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“Epic in its scope, intimate in its evocation, Whidbey reads like a thriller, compels like a mystery and regarding the human condition, converses with the classics. This is the book everyone will be talking about.” — Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author of...

Demons clash with inheritance claims as secrets unfold and violence is unleashed over twelve harrowing hours trapped in a house with the worst thing imaginable: family. When Papi Ramon, the patriarch of the wealthy Abreu family dies, he gives the family one last message in the will: “One of...

Arthur has lived in careful stillness since his wife died. Each day follows the same quiet rituals. Each night ends with the same unopened door—the art studio she left behind, preserved exactly as it was when she was alive. When a neighbor’s gentle presence and a series of small, human interruptions begin to break through Arthur’s isolation, he is forced to confront what he has been protecting: not his wife’s memory, but his own fear of living without her. Repaint the Walls is a reflective literary novella about grief, creativity, and the courage it takes to begin again.

"I'm only telling you in case the police contact you. Esme was arrested, but I'm handling everything, and she doesn't want to hear from you." That email from her ex-husband is almost the only information Alice Wilson has had about her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Esme, in the six years since Esme abruptly ended all communication.

Zwei junge Menschen. Zwei gebrochene Seelen. Während Jenna in der Kindheit sexuell missbraucht wurde und versucht, ihr schweres Trauma zu verarbeiten, gerät Mark, der sein Zuhause verloren hat, immer tiefer in einen Sumpf aus Drogen und Prostitution. Jenna und Mark lernen sich auf ungewöhnliche Weise kennen. Sie kämpfen gemeinsam und kämpfen allein – während die Vergangenheit wie ein Schatten über ihnen liegt, und ein Ausweg unerreichbar erscheint. Dies ist die Geschichte zweier gebrochener Seelen.

Stephanie cradles her coffee and gazes out to the little house at the end of her garden. The family who just moved in seem perfectly nice, if a little odd. And it’s only now that Stephanie realises: if she can see them, they can see everything inside her house, too… Single mother Stephanie is more than happy to welcome the Kemps to her property. Tragically, they have just lost everything in a fire. The rent money means Stephanie can keep her children in this beautiful, rambling home – so expensive to run, since the divorce – all while helping the Kemps get back on their feet.

Ein flammendes Inferno erschüttert eine Nervenheilanstalt im Bayerischen Wald und der Tod eines Patienten bringt einen jungen Psychologen gefährlich nah an den Abgrund des Wahnsinns. Was trieb den Brandstifter zu seiner selbstzerstörerischen Tat? Ist ein mysteriöses Buch der Schlüssel zu dem dramatischen Ereignis? Tobias Prediger gelingt es in seiner Erzählung »Die Dunkelheit aus den Büchern« auf wenigen Seiten, die Leser mit in den Strudel mentaler Abgründe zu ziehen.

Der Schriftsteller Tonio Kröger ist zwischen der Verachtung für die Banalität des bürgerlichen Lebens und der Sehnsucht nach dem gewöhnlichen menschlichen Glück hin- und hergerissen. Schon als Schüler sucht er beständig die Anerkennung seines Freundes Hans Hansen, der, als Sohn aus reichem Hause, ein Ideal verkörpert, das das genaue Gegenteil seiner selbst ist. Später findet er in der russischen Künstlerin Lisaweta Iwanowna eine Freundin und Vertraute.

The past does not vanish. It waits. After the death of her grandmother, archivist Elara Winslow inherits an unusual pocket watch—one that does not measure time, but remembers what the world has forgotten. When the watch begins revealing fragments of erased moments, Elara is drawn into a hidden network of scholars known as the Guild of Echoes, a group willing to manipulate memory itself to protect the past from interference.

