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It’s 1:23 in the morning when Kate gets the call. News at this time is never good, but this call is one of the worst. A body has been found in a shallow grave on the outskirts of Birmingham. It’s badly decomposed, but forensic psychologist Kate Hanson is sure she knows who it is. Nineteen-year-old Elizabeth Williams disappeared a year ago. She was a good student who simply vanished off the face of the earth.

Weil alle Leben miteinander verwoben sind... '23 Leben' beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema, inwieweit unsere Handlungen oder Nichthandlungen Einfluss auf das Leben eines Nächsten haben. Warum läuft ein athletischer Mann in den Autoverkehr, nachdem ein sibirischer Strafgefangener einen Brief verfasst hat? Oder warum setzt eine Frau ihren Job beim Jugendamt aufs Spiel, nachdem ein Mann aus der IT-Abteilung die Rechnung im Lokal nicht bezahlt? Welche Begegnungen gibt es zwischen vermeintlich willkürlichen Ereignissen, die das eigene Leben oder die eigene Emotion existenziell bedrohen?

По ту сторону моря Впервые на русском — роман современного ирландского классика Пола Линча, лауреата Букеровской премии 2023 года за роман «Песнь пророка», который уже называют «ирландским "1984"» и «новым "Рассказом служанки"». Боливар и Эктор отправляются рыбачить из своей южноамериканской деревушки на маленькой лодке, с трудом вмещающей двух рыбаков и холодильный ящик. Внезапно налетевший свирепый шторм уносит их далеко в Тихий океан, выводит из строя мотор, рацию и навигатор.

Alles ist schwierig, bevor es leicht wird: Daniela Dröscher erzählt so intensiv wie humorvoll von einer Frau, die endlich Verantwortung für das eigene Glück übernimmt. Zeit ihres Lebens stand Ela wortwörtlich im Schatten ihrer Mutter. Deren dicker Körper, so die Überzeugung des Vaters, war für das Unglück der gesamten Familie verantwortlich. Nun ist Ela erwachsen, und es ist ihr eigener, ihr kranker Körper, der sie verzweifeln lässt. Kurz vor dem Abschluss ihrer Promotion erlebt Ela einen Zusammenbruch.

Manche Leute kann man therapieren - andere muss man leider umbringen! Sophie Stach, Coachin und Psychoanalytische Supervisorin, führt mit ihrem Ehemann Jakob seit Jahren eine scheinbar harmonische Ehe. Sie nehmen sich Zeit für Paargespräche und Achtsamkeitsrituale, gemeinsames Wachstum steht für beide an erster Stelle. Bis Sophie überrascht herausfindet, dass Jakob nebenher mit einer anderen Frau ins Bett geht. Was sie noch mehr überrascht: dass sie im Affekt imstande ist, Jakobs Affäre zu ermorden. Leider löst das nicht ihr Problem, sondern führt zu einigen neuen.

Winter, 1976, Columbia University. Hearing voices and seeing hateful writing on walls, early admission Sam Kovner walks the New York streets, sleepless thirty-six hours. Through the radiant specificity of memory, he reckons with a hard-driving father, a caring, sometimes careless mother, a generous, self-involved uncle who’s just become a movie star, and star-struck grandparents. Sam fears the undertow of feelings: he’s not quite spent the night with someone he’s fallen for.

Der "Tractatus logico-philosophicus" ist das frühe Hauptwerk des Philosophen Ludwig Wittgenstein und das einzige philosophische Buch, das er zu Lebzeiten veröffentlicht. Diese gerade einmal etwa 100 Seiten zählende Abhandlung, an der Wittgenstein 7 Jahre gearbeitet hat, ist nicht nur einer der Meilensteine der modernen Sprachphilosophie, sondern besitzt heute den Rang eines Klassikers der Philosophie überhaupt.

Elle never dreamed she’d end up with a man like Dom. He’s handsome, successful, the perfect father to their baby girl. But Elle doesn’t feel the joy she knows she should. She's struggling with being a mum, failing at work, even her post-baby body doesn’t feel like her own. Not that Dom cares. He worships Elle and craves intimacy as deeply as troubled Elle wants to shy away from it. Elle starts relying on red wine and the attention of new colleague Gabriel to get through her day. But the morning after a team away day, a bewildered and hungover Elle wakes up with a lifeless body in her bed.

