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Haller is a mobile lawyer whose office is the backseat of a Lincoln. He travels between the remote courts of Los Angeles to defend all kinds of clients. Rockers, crooks, drunk drivers, drug dealers - they are all on Mickey Haller's client list.

For him, law is rarely about guilt and innocence - it is about bargaining and manipulation. But sometimes law also means 'justice'. A Beverly Hills playboy is arrested for assaulting a woman he picked up in a bar. He chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey gets his first rich client in years. It's every lawyer's dream.

The evidence piles up, and Haller decides that this must be the easiest case of his entire career. Then a loved one is murdered, and Haller discovers that his search for innocence has brought him face to face with an evil as pure as fire. To escape without burning, he must use every tactic, maneuver, and instinct in his arsenal - this time, to save his own life

The novel 'A Stranger' (1964) is one of the most famous and characteristic works of Kobo Abe, still relevant today, 60 years after its publication, because it examines the theme of human alienation in the ruthless conditions of a highly developed industrial society.

This classic of post-war Japanese literature describes a strange physical transformation that reveals the duplicity of the world we live in. The narrator is a scientist, deformed in a laboratory accident, in which he loses his face and with it - his connection to other people. Even his wife is disgusted by him. His only way back to the world is to create a mask so perfect that it is unnoticeable.

But he soon discovers that such a mask is more than a disguise: it is another self; a self that is capable of anything. A merciless reflection on nature, identity and social contact, 'A Stranger' is an intellectual horror story of the highest order.

Kobo Abe (1924-1993) was a novelist, playwright, poet, and director, considered one of the most significant representatives of the rich modern Japanese literature. He was born in Tokyo, but spent his childhood and most of his youth in Manchuria. At one time he was among the strongest contenders for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but he died before being awarded it

The story of Sava, a refugee and law student, and Eliza, a general's daughter and talented pianist, whose brief love is interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. In 1916, Sava is sent to the front, where he encounters a Romanian writer and a young orphan. Amid the chaos of war, Sava grapples with the meaning of self-sacrifice and heroism. This poignant novel by Zahari Karabashliev explores Bulgaria's painful history, blending idealism, conflict, and tenderness in a gripping tale of love, sacrifice, and hope

Anna Green believed she married Liam Weston for a reason - to get access to cheaper housing while she was at university. She also believed she had divorced him. Three years later, Anna is shocked to learn that the papers she signed were not for divorce, and that Liam is not a handsome poor student, but the heir to one of the richest families in America.

The news comes with an offer Anna simply cannot refuse. She is barely making ends meet, has lost her job, and her father needs expensive medical treatment. All her problems could be solved if she simply agrees to pretend to be Liam's real wife again. For just one week, while they are at his sister's wedding on a private island in Indonesia. This way, Liam will be able to get his inheritance, disputed by his despotic father, and Anna - the money she desperately needs to get back on her feet.

When she steps off the private jet and steps onto the paradise beach, however, she discovers that it won't be that easy. For this paradise has just become a den of snakes, and the painfully outspoken Anna simply cannot keep quiet when she encounters the intrigues of the Weston family. It doesn't help that with every passing minute she begins to feel more and more attracted to her good-natured, rich and handsome fake husband

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR (2022)

A dark, deeply humane story about a man haunted by his past and the looming shadows of his guilt.

It's three in the morning and Bobby Western puts on his diving suit to dive into the wreckage of a plane that crashed into the ocean. Most of the bodies are there, but he finds a missing passenger whose trail no one wants to follow. However, the real abyss is not under the water, but inside Bobby himself...

As he delves deeper into the mysteries of the disaster, the young man is forced to confront another, even more painful story - the tragedy of his brilliant sister Alicia. Reality and hallucination, love and destruction, guilt and longing intertwine in a double spiral of mystery and despair.

With his own poetic brutality, in The Passenger, world-renowned author Cormac McCarthy explores the limits of reason, the weight of loss, and the fine line between salvation and self-destruction. At once a thriller and a philosophical confession, this gripping novel is a final farewell from one of the most powerful voices in American literature.

