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فندقٌ صغير في أحد الأماكن الهادئة، الغرفة 1408 في آخر الرواق ولكنّها ليست مثل أي غرفة فالساعات فيها لا تُشير إلى وقتٍ بعينه واللون الرمادي يكسوها. في هذه الغرفة لا يوجد أشباح أو أرواحٌ تظهر وتختفي بل هي روح الغرفة نفسها تتصرَّف على هواها ولا يهدأُ لها بالٌ إلّا إذا عرضتك للأذى الجسدي، لقد قتلت عشرة أشخاصٍ حتى الآن وها هي فارغة منذ 20 عامًا؟

لم تختر "سامية" أن تولد في الصومال وتكبر هي والحرب الأهلية سويًا، فقد وعيت على أصوات القنابل والدبابات فكانت تهرب من واقعها بالركض لتصبح العداءة الأشهر في المنطقة وعلى الرَّغم من تضييق الخناق عليها مرارًا إلّا أنّها كانت تحلم بصومالٍ حرّ تستطيع الرَّكض فيه بحرية.

"كاتي هيرشيل"، ألمانية في أواخر الثلاثينيات، وصاحبة المكتبة الوحيدة في إسطنبول التي تبيع روايات جريمة. "سافرتُ إلى هناك لمدة أسبوعٍ لزيارة صديق، فبقيت ثلاثة عشر عامًا". في أحد الأيام يفاجئها اتصالٌ من زميلتها - التي لم ترها لما يزيد عن العشرة أعوام - "بيترا"، وهي ممثلة ألمانية شهيرة جاءت إلى إسطنبول لتقوم ببطولة فيلم تدور أحداثه في إسطنبول، لكن عندما يتم العثور على مخرج الفيلم مقتولًا، تستيقظ داخل "كاتي" حاسة محققي الجرائم، فأخيرًا حانت اللحظة التي ستتمكن فيها من ممارسة شغفها الحقيقي وتطبيق كل ما قرأته في روايات الجريمة المفضلة لديها ولكن .. بطريقتها الخاصة.

بعد انفصال والديه انتقل الصبي إلى العيش مع جدّه "مأمون" الذي أحبّه أكثر من أيّ شيءٍ في الوجود وتعلَّق بحكاياته التي يقصّها عليه كلَّ مساء، فعاشت أساطير الجد في قلب الطفل وعشّشت في مخيلته، فأحبَّ "الغزالة الأم" أم القرون التي يروي عنها الجدّ حكاياتٍ قديمة حيث اعتقد النّاس بأنّها من تُساعدهم على البقاء أحياء، وحلُم ب"السفينة البيضاء" تلك النقطة البعيدة في البحر فقد كان جدّه يعطيه منظارًا لمراقبتها ويصف مداخلها ومخارجها ولاعتقاد الصبيّ بأنَّ والده أحد العاملين فيها فقد تعلَّق بها بشدّة وأصبحت رفيقة أحلامه.

Die ungarische Psychologin Noémi Orvos-Tóth klärt in ihrem Ratgeber den Einfluss alter Familienkonflikte auf unsere Psyche. Tiefe Traumata, Lieblosigkeit und festgefahrene Verhaltensmuster werden von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben. Solange wir die Auseinandersetzung mit unserem familiären Erbe aufschieben, geben wir die negativen Muster von Schmerz und Misstrauen unbewusst an unsere Kinder weiter. Aber was sind diese Muster genau? Wo sind sie zu finden? Wie können sie durchbrochen werden?

Los hermanos Carl y Roy Opgard han triunfado en la vida. O al menos lo han hecho partiendo de las ínfimas posibilidades que les brinda un pueblo pequeño como Os. Carl dirige el ostentoso balneario, mientras que Roy sigue a cargo de la gasolinera y sueña con un parque de atracciones a lo grande...Sin embargo, cuando el estado recupera los planes para construir una nueva autopista en la región, van a ser precisas acciones contundentes si quieren salvar sus proyectos de futuro. El alguacil de Os está a punto de dar con nuevas pruebas que demuestren la culpabilidad de los hermanos.

