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October Diplomat is a tale of forbidden love wrapped in international intrigue. In the course of 12 days in October, an American intelligence agent falls in love with a Vietnamese spy who helps him untangle a Chinese general’s plot to seize Vietnam's offshore oil and assassinate China’s president.

Have you answered your soul's true calling? Saliva shares the inner mission of an entity known as the Wanderer. For its ninth and final life on Earth, this mysterious spirit wishes to redeem itself for past-life debauchery by saving a depressed artist from self-sabotage. Reincarnating as a sentient cell of bacteria, it hops from one vessel to another via a transfer of spit. The Wanderer relies on you, the listener, its dearest friend and confidant, to complete its holy cycle, breaking the spell of self-doubt for good.

Die Hamburger Journalistin Jenny Rosenthal hat sich in einen schönen Schmetterling verwandelt. Auf der Suche nach ihrem Platz im Leben, flattert sie von einer Blume zur nächsten und findet sich in den Armen eines Mannes wieder, der so düster und stürmisch wie die Jahreszeit ist. Jenny ist fasziniert von ihm und lässt sich auf ein gefährliches Abenteuer ein. Stück für Stück wird sie dabei in seine Welt hineingezogen, die gleichermaßen erregend wie beängstigend ist.

Once the institutions of his world proved untrustworthy, a young veteran leaves college and seeks refuge in a shack beneath a condemned train bridge along the depleted and abused Salt River. Here, he encounters those society deems invisible: Natives, migrants, and discarded souls. A makeshift clan forms as curious individuals are drawn to this enigmatic figure and his humble dwelling. Among them are a compassionate female doctor, a questioning priest, a lonely flour mill guard, a seventeen-year-old girl yearning for freedom, and a disheartened judge.

Arlie Montgomery is no stranger to tragedy. In fact, tragedy brought Arlie everything she'd ever dreamed of in one fell swoop. As a thriller author, Arlie should've had it easy. Growing up in the town of Crimson Falls, there was no shortage of inspiration, after all. When her husband's tragic death becomes national news, Arlie's failing career skyrockets overnight. Suddenly she has everything she ever wanted, except the man she'd hoped to share her dream with.

Wanneer inspecteur Kim Stone naar het huis van Samantha Brown wordt gestuurd, vindt ze de jonge vrouw in haar bed met een doorgesneden keel en een mes in haar hand. Dan wordt het lichaam van een jonge man gevonden. Net als bij Samantha is zijn keel doorgesneden, maar dat is niet de enige overeenkomst: ze verbleven eerder allebei op Unity Farm, een toevluchtsoord voor mensen die een alternatieve manier van leven nastreven. Achter de knusse façade van het oord ontdekken Kim en haar team een sinistere gemeenschap. Kim zet haar carrière op het spel door er een undercover op af te sturen.

In een drukke winkel klemt een klein meisje zich vast aan haar teddybeer, op zoek naar haar moeder. Uren later wordt er een lichaam ontdekt in een verlaten gebouw. Op het eerste gezicht lijkt het op een snelle, doelgerichte moord. Maar Kims instinct vertelt haar dat er meer aan de hand is. Een dag later wordt een tweede slachtoffer gevonden. Net als bij Katrina is haar nek gebroken, maar haar zesjarige zoon wordt vermist. Kim probeert een doorbraak te forceren in wat snel een complexe zaak aan het worden is.

Als Yeonhwa von ihrer Großmutter das Hwawoldang, eine Konditorei für koreanisches Gebäck, erbt, ist sie etwas ratlos. Das bleibt allerdings nicht die einzige Kuriosität im Zusammenhang mit der Konditorei, denn Yeonhwa merkt schnell, dass ihre Kunden nicht ganz lebendig sind, und das nicht nur in dem Sinne, dass sie nur einen Kaffee benötigen … Mit Hilfe von Yeonhwa, ihrem Gebäck und einer magischen schwarzen Katze versuchen die Verstorbenen, ihren Liebsten eine Nachricht zu schicken, um so ihren Frieden zu finden.

Als seine Mutter Carolina — ein einst ikonisches Fotomodell — nach langer Krankheit verstirbt, richtet Marian eine alternative Trauerfeier für ausgewählte Gäste aus. Marian glaubt, dass mit diesem Ereignis die freudlosere Hälfte des Lebens beginnt. Doch es folgt ein Jahr der Verwandlung.

Bella ha quindici anni e un problema enorme: non sa come sopravvivere alle mille difficoltà che affollano la sua adolescenza. Per allentare la tensione Bella ha trovato un rimedio: l'alcol. Da quel momento, per lei arriverà il momento di affrontare la realtà. Ricoverata in un centro di riabilitazione in mezzo al deserto dell'Arizona, Bella incontrerà ragazzi come lei, spaventati, a pezzi, costretti ad affrontare se stessi e le proprie paure, e a ottenere almeno una vittoria: sopravvivere.

Part novel, part philosophical treatise, part satire, Sartor Resartus is a masterpiece of 19th-century literature, following in the footsteps of Swift’s Tale of a Tub and Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and a key influence on Melville’s Moby-Dick. Bubbling over with ideas, humour and inventiveness, it is—on the surface—a long-suffering British editor’s skeptical account of a German philosopher’s book, Clothes: Their Origin and Influence, which itself is steeped in German idealism.

Con un lenguaje preciso, cuidado y cargado de silencios, esta novela acusa dentro de sí el rumor seco, sordo y remoto de las piedras que arrastra en torbellino furioso el río revuelto de los secretos familiares y sus prejuicios. Núñez Handal acude una vez más a la tradición literaria de la locura como ficción, en esta historia de mujeres que se miran al espejo, sin el miedo de verse en lo que son. Historias sin maquillaje, sin afeites, contadas apenas con la luz con que ilumina y salva al final del camino, la verdad.

Podobnie jak w „Sklepach cynamonowych”, głównym bohaterem i jednocześnie narratorem „Sanatorium pod klepsydrą” jest Józef, noszący wyraźne podobieństwo do samego autora. Centrum świata Józefa, dojrzewającego nastoletniego chłopca, stanowi małe prowincjonalne miasteczko, w którym można dostrzec współczesny Schulzowi, galicyjski Drohobycz.

Chef-d'œuvre de la littérature russe, livre culte à travers le monde, "Le Maître et Marguerite" dénonce dans un rire féroce les pouvoirs autoritaires, les veules qui s'en accommodent, les artistes complaisants, l'absence imbécile de doute. Moscou, années 1930, le stalinisme est tout puissant, l'austérité ronge la vie et les âmes, les artistes sont devenus serviles et l'athéisme est proclamé par l'État. C'est dans ce contexte que le diable décide d'apparaître et de semer la pagaille bouleversant les notions de bien, de mal, de vrai, de faux.

Three years ago, nurse Zoe's son Ethan was found drowned in a muddy river by their home, along with his best friend, Josh. With no witnesses, their deaths were ruled a tragic accident. Heartbroken, Zoe and her family move away from her home. They’re just beginning to get back to some kind of normality when, out of the blue, Zoe receives an anonymous email: "You need to find out the truth about what happened to your son. Don’t let this rest. Don’t believe the lie." Shaken, Zoe starts an obsessive hunt for the truth.

After an encounter with a homeless man, a high school graduate becomes obsessed with the idea of doing heroin, challenging himself to try it just once. A bleak tale of addiction, delusion, and flowers.

Menley Nichols as never stopped blaming herself for the accidental death of her two-year old son, a tragedy that strained her marriage and her sanity. When she and her husband Adam, a high-profile attorney, are blessed with a beautiful new baby daughter, they dedicate themselves to rebuilding their lives together - unaware that someone in their midst has a very different agenda for them.

When aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the bookstore where Joe works, he is instantly smitten. Beck is everything Joe has ever wanted: tough, razor-smart, and sexier than his wildest dreams. He'd kill to have her. Soon Beck can't resist her feelings for a guy who seems custom made for her. When a string of macabre incidents tears her world apart, there is only one person she can turn to. But there's more to Joe than Beck realizes and much more to Beck than her perfect facade.

In a renovated Gothic church on Long Island lives Jonathan Hemlock, an art professor and a world-renowned mountain climber who finances his black-market art collection by working as a freelance assassin. Now, Hemlock is being tricked into a hazardous assignment that involves an attempt to scale one of the most treacherous mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps: the Eiger. His target is one of his three fellow climbers. The problem is that the CII can't tell him which one.

Back When We Were Grownups is about one woman's search for who she really is. Listen as a 53-year-old grandmother tries to recover her girlhood self and that dignified grownup she had once been.