Als Amira und Johann zufällig in einem Zug aufeinandertreffen, ahnen sie nicht, dass aus dieser Begegnung ein Gespräch entstehen wird, das beide verändert. Sie – eine überzeugte Idealistin, links, progressiv, fest im öffentlichen Dienst verankert. Er – bodenständig, selbstständig, regional verwurzelt, mit einem tiefen Sinn für Heimat. Zwei Menschen, die in einer lauten, polarisierten Welt längst auf verschiedenen Seiten stehen sollten – und sich trotzdem begegnen.

In a world where perception often eclipses reality, ‘Dissemblance’ invites you to unravel the tangled web of a family forever altered by the echoes of past events. Set more than a decade after the tumultuous events chronicled in ‘Semblance of Storms’ and ‘Re-Semblance,’ this poignant narrative unfolds through the eyes of Milly, a young girl at that time whose innocence was shattered by the tumult surrounding her.

Brought to you by Penguin. One of our best writers, Lauren Groff returns with a fierce new story collection, her first since the award-winning and bestselling Florida. Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region - from New England to Florida to California -...

Brought to you by Penguin. Winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger in France and the Premio de la Critica in Spain Conversation-starting and prize-winning international fiction: an extraordinary meditation on violence, conspiracy and the many complex afterlives of the Holocaust Eduardo and his...

Brought to you by Penguin. A tragicomic portrait of one man's unravelling in an absurd, twisted world, Howl is the propulsive new novel from Booker-Prize winner Howard Jacobson. In the aftermath of October 7, Ferdinand Draxler walks the streets of London in despair. Everything has changed –...

"Wohin kannst du fliehen, wenn der Feind dein eigener Verstand ist?" In der Hoffnung auf einen Neuanfang folgt der Ex-Söldner Jespar tre Moreste einer geheimnisvollen Einladung ins malerische Inselreich Kilay. Doch die tropische Idylle trügt: Geplagt von gesellschaftlicher Ungleichheit und radikalen Revolutionären, steuert das Reich auf einen Bürgerkrieg zu.

What if another woman tried to take your place as “Mummy”? Sally Bentham thought adoption made her family safe. She was wrong. When Amelia’s new teaching assistant turns out to be her birth mother, Sally’s world begins to collapse. Robyn Clarke is warm, capable, trusted by everyone. At the school gates each morning, she whispers in Amelia’s ear, wins over the parents, charms the teachers—and slowly draws Sally’s daughter closer.

Lucian Reeve never meant to reopen the past—but a single key demands its keeper. When a tarnished key is left mysteriously on his desk, archivist Lucian Reeve is drawn into a chilling mystery he thought he’d sealed away forever. As he investigates its origins, he uncovers a name long erased from the records, an ominous bell that rings only at dusk, and a silence too deliberate to ignore. Haunted by the past and driven by the need to understand the present, Lucian's search leads him to a collector with dark motives, an enigmatic estate, and a chilling connection to a long-forgotten case.

From the bestselling author of Strange Houses and Strange Pictures comes a mesmerizing novel of eleven strange buildings and one terrible secret. A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison. . . . Each of the buildings...

Palermo, anni Novanta. Youssef è un ragazzino incantato dal mondo quando si trasferisce con i suoi nel cortile delle sette fate, a Ballarò. Suo padre Alì, nato in Marocco, è un uomo severo, fedele alle tradizioni e molto legato al paese d’origine dove, prima o poi, vorrebbe tornare con la famiglia. Sua madre Taslima, invece, nata in Italia, desidera per sé e per i suoi figli un futuro nella Palermo a cui ormai sente di appartenere.

Com linguagem cortante e visceral, O cheiro azedo da grama mergulha nas entranhas da experiência do luto de uma mãe. A protagonista-narradora, Carmen, revisita a dor mais inominável: a perda da filha Aline. Alternando entre o presente anestesiado pelo luto e memórias carregadas de amor, raiva, culpa e desejo, o romance constrói um retrato inquietante de uma relação entre mãe e filha como território de conflito entre identidade, expectativa social e sobrevivência emocional.