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Before gathering for the holidays, four siblings receive an identical note: "Your mother was murdered."The Jaggers were once a tight-knit family. But after their mother’s tragic death years ago, the four children and their father drifted further apart. The children grew up, moved away, and now have lives of their own. And Dad? Well, let’s just say his new live-in friend January also has a permanent residence in the uncanny valley.

You see the people you work with every day; but what can’t you see? Amira, Sarah, Paula, Ewan and Charlie have worked together for years - they know how each other likes their coffee, whose love life is a mess, whose children keep them up at night. But their comfortable routine life is...

Annie is morbidly obese, lonely and hopeful. Moving into her new home alone, she describes her increasingly bizarre attempts to ingratiate herself with her new neighbours, learn from past mistakes and achieve a "certain kind of intimacy" with the boy next door. As Annie struggles to repress a...

It is the Time of the Felled Men. M, a writer, finds her own past triggered by the constant revelations of misogyny and violence. The novel she is writing stalls. She speaks out about her past and this has consequences for her life and work – including the threat of litigation. To escape, she...

Bloomsbury presents Piercing by Ryu Murakami, read by Kenichiro Thomson Every night, Kawashima Masayuki creeps from his bed and watches over his baby girl's crib while his wife sleeps. But this is no ordinary domestic scene. He has an ice pick in his hand, and a barely controllable desire to use...

A collection of thirty short stories that move along the edges of the existential and the social, the tender and the ironic. Set against the backdrop of Greece , and drawing deeply from its unique spirit and contradictions, each story reveals a subtle fracture in the surface of daily life, where a person confronts themselves, the systems that enclose them, and the illusions they invent just to endure. These are finely tuned explorations of the human psyche —part microscope, part mirror— unveiling the quiet absurdities we all share .

Asher Logan has been a lot of things: runaway, guitarist, cage fighter, and cowboy, but the one thing he’s always avoided was being a father to his young son. Now faced with returning to his family's ranch, he’s forced to deal with the knowledge that the move would put him right down the road from Shawn. Still, it’s better than staying in the city, with drunken, bitter older brother Cole, whose anger and prejudices have made him difficult to be around.

The 1940 film Rebecca is acclaimed as one of the greatest achievements of the legendary director Alfred Hitchcock. This audio recording is an adaptation of the screenplay of this Academy Award winning motion picture featuring the original cast, including Sir Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine.

Internationally best-selling novelist Irvin D. Yalom explores the mindsets of two men separated by 300 years. Using his skills as a psychiatrist, he explores the inner lives of Baruch Spinoza, the Jewish 17th-century secular philosopher, and of Alfred Rosenberg, outspoken Nazi ideologue, faithful servant of Hitler, the main author of racial policy for the Third Reich, and a godless mass murderer....

From the Booker Prize longlisted author of The Wall, comes his first novel in eight years. What if the year's most talked about TV show was all about your marriage? Kate, thirty years into her marriage, has a seemingly idyllic metropolitan, North London life. Phoebe, a young screenwriter, is the...

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...

Winnie and Thomas Amato have decided to have their first baby together. Although the excitement levels are high, Winnie, especially, is also full of dread. Already prone to being an anxious person, the fluctuating hormones and nauseous waves aggravate her fears. In fact, she calls it “the Fear” because sometimes it becomes so loud that there is nothing else. After Winnie becomes fed up with her suffering and feelings of madness, she finds that her new desire to nest runs deep into the very marrow of her bones.

Monday is a wholly original work of fiction inspired by the emotional legacy and archetypal spirit of the 1985 film The Breakfast Club, written and directed by John Hughes. This story contains no characters, dialogue, or copyrighted material from the film. All characters, events, and settings are original and created by the author. Any similarities to real people or existing fictional works are purely coincidental or used in a transformative, artistic context. Monday is not a sequel, adaptation, or official continuation.

Macy Miller had always done what was expected. Until the night she didn't. By morning, her husband lies in a coma, the neighbors are whispering, and the past she buried won't stay down. As the routines of daily life resume, Macy struggles to maintain the careful order she’s built on silence and conformity.

Hartwell, New Jersey, was never meant to give up its secrets. When archaeologist Nora Hale returns to her hometown to oversee the redevelopment of the long-abandoned Blackwater Bootworks, she expects routine work: soil surveys, structural remnants, and fragments of the past neatly cataloged and explained. What she finds instead is something buried. Beneath the collapsed factory floor lies evidence that was never recorded—and was never meant to be found.

A troubled patient’s violent dreams reveal a terrifying consciousness reaching beyond the limits of the human mind. Beyond the Wall of Sleep is H. P. Lovecraft’s haunting blend of cosmic horror, psychological suspense, and speculative science fiction...

In Santa Fe's high desert, Dr. Mari Vega keeps her casita locked and her heart locked tighter. Once celebrated for reading dangerous men, a malpractice scandal cost her the paper she published, the practice she built, and the daughter who won't say her name. Now a single week brings three patients and a storm that won't let up. Ines, a woman certain a silent stalker measures time in decades and slips into rooms without leaving a mark.

Leon Nader ya sufría graves trastornos del sueño desde la adolescencia. Como sonámbulo, durante sus deambulaciones nocturnas llegó incluso a volverse violento y tuvo que recibir tratamiento psiquiátrico. Hoy, Leon cree estar curado… hasta que una noche su esposa desaparece sin dejar rastro del apartamento que comparten. ¿Ha regresado su enfermedad?

There’s a moment you don’t notice when it happens, a quiet shift where everything begins to slip just enough that you can still convince yourself you’re in control. It doesn’t feel like falling at first. It feels manageable. Temporary. Like something you can fix before it turns into something worse. Leto believed that. He believed he had time to figure it out, time to make it right, time to prove that he wasn’t becoming the person everyone had already decided he would be. But time has a way of running out when every choice you make pulls you further from the life you were trying to hold onto.

A spirit inhabits the statues, gardens, and buildings of Kleinburg University. For centuries, it has shaped campus life to its will by covertly manipulating staff and students. However, when Kasimir Schneider enrolls in the parapsychology program, things run out of order. Hopelessly enamoured...