Her ruthless ambition fuels her escape from the deadening familiarity of Bracknell. First, she conquers Oxford; then law school; and finally, the Only Circle—a shadowy network of the most elite corporate law firms in the world. The promise of power and greatness beckons, and Olivia surges forward, convinced she’s found what she’s always craved: wholeness, identity, and a self remade. But beneath the gleaming high-rises and immaculate offices of the Only Circle lies a brutal reality.

High in a subsidized studio apartment, the unnamed 82-year-old narrator of Elegy in Blue looks out across the rooftops of Brooklyn all the way to the sea. His distinguished career on Wall Street is in ruins, his mansion in Brooklyn Heights has been burned to the ground, and most of all, his father, his son, and his wife―the stunningly beautiful and equally kind Clare―have been taken from him, one by one, over the decades, by war and an act of violence. Now his “allegiance is to his ghosts.” He’s almost lost to memory, reflection, and a purposeful letting go of life.

In The Quantity Theory of Morality, Will Self’s unconventional new novel, his pen remains dipped in vitriol and elegance as ever. In this dark yet hilariously satirical “state-of-an-era novel,” Self’s target is a collective morality that is nothing more or less than pure sociability. His middle-class, middle-English characters appear trapped in a timeless go-round of polite chitchat in dinner parties that refract like a hall of mirrors as the novel progresses, until one day someone says something to the effect of, “This way to the gas chamber, please, ladies and gentlemen.”