Real Life Thrillers

This program is read by the author. Merging the insights of inspiring voices with her own understanding of mindfulness, New York Times bestselling author Sharon Salzberg shows us how we can recover from the emotional effects of crisis. When confronted with pain and obstacles, we often shrink...

Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends—some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness.

What if you could see around the corners of your life? Wouldn't it help to know what the most challenging days of your life would be like BEFORE they hit? There are certain days in life that stand out because they are among the toughest that you or someone you love will experience. Your quality of life and your experience on the journey through this world are a function of how you handle these days when they arrive. Will you be ready? Will you be strong? Will you survive and be better for it, or will you cave?

The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon, by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun, is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them rich through deceit and corruption. The protagonist, Liu Yuejin, is a worksite cook and small-time thief whose bag is stolen. In searching for it, he stumbles upon another bag, which contains a flash disk that chronicles high-level corruption.

Tower of Secrets is a thriller, filled with spycraft and intelligence techniques never before revealed, a true story that is more spellbinding than any work of fiction could ever be. Head of security for cipher communications worldwide, Sheymov has rare knowledge of the entire system. Enter the riveting world of real intelligence where every life-or-death move on the chessboard affects the fate of nations. This is a tale more thrilling than fiction, told by a consummate master of the game.

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Nabokov wrote in English, is a tantalizing literary mystery in which a writer’s half brother searches to unravel the enigma of the life of the famous author of Albinos in Black, The Back of the Moon, and Doubtful Asphodel. A characteristically cunning play on identity and deception, the novel concludes “ I am Sebastian, or Sebastian is I, or perhaps we both are someone whom neither of us knows.”

As a small boy hunting in the deep Florida swamps, C.E. “Kid” Miller had to become a crack shot, or his five sisters would go hungry. Now, in the summer of 1946, Miller hunts Georgia moonshiners instead of game, and packs a Smith and Wesson instead of a double barrel.

Cat and the members of her writers' retreat have just arrived in Outlaw, Colorado, an "Old West" tourist town complete with inhabitants dressed up as famous figures from history. But this authentic slice of Americana takes a murderous turn when a college student masquerading as a 19th-century saloon girl becomes history herself. Was she the intended target? Or did she take a hit meant for someone else? With a cast of suspects to choose from, Cat must unhorse the real culprit before a real-life ghost story is given a killer twist

Twelve-year-old Ted Gerson has spent most of his summer playing video games. So when his great-uncle dies and bequeaths him all the so-called treasure in his overstuffed junk shop of an apartment, Ted explores it like it's another level to beat. And to his shock, he finds that eccentric Great-Uncle Ted actually has set the place up like a real-life escape-the-room game!

The harrowing adventure-at-sea memoir recounting the heroic search-and-rescue mission for lost Montauk fisherman John Aldridge, which Daniel James Brown calls "A terrific read." I am floating in the middle of the night, and nobody in the world even knows I am missing. Nobody is looking for me...

Rebecca Waterhouse is just 13 when she witnesses her mother's death at the hand of her father in Seaview Cottage. But what else did she see? Years later, Rebecca's daughters Iris and Jessie know their mother will never speak of that terrible night. But when Jessie goes missing, with her gravely ill newborn, Iris realises the past may hold the key to her sister's disappearance.

Fast 50 Jahre lebte Michael Kramer unter uns und tötete in dieser Zeit über 100 Menschen. In diesem Hörbuch erzählt er selbst seine Geschichte, die er noch zu Lebzeiten aufgenommen hat. Du wirst im ersten Teil erfahren, wie er zu dem Menschen wurde, der er war. Wie er erst durch Zufall tötete und dann im Affekt. Keine Details sollst du missen, auch wenn du ihn nach diesem Hörbuch hassen wirst. Im zweiten Teil geht es dann schonungslos weiter.

This is the first story in a series of ongoing adventures of Real Life Superhero, The Foil. Set in the urban neighborhood of Garden Park, this gritty crime story is not a graphic novel or comic book. In LITTLE RED CORVETTE, The Foil finds himself on the wrong side of the Irish ‘Moffat’ gang when he protects two young teens from a beating by local mobster, Charlie Gibbons. Gibbons enlists the help of his old friend Tom Bock, who has just returned to Garden Park after 15 years in exile to frame The Foil in a drug deal.

Colter Shaw ist hart, er ist kompromisslos und die letzte Rettung für Menschen, denen die Polizei nicht helfen kann oder will. Als er von einer verschwundenen Collegestudentin hört, bietet er dem verzweifelten Vater seine Hilfe an. Seine Ermittlungen führen ihn in das dunkle Herz von Silicon Valley und in die billionendollarschwere Videospielindustrie. Es gelingt ihm, die junge Frau zu finden - doch dann gibt es eine zweite Entführung. Shaw ist überzeugt, dass der Täter versucht, ein Videospiel zum Leben zu erwecken.

Nora Grace Moon thought the toughest challenge this semester would be surviving crippling bouts of OCD, but when her deceased roommate turns up as a reanimated corpse, her world starts to collapse. Nora has an uncanny, heated connection to fellow gamer Wesley. She finds out he’s a US Marshal with real-life skills for tactical survival, not just in-game. They uncover a plot involving an ancient archeology society who will stop at nothing until they have what Nora has—an ancient artifact that will unleash a new world order of the undead.

She remembers two lives. Only one can be real. After a devastating car crash, Emily wakes in a hospital to find her life unrecognizable. The man by her side says he’s her husband. A child calls her “mom.” The house she’s taken to feels like home—yet every corner is a stranger’s memory. But somewhere deep inside, another life beats like a second heart. A life she knows is hers. A life she refuses to believe has vanished. As fragments from both realities grow sharper, Emily is drawn into a psychological tug-of-war. Each world feels real. Each world holds people she loves.