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「友おじさん、どうして人は色とかお金とかに目がくらむの？」「人はいつだって、今の人生をとにかく変えたいと思ってるからだよ。」下町で生まれ育ったキヨカは幼いころから、目に見えないものが見える能力を持っていた。

Wenn dein schlimmster Albtraum wahr wird. Die alleinerziehende Libby und ihr dreijähriger Sohn Ethan machen zum ersten Mal Urlaub in einem Luxus-Resort, um sich für die vergangenen schwierigen Jahre zu belohnen. Doch Libby kann sich nur schlecht entspannen: Sobald Ethan aus ihrem Blickfeld verschwindet, gerät sie in Panik. Ihre Sorge ist berechtigt – denn sie hat ein Geheimnis, das sie mit niemandem teilen kann. Als Ethan eines Abends in einem Fahrstuhl spielt und sich die Türen zu Libbys Entsetzen plötzlich schließen, beginnt der Kampf einer Mutter um das geliebte Kind.

Bulgakov was a Soviet playwright, novelist, and short story writer best known for his humor and penetrating satire. Because of their realism and humor, Bulgakov's works enjoyed great popularity, but their trenchant criticism of Soviet mores was increasingly unacceptable to the authorities. Bulgakov's short stories are a world unto themselves—sharp, witty, and often unsettling. In these pages, the absurdity of Soviet life collides with the supernatural, the grotesque meets the comic, and reality is always just a step away from slipping into nightmare.

Esperanza tem um nome mexicano, origens mexicanas, aparência mexicana, mas nasceu nos Estados Unidos e mora num decadente bairro de Chicago. Nesse contraste cultural, ela observa a vida dos vizinhos e das amigas para aprender a construir sua própria identidade. Em fragmentos do cotidiano, a autora de A casa na Rua Mango nos apresenta um panorama do universo de Esperanza e costura uma linha que vai da infância envergonhada da menina à tomada de consciência e início do amadurecimento.

Pferde sind Irmas Leidenschaft, die Liebe ist ihr Schicksal... Liebe oder Moral – wie wird Irma sich entscheiden? Wien 1899. Nach dem Tod von Kaiserin Elisabeth kämpft die Spanische Hofreitschule ums Überleben. Auch die junge Irma Rehberger fragt sich, wie diese vor dem Ruin gerettet werden kann. Als Mitstreiter an ihrer Seite erweist sich der Reporter Michael Brunner, der eine groß angelegte Geschichte über Irma, die erste Frau an der Spanischen Hofreitschule, und ihren geliebten Hengst Novio veröffentlicht hat.

This delightfully clever, artfully layered novel begins when a scientist who has written a popular book of non-fiction attends a literary festival, where she strikes up a friendship with a charismatic novelist. The novelist reveals that her new work is an experiment: a novella she wrote in English only to have it translated and published solely in French—a language the novelist cannot read. Moreover, she has lost her original English manuscript of this work. Hearing this, the scientist, who is fluent in French, impulsively offers to retranslate the novella back into English for the novelist.

Reggio Calabria, primi anni Ottanta. La sedicenne Lucia Carbone, studentessa del liceo classico, sequestra un compagno di scuola e lo imprigiona nello scantinato della casa della nonna morta da pochi mesi. Il ragazzo, Rosario Cristallo, è figlio d'un boss dell'Aspromonte, e Lucia lo ha rapito per due buone (o cattive) ragioni: la prima è che la sua migliore amica ne è innamorata, e vuole tenerlo lontano da lei, la seconda è che forse Rosario sa qualcosa sull'assassinio di una zia amatissima.

John Addington e Henry Ellis sono entrambi sposati, ma i loro matrimoni nascondono un segreto. John è omosessuale, o "invertito", come si diceva nell'Inghilterra vittoriana; ha avuto tre figlie con Catherine per conformarsi. Henry è legato a Edith, che però non ricambia il suo amore e trascorre con l'amica Angelica lo stesso tempo che dedica al marito. Quando Henry, medico esperto, inizia a scrivere un testo sull'omosessualità sostenendo che sia una variazione naturale del desiderio umano e non un crimine, coinvolge John, noto studioso, nel progetto.

