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Across the bleak moorland stalks a beast. It is an unknown thing; a creature from the darkest, most terrifying of nightmares.After Ralph accidentally runs over a deer, he ends up taking the animal home and serving prime venison to his wife that...

Η ζωή της ταμίας της τράπεζας Κλερ Μπένετ αλλάζει όταν κερδίζει το λαχείο και αγοράζει ένα αρχαίο σπίτι στο ειδυλλιακό νησί της Φουερτεβεντούρα.  Αφού μετακομίζει στο ήσυχο χωριό της ενδοχώρας του νησιού, η Κλερ έρχεται αντιμέτωπη με ένα...

Among a family picnic in Presley Park strides a man with the worst intentions.In the center of a leafy suburb, everyone is having fun until the unthinkable happens. The man walks into the middle of the picnic ground seemingly unnoticed and, without...

Ce roman de René Bazin raconte la création des premiers syndicats, les affrontements des travailleurs avec la noblesse, le clergé, les patrons.L'histoire se passe en Nivernais, sur le domaine du général de Meximien, où travaille une escouade de bûcherons...

Le Testament d'un blagueur est le récit de toutes les misères et humiliations que fait subir la capitale à un jeune provincial pauvre monté de son Velay natal, annonce le premier volet de la trilogie de Jules Vallès (1832-1885), L'Enfant...

Ce roman raconte la participation de Jacques Vingtras à la Commune de Paris de 1871 : l'armée des Versaillais, corps armé organisé par Adolphe Thiers, qui pénètre dans Paris ; la guerre des barricades ; la mise en place d'un gouvernement populaire où...

«... Alors, ils vivaient ensemble, aussi distants que si des milliers de lieues de mer mouvante les avaient séparés. Mais Salomé enrageait, tandis que lui, placide, indifférent aux tempêtes conjugales, reprenait...

«... Parfois il me prenait comme une envie de dormir : la voix de la vieille, apparemment si monotone, y était sûrement pour quelque chose. Et puis, quand il semblait que j’allais sombrer, la voix de la vieille devenait...

"Das Morgen ist der Traum von heute" ist eine Geschichte von Sinnsuche und Selbstverwirklichung.Eine schicksalhafte Begegnung mit einem älteren Mann hat großen Einfluss auf das Leben des Protagonisten. Er kann die Weisheiten des Älteren nicht vergessen...

PS. Joan of a thousand days, call it over early October, 2020 after a vagrant email flash three years earlier. The Harvey Flood of Houston, Texas devastated her house and home. The Plague Year 2020 her own apartment refused refuge from the pandemic. This...

Immerse yourself in a terrifying blend of psychological horror and high-tech science fiction in this riveting novel where dreams can kill. Gillian Hardie experiences nightmares so intense they threaten her very existence, thanks to a glitch in Somnium...

The three Darling cousins, each one more cruel and gorgeous than the last, rule the halls of Willow Heights like kings.None is worse than Devlin Darling, who makes it his personal mission to ruin his rivals. Starting with me.The Darling family owns...

★★★★★"The stakes have always been sky-high, but Reden's grand finale proves more powerful than all before it. Romance of this caliber is rare, indeed, and readers will be tethered till the end!" -Maxwell A.Everything has a cost.Love doesn't come cheap...

A timely investigation into the heart of a despotic government, TITLE 13 is a darkly comic cautionary tale of mental illness and unconventional love. The novel deftly blends satirical comedy aimed at the hot-button issues of modern society with the...

There are two little girls in the photo. I instantly recognise myself as the small, dark-haired child in the purple dress. But who is the girl with the long blonde hair laughing at the camera? And why is the photograph here, in a stranger's...

'I can't tell you what happened. I can't tell anyone.' It is a day that starts like any other day. It's cold outside but the sun is shining. It feels like a day that is full of hope. But two mothers' lives are about to come crashing down, when...

The call comes on an ordinary Sunday afternoon to say your sister has been admitted to hospital with a serious head injury. But you don't have a sister... do you?You've never doubted your parents. You've loved them without question your whole life. But...

Falling snow. A stranger. A needle. A world turned upside down. That's all Taite can remember when she wakes up alone and disoriented in a desert. Lost and confused, Taite is desperate to return home to her over-protective father and the dull life...

Author Carol Mann grew up in western New York State along the banks of Ellicott Creek. She experienced its spring floods, summer ennui, autumn mists, and winter ice. Changes and barriers, natural or manmade, altered its course.Reflecting upon her early...

Finally, the vision of Fredrick Nietzsche's Overman (Superman) has come into being.Unfortunately, the lives of many males are constantly destroyed and persecuted for their primitive behaviors and sexual urges. How will Overman (Superman) deal with his...

Decoration for Valor follows the lives of three people during the turbulent, early 70s. As the Vietnam War drags on, many in the United States are angry- or indifferent about the war and with the soldiers who fought it. A twenty-year old soldier is...

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The end of the road can be a haunted place. These genre-bending stories are set against a backdrop of sudden violence and profound regret, populated by characters whose bleak circumstances drive them to the point of no return...and sometimes even further...

A brilliant but deeply flawed man struggles to earn absolutionHilary Burde was a rising star in academia until a tragic accident plunged him and his mentor and rival, Gunnar Jopling, into two decades of depression and guilt. Hilary, unable to...

