Ergebnis für "The Split" in Belletristik

Last night, we celebrated our anniversary. Over candlelight, we talked about the children, our work, and I was so happy, and felt so loved. But the next morning, when I check my phone, there is a message. From a friend. And a string of photos appear of my husband, Will, with another woman: walking along the street holding hands. Going into fancy hotels. Standing at a window, his arms around her, her head on his shoulder…

"I'm a huge Sharon Bolton fan, and this is her best yet...as always, great story, wonderful characters, all floating on a breathless buzz, somewhere between dread and fright."— Lee Child Tense, gripping and with a twist you won't see coming, The Split is an explosive new stand-alone thriller...

One girl. Two rival factions. And a captor she can't ignore. Kota is a scrappy 21-year-old who would do anything to keep her family safe —including the dangerous job of running goods across zombie-infested South Carolina. But when she’s kidnapped in a crumbling truce between two hostile settlements, she quickly finds herself as a political pawn in a brewing war that threatens the future of humanity itself. A single wall divides Kota’s seemingly prosperous community from the anarchists on the other side.

It’s 1936. The seaside-resort village of Split on the Adriatic coast bustles. The tourist spots are booming, passenger steamers dot the harbor, and Jewish émigrés have found tenuous refuge from persecution. But as war in Europe looms, Split is also a nest of spies, fascists, and smugglers—and now, a locale suspiciously scouted by a German Reich film crew. Then one summer morning it becomes the scene of a murder investigation when a corpse is found entangled in fishing nets in the port.

Bloomsbury presents Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa, read by Suzanne Toren. A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel: a Kite Runner for Palestine ‘One of the most thought-provoking books I've read ... written with passion and honesty, and poetry' Daily Mail Mornings in Jenin is a...

'An engaging, emotionally-charged and intriguing story' Michelle Gorman Two decades on from a passionate courtship and marriage, Lucas and Esther are getting divorced. For Esther, it’s proving hard not to feel bitter watching Lucas enjoying his successful career, not to mention the attentions...

The world doesn't end all at once. It breaks apart, piece by piece. When his town collapses from a massive earthquake, Wallace Graves is lucky to survive. When the tsunami follows and he makes it through that, he knows just how fortunate he is. Surviving those events is only the beginning. In...

*COMING SOON AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN AND STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL AND PHOEBE DYNEVOR* "You're going to fall in love, Tate. And when you do, it's going to change your life forever..." New York architect Tate Donovan arrives on Cape Cod hoping to make a fresh start...

“It’s great fun to watch [Kit] Frick’s two narratives collide and diverge.” —The New York Times Book Review An Elle Best Mystery and Thriller Book of 2024 From critically acclaimed author Kit Frick, this “storytelling feat, with twin narratives that race each other to a...

Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design...

THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY. WHICH ONE WILL YOU BELIEVE? 'Addictively readable. Absorbing, bittersweet' Pandora Sykes Gripping and emotional, THE DIVORCE explores the unravelling of a marriage from first the wife, then the husband's point of view. Together for more than thirty years, Bea...

The Orphanage Girls come back together in The Orphanage Girls Reunited, the second installment of the moving wartime saga set in London’s East End. From the bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls, Mary Wood. Ellen. Abandoned by her father for the second time, left scarred from the...

Dive into gripping true survival stories where everyday people conquer extreme danger through split-second decisions. Whether you are powering through an intense workout or gripping the steering wheel on a daily commute, these tense, suspenseful narratives will keep your adrenaline surging. Feel...

When Utah Sheriff Bud Shumway and his friend Mayor Howie decide to get out of town and go camping, they have no idea what kind of mayhem and intrigue they’re getting themselves into, from the death of the camp-host’s wife to finding rare jewels in the desert. Having their friends Shorty and Doc along just adds to the chaos, especially since they have a strange prescience that Doc is about to die.

Bloomsbury Presents Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa, read by Suzanne Toren. With more than a million copies sold worldwide, a modern classic of Palestinian literature from “a major writer of our time” (Alice Walker). “Timeless in its truth.”—Fattima Bhutto “Powerful and...

‘A warm, romantic summer read’ Woman&Home Melody has vowed never to fall in love again. Al is a hopeless romantic. So, when they quite literally bump into each other, there's no reason sparks should fly. But the world seems a little upside down lately. A few weeks ago, Al ordered the removal...

Annie Tucker's world is upended. She's lost her favorite aunt, inherited a house and dog on Martha's Vineyard, and now finds herself alone there with three children while her husband is away. When she runs into her old boyfriend from the Island, she must confront the life she has chosen with the life she might have had.

On a business trip from the US to Paris, Jebby meets Dodi on a flight. Jebby is an ethnomusicologist, and Dodi is an international photographer. They are immediately attracted to each other, but from the very first moment Dodi triggers what seems like past life memories for Jebby of a poignant and passionate time they shared together.

Being the underboss for the most powerful mafia Don this side of the Mississippi requires a certain level of detachment. After vowing to myself I would never have a family, too afraid of what it’d be like to lose them, I pride myself in being so disconnected from all feelings. Especially when having emotions can get you killed in this line of work, I don’t need the distraction. When my world is turned upside down from a single lapse of judgment, will I go back on my vow? Will I be able to balance the life of a reaper and a family man?

Emma Meadows has a secret. One she’s been carrying for over twenty years, too terrified to tell even her devoted husband. The unassuming mother of one tries to blend in with life in her sleepy Canadian town on the shores of Lake Superior, but on Christmas Day, Emma’s boisterous in-laws make it nearly impossible. When a strange gift arrives bearing a sinister message, her nerves threaten to shatter. The next day, she disappears.