Physicals

Die alternde und zurückgezogen lebende Hollywood-Ikone Evelyn Hugo ist endlich bereit, die Wahrheit über ihr glamouröses und skandalumwittertes Leben zu erzählen. Doch als sie die unbekannte Magazinreporterin Monique Grant für diese Aufgabe auswählt, ist niemand überraschter als Monique selbst. Warum sie? Warum jetzt? Monique steht nicht gerade auf der Sonnenseite des Lebens. Ihr Mann hat sie verlassen, und beruflich kommt sie nicht voran. Unabhängig davon, warum Evelyn sie ausgewählt hat, ihre Biografie zu schreiben, ist Monique entschlossen, diese Gelegenheit zu nutzen, um ihrer Karriere einen Schub zu geben. In Evelyns luxuriöses Apartment bestellt, hört Monique fasziniert zu, als die Schauspielerin ihre Geschichte erzählt. Von ihren Anfängen in Los Angeles in den 1950er-Jahren über ihre Entscheidung, das Showgeschäft in den Achtzigern zu verlassen, bis hin zu den sieben Männern auf dem Weg entfaltet Evelyn eine Geschichte von rücksichtslosem Ehrgeiz, unerwarteter Freundschaft und einer großen verbotenen Liebe. Monique beginnt, eine sehr reale Verbindung zu dem legendären Star zu spüren, doch als Evelyns Geschichte sich ihrem Ende nähert, wird klar, dass sich ihr Leben auf tragische und unumkehrbare Weise mit Moniques eigenem überschneidet.

The fourth novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman – one of the most authentic and talked-about voices in contemporary YA. It was all sinking in. I’d never had a crush on anyone. No boys, no girls, not a single person I had ever met. What did that mean? Georgia has never been in love, never kissed anyone, never even had a crush – but as a fanfic-obsessed romantic she’s sure she’ll find her person one day. As she starts university with her best friends, Pip and Jason, in a whole new town far from home, Georgia’s ready to find romance, and with her outgoing roommate on her side and a place in the Shakespeare Society, her ‘teenage dream’ is in sight. But when her romance plan wreaks havoc amongst her friends, Georgia ends up in her own comedy of errors, and she starts to question why love seems so easy for other people but not for her. With new terms thrown at her – asexual, aromantic – Georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever. Is she destined to remain loveless? Or has she been looking for the wrong thing all along? This wise, warm and witty story of identity and self-acceptance sees Alice Oseman on towering form as Georgia and her friends discover that true love isn’t limited to romance.

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands. True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead. Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.

Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail - for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago. As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingenue, extra. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea. Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues—a bee, a key, and a sword—that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library hidden far below the surface of the earth. What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians—it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also of those who are intent on its destruction. Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose—in both the mysterious book and in his own life.

Das Finale der Reihe »A Good Girl's Guide to Murder«. Am Ende dieser Mystery-Reihe wirst du nie wieder auf dieselbe Weise über brave Mädchen denken … Pip steht kurz davor, aufs College zu gehen, doch sie wird noch immer davon verfolgt, wie ihre letzte Ermittlung endete. Nach ihrem viralen True-Crime-Podcast ist sie an Online-Todesdrohungen gewöhnt, aber sie kann nicht anders, als eine anonyme Person zu bemerken, die sie immer wieder fragt: Wer wird nach dir suchen, wenn du diejenige bist, die verschwindet? Schon bald eskalieren die Drohungen, und Pip erkennt, dass ihr jemand auch im echten Leben folgt. Als sie Verbindungen zwischen ihrem Stalker und einem örtlichen Serienmörder entdeckt, der vor sechs Jahren gefasst wurde, fragt sie sich, ob vielleicht der Falsche hinter Gittern sitzt. Die Polizei weigert sich zu handeln, also bleibt Pip nur eine Möglichkeit: Sie muss den Verdächtigen selbst finden – oder das nächste Opfer werden. Während sich das tödliche Spiel entfaltet, entdeckt Pip, dass in ihrer Kleinstadt alles wieder zum Ausgangspunkt zurückkehrt … und wenn sie die Antworten nicht findet, wird sie diesmal diejenige sein, die verschwindet …

Als vier Kommilitonen von einem kleinen College in Massachusetts nach New York ziehen, um sich dort etwas aufzubauen, sind sie pleite, orientierungslos und nur durch ihre Freundschaft und ihren Ehrgeiz getragen. Da sind der freundliche, gutaussehende Willem, ein angehender Schauspieler; JB, ein schlagfertiger, bisweilen grausamer, in Brooklyn geborener Maler, der Zugang zur Kunstwelt sucht; Malcolm, ein frustrierter Architekt in einem angesehenen Büro; und der zurückgezogene, brillante, rätselhafte Jude, der ihr Gravitationszentrum bildet. Im Laufe der Jahrzehnte werden ihre Beziehungen enger und düsterer, geprägt von Sucht, Erfolg und Stolz. Doch ihre größte Herausforderung, wie jeder von ihnen erkennt, ist Jude selbst: Im mittleren Alter ist er ein erschreckend begabter Prozessanwalt, zugleich aber ein zunehmend gebrochener Mann, dessen Geist und Körper von einer unaussprechlichen Kindheit gezeichnet sind und den die Angst verfolgt, ein Ausmaß an Trauma erlebt zu haben, das er nicht nur nicht überwinden kann, sondern das sein Leben für immer bestimmen wird.

Oscar Wilde’s only novel is the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. In this celebrated work Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian Gray sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous record of evil, which he must keep hidden from the world. For over a century, this mesmerizing tale of horror and suspense has enjoyed wide popularity. It ranks as one of Wilde's most important creations and among the classic achievements of its kind.

Εξερευνώντας την ψυχολογική δυναμική της σχέσης ανάμεσα σε ένα πρόωρα ώριμο αλλά αφελές έφηβο κορίτσι και τον γοητευτικό και χειριστικό δάσκαλό της, ένα λαμπρό, καθηλωτικό ανάγνωσμα που σηματοδοτεί το εκρηκτικό ντεμπούτο μιας εξαιρετικής νέας συγγραφέα. 2000. Φωτεινή, φιλόδοξη και λαχταρώντας την ενηλικίωση, η δεκαπεντάχρονη Βανέσα Γουάι εμπλέκεται σε μια σχέση με τον Τζέικομπ Στρέιν, τον γοητευτικό και πανούργο σαρανταδυάχρονο καθηγητή αγγλικών της. 2017. Μέσα στο αυξανόμενο κύμα καταγγελιών εναντίον ισχυρών ανδρών, πλησιάζει η ώρα του απολογισμού. Ο Στρέιν έχει κατηγορηθεί για σεξουαλική κακοποίηση από μια πρώην μαθήτριά του, η οποία επικοινωνεί με τη Βανέσα, και τώρα η Βανέσα βρίσκεται ξαφνικά αντιμέτωπη με μια αδύνατη επιλογή: να παραμείνει σιωπηλή, πιστεύοντας ακλόνητα ότι ως έφηβη συμμετείχε πρόθυμα σε αυτή τη σχέση, ή να επαναπροσδιορίσει τον εαυτό της και τα γεγονότα του παρελθόντος της. Μα πώς μπορεί η Βανέσα να απορρίψει τον πρώτο της έρωτα, τον άνδρα που τη μεταμόρφωσε θεμελιωδώς και υπήρξε σταθερή παρουσία στη ζωή της; Είναι δυνατόν ο άνδρας που αγάπησε ως έφηβη —και που ισχυριζόταν ότι λάτρευε μόνο εκείνη— να διαφέρει πολύ από ό,τι πάντα πίστευε; Εναλλάσσοντας το παρόν της Βανέσας με το παρελθόν της, το «Σκοτεινή μου Βανέσα» αντιπαραβάλλει τη μνήμη και το τραύμα με τη λαχανιασμένη έξαψη ενός έφηβου κοριτσιού που ανακαλύπτει τη δύναμη που μπορεί να ασκήσει το ίδιο της το σώμα. Στοχαστικό και αδύνατον να το αφήσεις από τα χέρια σου, είναι μια αριστοτεχνική απεικόνιση της ταραγμένης εφηβείας και των συνεπειών της, που θέτει καίρια ερωτήματα για την αυτενέργεια, τη συναίνεση, τη συνενοχή και τη θυματοποίηση. Γραμμένο με την στοιχειωτική οικειότητα του «The Girls» και την υπόγεια ένταση του «Room», το «Σκοτεινή μου Βανέσα» είναι ένα μυθιστόρημα που ορίζει την εποχή του και αποτυπώνει και αντανακλά με εξαιρετικό τρόπο τα μεταβαλλόμενα πολιτισμικά ήθη που μεταμορφώνουν τις σχέσεις μας και την ίδια την κοινωνία.

Като докторантка трета година, Олив Смит не вярва в трайните романтични връзки — но най-добрата ѝ приятелка вярва, и точно това я е довело до тази ситуация. Да убеди Ан, че Олив има връзка и е на път към щастлив край, винаги щеше да изисква повече от небрежни джедайски номера с ума: учените изискват доказателства. Затова, като всеки уважаващ себе си биолог, Олив изпада в паника и целува първия мъж, когото види. Този мъж е не кой да е, а Адам Карлсен, млад професор звезда — и известен задник. Именно затова Олив е направо смаяна, когато властващият тиранин на лабораториите в Станфорд се съгласява да пази шарадата ѝ в тайна и да бъде фалшивото ѝ гадже. Но когато голяма научна конференция се обърква, оставяйки кариерата на Олив да къкри на бунзеновата горелка, Адам отново я изненадва с непоколебимата си подкрепа и още по-непоколебимите си... плочки. Изведнъж малкият им експеримент се оказва опасно близо до възпламеняване. А Олив открива, че единственото нещо, по-сложно от хипотезата за любовта, е да постави собственото си сърце под микроскоп.

