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25th August 1957. The island of Spinalonga closes its leper colony. And a moment of violence has devastating consequences. When time stops dead for Maria Petrakis and her sister, Anna, two families splinter apart and, for the people of Plaka, the closure of Spinalonga is forever coloured with tragedy. In the aftermath, the question of how to resume life looms large. Stigma and scandal need to be confronted and somehow, for those impacted, a future built from the ruins of the past.

Freya Lockwood has avoided the quaint English village where she grew up for the last twenty years. That is, until her eccentric Aunt Carole breaks the news that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and Freya’s estranged mentor, has unexpectedly died. Then Freya receives a letter from Arthur, sent just days before his death, warning her that she is in danger. Suspecting he may have been murdered, she and Carole begin to investigate. When they discover Arthur’s journals and an invitation to an antiques enthusiasts’ weekend, Freya finds herself pulled back into a life she swore to leave behind.

I’m a creature of concrete and metal. Skyscrapers and glass. Killer angles and sharp edges. I like it that way, especially given my penchant for going up against some of the worst of the worst as part of my government hacking work. I’ve never wanted soft, not until I met June. She’s my opposite, everything I’ve avoided, everything I thought I didn’t want. I was so, so wrong.

Theo is determined to seek happiness with her husband's business rival, Vincent. Having fled London for Paris, however, she soon learns of Richard's financial collapse - and discovers that rather more than just his job is at stake.

For more than 20 years Sultan Khan defied the authorities to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated, and imprisoned, and watched illiterate soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. In spring 2002, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad spent four months living with the bookseller and his family. As she steps back from the page and lets the Khans tell their stories, we learn of proposals and marriages, hope and fear, crime and punishment.

Twenty years ago Helen Franklin did something she cannot forgive herself for, and she has spent every day since barricading herself against its memory. But her sheltered life is about to change. A strange manuscript has come into her possession. It is filled with testimonies from the darkest chapters of human history, which all record sightings of a tall, silent woman in black, with unblinking eyes and bleeding feet: Melmoth, the loneliest being in the world. Condemned to walk the Earth forever, she tries to beguile the guilty and lure them away for a lifetime wandering alongside her.

All murder mysteries follow a simple set of rules. Grant McAllister, an author of crime fiction and professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked them all out. But that was 30 years ago. Now he's living a life of seclusion on a quiet Mediterranean island - until Julia Hart, a sharp, ambitious editor, knocks on his door. His early work is being republished and together the two of them must revisit those old stories: an author hiding from his past and an editor keen to understand it.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Cele mai multe dintre noi recunosc intuitiv ferocitatea ca făcând parte din adevărata lor natură, dar au fost descurajate multă vreme să și-o dezvolte. În această carte revoluționară, Kristin Neff arată cum pot femeile să folosească atât compasiunea de sine feroce, cât și pe cea tandră ca să aibă succes la locul de muncă, să îi îngrijească pe ceilalți fără să se epuizeze, să fie autentice în relații și să pună capăt tăcerii din jurul hărțuirii și abuzului sexual.

Im Gegensatz zu ihren Eltern kann sich Violet Hall wirklich eine bessere Beschäftigung für die Wochenenden vorstellen, als ihren Stiefbruder - erfolgreicher NHL-Spieler und ganzer Stolz der Familie - zu seinen Eishockey-Spielen mit den Black-Hawks zu begleiten. Der Sport langweilt sie ohne Ende, und seinen Teamkollegen, allesamt als Playboys verschrien, kann sie nichts abgewinnen. Doch als sie im Hotel dem legendären Teamcaptain Alex Waters begegnet, ist selbst sie machtlos gegen seinen Charme.

Doktor Anna Lennarts ist zwar eine brillante Wissenschaftlerin, aber ihr Leben geht gerade total den Bach runter. Arbeitslos, pleite und mit gebrochenem Herzen bewirbt sie sich auf eine ominöse Stelle in Australien. Sie ahnt nicht, dass sie einen Job auf einer einsamen Rinderfarm mitten im Nirgendwo antreten wird. Man sollte vielleicht erwähnen, dass Pferde, Kühe und Kinder zu Annas natürlichen Feinden zählen. Ach ja, und nicht zu vergessen: Männer.

