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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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

Landing a job caring for the unresponsive wife of celebrity podcaster Colin Harrington could be the best thing that's happened to me in a long time. I get a place to live, a paycheck, and a way to salvage my comatose career. It's my last chance to finally prove the doubters wrong. I have to make it work. All I need to do is survive a few months in the eerie, high-tech halls of the Harrington's mansion. But caring for Colin's wife Kara is testing the limits of my sanity.

Ravi Bhasin desperta em um quarto de hospital. Confuso, sem saber o que aconteceu, pergunta onde está o namorado... só para descobrir que, na verdade, os dois não estão mais juntos faz tempo, e que o atropelamento sofrido alguns dias antes apagara de sua mente os últimos quatro anos, uma carreira bem-sucedida de youtuber e chef, e até mesmo um relacionamento com um desconhecido. Surpreendido por uma vida que não parece nem um pouco com a de suas memórias, Ravi se vê numa jornada em busca de redescobrir quem realmente é.

Although, they looked exactly the same, these twin brothers couldn’t be any more different. While they were complete opposites, for the most part, they always got along well until success showered on one more than the other. The other began to despise the successful one, and it took on a whole new meaning of sibling rivalry. Their lives would take several different twists and turns along the way. As the one harbored ill will, he was determined to get what he wanted. He wanted his brother's successful life and his wife, but did he go too far?

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.

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.

Nella casa di Eilis Lacey, a Long Island, suona il campanello. Alla porta c'è uno sconosciuto, irlandese come lei, che viene a portarle una notizia sconvolgente. La vita di Eilis negli ultimi vent'anni è scorsa piuttosto tranquillamente: i due figli ora adolescenti, Larry e Rosella, il marito idraulico Tony, e nelle casette adiacenti due dei suoi cognati, Enzo e Mauro, con le rispettive famiglie, oltre alla torreggiante suocera Francesca. Una tipica famiglia italo-americana degli anni Settanta, che lavora, mangia, dorme, decide, vive insieme, molto presente e disponibile ma almeno altrettanto voluminosa e invadente.

Il romanzo vincitore del Premio Calvino all'unanimità. Il difficile percorso di emancipazione, lavorativa ed esistenziale, di una giovane donna alla ricerca di sé stessa. Fuggita da un malinconico paese e dal controllo asfittico della madre, Rosita cerca di costruirsi una propria indipendenza a Padova. Le cose non vanno come spera e si ritrova così schiacciata tra un lavoro poco gratificante e una relazione con un uomo sposato.

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.

Ryan, a twenty-seven-year-old nurse, struggles with the challenges of his profession. Nurses are the backbone of our healthcare system, responsible for every aspect of patient care. Without them, healthcare as we know it would cease to exist.

After escaping the horror of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, Eva arrives in Toronto and looks up Norman Martin, a man she had met only once before. They marry and become very successful running their Martin Manufacturing family business and raising three children, Troy, Alexa and Jason. But when Sidney Urquart is hired by Norman to be the “fresh face” in the business, things go awry. Sidney has one goal and that is to become part of this family, to belong.

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 . . .