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((Fur die Vorschau))Ein Sommer im landlichen Massachusetts: Die 17-jahrige Charity Royall lebt in einer verschlafenen Kleinstadt bei ihrem trunksuchtigen Adoptivvater und traumt von einem besseren Leben. Als eines Tages ein junger Architekt aus der Grostadt auftaucht, sieht sie ihre Chance gekommen. Die beiden beginnen eine Liebesbeziehung.((Fur Onix))A Summer in rural Massachusetts: Seventeen-year-old Charity Royall lives with her hard-drinking adoptive father. She dreams of escaping the sleepy little town for a more exciting and fulfilling life. Her chance comes when a young architect from the city arrives one day. She starts a passionate love affair.

H2O = hero + heroine + ...octopus?A scheduling screw-up leaves meticulous marine biologist Isabel Wright and tattooed wildlife photographer Wes Monaghan stranded at the same California beach house. She needs a U.S. visa-now. He needs a boat and a date to his familys holiday party. The solution? A fake engagement that turns eight levels of its complicated after they accidentally adopt joint custody of an octopus.Can their agreement not to catch feelings survive sunset picnics, bioluminescent skinny-dipping, and a secret investigation into a shady ocean research lab?Or will their charming cephalopod and their own hearts sucker Wes and Isabel into diving straight into love?

Después de laesperadísima quinta y última temporada deStranger Things llega su nueva novela: Nancy Wheeler está tras la pista de un nuevo misterio, y no parará hasta resolverlo.Han pasado dos meses desde el terremoto de Vecna, y Hawkins aun intenta recuperarse mientras sigue bajo la influencia del Mundo del Reves. Nancy Wheeler ha dedicado cada minuto de su vida a encontrar a Vecna, pero sin exito.Cuando su compañero de clase Joey Taft empieza a actuar de forma sospechosa, Nancy esta convencida de que Vecna ha encontrado a su nueva victima. Junto con su amiga Robin Buckley, Nancy se pone a investigar: ¿por que la gente del pueblo esta enfermando de repente? ¿Y por que hay un hombre extraño siguiendola?Las dos se embarcan en la peligrosa busqueda de la verdad. Cuanto mas profundizan, mas se ve Nancy envuelta en una red de intrigas que amenaza con atraparla para siempre.

A childhood game of wild imagination takes a frightening turn in this dark, strange, moving tale of intense friendship, tangled secrets and betrayal from the acclaimed author of Eat the Ones You Love, one of the Sunday Timess Top Ten Irish Books of 2025.For Daphne McSharry, Valentia Island was a place of joyful childhood holidays: independence, adventure and playing with her beloved friends, Ronan, Leonie and Finn. They returned to one game of their own making year after year, and let their imaginations roam free. But when the game is stolen from them by an outsider, it becomes something dark and strange, forcing Daphne to make a choice with a terrible cost. When tragedy brings her back to the island years later, she and her friends finally have to face the consequences of what she did.Daphne never took her final turn... And there is a debt that must be paid.

The addictive mystery taking the world by storm, from the author of The Times Bestseller Strange PicturesEleven strange buildings. One terrible secret.A lonely hut in the woods.A hidden chamber.A mysterious shrine.A home in flames.A nightmarish prison...Each of the buildings in this book tells a chilling story. Each one is part of a puzzle.Look closely... and youll see that everything is connected.All leading to a revelation so horrifying you wont want to believe it.Millions of readers have become addicted to solving Uketsus dark mysteries.Strange Buildings is the strangest, and darkest, so far.

This contemporary twist on Brief Encounter is a tender meditation on what might have been.Maybe we love people because they wont let us know them.A summers evening in Manhattan. Nothing - not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore - can undo the heats hold on the city. Julian is half watching the evening news, his husband filling the dishwasher. Thats when it arrives. An email with the subject line: From Paul Axel. An email about a dead man from Carol - a woman Julian has never met. Paul has left a message hed like her to relay. Emails are exchanged. Morning coffee at the Bryant Park Grill is agreed. Carol, fulfilling Pauls final request, wonders how she will tell Julian of a life - and a love - he has no idea existed. A life, encased in a flash drive, containing multitudes.Readers adored Stowaways:I have unashamedly fallen in love with Andre Acimans writing. . . I couldnt stop reading until the very last page.Its a really beautiful book of two people talking about love.Poignant, heart-warming, stimulating and challenging. All readers should recognise something of themselves in this story.I had no idea what to expect going into this book but in true Andre Aciman style, I was floored by the sheer beauty of it.

