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Betty Ulrich steht an einem Wendepunkt in ihrem Leben. Nach einem aufwühlenden Gespräch mit ihrer Chefin wird sie gezwungen, eine Entscheidung zu treffen. Sie ist fest entschlossen, Antworten auf ihre Fragen zu finden und sich endgültig selbst zu verwirklichen. Diesmal begleitet sie ihr neuer Freund Flo auf einem abenteuerreichen Roadtrip durch neun Länder bis nach Montenegro. Während sie gemeinsam die atemberaubenden Landschaften und die Vielfalt der Länder entdecken, finden Betty und Flo nicht nur zueinander, sondern auch zu neuen Erkenntnissen über sich selbst und ihre Träume.

Un narrador sale de una piscina, se cambia y empieza a correr por un pasadizo oscuro. Descubre puertas que se abren a territorios (una casa, una habitación de hotel, un estudio, un espacio más amplio, una ciudad o una zona salvaje), lugares donde se representan una y otra vez, hasta el infinito, las relaciones humanas más esenciales (la familia, la pareja, la soledad, el grupo, la guerra).

La novela detalla los problemas y dificultades de un crupier ilícito Frankie Machine, y de los personajes variopintos que le rodean en el Chicago de finales de los años cuarenta. Como veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Frankie se esfuerza por estabilizar su vida personal, tratando de ganarse la vida y luchando contra una creciente adicción a la morfina. Mafiosos, camellos, drogadictos, prostitutas, este es el ambiente que rodea a Frankie, en el barrio polaco de Chicago, por lo que va a costarle gran trabajo escapar del mundo en que ha crecido.

Miguel, un adolescente "seriamente enfermo" que tiene que guardar cama durante una temporada, se va a vivir a casa de sus abuelos y entra en ella como si entrase "en una novela". Durante su fase inicial, la narración va construyendo un mundo feliz en el que todas las personas y cosas que rodean a Miguel aparecen envueltas en un dorado efecto de flou. Pero llegado cierto momento, los perfiles borrosos que maravillaban a Miguel, empiezan a inquietarle; su sueño se va convirtiendo en pesadilla, y lo que había empezado casi como elegía, se transforma en novela de misterio.

El protagonista de esta historia, un hombre de sesenta años, se ve sentado en una plaza pensando en Amalia, su amor, al tiempo que sostiene una carta en que su hermano le escribe la noticia de la enfermedad que sufre y que probablemente lo ha de llevar a la muerte. Le molesta esperar a su amada cuando programan una cita: se exaspera y rabia, pero, sin embargo, en un gesto de alteridad, reconoce su error y se propone enmendarlo.

Zehn Monate - so lang hat sich Henrys Bewusstsein nach dem brutalen Mord an seiner Frau in einen Zustand der dissoziativen Erstarrung zurückgezogen. Nun ist er wieder da. Erwacht in einer Realität, die anders ist. Der Drogenfahnder ist körperlich geschwächt und verzweifelt. Er erfährt Unterstützung durch enge Freunde, doch seinen Weg muss er alleine gehen. Der Kampf um eine Rückkehr zur DEA, und seine Zerrissenheit zwischen tiefer Trauer und Rachedurst, werden zur Belastungsprobe für Henry und alle, die ihm helfen wollen. Ein Buch über Freundschaft, Verlust und den Weg zurück ins Leben.

Zwei Familien. Ein Haustausch. Ein Urlaub, zum Sterben schön. Die weiße italienische Villa ist perfekt. Ich dachte, es würde sich seltsam anfühlen, den Sommer über im Haus von Fremden zu leben, aber während mein Mann und meine Kinder im Pool planschen, fange ich an, mich endlich zu entspannen. Doch als ich auspacke, finde ich in einem Schrank ein Foto, das mir das Blut in den Adern gefrieren lässt. Funkelnde grüne Augen, kantiges Kinn, schiefes Lächeln. Ein junger Mann, der seinen Arm um eine schöne Frau legt.

Baby is a dancer at a strip club and other than that she’s feeling a little lost. It seems that only Dino, her sweet, cross-dressing, drug-dealing ex-boyfriend can keep her afloat. So, when Dino disappears without so much as a kiss goodbye, she plunges headfirst into San Francisco’s shady erotic underground to find him. Baby searches through dive bars and old haunts, at the club and at the sex dungeon where she has a part-time dominatrix gig.

When a young man arrives in Cambridge as a first-year student, he finds himself an outsider. There’s the punting and the politics, the wine and the waistcoats, all seemingly familiar to everyone but him. Then he falls under the spell of Bryn Cavendish. A notorious party boy and skilled magician, Bryn is magnetic. To be in his circle is to revel in clouds of ecstasy, untouched by the rules. To be exiled from it is to haunt the peripheries of campus life like a ghost.

Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story. Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's The Wonder – inspired by numerous European and North American cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth – is a psychological thriller about a child's murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes.

Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers. She’s spent a decade treating California’s most depraved predators and unlocking their motives - predators much like the notorious Bloody Heart serial killer, whose latest teenage victim escaped and then identified local high school teacher Randall Thompson as his captor. The case against Thompson as the Bloody Heart Killer is damning - and closed, as far as Gwen and the media are concerned. If not for one new development.

John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.

This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. In much of its general outline, this famous novel follows the life of Paul Gauguin, famous French post-impressionist painter, but it is not a novelized biography of Gauguin. Rather it is a sharply-delineated, carefully wrought "private life", written by one of the most vivid and penetrating contemporary literary masters.

Nina McCarrick has it all: a loving husband, two beautiful boys, a well-appointed home and more time than she knows what to do with. Life is perfect. Until her husband, Finn, is killed in a car accident and everything Nina thought she could rely on unravels.

"[ Memnoch] is one of Rice's most intriguing and sympathetic characters to date. . . . Rice ups the ante, taking Lestat where few writers have ventured: into heaven and hell itself. She carries it off in top form."( The Seattle Times)

A new breed of evil has come to old New York. The horribly mutilated body of a young male prostitute turns up in the East River in 1896. Reporter John Moore and his mentor Laszlo Kreizler decide to investigate.

On his way back to Duluth, Stride stops to visit the grave of his mother in a small Wisconsin town. After a shocking occurrence in the cemetery, Stride becomes enmeshed in a gruesome and suspenseful search for a killer who knows things no one else alive should know.

In the wild, when a wolf knows its time is over, when it knows it is of no more use to its pack, it may sometimes choose to slip away. Dying apart from its family, it stays proud and true to its nature. Humans aren’t so lucky. Luke Warren has spent his life researching wolves. He has written about them, studied their habits intensively, and even lived with them for extended periods of time.

Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic accomplices. But the war isn’t over. Not since Melvin broke out of prison. Not since she received a chilling text... You’re not safe anywhere now. Her refuge at Stillhouse Lake has become a trap. Gwen leaves her children in the protective custody of a fortified, well-armed neighbor.

When the body of a woman is discovered in a local park - with her bewildered four-year-old son sitting beside her - veteran social worker Ellen Moore is called in to assist in the police investigation. Positioned beneath a statue of Leto, the goddess of motherhood, the crime is weighted with meaning and, Ellen discovers, remarkably similar to one from a decade past. Ellen's professional duty is to protect the child, but she's not equipped to contend with a killer. As she races to connect the dots, she knows her time is running out.