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For fans of Catherine Ryan Hyde and Sue Monk Kidd, a debut literary fiction novel about an unlikely friendship between a damaged girl and a mysterious old woman and the quest for love and healing through the telling of fairy tales. Early one summer morning, nine-year-old Sherry Gallagher flees in panic into the woods behind her house to hide from her abusive father. Following the death of their mother, her older brothers and sisters have all left home, leaving Sherry to deal with her father alone.

It’s been ten years since I last saw Stephanie, but looking into her haunted eyes, she looks just as innocent as she did as a baby. Pulling her into a tight embrace, I promise her that although she’s lost her mother, I will take care of her from now on. No matter what… But as I usher her inside, I can’t help wondering if Stephanie knows my secrets. The real reason I hadn’t seen her mother in years… or why she wasn’t ever allowed to visit me at my house. Did my daughter take our family secrets to the grave?

During an unrelenting monsoon, these three people and several others—a worldly old sports agent and his promising client, a personal assistant returning from a short holiday spent with a secret lover, a young hoodlum from New York wanted by the police, and a family of four making their way to San Diego to enjoy the fantastic beaches there—must do their best to survive the elements, and each other.

Plongez dans l'univers de Rascio, découvrez les méandres de sa psyché et où ses choix le conduiront; sa cupidité, son désir de réalisation, ses envies. Sûrement pensez-vous que vous feriez des choix différents ou peut-être vous reconnaîtrez-vous dans les siens? Mais prenez garde... certains choix sont dangereux, très dangereux ! Ce suspense mystérieux et insolite est comme un tunnel où il n'y pas pas de lumière au bout, car, bien que Rascio ait des plans, d'autres aussi en ont fait pour lui...

Bo ha ottantanove anni ed è arrabbiato con il suo corpo che non obbedisce più, con le sue braccia un tempo forti che ora non riescono a fare più nulla. Ma, soprattutto, Bo è arrabbiato con Hans che vuole portargli via Sixten, il suo cane, perché si è convinto che un quasi novantenne non sia in grado di prendersene cura. Delicato e potente, questo ritratto dell'ultima età della vita, protagonista invisibile della ma nostra epoca, è un romanzo sovversivo che ci riguarda tutti.

Namun, dengan sepuluh alasan pulalah Raja Ikhsan, sang pendaki tangguh, akhirnya berhasil menguarkan dendam itu di puncak Mahameru. Dan, di altitude 3676, ketinggian 3676 meter di atas permukaan laut, Raja Ikhsan tak sekadar menjumpai sebuah ketundukan, tetapi juga beningnya sebuah cinta dan keikhlasan.

"«منذ مائة سنة وأكثر لم تفعل أوروبا شيئا سوى دراسة المعامل وبنائها، إنهم يعرفون كم غِرامًا من البارود تحتاج لقتل إنسان لكنهم لا يعرفون كيف تصلي إلى الله، لا يعرفون كيف تكون سعيدًا ولو لمدة ساعة من الرضا. كل ما نحن فيه يكشف عن إفلاس المثل الحالية. إنه مجتمع متعفن والعالم المتعفن يستطيع أن ينتظر دماره. لقد قهرت أوروبا العالم كله من أجل أن تخسر روحها فقط. والعالم في الحالة التي عليها الآن يحتاج إلى أن يموت، يحتاج إلى أن يفنى؛ وسوف يحدث ذلك».

يسرد البطل (كامل) رؤية ذكرياته منذ الطفولة حتى اللحظة التي يكتب فيها، فيرجع إلى طفولته الأولى حيث وجد نفسه في بيت جده لأمه هو وأمه المطلقة وقد كان يلتقى الكثير من العناية والرعاية من أمه التي كانت تفرط في تدليله حتى نشأ خجولا ومعزولا عن الآخرين بشكل لافت للنظر.

إذا تحدثنا عن الرواية بين يديك الآن، ستدرك أنني لا أرى في البشر الأسود والأبيض فقط، إنما هي مساحة رمادية يتراوح فيها البشر بين الرمادي الغامق والفاتح.. لا جناة هنا ولا أبرياء.. فقط البعض يبدأ بريئًا إلى أن ندفعه دفعًا إلى هاوية الإجرام.. وبعضنا مذنب.. طهَّرته نواتج أفعاله حتى انتهى به الطريق أقرب إلى القديسين.. دائرة أبدية نسلخ فيها الأبرياء ليصيروا بدورهم جلادينا الذين يطهروننا من خبث أنفسنا.. يمكنك أن تحب منسية

تحت أنقاض مبنى القنصلية المصرية في السودان يجد أربعة أشخاصٍ أنفسهم في أعقاب تفجير انتحاري.

هامْلت ليْسَ أنا...ولا غِرْترود كانت أمي..

Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research. When Dick samples Magnus' potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time while staying in place, thrown all the way back into Medieval Cornwall. The concoction wears off after several hours, but its effects are intoxicating and Dick cannot resist his newfound powers.

Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love and marries—and there he dies suddenly.

On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honor of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind its crumbling walls - and tempted to love a man she dares not trust.

A city is hit by a sudden and strange epidemic of "white blindness", which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there social conventions quickly crumble and the struggle for survival brings out the worst in people.

In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend other cultures--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II, The Sheltering Sky is at once merciless and heartbreaking in its compassion. It etches the limits of human reason and intelligence--perhaps even the limits of human life --when they touch the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the dessert.

In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged with a series of brutal murders. The news shocks the nation, bringing both horror and resolution to the victims' families, but its impact travels even further—into the past, as the murders rewrite personal histories, and into the future, as true crime podcasts and biopics tell the story of the crimes. Highway 13 takes murder as its starting point, but it unfolds to encompass much more. Fiona McFarlane presents an unforgettable, entrancing exploration of the way stories are told and spread, and at what cost.

Recently life has been good for Mallory Hansen: a great job, a lovely home, and a wonderful man, Nathan, to share it with. But now she must ask herself: is it all built on lies? A shocking accusation has been made against Nathan, and Mallory doesn’t know who to believe. As teenagers, Mallory and Nathan were part of a close-knit group of six friends until a vicious argument drove them apart. Now, fifteen years later, they are back in touch - only to find themselves drawn into a web of mutual distrust, one by one.

Emma, Aiden and Gina stand on the brink of a new life. After the trauma of Aiden’s abduction and return, they are slowly healing and returning to a fragile normality. Emma is desperate to protect her children, but the world is fascinated by Aiden, the silent child who is finally learning to speak for himself. Against her better judgment, Emma allows her son to attend a talk show. Her worse nightmare comes true when her daughter, Gina, is snatched from the studio and a chilling game begins.

From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marrying into an empire-building family. But when rumours of corruption gather around her husband's latest development, the social opprobrium is shocking, the fallout swift, and Therese begins to look at her privileged and insular world with new eyes. In the flat below Therese, something else is brewing. Her neighbour Claire believes she's discovered the secret to living with freedom and authenticity, freeing herself from the mundanity of domesticity.