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In elementary school, Chloe Hanako Quinn is assigned Oliver Jones as her pen pal partner. Before sending her letter, she also whispers a note into it…and he hears her. Little does she know it would be the beginning of a friendship that would bloom into something more. That is, until disaster strikes, and Oliver and his family disappear without a trace. Now over twenty years later, Chloe is a high school guidance counselor in New York City. But life in the Big Apple is not what she dreamed it would be as she faces a layoff, rising rent, a situationship, and loneliness.

The world of unknowable objects—magical items that most people have no idea possess powers—has been quiet for decades, but the three members of a secret society have remained watchful, meeting every six months in the basement of a bookshop in London. They are pledged to protect their archive of magical items hidden away, safe from the outside world—and the world safe from them. But when Frank Simpson, the longest-standing member of the Society of Unknowable Objects, hears of a new artifact coming to light in Hong Kong, he sends Magda Sparks—author by day and newest member—to investigate.

Good Bones, Simple Murders and The Tent collects together three classic books of short stories. Queen Gertrude gives Hamlet a piece of her mind and a reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got Dracula hopelessly wrong in Good Bones Knowing when to stop is of deadly importance in a game of Murder in the Dark . And a cat goes to heaven and discovers new playthings in The Tent In this bewitching cocktail of prose and poetry, fiction and fairytales, Margaret Atwood brings her astonishing world view to the comings and goings of ordinary life.

In Five Poems Lake, a small village surrounded by impenetrable deserts, the sun is slowly disappearing overhead. A young woman keeps one apprehensive eye on the sky above as she tends the pharmacy of traditional medicine that belonged to her great grandfather. She has few customers, and even fewer visitors: her older sister Dong Ji, her last living relative, works at a wellness parlor across town for those who can afford it—which, during these strange and difficult days, is not many.

Alison is mired in loneliness and grief. Freshly twenty-three and mourning the loss of her younger sister, who has drowned at sea, she’s moved out of her hometown and into a cramped apartment on New York’s Lower East Side. Now she’s living the cliché, barely making rent as a restaurant hostess and avoiding her roommates, while watching the bright, busy passersby from her bubble of grief. She doesn’t need originality; she just needs to be alive.

Scrappy, worldly Kennedy Jenkins and soft-hearted Emma Keil barely know each other, but when life throws them each a curve ball, they’re suddenly living together—in a rundown trailer park they’ve inherited from their late father, in a nowhere California town aptly called Ghost. After all, their neighbor, Madam Misty, is a soothsayer-witch, and Halloween is just around the corner.

Iris Ellington isn't looking for love. Not even a little bit. With a long list of failed relationships behind her, she's decided to reinvent herself as a person who doesn't fall head over heels on the first date. New town. New job. New Iris. But someone—or something—has other plans. When her neighbor's newspaper lands in front of her door, Iris has no choice but to return it. And when she does, she comes face to face with a ridiculously handsome but very grumpy chef who all but slams the door in her face.

Within the shores of Isla Bestia, guests from around the world discover a utopia of ever-changing performances, sumptuous feasts and beautiful monsters. Many enter, but few ever leave—the wine is simply too sweet, the music too fine and the revelry endless. Sofía, a freedwoman from a nearby colonized island, cares little for this revelry. Born an enslaved mestiza on a tobacco plantation, she has neither wealth nor title, only a scholarly pragmatism and a hunger for answers. She travels to el Carnaval de Bestias in search of her twin brother, who disappeared five years ago.

Exhausted by fruitless attempts to make a family, Eloise takes the chance of a lifetime to answer an ad in a French gardening magazine. To fly away from her life in the States and tend to both her shattered heart and the flowers of Paradise. And best of all for her . . . Absolutely no children allowed on the premises.

