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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Sweetness of Water comes a gripping story about a brother and sister, emancipated from slavery but still searching for true freedom, and their odyssey across the deserts of Mexico to escape a former master still intent on their bondage.

In the wake of her family’s collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions—personal, moral, artistic, and practical—as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.

A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal. Within the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds the human story in disarray amid differing attitudes toward the public performance of the creative persona. She begins to identify among the people she meets a tension between truth and representation, a fissure that accrues great dramatic force as Kudos reaches a profound and beautiful climax.

On the night of the Hungry Ghost Moon, when spirits can briefly return to the living world, Jodi Wu and her best friend sneak into Portland’s Chinese Garden and Ghost Museum. Kneeling before the pond where Jodi’s toddler drowned one year before, they leave food offerings and burn joss paper—and Jodi prays that Ella’s ghost will return for the night. To distract Jodi from her grief, the two friends tell each other ghost stories as they explore the museum.

Steph Harper is on the run. When she was five, her mother fled an abusive husband—with Steph and her younger sister in tow—to Cherokee Nation, where she hoped they might finally belong. In response, Steph sets her sights as far away from Oklahoma as she can get, vowing that she will let nothing get in the way of pursuing the rigorous physical and academic training she knows she will need to be accepted by NASA, and ultimately, to go to the moon.

Felix Licht hat alles für die Karriere geopfert: Seine besten Jahre, lebenslange Freundschaften, die Zeit mit Frau und Kind. Ausgerechnet Zoe – jung, schön, woke. Die Frau, an die Felix seit zwölf Jahren immerzu denken muss. Sein Leben zerbricht – und reißt alle um ihn herum in einen Mahlstrom aus gekränkten Eitelkeiten, brüchigen Lebenslügen, opportunistischer Lust an immer absurderen Fake News und Gutmenschen, die bereit sind, über Leichen zu gehen.

In 1924, Alice tells a terrible lie to reinvent herself, seeking refuge in the ill-fated Western Australian Group Settlement Scheme. But the past is not so easily erased. Decades later, Jarrah begins to unravel the mystery of Alice's silence. Following a trail of buried secrets from Australia to England, she pieces together a hidden past—one that forces her to question everything she thought she knew about family and identity.

Life is hard in Ireland in 1867. Eliza Carthy moves with her lighthouse-keeper husband James and sons Peter and Joseph to the remote island of Skellig Michael. When assistant keeper Edmund and his wife Ruth arrive, Eliza hopes for respite. But her new neighbours are not what she'd expected.

Meet Buffy. With three ex-wives, a failing career and only his dog George for company, Buffy's bachelorhood is looking worryingly confirmed. Until he meets Celeste. Dazzled by love, Buffy has no idea that Celeste is systematically researching his ex-wives, children and stepchildren, and unearthing secrets that will change all their lives.

Meet Orlando: a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, poet, lover, adventurer—and, after a transformational sleep, a woman. Spanning over 300 years of British history, Orlando bends the rules of time, gender, and narrative as its protagonist navigates shifting societies, identities, and expectations, all while seeking something elusive: the truth of the self. Playful, profound, and radically ahead of its time, Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel is part love letter, part satire, and part meditation on the fluid nature of existence.

恋愛リアリティショー「DTOPIA」新シリーズの舞台はボラ・ボラ島。ミスユニバースを巡ってMr.LA、Mr.ロンドン等十人の男たちが争う──時代を象徴する圧倒的傑作、誕生！

溜め池近くの植え込みから、ビニールシートに包まれた男の惨殺死体が発見された！　警視庁捜査一課の警部補・姫川玲子は、これが単独の殺人事件で終わらないことに気づく。捜査で浮上した謎の言葉「ストロベリーナイト」が意味するものは？

「売れない作家の夫に三行半」「スナックママの妻に愛想が尽きた」おしどり夫婦が消えた！？

30年ぶりにアメリカから帰国し、武蔵野の一角・うらはぐさ地区の伯父の家にひとり住むことになった大学教員の沙希。そこで出会ったのは、伯父の友人で庭仕事に詳しい秋葉原さんをはじめとする、一風変わった多様な人々だった。

Literatur muss nicht kompliziert oder voll von Fremdwörtern und langen Sätzen sein. Alle können mit Geschichten in Einfacher Sprache etwas Neues erfahren. Einfache Sprache ist eine Sprache, die wir verlernt haben. Der Herausgeber Hauke Hückstädt hat das Experiment fortgesetzt und 12 namhafte Autor:innen dafür gewonnen.

Entre un métier envahissant, un mari égoïste et un patron corrompu, Jade est sans cesse à la limite du burn-out. Est-ce pour fuir cette réalité toxique qu'elle accepte de superviser la création d'un palace dans l'archipel indien d'Andaman ? Un paradis tropical où elle découvre une île inviolée et coupée du monde, habitée par un peuple ancestral dont le nom sonne comme une alerte : les Sentinelles.

Welcome to The Cherry Blossom Bookshop, a mysterious haven for book lovers that appears only during the fleeting cherry blossom season. Nestled amidst the bloom of delicate petals, you’ll find a sanctuary for those burdened by regrets and past sorrows. Here, Sakura, the enigmatic young owner, and her wise tortoiseshell cat, Kobako, patiently await the arrival of souls in need of solace and healing.

When Tom Layward's wife had an affair he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest daughter turned eighteen. Twelve years later, while taking her to Pittsburgh to start university, he remembers his pact, and keeps driving West. An unforgettable road trip novel, The Rest of Our Lives beautifully explores the nuance and complications of a long term marriage.

Twenty-two of Greene's very best stories are collected here, each of them bearing the hallmark themes that characterise his great novels: innocence and vengeance, love and hate, pity and violence. Writer and Greene aficionado, Yiyun Li, has arranged the stories into pairs, to be read together in contrast or in harmony – as a duel or a duet.

Eigentlich haben Ben und Esther alles, was sie brauchen: eine lebendige Beziehung zu Jesus Christus und wichtige Funktionen in ihrer Gemeinde – dem göttlich funkelnden Safespace, in dem der Pastor teure Sneaker trägt, seine Frau Highlights aus der Predigt auf Instagram teilt und Gott uns so sehr liebt, dass er seinen einzigen Sohn hingab, und so weiter. Doch Ben hat ein Problem, das zwischen ihm und seinem göttlichen Vater steht. Niemand weiß davon, nicht mal seine Schwester Esther. Je verzweifelter er sich aus den Fängen der Sünde befreien will, desto mehr tyrannisiert sie sein Leben.