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George Eliot's first full-length novel is the moving, realistic portrait of three people troubled by unwise love. Adam Bede is a hardy young carpenter who cares for his aging mother. His one weakness is the woman he loves blindly: the trifling town beauty, Hetty Sorrel, who delights only in her...

Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the 18th century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in "the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis". But it is also a rich and pioneering record - drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory - of a rural world that we have lost.

When their son Arthur mysteriously vanishes in the idyllic village of Kenwood, Emily and Derek are plunged into a heart-pounding race against time to uncover the truth behind his disappearance. As the facade of their once-perfect community crumbles, the couple must navigate a treacherous web of deceit and betrayal, testing the very meaning of family and trust. Discover the chilling secret that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about this seemingly peaceful village.

Adam Sagittarius is an intensely private man running from life. To that end he works at a solitary career as a book illustrator living in isolation among the cornfields in the rural farmlands of a backwater locale. Life, however, won't leave him alone.

Hauptkommissar Adam Danowski ist geliefert, seine Lage ist so bescheiden wie noch nie. Eigentlich hat seine Abteilung einen Erfolg zu verzeichnen: Der Fleetmörder ist gefasst, ein Serientäter, der seine Leichen Anfang der 1990er-Jahre in den Hamburger Alsterfleeten versteckt hat. Ein fulminanter Ermittlungsdurchbruch. Aber sein Chef sitzt Danowski im Nacken: Kienbaum, scharf auf den Posten als Polizeipräsident, will seine Cold-Case-Zahlen pushen. Und Danowski soll ihm helfen. Es gibt einen Fall, der wunderbar ins Profil des Fleetmörders passen würde, findet Kienbaum.

When a massive hurricane hits Turtle Cove, Chief Perry and his team battle to save the community. As the small coastal town’s residents come together in the wake of the disaster, the discovery of an unfamiliar survivor who washed ashore has the townsfolk guessing. But he isn't all the tides brought in. Unable to recall his identity or the events leading up to him washing up on the beach, mystery ensues, and it isn't long before the residents of Turtle Cove realize there is something far more sinister in the making. Something more fearful than the storm.