Από τη συγγραφέα του μπεστ σέλερ των New York Times Η θεωρία του έρωτα έρχεται μια νέα ρομαντική κομεντί με μια STEMινίστρια, στην οποία μια επιστήμονας αναγκάζεται να συνεργαστεί σε ένα πρότζεκτ με τον νέμεσίς της — με εκρηκτικά αποτελέσματα. Η Μπι Κένιγκσβασερ ζει σύμφωνα με έναν απλό κώδικα: Τι θα έκανε η Μαρί Κιουρί; Αν η NASA της πρόσφερε να ηγηθεί ενός πρότζεκτ νευρομηχανικής — ένα όνειρο που γίνεται κυριολεκτικά πραγματικότητα — η Μαρί θα δεχόταν χωρίς δισταγμό. Εννοείται. Όμως η μητέρα της σύγχρονης φυσικής δεν χρειάστηκε ποτέ να συνδιευθύνει ένα έργο με τον Λέβι Γουόρντ. Σίγουρα, ο Λέβι είναι ελκυστικός, με εκείνον τον ψηλό, μελαχρινό τύπο και τα διαπεραστικά μάτια. Αλλά ο Λέβι είχε ξεκαθαρίσει τα αισθήματά του για την Μπι ήδη από τις μεταπτυχιακές τους σπουδές — οι ορκισμένοι εχθροί λειτουργούν καλύτερα όταν εργάζονται στους δικούς τους γαλαξίες, πολύ, πολύ μακριά ο ένας από τον άλλο. Όμως, όταν ο εξοπλισμός της αρχίζει να εξαφανίζεται και το προσωπικό την αγνοεί, η Μπι θα ορκιζόταν πως βλέπει τον Λέβι να μαλακώνει και να γίνεται σύμμαχος, να τη στηρίζει, να επικροτεί τις ιδέες της... να την καταβροχθίζει με εκείνα τα μάτια. Οι πιθανότητες κάνουν όλους τους νευρώνες της να πυροδοτούνται. Όταν όμως έρχεται η ώρα να κάνει πραγματικά μια κίνηση και να ρισκάρει την καρδιά της, υπάρχει μόνο μία ερώτηση που έχει σημασία: Τι θα κάνει η Μπι Κένιγκσβασερ;

Unter dem Einfluss ihres charismatischen Professors für Klassische Philologie entdeckt eine Gruppe kluger, exzentrischer Außenseiter an einem elitären College in Neuengland eine Denk- und Lebensweise, die Welten entfernt ist von der eintönigen Existenz ihrer Altersgenossen. Doch als sie die Grenzen der normalen Moral überschreiten, gleiten sie allmählich von Besessenheit in Korruption und Verrat und schließlich – unaufhaltsam – ins Böse ab.

A sweet encounter between a bookworm and a basketball player turns steamy in the stacks after hours. Kendall Holiday spends her Fridays exactly where she wants to ensconced in a romance novel in an empty college library working the graveyard shift. The quiet of the library is dependable, and gives Kendall an excellent excuse for skipping out on the loud, raucous start to the weekend. Lost in the pages of her favorite love stories, Kendall blocks out the world―until Vincent Knight, the school’s star basketball player, turns up. Opposites might attract in romance novels, but it takes a lot more truth than tropes to make it work in real life.

A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by the shadows of the night. As you listen, the clutching fingers of terror brush lightly across the nape of the neck, reach round from behind to clutch and lock themselves, white\-knuckled, around the throat. This is the horror of ordinary people and everyday objects that become strangely altered; a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems, where the familiar and the friendly lure and deceive. A world where madness and blind panic become the only reality. Listening Length: 10 hours and 33 minutes

In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold. Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges… a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.

Was würdest du ändern, wenn du in der Zeit zurückreisen könntest? In einer kleinen Seitengasse in Tokio gibt es ein Café, das seit mehr als einhundert Jahren sorgfältig gebrühten Kaffee serviert. Doch dieses Café bietet seinen Gästen ein einzigartiges Erlebnis: die Möglichkeit, in der Zeit zurückzureisen. In „Bevor der Kaffee kalt wird“ begegnen wir vier Besucherinnen und Besuchern, die das Angebot des Cafés nutzen möchten, um den Mann zur Rede zu stellen, der sie verlassen hat, einen Brief von ihrem Mann zu erhalten, dem Alzheimer im Frühstadium die Erinnerung genommen hat, ihre Schwester ein letztes Mal zu sehen und die Tochter kennenzulernen, die sie nie kennenlernen konnten. Doch die Reise in die Vergangenheit ist nicht ohne Risiken: Die Gäste müssen auf einem bestimmten Platz sitzen, sie dürfen das Café nicht verlassen, und schließlich müssen sie in die Gegenwart zurückkehren, bevor der Kaffee kalt wird . . . Toshikazu Kawaguchis schöne, bewegende Geschichte erkundet die uralte Frage: Was würdest du ändern, wenn du in der Zeit zurückreisen könntest? Und noch wichtiger: Wen würdest du vielleicht ein letztes Mal treffen wollen?

White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersburg, it is the story of a young man fighting his inner restlessness. A light and tender narrative, it delves into the torment and guilt of unrequited love. Both protagonists suffer from a deep sense of alienation that initially brings them together. A blend of romanticism and realism, the story appeals gently to the senses and feelings.

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and The Cabin at the End of the World. In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art\-house horror flick. The weird part? Only three of the film’s scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has nevertheless grown a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot. The man who played “The Thin Kid” is the only surviving cast member. He remembers all too well the secrets buried within the original screenplay, the bizarre events of the filming, and the dangerous crossed lines on set that resulted in tragedy. As memories flood back in, the boundaries between reality and film, past and present start to blur. But he’s going to help remake the film, even if it means navigating a world of cynical producers, egomaniacal directors, and surreal fan conventions—demons of the past be damned. But at what cost? Horror Movie is an obsessive, psychologically chilling, and suspenseful twist on the “cursed film” that breathlessly builds to an unforgettable, mind\-bending conclusion.

For fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and Veronica Mars, this whip-smart thriller follows a sapphic detective agency as they seek the truth behind a growing trail of missing girls in small-town Louisiana. A year ago, beloved cheerleader Stella Blackthorn vanished without a trace. Devastated, her younger sister, Iris, launched her own investigation, but all she managed to do was scare off the police’s only lead and earn a stern warning: Once she turns eighteen, more meddling means prison-level consequences. Then, a year later, the unthinkable happens. Iris’s ex-girlfriend, Heather, goes missing, too—just after dropping the polarizing last episode of her true crime podcast all about Iris’s sister. This time, nothing will stop Iris and her amateur sleuthing agency from solving these disappearances. But with a suspicious detective watching her every move, an enemy-turned-friend-turned-maybe-more to contend with, and only thirty days until she turns eighteen, it’s a race against the clock for Iris to solve the most dangerous case of her life.

A charming novel for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and How to Stop Time, following a cat through his nine lives in Edinburgh, moving through the ever\-changing city and its inhabitants over centuries Early morning, 1902\. At 7/7 Marchmont Crescent, Eilidh the charlady tips coal into a fire grate and sets it alight. Overhearing, Grimalkin the cat ambles over to curl up against the welcome heat and lick his favorite human's hand. But this is to be his last day on earth…before he becomes the Ghost Cat. Follow Grimalkin as he witnesses the changes of the next 120 years, prowling unseen among the inhabitants of an Edinburgh tenement while unearthing some startling revelations about the mystery of existence, the unstoppable march of time and the true meaning of feline companionship.

لقد جاء عام 1984 ومضى، لكن رؤية جورج أورويل النبوئية الكابوسية التي صاغها عام 1949 للعالم الذي كنا نصير إليه تبدو اليوم أكثر راهنية من أي وقت مضى. لا تزال «1984» الكلاسيكية الحديثة العظيمة في أدب «اليوتوبيا السلبية» — رواية أصيلة على نحو مدهش ومقلقة، تخلق عالماً خيالياً مقنعاً تماماً، من الجملة الأولى إلى الكلمات الأربع الأخيرة. ولا يستطيع أحد إنكار سطوة الرواية على مخيلات أجيال كاملة، أو قوة تحذيراتها — وهي قوة يبدو أنها تزداد، لا تضعف، مع مرور الزمن.

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In complete retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.

Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.

Seven students are avoiding going to school, hiding in their darkened bedrooms, unable to face their family and friends, until the moment they discover a portal into another world that offers temporary escape from their stressful lives. Passing through a glowing mirror, they gather in a magnificent castle which becomes their playground and refuge during school hours. The students are tasked with locating a key, hidden somewhere in the castle, that will allow whoever finds it to be granted one wish. At this moment, the castle will vanish, along with all memories they may have of their adventure. If they fail to leave the castle by 5 pm every afternoon, they will be eaten by the keeper of the castle, an easily provoked and shrill creature named the Wolf Queen. Delving into their emotional lives with sympathy and a generous warmth, Lonely Castle in the Mirror shows the unexpected rewards of reaching out to others. Exploring vivid human stories with a twisty and puzzle-like plot, this heart-warming novel is full of joy and hope for anyone touched by sadness and vulnerability.

Translated from the Japanese bestseller, this charming and magical novel, inspired by the myth of cats returning favors to those who care for them, reminds us that it’s never too late to follow our stars. In Japan cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they’ll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might just find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop under a glittering Kyoto moon. This particular coffee shop is like no other. It has no fixed location, no fixed hours, and seemingly appears at random to adrift young people at crucial junctions in their lives. It’s also run by talking cats. While customers at the Full Moon Coffee Shop partake in cakes, coffees, and teas, the cats also consult them on their star charts, offer cryptic wisdom, and let them know where their lives have veered off course—because every person who visits the shop has been feeling more than a little lost. And for a down\-on\-her\-luck screenwriter, a romantically stuck movie director, a hopeful hairstylist, and a technologically challenged website designer, the feline guides will set them back on their fated paths. After all, there is a reason the shop appeared to each of them…

A cat a day keeps the doctor away…. Discover this utterly charming, vibrant celebration of the healing power of cats in the award\-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has become an international sensation. Tucked away on the fifth floor of an old building at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, the Nakagyō Kokoro Clinic for the Soul can be found only by people who are struggling in their lives and who genuinely need help. The mysterious clinic offers a unique treatment to those who find their way there: it prescribes cats as medication. Patients are often puzzled by this unconventional prescription, but when they “take” their cat for the recommended duration, they witness profound transformations in their lives, guided by the playful, empathetic, and occasionally challenging yet endearing cats. Throughout these pages, the power of the human\-animal bond is revealed as a disheartened businessman finds unexpected joy in physical labor, a middle\-aged man struggles to stay relevant at work and home, a young girl navigates the complexities of elementary school cliques, a hardened handbag designer seeks emotional balance, and a geisha learns to move on from the memory of her lost cat. As the clinic’s patients grapple with their inner turmoil and seek resolution, their feline companions lead them toward healing, self\-discovery, and newfound hope.

Welcome to the Marigold Mind Laundry, where we wash away the stains from your heart. In this enchanting tale—a blockbuster bestseller in Korea—the enigmatic owner of a magical laundromat that erases people’s painful memories must learn to find her own peace before she can truly help others. Born with mysterious powers she does not know how to control, young Jieun accidentally causes her family to vanish. She vows to live a million lives in search of them. Finally, one night, she brings the Marigold Mind Laundry into existence. Its service: to remove the deepest pain from our hearts. Jieun listens while customers share their unhappy memories. As they speak, she transfers their sadness onto T\-shirts as stains. After a spin in the washing machine, the stains become flower petals that soar into the air, and Jieun’s customers find solace. Five wounded souls come to Jieun for help: a frustrated young filmmaker, a spiraling social media influencer, a mother betrayed by her husband, a woman jilted by her lover, and a talented photographer who hides in the saftey of a mundane job. As Jieun listens to each of their stories, she learns that the will to heal is not a rare gift, but a power we all possess—if only we are open to it. Joyous and inspiring, The Marigold Mind Laundry offers wonderment and comfort as it teaches us to tap into the magic that lives within us all.

