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Will, who has given up everything to raise his twin daughters, has a terrible choice to make when both girls suffer kidney failure at age 16. Should he save one child? If so, which one? Should he buy a kidney – be an organ tourist? Should he sacrifice himself?

Mit „Kokain" schuf Walter Rheiner einen der eindrucksvollsten Texte des literarischen Expressionismus. Die Novelle schildert den zunehmenden Absturz eines Mannes in die Welt der Drogenabhängigkeit. Zwischen euphorischem Höhenflug, Angstzuständen und wachsender Entfremdung verschwimmen Realität und Wahrnehmung immer stärker. Mit eindringlicher Sprache und großer Intensität entsteht das Porträt eines Menschen, der im Rausch die Kontrolle über sich selbst verliert.

Sehnsucht, Leidenschaft & ein geheimnisvoller Schatz – Joseph Roths eindringliche Novelle über Obsession und Schicksal, atmosphärisch gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche. Über das Hörbuch: Mit „Der Leviathan" schuf Joseph Roth eine faszinierende Novelle über die Macht der Sehnsucht und die zerstörerische Kraft menschlicher Leidenschaft. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Korallenhändler Nissen Piczenik, der in einem kleinen Ort fernab des Meeres lebt – und doch von einer tiefen, fast mystischen Verbindung zum Ozean erfüllt ist.

Eine Sylter Liebesgeschichte ... Sie flüchtet vor einem Skandal, der ihr Leben ruinieren kann. Er flieht vor seinem Leben. Auf dem Höhepunkt ihres Erfolgs steht Inka plötzlich im Zentrum eines millionenschweren Betrugs. Vor den Anschuldigungen der Medien flieht sie mit ihrer Hündin Marvie nach Sylt. Während ihr Freund in Hamburg für den Ruf der gemeinsamen Galerie kämpft, soll Inka auf der Insel ausharren, bis sich die Wogen geglättet haben. Doch Ruhe findet sie hier nicht. Marvie sucht immer wieder die Nähe zum Hund des Nachbarn und bringt Inka damit in bedrohliche Situationen.

The year is 2002, seventeen-year-old Monroe Félix has had a hard life, she drinks to cope, and even though things are bad, they're about get much worse. David Black is a rich kid from affluent family, and Monroe has caught his eye. Soon they begin a tumultuous love affair, but what Monroe doesn't is that Dave is playing a game, where Monroe will always be the loser.

Some books tell you a story. This one gives you a map. He had the career. The house. The family. Everything that was supposed to matter — and a growing, quiet certainty that something essential was missing. So he got on a motorcycle and rode west.

At 3:47 a.m., Michael Reeves's heart stops. The monitor records a flat line. Michael stands in a field. Five people. Five cardiac arrests. Five disappearances from the world medicine can document — and five arrivals in territories it cannot explain.

Quinn Alexander cometeu um crime impensável. Para evitar passar o resto da vida na prisão, decide fugir antes que a polícia descubra o que ela fez. Pega o passaporte e deixa para trás casa, emprego e família. A caminho da fronteira, uma tempestade de neve a obriga a sair da estrada, e ela se refugia no decadente e isolado Hotel Baxter. O charmoso e gentil proprietário, Nick Baxter, a recebe alegremente e lhe entrega as chaves de um quarto barato para pernoitar.

In a surreal world where spiritual oversight meets the emotional chaos of show business, Actors Anonymous Hotline follows Sunny Love, a childlike hotline operator whose cheerful persona masks something far more fragile beneath the surface. When members of the Spiritual Council of the Stars begin to sense that Sunny’s memories, identity, and emotional stability are shifting in unpredictable ways, concern escalates beyond the earthly realm.

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KILL ME Psychopath Michael McClelland escapes from a mental hospital to exact revenge against those responsible for his confinement, including psychologist Alan Gregory and his family. McClelland has the upper hand—secrets from Alan’s past that...

They’re good people. They just have a few secrets. And one of them is hiding a body. When Lou discovers a long-abandoned mining town for sale deep in the Australian bush, it seems like the perfect escape. Along with her sister and their oldest friends, she dreams of creating a private retreat...

FINALIST FOR THE 2026 RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE (LITERARY FICTION) A GOODREADS HOTTEST DEBUT NOVEL OF 2025 A sharply funny and tender story about two strangers with only one thing in common: their father. After her father abandoned Mickey and her mother for his new family, Mickey...

‘A roller-coaster ride ... For fans of Celeste Ng, Gillian Flynn and Liane Moriarty.’ Booklist (starred review) The bestselling author of The Party explores what happens when a seemingly perfect family is pushed to the edge by cruel, vindictive and increasingly dangerous attacks. Thomas and...

Two-and-a-half-year-old Holly is playing happily in a pink, plastic playhouse, while her mother Rachel sips coffee and chats with a friend nearby. It should be an ordinary day for all of them. But, in the blink of an eye, it turns into every family’s worst nightmare. Holly is taken by a stranger and never found. Nine years later, Rachel is living a quiet life in Dorset. She’s tried to keep things together since the traumatic day when she lost her eldest daughter.

The impressively versatile Joanne Harris in her psychological thriller mode, at her darkest and most unsettling. Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Susan Hill, Nicci French and Val McDermid. 'A magnificently plotted and twisty journey to the heart of a 24-year-old crime...darkly humorous...

Working on the notorious Mitchell Estate, housing officer Josie Mellor faces challenges every day, but not nearly as many as those of her tenants. Kelly Winterton is scared and alone after her partner has been jailed. A victim of domestic abuse, Charlotte Hatfield has fled from her violent partner four times already. He'll probably kill her if he finds her this time. Disowned by her family, someone is taking advantage of Amy Cartwright's vulnerability. Who can she turn to for support?

When Caroline Alleyn inherits Wickham Grange, all she wants to do is sell up. There are bad memories there, linked to her childhood as the daughter of a single mother – and to all the other mothers she knew in that house. But her grandmother Frances’s will means that it can’t be sold...

Three minutes. That's all it takes for Meredith's entire world to fall apart when she watches the videotape of her four-year-old self with Becca, the mother she's never known. Can there be any truth in the strange and dangerous story her mother forced her to tell on camera? The search for answers leads Meredith to Darkwater Pool, the scene of the murder of a young woman, Cara, over 30 years ago. What could possibly be the link between her mother and the victim? The problem is, she's not the only one looking....

The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.

Nipping Them in the Bud is a gripping tale of extreme horror, showcasing Edward Lee’s mastery in blending visceral terror with thought-provoking themes. Prepare yourself for a journey into darkness, where every decision carries the weight of eternity, and every action challenges the soul’s very essence.