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Im Judenviertel sterben die Kinder. Ratsuchend beschwört der hohe Rabbi Loew übernatürliche Mächte, die ihn zu einem Vergehen führen, das er selbst begangen hat - eines Nachts, unter der steinernen Brücke. Im Bannkreis dieses Vergehens bewegen sich eine Vielzahl von Gestalten - Narren und Bettler, die die Gassen und Spelunken der Goldenen Stadt bevölkern, sowie der wohlhabende Jude Meisl, seine schöne Ehefrau Esther und der Kaiser Rudolf selbst, die in ein komplexes Geflecht aus Liebe, Schuld und Sühne verstrickt sind.

For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She gave up on her own career as a concert pianist many years ago, but her husband Bowen, an executive at a car company, has long rebuffed her pleas to have a child. He resists even when his mother arrives from the southwestern Chinese region of Yunnan and begins her own campaign for a grandchild. As tension in the household rises, it becomes harder for Song Yan to keep her usual placid demeanor.

Dopo il successo ottenuto come spettacolo teatrale sul tema dei desaparecidos, "L'ultima madre" diventa un romanzo, sospeso fra indagine storica, realismo magico e studio sociologico. Ambientato nella Buenos Aires degli anni Settanta, al culmine di quella "guerra sporca" che sarebbe costata la vita a innumerevoli attivisti politici, esso mette a confronto le vicende di due personaggi apparentemente contrapposti: da un lato María, madre di due gemelli rapiti dai soldati e scomparsi nel nulla, dall'altro Mercedes, figlia e moglie di militari, a sua volta madre dei due gemelli Nacho e Mari.

NAMED A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR & ONE OF THE BEST FANTASY NOVELS OF THE YEAR “Astonishing and pristine, the kind of debut I love to be devastated by, already so assured and sophisticated that it’s difficult to imagine where the author can go from here. . . . It’s simply...

To break out of a 24-hour time loop, all Jack needs is for Gemma to fall in love with him in a single day. All Gemma needs is to remember him first . . . Gemma Peters is doing fine. She’s making a name for herself in the L.A. music biz as a radio producer. She’s got a ride-or-die best...

When Harlow Estrada is abruptly fired from her dream job and her boyfriend proves to be a jerk, her world turns upside down. She flees New York City to the one place she can always call home—the enchanted Hacienda Estrada. The Estrada family farm in Mexico houses an abundance of charmed flowers cultivated by Harlow’s mother, sisters, aunt, and cousins. By harnessing the magic in these flowers, they can heal hearts, erase memories, interpret dreams—but not Harlow.

Zoey's spent her whole life being the best agent DNP has ever produced. Despite her rather rebellious nature, the Director has remained focused on cultivating her skills and molding her into the deadly asset she's become. But when Zoey is sent on a high-level mission, she is forced to confront a dangerous truth.

Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in the Debut Fiction “Swim Home to the Vanished is a lush and fantastic journey through strange lands and minds from an incandescent new voice full of my kind of melancholic brilliance and unromantic magic.”—Tommy Orange, author of There...

“An absolute delight of a magical tale.” —Louisa Morgan, author of The Age of Witches Is her magic a threat to witchkind…or is she simply powerful enough to save the world? Rebekah Wilde was eighteen when she left St. Cyprian, officially stripped of her magic and banished from her home...

È una ragazzina, Mangiaterra, quando scopre il suo potere misterioso: le basta inghiottire un pugno di terra perché la verità sulle persone disperse e su quelle che, ormai, popolano l'aldilà le si dipinga nella mente e le sconvolga l'anima. Il suo corpo si contrae, nel disgusto e nella repulsione per se stessa, ma il suo sguardo penetra la notte che circonda gli scomparsi, legge i segni nascosti nelle visioni, vibra delle storie terribili che la terra nasconde.

After her narrow escape at the burning of Bedlam, Eliza Braxton's world has been turned upside down. The Illustratum's hold on the Riftborn is slipping, but so is Eliza's fragile hold on who she is. She is left facing a terrifying choice; continue her role as spy in the powerful Hallewell household, or join in open rebellion against the Illustratum. All her life, Eliza has been cautious, but now that her eyes are open, it is clear that the time has come to throw caution to the wind and embrace the power that has kept her repressed since childhood.

It’s been two years since Celine lost her daughter Libby. Desperate to escape her grief, Celine throws herself into her work, determined to be the strong, capable woman the world believes her to be. But there’s no fooling her family. A shocking intervention brings an impossible choice: confront her grief or risk losing the family she still has. Reeling, Celine wonders what her life would have been like if she’d chosen her first love instead of her husband and avoided this pain altogether.

Marion Letharby, novantanovenne inglese ormai sorda da anni, riceve in dono dalla sua migliore amica un imponente cornetto acustico tempestato di argento e madreperla e la sua vita, sorprendentemente cambia. Quando il bisnipote sceglie per lei un non troppo costoso ospizio per vecchi, la Confraternita del Pozzo di Luce, Marion, invece di abbattersi per la perdita della sua amata solitudine, comincia a guardarsi intorno. Nel vasto parco della Confraternita trova padiglioni a forma di casine di gnomi, di fungo velenoso, di orologio a cucù, di vagone ferroviario, di stivale e di mummia.

Jacob Grove grew up in a house that looked like it swallowed Versailles, well not quite that big, but it was an impressive estate on the water in Kingspoint, New York. Every year his parents, Peggy and Daniel Grove had a small Halloween party. In 1992 due to unforeseen circumstances, the party was canceled. The circumstances were that a neighbor plowed Daniel over with his Ferrari while he was bent over picking up dog poop. It was the dog's last poop, and as it turned out, it was Daniel's last poop as well.

When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her ex-boyfriend, she thinks she’s being haunted. The listing—a job as a live-in caretaker for a peculiar old man and his cranky cat in Driftwood, Alabama—is the perfect chance to start a new life. A normal life. Ava has always been too fearful to even travel, so no one’s more surprised than she is when she throws caution to the wind and drives to the distant beachside town.

"Kylie Scott’s unique voice and engrossing story are perfect for fans of Sarah Hogle and Tessa Bailey"—Library Journal New York Times bestselling sensation Kylie Scott’s sexy, smart and unconventional opposites-attract love story looks at what happens when fate refuses to give up on...

Book editor Emily Bryant finds herself unexpectedly in the charming town of Cascata on California’s Lost Coast, holding the keys to her grandmother’s rambling Victorian mansion. While sorting through her grandmother’s things, Emily learns that she must edit old manuscripts to inherit the estate. It’s a strange request from a family member who was basically a stranger. Emily quickly realizes that there’s something different about these manuscripts. Any changes she makes come true.

Hannah, a forty-six-year-old author plagued with anxiety, and her partner James, an HR recruiter caught in a headlock of grief over his brother’s death, are as desperate for inner peace as they are clueless about how to find it. But when they embark on a sunny bike ride shortly after moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, a split-second decision propels them into different versions of their lives—ones they don’t recognize as their own. With a mental fog obscuring their recent past and who they were, they are forced to dig inside themselves to figure out who they are now.

Worthington the Tiger is a novella about the slow madness which consumes a tiger living at the Ovidius Zoo. Worthington’s life in captivity spawns a distorted ideal of freedom in him that becomes torturous to endure. Even while dealing with animals who speak using mental telepathy, W. believes he is following the will of his God in his journey toward independence. W learns that freedom is not free and that without peace on the inside, there will be none on the outside.

“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of Books The best-known book by Cuba’s most important...