Okouzlující mezinárodní bestseller o starém knihkupci, který roznáší svá doporučení od dveří ke dveřím, a o nepravděpodobném přátelství s devítiletou dívkou, jež mu změní život, pro fanoušky knih Půlnoční knihovna a Muž jménem Ove. Knihkupec Carl Christian Kollhoff po zavírací době ve večerních hodinách doručuje knihy zvláštním zákazníkům a prochází malebnými městskými uličkami. Tito lidé jsou pro něj téměř jako přátelé a on je jejich nejdůležitějším spojením se světem. Když Kollhoff nečekaně přijde o práci, je zapotřebí síly knih a devítileté dívky, aby všichni našli odvahu znovu vybudovat vzájemná pouta. Knihonoš Carstena Henna, mezinárodní bestsellerový fenomén, je feel-good román o knihách a přátelství.

More Happy Than Not meets Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future in this gritty, contemporary YA debut about a bullied gay teen boy with an eating disorder who believes he’s developed super powers via starvation. Matt hasn’t eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside, pleading for a meal. But Matt won’t give in. The hunger clears his mind, keeps him sharp—and he needs to be as sharp as possible if he’s going to find out just how Tariq and his band of high school bullies drove his sister, Maya, away. Matt’s hardworking mom keeps the kitchen crammed with food, but Matt can resist the siren call of casseroles and cookies because he has discovered something: the less he eats the more he seems to have . . . powers. The ability to see things he shouldn’t be able to see. The knack of tuning in to thoughts right out of people’s heads. Maybe even the authority to bend time and space. So what is lunch, really, compared to the secrets of the universe? Matt decides to infiltrate Tariq’s life, then use his powers to uncover what happened to Maya. All he needs to do is keep the hunger and longing at bay. No problem. But Matt doesn’t realize there are many kinds of hunger… and he isn’t in control of all of them. A darkly funny, moving story of body image, addiction, friendship, and love, Sam J. Miller’s debut novel will resonate with any reader who’s ever craved the power that comes with self-acceptance.

Für Fans von Die Mitternachtsbibliothek und Bevor der Kaffee kalt wird zeigt dieser bezaubernde japanische Roman, wie die perfekte Buchempfehlung das Leben eines Lesers verändern kann. Wonach suchen Sie? Das ist die berühmte Frage, die Tokios rätselhafteste Bibliothekarin, Sayuri Komachi, regelmäßig stellt. Wie die meisten Bibliothekarinnen hat Komachi jedes Buch in ihren Regalen gelesen – doch sie besitzt auch die einzigartige Fähigkeit, die Seelen ihrer Bibliotheksgäste zu lesen. Bei jedem, der durch ihre Tür tritt, kann Komachi genau spüren, wonach er im Leben sucht, und ihm genau die Buchempfehlung geben, von der er nie wusste, dass er sie brauchte, um es zu finden. Jeder Besucher kommt an einem anderen Punkt seiner beruflichen Laufbahn und seiner Träume in ihre Bibliothek: von der unruhigen Verkäuferin, die sich in ihrem Job festgefahren fühlt, bis zur kämpfenden berufstätigen Mutter, die davon träumt, Redakteurin einer Zeitschrift zu werden. Das Gespräch, das sie mit Sayuri Komachi führen – und das überraschende Buch, das sie jedem von ihnen ausleiht – wird lebensverändernde Folgen haben. Mit herzerwärmendem Charme und Weisheit ist Frau Komachi empfiehlt ein Buch ein Loblied auf die Magie von Bibliotheken, Freundschaft und Gemeinschaft, perfekt für alle, die sich in ihrem Leben schon einmal in einer Sackgasse wiedergefunden haben und ein wenig Inspiration brauchten.

In einer abgelegenen Gasse eines Viertels in Seoul, wie es sie überall geben könnte, eröffnet zwischen Wohnhäusern, an denen nicht viele Menschen vorbeikommen, eine gewöhnliche Buchhandlung: die Buchhandlung von Hyeonam-dong! Ihre Inhaberin Yeongju, deren Gesicht wie das eines Menschen mit einer traurigen Geschichte keinerlei Antrieb erkennen lässt, arbeitet in den ersten Monaten nicht, sondern sitzt einfach nur da und liest Bücher, als wäre sie selbst Kundin. Während sie ihre Tage so verbringt, als gewönne sie verlorene Dinge Stück für Stück zurück, verschwindet allmählich das Gefühl in ihrem Inneren, ausgelaugt und leer zu sein. Dann erkennt sie eines Tages, dass sie ziemlich gesund geworden ist. Von diesem Moment an wird die Buchhandlung von Hyeonam-dong zu einem völlig neuen Ort: zu einem Ort, an dem Menschen, Gefühle und die Geschichten jedes Einzelnen zusammenkommen. Der Barista Minjun, Jimi, die Leiterin einer Rösterei, der Schriftsteller Seung-u, die Stammkundin Jeongseo, der vom Leben gelangweilte Oberschüler Mincheol und seine Mutter Huiju sowie weitere Menschen mit großen und kleinen Wunden und Hoffnungen machen die Buchhandlung von Hyeonam-dong zu ihrem Zufluchtsort und lernen gemeinsam, wie man lebt. „Willkommen in meiner Buchhandlung“ ist ein Buch voller Dinge, die wir verloren haben, obwohl wir sie zum Leben unbedingt brauchen: Rücksicht und Freundlichkeit, Freundschaft und lockere Verbundenheit zwischen Menschen, die es verstehen, Abstand zu wahren, sowie aufrichtige und tiefgehende Gespräche.

يعمل ماركوس في مصنع المعالجة المحلي، في مجال ذبح البشر — رغم أن أحدًا لم يعد يسميهم كذلك. تركته زوجته، ووالده يغرق في الخرف، ويحاول ماركوس ألا يفكر مليًا في الطريقة التي يكسب بها رزقه. ففي النهاية، حدث الأمر بسرعة كبيرة. أولًا، أُبلغ عن أن فيروسًا معديًا جعل كل لحوم الحيوانات سامة للبشر. ثم بدأت الحكومات «التحول». والآن، أصبح أكل لحم البشر — «اللحم الخاص» — قانونيًا. يحاول ماركوس الالتزام بالأرقام والشحنات والمعالجة. ثم، في أحد الأيام، يُهدى إليه شيء: عينة حية من أجود نوعية. ومع أنه يدرك أن أي شكل من أشكال التواصل الشخصي ممنوع تحت طائلة الموت، فإنه يبدأ، شيئًا فشيئًا، في معاملتها كإنسانة. وسرعان ما يعذبه ما فُقد — وما قد لا يزال بالإمكان إنقاذه.

In this whimsical and inventive debut—perfect for fans of The Guest Cat and Calvino’s Invisible Cities—a young couple’s daily life is disrupted by their newly adopted cat, who soon initiates them into the wondrous world of felines. Equal parts magical and humorous, Invisible Kitties tells the story of a young couple that one day accidentally comes into possession of a delightful, playful kitten. Bright eyed and bushy tailed, this new companion, aptly named Cat, upturns the routine of the narrator and her husband in their cramped apartment, and soon they find their existence forever altered as they gradually gain insight into the fantastical world of cats. Every cat contains multitudes... Charting the couple’s ever-evolving relationship with cats –some they live with, others who exist solely in their imagination– Invisible Kitties introduces us to a coterie of extraordinary, physics-defying, death-defying cats. They drop from the sky, they grow from the soil, they transmute. They fly, flow, and evaporate. The young couple’s everyday life, often eclipsed by the drama of cats, offers a gentle glimpse of how joy can suddenly sneak into our lives. Composed of sixty chapters written in Yu Yoyo’s elegant and witty style and complemented by the author’s own illustrations—Invisible Kitties is a celebration of ordinary life and the felines we love, deftly playing with the invisible boundaries between reality and imagination. Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang

Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision to embrace a more “plant-like” existence is a shocking act of subversion. And as her passive rebellion manifests in ever more extreme and frightening forms, scandal, abuse, and estrangement begin to send Yeong-hye spiraling deep into the spaces of her fantasy. In a complete metamorphosis of both mind and body, her now dangerous endeavor will take Yeong-hye—impossibly, ecstatically, tragically—far from her once-known self altogether.

The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner treats its customers to wonderfully extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason to stop by . . . The father-daughter duo have started advertising their services as 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are capable of recreating a dish from their customers' pasts – dishes that may well hold the keys to forgotten memories and future happiness. From the widower looking for a specific noodle dish that his wife used to cook, to a first love's beef stew, the restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to the past – and a way to a more contented future. A bestseller in Japan, The Kamogawa Food Detectives is a celebration of good company and the power of a delicious meal.

Die bewegende internationale Sensation über Neuanfänge, menschliche Verbundenheit und die Freude am Lesen. Versteckt in Jimbōchō, Tokio, liegt ein Paradies für Bücherliebhaber. An einer ruhigen Ecke in einem alten Holzgebäude befindet sich ein Laden voller Hunderter gebrauchter Bücher. Die fünfundzwanzigjährige Takako hat das Lesen nie gemocht, obwohl die Buchhandlung Morisaki seit drei Generationen ihrer Familie gehört. Sie ist der ganze Stolz ihres Onkels Satoru, der sein Leben der Buchhandlung gewidmet hat, seit seine Frau Momoko ihn fünf Jahre zuvor verlassen hat. Als Takakos Freund ihr eröffnet, dass er eine andere heiraten wird, nimmt sie widerwillig das Angebot ihres exzentrischen Onkels an, mietfrei in dem winzigen Zimmer über dem Laden zu wohnen. In der Hoffnung, ihren gebrochenen Herzen in Ruhe zu kurieren, ist Takako überrascht, in den Bücherstapeln der Buchhandlung Morisaki neue Welten zu entdecken. Während der Sommer in den Herbst übergeht, entdecken Satoru und Takako, dass sie mehr gemeinsam haben, als sie zunächst dachten. Die Buchhandlung Morisaki hat ihnen beiden etwas über das Leben, die Liebe und die heilende Kraft von Büchern beizubringen.

The Restaurant of Lost Recipes is the second book in the bestselling, mouth\-watering Kamogawa Food Detectives series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto helps recreate them... Chef Nagare and his daughter Koishi serve their customers more than delicious food at their Kamogawa Diner down a quiet street in Kyoto. They can help recreate meals from their customers’ most treasured memories. Through ingenious investigations, these “food detectives” untangle flavors and pore through old shopping lists to remake unique dishes from the past. From the swimmer who misses his father’s lunchbox to the model who longs for fried rice from her childhood, each customer leaves the diner forever changed—though not always in the ways they expect… A beloved bestseller in Japan, The Restaurant of Lost Recipes is a tender and healing novel that celebrates the power of community and delicious food.

