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Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. “I was raised with a chimpanzee”, she explains. “I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren’t thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern’s expulsion...she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister”. As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence.

This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. In much of its general outline, this famous novel follows the life of Paul Gauguin, famous French post-impressionist painter, but it is not a novelized biography of Gauguin. Rather it is a sharply-delineated, carefully wrought "private life", written by one of the most vivid and penetrating contemporary literary masters.

A shooting lays bare the secrets harbored by five families in a sleepy suburban cul-de-sac in this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times best-selling author of All the Wrong Places.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer and screenwriter. BOOK 1: Lately it has become a summer resort of notable and fashionable people; a decade ago it was almost deserted after its English clientele went north in April. Now, many bungalows cluster near it, but when this story begins only the cupolas of a dozen old villas rotted like water lilies among the massed pines between Gausse's Hôtel des Étrangers and Cannes, five miles away.

Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare, but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place.

When does silent compliance with an oppressive regime become unbearable? For Charlie Simpkins, the manager of a small vegetable shop in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, part of the West Coast People's Democratic Republic, the breaking point comes when he is asked to display a meaningless propaganda poster in his shop window. It is a seemingly insignificant act in a lifetime of obedience. But Charlie just can't bring himself to do it. This minor act of defiance, however, shows too much independent thinking on Charlie's part, setting off a chain of escalating consequences.

Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the 20th century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangiers, and, ultimately, a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone.

Hank Mitchell thought he lived an ordinary, ordered life. But on one chilly afternoon, Hank, his brother Jacob, and Jacob's unsavory pal Lou, make a discovery that offers a chance for a life filled with riches beyond their wildest dreams. And in a fateful moment, Hank lays a plan to claim that life....and the horrific crumbling of his ordered world begins.

A 40-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest begins—to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will bring her to...The Horse Whisperer. He is the stuff of legend. His voice can calm wild horses and his touch can heal broken spirits. For secrets uttered softly into pricked and troubled ears, such men were once called Whisperers. Now Tom Booker, the inheritor of this ancient gift, is to meet his greatest challenge.

When a guitar believed to have once belonged to Robert Johnson is discovered, it sets off a chain of events that will unravel the darkest secrets of music history. Ethan, an autistic man with a unique connection to AI technology, unlocks the ability to relive the haunting moments tied to the guitar’s past. As he taps into its memories, he discovers that every musician who touched it—Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse and many more—was part of a tragic fate: each had sold their soul to the devil, paying the ultimate price at the age of 27.

On this journey through the labyrinthine streets and hidden corners of one of the world's most fascinating cities, everybody is searching for something, and maybe searching in the wrong places. Elements of the fantastical and the surreal abound, as they tend to do in the early predawn hours of the morning, yet the settings, the human stories, and each character's search are all as real as can be.

On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive, cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova - a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than 30 years.

Jane’s days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She’s just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth likes - meek, insecure, and willing to defer to a man. No one has any idea who Jane really is. Least of all Steven. But plain Jane is hiding something. And Steven’s bringing out the worst in her.

Au Japon, au pied du complexe résidentiel d'Advande Hills se cache le parc Hinode, une aire de jeux pour enfants. Selon une légende du quartier, le vieil hippopotame en béton à côté du toboggan a des pouvoirs thérapeutiques : il suffirait de le toucher pour guérir des maux les plus douloureux. Kanato, un lycéen qui vient d'emménager, Saha, qui a perdu toute confiance en elle depuis qu'elle est devenue mère, et d'autres voisins vont chercher du réconfort auprès de cette étrange statue. Et si mettre des mots sur les peines qui les hantent leur permettait d'enfin rêver à de nouveaux départs ?

Los Esterházy, una pareja excéntrica sin un pasado claro, llegan a un pueblo de la costa argentina y comienzan a regentar un antiguo hotel. Estos dos seres (y sus dos hijos, una niña y un niño más inquietantes y enigmáticos que ellos) producen el efecto de una partícula enfermiza que se introduce en las grietas de una sociedad pequeña y arrasa con su dinámica cotidiana, aparentemente calma. La pareja resulta ser un amplificador de los prejuicios, los deseos ocultos, las supersticiones, los temores y la violencia larvada en muchos de los habitantes del pueblo.

Jack Duluoz (Kerouac) ha publicado una novela ( En el camino ) que ha alcanzado un gran éxito, pero la fama es como una fiera que lo devora. Huyendo de la imagen que los críticos y los lectores se han forjado de él, en junio de 1960 se refugia en una cabaña que su amigo Lorenzo Monsanto (Lawrence Ferlinghetti en la vida real) tiene en la costa californiana de Big Sur, entre San Francisco y Los Ángeles, donde medita, sufre alucinaciones, escribe poemas místicos, bebe como un cosaco, recibe visitas, se droga y evoca el pasado.

Kaufe ich mir dafür eine Teekanne? Eine rosa Geldbörse? Oder lade ich meine Freundinnen zum Essen ein? Kotoko, die Matriarchin der Familie Mikuriya, ist überzeugt: Wie man diese eher kleine Summe ausgibt, sagt viel über die eigene Persönlichkeit aus. Und ihre Enkelin Miho stellt fest, dass da etwas dran sein muss ...

Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family living in a too-red house in a Texas college town. Roger, the patriarch, has impulsively gone back to school, only to find his future ambitions at odds with the temptations of the present. His wife, Georgia, tries to keep things afloat at home, but she's been feeding the bill drawer with unopened envelopes for months and never manages to confront its swelling contents. In an attempt to climb out of the holes they've dug, Roger and Georgia make a series of choices that have catastrophic consequences for their three children

From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Fever Dream comes a hotly anticipated new collection of eerie short stories. Playful and unsettling, teeming with the energy of barely contained violence, Seven Empty Houses dismantles the neat appearance of domesticity to expose the darkness and discomfort that lies beneath.

It has been two years since the events in Shantaram, and since Lin lost two people he had come to love: his father figure, Khaderbhai, and his soul mate, Karla, married to a handsome Indian media tycoon. Lin returns from a smuggling trip to a city that seems to have changed too much, too soon. Many of his old friends are long gone, the new mafia leadership has become entangled in increasingly violent and dangerous intrigues, and a fabled holy man challenges everything that Lin thought he'd learned about love and life.