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Femmes, prenez le pouvoir ! Louise est une jeune maman célibataire, assistante de direction. Au rythme du métro-boulot-dodo, elle mène une existence routinière qui l'englue dans un quotidien qui la rend aussi triste et grise que la ville de banlieue sans âme où elle habite. Sa vie bascule le jour où la DRH de son entreprise lui propose de faire partie du programme expérimental intitulé "Icare" (Intelligence Communicante Artificielle pour Réinventer l'Entreprise), coach virtuel doté d'une IA... un brin féministe.

Jasmine Black, a 34-year-old alcoholic, criminal lawyer, has a secret. At the age of 16, she was in a gang of youths that committed a horrendous crime. As members of the gang start being killed one by one, Jasmine fears for her life. Desperate to uncover who is responsible for the murders, Jasmine starts to investigate. But can she uncover the truth before it’s too late? Very Nearly Dead is a gripping and suspenseful psychological thriller with an ending you won't see coming. The perfect listen for fans of authors like K.L. Slater, Mark Edwards and C.L. Taylor.

Sunrise in Central Park. A man wakes up on a park bench with no idea who he is or how he got there. The only clues to his identity are the gold ring engraved “From G.V.” he wears on his right hand and the black address book with a single phone number he finds in his jacket pocket. Lacking a name, the man takes one from a passing beer truck and a plane flying overheard - Buddwing, he decides to call himself. Buddwing searches Manhattan hoping to rediscover his missing life. But no matter where he looks or whom he talks to, the past remains a confusing, disconnected jumble.

Sandy, David, and Peter met as bored teenagers vacationing with their parents on a small resort island. The horrific crime they committed five years ago bound them together forever, cursing their friendship in blood and setting them on a path toward nihilism and destruction. Now in their early 20s, the glamorous and sophisticated trio has come to an exclusive ski resort just days before Christmas to satisfy their appetite for danger and enjoy the physical company of the only human beings they can still tolerate: one another. But an interloper finds her way into their closed circle.

When Frankie’s mother dies, he tells his teacher. But he can't seem to get anyone at his school in southern England to listen to him. So the six-year-old comes up with a plan: go to France, find a police station and ask the officers to ring his father. Thus a stowaway’s view of the sea opens Pauline Holdstock’s eighth novel, narrated in turns by Frankie - who likes cheese, numbers, the sea when it’s pink, and being alone when he feels bad - and a cast of characters that includes his worried Gran, his callous teacher and his not-so-reliable father.

Ein Ort, der nicht gefunden werden will. Eine österreichische Gräfin, die über die Erinnerungen einer ganzen Gemeinde regiert. Ein Loch im Erdreich, das die Bewohner in die Tiefe zu reißen droht. In ihrem schwindelerregenden Debütroman geht Raphaela Edelbauer der verdrängten Geschichte auf den Grund. Der Unfalltod ihrer Eltern stellt die Wiener Physikerin Ruth vor ein nahezu unlösbares Paradox. Ihre Eltern haben verfügt, im Ort ihrer Kindheit begraben zu werden, doch Groß-Einland verbirgt sich beharrlich vor den Blicken Fremder.

Jessica Westhead's Worry, pitched as a novel for listeners of Little Fires Everywhere and Truly Madly Guilty, is about an anxious, overprotective mother who brings her four-year-old daughter to the remote family cottage of the woman who has been her best friend - and her husband's best friend - for years, and where over 48 tension-filled hours, old and new resentments surface alongside a mother's constant worry for her child and the appearance of a mysterious neighbor.

When Father Henry McGrath hears a confession that sends a cold chill throughout his body, he’s unsure what to do. To divulge the private confession would violate holy canon law. When he refuses to go to the police, people begin to die, and the priest becomes the prime suspect. Elizabeth Monroe, a college professor who teaches forensic psychology, doesn’t believe the elder priest fits the killer’s profile. Elizabeth discovers a frightening thread woven within each killing - a thread that began 30 years ago.

On a stormy, windswept night, Guy Jerald tried to kill himself. But he did not die. Now, the 55-year-old Pennsylvania power broker and business titan - a living example of the American Dream - lies in a bed in a psychiatric hospital. He is on suicide watch, barely able to recognize his wife and two adult children. But a visitor from his distant past will open the floodgates. During one of the most harrowing battles of World War II, Guy saved the life of fellow soldier James Meyer. Now, James is a celebrated British psychiatrist determined to repay the favor.

A infelicidade é um destino ao qual se chega por inúmeros caminhos. O que leva uma mulher a colocar um detetive atrás do marido que sempre lhe foi fiel? Do que é capaz o ser humano ao ver sua grande paixão ir embora? Que tipo de laços afetivos une um tio bilionário a suas queridas sobrinhas? Que violência nós, brasileiros, aprendemos a tolerar?

