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Harlowe could use a break. With his academic future over, just like his relationship with his long-term boyfriend Jackson, a suspiciously cheap summer rental on the Cape feels like just the escape he needs. But when he arrives at the picturesque seaside cottage, he’s alarmed to find his discouraging old professor in the living room. His father making coffee in the kitchen. And a handsome young repairman fixing things in the bedroom. Worst of all, Jackson is in the bathroom. None of them will leave. No one else can see them. And they won’t leave him alone.

Shuich iestá convencido de que es el hombre más desafortunado de todo Japón: lleva años sin un trabajo fijo y el dinero apenas le alcanza, su matrimonio pasa por un mal momento y su hija adolescente se niega a volver a la escuela. Un nuevo trabajo como vendedor de seguros parece promisorio y lo anima a planear unas vacaciones familiares en París. Pero justo cuando las cosas empiezan a ir bien, pierde un contrato importante, y ahora debe devolverle una gran cantidad de dinero a su compañía.

Just when Deana begins to feel the fragile threads of connection returning, fate tears her and Havard apart once more. An unexpected encounter at the loch unearths long-buried truths—about Havard, their shared ancestry, and the powerful forces that have been shaping their lives from the shadows. As their worlds begin to unravel, Deana must navigate revelations that shake the foundation of everything she thought she knew. The ethereal realm she’s only begun to trust now teeters on the brink of collapse, and her bond with Havard may not survive what the truth reveals.

Brought to you by Penguin. A JAPANESE MODERN CLASSIC Discover the highly original and moving literary gem for fans of Banana Yoshimoto and Kawaguchi's BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD What if you could come back after death to watch over your loved one, installing yourself in a treasured mug, for...

Lucie comes from a long line of witches, ​powers passed down from mother to daughter. Her own mother was formidable in her gifts, but ashamed of her magic. Perhaps as a result, Lucie’s own talent is weak: she can see into the future, sometimes—but more often, she can only see the present of some other location. Most frustrating is that all she can ever see are insignificant details, snippets—a scrap of outfit, the color of the sky.

At the brink of summer, Callie arrives in a secluded village in the South of France with her young daughter, after barely escaping her menacing ex-partner. Desperate to hide, she rents a cottage on the grounds of the Chateau of the Lost. Her new home sings with flowing water, rustling olive trees, and whispering poppies--an otherworldly nook of hidden magic. Little by little, she warms to her quirky neighbors--a witchy landlady, an acclaimed truffle hunter, his kind veterinarian son, and their lovable dogs. Oh, and a mischievous ghost boy.

Three years after her husband Max's death, Shelley feels no more adjusted to being a widow than she did that first terrible day. That is, until the doorbell rings. Standing on her front step is a young man who looks so much like Max—same smile, same eyes, same age, same adorable bump in his nose—he could be Max's long-lost relation. He introduces himself as Paolo, an Italian editor of American coffee table books, and shows Shelley some childhood photos. Paolo tells her that the man in the photos, the bearded man who Paolo says is his grandfather though he never seems to age, is Max. Her Max.

Sabrina Sorensen is 37, single, and recently finished her tenure as the general manager of a posh Parisian restaurant. When her younger sister gets engaged at Christmas, it's an open door for her mother and siblings to prod Sabrina for her itinerant lifestyle and her inability to commit to any of her previous relationships. What they don't know is that Sabrina, after fifteen long years, has attained her goal of becoming a MICHELIN Guide Inspector.

Esta novela narra veinticuatro horas en la vida de Primera V, cuidadora del jardín en Tierra Fría que durante años Papá V ha construido con plantas traídas de lugares lejanos y ruinas de palacios coloniales. Ella sospecha que el padre quiere un jardín de hijas a su servicio y que ha enterrado allí a las madres. En Tierra Fría, de agua escasa y aire turbio, conviven hermanas, dudas y dobles.

