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Information is everything in "Hard-Boiled Wonderland". A specialist encrypter is attacked by thugs with orders from an unknown source, is chased by invisible predators, and dates an insatiably hungry librarian who never puts on weight. In "The End of the World" a new arrival is learning his role as dream-reader. But there is something eerily disquieting about the changeless nature of the town and its fable-like inhabitants. Told in alternate chapters, the two stories converge and combine.

This is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.

With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come.

In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald's in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard.

Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws listeners into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.

When Brian Holloway (Jack Quaid, The Boys) was hired by famous horror author Paul Robinette (Titus Welliver, Bosch) to crack an antique safe in his home, he had no idea what he was about to encounter. Opening that safe door unleashed something sinister — something that continues to haunt him. But what exactly? And can whatever slipped through that threshold be stopped?

The new novel - a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan - from the internationally acclaimed author, his first since IQ84. Here he gives us the remarkable story of Tsukuru Tazaki, a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around us; and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present. It is a story of love, friendship, and heartbreak for the ages.

Six hours. That’s how long seven-year-old Sophie Lewin was missing. Found seventeen miles away on a desolate road, she has no memory of the incident, and the police have no leads. But one thing is certain: Sophie has not been the same since.

It’s not easy making the career jump from office-supplies-store middle manager to heroic interdimensional adventurer. At least, Jason tries to be heroic, but it's hard to be good when all your powers are evil. He’ll face off against cannibals, cultists, wizards, monsters...and that’s just on the first day. He’s going to need courage, he’s going to need wit, and he’s going to need some magic powers of his own. But first, he’s going to need pants.

Feyre survived Amarantha's clutches to return to the Spring Court - but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, and it can't forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin's people. Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms - and she might be key to stopping it.

If you drive past the lights of downtown Roswell, north on Route 285 into the darkness of the New Mexico desert, you'll run across a little radio station with a single tower. This is the home of WKLEN talk-radio, broadcast through Tower #57. Fresh out of the local community college and eager to start his career in radio production, Luther Stenson arrives for his first shift as an intern on Evening Sands, a late-night radio show focused on the unexplainable and broadcast throughout the lower forty-eight. Luther’s first night in radio quickly becomes one he’ll never forget.

Schatten, die flüstern, Geheimnisse, die nicht länger verborgen bleiben, und eine Liebe, die sämtliche Hindernisse überwinden muss... Mel ist Journalistin, lebt in Verona und glaubt nur an das, was sie sieht. Bei Recherchen für einen neuen Artikel stolpert sie über seltsame Vorkommnisse. Jemand verfolgt sie, oder bildet sie sich das nur ein? Je tiefer sie in die Geschehnisse eindringt, desto unerklärlicher werden sie. Als sie dann auch noch von ihrem Vater ein altes Erbstück ausgehändigt bekommt, steht ihre Welt Kopf.

When Evie and her friends take an unexpected turn, they find themselves face to face with the last person they ever imagined they'd find, the very witch who delivered the fateful prophecy all those years ago. Relief is short-lived as the woman provides more questions than answers, setting them each down a path of discovery, but there's no telling if they'll like what they find. Danger lurks behind every corner. A journey home becomes a matter of life or death. The Dunes await but chaos is already upon, ripping the very fabric of the realm.

When Kiera's village was destroyed by a three-headed dragon, she thought her biggest problem was going to be getting people to believe her story. Little did she know, the dragon was going to be the least of her troubles... After finding the proof they needed in the charred remains of Cattaling, the three friends set out on a journey across the realm to find the answers that they seek.

Drei Schwestern. Drei magische Schlüssel. Und ein uralter, irischer Fluch. Shannon und Mary haben Wochen damit verbracht, ihre verschollene Schwester zu finden. Gerade als sie sich fragen, ob sie Amber jemals wiedersehen, klingelt das Telefon. Am anderen Ende der Leitung ist eine namibische Klinik, wo Amber nach schwerer Verletzung zu Bewusstsein gekommen ist. Obwohl sie körperlich wieder fast völlig gesund ist, gibt es ein ganz anderes Problem: Sie hat ihr Gedächtnis verloren. Dennoch beschließt Amber nach Irland zu reisen, was scheinbar ihre Heimat ist.

Drei Schwestern. Drei magische Schlüssel. Und ein uralter, irischer Fluch. Shannon Waterson lebt trotz abgeschlossenen Jura-Studiums als Kellnerin in den Tag hinein; zumindest bis sie einen Brief vom Notar ihrer Großmutter bekommt, die seit 40 Jahren im Koma liegt. Sie fällt aus allen Wolken, als sie und ihre Schwestern plötzlich jeweils ein Haus geschenkt bekommen. Zum Haus dazu gibt es einen mysteriösen goldenen Schlüssel. Als Shannon mit ihrer Schwester Mary in Killarney ankommt, ist sie sofort in das Haus verliebt.

Drei Schwestern. Drei magische Schlüssel. Und ein uralter, irischer Fluch. Mary Waterson ist erst 25, trotzdem hat sie schon all ihre Pläne über den Haufen geworfen, denn Mary war Nonne und ist aus der Kirche ausgetreten, um ein neues Leben anzufangen. Dass sie plötzlich ein Haus an der Küste vermacht bekommt, erscheint daher wie ein Geschenk des Schicksals. Voller Enthusiasmus legt Mary ihren Garten neu an, richtet sich ein und plant ihre Zukunft. Für sie ist das Haus an der Küste die perfekte Idylle, zumindest bis sie eines Nachts einen Einbrecher überrascht.

Bei einem Wochenendausflug in den kanadischen Wäldern wird Rose wie aus dem Nichts angegriffen wird. Sie schafft es, zu einer einsamen Hütte zu fliehen. Panisch hämmert sie gegen die Tür, woraufhin ihr ein reichlich verblüffter Mann öffnet, der sie nur widerwillig einlässt. Kaum hat sich Rose von ihrem Schock ein wenig erholt, muss sie feststellen, dass der Fremde, der sich ihr als Damian vorstellt, genauso dunkel wie gefährlich scheint.