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The poems in Fragile Heart may make you cry, but they will also bring you peace and even make you smile as you ride the waves of beautiful chaos with someone who outlived the darkness and now stands on the other side, shining in the light, inviting you in.

Jia Song ha sempre avuto progetti ambiziosi, e ora pare proprio che li stia per realizzare: figlia di negozianti coreani, è appena diventata socia junior di un prestigioso studio legale di Manhattan, ha due amiche del cuore e sta per aggiudicarsi la borsa Hermès dei suoi sogni. Un giorno il suo capo le chiede un favore: aiutarlo a seguire un cliente di altissimo prestigio in una questione privata. Jia scopre presto che si tratta di una delle famiglie coreane più famose al mondo, i Park, proprietari di un marchio di prodotti di bellezza che da vent'anni detta legge nel mondo beauty.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Burnt Sugar comes a gripping psychodrama of unravelling and rebirth – for readers of Katie Kitamura, Deborah Levy, Gwendoline Riley and Elena Ferrante ‘I married my husband to live in a fairy tale. I imagined us like...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the critically acclaimed, prizewinning author of Idaho comes a stunning collection of stories that explore the rural landscape of the far Northwestern US, and how unexpected intuitions forever alter the lives of ordinary people. Five years after moving into the...

Brought to you by Penguin. From a war where black men and women weren’t allowed to be heroes, comes a sweeping tale of devastating prejudice, the power of love and the epic resilience of human spirit. 'You want to risk everything - for a country that’s never cared if you live or die?’ 1941...

Jamais la jeune Koya n'aurait imaginé être propulsée à des milliers de kilomètres hors de son pays natal dans l'inquiétant pays de là-bas, comme disait sa grand-mère. Elle quitte le douillet village haut perché d'Incapirca au cœur de l'Équateur, brise tous ses repères avec pour seul soutien le souvenir des yeux pétillants de la vieille abuela et de son énergie féroce. Elle suit la trace des volcans andins, le long de la formidable cordillère, qui, à chaque instant, lui rappelle les légendes de son village.

A debut Gothic horror set in 1870s Brazil—a tale of creeping suspense in which a young pregnant woman finds herself unable to escape her lover’s isolated family home, and a family’s deal with the devil goes terribly wrong 1877, Pernambuco, Brazil: Raised in a deeply religious household...

A fascinating and intimate inquiry into the shadowy life and horrifyingly compelling work of Edgar Allan Poe, and why we are drawn to darkness in art Since Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious death in 1849, his stories and poems have captivated millions of readers around the world. One hundred...

From “a poet of lyric wonderment, angular beauty, and uncompromising vision” (Poetry Northwest), a luminous new meditation on loss and love In Joanna Klink’s dreamlike sixth poetry collection, she turns her gaze to ordinary days and asks: What is the measure of a life? How should we weigh...

Confidencias del corazón (Alma poética) es un audiolibro profundamente emotivo del autor y narrador Carlos Mavila, producido y publicado por Audiobook Publishing Services, que invita al oyente a sumergirse en la esencia más íntima de la poesía romántica en español. En esta obra, la poesía se transforma en imagen, sentimiento y experiencia. Carlos Mavila nos recuerda que la verdadera poesía no se limita a describir hechos, sino que despierta los sentidos y la imaginación: donde otros ven lágrimas, aquí surgen tormentas que caen desde los cielos del rostro.

A young magician travels across the world seeking fame and fortune all the while hiding a secret, in a novel based on the renowned, real-life Indian stage magicians performing in the United States in the 1800s. Samuel Thomas, a man of uncertain parentage, is a young magician convinced that he is...

Brought to you by Penguin. Okay, but the afterlife? It’s nothing like it looks in the movies . . . A year after the death of her father, Aubrey Lamb receives a phone call from a distant cousin. She has inherited a share of a farm, down in the sun-streaked plains of Tennessee. Seeking...

In an enchanted Miami, former academic rivals turned roommates get a second chance at romance when they challenge each other to a magical matchmaking contest. Emelia Delmar lost her job, her boyfriend, and her self-confidence in a single week. To fix her busted life, she has a three-step plan...

Blending lyric memoir and cultural criticism, acclaimed poet Franny Choi’s debut essay collection explores our obsession with cyborgs and what sci-fi representations of Asian femmes reveal about race, gender, sexuality, disability, labor, technology, and language. In the 2014 film Ex-Machina...

Home Movies is an essay about the day-to-day realities and unrealities of its author’s hypermediated consumer life as a teacher and parent in Orlando, Florida. In each of the essay’s seven sections, Wheaton explores his relationships to new media and old tech, and the people around him, with thoughtful ambivalence and humor. Altogether, the various threads of Home Movies—image, tangibility, fame, nostalgia, simulation, marijuana, and cinema history—pull together into a moving attempt to accept the tensions between watching/being watched and life/art.

At last, the National Book Award finalist and NYT bestselling author of Pachinko returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic: Min Jin Lee has written a masterpiece by turns sweeping and intimate, one that reckons with ambition and moderation, lust and loyalty, personal dreams and familial duty...

Lovers of cats and poetry, prepare to be amazed and entertained! A Carnival of Cats features sixty-three poems and twelve watercolor paintings that explore the author’s love for and admiration of cats—their beauty, grace, and inscrutable character—and his bemused surmises as to what motivates their puzzling, distinctive, often delightful behaviors. This engaging book tells stories of cats the author has known and cherished—pets, strays, those who are a little of both, and some met only for one special moment.

21st Century Autoimmune Blues is multi-genre author Brent Terry’s fourth collection. Terry brazenly confronts subjects that are simultaneously political and personal. The undertones range from comedic to emotional, stimulating the head, heart, and gut. Every poem in this collection hums with an underlying anxiety caused by living in these fraught and sometimes dismaying times, but Terry never fails to paint a rhythmically sound image.

One evening on Lāhaina’s Front Street, as Shaffer walked to an evening with friends, someone passing on the sidewalk commented, “The islands are even further west than I thought.” Those accidental words, like poetry, shifted his perspective once again regarding the place he lives. Even Further West is a collection of poems written of, in, and on the Hawaiian islands.

Adrian Ernesto Cepeda’s first poetry collection Flashes and Verses… Becoming Attractions uniquely waxes lyrical on such pop cultural icons as Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holliday, Muhammad Ali and David Bowie. He also crafts the most dynamic ekphrastic poems inspired by photos and artwork by Helmut Newton, Edward Hopper and Leonardo da Vinci. He composes the most bedazzling bilingual odes to Sandra Cisneros and Juan Felipe Herrera.