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Susannah has two beautiful daughters, a high-flying medical career, a successful husband and an enviable life. Her hair is glossy, her clothes are expensive: she truly has it all. But when—on the hottest day of the year—her strict morning routine is disrupted, Susannah finds herself running on autopilot. It is hours before she realises she has made a devastating mistake. Her baby, Louise, is still in the backseat of the car, and it is too late to save her.

“Exquisite."" —Minneapolis Star Tribune ""Brilliantly observed.” — People, Pick of the Week “A beguiling novel, deceptively easy to read; beneath the surface swim disturbing and age-old questions about freedom and fate.” — Hilary Mantel From the bestselling author of Late in...

Svält, som bygger på Hamsuns egna erfarenheter, beskriver en spirande författares sorgliga livsförhållanden, när han driver runt i Christiania och konstant kämpar för att skaffa sig det mest nödvändiga för att kunna hålla sig vid liv. Ofta får han inte mat på flera dagar, och han får då nöja sig med att tugga på ett träspån, vilket leder till att han får våldsamma humörsvängningar och hallucinationer, som hämmar hans produktivitet.

Als ein brutaler Doppelmord die Stadt Sawmill, Oregon, erschüttert, benötigt das FBI Autumns Spezialkenntnisse. Die Tochter des getöteten Ehepaars, die gerade ihr eigenes Leben beginnen wollte, verschwand in der Tatnacht. Wird Autumn bald klar, welchen Plan der gesuchte Täter verfolgt: Er will Paare bestrafen, die ihr Ehegelübde brechen. Die Zahl der Opfer steigt, und der Killer geht immer größere Risiken ein. Was als Suche nach einem neunzehnjährigen Mädchen begann, wird zu einem Katz-und-Maus-Spiel.

Seit über zwanzig Jahren sind Kora und Anselm verheiratet. Nach einer Herz-OP findet Kora nicht mehr in ihre frühere Form zurück. Ihr Beruf, ihre Ehe, ihr Lebensentwurf – alles steht plötzlich infrage. Als ein Bekannter sie um Hilfe bittet, stürzt sich Kora in eine ungewöhnliche Recherche. Anselm wiederum hat die Rente eingereicht. Der sorgfältig zwischen Nähe und Distanz austarierte Ehealltag gerät aus dem Takt. Kora flüchtet – und begibt sich auf eine Reise zu Menschen und Orten, die sie als junge Frau geprägt haben.

Alma ist Niemands Tochter. Sie wächst in den Achtzigerjahren in der Eifel auf, doch das kluge und neugierige Mädchen fühlt sich fremd in seiner Familie. Denn um seine Herkunft wird geschwiegen. Zu einer anderen Zeit, an einem anderen Ort vermisst noch eine Frau ihre Mutter schmerzlich – Isabell, die 2019 in Berlin lebt. Diese Leerstelle hat ihre Vergangenheit geprägt und beeinflusst noch immer ihre Gegenwart, ihr Fühlen und Denken und ihr eigenes Familienleben.

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.

Franz Kafka was born on 3rd July 1883 in Prague, then in Bohemia, the eldest of 6, into a middle-class Jewish family. Life for the young Kafka and his passion for literature was often made an ordeal by his over-bearing and domineering entrepreneur of a father. His literary works are few in number but towering in influence. His masterpieces include ‘The Trial’, ‘The Metamorphosis’ as well as a number of short stories which reveal facets of humankind that truthfully could only be born from Kafka’s brain and pen.

We moved from Minnesota to a beautiful house in the English countryside. A year away was meant to be the perfect fresh start. As soon as we arrive, I get a bad vibe. Despite the charming period features, the house is dark and cold. When the taxi driver pulls away, he warns us: 'whatever you do, don't believe the rumours.' Our first morning there, Rob brings me croissants in bed and I think maybe this will work, maybe we can be happy here. Then it begins. Strange noises coming from the woods. In the garden, I feel like I'm being watched. Then I see him. The little boy.

The narrator and central character of The Adolescent is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive 19-year-old boy full of ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely knows, inspired by an inchoate dream of communion and armed with a mysterious document that he believes gives him power over others.

This magnificent novel is about the murder of a miserly, aged pawnbroker and her younger sister by a radical, destitute St. Petersburg student named Raskolnikov, and the emotional, mental, and physical effects that follow. It is a remarkable masterpiece about a man's turbulent inner life and his relationship to others and to society at large. Dostoevsky explored the human condition on many levels in this great piece, and among the main themes the novel explores is the rather strange theory that criminals have a spiritual need to be punished - that indeed they demand it.

