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The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. In stark contrast, the crew of the spaceship Hermes represents a knowledge-seeking Earth. As they approach Quinta, a dark poetry takes over and leads them into a nightmare of misunderstanding.

Ist denn keiner mehr normal? Sylt − verlassen und menschenleer. Susanne Matthiessen ist überwältigt, als sie ihre Heimatinsel im Lockdown zum ersten Mal ohne Touristen erlebt. Auf einmal ist es wieder die Natur, die den Rhythmus des Insellebens bestimmt, das vertraute, dörfliche Miteinander...

Sebastian von Eschburg verliert als Kind durch den Selbstmord seines Vaters den Halt. Er versucht, sich durch die Kunst zu retten. Er zeigt mit seinen Fotografien und Videoinstallationen, dass Wirklichkeit und Wahrheit verschiedene Dinge sind. Es geht um Schönheit, Sex und die Einsamkeit des Menschen. Als Eschburg vorgeworfen wird, eine junge Frau getötet zu haben, übernimmt Konrad Biegler die Verteidigung. Der alte Anwalt versucht, dem Künstler zu helfen - und damit sich selbst.

In this enthralling modern fairy tale from the acclaimed author of The Devil's Grip, two orphaned sisters grapple with the dark side of their Swedish village and the possibility of escape. After losing their parents in a car accident as toddlers, Jolly and Peggy grow up with a foster family in a...

Riotously funny and unexpectedly heartfelt, Boston Psychiatric is the story of a doctor who falls from the top of Boston’s medical elite into the controlled chaos of a struggling free clinic. Not long ago, Dr. Raj Malika’s future seemed all but guaranteed: He was the CEO of a billion-dollar pharmaceutical startup and winner of Boston’s “30 Hot Doctors Under 30.” Then came the trial that destroyed his career. Now he is a parolee with something to prove, assigned community service at Boston Psychiatric, a free clinic barely holding itself together.

A Political Novella of Memory, Migration, and Pan-African UnityWhen Ghanaian carpenter Kweku Badu and his eleven-year-old daughter Abena are forced to flee their home in Johannesburg after a xenophobic attack, they return to Ghana with nothing but a single suitcase—and a story that will travel...

Manchmal muss die Geschichte eines anderen Menschen enden, bevor es für dich ein Happy End geben kann. Eine rabenschwarze Story über Besessenheit, Ehrgeiz und den tödlichen Unterschied zwischen Wahrheit und Fiktion von der internationalen Bestsellerautorin Lisa Jewell. Fiddy und Louise Stone sind glücklich verheiratet – bis Louises Erfolg als Bestsellerautorin ihr gemeinsames Leben auf den Kopf stellt. Auf einmal hat sie alles – Ruhm, Macht und unglaublich viel Geld. Das verbittert Fiddy insgeheim.

How long do you pay for the arrogant decisions made in your youth? At thirty-two, sitting in front of a laptop screen bleeding with red cells and suffocating debt, a corporate manager realizes his financial collapse is merely the reflection of a much deeper emotional bankruptcy. In his desperate...

Four women. One annual book club trip. And a game that’s about to get deadly… Welcome to The Gilded Spire—a gothic-luxury estate perched on a remote cliff, accessible only by a single bridge. Isabelle, Julia, Margot and Katherine have come to participate in the estate’s book club retreat...

Dr.Juniper Thornton is the head of the Brandywine Penal colony. She runs the sanitarium like a funhouse with her 2nd in command Dr. Simba Camino. Both of them feed off of each other to make the best experience for each patient. All eyes have gone onto the island, once a new law has removed...

In every home and workplace, conflict often hides something deeper than anger or misunderstanding. This Urdu book reveals those hidden colors through Elias H. Porters Relationship Awareness Theory and the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI).Using the everyday story of Aamir, a hard-working...

Discover the BRAND NEW twisty, utterly heart-stopping psychological thriller from Amanda Brittany. Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, CL Taylor and Claire Mackintosh. Sixteen years ago, Hanna was convicted of murdering her father. She has always maintained she is innocent. Now released from a...

A child saw something in the rain. The town remembered it differently.When Mina Ford arrives in a quiet English town, she comes with one task: to examine an old witness account from the night a man drowned by the cut. The official story has long been settled. A young passer-by saw a man making...

Martin Sewell is not sick.At fifty-one, the divorced technical writer lives alone, works carefully, and has built a life that functions exactly as intended. Then a routine physical leads to a cardiology referral. The cardiologist finds nothing alarming—but recommends a pulmonologist. The...

A propulsive, unmissable debut, The Waitress follows an acclaimed writer’s search for the truth after her husband pays a waitress from the town cafe to disappear—an act he refuses to explain, even as it unleashes a torrent of secrets. An award-winning writer has rented a cabin on the Oregon...

From the instant USA TODAY bestselling author of Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon comes a gripping Japanese mystery of a soon-to-be-wed couple, whose reality is turned upside down when one of them goes missing. Thirty-somethings Mami and Kakeru are engaged to be married, a successful outcome of...

Megan Miranda meets Yellowstone in a thriller about a widow-detective who discovers she never really knew her husband. The perfect husband. The perfect town. The perfect lie. When former NYPD detective Emerson Moore’s husband dies in a suspicious crash, she’s left in the small Montana town...

Book Description:A haunting glimpse of a face, seen only once, becomes the spark that ignites a journey into memory, mystery, and self-discovery. In this powerful first part of Zoe Vlamaki’s series, the past and present blur astruth surfaces in the most unexpected ways. A deeply personal and...

A toxic mother. An unthinkable act. Two siblings with everything to hide and a sister who has been watching the whole timea chilling debut of dark family secrets and escalating dread. When siblings Becca and Jake kill their mother to save their ailing sister Lizzy, they expect relief. Instead...

In Little Girl Big Girl Stuff, Sunny Love finds herself caught between the little girl she remembers being and the woman she has become. When she begins talking with Wisdom, a compassionate voice who is willing to listen, Sunny starts to reveal painful experiences she has carried for years. But Sunny isn't ready to simply "get over it." As their conversation unfolds, she speaks about abandonment, trust, relationships, love, and the things that happened when she was growing up.