Journalist Rika Machida is facing an unusual she is tapped to investigate serial killer Manako Kajii, notorious for drawing rich men in with her pricey cooking classes, only to murder them and move on to the next. Kajii refuses to cooperate with the press until Rika writes her a letter asking for her beef stew recipe, a correspondence and ongoing series of conversations between the two women that sees Rika transforming as she becomes closer to Kajii, taking on some of her confidence and strength but also some of her deadly intention. Game on. Set in 2011, when dairy product shortages across Japan made butter a hot commodity, Butter depicts a vivid, panoramic view of contemporary Japan as seen through a diverse cast of Japanese women. An endlessly entertaining and sharply insightful look at the relationships between women and how they engage and challenge one another, revealing the many contradictions and complexities in the process, Asako Yuzuki’s novel is filled with intoxicating descriptions of food and the body that also looks deeply at its connection to the sinister, criminal, and taboo, its enduring power and delight.

Set for international release this fall, this cozy Korean bestseller invites readers into a warm, sunlit pottery studio where a burned\-out young TV broadcast writer begins to heal, working the clay, piece by piece, season by season. After breaking down at the office and abruptly quitting her job, thirty\-year\-old Jungmin holes up in her apartment, speaking to no one for days on end. When she finally emerges, she stumbles upon a pottery studio in her neighborhood and is invited in by the mysterious workshop teacher. The smell of clay, the light filtering through the plant filled windows, the friendly cat, and the incredible coffee the students drink awaken her senses and make her feel alive and inspired for the first time in months. As the seasons change, Jungmin slowly returns to herself and builds a new community with the other members of the studio, who are all working through their own pasts at the pottery wheel. When the holidays approach and snow piles up on the studio windowsill, Jungmin realizes how much she has changed—with her hands busy and her mind clear, she may be ready to face the memories she’s been running from and open her heart. For fans of What You Are Looking For Is in the Library and Welcome to the Hyunam\-dong Bookshop, Yeon’s charming English\-language debut is a testament to the joy of slowing down in a fast\-paced world, and an homage to the art of ceramics and the power of friendship. Readers won’t want to leave the enchanting world of The Healing Season of Pottery after the final page.

مرحبًا بكم في «استوديو تصوير الزمن». لقد كنتُ في انتظاركم هنا منذ وقت طويل، وسأصطحبكم في مراجعتكم الأخيرة للحياة. لو أتيح لكم العودة إلى الماضي والتقاط أفضل صورة في حياتكم، فإلى أي وقت تودون العودة؟ 〈صورة الجدة والحافلة〉 تنظر هاتسوي ذات الشعر الأبيض إلى صورة الحافلة المصفرّة بين يديها. كانت يومها في الثالثة والعشرين من عمرها، وقد حصلت لتوها على شهادة رعاية الأطفال. في سنوات ما بعد الحرب التي شحّت فيها المواد، لم تتخلَّ هاتسوي قط عن أولئك الأطفال المعوزين، لأنها ظلت تتذكر فضل «ذلك الشخص»، والدموع التي ذرفتها يومها على المنحدر... 〈صورة الفأر والبطل〉 «صباح الخير، لقد تعطلتَ، فأصلحتُك.» لم ينسَ كروكوتشي، رجل العصابات الذي أرسلته المنظمة لإدارة متجر السلع المستعملة، هذه العبارة التي كان يرددها تابعه «الفأر» أبدًا. وعلى الرغم من أن الفأر كان من ذوي الإعاقة الجسدية والذهنية، فإن شخصيته كانت غريبة للغاية؛ فلم يكن مجتهدًا ومثابرًا فحسب، بل كان قادرًا أيضًا على إصلاح أي شيء... 〈الصورة الأخيرة مع ميتسورو〉 حين ظهرت أخت ميتسورو، وقد غدت هزيلة كالعظم، ومغطاة بالجراح من رأسها إلى قدميها، ورأسها محلوقًا على نحو فوضوي، ذُهل الجميع. وكان منظرها وهي شديدة الحذر، متكوّرة في زاوية الأريكة، مؤلمًا للقلب أكثر من ذلك. فهل ستتمكن هي أيضًا من العثور على ذكرى سعيدة؟

If you could swap your life for a better one, which would you choose? On the outskirts of Rainbow Town, there is an old, abandoned house. They say that if you send a letter detailing your misfortunes there, you could receive a ticket. If you bring this ticket to the house on the first day of the rainy season, you'll be granted entrance into the mysterious Rainfall Market—where you can choose to completely change your life. No one is more surprised than Serin when she receives a ticket. Lonely and with no real prospects for a future, Serin ventures to the market, determined to create a better life for herself. There, she meets a magical cat companion named Issha and they search through bookstores, perfumeries, and fantastical realms while Serin tries to determine what her perfect life will look like. The catch? Serin only has one week to find her happiness or be doomed to vanish into the market forever. And all the while, a shadow follows quietly behind them…

It is just before New Year’s. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo’s sleazy nightlife. But Frank’s behavior is so strange that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion – that his new client is in fact the serial killer currently terrorizing the city. It is not until later, however, that Kenji learns exactly how much he has to fear and how irrevocably his encounter with this great white whale of an American will change his life. From postmodern Renaissance man Ryu Murakami, master of the psycho-thriller and director of Tokyo Decadence, comes this shocking, hair-raising, roller-coaster ride through the nefarious neon-lit world of Tokyo’s sex industry.

At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people’s dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward, or that you are forced to live out your afterlife with annoying versions of who you could have been. With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now.

Osamu Dazai's 1939 novella depicts a day in the life of a Tokyo schoolgirl. Propelling Dazai into the literary elite of post-war Japan, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against "them" — a theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the reader a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century.

Japan's internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and everyday sorrows that surround us in everyday life. First published in Japan in 2003 and never-before-published in the United States, Dead-End Memories collects the stories of five women who, following sudden and painful events, quietly discover their ways back to recovery. Among the women we meet in Dead-End Memories is a woman betrayed by her fiancé who finds a perfect refuge in an apartment above her uncle's bar while seeking the real meaning of happiness. In "House of Ghosts", a daughter of a yōshoku restaurant owner encounters the ghosts of a sweet elderly couple who haven't yet realized that they have been dead for years. In "Tomo-chan's Happiness", an office worker who is a victim of sexual assault finally catches sight of the hope of romance. Yoshimoto's gentle, effortless prose reminds us that one true miracle can be as simple as having someone to share a meal with and that happiness is always within us if only we take a moment to pause and reflect. Discover this collection of what Yoshimoto herself calls the "most precious work of my writing career".

The spine\-tingling bestseller that has taken Japan by storm—an eerie fresh take on horror for fans of Hidden Pictures and Junji Ito, in which a series of seemingly innocent pictures draws you into a disturbing web of unsolved mysteries and shattered psyches. An exploration of the macabre, where the seemingly mundane takes on a terrifying significance... A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning. A child's picture of his home contains a dark secret message. A sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments leads an amateur sleuth down a rabbithole that will reveal a horrifying reality. Structured around these nine childlike drawings, each holding a disturbing clue, Uketsu invites readers to piece together the mystery behind each and the over\-arching backstory that connects them all. Strange Pictures is the internationally bestselling debut from mystery horror YouTube sensation Uketsu—an enigmatic masked figure who has become one of Japan's most talked about contemporary authors.

От награждаваната авторка Р. Ф. Куанг идва „Вавилон“ — епична историческа фентъзи творба, която се занимава със студентски революции, колониална съпротива и употребата на езика и превода като средство за господство на Британската империя. Traduttore, traditore: Всеки акт на превод е акт на предателство. 1828 г. Робин Суифт, осиротял от холера в Кантон, е доведен в Лондон от загадъчния професор Ловел. Там той години наред се обучава по латински, старогръцки и китайски, подготвяйки се за деня, в който ще постъпи в престижния Кралски институт по превод към Оксфордския университет — известен още като Вавилон. Кулата и нейните студенти са световният център на превода и, което е още по-важно, на магията. Среброделството — изкуството да се проявява изгубеният в превода смисъл с помощта на омагьосани сребърни кюлчета — е направило британците ненадминати по сила, тъй като това тайнствено изкуство служи на стремежа на Империята към колонизация. За Робин Оксфорд е утопия, посветена на преследването на знанието. Но знанието се подчинява на властта и като китайско момче, израснало във Великобритания, Робин осъзнава, че да служи на Вавилон означава да предаде родината си. С напредването на обучението си Робин се оказва разкъсан между Вавилон и потайното Общество на Хермес — организация, посветена на спирането на имперската експанзия. Когато Великобритания започва несправедлива война с Китай заради среброто и опиума, Робин трябва да реши... Могат ли могъщите институции да бъдат променени отвътре или революцията винаги изисква насилие?

Chan Ho-Kei’s The Borrowed was one of the most acclaimed international crime novels of recent years, a vivid and compelling tale of power, corruption, and the law spanning five decades of the history of Hong Kong. Now he delivers Second Sister, an up-to-the-minute tale of a Darwinian digital city where everyone from tech entrepreneurs to teenagers is struggling for the top. A schoolgirl—Siu-Man—has committed suicide, leaping from her twenty-second floor window to the pavement below. Siu-Man is an orphan and the librarian older sister who’s been raising her refuses to believe there was no foul play—nothing seemed amiss. She contacts a man known only as N.—a hacker, and an expert in cybersecurity and manipulating human behavior. But can Nga-Yee interest him sufficiently to take her case, and can she afford it if he says yes? What follows is a cat and mouse game through the city of Hong Kong and its digital underground, especially an online gossip platform, where someone has been slandering Siu-Man. The novel is also populated by a man harassing girls on mass transit; high school kids, with their competing agendas and social dramas; a Hong Kong digital company courting an American venture capitalist; and the Triads, market women and noodle shop proprietors who frequent N.’s neighborhood of Sai Wan. In the end it all comes together to tell us who caused Siu-Man’s death and why, and to ask, in a world where online and offline dialogue has increasingly forgotten about the real people on the other end, what the proper punishment is.

Хари Потър няма представа колко е известен. Това е така, защото е отглеждан от своите нещастни леля и чичо, които се ужасяват, че Хари ще научи, че всъщност е магьосник, точно като родителите си. Но всичко се променя, когато Хари е повикан да учи в прочуто училище за магьосници и започва да открива някои следи за своето славно наследство по рождение. От изненадващия начин, по който е посрещнат от един симпатичен великан, до уникалната учебна програма и колоритните преподаватели в необичайното му училище, Хари се оказва въвлечен дълбоко в мистичен свят, за чието съществуване никога не е подозирал, и все по-близо до собствената си благородна съдба.

