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A tragic accident. It all happened so quickly. She couldn't have prevented it. Could she? In a split second, Jenna Gray's world descends into a nightmare. Her only hope of moving on is to walk away from everything she knows to start afresh. Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but she is haunted by her fears, her grief, and her memories of a cruel November night that changed her life forever. Slowly Jenna begins to glimpse the potential for happiness in her future.

It's the summer holidays and eleven-year-old loner, Seymour, lodged with a fussy guardian in an inner-city suburb, is bored and unhappy in his confined world. By chance he meets Angie, beautiful, charismatic Angie. He is bewitched, and his world is opened as she takes him on unexpected holiday outings and shopping sprees. Angie, however, is not what she seems.

Chris, en eksperimenterende filminstruktør på næsten 40, forelsker sig øjeblikkeligt og uopretteligt i sin 56-årige akademikermands yngre kollega Dick. Chris indvier manden Sylvère i sin voldsomme betagelse, og idéen om en slags kunstprojekt med Dick i centrum opstår. Fra hver sin position går parret sammen i gang med at skrive kærlighedsbreve til objektet Dick. Chris er i sin erotiske besættelse kreativt forløst som aldrig før, men pludselig befinder hun sig i spidsen af et altopslugende trekantsdrama.

At 15, George is the foster brother Leah never asked for. As the angry, troubled boy struggles to come to terms with his circumstances, Leah finds herself getting drawn closer to him. Theo’s wealthy family have mysteriously pulled him out of boarding school, and he’s now enrolled at the local state school with Leah and George. When their worlds collide that summer, the three teenagers form a bond they believe will be unbreakable. But life doesn’t always go to plan.

"I'M A FAN" tells the story of an unnamed narrator's involvement in a seemingly unequal romantic relationship. With a clear and unforgiving eye, Sheena Patel makes startling connections between power struggles at the heart of human relationships to those in the wider world, offering a devastating critique of social media, access and patriarchal systems.

Enveloped in the dark inner kingdom of her schizophrenia, 16-year-old Deborah is haunted by private tormentors that isolate her from the outside world. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a mental hospital where she will spend the next three years battling to regain her sanity with the help of a gifted psychiatrist. As Deborah struggles to regain her sanity, the listener is inexorably drawn into her private suffering.

Tessa has just a few months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is sex. Released from the constraints of 'normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up.

Grenadine Scotch Wild has only vague memories of the parents she last saw when she was six years old. But she's never forgotten their final, panicked words to her, urging Grenadine to run. The mystery of their disappearance is just one more frayed strand in a life that has lately begun to unravel completely. One year into her rocky marriage to Covey, a well-known investor, he is arrested for fraud and embezzlement. And Grenadine, now a successful collage artist and painter, is facing jail time despite her innocence.

Sylvia knows that she's running out of time. Very soon, she will exist only in the memories of those who loved her most and the pieces of her life she's left behind. So she begins to write her husband a handbook for when she's gone, somewhere to capture the small moments of ordinary, precious happiness in their married lives. From raising their wild, loving son, to what to give their gentle daughter on her eighteenth birthday - it's everything she should have told him before it was too late.

In I Almost Forgot About You, Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great friends, family, and successful career--aren't enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, including quitting her job as an optometrist and moving house, she finds herself on a wild journey that may or may not include a second chance at love. Georgia’s bravery reminds us that it’s never too late to become the person you want to be, and that taking chances, with your life and your heart, are always worthwhile.

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It's that time again ... time to indulge in a spot of jealousy, betrayal and late-night bar-hopping. Everyone's back from a week of après-ski hot tub fun in Sun Valley, and cream coloured envelopes from the Ivy League are beginning to drop all over Fifth Avenue doorsteps.

ひとつの死をきっかけに膨れ上がる人々の悪意。それに抗し、真実を求める生徒たちを描いた、現代ミステリーの最高峰。

Dazzlingly inventive, witty and mysterious: a writer pieces together the story of a young man's death in an exhilarating narrative puzzle reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial. A young man dies in a car crash - accident or suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to piece together Samuel's story. From friends, relatives and neighbours, a portrait emerges of a loving son, reluctant bureaucrat, contrived poser, loyal friend. But who was Samuel really, and what happened to him?

Eleonora stringe tra le mani un bauletto che custodisce ricette con ingredienti speciali: il Coraggio, la comprensione, la Fiducia in sé stessi, la Gentilezza… Basta usarne solo un pizzico per creare l'Amore, la Speranza, il Perdono. Ma dove trovarli? Eleonora non lo sa, eppure inizia a cercarli, perché quelle ricette sono l'ultimo ricordo della nonna Ernesta. È stata lei a insegnarle che cucinare è molto più che "far da mangiare": è anche un atto di guarigione, per gli altri e per sé stessi.

In Sarahs Leben ist alles perfekt. Ihre luxuriöse Wohnung, die elegante Frisur, die teuren Hosenanzüge und sogar Partner Tom. Außerdem ist sie mit Anfang dreißig bereits kurz davor, Partnerin in der renommiertesten Anwaltskanzlei Wiens zu werden. Alles läuft nach Plan, bis ein unvorhersehbares Ereignis ihre Welt so sehr ins Wanken bringt, dass Sarah daran zu zerbrechen droht. Auf einer Reise in die Provence wird ihr klar, welch hohen Preis sie bisher für ihr vermeintlich perfektes Leben gezahlt hat.

Her i andebyen er vi alle sammen fra langbortistan og vi er alle sammen kommet alene hertil uden nogen og vi venter på at de skal svare os på om vi kan blive inde i danmark eller om vi skal tilbage til langbortistan hurtigt med flyver og en politimester. jeg tænker altid på det der skete med fatah og lille amir og far. og mine øjne brænder. men jeg tænker osse på den nye pige. I love you Danmark er en graphic novel om en flygt­ningedreng i Danmark.

Cosí rispondeva l'autore a chi, al momento della pubblicazione, gli chiedeva se La ciudad y los perros - bruciato in piazza dai militari, considerato dalla critica il migliore tra i suoi romanzi, - fosse un romanzo "sulla violenza". E la violenza - fisica e non - fa da sfondo al microcosmo del Collegio Leoncio Prado di Lima dove avviene l'educazione del protagonista-alter ego dell'autore. Un collegio retto da militari secondo una disciplina militare in cui confluiscono sia i figli delle classi inferiori ammessi per merito sia quelli delle classi alte mandati lì dalle famiglie nella speranza di domarli.

一度死んだ村に、人を呼び戻す。それが「甦り課」の使命だ。山あいの小さな集落、簑石。六年前に滅びたこの場所に人を呼び戻すため、Iターン支援プロジェクトが実施されることになった。

"Han står stille. For et øjeblik ønsker han ikke andet end bare det. Bare stå og lade blikket bestige himlens blå højdedrag, lade tankerne forsvinde bort i viddernes afsindighed. I virkeligheden, tænker han, vender verden på hovedet, og de, der falder, vender rigtigt." "I virkeligheden" er en mangfoldig samtidsroman om en række personer, der alle bærer på en tung hemmelighed eller lever et liv, de ikke er tilfredse med.