Sie ist sein ungeschliffener Diamant. Er ist ihr schlimmster Albtraum. Yasmin Karam, die Tochter eines der reichsten Männer der Welt, hat noch nie Streit erlebt. Als ihr geliebter Vater erkrankt, ist sie fest entschlossen, ihn noch ein mal glücklich zu machen. Sein letzter Wunsch? Sie mit einem Mann seiner Wahl verheiratet zu sehen. Doch Yasmins Herz gehört bereits einem anderen. Einem Diener. Einer Straßenratte. Einem Mann, den ihr Vater niemals für würdig halten würde.

Freya Lockwood has avoided the quaint English village in which she grew up for the last 20 years. That is until news arrives that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and Freya’s estranged mentor, has died…and the circumstances seem suspicious. But when a letter from Arthur is delivered, sent just days before his death, and an ordinary pine chest concealing Arthur’s journals including reservations in her name are revealed, Freya finds herself sucked back into a life she’d sworn to leave behind.

Following the success of Catching LIfe by the Throat, Josephine Hart compiles more poetry from the like of such poets as Milton, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Browning, Frost and Lowell.

Read by a dazzling cast of actors including Eileen Atkins, Nancy Carroll, Alan Cox, Charles Dance, Joanna David, Lindsay Duncan, Edward Fox, Emilia Fox, Robert Hardy, Tom Hollander, Jeremy Irons, Felicity Kendal, Elizabeth McGovern, Mark Strong, Dominic West, Greg Wise.

In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work and features many never-before-published pieces, international bestselling author and legendary creator of From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and other modern classics, Alan Moore, presents nine stories full of wonder and strangeness, each taking us deeper into the fantastical underside of reality.

Wie weit würdest du für deine große Liebe gehen? Als Taylor Jensen an ein und demselben Tag nicht nur ihren Job an einen Kollegen verliert, sondern auch ihren Freund beim Fremdgehen erwischt, hat sie von Männern erst einmal genug. Völlig verzweifelt läuft sie Daniel Grant in die Arme, der ihr ein Zimmer in seiner WG anbietet. Einst waren sie beste Freunde, aber ein männlicher Mitbewohner mit sexy Tattoos und einem unwiderstehlichen Lächeln ist das Letzte, was Tae jetzt gebrauchen kann.

When Katie Piper was 24, her life was near perfect. Young and beautiful, she was well on her way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a model. But then she met Daniel Lynch on Facebook and her world quickly turned into a nightmare.... After being held captive and brutally raped by her new boyfriend, Katie was subjected to a vicious acid attack. Within seconds, this bright and bubbly girl could feel her looks and the life she loved melting away.

In Poppy Page's mind, there are two types of women in this world: those who are faithful to their husbands and those who are not. Until now, Poppy has never questioned which she was. But when handsome, charming Matthew Gordon walks back into her life after almost two decades, that changes. Poppy makes a single mistake - and that mistake will be far more dangerous than she could imagine. Someone is going to pay for it with their life....

It is Egypt, 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a Ka-priest. Young, beautiful, and venomous, most agree that she deserved to die like a snake. Yet Renisenb, the priest's daughter, believes that the woman's death was not fate, but murder. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks within her own father's household.

In the intricate dance of fate, Mina, a diligent high school senior, is abruptly torn from her ordinary life by an underground criminal organization, thrusting her into an unfamiliar and challenging world. Oliver, a man who has recently emerged from the shadows of abandonment, grapples with the harsh reality of Mina's abduction. The unexpected loss of their intense love jeopardizes Oliver's newfound hope for a better life, even as their extraordinary connection ignites amid peril and enigma.

The stories and the people involved in the history of murder are stranger, darker and more compulsive than any crime fiction. There’s Richard Parker, the cannibalized cabin boy whose death at the hands of his hungry crewmates led the Victorian courts to decisively outlaw a defence of necessity to murder. Dr Percy Bateman, the incompetent GP whose violent disregard for his patient changed the law on manslaughter. Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in England in the 1950s, played a crucial role in changes to the law around provocation in murder cases.