Rachel’s childhood is a mess of fragmented memories and her adult life is no less chaotic. Her mother and daughter are her only concrete links to the past and now they are slipping through her fingers. Fuelled by the fear of losing them both, she delves into her mother’s past, fast becoming entangled in her own tragic history. With eerie friend requests filling Rachel’s phone and shocking flashbacks filling her mind, she heads to County Sligo to discover her past – but is there a killer closer than she thinks?

ಸಂಧ್ಯಾರಾಗ - ಸಂಗೀತಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ತನ್ನ ಜೀವನವನ್ನು ಅರ್ಪಿಸುವ ಯುವಕನ ಕಥೆ. ಸಂಗೀತವು ತರಬಹುದಾದ ಖ್ಯಾತಿ ಮತ್ತು ಹಣವನ್ನು ಅವರು ಬಯಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ ಆದರೆ ಅವರು ಕಲೆಯನ್ನು ಕರಗತ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಬಯಸುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಅದನ್ನು ಸಾಧಿಸಲು, ಅವರು ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು ಪ್ರಕ್ಷುಬ್ಧತೆಯನ್ನು ಎದುರಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ, ಇದನ್ನು ಕಾದಂಬರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟವಾಗಿ ವಿವರಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಸಂಗೀತವನ್ನು ವಿಷಯವಾಗಿ ಹೊಂದಿರುವ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಕೆಲವೇ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸಂಧ್ಯಾರಾಗ ಕೂಡ ಒಂದು. ಇದು ಸಂಗೀತದ ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮ ವ್ಯತ್ಯಾಸಗಳು, ಗುರು ಮತ್ತು ಶಿಷ್ಯರ ನಡುವಿನ ಸಂಬಂಧ, ಗ್ರಾಮೀಣ ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ ಮೌಲ್ಯ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿಗಳನ್ನು ಮುಟ್ಟುತ್ತದೆ.

When Freya Miller is struck by tragedy, losing her husband and her home within a short time, she is burdened with many worries. The main one being where she and her five-year old daughter, Skye, are going to live. A chance meeting with the charismatic Dr Marsden changes all that. He offers the young mother the most amazing opportunity: an apartment at one of London’s most exclusive addresses for a fraction of the market rental cost. It’s an offer Freya simply can’t refuse.

Thirteen years ago someone did something very bad to Anna. Now it's her turn to get even. Anna lives a solitary existence, taking solace in order and routine. Her only friend is the lonely old lady next door. She doesn't like to let people to get too close - she knows how much damage they can do. Then one ordinary day, Anna witnesses a devastating road accident and recognises the driver as Carla, the woman who ruined her life all those years ago.

In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual...

Liana Clymer is running away - from her divorce, from her past, from herself. Leaving behind everything she knows, she finds herself ensconced in a fuchsia-colored cottage in the swampy hinterlands of the Florida panhandle. Far from the grown sons who don't return her calls, her only companion her dog, Liana decides to put her best foot forward and get to know whoever lives in the blue house across the street, the only neighbors within sight of her new home.

Three years ago Toni's five-year-old daughter, Evie, disappeared after leaving school. The police have never been able to find her. There were no witnesses, no CCTV, no trace. But Toni believes her daughter is alive. And as she begins to silently piece together her memories, the full story of the past begins to reveal itself - and a devastating truth. Toni's mind is trapped in a world of silence. Her only chance to save herself is to manage the impossible: she must find a way to make herself heard. She must find her daughter.

David Federman has never felt appreciated. An academically gifted yet painfully forgettable member of his New Jersey high school class, the withdrawn, mild-mannered freshman arrives at Harvard fully expecting to be embraced by a new tribe of high-achieving peers. But, initially, his social prospects seem unlikely to change, sentencing him to a lifetime of anonymity. Then he meets Veronica Morgan Wells. Struck by her beauty, wit, and sophisticated Manhattan upbringing, David falls feverishly in love.

A work of power, intimacy and magic' Anees Salim, authorWhen Maneka Pataudi is arrested as the prime suspect for the murder of her ex-husband, she reveals a chilling tale of marital abuse and neglect.But is her confession the truth or a lie? Is she telling the story as a victim or a perpetrator?...