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Große Literatur, gelesen von Hörbuchpreisträger Matthias Brandt. Eigentlich will Tim Farnsworth nur funktionieren. Im Beruf. In seiner Ehe. Als Vater. Warum auch nicht, hat er doch alles, was es für ein erfülltes Leben braucht: Erfolg, Wohlstand, familiäres Glück. Doch dann ist von einem Tag auf den anderen nichts mehr, wie es war. Denn er sieht sich getrieben, das zu zerstören, was er liebt. Tim Farnsworth ist ein attraktiver Mann im besten Alter. Seine Frau Jane liebt ihn, trotz mancher Krisen, auch nach all den Jahren noch.

London, 1851. Joshua, ein cleverer Zeitungsjunge, träumt von einem eigenen Pferd und einer Zukunft als königlicher Bote. Doch als er einen verletzten Hundewelpen aus der Themse rettet, ahnt er nicht, dass dies sein Leben für immer verändern wird. Zusammen mit seinen Freunden und seiner treuen Hündin Hazel stellt sich Josh den Schatten Londons: einer Welt aus Straßenbanden, Schurken und verborgenen Geheimnissen.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel by National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris explores the absurdities of modern life and one man's search for meaning. Paul O'Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves the world, but doesn't know how to...

Then We Came to the End is about how we spend our days and too many of our nights. It is about being away from friends and family, about sharing a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers we call colleagues.

Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. In six stories and a novella, Saunders hatches an unforgettable cast of characters, each...

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN TIME, VOX, AND VULTURE 'Batty and brilliant' THE TIMES 'Truly original . . . deeply weird, deeply funny and deeply felt' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Very strange and very funny' GUARDIAN 'Audaciously imagined. Slyly executed. Surprisingly tender. Deliciously weird' RACHEL YODER...

With Moses dead, Israel stands on the threshold of the Promised Land, looking to Joshua for leadership. Join Logos Bible Study as Dr. Bill Creasy takes us across the Jordan River and into the land of “milk and honey” in a brutal conquest - a campaign of extermination that raises profound moral and ethical questions in its day, as well as in ours.

The hilarious and profound novel from National Book Award finalist Joshua Ferris is about an American family in all messy forms—and one man at the head of it. “A fine American novel about family, love, and a decent but flawed man trying to be better." —Stephen King Someone is telling the...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the Booker-shortlisted author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour comes a novel about fathers, sons, thwarted dreams and confronting the reality of who we really are Charlie Barnes is a mid-century man devoted to his newspaper and his landline. But Charlie is about...

Paul O'Rourke is a man out of touch with modern life. While his dental practice occupies his days, his nights are filled with darker thoughts, as he alternately marvels at and rails against the optimism of the rest of humanity. So it goes, until someone begins to impersonate Paul online. What began as an outrageous violation of privacy soon becomes something far more soul-frightening: the possibility that the virtual 'Paul' might be a better version…

Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, ageing with the grace of a matinée idol. He loves his work. He loves his family. He loves his kitchen. And then one day he stands up and walks out on all of it. He cannot stop walking....

Brought to you by Penguin. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastoral. Ira Ringold is an American roughneck who transforms himself from a ditch-digger in 1930s New Jersey, to a radio hotshot in the 1940s...

This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented writer. The characters in Then We Came to the End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee...

The Unnamed is a dazzling novel about a marriage, family, and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both. He was going to lose the house and everything in it. The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would lose...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year: The first collection of short stories from the critically acclaimed, prize-winning author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were first published in The New Yorker, are at once thrilling...

Innerhalb weniger Wochen verschwinden vier Kinder auf ihrem Weg zur Schule. Es gibt kein Motiv, keinen Hinweis auf einen möglichen Täter und keine Lösegeldforderungen. Das Sondereinsatzkommando SOKO 21, unter der Leitung von Kommissar Alexander Kant, gerät ins Kreuzfeuer der Presse, da die Kinder nicht gefunden werden und die Abteilung bisher im Dunkeln tappt. Kant sieht nur die Möglichkeit, den Täter auf frischer Tat zu ertappen, sobald dieser wieder zuschlägt und ein weiteres Kind entführt.

Stuck in a spiritual wilderness, it can be easy to forget that God remains the God of overcomers. The power and victory present in the Old Testament still exist for Christians today.

This brutally honest memoir explores one man's journey through life and the secrets, shame, and trauma that his addiction revealed. Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and...

In Safety Tips for Living Alone, Jim Shepard weaves the stories of four families whose lives are upended when the men go to work on a dangerous and isolated surveillance platform off the coast of Long Island. After working his way up to captain, career serviceman Gordon Phelan is offered the command of Texas Tower 4--a wobbly "box over the ocean".

A powerful coming-of-age novel about a twenty-something Black musician living in predominantly white Portland, Oregon, playing in a rock band on the verge of success while struggling with racism, romance, and the legacy of his strict religious upbringing. Julian Strickland is seemingly the lone...