A chilling, claustrophobic retelling of Rebecca, rooted in Chinese-American history from the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of Bound Feet. Perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic and Get Out.Mixed media fine art photographer Lydia Chen dreams of gaining fame and fortune, even as shes forced to do odd jobs to pay the billslike running a gothic portrait photo booth for Seattles elite during a lavish charity event. But fate intervenes when she wins the event raffle for a once-in-a-lifetime retreat to Stormraven, a 19th-century estate owned by the Vandermeer family on a private island off Washingtons coast. There, she meets Henry Vandermeer, the enigmatic young scion of his clan. Charmed by Henry and drawn to his beautiful estate, Lydia joins his mysterious family and moves into Stormraven.With her sudden change in fortune, Lydia leaves behind the daily grind to chase her artistic aspirations, settling into seemingly idyllic surroundings. But with each passing day, ominous nightmares come to the fore, as Lydia catches glimpses throughout the property of a ghostly woman who eerily resembles herself. The more she investigates the mansions chilling secrets, the more she feels her sanity slipping under the weight of its emerging terrors. For Lydia soon discovers she is not the first to be trapped in Stormravens hallowed hallsand if she fails to unearth its rotten truth, her new home may soon become her eternal prison.

Icelandic detective-in-training Sigurdís is studying criminal psychology in the US, but her plans are thrown into disarray when she discovers that her boss and mentor, Garðar, has been fired from Rey

An account of the poet authors love affair with Dutch art, and the consolations and ecstasies of the objects we gather on our way through life. We begin standing in the Met in front of a painting by Jan Davidsz de Heem: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon. Looking almost more closely than we can bear at this image from the 17th century, Doty attempts to tell us everything it holds, from pigments to forms, and above all, meaning.This confrontation with beauty is one of many that shapes his life, from the pinwheel peppermints that emerge from his grandmas purse in his Tennessee childhood to the cracked china platter that graces the mantelpiece in the home he shares with his dying husband. But it is Dutch still-life painting that seems to have the most to tell him. This book is his record of years spent looking closely at bunched asparagus, translucent wine glasses, curling lemon peel and the bloom on grapes.In a brief, lucid, powerfully concentrated narrative, which tells the story of a life of self-discovery and an avid gaze, Mark Doty writes with poetic specificity and painterly clarity. In his loving description of reality, we begin to see that simply looking can be the most tender reverence.

A powerful love story like no other for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid, David Nicholls and Jojo Moyes________________________________A talented, beautiful writer. I loved this book immenselyRobinne Lee, author of The Idea of YouClever, tender and heart-wrenchingSandie Docker, author of The Lyrebird Lake HotelI laughed, I ugly-cried, I absolutely loved itPip Drysdale, author of The Close-Up________________________________When Audrey and Fraser tumble into a love story for the ages, theirs is an epic, unbreakable romance - until one tragic moment upends everything.Facing the unimaginable, wrestling with guilt, theyre left haunted by what ifs.Would their lives still have imploded if theyd done one little thing differently? Where would they be if events had unfolded the other way around?This is a love story - but not the one youre expecting.________________________________Readers love Emma Grey...I will basically read anything Emma Grey writesWill make you laugh, cry, and feelPhenomenal!Compelling, sweet and heart-breakingDelivers laughs amidst the tears and a heaping side of hope

