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Orphaned overnight as a teenager, she drops out of school and drifts into the bad company of two criminals her brother brings home. As the four of them plot a fantastical crime, Bianca learns she can drift even lower... Electric and tense with foreboding, A Little Lumpen Novelita - one of the last novellas Roberto Bolaño published – delivers a fractured fairy tale of taking control of one's fate.

Знаете ли вы, что чаи, заполняющие полки магазинов, в реальности не лучше соломы, а выращивание чайных кустов на террасах — профанация? Как же изготавливают настоящий чай? Это знает народ акха, на протяжении столетий занимавшийся изготовлением целебного пуэра. В горной деревне крестьяне ухаживают за чайными деревьями и свято хранят древние традиции. Этому же учили и девочку Лиянь, но, став свидетельницей ритуального убийства новорожденных близнецов, она не хочет больше поклоняться старым идолам.

Дух был вечным и продолжал жить, сменяя смертные оболочки, в своем любопытстве наблюдая за становлением того мира, который мы знаем сегодня. Дух станет человеком и передаст свою историю потомкам. А они — своим. И те — своим, поддерживая вечный, необратимый цикл.

Никто не помнит, как сюда попал. Никто не может отсюда уйти. И когда зловещий некто начинает убивать учеников по одному, она одна способна выяснить, кто это делает, и остановить резню. Она кошка — кошачья маска приросла к ее лицу. Глаз у нее больше нет. Она сильная, она быстрая.

Embark on an unforgettable journey with She Talks to Fish–a novel that offers a rich tapestry of experiences for every listener. This riveting story highlights the serenity of nature, the importance of family, exhilarating adventures, and a connection that grows into an enduring love. Prepare to be captivated, inspired, and empowered as you are immersed in a world unlike anything you have ever experienced before.

Mary is struggling with her memory. She recounts the lives of her and her friends growing up in York during The Blair Years. Tensions rise over the Iraq War, and they find themselves out of their depth in the protest movement. As they grow up, they follow very different paths, coming into conflict with each other and the changing fortunes of the nation. All the while, Mary questions what she understands to be real, both in history and in her own life.

Katie is thirty-six, has recently been dumped by her dull-yet-deceitful fiancé and in a (not-unrelated) moment of madness, abandoned a Solid, Decently Paid Career to pursue her dream of becoming a chef. But, after a year of expensive cookery school and months in Michelin-star kitchens blow-drying edible ferns for free, she finds herself making sandwiches (heritage duck egg and black garlic mayonnaise on sourdough, admittedly, but sandwiches all the same) in a north London café and stuck in an ill-advised situationship with a twentysomething who thinks he’s the next star of The Bear.

As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth.

Carson McCullers was all of 23 when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her "the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced." The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter tells an unforgettable tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s.

"Ava’s Façade" by Kinsley LeRoy is a compelling narrative that analyzes the complications of identity and relationships. The book examines Ava Stewart's journey as a therapist who helps children handle their emotional grinds while she herself struggles with the dissonance between her professional conquest and personal life.

Cléo weiß schon früh, dass sie den fürchterlich durchschnittlichen Verhältnissen, in denen sie aufwächst, entkommen will. Spätestens als sie bei einer banalen Modenschau von einer Mitschülerin ausgestochen wird, reift in ihr die Erkenntnis, dass sie sich rächen muss. Unerbittlich arbeitet Cléo jahrelang an ihrem Timbre, ihren Lyrics, ihrem Charisma, überhaupt an ihrer Außenwirkung bis ins winzigste Detail. Immer obsessiver verfolgt sie ihr einziges Ziel, geht dabei immer strenger mit sich selbst ins Gericht.

Welcome to a continent on the brink of war. Two powerful nations stand at each others' throats, both with rigid ideologies that demand the annihilation of the other. In the middle stands beautiful Chateau Cascade, the castle on the waterfall. Young Jak dreams of the Chateau and of becoming one of its glorious Cascadian Knights, the keepers of this world's peace.

Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis is a forthcoming title from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Three dramas by Barry Hines and an abridged reading of his classic Kes ( A Kestrel for a Knave ) Yorkshire-born author Barry Hines is renowned for his 1968 novel A Kestrel for a Knave (later turned into Ken Loach's award-winning film Kes ) and for scripting the BAFTA-winning BBC TV film Threads . The titles in this collection explore his signature theme – working-class life in Northern England – and include a trio of radio dramas alongside an abridged version of Kes , read by Stephen Tompkinson.

Eli and Marcus, two restless college friends from a small Indiana town, escape the monotony of their lives one summer by taking jobs as garbage men in Denver. Riding on the back of Ol’ Bessie—a rickety, old-school garbage truck, they plunge into the rhythms of city work, facing the grime, the chaos, and the surprising dignity of blue-collar labor.

Simon & Schuster has a great audiobook for every listener.

In the wilds of Donegal, Ireland, 1999, Saoirse is an artist living an outwardly idyllic life. Her tender husband Daithí and two beloved daughters are regular subjects for her work, and in them she has found the safe home that she has always longed for. She tends not to talk about her past, and those that love her have learned to accept that the full story is too painful for her to disclose. When her Dublin exhibition unexpectedly wins a prestigious award that invites a swarm of publicity, Saoirse is left panic-stricken.

An autobiographical novel in verse. What do you do when your dreams don’t pay the rent? Told through poetic snapshots, ROCKSTAR is the raw, restless journey of a young artist chasing purpose, connection, and a dream that won’t let go. From New York to Philly to LA, this is a mixtape of dead-end jobs, midnight studio sessions, and the holy delusion it takes to keep going. Told in fractured verse and fevered fragments, Kia Orion’s voice is sharp and tender, soaked in hip-hop, heartbreak, and homesickness. For anyone who’s ever risked it all to make something beautiful… This one’s for you.

Tony Rossi was an Italian kid growing up on the streets of Chicago in the 1920s. His father is sick; his mother is working herself to death to care for three children, yet all Tony can think about is becoming an entertainer, an actor, a Star! However that is just a pipedream for a boy living in a poverty-stricken world, the reality is that gangsters run the city in the time in which he lives.

When prodigal daughter Cass Simon returns home after years away, the Simon family’s fragile peace is disrupted. Cass, a young mom previously living in a cult-like “Mommune” and working for a popular mom-fluencer, has come back under questionable circumstances, but is intent on starting fresh. As Cass gets work writing advice for a parenting website, her mother and sisters chip in their own wisdom from personal experience—of troubled pasts, heartache, and issues with infertility.