Throughout his life, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke addressed letters to individuals who were close to him, who had contacted him after reading his works, or who he had met briefly – anyone with whom he felt an inner connection. Within his vast correspondence, there are about two dozen letters of condolence. In these direct, personal and practical letters, Rilke writes about loss and mortality, assuming the role of a sensitive, serious and uplifting guide through life’s difficulties.

La economía de Estados Unidos se encuentra en ruinas. Las empresas cierran, en las tiendas es imposible encontrar los productos básicos y la población empieza a perder la esperanza en recuperar la prosperidad y la autonomía. La respuesta del gobierno es aumentar cada vez más las regulaciones, el control de cualquier actividad y el colectivismo.

Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient - frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise. Mumei may be enfeebled and feverish, but he is a beacon of hope, full of wit and free of self-pity and pessimism.

It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man's face on the magazine's cover with the words "I Tortured People". His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime and his commitment to speaking about them haunt the narrator into her adulthood and career as a writer and documentarian.

Doppo Kunikida is an idealist and a straitlaced detective at the Armed Detective Agency, an organization that takes on dangerous jobs even the police won’t handle. Everything in his life is going just as he’s planned…until one day, he’s paired up with the agency’s newest hire: a suspicious, eccentric, suicide-obsessed man named Osamu Dazai. Their first case together turns out to be far more complicated than Kunikida anticipated—and it looks like the detective agency’s sworn enemy, the Port Mafia, is somehow involved, too!

This moment is the gateway to enlightenment. It is the only moment we have to be joyful, mindful, and awake. The key is to be there for yourself - to learn to be fully present in your life. This, Thich Nhat Hanh explains, is the heart of Buddhist practice. In this introduction to the practice of presence, the beloved Buddhist teacher provides indispensable insight on the essentials of Buddhist thought and offers a range of simple, everyday practices for cultivating mindfulness.

From one of China’s most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the country’s meteoric economic and social transformation. Characterized by Yu Hua’s trademark wit, insight, and courage, China in Ten Words is a refreshingly candid vision of the “Chinese miracle” and all its consequences, from the singularly invaluable perspective of a writer living in China today.

Through the screen of his computer a man watches a squirrel running about in a forest. For the better half of his life he has been drifting from job to job, diligently designing work-automating systems, and being rendered redundant by those systems. As he observes the squirrel, we observe him; and as he imagines the squirrel's world, we imagine his. The Squirrel Awakes is a quiet meditation on 21st century life and a compelling look at the direction society is heading.

The year is 1903, and tenacious and spirited Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan, becoming the protégée of Shinonome, the oiran, or the highest-ranking courtesan. Through Shinonome's teachings, fifteen-year-old Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. Education for a courtesan extends beyond the art of seduction, and as Ichi is taught to read and write she develops a voice that refuses to be dampened by the brothel's rigid hierarchy.

In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt’s family. Tomoko’s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home—and handsome foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company—are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family’s pygmy hippopotamus resides.

When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chizu moves in with 71-year-old Ginko, an eccentric distant relative, taking a room in her ramshackle Tokyo home, with its two resident cats and the persistent rattle of passing trains. Living their lives in imperfect symmetry, they establish an uneasy alliance, stress tested by Chizu's flashes of youthful spite. As the four seasons pass, Chizu navigates a series of tedious part-time jobs and unsatisfying relationships, before eventually finding her feet and salvaging a fierce independence from her solitude.

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses - until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.

This collection of short stories from the world of Spice & Wolf features three new vignettes from Lawrence and Holo's journeys, as well as a novella that follows Norah the shepherdess and her faithful sheepdog, Enek, as they put the city of Ruvinheigen behind them and try to forge a new path for themselves...

A las tierras más al norte de Noruega, donde nunca se pone el sol, ha llegado un sicario rebelde. Huye de su pasado y es un hombre sin futuro. Pongamos que se llama Jon y acaba de traicionar a uno de los reyes del crimen organizado de Oslo, El Pescador. En esta aldea remota de Finnmark viven los integrantes de una secta cristiana y Jon traba amistad con Lea, la hija del líder local. Ella le proporciona un lugar en el que esconderse, una cabaña de cazadores, y un rifle, además de alimentos.