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It is said the demon in the well will give you your heart's desire... for a price. When Declan's prince and best friend, Arwyn, goes seeking the demon for himself, he surprises Declan by leaping into the demon’s well. But when Declan pulls him out, it isn't Arwyn he rescued, but a demon wearing his skin. No one believes Declan that Arwyn's soul has been corrupted by the shadow in the well, and with Arwyn taking up arms against the king's fleet by becoming a pirate, all that matters is stopping him.

Mara has built her life around hard decisions. As the director of an overcrowded animal shelter, she knows compassion alone is not enough. Every intake is a calculation. Every yes has a cost. Every life must fit within the limits of space, staffing, and time. When a senior dog named Calder is surrendered, Mara makes room for him. Then another old dog arrives. And another. What begins as a single act of mercy soon becomes a quiet reckoning, one that draws scrutiny from donors, board members, and the system around her.

An Epiphany in Lilacs is a novel set in a displaced persons camp outside Hamburg, Germany, following the end of World War II. After liberation in May 1945, Daniel, a 14-year-old Latvian Jew, is treated in a field hospital in the British zone of partitioned Germany. A survivor of various concentration camps, Daniel fights to recover from starvation and disease. Racked by nightmares, a nearly nightly occurrence, Daniel finds sleep almost impossible. Through his love of nature and pre-war memories, Daniel struggles to find comfort.

Mitten im Leben wird die Autorin mit einer tödlichen Diagnose und der ihr noch kurzen verbleibenden Lebenszeit konfrontiert. Sie blickt zurück auf ihr Leben, ihre große Liebe und ihre Familie und versucht, unsere aller Welt im neuen Licht zu sehen, um Sterben zu lernen. Dabei erkennt sie, dass wahre Schönheit nur im Lichte der Vergänglichkeit sichtbar und das Leben in all seiner Tiefe nur angesichts des Todes erfahrbar wird.

Diese Kriminalsatire wird aus der Perspektive von sieben Protagonisten erzählt: Die Freischaffende, die einem Serienvergewaltiger entkommt und ihm nach Jahren wiederbegegnet, als er mit Hilfe eines Galeristen zum Künstlerstar emporgehoben wird; die Gutachterin, deren Expertise ignoriert wird; der Anwalt, der dem Schwerverbrecher ein freies Künstlerleben ermöglicht; der berühmte Filmemacher, der die Welt neu erklären möchte, und dessen Kunstagent, der ihn zu waghalsigen Investitionen verleitet.

«Lui vive qui?» Queste le tre parole che hanno cambiato la mia vita e quella dei miei figli. Questo libro parla della storia vera di un uomo con una doppia vita. L'uomo di cui mi sono innamorata, nonché il mio fidanzato, si è rivelato un impostore. Quando l’ho scoperto è entrato in un vortice di follia. Voleva rendermi la vita impossibile. Più scavavo a fondo, più scoprivo segreti sconvolgenti. Mi intimava di non curiosare, dicendomi che avrei potuto ottenere ciò che volevo se avessi smesso di cercare.

After losing her research job in the city, Anna Attar heads home to Serenity Falls with nothing but a suitcase and a plan: lay low, help her sister for a few months, and get back on her feet. But plans rarely hold up in a town like Serenity Falls. Her grandmother's memory is fading fast. Her sister, Emilia, is convinced their mother's death wasn't natural. And Anna finds herself returning to the family perfume tradition she tried to leave behind.

Sine kehrt nach über zwanzig Jahren an den Ort ihrer Kindheit zurück. Ihre Großmutter Agneta ist gestorben, und gemeinsam mit ihrem Vater Johann reist sie zu deren Begräbnis nach Siebenbürgen. Das Haus der Großmutter zieht sie vom ersten Augenblick an in ihren Bann: Das Gebäude mit seiner geheimnisvollen Architektur, dem vermauerten Eingang zur ehemaligen Familienfärberei und den verschiedenfarbigen Räumen wecken Erinnerungen an ein Zuhause, das Sine längst verloren glaubte.

London, 1989. In a quiet theatre audition room, a young actress meets the legendary director Sir Peter Hall. What begins as a simple audition slowly becomes something more—a confrontation between ambition, motherhood, and the expectations placed on women in the theatre. As past and present echo each other, the question lingers: how much has really changed?

Iris Radisch nimmt den Leser mit auf eine faszinierende Reise durch Camus' Leben und Werk. Dieser Autor ist kein Heiliger. Sein Leben und seine Bücher erzählen von der Sehnsucht nach den großen, elementaren Erlebnissen, vom Glück der Beschränkung auf das Essentielle, vom Zauber der Einfachheit. Camus verwickelt seine Leser in die grundlegenden Fragen nach richtig und falsch, nach gut und böse, und seine Werke fordern heraus zu einem neuen Nachdenken über die Natur des Menschen.

With the heady days of COVID-19 well and truly in our rear view mirror, that modern-day plague just an awful memory, we at HellBound Books decided it was high-time to revisit the horror enthusiast’s’ unfaltering love affair with tales of pandemic terror. We have here, for your delight, two-dozen horrific short stories of sickness, plagues, sinister microbial outbreaks, killer viruses, demonic infections, the devilpox, cannibals, and, of course, the ultimate in pandemic terror: zombies!

Alyssa was just getting used to life in Kotahi Bay when an old friend arrives, bringing a kitten and more complications. Then a handsome stranger with a dark past moves in next door, and everything she believed about magic—and herself—begins to unravel. When the town's guardians call upon her for help, Alyssa must face a choice that terrifies her more than any ghost ever could. But with new threats emerging and old secrets surfacing, running is no longer an option.

Une déité neurodivergente. Les protectors obsédés par elle. Une déité n’a rien à faire au test d’entrée de la formation des sentinelles, mais bon, si c’est pour prouver au panthéon que je peux récupérer le trône laissé vacant à la mort de mes parents, je ne reculerai pas. J’ai un plan. Le Plan. Je deviendrai aussi forte qu’eux. En attendant, il reste un dernier obstacle à surmonter. Ou à éviter.

New school, new dungeons, new...maid?At long last, Kousuke enters Tsukuyomi Magic Academy, the main setting of the erotic dating sim into which he’s been reincarnated. But between training every spare moment and using his knowledge of Magical Explorer to win the hearts of all the heroines he...

Brought to you by Penguin. VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels A lay...

El protagonista de esta inquietante novela es un nonagenario llamado Bruno, que, en el ocaso de sus días, yace en la cama obsesionado por las sombras de su pasado y seducido todavía por su principal pasión: las arañas.

Welcome to the world of Droll Tales, in which reality is a mutually agreed-upon illusion and life is painful, paradoxical, beautiful, and brief. With an oddball cast of characters who reappear in various guises throughout these interrelated stories, Smyles reveals an off-kilter world overlapping this one. And in giving us a tour of this enchanted, sometimes absurd place, with its own workings and ways of expression, she gives us a new way to understand our own.

Here is New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen’s classic novel of unforgettable romance and unrelenting suspense–a ravishing thriller of a woman with a secret irresistibly drawn into the glittering world of a famous man whose past may be murder…. Taking the stage that evening...

A high-stakes treasure hunt…A twisted trail of murder…A secret one woman may die to discover… Number one New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen last electrified readers with Dead Aim and No One to Trust. Now she offers a new pulse-pounding thriller that takes suspense writing to...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen turns up the heat in this explosive new psychological thriller. This time a gifted arson investigator teams up with a mysterious operative to stop a killer raging completely out of control... For Kerry Murphy, the inferno is never far away. The...