Od té doby, co se Harry Potter vrátil na léto domů, byli Dursleyovi tak zlí a odporní, že si Harry nepřál nic jiného než vrátit se do Bradavické školy čar a kouzel. Jenže právě když si balí kufry, dostane Harry varování od podivného skřítka, který mu říká, že pokud se Harry vrátí do Bradavic, dojde ke katastrofě. A skutečně k ní dojde. Ve druhém Harryho roce v Bradavicích se objeví nová trápení a hrůzy, včetně nesnesitelně namyšleného nového profesora a ducha, který straší na dívčích záchodcích. Pak však začnou ty opravdové potíže – někdo proměňuje bradavické studenty v kámen. Mohl by to být Draco Malfoy, jedovatější soupeř než kdy dřív? Mohlo by to snad být Hagrid, jehož tajemná minulost je konečně odhalena? Anebo by to mohl být ten, koho v Bradavicích všichni podezírají nejvíc… sám Harry Potter?

Оцеляването на Фейра зависи от способността ѝ да ловува и убива – гората, в която живее, е студено, мрачно място през дългите зимни месеци. Затова, когато забелязва в гората елен, преследван от вълк, тя не може да устои да се пребори с него заради месото. Но за да го направи, трябва да убие хищника, а убийството на нещо толкова ценно си има цена... Отведена в магическо кралство за убийството на фея, Фейра открива, че нейният похитител, чието лице е скрито зад маска, обсипана със скъпоценности, крие много повече, отколкото пронизващите му зелени очи подсказват. Присъствието на Фейра в двора се пази в строга тайна и докато започва да научава защо, чувствата ѝ към него се променят от враждебност в страст, а земите на феите се превръщат в още по-опасно място. Фейра трябва да се бори, за да развали древно проклятие, иначе ще го загуби завинаги.

Vstupte do brutálního a elitního světa válečné akademie pro dračí jezdce od autorky Rebeccy Yarros, jejíž knihy se staly bestsellery deníku USA Today. Dvacetiletá Violet Sorrengailová měla nastoupit do Písařského kvadrantu a žít poklidný život mezi knihami a historií. Nyní jí však velící generálka – známá také jako její matka s drápy ostrými jako talony – nařídila, aby se připojila ke stovkám uchazečů usilujících stát se elitou Navarry: dračími jezdci. Jenže když jste menší než všichni ostatní a vaše tělo je křehké, smrt je vzdálená jen jeden úder srdce… protože draci se nevážou na „křehké“ lidi. Spalují je na popel. Jelikož je méně draků ochotných se navázat než kadetů, většina by Violet zabila, aby zvýšila své vlastní šance na úspěch. Ostatní by ji zabili jen proto, že je dcerou své matky – například Xaden Riorson, nejmocnější a nejbezohlednější velitel křídla v Jezdeckém kvadrantu. Bude potřebovat každou výhodu, kterou jí může poskytnout její důvtip, jen aby se dočkala dalšího východu slunce. Přesto se s každým dalším dnem válka za hranicemi stává smrtelnější, ochranná kouzla království selhávají a počet mrtvých dál roste. A co je ještě horší, Violet začíná podezírat vedení, že skrývá strašlivé tajemství. Přátelé, nepřátelé, milenci. Každý na Válečné akademii Basgiath má vlastní plán – protože jakmile jednou vstoupíte, existují jen dvě cesty ven: absolvovat, nebo zemřít.

Der türkische Klassiker über Liebe und Sehnsucht in einer Welt im Wandel, erstmals in englischer Sprache erhältlich. „Es ist vielleicht leichter, einen Mann abzutun, dessen Gesicht kein Anzeichen eines inneren Lebens erkennen lässt. Und wie schade das ist: Ein Hauch von Neugier genügt, um über Schätze zu stolpern, die wir nie erwartet hätten.“ Ein schüchterner junger Mann verlässt sein Zuhause im ländlichen Teil der Türkei, um im Berlin der 1920er Jahre ein Handwerk zu erlernen. Die überfüllten Straßen der Stadt, ihre blühende Kunstszene, leidenschaftliche Politik und zwielichtigen Kabaretts bilden die Kulisse für eine zufällige Begegnung mit einer Frau, die ihn für den Rest seines Lebens heimsuchen wird. Emotional kraftvoll, atmosphärisch dicht und berührend tiefgründig ist Die Madonna im Pelzmantel ein unvergesslicher Roman über Neuanfänge und das unergründliche Wesen der menschlichen Seele. „Leidenschaftlich, aber klar ... Alis Erfolg [liegt in] seiner Fähigkeit, das Entstehen eines Gefühls zu beschreiben, das von außen scheinbar geradlinig ist, in seinem Kern jedoch zwischen gegensätzlichen Extremen hin- und herschwingt und die Spannungen offenlegt, die ein solches Auf und Ab begleiten.“ Atilla Özkirimli, Schriftsteller und Literaturhistoriker

Welcome to Tenderness! A quaint seaside town in Kitakyushu, Mojiko is full of hidden delights. And one unexpected treasure is the 24/7 convenience store, Tenderness. At first glance, it’s a store like any other. Sure, it’s a bit odd that the handsome manager has his own fan club. And perhaps the customers are somewhat eccentric. But there’s a warmth about Tenderness that draws you in. The bright lights are always on. The employees know you by name. And the shelves are stacked with delicious treats, from strong hot coffee to sweet parfaits, egg sandos to ramen, crispy fried chicken to refreshing soba. After a while, you get the feeling that whatever you need might just be waiting for you here… Celebrating the joy of connection and community, The Convenience Store by the Sea is the heartwarming international bestseller from award-winning Japanese novelist Sonoko Machida.

A hopeless romantic meets a jaded radio host in this cozy, Sleepless in Seattle\-inspired love story from beloved author B.K. Borison. Aiden Valentine has a secret: he's fallen out of love with love. And as the host of Baltimore's romance hotline, that's a bit of a problem. But when a young girl calls in to the station asking for dating advice for her mom, the interview goes viral, thrusting Aiden and Heartstrings into the limelight. Lucie Stone thought she was doing just fine. She has a good job; an incredible family; and a smart, slightly devious kid. But when all of Baltimore is suddenly scrutinizing her love life\-or lack thereof—she begins to question if she's as happy as she thought. Maybe a little more romance wouldn't be such a bad thing. Everyone wants Lucie to find her happy ending... even the handsome, temperamental man calling the shots. But when sparks start to fly behind the scenes, Lucie must make the final call between the radio\-sponsored happily ever after or the man in the headphones next to her.

In this explosive horror novel, a woman is haunted by inner trauma, hungry ghosts, and a serial killer as she confronts the brutal violence experienced by East Asians during the pandemic. Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. But none of that seems so terrible when she’s already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister, Delilah, being pushed in front of a train. Before fleeing the scene, the murderer shouted two words: bat eater. So the bloody messes don’t really bother Cora—she’s more bothered by the germs on the subway railing, the bare hands of a stranger, the hidden viruses in every corner, and the bite marks on her coffee table. Of course, ever since Delilah was killed in front of her, Cora can’t be sure what's real and what’s in her head. She pushes away all feelings and ignores the advice of her aunt to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival, when the gates of hell open. But she can't ignore the dread in her stomach as she keeps finding bat carcasses at crime scenes, or the scary fact that all her recent cleanups have been the bodies of East Asian women. As Cora will soon learn, you can’t just ignore hungry ghosts. For fans of Stephen Graham Jones and Gretchen Felker\-Martin, Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng is a wildly original, darkly humorous, and subversive contemporary novel from a striking new voice in horror.

A Bittersweet Romance In this deeply moving first\-person story, an introverted high school boy finds his classmate’s diary―and learns her biggest secret. Yamauchi Sakura is dying from a pancreatic disease and now he is the only one person outside her family to know the truth. The last thing the boy wants is to be her friend, but Sakura’s cheerful demeanor and their shared secret draw them together in this heartrending tale of friendship and mortality.

Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen’s eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and Mail national bestseller. Book of Longing contains erotic, playful, and provocative line drawings and artwork on every page, by the author, which interact in exciting and unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and at times darkly humorous. The book brings together all the elements that have brought Leonard Cohen’s artistry with language worldwide recognition.

عندما تهب عمة جيني لها مقهى بهارات اليقطين المحبوب في بلدة دريم هاربور الصغيرة، تنتهز جيني فرصة بداية جديدة بعيدًا عن وظيفتها المكتبية المملة جدًا. لوغان مزارع محلي يتجنب ثرثرات دريم هاربور بأي ثمن. لكن وصول جيني يعطّل روتين لوغان، ولا يريد أن تكون له أي علاقة بالفتاة الجديدة المزعجة في تفاؤلها، إلا أنه يجد نفسه منجذبًا إليها على نحو لا يستطيع تفسيره. فهل سيفوز موقف جيني المرح بقلب لوغان الوسيم عابس الطبع، أم أن فتاة المدينة هذه وجدت الشخص الوحيد في البلدة الذي لن يقع في سحرها، ولا في حب قهوتها بالحليب وبهارات اليقطين… مقهى بهارات اليقطين لغز رومانسي دافئ لمحبي «فتيات غيلمور»، يتضمن ديناميكية العابس × المشرقة، وأجواء بلدة صغيرة، ونهاية سعيدة مضمونة! المجازات السردية: - العابس × المشرقة - بلدة صغيرة - عائلة مختارة

Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss—her life—and Lia is left behind, haunted by her friend's memory, and feeling guilty for not being able to help save her. In her most powerfully moving novel since Speak, award-winning author, Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia's struggle, her painful path to recovery, and her desperate attempts to hold on to the most important thing of all—hope.

yesterday i was the moon is a collection of poetry by noor unnahar - it explores courage, self-love, culture and the struggles of making peace with your heart and art. it contains black & white photographs paired with poetry pieces; giving it a photo diary feels.

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. Now, twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives—the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will get out, even if it kills them.

Μια απαγορευμένη, μυστική σχέση αποδεικνύει πως στον έρωτα και στην επιστήμη όλα επιτρέπονται — από τη συγγραφέα μπεστ σέλερ των New York Times, Άλι Χέιζελγουντ. Η Ρου Σίμπερτ μπορεί να μην τα έχει όλα, αλλά έχει αρκετά: λίγους φίλους στους οποίους μπορεί πάντα να βασίζεται, την οικονομική σταθερότητα που λαχταρούσε ως παιδί και μια επιτυχημένη καριέρα ως μηχανικός βιοτεχνολογίας στην Kline, μία από τις πιο υποσχόμενες νεοφυείς επιχειρήσεις στον τομέα της επιστήμης των τροφίμων. Ο κόσμος της είναι σταθερός, ευχάριστος και κερδισμένος με κόπο. Μέχρι που μια εχθρική εξαγορά και ο προκλητικά ελκυστικός επικεφαλής της απειλούν να τα γκρεμίσουν όλα. Ο Έλι Κίλγκορ και οι επιχειρηματικοί του συνεργάτες θέλουν την Kline, τελεία. Ο Έλι έχει τους δικούς του λόγους να προωθήσει αυτή τη συμφωνία — και είναι άνθρωπος που παίρνει ό,τι θέλει. Με μία φλογερή εξαίρεση: τη Ρου. Τη γυναίκα που δεν μπορεί να βγάλει από το μυαλό του. Τη γυναίκα που του είναι απαγορευμένη. Διχασμένοι ανάμεσα στην αφοσίωση και μια αδιαμφισβήτητη έλξη, η Ρου και ο Έλι πετούν την προσοχή έξω από τα παράθυρα του εργαστηρίου και της αίθουσας συνεδριάσεων. Η σχέση τους είναι μυστική, χωρίς δεσμεύσεις και έχει μια ενσωματωμένη προθεσμία: τη μέρα που θα επικρατήσει μία από τις εταιρείες τους. Όμως η καρδιά είναι ριψοκίνδυνη υπόθεση — και παίζει για όλα.