Isobel e Nat s'incontrano a Salem nel 1829, più di un secolo dopo i famosi processi alle streghe di cui fu teatro la cittadina. Eppure, sotto la superficie di florida compostezza di quel piccolo porto sull'oceano, serpeggiano ancora le tensioni tra i discendenti di accusatori e accusate. Isobel, dal canto suo, ha i capelli rossi proprio come la trisavola Isobel Gowdie, condannata per stregoneria in Scozia nel Seicento e sfuggita per un soffio all'impiccagione. E proprio come lei, vede esplosioni di colore là dove gli altri sentono solo parole o leggono le nere lettere dell'alfabeto.

In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: the war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified "mentally unsound" and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital. There a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. William Rivers, set about restoring Sassoon's "sanity" and sending him back to the trenches.

I’ve always felt like the main character in a movie… but never in a good way. Selena Holmes spent her life watching herself from the outside, as if she were just a character playing a role—trapped in a script she never wrote. Raised by a distant father and an absent mother, she longed for love but only found it in the wrong places. Heartbreak, betrayal, and self-doubt became the soundtrack of her life. She tried to fix people who didn’t want to be saved. She fought for love that was never enough. She kept running—toward something, away from something, she was never sure which.

They stole his bread. They mocked his speech. Now, he's taking it all back—one quack at a time. Meet Thaddaeus McQuack: a furious, foul-mouthed duck with a grudge the size of a city pond and a speech impediment that only makes his threats funnier. After a mime-related incident lands him in a zoo, Thaddaeus breaks free—and declares war on mankind. With a deranged cockatoo named Steve, a flying squirrel militia, and a revolution built on stale bread and pure rage, Duck Off: The Quack Chronicles is a wild, action-packed satire you never knew you needed.

In the shadows of grief, physicist Alex Mercer has lost his way. His beloved wife, Emily, passed too soon, trapping him in painful nostalgia. With each day, Alex feels his grip on reality slipping, his logical mind yearning for solace he can't find in science alone. Desperate for peace, he embarks on an unexpected journey into the quantum realm through meditation. Along the way, he encounters guides and teachings that reveal more about life-and the universe-than he ever thought possible.

A debut collection of four intriguing stories from a talent that will leave you wanting more.

After witnessing a crime, I ran. For three years, I’ve hid from everyone. I abandoned Birchwoods Spring, my home, my plans, and the life I planned to build. I told myself it was the only way to stay safe. But when my grandmother falls ill, I have no choice but to come back—even if it means confronting the past I tried to escape. The moment I step onto my land, I feel it. The unease creeping in.

Displaced by the Russian invasion, Vira, carrying little but her precious viola da gamba, is a refugee in the Uniting for Ukraine program.

A second collection of six diverse stories from award-winning short story and flash fiction writer J.B. Linkwater. The Forty Eights: Priceless antiques collected over a lifetime. But at what cost? Bonnie: Out of chaos and into the light. Bonnie and her daughter defeat the bad vibes and shadows that follow them. Bonnie has a close call with her nemesis but fate eventually delivers them into the sunlight. The Hammer Man, the Elephant, the Artist, the Mystic and the Runaway: Strange happenings in the desert.

Un escritor que curiosamente responde al nombre de Juan José Millás recibe el encargo del periódico en el que colabora para escribir el que, cree, puede ser su último reportaje. Por ello debe pensar con cuidado el tema que sirva de broche de oro a toda una carrera.

La destrucción de todas las cosas sobresale entre las joyas más asombrosas de la literatura mexicana. Si el lector desea saber cómo fue la historia de la conquista de México no a manos de los españoles sino de los extraterrestres debeleer esta portentosa novela de Hugo Hiriart: como relato de ciencia ficción no le pide nada a las historias de Tim Burton , mientras que su crítica de las costumbres nacionales solo se puede leer a carcajadas.

Amane is ten years old when she discovers she's not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by artificial insemination, and raised in the normal way, by parents in 'clean', sexless marriages. But Amane's parents committed the ultimate taboo: they fell in love, had sex and procreated. As Amane grows up and enters adulthood, she does her best to fit in and live her life like the rest of society: cultivating intense relationships with anime characters, and limiting herself to extra-marital sex, as is the norm.