The Passenger is the first part of a two-volume masterpiece that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023) wrote toward the end of his life. The plot of both The Passenger and the next book, Stella Maris, follows the fate of Bobby and Alicia Western, children of one of the creators of the atomic bomb

A decade after the horrific murders at Freddy's Fazbear's Pizzeria, Charlie, the daughter of the former owner, and her childhood friends meet again on the eve of the tragedy and find themselves in front of the doors of the old establishment - locked and abandoned for years.

After finding a way to get in, they realize that things are not as they used to be. The animatronic robots that once entertained the guests of the establishment are different. Now they hide dark secrets and... murderous intentions.
Filled with new information and dark, tense illustrations by Claudia Schroeder, the comic book novel of the same name by Scott Cotton and Kira Breed-Risley is a must-read for fans of the series and games

One unforgettable night marks the beginning of a scandalous romance.

I got the chance to fly first class from London to New York. The food, the champagne, the service - everything was impeccable, but it couldn't even compare to the man sitting next to me. With intelligent blue eyes and a killer self-confidence, he was the reason the flight was truly a first-class experience. And when it turned out that we couldn't land in New York and had to spend the night in Boston, we just stayed together. It was the kind of night that leaves memories for a lifetime.

It happened twelve months ago and I haven't heard anything from him since. Until today.

On my first day at my new job, I met the owner of the company. You can imagine my surprise when those blue eyes darted at me over the mahogany desk. Such looks have no place in the office.

But do they have a place in my life?

When David receives an email from an unknown woman who claims to have information related to his childhood, he doesn't know how to react. David has no memories of the first 12 years of his life. And when the woman who wrote to him disappears without a trace, he becomes the prime suspect. And not only that - the lives of those closest to him are also in danger.

With the help of his friend Florence, David tries to find out who is behind all this and how it is connected to his missing memories. Unexpected twists follow one another, new facts appear, increasingly sinister, in the end the whole truth seems to come to light, but no - Fexeus reserves the right to develop the story further in the next volume of the series

Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a chilling gothic thriller about a young nurse sent to care for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre of her own family decades earlier.

At seventeen, in a fit of rage, Lenora Hope hanged her sister with a rope...

Transformed into eerie rhymes sung in the schoolyard, the Hope murders shocked coastal Maine on a bloody night in 1929. Most people believe seventeen-year-old Lenora is responsible, but the police have never been able to prove it. Aside from her denials after the murders, she has never spoken openly about that night, nor has she ever set foot outside Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the carnage took place - stabbed her father with a sharp knife, robbed her mother of a life of luxury.

It's 1983, and home care worker Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying estate to care for Lenora after her previous nurse runs away in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora has lost her ability to speak after a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by typing sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a startling proposition - I want to tell you everything.

'I didn't do it', Lenora claims, but she's the only one of the three who hasn't died.

As Kit helps Lenora describe the events leading up to the Hope massacre, it becomes clear that there's much more to the story than meets the eye. But as new details about her predecessor's departure come to light, Kit begins to suspect that Lenora may not be telling the whole truth - and that the seemingly harmless woman entrusted to her care may be far more dangerous than she thought

Step into the Future, where three classic stories come to life in a new guise:

In 'The Three Digital Pigs': A talented hacker is kidnapped in the middle of the night and forced to commit betrayal against her employer - the powerful Heimdall Corporation. The consequences are irreversible, and the Wolf is on the heels of not only the victim, but also the kidnappers.

In 'Cinderella: Wired': Home robots exist only to serve. A machine suddenly realizes that she is different when she falls in love with a world-famous artist. However, neither her body nor her owners would allow such a deviation. CHIPELyashka will need real magic to meet her lover at the Festival.

In 'Not Hansel and Gretel': When the son of an influential businessman disappears without a trace, he turns to lawyers Maximilian Hexell and Anita Gretel for help. Lured by a tempting reward, the two fall into a sinister trap from which they have no chance of escaping unscathed