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A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American...

Schon lange fühlt sich Everly fremdbestimmt: Als Tochter einer Unternehmerfamilie ist ihr beruflicher Weg vorgeschrieben. Und ihre Eltern halten Benedict, den Sohn einer einflussreichen und wohlhabenden Familie, für die beste Wahl eines Ehemannes. Am Tag ihrer Verlobungsparty wird ihr alles zu viel. Überstürzt flieht sie aus Denver und landet im beschaulichen Örtchen Crosston Creek. Inmitten der wilden Natur kann Everly endlich über ihr Leben nachdenken. Als sie jedoch einen verwahrlosten Welpen findet, ist es schlagartig vorbei mit der Ruhe.

Auf der Bristlecone Pine Ranch im beschaulichen Örtchen Crosston Creek hat Holly ein Zuhause gefunden. Brian, der Eigentümer der Ranch, ist ein väterlicher Freund für sie geworden und die Arbeit mit den Pferden könnte für Holly nicht erfüllender sein. Als sie erfährt, dass die Ranch in finanziellen Schwierigkeiten steckt und Brian sie verkaufen muss, bricht für Holly eine Welt zusammen. Die einzige Rettung wäre Brians Sohn Callen - ein erfolgreicher Anwalt. Der hat allerdings seit einem tragischen Unfall vor Jahren nicht mehr mit seinem Vater gesprochen und die Ranch interessiert ihn nicht.

Seit Paige denken kann, ist sie in Arden verliebt. Der rechtschaffende und attraktive Sheriff von Crosston Creek ist die Personifizierung von Recht und Ordnung. Sobald irgendwo Hilfe benötigt wird, ist er der Erste, der alles stehen und liegen lässt. Hält sich jemand allerdings nicht an das Gesetz, lernt er Ardens unerbittliche Seite kennen. Und genau da liegt das Problem: Sollte er jemals erfahren, welche kriminelle Energie in Paiges Familie steckt, wird er einen großen Bogen um sie machen. Paige weiß, dass es besser wäre, Arden zu vergessen.

This first audiobook in the UnderBelly series, 'Layers of Truth', follows our overly antsy, sometimes humorous reporter as he gets a new job in Chicago after being forced to leave LA because of a truth that can never be revealed. As a fresh newspaper, eager to begin anew, he finds he has not left his past behind but is carrying it into the future.

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author. With The Sportswriter, in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later – after Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award – was hailed by The Times of London as “an extraordinary epic [that]...

Tucked under her blanket, a teddy placed on the pillow beside her, the little girl could be sleeping. Madison’s blood runs cold as she stares at the crime scene. Not wanting to believe what she’s seeing, she vows to bring the child’s twisted killer to justice…

A gripping new novel of psychological suspense by the author of Girl, 11 Pastor Rick tells us women are created to serve, to be pure, to submit, to be a delight to their husbands. Who are we to deny the very nature our Creator has built within us? When Del Walker fled her small hometown and its...

A dark Southern tale of desperate souls who've wound up on the road of poor choices, a messianic child with untold powers, and those out hunting her for their own reward, all drawn together by Michael Farris Smith's trademark mournful, spirit-gnawing prose. An old woman, riddled with dementia...

The Layers is the debut novel from Stephen Reynolds, exploring how our identity is shaped by our relationships. The anonymous protagonist recounts his life story, showing us how the people he has loved - his parents, sister, grandfather, best friend, and partner - have all helped to form who he is. He is a different version of himself with each loved one, versions which combine to make up a whole person. However, as the book goes on and the protagonist starts to lose grip of people around him, he begins to wonder who he really is without them.

How far would you go to find out who killed your mother? Adopted Miranda will do what it takes. As this story about murder, betrayal, and dark desires unfolds, things take an unsuspected turn. Things from the past find their way back to the surface, and dead might not mean dead, after all.

Eli Mercer was never meant to be a hero. He’s crude, paranoid, and painfully self-aware… because he can hear the author writing his life in real time. When the zombie apocalypse erupts, Eli does what any conspiracy-brained survivor would: run, fortify, and trust absolutely no one. But the “author” has other plans, and Eli’s first act of mercy gets him betrayed and kicked out of his own stocked safehouse.

A devastating, darkly comic journey into the heart of a Southern family As I Lay Dying follows the Bundrens as they set out to honor their dying mother's final wish: to be buried in her hometown of Jefferson, Mississippi. What begins as a simple promise unravels into a harrowing odyssey of flood...

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is consistently ranked among the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Set in Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, the book tells of the hapless and tormented Bundren family. Addie, the long-suffering matriarch, is lying on her deathbed, tended by her daughter, Dewey Dell. Outside, her son Cash is crafting the coffin she will soon need.

And the Land Lay Still is the sweeping Scottish epic by James Robertson. And the Land Lay Still is nothing less than the story of a nation. James Robertson's breathtaking novel is a portrait of modern Scotland as seen through the eyes of natives and immigrants, journalists and politicians, drop-outs and spooks, all trying to make their way through a country in the throes of great and rapid change. It is a moving, sweeping story of family, friendship, struggle and hope - epic in every sense.

Attorney Jake Trenton's perfectly ordered life unravels when he loses a promotion and his wife announces she wants to become a surrogate. While he spends even more time at the office to prove his worth, he worries about the effects on their family if Sophia carries a baby for a stranger. Once Sophia explains how important it is to her to bear a child for someone who can't, Jake reluctantly agrees. However, when the embryo transfer is successful, Jake's carefully constructed world crumbles beneath the memory of his brother's death, which occurred years ago in the same month the baby is due.

In the blistering heat of rural Mississippi, the Bundren family loads their dead matriarch, Addie, into a handmade coffin and sets out on a bleak, often darkly comic journey to bury her in her hometown of Jefferson. Each mile of flooded rivers, broken bones, starving mules, and simmering resentments peels back another layer of this family's grief, faith, and desperation, as husband Anse and children Cash, Darl, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman tell the story in their own, often clashing voices.

As she nears the end of her life, Addie Bundren wants nothing more than to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. A captivating and stylistically innovative work, the narrative revolves around the grim, yet darkly humorous, pilgrimage as the Bundren family sets out to fulfill her last wish.

The halls are decked, the deck is stacked, and here comes that jolly old elf. Junior Bender, divorced father of one and burglar extraordinaire, finds himself stuck inside the Edgerton Mall, and not just as a last-minute shopper (though he is that too). Edgerton isn't exactly the epicenter of holiday cheer, despite its two Santas, canned Christmas music, chintzy bows, and festive lights. The mall is a fossil of an industry in decline; many of its stores are closed, and to make matters worse, there is a rampant shoplifting problem.

A People magazine must-read of summer! ""Suiter Clarke paints a devastating portrait of a cultlike institution and a town in its thrall. It’s even worse than we imagined."" — New York Times Book Review A young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown, where a radical evangelical pastor...