Albert Lawrence Moon is a small-town guy with big-time dreams that never quite materialize. His only real asset is Moon's Bar and Grill in Gum Ridge, Arkansas. Even that business is struggling despite the busy racetrack across the street. But things at...

هل سئمت من جدران عزلتك؟ "خارج الأسوار" رحلةٌ لا تُنسى إلى أعماق النفس البشرية، حيث يلتقي الألم بالأمل على شواطئ مرسى مطروح الساحرة. اكتشف سرّ الشفاء الذي ينتظرك خلف أسوار الروح، مع روايةٍ ستُبقي بصمتها على قلبك طويلًا

Heat beats heat when its full of warmth.This is the irony of true love. A genuine warmth is all that is needed even when the arguements heats up. Marriages are not just made in heaven but practiced on Earth to look like paradise.

They died heart to heart, chest to chest.Detective Kovelant, haunted by the fiery death of two women, investigates why Chloe Bisset, mother and wife, swerved last-second into oncoming traffic. What drove her to this impulse?L'appel du vide, he soon...

Dean Brandon has fought his inner monster since childhood. Although suppressed, even in adulthood it's still caged inside him and the violent urges are always there like a recovering alcoholic needing just one drink. The creepy old lady warns him...

The world becomes plagued. Violet is lost. Lost Secret is shut down. How will anything be saved?It all starts with a family meal, and ends in tragic blood. Pat becomes a carrier for the Rogue Plague, a disease that brings vicious death to those who eat...

Her memories died, but the dead won't let them sleep.There's something Allie can't remember; hidden memories that refuse to surface. Until one day, when something brings back images of a forgotten night.A year after graduating from Emsworth University,...

Was geschah mit Christoph von Hellendorf? Vor über vierzig Jahren hat der Rechtsanwalt Dr. Stefan Oppenberg seinen Jugendfreund, mit dem er einst in dem österreichischen Jesuitenkolleg Stella Matutina die Schulbank drückte, aus den Augen verloren. Als...

Nessa hat nach einer außergewöhnlichen Kindheit im Rotlichtmilieu und der Bekanntschaft mit skrupellosen, gewaltbereiten Männern ihr Vertrauen in die Menschheit komplett verloren. Panikattacken machen ihr den Alltag schwer. Da tritt Marc, Polizist einer...

Eine Tochter bringt ihren alten Vater mit Verdacht auf einen Schlaganfall ins Krankenhaus, wo sich sein Zustand rasch verschlechtert. Am Krankenbett schaut sie auf mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert gemeinsamer Geschichte und Geschichten zurück, die eine...

WOLLEN SIE SCHON GEHEN?! ... ist ein Roman über Besuchsdienste bei älteren und alten Menschen. Er befaßt sich auch mit der Situation in Pflegeheimen und ist deshalb 'Ein bleibender Roman vom Kommen und Gehen'.Humorvoll geschrieben - in diesem Buch...

Was ist los mit Thilo? Er lässt sich von seiner Frau seine Tochter wegnehmen und von seiner Mutter sein ganzes Leben. Immer dichter gerät der Leser in den Strudel von Thilos Emotionen. Nur Milena, seine Tochter, weckt Thilo auf. Entsetzliche Erinnerungen...

Die 24j-ährige Annette Lützow begeht einen Selbstmordversuch. Wir erleben mit, was sie bis zu dieser Verzweiflungstat gefühlt, gedacht und gelitten hat. Ihre tapferen Versuche, trotz der psychischen Krankheit ihr Leben zu meistern, sind größtenteils...

It is not a shiver, it is not a shimmy. It is a full body shaking. A woman dissociates after childhood abuse and goes on to live a glamorous life far removed from her small hometown in South Africa - and herself. She travels to Cape Town, Phuket, Dubai,...

Incorporating hundreds of characters and cultural entities, spanning innumerable locations and billions of years, Aannex is a future-hacker's maze-map meant to have already been mass-burned; a fakebook full of retroneuroviruses disguised as...

"Fully exploiting the Gogolesque conceit of a cephalophore whose body and head go their own separate ways, Cephalonegativity reads like Beckett's Play (with M reprised as an even more slippery version of himself) or Not I as if performed by the...

What scares you more? The monster under your bed or the one staring back at you in the mirror? Authors C.M. Chapman and Larry Thacker blur the lines between the kinds of monsters that roam the earth in their latest short story collection, EVERYDAY,...

Barry Giggles has it made. He has everything anyone could want: a 'castle' in Bondi, Australia; good looks to go with his great body (if you ask Barry, he's the definition of attractive); plenty of cash to help him live off weed and booze at home; and...

New Year's Eve is in full swing. Jess and Lindy have met by chance and already they're sharing a bottle of wine in a cosy Turkish restaurant. Lindy is hooked on a story Jess is telling, but midnight is coming and happy endings aren't always guaranteed . ...

"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography." -- Oscar WildeSome believe the Messiah will return to rapture the saintly and condemn sinners to Hell.  Others believe He will return with love and...

An Outsider who no longer wants to be The Outsider arrives in a peaceful Kingdom. A Princess longs to be The Girl, but must stray from the contentment of conformity. A Waitress waits for life, unaware she must take that first step. The Knight and The...

It creeps up behind you without you knowing, slowly chipping away at your reality.We all have a monster that follows us, with big sharp teeth and the ability to dictate our every move.Katie Simmons does not know they exist. She lives her life unaware of...