A woman on the edge of the sea finds a girl on the edge of life. Brittle but not yet broken, Ia Pendilly ekes out a fierce life in a caravan on the coast of Cornwall. In years of living with Bran - her embattled, battering cousin and common law husband - she's never yet had her own baby. So when she discovers the waif washed up on the shore, Ia takes the risk and rescues her.

How well do you really know your husband? Grace Dalton is trying to put her life back together after her husban,d John, died suddenly in a hit and run. Her perfect world is collapsing around her, the home she hoped to fill with children is huge and empty, and she’s paralysed with grief. But as Grace sorts through her husband’s belongings, she realises the man she loved was lying to her. There’s a mysterious list of names hidden among his things, a secret bank account, and a shocking revelation about his family that he kept from her since the day they met.

Driving home after a day in the countryside with his wife, Katy, and their two kids, doting father Adam Parr gets cut up by a speeding silver car, nearly causing him to crash. Shocked and upset that his kids could have been killed, he pulls over. That’s when he sees a struggling woman in the back seat of the silver car, her eyes pleading for help, and he knows his family are in terrible danger. In the blink of an eye, the Parrs' ordinary lives are plunged into an unimaginable nightmare....

En Guillem és un nen introvertit, amb un somriure permanent, i és un àvid lector de tot allò que li cau a les mans. Té només una amiga. Fins aquí tot en ordre. Però rere aquesta aparença de tranquil·litat s'amaga un món fragilíssim, agafat amb pinces i amb un misteri per resoldre. El trencaclosques el configuren un pare en crisi, una mare absent, una professora intrigada i una psicòloga que mira de recompondre el que amaga el nen. Una novel·la coral que traspua sentiments, buits, paraules no dites i un misteri corprenedor.

Esta novela narra un caso real sin precedentes: la transformación de un hombre con una vida sin sobresaltos en un personaje mediático a quien, por el hecho de haber estado casado con la que iba a convertirse en Reina de España, la prensa del corazón persigue para arrancarle los pedazos, no solo de lo que pueda contar, sino de lo que es. Da la casualidad de que quien vivió esta anomalía es escritor. Ahora escribe el relato de lo que vivió y, sobre todo, de cómo lo vivió.

Maggie Walsh hasn’t been sleeping these last few nights - a maniac has been preying on single mothers just like her. She keeps thinking there’s someone in the house, imagining she hears something downstairs. Until tonight, woken once again by a noise, she checks on her baby and this time it’s not just her imagination - someone has come for her, armed and ready to kill. And Maggie knows that whatever happens now, she will do anything to keep her daughter safe.

Karen Rainey lives a sheltered life on the edge of the city. For the last five years, she has rarely left the home unless it was unavoidable. She has her food and anything else she needs delivered to the front door. She works from home to avoid venturing outside. But Karen isn’t agoraphobic. She’s terrified of her ex-boyfriend, Zach, who is serving a life sentence in prison for a string of bank robberies after Karen testified against him. With the constant threat that Zach might send someone to find and kill her, Karen keeps a low profile.

Pregnant Victoria Valbon was brutally murdered in an alley three weeks ago - and her killer hasn’t been caught. Tonight is Stella McKeever’s final radio show. The theme is secrets. You tell her yours, and she’ll share some of hers. Stella might tell you about Tom, a boyfriend who likes to play games, about the mother who abandoned her, now back after 14 years. She might tell you about the perfume bottle with the star-shaped stopper, or about her father....

Hiscoutine, 1370. Le bourreau Louis Ruest et sa jeune épouse Jehanne d’Augignac se sont installés dans leur existence de couple marié et s’efforcent, autant que possible, de s’y habituer. Si le partage de leur lit se fait aussi aisément que celui de leur toit, le partage d’idées et d’émois est pour ainsi dire inexistant. Sur le plan de la communication, Louis s’en tient au strict minimum. Il s’absente des jours durant pour se vouer à toutes sortes de travaux.

Paris, 1340. À sept ans, Louis Ruest, fils unique de l'un des boulangers les plus estimés de cette ville florissante, travaille avec beaucoup d'acharnement afin de pouvoir réaliser sa plus grande ambition, celle de devenir à son tour l'un des meilleurs boulangers de sa profession. Tourmenté et assoiffé d'amour, s'il s'efforce de faire ses preuves en dépit de ses écarts de conduite, Louis est surtout désireux d'être apprécié par Firmin, son père, qui s'obstine malheureusement à ne voir en lui qu'un indigne successeur.