Als Yeonhwa von ihrer Großmutter das Hwawoldang, eine Konditorei für koreanisches Gebäck, erbt, ist sie etwas ratlos. Das bleibt allerdings nicht die einzige Kuriosität im Zusammenhang mit der Konditorei, denn Yeonhwa merkt schnell, dass ihre Kunden nicht ganz lebendig sind, und das nicht nur in dem Sinne, dass sie nur einen Kaffee benötigen … Mit Hilfe von Yeonhwa, ihrem Gebäck und einer magischen schwarzen Katze versuchen die Verstorbenen, ihren Liebsten eine Nachricht zu schicken, um so ihren Frieden zu finden.

Nobody at the corporate offices of Athletius Japan knows much about the massage therapist, Jackson, but rumors abound. He used to work as a model. He likes to party. He's mixed race—half-Japanese, half-somewhere-in-Africa-n. He might be gay. Fueling the gossip is the sudden appearance of a violent pornographic video featuring a man who looks a lot like Jackson. When Jackson serendipitously meets three other queer mixed-race guys, he learns he's not the only one being targeted. Together they concoct a plan...

Nada es lo que parece en la casa de su enigmático esposo. Nive pronto descubre que los misterios que la rodean son más reales de lo que creía, incluido aquel niño que pensó imaginar. Mientras tanto, los libros prohibidos la llaman con una fuerza imposible de resistir, despertando algo dentro de ella, algo que estaba dormido.

A punto de partir hacia una vida impuesta junto a un hombre al que no conoce, Nive se despide de todo lo que ama. Pero el destino la detiene con un hallazgo inquietante y la aparición de un desconocido que, sin proponérselo, desata en ella dudas, emociones y un deseo peligroso de elegir su propio camino.

Traicionada por alguien en quien había comenzado a confiar, Nive queda emocionalmente desgarrada. Su única ancla es un niño de siete años que parece saber más de lo que dice. Aunque desea huir de todo, un lazo más profundo —moral y mágico— la obliga a regresar y enfrentar el destino que ya la reclama.

Fans of Black Cake and Family Lore will be captivated by this sweeping, multicultural family story of keen observation and the supernatural in which one man’s journey to wholeness—both emotionally and physically—is shaped by the lands of his childhood and those of his ancestors, still reeling from the effects of colonialism and immigration.

Von dem Trip nach Australien ist Fenja nicht begeistert, trotzdem fliegt sie mit ihren Eltern in den Urlaub. Die ersten Tage sind superlangweilig, erst als sie Yu trifft, der ihr eine andere Seite von Australien zeigt, wird der Urlaub interessant. Gemeinsam begeben sie sich auf das Abenteuer ihres Lebens.

YOU KNOW MY NAME. BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME. Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall. Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves. Your poets sing of my blood-lust, but I was always protecting my children. How willfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, divinely blessed to rule. Death will silence me no longer. This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived.

Clara and Francis are in love, but nobody knows it. For months they have been stealing away from their respective lives, leaving no trace of their relationship behind. Their time together is always excruciatingly sweet and all too short. Until one day they wake up in an apartment neither of them recognizes, with no memory of how they got there. They find themselves in a new, unnamed city, a self-contained sanctuary where adulterers live openly as couples. Here there are fountains and old town squares and perfect cafes with checkered tablecloths.

Grieving and isolated amidst the faux-glamour of Hollywood, A-list star Claudia Baxter is desperate for an escape. Radio operative Iris Winterton sits in the grounds of Doverley on a moonless night, watching planes fly across Europe. Pulled together by the past and the future, Claudia and Iris begin to unravel the threads of their connection.

André Morgan’s life is stuck in a comfortable routine—until Ayana Fénix steps in and turns everything upside down. Vibrant, mysterious, and carrying secrets of elemental magic, Ayana draws André into a world where earth, wind, fire, and water are more than just forces of nature. As the Caribana festival brings Toronto to life, André finds himself torn between the safety of the familiar and the thrill of the unknown. But when magic stirs beneath the surface and danger looms, he’ll have to decide whether to take a leap of faith.