Two ageing actors attempt to solve a murder after a body is found on the set in this witty, fun whodunnit, perfect for fans of Thursday Murder Club and Death & Croissants . In 1970, on the set of downmarket sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the body of a woman, apparently the victim of a tragic drowning accident. But there's something about her that rings the faintest of bells in Edward's head and, convinced the woman has been murdered, he enlists the help of his co-star John le Breton to investigate further. Crossing the country and back again during gaps in filming, the two men uncover both a series of murders in the modern day, and links to another unfortunate death during the War. As the body count mounts, Edward and John face a race against time to save the innocent victims of a serial killer...

One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of Castello Fiore \- surrounded by the glittering waters of Lake Garda \- the illustrious Heywood family gathers for their son Laurence's wedding to Italian influencer Eva Bianchi. But as the ceremony begins, a blood\-curdling scream brings the proceedings to a devastating halt. With the wedding guests trapped as they await the police, old secrets come to light and family rivalries threaten to bubble over. Everyone is desperate to know . . . Who is the killer? And can they be found before they strike again?

Generationen junger und alter, männlicher und weiblicher Leser haben sich in die March-Schwestern aus Louisa May Alcotts beliebtestem und dauerhaftestem Roman, „Betty und ihre Schwestern“, verliebt. Da sind die talentierte Wildfangin und angehende Schriftstellerin Jo, die tragisch gebrechliche Beth, die schöne Meg und die romantische, verwöhnte Amy, vereint in ihrer Hingabe füreinander und ihrem Kampf ums Überleben in Neuengland während des Bürgerkriegs. Es ist kein Geheimnis, dass Alcott „Betty und ihre Schwestern“ auf ihr eigenes frühes Leben stützte. Während ihr Vater, der freidenkende Reformer und Abolitionist Bronson Alcott, mit so bedeutenden männlichen Autoren wie Emerson, Thoreau und Hawthorne verkehrte, verdiente Louisa ihren Lebensunterhalt für sich und ihre Schwestern mit „Frauenarbeit“, darunter Nähen, Wäschewaschen und Arbeit als Hausangestellte. Doch schon bald entdeckte sie, dass sie mit Schreiben mehr Geld verdienen konnte. „Betty und ihre Schwestern“ brachte ihr dauerhaften Ruhm und Wohlstand, und weit davon entfernt, das von ihrem Verleger gewünschte „Mädchenbuch“ zu sein, erkundet der Roman so zeitlose Themen wie Liebe und Tod, Krieg und Frieden, den Konflikt zwischen persönlichem Ehrgeiz und familiären Verpflichtungen sowie den Zusammenprall der Kulturen Europas und Amerikas.

FIVE TEENAGERS WITH NOTHING IN COMMON, THROWN TOGETHER BY AN ACT OF TERRORISM, CAN'T SURVIVE THE NIGHT WITHOUT EACH OTHER. A compelling, thrilling yet heartbreaking book for fans of Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Jennifer Niven and Holly Jackson. In the unremarkable town of Amberside, the unthinkable has happened: Terrorists have attacked a local festival. No one knows why, and no one knows who the attackers are, but that doesn’t matter. What matters first is survival. And what matters after that is survival, too. In this brilliantly written account of hope, humour and humanity, five ordinary teenagers are caught up in a truly extraordinary situation. It’s a heart-pounding and gripping account of the fight for survival, told from multiple perspectives, as the attackers prowl the festival grounds. A book for anyone who needs to see that behind the hate that makes the headlines, there is always love.

The brand new unmissable crime thriller from Holly Jackson, best-selling, award-winning author of the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy. Eight hours. Six friends. One sniper . . . Eighteen year old Red and her friends are on a road trip in an RV, heading to the beach for Spring Break. It’s a long drive but spirits are high. Until the RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere. There’s no mobile phone reception and nobody around to help. And as the wheels are shot out, one by one, the friends realise that this is no accident. There’s a sniper out there in the dark watching them and he knows exactly who they are. One of the group has a secret that the sniper is willing to kill for. A game of cat-and-mouse plays out as the group desperately tries to get help and to work out which member of the group is the target. Buried secrets are forced to light in the cramped, claustrophobic setting of the RV, and tensions within the group will reach deadly levels. Not everyone will survive the night.

Ein legendärer Wettbewerb. Eine bezaubernde Romanze. Ein unzerbrechliches Band zwischen zwei Schwestern. Scarlett Dragna hat die kleine Insel, auf der sie mit ihrer Schwester Tella und ihrem mächtigen und grausamen Vater lebt, noch nie verlassen. Nun hat Scarletts Vater eine Ehe für sie arrangiert, und Scarlett glaubt, dass ihre Träume, Caraval zu sehen – die weit entfernte, einmal im Jahr stattfindende Vorstellung, bei der das Publikum an der Show teilnimmt –, vorbei sind. Doch in diesem Jahr trifft endlich Scarletts lang ersehnte Einladung ein. Mit der Hilfe eines geheimnisvollen Seemanns entführt Tella Scarlett zu der Vorstellung. Kaum sind sie jedoch angekommen, wird Tella von Legends, dem geheimnisvollen Organisator von Caraval, entführt. Es stellt sich heraus, dass sich Caraval in dieser Saison um Tella dreht, und wer sie zuerst findet, gewinnt. Scarlett wurde gesagt, dass alles, was während Caraval geschieht, nur eine aufwendige Inszenierung ist. Dennoch wird sie in ein Spiel aus Liebe, Herzschmerz und Magie verstrickt. Und ob Caraval nun real ist oder nicht, Scarlett muss Tella finden, bevor die fünf Nächte des Spiels vorbei sind, sonst wird eine gefährliche Kette von Konsequenzen in Gang gesetzt und ihre geliebte Schwester wird für immer verschwinden. Willkommen, willkommen bei Caraval . . . hüte dich davor, dich zu sehr mitreißen zu lassen.

If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling. Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off. Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn't help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. Yet Sam knows she'd be truly crazy to leave the protection of the most popular girls in school. So when Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend with a refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret, right up there with Sam's weekly visits to her psychiatrist. Caroline introduces Sam to Poet's Corner, a hidden room and a tight-knit group of misfits who have been ignored by the school at large. Sam is drawn to them immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse, and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. Slowly, she begins to feel more "normal" than she ever has as part of the popular crowd . . . until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds dear.

For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage. Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could've predicted. Each compulsively readable chapter explores the lives of Cleo, Frank, and an unforgettable cast of their closest friends and family as they grow up and grow older. Whether it's Cleo's best friend struggling to embrace his gender queerness in the wake of Cleo's marriage, or Frank's financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates to support herself after being cut off, or Cleo and Frank themselves as they discover the trials of marriage and mental illness, each character is as absorbing, and painfully relatable, as the last. As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, entertaining as it is deeply moving, Cleopatra and Frankenstein marks the entry of a brilliant and bold new talent.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a collection of steamy, STEMinist novellas featuring a trio of engineers and their loves in loathing—with a special bonus chapter! Under One Roof An environmental engineer discovers that scientists should never cohabitate when she finds herself stuck with the roommate from hell—a detestable big\-oil lawyer who won't leave the thermostat alone. Stuck with You A civil engineer and her nemesis take their rivalry—and love—to the next level when they get stuck in a New York elevator. Below Zero A NASA aerospace engineer's frozen heart melts as she lies injured and stranded at a remote Arctic research station and the only person willing to undertake the dangerous rescue mission is her longtime rival.

V tomto chytrém a romantickém YA debutu od autorky bestselleru New York Timesu Hypotéza lásky se životní tahy postarají o to, že se soupeřící šachisté střetnou v zápase o srdce. Mallory Greenleafová se šachem skončila. Každý tah se teď počítá; poté, co tento sport před čtyřmi lety vedl ke zničení její rodiny, se Mallory soustředí na mámu, sestry a slepou práci, díky níž doma svítí. Tedy až do chvíle, kdy neochotně souhlasí, že si zahraje na posledním charitativním turnaji, a nečekaně smete ze šachovnice nechvalně proslulého „Králobijce“ Nolana Sawyera: současného mistra světa a úřadujícího šachového zlobivého chlapce. Nolanova prohra s neznámou novickou všechny šokuje. Ještě záhadnější je jeho touha znovu zkřížit pěšce. Jaký gambit Nolan hraje? Rozumné by bylo odejít. Vzdát se. Konec hry. Malloryino vítězství jí ale otevírá dveře k zoufale potřebným finančním výhrám a navzdory všemu ji to táhne k záhadnému stratégovi… Jak Mallory prudce stoupá žebříčkem, snaží se svou rodinu bezpečně držet stranou hry, která ji původně zničila. A když se v ní začíná znovu probouzet láska ke sportu, který tak zoufale chtěla nenávidět, Mallory si rychle uvědomí, že hry se nehrají jen na šachovnici, záře reflektorů je silnější, než si představovala, a konkurence může být nelítostná (až nelítostně přitažlivá. A inteligentní… a k vzteku…).

Eine gefährliche Allianz zwischen einer Vampyrbraut und einem Alpha-Werwolf wird zu einer Liebe, in die man sich regelrecht verbeißen kann – in dieser neuen paranormalen Liebesgeschichte der Nr.-1-New-York-Times-Bestsellerautorin von Love, Theoretically und The Love Hypothesis. Misery Lark, die einzige Tochter des mächtigsten Vampyr-Ratsmitglieds im Südwesten, ist wieder einmal eine Außenseiterin. Ihre Tage, an denen sie anonym unter den Menschen lebte, sind vorbei: Sie wurde dazu berufen, eine historische friedenssichernde Allianz zwischen den Vampyren und ihren sterblichen Feinden, den Weres, aufrechtzuerhalten, und ihr bleibt kaum etwas anderes übrig, als sich im Austausch hinzugeben – wieder einmal ... Weres sind rücksichtslos und unberechenbar, und ihr Alpha, Lowe Moreland, ist da keine Ausnahme. Er herrscht mit absoluter Autorität über sein Rudel, aber nicht ohne Gerechtigkeit. Und anders als der Vampyr-Rat nicht ohne Gefühl. An der Art, wie er jede ihrer Bewegungen verfolgt, ist klar, dass er Misery nicht vertraut. Wenn er nur wüsste, wie recht er damit hat ... Denn Misery hat ihre eigenen Gründe, dieser Vernunftehe zuzustimmen, Gründe, die nichts mit Politik oder Allianzen zu tun haben, sondern alles mit dem Einzigen, das ihr jemals etwas bedeutet hat. Und sie ist bereit, alles zu tun, um zurückzubekommen, was ihr gehört, selbst wenn das ein Leben allein im Gebiet der Weres bedeutet ... allein mit dem Wolf.

