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Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It’s the 1950s, she’s young, and she’s in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even the natives can manage. Embarking on an educational program that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realizes he’s single and wants to marry her); nights in cabarets and jazz clubs in the company of assorted “citizens of the world”; an entanglement with a charming psychopath; and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador.

In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and emotional novel by the bestselling author of She’s Up to No Good. When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi’s son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to...

A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer—"the starched collar," as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, award-winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of Mann's genius.

Acclaimed author of CHLORINE, Jade Song, returns with her latest novel, a literary exploration of the Gen Z condition, I LOVE YOU DON'T DIE - a lyrical, poignant, and heartfelt novel about the meaning of love, friendship, debt, depression and death in New York City. Vicky has been obsessed with...

A timeless story of first love set in a remote fishing village in Japan "A story that is both happy and a work of art. . . . Altogether a joyous and lovely thing." —The New York Times A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village...

Ich bin Anna, und ich habe mein halbes Leben damit verbracht zu zögern. Zwei Jahre habe ich Samu angehimmelt – bis er eines Tages verschwand. Also haben meine beste Freundin Julie und ich eine Liste für mich geschrieben: einen Fremden küssen, vor versammelter Mannschaft allein tanzen, lieber einmal mehr Ja sagen. Julie – Träumerin, Künstlerin und erbarmungslos ehrlich – lässt keine Ausrede gelten. Valentin, ein Rich Kid mit Herz, unterstützt mich, wo immer er kann.

'Sisterhood, sacrifice, and the golden age of women's soccer all wrapped up into one epic story' REESE WITHERSPOON Mia and Cricket have always been close. The gifted daughters of a young single mother, they couldn't be more different. Responsible, academic Mia assumes the position of caregiver...

The electrifying new novel from Lillian Fishman, author of Acts of Service, exploring our modern morals and mores in one young woman’s pursuit of experience Everyone had a love story, but hers would be distinguished. It would mark her. She wanted to be so marked. Prima arrives for her first...

UN DEBUT ARROLLADOR. UNA LECTURA DESLUMBRANTE. NADA DUELE MÁS QUE NO SABER LO QUE DESEAS. Clara vuelve al pueblo de sus padres tras una ruptura que la deja sin la vida que había construido alrededor de su pareja. Allí, entre trabajos provisionales, rutinas familiares y amistades que...

A haunting portrait of a young man's obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully—and the book that "established Mishima's claim as one of the outstanding writers of the world" (The New York Times). Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love...

It all begins when Tanja meets Eg. Handsome and grey-eyed, he is a friend of her parents and a teller of stories. Soon, he begins to write to Tanja, sending letters that arrive at her home in the Swedish forest, drawing her deeper into a fated love offering escape from an isolated childhood. Tanja steps through a door into adult experience from which there is no return, a relationship where desire and excitement give way to shame and control.

For anyone who has loved too late, left too soon, or believes it isn't too late to begin again. Avdhi thought distance would save her. From grief. From memory. From the mother she could not forgive. But when loss brings her back to Shimla, she finds that the past has not disappeared. It has only...

Thee Champagne Hurricane is the second novella in Master of Wine Erin Jolley’s Champagne Trilogy. While her first novella, Thee Champagne Earthquake, explores whether humanity can achieve unity if each person undergoes an internal implosion to discover their true self, Thee Champagne Hurricane takes the listener to the next level in examining how individual gifts can light up the collective consciousness.

Gamle McCreedy kan ikke modstå eventyrets fristelser … 9-årige Daisy og næsten 90-årige Veronica er et umage vennepar. Den særdeles selvstændige og altid ulasteligt klædte Veronica har haft 87 utrolige år. De fleste af dem har hun tilbragt alene i sit store hus ved havet. Men da den...

Jordan est ruinée et n'a nulle part où aller. Alors, même si sa relation avec son petit ami, Cole, bat de l'aile, elle accepte sa proposition d'emménager chez lui. Ce n'est que temporaire, se répète-t-elle. Et puis, Cole est rarement là, contrairement à son père, Pike. Il est cet homme, au regard perçant et à la voix grave qu'elle a rencontré par hasard le soir de son anniversaire. Pike est dangereusement séduisant, mais Jordan ne peut pas céder à la tentation… Il lui est interdit.

Briefly Young, a new HQ book, full description to follow when available...

Slay monsters. Steal powers. Become unstoppable. Rob was having a bad day even before the Integration struck. A bloodthirsty monster appeared in his living room. His supposedly dead brother was suddenly back alive. And a strange Victorian butler was trying to kill him. That all happened before...

A heartfelt "coming of middle-age" novel about the amazing redemptive power of books, chosen family, and finding meaning in all of life's messiness. Single mother and freelance copyeditor Annie Crane juggles the sandwich-generation chaos of raising her daughter, Lyddie, on the Upper West Side...

'A book to be treasured' - Banu Mushtaq 'Keenly observed and unflinching' - Annie Zaidi '[A] masterpiece' - Musharraf Ali Farooqi First published in 1955, Wandered the Traveller is a lost classic of South Asian literature - now available in English for the first time in Daisy Rockwell's...

¿Y si él sabe más de ti que tú misma? Primer volumen de la serie Hopeless, una historia de amor que te romperá el corazón, por la autora de Romper el círculo. La cautivadora y conmovedora historia de amor de Sky y Dean. Apasionante, profunda, intensa: una historia de amor que te romperá...