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À la mort de sa mère, Youssef, un professeur marocain exilé en France depuis un quart de siècle, revient à Salé, sa ville natale, à la demande de ses sœurs, pour liquider l'héritage familial. À travers lui, les voix du passé résonnent et l'interpellent, dont celle de Najib, son ami et amant de jeunesse au destin tragique, happé par le trafic de drogue et la corruption d'un colonel de l'armée du roi Hassan II.

Jayce has spent her whole life by the ocean as part of the close-knit communities found across the Îles de la Madeleine. With a place to call her own, a job she adores, and a girlfriend she loves, her life has always been a comfortably predictable one. But after a night in the waters at Pointe aux Loups Beach, Jayce quickly finds her world upended as something calls to her from the ice-cold waves. When blisters filled with saltwater ooze from her skin and ropes of seaweed slither from her body, Jayce realizes she can’t ignore the voice for much longer.

When the one you love — but shouldn’t — is taken......you fight like hell to get them back. Adam DuBois is a true hero—a Navy SEAL dedicated to his team and country. You can see it in everything he does. That’s what I tell people when they ask me about him. But he’s so much more than a hero. We’ve been through hell and back since we were two eighteen-year-old guys trying to survive boot camp. Fast forward eight years, and we’re still friends — albeit with benefits, at least on Adam’s part. I fell in love along the way, while Adam discovered a love for my… uh…

The excoriating stories in Mark Doten's brilliant first collection dissect the pathological narratives that shape our culture and country. Narrated by a crosscutting array of White people, Doten's stories spotlight the self-serving logic through which their characters struggle to make sense of, and take control of, the narrative of our time.

Cory Dirkwood is not excited about moving from spooky Salem, Massachusetts to the boring little town of Blackford, Indiana. At least not until he spots his new home, an old funeral home, abandoned in the 1980s and left exactly as it was the day it closed. It will be the perfect place to film vlogs for his 50,000 MacabreVid followers. Cory soon discovers the builder of the house had his own secrets, including grave robbing and conducting medical experiments without a license, but Phineas Blackford was a man of even darker secrets.

Asher Logan has been a lot of things: runaway, guitarist, cage fighter, and cowboy, but the one thing he’s always avoided was being a father to his young son. Now faced with returning to his family's ranch, he’s forced to deal with the knowledge that the move would put him right down the road from Shawn. Still, it’s better than staying in the city, with drunken, bitter older brother Cole, whose anger and prejudices have made him difficult to be around.

For Caleb McRae—devout Baptist, Texas Ranger, hero of the Wild West—life is simple: lawmen bring bad guys to justice and hellfire's a sinner's fate. But Caleb's world turns upside down when he falls in love with the outlaw Henry Midnight...

“Mara Wilson's sober narration style and consistent pacing create an amusing juxtaposition with the unlucky events that unfold.” — Kirkus “[Mara] Wilson narrates the audiobook with a sultry cadence that captures devilish delight and [author Chuck] Tingle’s knack for macabre.” —...

WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR GAY FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE MASS BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION "That rarest phenomenon: a war novel that feels at once timeless and precisely of the moment…" —Washington Post A poignant coming-of-age...

Euphoria meets Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke in this latest novel by the Bram Stoker Award–winning author Hailey Piper, following a couple whose search to spice up their sex life leads them down a path of madness. A kink-fixated couple, Carmen and Blanca, have been in a rut...

Die exzentrische Urologin Ulli und ihre medizinische Fachangestellte Nathalie sind seit Kurzem ein Paar. Gemeinsam mit Nathalies pubertierendem Sohn planen sie zum ersten Mal als Familie einen Urlaub nach Griechenland. Weil Timmy ein Einzelkind ist, darf er einen Freund einladen. Doch kurz vor Urlaubsantritt verliebt Timmy sich und möchte statt eines Freundes gerne seine Freundin mitnehmen.

A chance encounter on a park bench in the subtropical dark. A one-night stand. And suddenly young, Scottish Jonty finds himself involved with Canary Islander Theo across 2,000 miles of silver sea. But matters become complicated when a previous adventure comes back to haunt Jonty—as Nigerian Maxwell turns up homeless at Jonty's door in Glasgow; when Theo's sister disappears to Canada with one of Jonty's friends; when ex-pupil Chris makes further demands on Jonty's heart and time.

One would think that being over two hundred years old would at least give me some skill at wooing the man of my dreams, though oddly, I seem to be fumbling around more than wooing. But that’s alright, I will fumble my way right into Cyrus’s life if he lets me. After a rocky start, Cyrus is finally starting to open up to me as he realizes that vampires might not be all bad.

“A carnivalesque tale spun in luscious, crackling prose, Freakslaw is the glittery punk offspring of Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love and Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus. You know those books you want to roll around in, rub on your skin, and clasp to your heart? Freakslaw is one.”...

Breaking Chains is not just a novel—it’s a scroll unsealed. Written by Joshua M. Vargas, this groundbreaking work weaves together spirituality, sexuality, ancestry, and awakening. Follow Juan, a gifted young preacher navigating love, fire, and calling in the tension between church and flesh, glory and grief, Grindr and God. From Pentecostal pulpits in the Midwest to sacred nights in Puerto Rico, from queer nightclubs that pulse with presence to altars soaked in oil and tongues, Juan’s journey is one of raw becoming.

'Oh, by the way, Gabe. I know what happened with Seamus! Everybody at Kiss does.' How did Mitchell know any details about my breakup? I felt my jaw tense. Why did everybody at the third most popular bar in The Village also know? Did Seamus tell them? My heart rate switched from a pulse to a...

'It's like ice cream, Mr Flynn,' Bertie continued. 'When you have ice cream, you need to eat it straight away, otherwise it melts. If there are people who haven't got any, you should share it, if you can.' When despair for the world grows, Bertie's theory of ice cream reminds us that it's the simple pleasures in life that we should hold onto.

When Olive receives a letter in the post from the father of her daughter - American soldier, Joe - she is shocked. Not only is he losing his sight and, after years of no contact, suddenly wanting to reconnect, but Olive has to decide whether or not to reveal that she has been lying all these years to the man she married - who believes himself to be Joanna's father. When her old friend, Josh, comes back into her life, they rekindle a spark Olive thought was long-dormant. But can she trust the man who kept so many secrets from her in the past?

Berlin, 1942. Lilly Wust, 29, verheiratet, vier Kinder, führt das Leben von Millionen deutscher Frauen. Doch dann lernt sie die 21-jährige Felice Schragenheim kennen. Es ist Liebe, fast auf den ersten Blick. Als Jaguar-Felice ihrer Geliebten gesteht, dass sie Jüdin ist, bindet dieses gefährliche Geheimnis die beiden Frauen noch enger aneinander.

Lemon, poppy seed, sun-warmed sand. These visions convince Aoife to quit her job, leave her manipulative boyfriend, and escape to the isolated shores of the Farmstead commune. There, among its charismatic and hedonistic residents, Aoife finds everything she’s been missing: a community that adores her, the freedom to indulge, and the promise to be a part of something miraculous. But darkness underpins her airy new way of life. A disappearing cave looms above an ocean no one dares step foot in, mysterious crying fills the night hours, and a rot is spreading across the island.