You thought they were just staying for the weekend. They looked harmless enough - with only two suitcases and a cat in a wicker box. But soon things turn very, very dark. It happens slowly, yet so extraordinarily quickly. Now you and your sister must find a way to survive....

Four decades after it first shook the nation, then the world, William Peter Blatty's thrilling masterwork of faith and demonic possession returns in an even more powerful form. Raw and profane, shocking and blood-chilling, it remains a modern parable of good and evil and perhaps the most terrifying novel ever written.

Un empleado de una compañía eléctrica ha sido enviado a estudiar la zona de un pequeño pueblo de Massachussets. Allí será cobijado, en una noche de tormenta, por Ethan Frome, quien debe soportar diariamente la compañía de su esposa Zeena, enfermiza y aprensiva, pendiente nada más que de los más ligeros síntomas que puedan estropear su quebradiza salud. A su lado, Mattie, muchacha joven, trabajadora y delicada, quien irá despertando poco a poco en Ethan un amor adormecido por tanto desdén y enfermedad.

Veronica Cavanaugh’s grasp on the world is slipping. Her latest round of fertility treatments not only failed but left her on edge and unbalanced. And her three-year-old daughter, Elizabella, has a new imaginary friend, who seems much more devilish than playful. So when Veronica’s husband fails to return home from a business trip, what’s left of her stability begins to crumble. Given her family’s history of mental illness, and Elizabella’s insistence that her daddy is dead, Veronica starts questioning herself.

From the outside, Frank and Grace seem to have the perfect family. He’s a loving husband, she’s a devoted wife, and together they have two happy children. But appearances can be deceiving. A strange series of misfortunes has left them reeling: an unexplained break-in, a catastrophic handgun accident, and a bizarre poisoning that’s left Grace feeling especially unnerved. Packing up their RV for a move across the country, they’re ready for a fresh start, expecting to leave all their problems safely behind.

When Danny and Joanne Lindstrom's camping trip in the Cascade mountains goes terribly awry, beautiful young Joanne is left alone and stranded in the savage wilderness. Her last hope is to rely on another camper, a tall stranger who seems to know the forest and the dangers there all too well. Without him, she will surely die; with him, her future is as unpredictable as the lowering clouds that envelop the mountain. He asks only that she trust him.

None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning. Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own? Was it the terrible accident? Or when they found the first body?

Sopravvissuto al grave incidente che gli è costato mesi di ricovero al reparto Grandi Ustionati, Learco Ferrari è riuscito a diventare uno scrittore. Ma soprattutto è un convalescente, che - tra pensieri che vanno e che vengono, tutine speciali che le fanno solo in Irlanda, traduzioni di manuali russi, le storie del Mullà Nasrudìn, libri di filosofia sufi, quella sua amica là di Bologna che si chiama Francesca, e molto altro ancora - tenta di tornare a una vita normale. Anche se in fondo, non essere mica tanto normale può anche rivelarsi un pregio.

Journalist Tasman Hill must chase every angle in the biggest story of his career—the suspicious disappearance of his own colleague, star crime and investigative news reporter Harrison Marks. When Tasman is suddenly and mysteriously offered his chance at glory, he must take Harrison’s place at the Sapphire Times newspaper, located in a famous mountainous city on Australia’s east coast.

Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo’s shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.)

Fred Bracken is headed back to the tiny Montana community where he grew up after being an inpatient in a military psychiatric hospital for a year. Still pestered by nightmares and flashbacks from the war that left him with severe PTSD, he wonders what life will look like. He wants to marry his childhood sweetheart, but how can that happen? Her father is in prison. She has two children by prior marriages, is living with her mom, and working to support them all. He has no home, no family, and no job skills other than ranching.

Die Gesangsstudentin Anna konkurriert tagsüber beim Vorsingen gegen ihre Kommilitoninnen aus gutem Hause, nachts singt sie Jazz in einer verrauchten Bar, um die Miete bezahlen zu können. Dort trifft sie den wohlhabenden Max. Einen betörenden Winter lang oszilliert ihr Leben zwischen den schwer erkämpften Momenten auf der Bühne und den Nächten in Max' Apartment, das über die Lichter der Stadt blickt. Doch Annas Karriere fordert einen immer größeren Teil ihres Lebens – ebenso wie Max.