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Eve has a good life. She wakes up each day, kisses her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except… Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye. Addie can’t be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that’s what everyone says. But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet…

He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper - with a 10-year-old son-who is hired to care for the professor. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.

There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security prison: 1) Treat all prisoners with respect. 2) Never reveal any personal information. 3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates. But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary’s most notorious and dangerous inmates.

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.

Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. As Naoko retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.

Mikage is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend, Yoichi, and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father), Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart.

Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls.

Born in 1951 in an affluent Tokyo suburb, Hajime - beginning in Japanese - has arrived at middle age wanting for almost nothing. The postwar years have brought him a fine marriage, two daughters, and an enviable career as the proprietor of two jazz clubs. Yet a nagging sense of inauthenticity about his success threatens Hajime's happiness. And a boyhood memory of a wise, lonely girl named Shimamoto clouds his heart.

The 24 stories that make up Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman generously express the incomparable Haruki Murakami’s mastery of the form. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things for which we might wish. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit Murakami’s ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and entertaining.

Lucy and her three best friends share a glamorous but decaying house in the heart of Georgetown. They call themselves “the Sweeties” and live an idyllic post-grad lifestyle complete with exciting jobs, dramatic love lives, and, most importantly, each other. But when Addie, the group’s queen bee, discovers that her ex-boyfriend Josh has gone missing, the Sweeties’ worlds are turned upside down. In the days leading up to his disappearance, Josh, a star investigative journalist from a prominent political family, was behaving erratically—and Lucy is determined to find out why.

Jake and I planned our romantic trip to the south of France to unwind from all the stress of organising our wedding and enjoy some blissful, sun-soaked days, just the two of us. But when we return to the villa after a day exploring the stunning countryside, our dream holiday is turned upside down. Because there, on the beautiful antique rug, is the body of the man everyone saw Jake arguing with in the town square just this morning … I stop breathing as I take in the scene. The footprints in the same tread as Jake's trainers.

Journalist Laura Warren arrives in L.A. to report on a remake of a '90s horror flick. A cursed one, which she happened to star in as a child. When eight of the cast and crew died in ways that eerily mirrored the movie's on-screen deaths, a traumatised Laura left and changed her entire identity. But just as she reaches the set, a man falls from a building right in front of her. It's happening again. This time, Laura is determined to end the curse once and for all. If it doesn't come for her first . . .

Meghann Dontess is een vrouw met een groot verdriet. Jaren geleden werd zij door een ruzie met haar stiefvader gedwongen tot een hartverscheurende keuze waarmee ze de liefde van haar zus Claire verspeelde. Nu is ze een beruchte echtscheidingsadvocaat die niet in intimiteit gelooft. Tot ze die ene man ontmoet die haar van gedachten doet veranderen. Claire Cavenaugh is voor de eerste keer in haar leven verliefd. Terwijl haar trouwdag nadert, neemt zij contact op met haar koele, oudere zus.

Kunstvolles Morden. Kommissar Stijn van der Rijns und sein Kollege Henk Peeters stehen vor einem Rätsel. Unterstützt von der scharfsinnigen Kunsthistorikerin Tessa van Eertvelt tauchen sie tief in die dunklen Abgründe der Kunstwelt ein. Doch der raffinierte Serienkiller ist ihnen immer einen Schritt voraus. Ein makabres Katz-und -Maus-Spiel beginnt, das die Ermittler an ihre Grenzen treibt. Der "Bibelkiller" will nicht nur morden - er will die Sünden der Vergangenheit in dramatischen Inszenierungen ans Licht bringen.

Darfur, 2006: There was not much room in the tent. There was less room on the cot. She lay, intertwined with Alex, staring dreamily as light wisps of sand sifted in front of the lamp. Alexander Barr stands on the edge of society. Humanity, devoid of civilization, is bared before him, raw and visceral. Sketches from the Periphery, MP Summers’ debut novel, is a gripping narrative that delves into the complexities of the Darfur Conflict through the eyes of Alexander Barr, a young contractor confronted not only by the harsh realities of a fractured Sudan, but with his own morality.

In seinem Roman Quittenbäume erzählt Gökhan Göksen die Geschichte von Matthias, einem Jungen, der seine erste Liebe verliert. Seine sonst so sichere Welt, bestehend aus einer intakten Familie, einem schönen Zuhause, guten Schulnoten, gerät ins Wanken. Noch bevor er das Abitur erreicht, verliert er den Glauben daran, dass das Leben schön sein kann. In einer Freistunde auf dem Schulhof lächelt ihn das Glück an und er versucht es festzuhalten. Eine anrührende Geschichte über die Liebe, die so uneindeutig sein kann, beginnt.

Aveva quattordici anni Smita quando con la sua famiglia ha dovuto lasciare l’India in circostanze drammatiche. Una volta al sicuro in America, ha scacciato dal cuore la nostalgia per i crepuscoli aranciati e il profumo inebriante dei cibi che il padre le comprava dai venditori ambulanti e giurato a se stessa che mai più sarebbe tornata in quei luoghi che l’avevano così profondamente ferita. Ma anni dopo si ritrova a dover accettare con riluttanza l’incarico di coprire una storia di cronaca a Mumbai, per il suo giornale.

We've all been there. A loved one or a dear friend becomes desperately ill or is tragically injured. Someone - maybe even you - says, "If that ever happens to me, I wish someone would just . . . kill me." What if you could choose when to die? But once you decide, you can't change your mind - ever. Welcome to the next step in the evolution of suspense fiction, an in-your-face/what-would-you-do topical thriller.

Íntima, sobrecogedora, abrasadora, en Una nota de fuego y nada más —ópera prima de Elena Piedra— se exponen las dolorosas motivaciones de un crimen, más trágico aún pues se asienta en el seno familiar y en el espinoso lazo de la maternidad. Desde que la palabra incendio irrumpió en su cabeza, Fernanda —una joven que nunca pudo tener una relación sana con su madre— no ha podido pensar en otra cosa. Avivado por una historia familiar de silencios y rencores, un ímpetu homicida poco a poco cobra forma dentro de su cabeza y el fuego se revela como el único camino hacia la libertad.

William Stoner is born at the end of the 19th century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments.