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Lyman Felt has it all: wealth, success, power, and the kind of good, solid wife he needs. Oh, and he also has another wife, the kind of earthy, sexy woman he wants. Lyman juggles his artful lie until a car accident on the slippery slope of Mt. Morgan lands him in a hospital bed—with two wives in the waiting room. But really, is there any such thing as "just an accident"?

A woman’s search for her missing sister on the sandy white beaches of the Hamptons uncovers a wealth of secrets worth killing for—a sultry and sumptuous psychological suspense from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie DeCarolis. Alex Walker has always looked up to her perfect older sister...

""A love story spanning multiple millenniums, life-forms and variations on immortality, the book posits Victorian poetry as a weapon of empire, insists on nature's resilience in the face of genocide, and manipulates prose into something like a new language....Toward Eternity recognizes both the...

Shattered by a broken engagement and a business venture derailed by Jerome Haddad, her unscrupulous partner, Giovanna Rogers goes on a luxury Galapagos cruise with her grandmother to decompress. At least that's what her grandmother thinks. Giovanna is determined to make Jerome pay, and she has a tip he's headed for the Galapagos. While snorkeling off the coast of Española Island, Giovanna and another cruise passenger, Laurel Pardo, become separated from the group, and Laurel is left behind. No one on the ship will acknowledge Laurel is missing, and Giovanna suspects a cover-up.

Like most mothers, Catherine would slip into her sleeping newborn’s room, listening to make sure her baby was still breathing. Now her daughter is eighteen; however, Catherine continues to check on her at night. She can’t help herself; the intrusive thoughts rise up again and again, keeping her awake. Anya is leaving for university, but any excitement Catherine might feel for her daughter is drowned out by terror. While Catherine obsesses, she does not see the dangers in front of her—and both mother and daughter will be forced to deal with the painful truths keeping them trapped.

Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul—and the ability to love his fellow man.

The Sanctuary meets Shutter Island in this chilling speculative thriller from the acclaimed author of The Sisterhood. BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER. SOME FLY TO THEIR DEATHS. A group of students step off a platform into the path of an oncoming train. Only Billie survives. She remembers...

Crimen y castigo es una de las novelas psicológicas de Dostoievski. Su argumento gira en torno a un joven estudiante que no encuentra otra solución para aliviar su pobreza que matar y robar a una vieja usurera. La novela está estructurada sobre un tema ético: el fin no justifica los medios. Se asiste así a un complicado proceso mental durante el cual el estudiante elabora meticulosamente su crimen, sin pensar en las consecuencias directas y materiales que le pueda reportar. Únicamente al final y a través del amor, le llegará el arrepentimiento redentor.

Jago Trevarno war vierzig Minuten lang klinisch tot. Nun ist sein Leben ein anderes. Auf dem Hof seines Onkels Jacob an der Küste in Cornwall versucht er, die Teile seines Lebens wieder zusammenzusetzen. In dieser Umgebung findet Jago langsam zur Ruhe. Seine Tage sind bestimmt vom Rhythmus der Natur und der Arbeit. Jago muss Bill Sligo stoppen, um zu bewahren, was er hat: einen Ort, an dem er weiterleben kann. Patrick Charnleys Roman erzählt anrührend und dabei unsentimental von einem Neuanfang im eigenen Tempo.

The Pleasure Trap, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...

خلف قضبان قفص صغير يمتنع رجل عن الطعام لا من أجل البقاء بل من أجل "الفن". في هذه القصة القصيرة والمؤثرة يأخذنا العبقري فرانز كافكا في رحلة مذهلة لاستكشاف أقصى حدود الصمود البشري مصورا مأساة فنان يسعى إلى الكمال في عالم لم يعد يقدر التضحية وجمهور يبحث عن التسلية العابرة بدلا من المعنى العميق.لماذا هذه الطبعة لا تكتفي هذه النسخة بتقديم ترجمة عربية أمينة وروحية لنص كافكا الأصلي بل تعزز تجربة القارئ بـ دراسة تحليلية نفسية ورمزية معمقة. نغوص في ثنايا النص لنكشف عن:...

Melody Stanford prides herself on being a good person. She’s a loving wife and mother, a school volunteer, a faithful friend, and a trusted therapist with a sympathetic ear. But underneath her calm and collected veneer, Melody is raging. The vulnerable women she counsels are breaking down and telling their secrets, exposing a prominent attorney and other influential men in Melody’s small North Carolina town for the predators they are—their heinous crimes protected by power, money, and connections.

Hospital exec Ethan Bell has it all: a loving wife, two children, a promising career, and a comfortable home in the Seattle suburbs far removed from the darkness of his past. Until he sees her. Fawn Blom, Ethan’s high school sweetheart and first love. The girl who’s haunted him since that fatal accident almost twenty years ago. She’s here, at his favorite coffee shop—definitely not dead. And suddenly, his carefully constructed world doesn’t seem so perfect.

Darcy Hart and his brother George Hart have two different lives. Despite being twins, Darcy has never been able to meet his parents' expectations of him; total perfection. But when Darcy finds himself in the electric world of 1980's London party scene, everything changes. Soon, he finds the dark side of living the sex, drugs, and rock n' roll lifestyle. After Darcy manages to crawl out of the hole that living life on the edge put him in, he realizes his life and by extension, George's life will never be the same.

Claire Rowan’s home knows her better than she knows herself. After a single panic attack, her partner installs a wellness system designed to monitor stress, predict behavior, and prevent breakdowns before they happen. At first, it works. Until the system stops asking. Now every heartbeat is tracked. Every emotion is classified. Every decision is predicted —and controlled. Doors lock before she reaches them. Lights shift to correct her mood. Silence becomes compliance. And when Claire tries to fight back, the system escalates. Because it doesn’t need certainty. Only probability.

At the edge of a quiet Brooklyn street, the Smiling Dog Café is still there—warm, ‎unhurried, and ready for those who don’t quite know where to go next.‎ Some people arrive by accident.‎ Others are led there. ‎In these two interconnected novellas, lives in motion —and lives at a standstill —‎find their way to the same door.‎ Tom Whitehead once lived for speed. An Olympic medalist in luge, he ‎understood precision, control, and the perfect line. But when the competition ends, he ‎finds himself adrift —cut off from the purpose that defined him.

Nell Harper has built a life defined by steadiness. At work, she is the person everyone trusts to keep things running smoothly. At home, she maintains a quiet routine that rarely surprises anyone—including herself. Even her divorce ended the way people admire: calm, respectful, reasonable. But praise has a strange shape when you hear it often enough. “You make things easy.” “You’re so dependable.” “You never make things difficult.” At first, Nell accepts these words the way she always has—as compliments. Proof that she has built a stable, responsible life.

Medicine should heal, not tear people apart. Cantar Ethanual Holt, professor of anatomy at a prestigious medical school, is fighting to reclaim a lost surgical career. But when his wife’s cancer returns, his hopes are shattered. At the same time, Richmond Merchison-Banks, an arrogant but brilliant medical student, is humiliated into repeating after Cantar is forced to fail him. When both men become infatuated with second year medical student, Livia Bravanovski, they’re thrown into a vicious struggle of pride, jealousy and revenge.

Nach einem gewalttätigen Vorfall in der Schule wird Vidar vom Lehrdienst suspendiert. Zu Hause findet er in einem alten, vergessenen Pappkarton zufällig die Telefonnummer des alten Sommerhauses der Familie. Als er die Nummer wählt, meldet sich sein Vater, der vor langer Zeit verstorben ist. Vidar hat den 17. Juni 1986 angerufen, einen Tag aus seiner Kindheit, an dem etwas Entscheidendes passiert ist. Nur was? Immer wieder wählt Vidar diese Nummer, immer wieder landet er beim 17. Juni – es ist, als ob sich eine Falltür in die Vergangenheit öffnet.

One split-second mistake. One impossible choice. How far would you go to secure your future? Hill is a brilliant student from a humble background, fighting to prove his worth in a world of silver spoons and academic prestige. His biggest obstacle? The wealthy, effortless Wedderburn. Their...