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A stunning collection including the story "Sea Oak," from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. Hailed by Thomas Pynchon as "graceful...

Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their arrival, Irena disappears without a trace. The translators, who hail from eight different countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author, begin to investigate where she may have gone while proceeding with work on her masterpiece.

A Brancaccio, quartiere degradato di Palermo, l'unico modo per difendersi dalla disumanità è la famiglia. Ma la famiglia di Rosario non se la passa bene. Il padre ha un’altra donna, un altro figlio, e per di più ora è in carcere per spaccio di sostanze dopanti. La madre, scoperta la doppia vita del marito, si ammala di anoressia. Su questa situazione si abbatte pure la scure dei servizi sociali: la madre finisce in una clinica per disturbi alimentari e Rosario in una casa-famiglia.

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.

Und plötzlich ist alles anders: Als die zehnjährige Mona für eine Stunde ihr Augenlicht verliert, verweisen ihre Ärzte die besorgten Eltern an einen Kinderpsychiater. Monas Großvater Henry soll sie zu den Terminen begleiten, doch der hat eine andere, bessere Idee: In der Zeit, die seiner geliebten Enkelin bleibt, soll sie die ganze Schönheit der Welt in sich aufnehmen. Heimlich gehen die beiden in die großen Pariser Museen und betrachten dort Woche für Woche ein einziges Kunstwerk. Mit jedem Leonardo, jedem Monet und Kandinsky entdeckt Mona eine neue Weisheit – und dringt zum Grund ihres Leidens vor.

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For Nikki and Sadie, life at Loch Raven College was supposed to be filled with poetry and days spent trying on thrifted clothes. But there's a dark story that plagues the school halls—that of the Sylvia Club, a campus legend surrounding the death of multiple Sylvia Plath-adoring girls, all written off as suicides. Aspiring writer Nikki finds herself drawn to the stories, so much so that dead girls begin to haunt her dark imagination. To satiate her obsession, Nikki begins to dig into the deaths, and she soon suspects there's more to the story than just a tragic group of sad girls.

Germain, Petit Pierre et Marie sont forcés de passer la nuit au lieu-dit La mare au Diable. Le laboureur et la jeune fille ont le coeur triste : Germain va chercher une mère pour ses enfants, mais l'amour n'y est pas, et Marie a quitté sa mère pour se louer comme bergère à la ferme des Ormeaux. Seul Petit Pierre est heureux et confiant : de lui dépendra le sort de ceux qu'il aime tant.

Eine Tochter steht in der Wohnung ihrer plötzlich verstorbenen Mutter. Die Mutter ist fort, ihre gesamten Ersparnisse auch. Was bleibt, sind Fragen: Warum ist die Wohnung so chaotisch, der Briefkasten so voll? Und wie ist es überhaupt möglich, seine eigene Mutter an einen Heiratsschwindler zu verlieren? Sarah Kuttner erzählt die Geschichte einer Frau, die Liebe suchte und auf einen Love Scammer traf. Die sich verliebte und die Augen verschloss. Die nichts zurückließ, außer einem schier endlosen Chat mit dem Betrüger.

Shirley Jackson's chilling second novel, based on her own experiences and an actual mysterious disappearance Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and egotistical writer who keeps a tight rein on Natalie and her long-suffering mother. When...

"Es gibt zwei Menschen, die mich von der Sache mit dem Auto abhalten. Kevin und Hubert. Kevin wohnt um die Ecke, ist voll intelligent und Hubert wohnt im dritten Stock und ist voll dement." Linda ist fünfzehn und spielt mit dem Gedanken vor ein Auto zu laufen. Doch noch halten zwei Menschen sie davon ab, ihr Vorhaben in die Tat umzusetzen: Ihr einziger Freund Kevin, der daran verzweifelt, dass die Welt am Abgrund steht. Und Hubert, sechsundachtzig Jahre alt, ein Bademeister im Ruhestand, der seine Wohnung kaum mehr verlässt, Karotten toastet und auf seine Frau wartet, die vor sieben Jahren verstorben ist.

