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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark secret
Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.
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Blaues Wunder
Anne Freytag
Als Ferdinand von einem »Sommer auf dem Meer« sprach, hatte Nora etwas anderes im weniger abgelegen, weniger beruflich. Auch Franziska ahnte nicht, worauf sie sich einließ, als ihr Mann Kilian einen Urlaub zu siebt ankü mit seinem Chef Walter Bronstein, Ferdinand Mattern, seinem größten Konkurrenten, den drei Ehefrauen und Walters Sohn David. Auf der luxuriösen Superyacht in den Philippinen mangelt es ihnen an nichts, es könnte eine entspannte Zeit sein, aber die Gäste Bei diesem Trip geht es um mehr, um etwas Großes. Nur worum genau, das scheint keiner zu wissen. Wieso hat Walter die beiden Kontrahenten und ihre Frauen eingeladen? Zwei Paare in den Vierzigern, die Kinder aus dem Gröbsten raus, die Eigenheime abbezahlt, die Karrieren steil – die der Männer, versteht sich. Alle zeigen sich von ihrer besten Seite. Es wird strahlend gelächelt und gekonnt konversiert. Eheleute, wie man sie sich nicht glücklicher ausmalen könnte. Aber nichts ist, wie es scheint. Sie alle spielen eine Rolle in dieser Inszenierung. Aber für wen? Und wer führt Regie? Anne Freytag beobachtet präzise und deckt schonungslos auf, was sie sieht. Sie erzählt mit großer Dringlichkeit von stillschweigenden Übereinkünften, die aufgekündigt werden, Erwartungshaltungen und Enttäuschungen, Bedürfnissen und Begierden, Konventionen und Geheimnissen.
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Wild wuchern
Katharina Köller
»Katharina Köller erzählt beherzt, feinsinnig und abgründig. Ein soghaftes Alpen-Kammerspiel.« Daniela DröscherMarie rennt panisch einen Berg hinauf. Auf der Flucht vor einer Welt, in der vieles aus dem Lot geraten ist, sucht sie Schutz bei ihrer Cousine Johanna. Ausgerechnet bei Johanna, die seit Jahren wie eine Eremitin auf einer entlegenen Tiroler Alm lebt. Marie und Johanna, sie könnten nicht unterschiedlicher die scharfzüngige Wienerin, Luxusgeschöpf aus einer Luxuswelt, zugleich verwöhnt und verachtet von Ehemann Peter – und das »wilde Tier im Körper von einem Menschen« (Marie über Johanna), das beim Erwachsenwerden scheinbar die Sprache verloren und die Gesellschaft hinter sich gelassen hat. Für die beiden Frauen beginnt ein ungewöhnliches Kräftemessen, ein Ringen um ihr Selbstverständnis, aber auch um einen gemeinsamen Weg. In ihrem so poetischen wie politischen Roman, Märchen, Parabel und pulsierende Zivilisationskritik in einem, feiert Katharina Köller zwei Frauen und ihren eigensinnigen Aufbruch ins Leben. »Ich war dort, wo man mich hingepflanzt hat, wie ein Ziergewächs in einem Topf. Jetzt bin ich hier und wuchere.«»Kann man noch weiblicher, noch österreichischer, noch besser schreiben? Ich denke nicht!« Mareike Fallwickl
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Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.
Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela Carter
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
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The September House
Carissa Orlando
A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel.
When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would flee.
Margaret is not most people.
Margaret is staying. It’s her house. But after four years Hal can’t take it anymore, and he leaves abruptly. Now, he’s not returning calls, and their daughter Katherine—who knows nothing about the hauntings—arrives, intent on looking for her missing father. To make things worse, September has just begun, and with every attempt Margaret and Katherine make at finding Hal, the hauntings grow more harrowing, because there are some secrets the house needs to keep.
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The Unworthy
Agustina Bazterrica
The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos.
From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find—discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastrophe—cities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are nonexistent, and bands of survivors fight and forage in a cruel, barren landscape. Inside, the narrator is controlled, punished, but safe.
But when a stranger makes her way past the convent walls, joining the ranks of the unworthy, she forces the narrator to consider her long-buried past—and what she may be overlooking about the Enlightened. As the two women grow closer, the narrator is increasingly haunted by questions about her own past, the environmental future, and her present life inside the convent. How did she get to the Sacred Sisterhood? Why can’t she remember her life before? And what really happens when a woman is chosen as one of the Enlightened?
A searing, dystopian tale about climate crisis, ideological extremism, and the tidal pull of our most violent, exploitative instincts, this is another unforgettable novel from a master of feminist horror.
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The Unworthy
Agustina Bazterrica
The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos.
From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find—discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastrophe—cities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are nonexistent, and bands of survivors fight and forage in a cruel, barren landscape. Inside, the narrator is controlled, punished, but safe.
But when a stranger makes her way past the convent walls, joining the ranks of the unworthy, she forces the narrator to consider her long-buried past—and what she may be overlooking about the Enlightened. As the two women grow closer, the narrator is increasingly haunted by questions about her own past, the environmental future, and her present life inside the convent. How did she get to the Sacred Sisterhood? Why can’t she remember her life before? And what really happens when a woman is chosen as one of the Enlightened?
A searing, dystopian tale about climate crisis, ideological extremism, and the tidal pull of our most violent, exploitative instincts, this is another unforgettable novel from a master of feminist horror.
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Trophäe
Gaea Schoeters
Gaea Schoetersʼ preisgekrönter Roman ist von einer außerordentlichen erzählerischen Wucht. Die Tiefenschärfe, mit der sie die Geräusche und Gerüche der Natur beschreibt, lässt einen sinnlich erleben, was einen moralisch an die Grenzen zwischen Richtig und Falsch führt. Hunter, steinreich, Amerikaner und begeisterter Jäger, hatte schon fast alles vor dem Lauf. Endlich bietet ihm sein Freund Van Heeren ein Nashorn zum Abschuss an. Hunter reist nach Afrika, doch sein Projekt, die Big Five vollzumachen, wird jäh von Wilderern durchkreuzt. Hunter sinnt auf Rache, als ihn Van Heeren fragt, ob er schon einmal von den Big Six gehört habe. Zunächst ist Hunter geschockt, aber als er die jungen Afrikaner beim flinken Jagen beobachtet … Ein Roman von radikaler Konsequenz.
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How do you use the "interested" status?
Curious after the last email from Pagebound, how do you use this status? For example, I use it for books I don't own (so they're not literally on my tbr right now), but I might be interested in purchasing/borrowing in the future. Do you use it differently?
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Gold: Finished 15 Main Quest books.
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The Unworthy
Agustina Bazterrica
The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos.
From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find—discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastrophe—cities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are nonexistent, and bands of survivors fight and forage in a cruel, barren landscape. Inside, the narrator is controlled, punished, but safe.
But when a stranger makes her way past the convent walls, joining the ranks of the unworthy, she forces the narrator to consider her long-buried past—and what she may be overlooking about the Enlightened. As the two women grow closer, the narrator is increasingly haunted by questions about her own past, the environmental future, and her present life inside the convent. How did she get to the Sacred Sisterhood? Why can’t she remember her life before? And what really happens when a woman is chosen as one of the Enlightened?
A searing, dystopian tale about climate crisis, ideological extremism, and the tidal pull of our most violent, exploitative instincts, this is another unforgettable novel from a master of feminist horror.
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
Becky Chambers
Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space-and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe-in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star.
Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain.
Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary’s got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs—an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the universe.
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