What if one moment one split second changed everything?When a firearms officer shoots a suspect dead and wounds another, who later dies in hospital, the official line is that the sun was in her eyes. Her body cam failed.Known only as Officer X, her anonymity is meant to protect her until a judge releases her name and a media storm erupts.DSI Jack Dylan and DI Charley Mann are called in to determine whether it was a justifiable use of force or something darker. And when its revealed that Officer X knew the victim, and her brother died of a drug overdose linked to the same woman, the case becomes charged with personal and political tension.As pressure mounts, a vulnerable witness dies and a lost phone surfaces with a photograph and a message that could unravel everything and reveal the truth about what happened that day.Split Second brings Dylan and Mann together for the first time, in an investigation that will test their instincts, their loyalties and the limits of justice itself, as both detectives must decide how far theyll go and what theyre willing to sacrifice to uncover the truth.________Praise for R.C. Bridgestock:A cracking storySunA compelling story with a procedural authenticity that few authors can matchM.W. CravenR. C. Bridgestock always deliver a cracking story with an experts insightHoward Linskey**Voted #8 Best Crime Authors of All Time by WHSmith readers**

An unputdownable psychological thriller with a killer twist___________________________________The thriller of the year has just arrived! Matthew BlakeWonderfully original and a fabulously unhinged narrator Katherine FaulknerGeorgia McVeigh is brilliant Emma CurtisA masterful psychological thriller Linda CastilloTense, twisty and utterly addictive Karma Brown___________________________________The moment I catch eyes with Jack at grief group, I just know.This is my second chance at love. Hes charming, good-looking and newly available. In fact, his wife died the very same day I lost my partner. Coincidence? Maybe. Fate sounds more romantic.Unfortunately, I do possess qualities that arent always desirable. Usually, I can mask them, but sometimes the darkness slips through. And when it does, I wonder if I see that same darkness in Jack. Could he also be hiding parts of himself? Perhaps we really are perfect for each other.Perfect lovers. Perfect enemies. Its all the same in the end, right? ___________________________________Readers are loving Sorry For Your LossI will be recommendingThe twists left my jaw on the floorI love unhinged charactersClever and well-thought outA psychological cat-and-mouse

UNA NOVELA SOBRE SECRETOS FAMILIARES, LEALTAD Y SEGUNDAS OPORTUNIDADES.Sunday Brennan despierta magullada en un hospital de Los Ángeles tras haber sufrido un accidente. Esa es la señal de que ha llegado el momento de regresar a Nueva York, despues de haber abandonado a sus hermanos, que no la perdonan, y al hombre con el que imagino que compartiria su vida.El hogar que la espera esta lleno de grietas y preguntas. Sunday quiere recomponer su vida, aunque tenga que caminar sobre viejos rencores. Sin embargo, cuanto mas tiempo permanece, mas descubre que los suyos la necesitan tanto como ella a ellos. Y, cuando un hombre de su pasado amenaza con arruinar a los Brennan, Sunday comprende que la unica manera de salvarlos es desenterrar secretos familiares que desgarran y sostienen, y que son capaces de dinamitar todo lo que creian cierto, para encontrar juntos la forma de seguir adelante.

Malti Patel is absolutely fine. Concussed and bruised, maybe, but fine. Certainly fine enough to not need her daughters soon-to-be-ex-husband, Nathan Whitlock, playing nurse in her home while she recuperates. And yet her doctor insists on in-home supervision for seven days, and with her daughter, Kavya, studying in India, Nathan proves too much of a do-gooder to let Malti rehabilitate alone. They want nothing to do with one another. But over the course of the week, as Malti grapples with the shadows of her past and Nathan ponders the wreckage of his marriage, they learn that they are the two people who know Kavya best - and the ones who have hurt her so deeply that shes left them both entirely.Rich with emotional depth, Some People paints a nuanced portrait of love, forgiveness and our timeless quest for understanding and acceptance.

