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Exposing the many lies told on and off the psychoanalyst's couch, Lying on the Couch gives listeners a tantalizing, almost illicit glimpse at what their therapists might really be thinking during their sessions. Fascinating, engrossing, and relentlessly intelligent, it ultimately moves listeners with a denouement of surprising humanity and redemptive faith.

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.

Max and Alissa have a fairy tale life - newlywed, madly in love and enviously rich. Then Max is brutally stabbed to death at their home and Alissa, miraculously, escapes with her life. But why was she spared? The hunt for the killer begins, uncovering a number of leads - was Max's incredible wealth the motive? Had his shady business practices finally caught up with him? Or was it a stalker with a dangerous obsession?

Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise ship to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend. As she makes the six day crossing, she relives the traumatic events that led to her losing Edwin's friendship, and abandoning her career as a poet, for the safety of marriage and domesticity.

Emmy and her little sister Dani are sleeping in their bedroom upstairs. Their parents are in the kitchen. A knife is jammed to their mother’s throat. Their father has a stack of kitchen plates balanced on his back. The intruder rasps, ‘Don’t be breathing too hard now. I reckon smashing plates is the sort of noise that’ll wake a child. Have them coming down to see what’s going on. There can’t be witnesses ...’ What Detective Maddie Ives will find in that nice family kitchen will horrify even this most hardened cop. And she knows the victim ...

When a teen falls while taking a selfie at the edge of a cliff, the last thing she sees before plummeting to her death is Katie Harmon, the nine-year-old girl she was babysitting, looking down at her. Investigators gather at the scene, and Katie's mother, Sara, rushes to comfort her daughter. Yet there's a small, secret ping of alarm in Sara's heart that she cannot share – though rookie Detective Kim Pierce senses it.

ترتحل هذه الرواية بقارئها، ذهابًا وإيابًا، من زماننا الحالي المضطرب إلى الزمن الفاطمي، الذي كان قبل ألف عام أكثر اضطرابًا.. ويبدو لنا الحاضرُ والماضي، مثل مرايا متقابلة ينعكس على وجوهها جوهرُ الإنسان في كل الأحيان، مهما اختلفت الأماكن وتعدَّدت الأزمان.

في هذا الكتاب، وغير بعيدٍ عن أجواء مُلبَّدة برائحةِ سجائرَ امبرياليّة، وكلماتِ الأغاني الثَّورية، التي طبعت سبعينيات وثمانينيات القرن الماضي؛ يجلسُ صلاح، المناضلُ اليساريُّ، ليكتُبَ مذكِّرات زوجةِ رئيسهِ السَّابق، في الدائرة الحزبية التي كان يعمل فيها؛ بعدَ شهورٍ من اختفائه. ولتبدأ رحلةٌ متشعِّبةُ المساراتِ في أزمنةٍ أضحت بعيدة، وفي «عَدَن» المدينة التي نأت كثيرًا عن البحر، وأضحت تؤثِّث ذاكرتها بحكاياتِ الهروب واللُّجوء وقصص الأرواح التي تترقب حتفها في كلِّ حين. كلُّ ذلك لا ينسجمُ إلا بالمعمار الروائيّ الذي هندسَهُ الكاتبُ على طريقةِ المعمار اليمني الملتحمِ، بأصالتِه، مع الحداثة.

The Ballad of Billy Badass follows the life of an enigmatic drifter caught in the relentless currents of fate and violence. Spanning decades, from the sweltering heat of a Michigan summer to the blood-soaked jungles of Vietnam. Delve deep into the psyche of a man who was made by his scars, and whose rebellion against the world only hardens as he moves from small-time hustles to something altogether more dangerous.

What if everything you thought you knew about your childhood was a carefully constructed illusion? What if the people you trusted the most were hiding the darkest secrets? In The Revisionist, Michael Delitala takes you on a suspenseful journey into the heart of family dynamics, where every minute reveals a new layer of intrigue and emotional complexity. This is not just a story—it's a challenge to uncover the truth hidden beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary lives.

Este es un relato corto de Franz Kafka que explora la naturaleza de la pasión, el sufrimiento y la búsqueda de la perfección artística. La historia sigue a un artista del hambre que se presenta como un espectáculo de entretenimiento para el público. A medida que la historia avanza, se revela la verdadera naturaleza de su arte: ayunar hasta la muerte. A pesar del sufrimiento extremo y la agonía física, el artista se aferra a su arte como una expresión de su identidad y su devoción absoluta a su oficio.

Published two weeks after Vladimir Nabokov’s seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of his greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest, but it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat. This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.

In September of 1892, Oscar Wilde and his family retreated to the idyllic Norfolk countryside for a holiday. His wife, Constance, has every reason to be happy: two beautiful sons, a stellar reputation as an advocate for progressive causes, and a delightfully charming and affectionate husband and father, who is perhaps the most famous man in England. But as an assortment of houseguests arrive, including an aristocratic young wannabe poet named Lord Alfred Douglas, Constance gradually—and then all at once—comes to see that her husband's heart is elsewhere.

Sara made one promise to herself when she was growing up in foster care: that if she was lucky enough to have a family, she’d always do whatever it took to protect them. Looking around her home with its cozy kitchen and living room, where her energetic teenage daughters and gorgeous 4-year-old son all eat, play and live together, she knows she’d do anything to keep them safe. So when Sara’s husband Matt loses his job and every shred of his confidence with it, she knows it’s up to her to bring the family back from the brink.

London Belles is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. Finding freedom and independence – as well as love, passion and heartbreak – for the very first time, a unique bond is formed as the hostilities take their toll on Britain.United by chance, bound together in times of needWhen tragedy strikes, Olive is forced to seek lodgers. Three girls come knocking at her door, each in need of a roof over their heads.

Hailed by Thomas Pynchon as "graceful, dark, authentic, and funny," George Saunders gives us, in his inventive and beloved voice, this best-selling collection of stories set against a warped, hilarious, and terrifyingly recognizable American landscape.

When Liam unexpectedly turns up in Jude's life after ten years of no contact, asking her for a favour, she just can't say no. He was her first love, and even though she is now a successful doctor and about to get married, he will always be someone special to her.

>No-one thought she had the courage.… Those looking in from the outside think Lucy Lovejoy's life is like any other, but at the centre of her family there is a big empty hole where all the love and warmth should be. Over the years, her children have watched while their father chipped away at Lucy's self-confidence. Now the children are following their own paths, and Lucy has never felt more alone. When tragedy strikes at the heart of the family, it's a wake-up call for Lucy. Everyone has taken a little piece of her, and she isn't sure who she is anymore.

From best-selling author Kay Hooper comes a thrilling tale with a paranormal bent and a touch of romance. Cassie Neill has a powerful but troubling gift. She can see inside the minds of serial killers as they are planning their crimes. Tormented by her ability, she takes refuge in a secluded North Carolina town. But there’s no escaping her visions, and when a body surfaces just where she predicted, Cassie is suddenly a suspect.

Iris and Gabriel have just got home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their dearest friends, Laure, is in their house - sleeping in their bed, wearing Iris' clothes, even rearranging the furniture. She has walked out on her husband - and their good friend - Pierre over his confession of an affair. Iris and Gabriel want to be supportive. But as Laure's mood becomes more unpredictable, her presence begins to unravel secrets in all their pasts - until things reach breaking point.