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Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls.

My son Cam is going to be a baseball star. He’s only thirteen but this trip is a huge opportunity for him. There are scouts from all the major baseball teams at this tournament. He is the one to watch. The night before the tournament starts, Cam’s bed is found empty. Everyone is a suspect. People are always jealous of him — other kids, other parents. Even his own father. Anyone could have taken him. The police start digging into every corner of our lives. They want to know everything about us. Everything about our relationship. Every secret we’ve kept from each other.

I thought moving to this quiet cul-de-sac was the fresh start my husband and I needed, escaping the noise of our cramped flat in Hounslow. I left India and all that was familiar for a new life with him in England. But my husband works all hours, leaving me alone in a house that doesn’t feel like a home. Our neighbours notice the bruises on my arms. They draw the obvious conclusions. They seem kind, but they’re hiding something. I just can’t shake the feeling that someone is always watching me . . . waiting. My husband’s working late. Again. That’s when I see it.

Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work - and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some 20 years earlier. Yet Philip claims to be cured - miraculously transformed by the pessimistic teachings of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer - and is himself a philosophical counselor in training.

Sons and Lovers, Lawrence's third published novel, was written by the author at the height of his literary powers. The story of class differences (the relationship between a middle-class woman and a miner) in the tough world of coal mining brought a refreshing realism to literature. It remains a challenging text and is studied widely. It is particularly effective on audiobook in the hands of Nottinghamshire reader Paul Slack.

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....

Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's first major novel, was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies enforced by a tightly knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden for long. When the marriage between Walter Morel and his sensitive, high-minded wife begins to break down, the bitterness of their frustration seeps into their children's lives.

It was supposed to be a typical October evening for renowned portrait artist Will Light. Over dinner of lamb tagine, his wife, Sophie, would share news about chorus rehearsals for the upcoming holiday concert, and their teenage daughter, Lucy, would chatter about French club and field hockey. Only Lucy never came home. Her body was found, days later, in the woods. The Eastern Seaboard town of Port Fortune used to be Will's comfort. Now, there's no safe harbor for him.

Opening my eyes, I see a nurse standing over my bed. She wipes away my tears as she tells me I was in a car crash and it was my fault. Confused, I only remember snapshots of my life, but I’m not convinced the crash was an accident. My marriage had been perfect, until my husband, John, met Rebecca. He said they were just friends and that I was imagining things when I saw them cosied up like they were on a date.

Dans le Finistère, Adam vit heureux avec sa famille, jusqu'au jour où son épouse disparaît. «Besoin d’une pause» est le dernier message envoyé par Lola, avant le silence. Adam doit pour la première fois gérer seul l’hypersensibilité et les étranges cauchemars de Maël, leur fils de 5 ans et demi à l'affût du moindre signe de sa mère. Lola, dévouée et fusionnelle, ne resterait pas sans nouvelles de Maël ! Persuadé qu'elle court un danger, Adam fait appel au détective privé Aimé Bellec pour l’aider à la retrouver.

Paris, 1340. À sept ans, Louis Ruest, fils unique de l'un des boulangers les plus estimés de cette ville florissante, travaille avec beaucoup d'acharnement afin de pouvoir réaliser sa plus grande ambition, celle de devenir à son tour l'un des meilleurs boulangers de sa profession. Tourmenté et assoiffé d'amour, s'il s'efforce de faire ses preuves en dépit de ses écarts de conduite, Louis est surtout désireux d'être apprécié par Firmin, son père, qui s'obstine malheureusement à ne voir en lui qu'un indigne successeur.

The author, Amy Gallaty, has a new book out, at first prompting Angell and Sullivan to question how far she is prepared to go in the name of promotion. But when Amy attracts the attentions of a stalker and then a second murder mirrors another of her plots, they realize they are up against a cruel and clever psychopath, one who may have a more personal agenda. Working with the FBI, Angell and Sullivan find themselves in a race against the clock to unlock the secrets in Amy’s past before the killer can strike again.

In Feuille d’Album by Katherine Mansfield, a shy and socially awkward young man observes the woman who lives across from him, constructing an entire emotional world from brief glances and silent longing. His affection grows not through conversation or action, but through careful watching and inward reflection.

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Sons and Lovers was the first of Lawrence's major works, and is still considered to be one of his best. The 1913 novel, partly autobiographical and set in the coalmining village of Bestwood, is notable for being the first English novel to be genuinely working-class in origin and focus.

Ainsi commence l'histoire de Courgette, un petit garçon de neuf ans, qui à défaut de tuer le ciel, tue accidentellement sa mère. Placé dans une maison d'accueil, il découvre l'amitié et les prémices des amours enfantines. Entre fous rires et larmes, naïveté et émotion, l'apprentissage d'une vie.

Larguer les amarres pour mieux se reconstruire... Alexis n’a plus rien à voir avec le jeune urgentiste passionné qu’il était : brisé par ses missions humanitaires, il a perdu goût à la vie et foi en son métier. Lorsqu’on l’appelle pour remplacer l’unique médecin généraliste sur l’île de Groix, en Bretagne, c’est à reculons qu’il s’y installe, ignorant tout des merveilleuses promesses que cette destination lui réserve.

Marie a vingt-cinq ans. Un soir de fête, coup de foudre, nuit d'amour et le lendemain... Elle se retrouve douze ans plus tard, mariée, des enfants et plus un seul souvenir de ces années perdues. Cauchemar, angoisse. Elle doit assumer sa grande famille et accepter que l'homme qu'elle a rencontré la veille vit avec elle.

Cette histoire débute au matin du trente-cinquième anniversaire d'Annie Dubreuil, alors qu'elle reçoit la lettre la plus étrange de sa vie. Elle est signée de la main d'une tante décédée depuis longtemps déjà, qui lui demande de venir à son aide de toute urgence, à Saint-Simon, son village natal. Trop contente de sortir pendant un moment de sa petite vie routinière, de son minuscule appartement en ville, de son travail peu gratifiant et des dettes laissées par son ex, Annie fonce, bien décidée à résoudre ce mystère.

Written in 1913, D H Lawrence's first major novel, Sons and Lovers, was the one of the earliest in the English language to explore a close-knit mining community from the inside. Lawrence's semi-autobiographical novel, set in the Nottinghamshire coal fields, is renowned for its accurate portrayal of working-class life and for its use of local dialect. It traces emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with his over possessive mother, and the women he falls in love with.