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"It's almost spring break in the university town of Shepard, North Carolina and under the instruction of Professor Joe Lyons, five top graduate students are studying the psychology of deception. But uncovering the science behind lies isn't making any of them more honest. In fact, it's turning them into the most skilled liars of all. Especially when they all have something to hide. When a test goes awry and one of them is found dead, the grad students...
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Bloodhound Books
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2023.
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When a teenage boy is found dead in a Cambridge park, three women are determined to keep their secrets hidden . . .
Emma, a detective's wife, watches the park outside her window where a body was discovered. She sees contagion everywhere-even in her new baby. Emma was there the night of the murder, but as her mind spirals, can she be certain about what took place?
Jenny's son had fought with the victim at school and didn't come home that night....
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Union Square & Co
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2023.
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"Matty Melgren is a convicted serial killer serving life without parole for the murders of several women in London in the 1980s. He has consistently protested his innocence, and the evidence against him was largely circumstantial. At the time of his arrest, Matty's girlfriend was Amelia-Rose, a single mother to 12-year-old Sophie. Sophie adores Matty. He's handsome, funny, respectable-she could never suspect him of the brutal killings in the headlines....
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Los críticos coinciden en reconocer que Galdós escribió Fortunata y Jacinta "en la cima de su poder creador", y el propio autor parecía consciente de ello. De ahí que, a pesar de ser un escritor de 'incontenible fertilidad', en esta ocasión emplease año y medio en concluir el manuscrito de la novela. No se sabe si en ese inusitado tesón por crear la obra perfecta pudo influir la reciente publicación de La Regenta, obra máxima de
...6) Twelve Men
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2023
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Although world-famous for his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in journalism, autobiography, and travel writing. In 1919, having recently accepted the publishing contract of a new publisher, Dreiser proposed to publish a "book of characters" that would collect twelve biographical sketches of individuals who were major influences on Dreiser, both as a man and as a writer. The resulting narratives...
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Feedbooks
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2023
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Amok. Novellen einer Leidenschaft Stefan Zweig-Wie mehrere andere Werke Zweigs, welcher seinerzeit vom Wirken Sigmund Freuds fasziniert war, hat auch Der Amokläufer einen starken psychologischen Hintergrund: Die Geschichte handelt von einer extremen Besessenheit, die den Helden dazu bringt, sein Berufs-und Privatleben dieser Leidenschaft zu opfern, und die ihn schließlich in den Freitod treibt.
8) Lucy Jinx
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At once gargantuan and miniaturist THE LUCY JINX TRILOGY is an intimate Epic, spanning eight years in the life (and innermost mind) of the titular poet as she navigates ambitions, friendships, lovers, and, above all, her monstrous, psychically tumultuous relationships with language, identity, and purpose-a portrait-of-the-artist equal parts romance, comedy, and existential horror-show. NOTE: This is the fully revised and updated 2023 edition of Book...
9) Amir
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Lis und Amir.
Wo beginnen die Grenzen einer Beziehung und wo enden sie? Wieviel Nähe und Distanz erträgt die Liebe und was passiert, wenn man sich in seinen eigenen Gefühlen zum anderen verliert, wenn dieser unerreichbar zu werden scheint? Wenn ein Schwanken zwischen Zuneigung und Entfremdung über allem zu schweben anmutet? Ein intimer Monolog über eine besondere Beziehung, eine unerfüllte Sehnsucht zwischen den Zeilen.
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From Francis Levy, author of Seven Days in Rio, which The New York Times called "a fever dream of a novel," comes The Kafka Studies Department, a highly original collection of short, parable-like stories infused with dark humor, intellect, and insight about the human condition. While the book's style is deceptively simple and aphoristic, it carries a hallucinatory moral message. A prism of interconnected and intertwined tales, inspired by Kafka, the...
11) The Chambermaid
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How does a young man learn to deal with being victim to a silver bullet from another pretty jaded lass? This is the journey of his descent to rock bottom as he is relegated to the mental asylum where he further endures, relating to his experience of learning to live with himself in his new surroundings. He meets many curious characters in this journey and finds himself a victim again to the shiny silver bullets that land on him-shot from another jaded...
12) The Painted Veil
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Garstin, a pretty upper-middle class debutante, squanders her early youth amusing herself by living a social high life, during which her domineering mother attempts to arrange a "brilliant match" for her.
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Keep calm and always watch your back…
Desperate to make ends meet after her husband vanishes, single-mom Lizzy rents out the spare room in her spacious house to a quiet college student, Brenda. That's when strange things begin to happen. Items start to go missing and people begin to disappear in the close-knit upscale neighborhood. Is Brenda behind all of this? Could Lizzy prove it?
Lizzy soon realizes her new tenant isn't who she appears to be…...
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Ausgabe in aktualisierter Rechtschreibung; voll verlinkt mit Fußnoten und eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis Lange Zeit deutete nichts darauf hin, dass Marcel Proust einmal einer der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts werden sollte. Wie auf einem schmalen Grat wandert er durchs Leben: Auf der einen Seite ein bequemes Luxusleben, auf der anderen Seite die Sehnsucht nach dem einen großen Roman, der alles erzählt geboren aus Askese und Selbstreflexion....
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La serie de libros "7 mejores cuentos" presenta los grandes nombres de la literatura en lengua española.
En este volumen traemos a James Joyce, un escritor irlandés, mundialmente reconocido como uno de los más importantes e influyentes del siglo XX. Joyce es aclamado por su obra maestra, Ulises y por su controvertida novela posterior, Finnegans Wake. Igualmente ha sido muy valorada la serie de historias breves titulada Dublineses, así como su...
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Gully Fisher's twin sons will soon be 45, and are the push and pull of their clan. Michael is almost too good; immune to consternation, he is the family rock, while Fish is the family maverick, acting out what the others cannot bring themselves to do. Michael's wife, Ursula, spends her days rearranging the lives of failed families, and craves a deeper intimacy with her taciturn husband and her two children. Katie, still seduced by Fish's tales of...
18) Clown Shoes
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After New York attorney Will Ross gains acquittal for a child abuser and the child is subsequently killed, he resolves to abandon law and become a children's entertainer. Will's change of heart and career is a catalyst for his lover, Clara, who quits her prestigious job to pursue documentary film-making. While the couple are united in their fervor for their nascent careers in art, unexpected challenges rip them apart. Feeling abandoned, Will ventures...
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Unending terror-in his twenties, that is what Chicagoan Peter Roche endured in every waking moment. Shattered by his father's harrowing death from cancer, and the incomprehensible destruction of his lifelong friendship with John Lemaster, Roche launched a quiet offensive against total fear, searching desperately for a last sign of hope along the darkening road to helplessness.
With the aid of Dr. Alexander Conlon, Peter begins his quest for peace...
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The Place Where Love and Anger Meet Inherent in every human being is the capacity for great goodness and great harm. To live peacefully and productively in the world, we must learn how to recognize and channel these diverse energies. In this groundbreaking work, therapist William DeFoore shows us why the only way to address the violence, cruelty and perpetration of harm in the world around us is to first traverse the dark dimension of our own soul....
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