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Girl on a Train: Booktrack Edition is enhanced with a musical soundtrack from Booktrack for an immersive listening experience! Journalist Anna Rothman knows what suicide looks like. When Elly Swift, a passenger beside her on a train, leaves a locket in Anna’s bag before jumping onto the tracks, Anna starts asking awkward questions. But everything points to suicide and the police close the case. Anna embarks on a dangerous crusade to find Elly’s killer.

Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York. When the youngest grows gravely ill, their mother leaves with the child to get help from a nearby town. And they never return. As months pass, hope vanishes. Supplies are low. Livestock are dying.

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S. M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved.

Nach einem Streit mit ihrer Freundin beschließt Lilith, mit dem Hund eine Runde um den Block zu gehen, um den Kopf wieder klar zu bekommen. Doch als sie nach nur 30 Minuten nach Hause zurückkehrt, ist nichts mehr wie es war. Weder der Name ihrer Freundin findet sich noch an der Wohnungsklingel, noch passt Liliths Schlüssel in das Schloss. Als ihr dann auch noch eine fremde Frau die Tür öffnet und ihr erzählt, dass hier nie eine Frau namens Xena gewohnt hat, ist Lilith kurz davor, durchzudrehen und zu glauben, dass sie diejenige ist, die sich alles nur eingebildet hat.

Headstrong journalist Anna Rothman knows what suicide looks like - her own husband killed himself five years ago. When Elly Swift, an agitated passenger beside her on a train, leaves a locket in Anna's bag before jumping onto the tracks, Anna starts asking questions. But everything points to suicide and the police close the case. However, Anna believes that Elly's fears for Toby, her young nephew who was snatched from St. Stephen's church six months ago, fail to explain the true reason behind Elly's distress.

A trilogy of contemporary plays inspired by tales from The Arabian Nights: Arabian Afternoons includes The Casper Logue Affair by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, The Porter and the Three Ladies by Rachel Joyce and A Dish of Pomegranates by Peter Jukes.

Zwei gebrochene Herzen – zwei furchtbare Geheimnisse: Kann wahre Liebe alles verzeihen? Lass dich von Anna und Gabe verzaubern, zu Tränen rühren und zum Lachen bringen: It all comes back to you ist ein herzergreifender, wunderschöner Liebesroman über 15 Jahre und zwei Menschen, die du sofort ins Herz schließen wirst. Anna hat nichts außer ihrer Klugheit und dem Willen, die Vergangenheit hinter sich zu lassen. Gabe hingegen hat alles: Er ist Klassenbester, in einer schicken Studentenverbindung – vor allem aber hat er eine große, warmherzige Familie.

Ambre ha vent'anni e la vita davanti a sé, ma non la vede. Da un anno è l'amante ragazzina di un quarantenne, Philippe, professionista affermato, padre di famiglia. Vive nell'appartamento che lui le ha messo a disposizione, ma è un amore asfissiato che si nutre di scampoli di tempo. Quando Ambre, sopraffatta dal vuoto, tenta di farla finita, Philippe è già distante da quell'amore nuovo e salva il proprio imbarazzo offrendole una via di fuga: le trova una sistemazione ad Arvieux, un paesino delle Alte Alpi francesi, come cameriera stagionale in un albergo.

Valerie Lott is a reporter living in Tucson, Arizona, when she meets a man at the ballpark while waiting to interview a baseball star. Their conversation affects her deeply. He is so alive in the moment that she can't forget him. Homeless? When a councilman's daughter is kidnapped, though, the description fits the man she met! Could her instincts be wrong about him? She is so certain that he can't be a criminal that she tries to find him before the police do...

When forensic psychiatrist Abigail Lee meets a baby-killing mother who has been declared criminally insane and acquitted, she discovers something lurking beneath the surface. Something far deeper and more insidious than mere psychopathy. But can she come to terms with her own struggle with science and faith in time to confront it?