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Michael Wheeler, now a licensed behavioral therapist, sat down in his home office to read a batch of letters sent to him through advertisements of his treatment programs. Some handwritten letters were sent to him as well. The letters were written by people of all ages willing to share their stories dealing with the hardships of they have faced in life. Michael prepares himself to experience the life of the lost. Find out what entails through these dramatic excerpts of In Cold Blood.

Alba has spent her life unable to be alone, clinging to the presence of others to silence the anxieties she refuses to face. But when she wakes up on the floor of a shopping mall, covered in blood and with only fragmented memories of how she got there, she is forced to confront the truth she has long avoided. Meanwhile, her sister Diana struggles to balance the pressures of motherhood and work, drowning in guilt and anxiety, while their mother, Carmen, remains trapped in an endless cycle of sacrifice and duty, caring for her daughters and grandchildren.

A wedding no one will forget: When Hetty arrives in France with her boyfriend Davey MacGregor and his twin sisters, she knows she doesn't quite belong. The MacGregors are wealthy, polished and politically connected. She's a self-confessed thriller addict from a council estate - and painfully aware of the difference. Davey's cousin Isabelle is about to marry Jean-Jacques Moreau, a rising French right-wing politician, in a lavish ceremony at the family château.

Bernd Späth, Autor von Trümmerkind, Seitenstechen und vielen weiteren großen Romanen, hat ein scharfes Auge für die Seltsamkeiten seiner Mitmenschen und weiß sie wunderbar zu erzählen. Aufgrund seiner 25-jährigen Erfahrung als Leadership Coach durchschaut er sie auch psychoanalytisch. Und so gibt er spannende Beschreibungen der Hintergründe, die aus dem Lachen auch noch einen Erkenntnisgewinn machen.

In this twisty psychological thriller, a young woman still haunted by her brother’s murder is forced to question everything she thought she knew when the killer’s brother claims the wrong man went to prison. Jessica will never forgive herself. Five years ago, her brother and best friend were...

In the chilling depths of her grandmother's attic, Clara Whitlock discovers a trunk filled with enigmatic postcards depicting infants emerging from soil, watched over by a shadowy Woman in Red. As she unravels the cryptic clues, Clara is thrust into a labyrinth of forgotten history: the buried empire of Tartaria, orchestrated mud floods erasing civilizations, and a clandestine order breeding compliant clones to perpetuate elite bloodlines.

In the rain-soaked shadows of 1993 Seattle, where grunge pulses through dive bars and neon bleeds into the night, Raven Voss hides behind a porcelain mask to shield the world from her perceived ugliness—a scar etched deeper by years of rejection and cruelty.

"The Light Between The Shadows" is ultimately a novel about hope—not the cheap, easy hope of happy endings, but the hard-won, daily-renewed hope of choosing to keep living when everything in you wants to give up. It's about finding light not by denying the shadows but by learning to carry both. Jim's journey from suicidal isolation to purposeful Guardian is neither simple nor complete. By the novel's end, he's still struggling, still uncertain, still carrying wounds that may never fully heal. But he's also connected, purposeful, and alive.

In the city of Atlanta, young women are dying—at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives, crossing the boundaries of wealth and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this “spellbinding” (Vogue), “smoldering” (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. “Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the...

This provocative, fiercely imaginative debut follows a woman trying to slip the shackles of society by controlling her body and mind in extreme ways, by one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. “Chrysalis is a thrilling look at how we spin silk around ourselves by watching the world...

ONE OF CBC'S BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS OF 2022 A suspenseful and poignant tale from an award-winning writer about a girl navigating chaotic family life in a close-knit small town. On a June afternoon in a small city, a wild-eyed girl named Francie dashes down a neighbourhood street, clutching...

Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill’s heroine, referred to in these pages as simply “the wife,” once exchanged...

A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE “Golden Child is a stunning novel written with force and beauty. Though true to herself, Adam's...

This brilliant novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been the inadvertent agent of disaster. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ST...

The newest haunting mystery from the beloved author of The Gates of Evangeline, featuring Charlie Cates, a headstrong heroine who must confront her unwanted supernatural gift and bring dark secrets to light if she ever wants to leave the Big Island . . . Journalist Charlie Cates has always...

A mesmerizing debut novel about a concert pianist who fears he is losing his mind Mr. Field wants a new life, a life cleansed of the old one’s disappointments. A concert pianist on the London scene, his career is upended when the train he is travelling on crashes into the wall at the end of a...

A dramatic portrait of the dissolution of a marriage, written with brutal and lyrical precision, and nominated for the Nordic Prize. Jon, who is losing his wife to another man, is trying to understand what happened to his Great Love, by working, painfully, to see the story from her perspective...

Jonathan Tropper’s novel The Book of Joe dazzled critics and readers alike with its heartfelt blend of humor and pathos. Now Tropper brings all that–and more–to an irresistible new novel. In Everything Changes, Tropper delivers a touching, wickedly funny new tale about love, loss, and the...

EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL “Startlingly inventive.”—The New York Times Book Review “A sheer delight to read . . . I had no idea what was going to happen from one page to the next.”—Kate Atkinson On the grubby outskirts of Paris, Grace restores bric-a-brac, mends teapots...