Οι πολλές ζωές της θεωρητικής φυσικού Έλσι Χάναγουεϊ την έχουν επιτέλους προλάβει. Την ημέρα, είναι έκτακτη καθηγήτρια, μοχθεί διορθώνοντας εργαστηριακές ασκήσεις και διδάσκοντας θερμοδυναμική, με την ελπίδα να εξασφαλίσει μια μόνιμη θέση. Τις υπόλοιπες ώρες, η Έλσι αναπληρώνει τον ανύπαρκτο μισθό της προσφέροντας τις υπηρεσίες της ως ψεύτικη κοπέλα, αξιοποιώντας την άριστα καλλιεργημένη ικανότητά της να ευχαριστεί τους άλλους, ώστε να ενσαρκώνει όποια εκδοχή του εαυτού της χρειάζεται ο πελάτης. Ειλικρινά, είναι μια αρκετά καλή δουλειά — μέχρι που το προσεκτικά κατασκευασμένο σύμπαν της Έλσι καταρρέει. Γιατί ο Τζακ Σμιθ, ο εκνευριστικά γοητευτικός και μελαγχολικός μεγαλύτερος αδελφός του αγαπημένου της πελάτη, αποδεικνύεται πως είναι ο ψυχρός πειραματικός φυσικός που κατέστρεψε την καριέρα του μέντορά της και υπονόμευσε τη φήμη των θεωρητικών παντού. Και ο ίδιος Τζακ βρίσκεται τώρα στην επιτροπή προσλήψεων του MIT, ακριβώς ανάμεσα στην Έλσι και τη δουλειά των ονείρων της. Η Έλσι είναι έτοιμη για έναν ολοκληρωτικό πόλεμο ακαδημαϊκής δολιοφθοράς, αλλά… εκείνα τα μακρόσυρτα, διεισδυτικά βλέμματα; Το ότι δεν χρειάζεται να είναι τίποτε άλλο πέρα από ο αληθινός εαυτός της όταν είναι μαζί του; Μήπως η έλξη που ασκεί πάνω της ένας πειραματικός φυσικός θα την δελεάσει τελικά να εφαρμόσει στην πράξη τις πιο προσεκτικά φυλαγμένες θεωρίες της για την αγάπη;

„Г-жо Кас, надявахме се синът ви да може да отговори на няколко въпроса за момичето, което изчезна снощи…“ Ерика Кас има идеално семейство и идеален живот. До вечерта, когато двама детективи се появяват на прага ѝ. Момиче от гимназията е изчезнало от тихия крайградски квартал на Ерика. Полицията подозира най-лошото — убийство. А тийнейджърът Лиъм, синът на Ерика, е последният човек, видял момичето живо. Ерика винаги е усещала нещо мрачно и обезпокоително в привидно идеалното си по-голямо дете. Иска ѝ се да вярва, че е невинен, но с натрупването на доказателствата тя не може да отрече истината — Лиъм може да е извършил немислимото. Сега трябва да се запита: Докъде ще стигне, за да защити сина си?

„Добре дошла в семейството“, казва Нина Уинчестър, докато стискам елегантната ѝ ръка с безупречен маникюр. Усмихвам се учтиво, оглеждайки мраморното антре. Работата тук е последният ми шанс да започна начисто. Мога да се преструвам на когото поискам. Но скоро ще разбера, че тайните на семейство Уинчестър са много по-опасни от моите… Всеки ден почиствам красивата къща на Уинчестърови от горе до долу. Вземам дъщеря им от училище. И приготвям вкусна вечеря за цялото семейство, преди да се кача горе, за да ям сама в малката си стая на последния етаж. Опитвам се да не обръщам внимание на това как Нина прави бъркотия само за да ме гледа как я почиствам. Как разказва странни лъжи за собствената си дъщеря. И как съпругът ѝ Андрю изглежда все по-съсипан с всеки изминал ден. Но когато погледна красивите кафяви очи на Андрю, изпълнени с болка, е трудно да не си представям какво би било да живея живота на Нина. Дрешникът, в който можеш да влезеш, луксозната кола, съвършеният съпруг. Само веднъж обличам една от безупречно белите рокли на Нина. Само за да видя какво е. Но тя скоро разбира… и когато осъзнавам, че вратата на таванската ми стая се заключва само отвън, вече е твърде късно. Но се успокоявам: Уинчестърови не знаят коя съм всъщност. Не знаят на какво съм способна… Невероятно изпълнен с обрати роман, който ще ви държи приковани към страниците до късно през нощта. Всеки, който обича „Жената на прозореца“, „Съпругата между нас“ и „Момичето от влака“, няма да може да го остави!

„Vy musíte být naši noví sousedé!“ rozplývá se paní Lowellová a mává přes plaňkový plot. Sevřu dceři ruku a usměju se, ale jakmile paní Lowellová spatří mého manžela, přeběhne jí po tváři podivný výraz. V té chvíli si něco slíbím. Konečně máme rodinný domov. Má minulost je daleko, daleko za námi. A udělám cokoli, aby to tak zůstalo… Dřív jsem uklízela domy jiných lidí — teď nemůžu uvěřit, že tento dům je skutečně můj. Okouzlující kuchyně, tichá slepá ulice, obrovská zahrada, kde si mohou hrát moje děti. S manželem jsme léta šetřili, abychom svým dětem dopřáli život, který si zaslouží. Přestože jsem vůči naší nové sousedce paní Lowellové ostražitá, její pozvání na večeři je naší šancí najít si přátele. Dveře nám otevře její pomocnice v bílé zástěře a s vlasy staženými do pevného drdolu. Přesně vím, jaké to je být na jejím místě. Ale z jejího chladného pohledu mi běhá mráz po zádech… Pomocnice Lowellových není jediná podivná věc v naší ulici. Jsem si jistá, že vidím stínovou postavu, která nás sleduje. Můj manžel odchází z domu pozdě v noci. A když se setkám se ženou, která bydlí naproti, její slova mě zmrazí: Dávejte si pozor na sousedy. Udělala jsem strašlivou chybu, když jsem sem přestěhovala svou rodinu? Myslela jsem si, že jsem své nejtemnější tajemství nechala za sebou. Může však být tato tichá příměstská ulice ze všech míst tím nejnebezpečnějším? Od bestsellerové autorky žebříčků New York Times, USA Today a Wall Street Journal Freidy McFadden přichází další díl neuvěřitelně zvratové, napětím nabité a celosvětově bestsellerové série Pomocnice. Tuto knihu si lze vychutnat samostatně, a jakmile začnete číst, budete obracet stránky celou noc až do posledního výbušného zvratu. Přečtěte si, co všichni říkají o Pomocnici „PANEBÓŽE!!! NAPROSTO MI TO VYRAZILO DECH!!!! Milovala jsem, MILOVALA, MILOVALA tenhle naprosto neodložitelný příběh!!… PANEBÓŽE, zvraty přicházely znovu a znovu!!! … Neměla jsem šanci přestat číst, takže jsem to doslova zhltla na jedno posezení!! … Návykové, ohromující čtení, které vás s bušícím srdcem udrží vzhůru, dokud nedočtete!!!“ Bookworm86, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ „Naprosto úžasné! … Páni… Rychle jsem to zhltla… Závěrečný zvrat byl NÁDHERNÝ a bylo to poprvé, co jsem při čtení jakéhokoli thrilleru nahlas vydechla: ‚Nééé?!‘ (tak hlasitě, že se mě manžel zeptal, co se děje!)… Brilantní!“ @jsybookworm, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ „Počkejte, musím zvednout čelist z podlahy… Úžasné!… Drželo mě to v napětí od začátku do konce! Doslova jsem dočetla poslední polovinu knihy za jeden den, protože jsem byla úplně přilepená… Vážně, přestaňte s tím, co právě děláte, a pořiďte si výtisk téhle knihy!… Byla jsem naprosto pohlcená.“ @thriller\book\sisters, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ „ÚŽASNÉ!!!!!!!! … Naprosto jsem to milovala… Budu si to pamatovat NAVŽDY!… Připravte se na jízdu života v románu, u kterého nebudete chtít, aby skončil!!!!!“ recenzent NetGalley, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ „Naprosto strhující… Nepřestala jsem číst, dokud jsem doslova nedokázala udržet oči otevřené, ať jsem se snažila sebevíc. (Nelžu, nakonec jsem usnula a Kindle mi spadl na obličej)… Nepřestala jsem, dokud jsem nedočetla… Fantastické!“ recenzent NetGalley, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ „Páni! Jsem v šoku! … Tu knihu jsem zhltla tak rychle… Prostě jsem ji nedokázala odložit… Jsem úplně ohromená! … Naprosto dechberoucí… Ani nedokážu spočítat, kolikrát jsem při čtení doslova řekla: ‚PANEBÓŽE! Cože?!‘“ recenzent Goodreads, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ „PÁNI!!!! Ó MŮJ BOŽE!!!! CO JSEM TO PRÁVĚ PŘEČETLA????? NEURONY V MÉM MOZKU TEĎ ŠÍLÍ!!… To byla ale divoká jízda!!!… Doslova to NEDOKÁŽU odložit.“ recenze na Goodreads, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets. The mansion has nearly one hundred rooms, and her uncle keeps himself locked up. And at night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. The gardens surrounding the large property are Mary's only escape. Then, Mary discovers a secret garden, surrounded by walls and locked with a missing key. One day, with the help of two unexpected companions, she discovers a way in. Is everything in the garden dead, or can Mary bring it back to life? One of the most delightful and enduring classics of children's literature, The Secret Garden has remained a firm favorite with children the world over ever since it made its first appearance. Initially published as a serial story in 1910 in The American Magazine, it was brought out in novel form in 1911.

Από τη συγγραφέα της πολυεκατομμυριούχας μπεστ σέλερ σειράς Οδηγός φόνου για καλά κορίτσια και του Five Survive έρχεται ένα νέο μυστηριώδες θρίλερ εμπνευσμένο από αληθινά εγκλήματα, για ένα κορίτσι αποφασισμένο να αποκαλύψει τη συγκλονιστική αλήθεια για την αγνοούμενη μητέρα του, ενώ γυρίζει ένα ντοκιμαντέρ για την ανεξιχνίαστη υπόθεση. Φώτα. Κάμερα. Ψέματα. Η δεκαοχτάχρονη Μπελ έχει ζήσει όλη της τη ζωή στη σκιά της μυστηριώδους εξαφάνισης της μητέρας της. Πριν από δεκαέξι χρόνια, η Ρέιτσελ Πράις εξαφανίστηκε και η μικρή τότε Μπελ ήταν η μόνη μάρτυρας, όμως δεν θυμάται τίποτα. Η Ρέιτσελ έχει χαθεί, θεωρείται νεκρή εδώ και πολύ καιρό, και η Μπελ εύχεται όλοι απλώς να προχωρούσαν παρακάτω. Όμως η υπόθεση ανασύρεται από το παρελθόν όταν η οικογένεια Πράις συμφωνεί να συμμετάσχει σε ένα ντοκιμαντέρ αληθινού εγκλήματος. Η Μπελ ανυπομονεί να τελειώσουν τα γυρίσματα, να επιστρέψει η ζωή στην κανονικότητα. Και τότε συμβαίνει το αδύνατο. Η Ρέιτσελ Πράις επανεμφανίζεται και η ζωή δεν θα είναι ποτέ ξανά φυσιολογική. Η Ρέιτσελ έχει μια απίστευτη ιστορία για ό,τι της συνέβη. Απίστευτη, γιατί η Μπελ δεν είναι σίγουρη ότι είναι αληθινή. Αν η Ρέιτσελ λέει ψέματα, τότε πού βρισκόταν όλον αυτόν τον καιρό; Και θα μπορούσε να είναι επικίνδυνη; Με τις κάμερες να συνεχίζουν να γράφουν, η Μπελ πρέπει να αποκαλύψει την αλήθεια για τη μητέρα της και να μάθει γιατί η Ρέιτσελ Πράις επέστρεψε πραγματικά από τους νεκρούς... Από την παγκοσμίως αναγνωρισμένη συγγραφέα Χόλι Τζάκσον έρχεται ένα καθηλωτικό αριστούργημα για την αναζήτηση της αλήθειας από ένα κορίτσι και τον τρόμο που κρύβει η ανακάλυψη του ποια είναι πραγματικά η οικογένειά σου.

For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star about a group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors—reviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporation—who convince themselves they’re in control . . . until the violence strikes closer to home. Kayleigh needs money. That’s why she takes a job as a content moderator for a social media platform whose name she isn’t allowed to mention. Her job: reviewing offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and deciding which need to be removed. It’s grueling work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform’s ever-changing terms of service while a supervisor sits behind them, timing and scoring their assessments. Yet Kayleigh finds a group of friends, even a new love—and, somehow, the job starts to feel okay. But when her colleagues begin to break down; when Sigrid, her new girlfriend, grows increasingly distant and fragile; when her friends start espousing the very conspiracy theories they’re meant to be evaluating; Kayleigh begins to wonder if the job may be too much for them. She’s still totally fine, though—or is she?

This is the story of two 20\-year old women who share the same name. Even though they come from completely different backgrounds, they somehow meet and become best friends. The world of NANA is a world exploding with sex, music, fashion, gossip, and all\-night parties.

A chance meeting on a train to Tokyo sends two girls named Nana on a collision course with destiny! Nana "Hachi" Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help her make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock'n'roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly become best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all\-night parties! Things are slowly coming together for Nana Osaki. The guitarist and drummer from her old band have joined her in Tokyo and she's finally found a ripping new bass player to replace Ren Honjo. The Black Stones are back and they're ready to kick some ass. Nana Komatsu, however, can't shake her old nemesis, the Demon Lord. She's stuck in a dead\-end job and there's trouble brewing with her boyfriend, Shoji. He's been working late and hasn't exactly been the most attentive lover. Poor Nana. Life in Tokyo is turning out to be a total bummer.

This is the story of two 20\-year old women who share the same name. Even though they come from completely different backgrounds, they somehow meet and become best friends. The world of NANA is a world exploding with sex, music, fashion, gossip, and all\-night parties.

A chance meeting on a train to Tokyo sends two girls named Nana on a collision course with destiny! Nana "Hachi" Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help her make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock'n'roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly become best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all\-night parties! Nana K. is going home\-\-for an awesome Trapnest concert! She drags Nana O. along, convinced that somehow Ren will sense his ex\-flame in the audience. But life is never that easy, and Nana O. isn't sure if she even wants Ren back. As for Nana K., is she prepared for Trapnest to come down off the stage and into her life, or will her fan\-girl attitude land her in a heap of trouble?

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new customers each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer. Among some faces that will be familiar to readers of Kawaguchi's previous novel, we will be introduced to: The man who goes back to see his best friend who died 22 years ago The son who was unable to attend his own mother’s funeral The man who travelled to see the girl who he could not marry The old detective who never gave his wife that gift... This beautiful, simple tale tells the story of people who must face up to their past, in order to move on with their lives. Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?

The latest novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, following four new customers in a little Tokyo café where customers can travel back in time. In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Cafe comes another story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Café Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer. Among some familiar faces from Kawaguchi's previous novels, readers will also be introduced to a daughter, a comedian, a sister, and a lover, each with something they wish they had said differently. With his signature heartwarming characters and immersive storytelling, Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?

Čtvrtý román z mezinárodně bestsellerové série Než vystydne káva sleduje novou skupinu zákazníků v kouzelné tokijské kavárně, kde lze cestovat časem. Pravidelní hosté kavárny Funiculi Funicula dobře znají rozmarnou schopnost, kterou jim propůjčuje, vydat se na cestu do minulosti — stejně jako přísná pravidla, která s tím souvisejí, včetně toho, že každý cestovatel se musí vrátit do přítomnosti dřív, než mu vystydne káva. V předchozích románech Tošikazua Kawagučiho se návštěvníci znovu setkali se svými dávnými láskami, usmířili se s odcizenými rodinnými příslušníky a navštívili své blízké. Nyní budou čtenáři opět seznámeni s novou skupinou návštěvníků. Manžel, kterému zbývá říct něco důležitého Žena, která se nedokázala rozloučit se svým psem Žena, která nedokázala odpovědět na žádost o ruku Dcera, která odehnala svého otce V románu Poslední šance se rozloučit, který z japonštiny přeložil Geoffrey Trousselot a v němž nechybějí autorovy typicky hřejivé postavy a teskné vyprávění, Kawaguči znovu vybízí čtenáře, aby si položili otázku: Co byste změnili, kdybyste mohli cestovat zpět v čase?

A tangled web of deception that traps even the innocent... Although Jane Prescott is only Chiyo Wada's English tutor, she cannot help befriending the delicate, aristocratic Japanese girl. When Chiyo presses Jane to join the Wada family at their plush villa for a New Year's celebration, Jane is curious enough to attend. But soon after her arrival, a most unlikely event occurs: Soft spoken Chiyo is forced to protect herself by committing murder! The powerful Wada family quickly decides they most close ranks to protect Chiyo from the police and that Jane must become a conspirator in the plot. As the drama of the police investigation slowly unfolds, Jane begins realize that all is not what it seems - and that her years of study in Japanese culture could never have prepared her for the dilemma that now confronts her...

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income. In I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!”), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants. Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I’m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.

The power dynamics of the office are never more obvious than when it comes to food: mandatory lunches with the boss, the colleague who tries to curry favour with home-baked goods, discovering the discarded remnants of someone else's late-night binge . . . In their Saitama office, Ashikawa is the kind of woman Nitani knows he will likely marry: sweet, obliging, and determined to wean him off his addiction to instant noodles. But he finds himself increasingly unable to respect her – or the sugary treats she shares around the workplace, winning their colleagues’ affection with baking rather than hard work. Oshio is bolder and uninhibited – she is Nitani's drinking buddy. In the oppressive office atmosphere, the pair grows closer, both outsiders struggling with the rigid status quo. Driven to behave in increasingly absurd ways by the workplace rules that govern their lives, they must navigate the tensions of modern life: between leisure and hard work; indulgence and restraint; the promise of delicious food, and the reality of a lonely pot noodle.

Anna lives with foster parents, a misfit with no friends, always on the outside of things. Then she is sent to Norfolk to stay with old Mr and Mrs Pegg, where she runs wild on the sand dunes and around the water. There is a house, the Marsh House, which she feels she recognises - and she soon meets a strange little girl called Marnie, who becomes Anna's first ever friend. Then one day, Marnie vanishes. A new family, the Lindsays, move into the Marsh House. Having learnt so much from Marnie about friendship, Anna makes firm friends with the Lindsays - and learns some strange truths about Marnie, who was not all she seemed...

Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp—a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife. As with a number of the author's other works, this profoundly influential novel brilliantly explores his characters' thoughts while probing the depths of the human soul. Describing in relentless detail the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, Dostoyevsky's character never loses faith in human qualities and the goodness of man. A haunting and remarkable work filled with wonder and resignation, The House of the Dead ranks among the Russian novelist's greatest masterpieces. Of this powerful autobiographical novel, Tolstoy wrote, "I know no better book in all modern literature."

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture. This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.

In this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his band of confidence tricksters. Set in a fantastic city pulsing with the lives of decadent nobles and daring thieves, here is a story of adventure, loyalty, and survival that is one part "Robin Hood", one part Ocean's Eleven, and entirely enthralling... An orphan's life is harsh—and often short—in the island city of Camorr, built on the ruins of a mysterious alien race. But born with a quick wit and a gift for thieving, Locke Lamora has dodged both death and slavery, only to fall into the hands of an eyeless priest known as Chains—a man who is neither blind nor a priest. A con artist of extraordinary talent, Chains passes his skills on to his carefully selected "family" of orphans—a group known as the Gentlemen Bastards. Under his tutelage, Locke grows to lead the Bastards, delightedly pulling off one outrageous confidence game after another. Soon he is infamous as the Thorn of Camorr, and no wealthy noble is safe from his sting. Passing themselves off as petty thieves, the brilliant Locke and his tightly knit band of light-fingered brothers have fooled even the criminal underworld's most feared ruler, Capa Barsavi. But there is someone in the shadows more powerful—and more ambitious—than Locke has yet imagined. Known as the Gray King, he is slowly killing Capa Barsavi's most trusted men—and using Locke as a pawn in his plot to take control of Camorr's underworld. With a bloody coup under way threatening to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the Gray King at his own brutal game—or die trying...

A spiritual companion to Strange Pictures and a bestselling horror phenomenon in Japan —mysterious spaces, trap doors, windowless children's rooms . . . something is wrong with this house. Can you solve the "mystery" of its floor plan? A writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an acquaintance who is considering purchasing a second-hand house in Tokyo. With its bright and spacious interior, the home seems perfect. But looking closer, the building’s floor plan reveals a mysterious "dead space” hidden between the walls. Seeking a second opinion, the writer shares the floor plan with an architect friend only to discover more “strange spaces” dotted across the house. What are these mysterious “strange spaces” and why do they exist—are they really there, or is there something off with the floor plan? Who is the home’s former resident who suddenly disappeared? The freelance writer and his architect friend can’t resist the challenge of solving the riddle of these puzzling floor plans . . . and the terrifying plot behind it all.

Baek Se-Hee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her—what to call it?—depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends, adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting and overwhelming and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal. But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a yen for her favourite street food, the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like? Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a 12-week period, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions, and harmful behaviours that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse.