Sarah Perry
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On a hot summer's day John Cole decides to shut his bookshop early-- possibly forever-- and drives out of London to see his brother. When his car breaks down on an isolated road, he goes looking for help and finds a dilapidated house. As he approaches, a laughing woman he has never seen before walks out, addresses him by name and explains she has been waiting for him. Entering the home, John discovers an enigmatic clan of residents all of whom seem...
2) Melmoth
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From the internationally bestselling author of The Essex Serpent—soon to be an Apple TV+ Series
“Masterful...scary and smart, working as a horror story but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of will and love. Perry did as much in her richly praised novel The Essex Serpent, but this is a deeper, more complex novel and more rewarding.”—The Washington Post
In Melmoth,
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"Costa Book Award Finalist and the Waterstones (UK) Book of the Year 2016." "I loved this book. At once numinous, intimate and wise, The Essex Serpent is a marvelous novel about the workings of life, love and belief, about science and religion, secrets, mysteries, and the complicated and unexpected shifts of the human heart--and it contains some of the most beautiful evocations of place and landscape I've ever read. It is so good its pages seem lit...
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“Like A.S. Byatt’s Possession, Enlightenment is a baroque, genre-bending novel of ideas, ghosts and hidden histories. A richly layered epic....a heartfelt paean to the consolations of the sublime, where religion and science meet." -- Telegraph"Read it, then read it again. This is a book full of unexpected wonders." -- Literary ReviewFrom the author of The Essex Serpent, a dazzling novel of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years...
5) Melmoth
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Ein fesselndes und wunderbar unheimliches Hörbuch
Helen Franklins Leben nimmt eine jähe Wende, als sie in Prag auf ein seltsames Manuskript stößt. Es handelt von Melmoth - einer mysteriösen Frau in Schwarz, der Legende nach dazu verdammt, auf ewig über die Erde zu wandeln. Helen findet immer neue Hinweise auf Melmoth in geheimnisvollen Briefen und Tagebüchern - und sie fühlt sich gleichzeitig verfolgt. Liegt die Antwort, ob es Melmoth wirklich...
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Britischer Buchpreis 2017 in der Kategorie "Bester Roman"! London im Jahr 1893. Nach dem Tod ihres Mannes verlässt Cora Seaborne die Hauptstadt und reist gemeinsam mit ihrem Sohn Francis in den Küstenort Aldwinter. Als Naturwissenschaftlerin und Anhängerin der provokanten Thesen Charles Darwins gerät sie dort mit dem Pfarrer William Ransome aneinander. Beide sind in rein gar nichts einer Meinung, beide fühlen sich unaufhaltsam zum anderen hingezogen....
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2017
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. "A heartfelt memoir and a suspenseful story" of a murdered mother (Gabourey Sidibe, Book of the Month Club).
When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse; she took it as a good omen for her and her mother, Crystal. But that moment of darkness foreshadowed a much larger one: two days later, Crystal was murdered in their home in rural Maine. It took twelve years to find...
When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse; she took it as a good omen for her and her mother, Crystal. But that moment of darkness foreshadowed a much larger one: two days later, Crystal was murdered in their home in rural Maine. It took twelve years to find...
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Goodbye, board room and legal briefs--hello, dimples, diapers, and destruction. Women know that raising children will be different from climbing the corporate ladder. But nothing can truly prepare them for the mind-muddling world of motherhood. It doesn't take long for a new mom to question whether her tyrannical, diapered boss really understands her value to the organization. Because honestly? She's not always sure herself. With her signature wit,...
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This book is about a true miracle that happened in a hospital to a critical patient who doctors believed would die. Because of the patients strong faith in God, she was determined to hold on to Gods hands. She was encouraged by her devoted daughter each day that she was on life support that she was not going to leave her and neither was God. The patient was able to see and feel a surrounding presence that she never wanted to leave. This book will...
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You know that thing when you're in Walmart at noon before you discover you haven't brushed your teeth? Sarah Parshall Perry gets that. She also gets weird things showing up in her bed, her daughter asking for war paint, and her son crawling into a giant blue sock on Christmas morning. Mainly, she gets that conflicted feeling of finding her kids hanging out in the dogs' cages and happily realizing they have stopped getting into trouble for a minute....