Vicken has a plan: throw himself into the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal and end it all for good, believing it to be the only way out for him after a lifetime of depression and pain. But, stepping off the subway, he finds himself in an endless, looping station. Determined to find a way out again, he starts to explore the rooms and corridors ahead of him. But no matter how many claustrophobic hallways or vast cathedral-esque rooms he passes through, the exit is nowhere in sight. The more he explores his strange new prison, the more he becomes convinced that he hasn't been trapped there

"Are you my mummy?" Tessa Markham returns home to find a child in her kitchen. He thinks she’s his mother. But Tessa doesn’t have any children. Not anymore. She doesn’t know who the little boy is or how he got there. After contacting the police, Tessa is suspected of taking the mystery child. Her whole life is turned upside down. And then her husband reveals a secret of his own. Tessa isn’t sure what to believe or who to trust. Because someone is lying. To find out who, she must confront her painful past. But is the truth more dangerous than Tessa realises?

Es ist ein großer Tag für Interims-Polizeipräsident Kluftinger, der seine erste Anti-Terrorübung in den Bergen leitet. Doch die Übung läuft völlig aus dem Ruder, ein Polizist stirbt. Ist Kluftingers chaotische Planung schuld am Tod des Kollegen? Ausgerechnet jetzt kann er schlechte Schlagzeilen überhaupt nicht gebrauchen, denn er kandidiert für den Gemeinderat – zunächst zwar nur als Lückenbüßer, um die Liste zu füllen. Aber als er erfährt, dass sein Intimfeind Doktor Langhammer gegen ihn antritt, ist sein Ehrgeiz geweckt, und er zieht in den Wahlkampf.

Il capolavoro di Nievo ci parla attraverso l'indimenticabile figura del protagonista, Carlo Altoviti. Con i suoi occhi e le sue parole assistiamo alla storia d'amore con la Pisana, personaggio femminile complesso e anticonformista, ma anche a quella tra Clara e Lucilio, tra Leopardo e Doretta. Seguiamo il protagonista dall'incanto dell'infanzia al maturare della passione civile, dal mondo arcaico e ristretto del castello di Fratta alle vie d'Italia e del mondo. Carlino diventa un compagno di strada, sulla quale uomini e donne camminano assieme ai grandi eventi politici del loro tempo.

Los Esterházy, una pareja excéntrica sin un pasado claro, llegan a un pueblo de la costa argentina y comienzan a regentar un antiguo hotel. Estos dos seres (y sus dos hijos, una niña y un niño más inquietantes y enigmáticos que ellos) producen el efecto de una partícula enfermiza que se introduce en las grietas de una sociedad pequeña y arrasa con su dinámica cotidiana, aparentemente calma. La pareja resulta ser un amplificador de los prejuicios, los deseos ocultos, las supersticiones, los temores y la violencia larvada en muchos de los habitantes del pueblo.

From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes a mesmerizing novel that spans the past and the present—and unearths the troubled history of a gorgeous but haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the...

The Migrant is the story of the boy who walked over the mountains with only his violin. It is an odyssey across borders and into the heart of what it means to belong.

Yoshio is thirty years old, and his life is a mess. A shut-in living with his parents, he has no job, no relationship, and no prospects. When he receives a new sim computer game that boasts characters created with a new kind of A.I., he doesn't think much of it--until he gets drawn into a fantasy world so vibrant and lifelike that its residents can't just be game characters. Suddenly finding himself the benevolent god of a scrappy fantasy village is a lot for Yoshio to handle, but it might be the key to the change he is desperate for.

The Brothers Karamazov Redux presents Dostoevsky’s towering masterpiece in a newly ignited form, amplifying the emotional, philosophical, and spiritual power of the original while sharpening its raw immediacy for a modern listener.