NO HAY NADA TAN ADICTIVO NI PELIGROSO COMO LA VENGANZA…EXCEPTO TAL VEZ EL AMOR.Un mafia romance completamente frenético que te hará sucumbir a un deseo irreprimible.VEGA ha crecido con un solo objeti

Summer, 1993, and Alex Lane finds himself at the end of the University summer term, broke and without any concrete plans. So, when hes offered the chance to join a group of students tasked with clearing out Solace House, a large Victorian residence left to the University by a reclusive hoarder called Flayne, he jumps at it. The other students are a mixed bunch, but Alex quickly falls into a close friendship with the mercurial, red-headed Ella.At first the house seems to be an ordinary, if grandiose, property. But as the team begin sorting through piles of junk, they stumble upon Flaynes journals in which he details his obsession with his missing mother, his discovery of a strange place called Bewise, and - most mysteriously - his belief in another realm lying parallel to ours, along with coded instructions on how it might be reached.As the students continue to sort through the detritus, one of Alexs companions becomes increasingly obsessed with the hidden secrets of Solace House, Flaynes missing mother, and the possibility that, if only they can decipher Flaynes increasingly unintelligible writings, they might gain knowledge beyond their wildest dreams. That is, assuming, they are willing to sacrifice everything.

Louis Emmitt-Sterns Slippery is a hilarious and heartfelt play about ghosts, sex, and spaghetti. Winner of Soho Theatres Tony Craze Award, it is premiered at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, in 2026.Gave it to me when he died. Thought it was a bit odd. F**k flowers. Have an espresso machine.2AM. A London flat. Jude and Kyle return from A&E. One has slipped, but theyre both falling. A decade after their messy breakup, old wounds reopen as their tender reunion unravels into something more dangerous.Also included in this volume is Emmitt-Sterns play Is This Us Fading Out, about a couple trapped in a post-breakup limbo, looking at their relationship after their relationship has ended. The play premiered as part of a digital showcase in 2020, produced by Swings&Roundabouts. It was subsequently performed at Watford Palace Theatre in 2021.

Two women hunting the same killer. One seeks justice. One seeks fame. Both have something to hide.In a remote Scottish town where everyone knows everyone, the disappearance of local girl Lily Howard should be impossible to hide. But as Detective Ruth Lindsey discovers, some secrets run deeper than blood.When internet sensation Mia Chaplin arrives to investigate, her viral YouTube videos about the case spark a media frenzy. The town divides: some worship Mia as a crusader for justice, others see her as a dangerous provocateur. For Ruth, shes a threat not just to the investigation, but to the fragile peace of a community already fracturing under pressure.As Mias revelations start destroying lives, Ruth realises shes dealing with something far more sinister than a fame-hungry influencer. Because Mia knows things about Lily she shouldnt. And Ruth is beginning to suspect that the real predator isnt hiding in the shadowy hills of Galloway, but broadcasting to millions from plain sight...

An unhappy family returns to Britain from a hot country, filling their suburban house with the glittering hoard they brought back from their exotic sojourn. But the sadness of A, the wife, dulls the shine of their treasure. The house grows quieter, darker. Daughter B learns to hide inside it, in a night-time world whose colours are undimmed by the tense misery of the daytime household. There she sails aquamarine seas on a thistledown boat, ponders the proliferation of dream-tigers, and watches dances and celebrations from the windows of a house whose rooms multiply and change position all the time. As daylight circumstances deteriorate, with her mothers death and Bs departure to boarding school, she becomes determined to take up permanent residence in the house of sleep. But there are night-time institutions determined to control her, and night-time battles to be fought, before she can come home to the dark forever. A kaleidoscopic autobiographical narrative, which speaks the language of childhood dreams which was once known to us all, this is a work of astonishing visual power and devastating loneliness.

Moving through somnambulant states, Sleep Gate evokes Inger Christensens description of the necessity for us to dream our way inward. The poems in Sleep Gate push Christensens dream inward further, into biological dreaming itself. Fully absorbed in the fabric of sleep, enfolded into the inventory of dreams, these poems become part of the process of sleep respiration, so that we might consider the world around us from another perspective. Moving through the changing states of peoplesdreamscapes and what might affect them, like nightmares, insomnia and other sleep disorders, Sleep Gate captures the disjunctive, jump-cutting quality of dreams: within the unspoken context of deep-sleep tectonic logic, these poems jump from a time before the clouds are inventoried to the present, from Winters gnashing bruxism to a garden anointed with gluey residue. A collection that, as on waking, assembles the world through distortion and towards clarity.