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Ein unscheinbarer Park. Ein lächelndes Nilpferd. Ein Ort, an dem Menschen Trost und Heilung finden. «Wenn du Kummer hast, geh zu Kabahiko» – so lautet der Rat in der Nachbarschaft. Das lächelnde Nilpferd ist ein Spielgerät im Park und besitzt angeblich heilende Fähigkeiten. Sie alle erhoffen sich von dem Besuch eine Verbesserung ihrer Situation. Der Bestseller aus Japan: ein kraftvoller Roman über Hoffnung, Freundschaft und das unerwartete Glück zufälliger Begegnungen.

Awaiting execution and counting down the final hours of his life, an unnamed prisoner records his thoughts, fears, and fading hopes with raw honesty. As the walls close in around him, he confronts mortality, justice, and the human cost of punishment. Powerful, intimate, and deeply moving, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is both a gripping psychological portrait and a timeless plea for compassion, challenging readers to reflect on the meaning of justice and the value of human life.

इकरार हो चुका है। लेकिन रहस्य अभी शुरू ही हुआ है। एक तूफानी रात को, एक दूरदराज के गांव में, मोनिका एक चौंकाने बाला इकरार करती है, "कल सत, मैंने अपने पति की हत्या कर दी।' लेकिन जब इंस्पेक्टर वहां पहुंचता है, तो उसका पति उसके ठीक बगल में खड़ा होता है, बिल्कुल जीवित।

This summer, meet Regina Gottlieb as she becomes entangled with a magnetic professor – and his volatile wife… In the heat of September, and the heady rush of starting her graduate degree, Regina Gottlieb is entranced by her controversial professor Nicholas Brodeur. Against all advice, she...

Zwei glutheiße Sommer in der Lombardei: Leo verbringt die Tage damit, im etwas in die Jahre gekommenen Hotel ihrer Nonna auszuhelfen und die kuriosen Hinterlassenschaften der Gäste einzusammeln – einen Perlenohrring, eine Haarlocke. Als ein Unfall geschieht, für den Leo sich verantwortlich fühlt, ist ihre Kindheit schlagartig vorbei. Jahre später ist Leo wieder in Italien, doch nichts ist mehr, wie es war. Als eines Tages Dolores, eine junge amerikanische Geigenbauerin, in der Tür steht, verliebt sich Leo stürmisch in sie.

Ein Jahr nach dem Tod ihres Mannes ist Emma zu einem Mauerblümchen verkommen. Sie geht förmlich unter in der Farbenpracht des Blumenladens, in dem sie arbeitet. Doch als ein Kollege sie zu einem Vortrag über die Titanic einlädt, wird ihre Neugier geweckt: War der sagenumwobene Dampfer nicht auch mit Blumen geschmückt? Und wenn ja, wer steckte dahinter? Während ihrer Recherche stößt sie auf ein Foto einer jungen Stewardess der Titanic, das ihr auf unerklärliche Weise vertraut vorkommt. Emma dämmert immer mehr, dass sie sich auch auf den Spuren ihrer eigenen Geschichte befindet.

PRAISE FOR AGAINST THE TIDE ‘Dripping with menace and authenticity’ PETER JAMES ‘Pacy and gripping’ LISA JEWELL ‘Genius’ LOUISE MINCHIN If the truth could destroy you, would you choose to know it? 'The emotion and shock of this book had me in tears more than once' Reader review DC...

Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blacks out when they take hold. Shortly after severely beating two men during an episode, the police escort Benson to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. There, Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson with an experimental procedure that would place electrodes deep in his brain's pleasure centers.

When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr Byrne, her best friend James helps her devise a plan to seduce him. But what begins as a harmless crush soon pushes their friendship to its limits. Over the course of a year they will find their lives ever more entwined with the Byrnes' and be faced with impossible choices and a lie that can't be taken back...

Brought to you by Penguin. A tragicomic portrait of one man's unravelling in an absurd, twisted world, Howl is the propulsive new novel from Booker-Prize winner Howard Jacobson. In the aftermath of October 7, Ferdinand Draxler walks the streets of London in despair. Everything has changed –...

In the best tradition of Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ann Patchett—an astonishing, keenly observed period piece about an ordinary British woman in the 1950s whose dutiful life takes a sudden turn into a pitched battle between propriety and unexpected passion. ""With wit and dry humor...

This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality, and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.

My husband was not a monster. No matter what they say.... The day my husband, Michael, stepped in front of a lorry after being questioned by the police, my world fell apart. He was devoted to me and our six-year-old daughter. But they’d connected him to the disappearance of a young mother from our tiny village.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Charlotte Ritchie, best known for her roles as Oregon in Channel 4's Fresh Meat, Hannah in the BBC Three comedy Siblings, and as Barbara Gilbert in BBC drama Call the Midwife. With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail...

Audiobook narrated by Derek Perkins. “More ambitious than The Alchemist. A thought-provoking tale.” – TIME magazine A sweeping and deeply personal novel about faith, loss, and the will to rebuild — from Paulo Coelho, the internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist. The Fifth...

Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She's undeniably attractive. She drives a red Corvette with tinted windows. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed, and devoted to her. But Celeste's devotion lies elsewhere. She has a singular sexual...

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.

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....

Brought to you by Penguin. The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War II In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an...

Veertiger Marcus Halen worstelt met een scheiding, ziekte en het verlies van zijn vader. Een onbekende brief leidt hem op een zoektocht naar zichzelf, zijn vader en verborgen familiegeheimen.