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Ein wunderschönes Luxushotel, in dem die Gäste sterben... Im Grunde ist ein Hospiz tatsächlich ein schönes Hotel - kein bisschen düster. Weiße Ärztekittel? Fehlanzeige. Haustiere? Erlaubt. Feste Besuchszeiten? Nein. Klavierkonzerte und Entertainment? Ja. Vorzeitig auschecken? Auch das kommt vor. Doch natürlich gibt es Unterschiede zu normalen Hotels. Schließlich sterben die Gäste im "Hotel Hospiz". Die 84 jährige Minnie ist unheilbar krank. Sie entschließt sich die, ihr noch verbleibende Zeit im Hamburger Hospiz "Haus Holle" zu verbringen.

Ci sono istanti in cui la vita scorre tutta intera davanti agli occhi, come una visione. "Ossa di sole" cattura quella visione e la trasforma in romanzo. Gli occhi e la vita appartengono a Marcus Conway, un marito, un padre, un ingegnere che abita in un lembo rurale d'Irlanda. È il 2 novembre, il giorno dei morti. Seduto al tavolo della cucina, Marcus sente il rintocco di una campana, la campana dell'Angelus.

A cop killer on the loose in Cardiff - introducing a dark and gritty new voice in crime fiction, perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride and David Mark. At a squalid flat near the Cardiff docks, an early morning drugs raid goes catastrophically wrong. A plainclothes officer is shot dead at point-blank range; the dealer is left in a coma. The killer, identity unknown, slips away. Young and inexperienced, Will MacReady starts his first day on the CID. With the city in shock and the entire force reeling, he is desperate to help - but unearths truths that lead the team down an increasingly dark path....

Bystander is a pitiless, bold work of intense psychological realism narrated by a professionally successful but socially bankrupt anti-hero who expects global connection and local anonymity. It excoriates the contingency of contemporary morality, and, at a time of growing isolation, forces the listener to examine what it means to be a good neighbor.

Atire a primeira pedra conta a história de Mariano, um adolescente trancafiado durante dez anos num manicômio, em razão de sua homossexualidade. Ao sair, seu primeiro ato é contatar a mãe que o confinou na instituição, porém o reencontro desencadeia um assassinato brutal.

Ein stummer Junge, allein und verletzt im Wald, und ein Transporter, der zu Todesfalle wurde. Die Auszeit von Kommissarin Viveca Brandt währt nur kurz, als sie bei einem Waldspaziergang auf einen orientierungslos wirkenden Jungen trifft. Neben seinen Verletzungen, reagiert er auch nicht auf ihre Ansprache und verhält sich seltsam. Sie lässt ihn in ein Krankenhaus einweisen und beschließt, das Rätsel um den stummen Jungen zu lösen. Noch am selben Tag werden Viveca und ihre Kollegin zu einem mysteriösen Unfall gerufen.

“If you love Elin Hilderbrand and The Great Gatsby, Moore’s confection of a novel, set on Block Island, is a satisfying treat.”—The New York Times From national bestselling author Meg Mitchell Moore comes a sparkling, escapist novel following a young woman entwined in the opulent lives...

The Committee pits friends against friends and threatens careers and lives in a struggle for the soul of a town, a university, and an ideal. Based on actual historical events and set against the backdrop of political, cultural, and class turmoil, this is a story of love - both licit and hidden - war, friendship, betrayal, compromise, and finally the necessity to stand firm against the encroachments upon freedom by men who believe they are doing God’s and the government’s righteous work.

Vince stops taking his lithium when he finds out about his partner's pregnancy. As withdrawal kicks in, he can barely hold his life together. Somewhere between making friends with a blackbird in the back garden and hearing his dead son's footsteps in the attic, he finds himself lost and alone, journeying through a world of chaos and darkness, completely unaware of the miracle that lies ahead.

New Grub Street (1891) has the reputation of being George Gissing's finest novel. With bitter humour and grim realism, it tells the story of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of men and women struggling to earn their living as writers in the closing years of the Victorian era. Jasper Milvain is a young writer of limited talent, eager to exploit every opportunity and social connection in order to make his way. For those who toil "in the valley of the shadow of books" the spectre of poverty looms large.

From award-winning author Tom Piccirilli comes what Lee Child calls “perfect crime fiction,” a wholly original novel introducing the Rands, a vipers’ nest of crooks and cons, one generation stealing from the next. Upon the razor-thin edge between love and violence lives a pair of brothers...

Tom has decided he doesn't want to live. Adam wishes he had that choice. Tom's lost his job and now he's been labelled 'spermless'. He doesn't exactly feel like a modern man, although his double life helps. Yet when his secret identity threatens to unravel, he starts to lose the plot and comes perilously close to the edge. All the while Adam has his own duplicity, albeit for very different reasons, reasons which will blow the family's future out of the water.

A gentleman enjoying the morning over the River Seine waves to a steamer, and the nightmare begins. He believes he may be going insane, but then he begins to feel there is an entity that he cannot see invading his mind and his home. The entity is perhaps an invader from another world. Guy de Maupassant's tale of classic horror will enthrall you.

Drawn to the little seaport of Colebrook by an anonymous letter, elderly and eccentric Captain Hagberd settles down to build a home ready for the day when his son, Harry, who ran away to sea many years ago, finally returns. As the years pass, the old man convinces himself that Harry will come back on some never-realized "to-morrow", and Bessie, the lonely and unhappy daughter of the Captain's neighbor, comes to share in the Captain's desperate hope....

An artist creates paintings that create emotions. Staring at the painting for too long, people become mesmerized, acting out what they witnessed on the canvas.

Life as Livy Random came with its challenges. Struggling with her appearance and her unhappy marriage to Mr. Mark Random, Livy found solace in her vivid imagination. By conjuring an imaginary lover, Livy discovered a world where she felt truly alive, feeling his presence in ways she couldn't quite explain. As her connection to this invisible paramour grew stronger, Livy ventured into uncharted territory when she became pregnant--not by her husband, but by this ethereal lover.

The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This semi-autobiographical story was first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. In this story, which was written after a severe bout of postpartum depression, Charlotte gives us a disturbing and surreal view of the deterioration of a woman's mental health and her descent into psychosis from her depression.

A great science fiction short story from the age of the digest size sci-fi magazines in the burgeoning science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s by one of the masters of the genre.