Glaubst du ans Schicksal? Julie hat ihren Traummann gefunden. Seit über zehn Monaten sieht sie ihn täglich im Bus zur Arbeit. Doch um ihn anzusprechen, fehlt ihr der Mut. Außerdem scheint sich der junge Mann nicht für sie zu interessieren. So bleibt ihr nichts weiter übrig, als heimlich seinen Anblick zu genießen und weiter von einem Kennenlernen zu träumen. Als Julie jedoch eines Morgens in den Bus steigt, ahnt sie nicht, dass sich alles verändern wird, denn das Schicksal geht seine eigenen Wege.

Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, the celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently.

What makes a family? How is it defined and by whom? Is freedom for everyone? In Necessary Fiction, Eloghosa Osunde poses these provocative questions and many more while exploring the paths and dreams, hopes and fears of more than two dozen characters who are staking out lives for themselves in contemporary Nigeria.

Alexis Spencer will use any inspirational quote to rationalize her failures and shortcomings. Her closest friends are a distant memory, and her college debt is still as high as the day she left. But that’s all fine and dandy, because “whatever will be, will be.” However, when Alexis loses her job and her relationship on the same day, there’s no quote strong enough to get her through that. In typical fashion, she blames the world for her problems, including her younger self, who should have tried harder.

Sur une colline de la ville côtière de Marigold, une mystérieuse laverie est apparue comme par magie dans l’obscurité de la nuit. Jieun, l’énigmatique propriétaire, a imaginé un endroit où l’on peut entrer sans crainte, un lieu où l’on soigne les âmes comme on prend soin des vêtements. Car Jieun ne s’occupe pas uniquement des tissus, elle propose à ses clients de nettoyer leur coeur en effaçant leurs souvenirs les plus douloureux. Et si certaines âmes n’ont besoin que de quelques coups de fer à repasser pour se défroisser, d’autres doivent être raccommodées de part en part.

Since her father’s death twelve years previously, our unnamed narrator, a pharmacist, has been living with her older sister Dong Ji in Five Poems Lake on the edge of the desert. The sun over their isolated town has begun to disappear in crescents, like a gibbous moon. These increments are reported on the evening news, while the temperature drops, the lake freezes over, and the trees start to die. One night, as the narrator returns from visiting a friend in hospital, she is accosted by a man who tries to assault her – but who transforms before her eyes into a Beacon.

Mit leichten Booten aus Schilf wagen sie sich auf den wilden Atlantik, um eine neue, sichere Heimat zu finden. Sie entdecken die Glücklichen Inseln. Der Roman schildert ihren Überlebenskampf, Seestürme, Vulkanausbrüche und verheerende Waldbrände. Aber es geht auch um Freundschaft, Liebe, Mord und Magie.

Saffron finally has the one thing he's always wanted: a chance to attend school. To be able to do so alongside Prince Cylvan, even while glamoured as a high fey and pretending not to know one another, Saffron is eager to finally experience the education he's always dreamed of. But the expectations of being a perfect fey lord are suffocating enough, and are only made more difficult as the unfettered rowan magic in his body runs wild.

Gabby, Talia, and Ozzie Gunn, heirs to a media empire, are in trouble. After several bad investments and one major scandal, their father is now trying to restore their family’s good name with a senatorial run. Even worse? He’s demanding they move to California to join the campaign or risk being cut off.

On the eve of Genie’s thirtieth birthday, her grandmother gives her an unexpected gift. For women in their bloodline, they can grant another family member’s wish at midnight. Genie laughs it off, and, after an evening fending off invasive questions about her nonexistent love life, returns home to her empty house and her golden retriever, Rory. As she hugs him and gets ready for bed, she wishes to herself that he were human—that would solve all her problems!

În zorii lumii, spun legendele mayașe din care se inspiră Asturias, zeii au eșuat de mai multe ori în eforturile de a crea omul, până când au descoperit substanța potrivită pentru a forma creatura definitivă: porumbul. Romanul aduce laolaltă plămădirea omului de porumb cu denunțarea incisivă a efectelor devastatoare pe care le-a avut capitalismul asupra obiceiurilor și credințelor ancestrale ale populațiilor rurale. Printre sunete, simboluri și metafore, pendulând necontenit între real și oniric, povestea duce, în cele din urmă, la deznădejde, depersonalizare și dezumanizare.