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Geoff Rickly’s debut novel Someone Who Isn’t Me is a feverish journey through the psyche of someone who no longer recognizes himself. When Geoff hears that a drug called ibogaine might be able to save him from his heroin addiction, he goes to a clinic in Mexico to confront the darkest and most destructive versions of himself. In this modern reimagining of the Divine Comedy, survival lurks in the darkest corners of Geoff’s brain, asking, will he make it? Can anyone?

For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pursuit of a "life of freedom." Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single blind turn of a card."

A smart, juicy, and page-turning novel about celebrity, fandom, and the price of ambition following a journalist's obsessive search for a missing Hollywood starlet When Echo Blue, the most famous child star of the nineties, disappears ahead of a highly publicized television appearance on the eve...

Jemima Hutton is determined to build a successful new life and keep her past a dark secret. Trouble is, her jewellery business looks set to fail - until enigmatic Ben Davies offers to stock her handmade belt buckles in his guitar shop and things start looking up, on all fronts. But Ben has secrets too. When Jemima finds out he used to be the front man of hugely successful Indie rock band Willow Down, she wants to know more. Why did he desert the band on their US tour? Why is he now a semi-recluse?

Helen Eustis’s The Horizontal Man (1946) won an Edgar Award for best first novel and continues to fascinate as a singular mixture of detection, satire, and psychological portraiture. A poet on the faculty of an Ivy League school is found murdered, setting off ripple effects of anxiety...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, The Devil's Dream is an animated, lyrical novel that is meant to be savored as spoken word. Consummate storyteller Lee Smith's creation will delight anyone who enjoys the sound of language and a good story.

The much anticipated sophomore novel from the bestselling author of Caucasia and the forthcoming Colored Television A young woman moves to New York City for what promises to be a dream job. Displaced, she feels unsure of her fit in the world. Then comes a look of recognition, a gesture of...

Nominiert für den Deutschen Buchpreis 2024. Ein dubioses Spa, ein entkräfteter Mann und die Frage, was es heute bedeutet, glücklich zu sein. Ein Mann kann nicht mehr schlafen. Mit den Kräften am Ende, fürchtet er, alles zu verlieren: seine Ehe, seinen Status, das Leben. Seine Frau Imogen schickt ihn ins San Vita, ein mysteriöses Nobelresort in der verschneiten Stille der Dolomiten. In Obhut von Prof. Trinkl soll er dort zu sich selbst finden. Doch er sträubt sich aus Angst, sich in die Seele schauen zu lassen.

Fräulein Else: Eine Novelle von Arthur Schnitzler, gelesen von Sabrina Worsch. Fräulein Else ist eine 1924 erschienene Monolog-Novelle des österreichischen Schriftstellers Arthur Schnitzler. Else T., Tochter eines Wiener Rechtsanwalts, befindet sich für einige Urlaubstage im Trentiner Kurort San Martino di Castrozza, finanziert durch ihre Tante Emma.

Der Sandmann ist eine 1816 erstmals veröffentlichte Erzählung des romantischen Autors E. T. A. Hoffmann. Es ist vor allem eine finstere Erzählung über die Abgründe der menschlichen Psyche. Der Student Nathanael erzählt seinem Freund Lothar in einem Brief, er habe in der Gestalt des Wetterglashändlers Coppola den Advokaten Coppelius wiedergetroffen. Dieser hatte während Nathanaels Kindheit mit dessen Vater alchemistische Experimente durchgeführt, die letztlich zum Tod des Vaters führten.