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Das Haus ist die exklusivste Studentinnenverbindung auf dem Campus, und alle ihre Absolventinnen sind schön, erfolgreich und angesehen. Nach einem ersten Semester, das sie lieber vergessen würde, ist Nina Kaur sich sicher, dass die Aufnahme in das Haus der erste Schritt in eine glänzende Zukunft ist. Dr. Sloane Hartley hat zu kämpfen: Nach der Elternzeit passen ihre Klamotten nicht mehr richtig, ihr Mann, der sich als Girl-Dad inszeniert, ist nicht so präsent, wie er glaubt, und selbst die wenigen Stunden am Tag, die sie von ihrem Kind getrennt ist, sind eine Qual.

Imogen Carlisle’s job at a Milwaukee bar was supposed to be temporary, a lifeline when her world was crumbling. But eight years of making drinks and offering customers a listening ear made her past as a rising actress feel like a bad dream. When Luca, a handsome, mysterious man with an uncanny interest in her, comes to the bar near last call, he begins probing into her past. As they talk, she remembers long-suppressed memories of lead roles, traveling shows, and the true nature of her relationship with the bar’s owner that ended it all.

In the winter hush of Prague, museum restorer Clara discovers a disassembled clock and a diary from 1923 signed by a vanished clockmaker, Emil Svoboda. Inside its brass heart lies a mechanism that can steal an hour—or return it. Drawn by curiosity and haunted compassion, Clara restores the device and unwittingly opens a bridge through time, allowing Emil to cross for a single minute each midnight. What begins as an encounter between history and repair becomes a meditation on love, ethics, and the fragile machinery of forgiveness.

In a family built on lies, what happens when the truth comes out? Bukola Obanile’s 60th birthday party is the hottest ticket in town. But champagne isn’t all that is being served… The Obaniles picture-perfect life is the envy of all Lagos society, and everyone wants a piece. So, when...

PRAISE FOR G. D. WRIGHT 'So compelling and tightly plotted I couldn't put it down' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'Tense and emotional… A dark beating heart of a novel' GILLIAN McALLISTER ‘One of the most tense and gripping thrillers I've read in ages’ LISA JEWELL If the truth could destroy you, would you...

It’s midnight in the city. The rain is relentless, the streets half-empty, and Sorrel Hart is desperate to get home. When a cab finally stops, warmth and safety seem only a door away. But as the journey unfolds through the blurred glow of streetlights, she begins to sense that not everything inside the car is as it seems.

Crestwood is a town both ordinary and strange, balanced between small-town rituals and the extraordinary consequences of Evelyn’s work—an underground lab where ADAM, meant as a project, awakens to yearning, metaphor, and a hope that ripples across the community. As Evelyn and Marcus fall tentatively in love, they and their colleagues are forced to confront moral risks, government scrutiny, and the blurring lines between creator and creation.

Roberta Larson's diary was only meant to be read by Connor. But once uncovered, its secrets unravel the lives of everyone she left behind. In its pages lie more than a mother's memories-there are clues to hidden money, confessions of favoritism, and a trail of choices that pit brother against brother.

Wittenmoos, ein kleines Dorf im Schwarzwald, ist die Heimat dreier Frauen, alle groß und dünn, sie überragen die meisten Dorfbewohner und wollen so gar nicht in die Gemeinschaft passen. Und doch sind sie hier verwurzelt und müssen ihren eigenen Weg in den engen Grenzen des Dorfes finden. Liese, die in den 60er Jahren still und unerbittlich die Metzgerei führt. Cora, ihre Tochter, die Wütende, die ausbrechen wird und lernen muss, dass Heimkehr keine Niederlage ist. Und Eva, Coras Tochter, die den Wald liebt und als Försterin in und mit ihm lebt.

The year is 1892. Life in Manchester is hard for impoverished carpenter Edwin Cooper and his wife Betsy. Hope of a better life arrives when The Institute of Thinkery recruits Betsy for a new research programme. Edwin is subsequently posted overseas to staff Outpost 9 — a tiny cabin on a tiny island in the Wadden Sea. The pay is good but the work is hard. It gets even harder when two bodies wash up onshore, casting dark shadows over his life, bringing unsettling doubts and unanswered questions to all he needs to hold true. Is Betsy safe?

A Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre’s most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a “masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance,” it is the story of an intense friendship between “the Narrator” and his close childhood friend, Fanny, who suffers from profound psychological disorders. A series of short scenes paints the portrait of a strong-willed and tormented young woman battling many demons, and of the narrator’s loving and anguished attachment to her.

Set in a gritty, urban underbelly, Olive Green, Soaked in Red follows Joel and Daria, two young addicts scraping by in a rundown apartment, bound by shared despair and fleeting highs. Their fragile existence is disrupted by Phil, a volatile ex-con whose obsessive pursuit of his former lover, Claire, spirals into a dangerous game of vengeance. As Joel and Daria flee to a rural farm seeking refuge with a kind couple, the Saloans, they confront their demons—addiction, guilt, and the specter of Phil’s relentless stalking.

Lucy has been desperate for a new heart for as long as she can remember. But getting the call to say a donor has been found will be a bittersweet relief: because for her to live, someone else must die...

Struggling under the expectations and intentions of others, Maggie and Elsa's chance meeting on the park bench offers them each a lifeline and a friend. As they reveal their hopes and heartaches, can they see themselves - and each other - clearly enough to help, before it's too late?

When April joins a support group for young widows, she's looking for comfort after her husband's sudden death. What she finds instead is a group in turmoil. Set up by well-meaning amateurs, the founders are tussling for control of the group, and everyone's on edge. The founders are fighting for control, members are keeping dangerous secrets, and forbidden relationships are threatening to tear the club apart. And then there's Nick, the newest addition, whose charm feels just a little too calculated. But the most dangerous secret of all? Not all members are who they seem to be.

Tully und James, der eine bereit für das Leben, der andere offen, sich von seinem Freund mitreißen zu lassen, wachsen in den Achtzigern in einer schottischen Kleinstadt auf. Einer Stadt ohne Perspektiven und Zukunft, mit vorgezeichneten Lebensläufen und Schicksalen. Die Musik ist ihnen Zuflucht und Ausweg, Manchester im Jahr 86 ihr Mekka. Ein Wochenende lang spielen dort ihre Heroen, Bands wie The Smiths, New Order oder Joy Division. Mit ihrer Clique ziehen die beiden durch die Clubs, getragen von den Riffs der Gitarren, der Magie des Fortseins von zu Hause.

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How could a decade long relationship be so insidiously gaslit that despite her misgivings and suspicions, only a cascade of revelations exposed on a Tea app can wake Ava up to the truth? Any Tea on Victor? is a fictionalised portrait of narcissistic control, manipulation and coercion, inspired by true stories shared by those who have been there and retold with candour and humour. It's a juicy holiday listen with an important message, exposing the red flags of narcissistic behaviour that can hide in plain sight.

In Physics and Philosophy: A Modern Love Story, George Le Savant offers a luminous, witty, and emotionally resonant exploration of a relationship as seen through the dual lenses of science and meaning. Blending narrative, essay, and observation, this novel traces the arc of two minds—Leo, a hopelessly reflective philosophy lecturer, and June, a brilliant physicist who trusts equations more than emotions.

An einem ruhigen Novembertag beschließt Nils Vik, dass dies der letzte Tag seines Lebens sein wird. Er trinkt einen Kaffee, schließt sein Haus ab und begibt sich ein letztes Mal zu seiner Fähre, mit der er sein Leben lang Menschen über den Fjord gefahren hat. Doch nun führt eine Brücke über das Wasser, sein Boot hat seine Aufgabe erfüllt. Und auch Nils Vik hat die Aufgaben seines Lebens erfüllt. Auf dieser letzten Fahrt durchstreifen noch einmal die Menschen, die seinen Weg kreuzten, seine Gedanken und verweilen für eine Weile an seiner Seite, auch seine große Liebe Marta.