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When we read or listen, words can have a transforming effect. Our mood can alter in the space of a few sentences from joy to sadness. And not just our mood. These words can affect us physically, they can engage our emotions and even in their sadness bring a lump to our throat and tears to our eyes. Sometimes the relief can be palpable. Our authors, from Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Katherine Mansfield and a wealth of others, are well aware of what their talents will evoke. Genius has many names.

January 1918. Laura Iven has been discharged from her duties as a nurse and sent back to Halifax, Canada, leaving behind a brother still fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now home, she receives word of Freddie's death in action along with his uniform -but something doesn't quite make sense. November 1917. Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped under an overturned pillbox with an enemy soldier, a German, each of them badly wounded. Against all odds, the two men form a bond and succeed in clawing their way out.

The rain has made everything cold and damp, and it's the perfect evening for Kyoko to exact her revenge. After years of rage and grief over her mother's death, Kyoko has decided who is to blame: a man named Daniel, a fellow violinist who had wooed her mother, Emi, during their time together in an orchestra, and then dropped her - driving her to her death. Kyoko follows the unsuspecting Daniel home and manages to get her rash kidnapping plot off the ground...and really, what could go wrong?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the author of The Bear and the Nightingale. “A wonderful...

Real-life accounts of the world’s most notorious pirates—both men and women, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond—compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself A Penguin Classic Spanning three...

Lark Riordan works long hours as a crime scene investigator. She does not expect to return home to find one of her neighbors murdered. Max Switek is the decorated homicide detective who catches the case. He is familiar with the victim, as he is with all of Lark’s neighbors.

The Kat Cauldron is a true crime and paranormal podcast where hosts Kevin and Kat dive into the brew of the week. Join us for the perplexing, unknown and interesting things out there. Lore, supernatural, the unexplained, mysterious disappearances, demonic possessions, aliens, true crime and much more! New episode every week!We'd love to have you add to our brew.Send your stories to thekatcauldron@gmail.com

""You won’t be able to stop turning pages . . . it is so stinking good!” —Colby Sharp, author of The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection From National Book Award finalist Katherine Marsh: Percy Jackson meets Wednesday Addams in this fantastical adventure about Ava, who...

Ein Lob auf den Perfektionismus! Perfektionisten haben den Ruf, verspannt und anstrengend zu sein. Dabei ist Perfektionismus per se nicht schlecht – wenn man ihn zulässt und gekonnt für sich nutzt. Katherine Schafler ist überzeugt, dass es höchst befreiend ist, wenn man ihn als Gabe annimmt und darin eine Superkraft sieht. Sie räumt mit der Überzeugung auf, dass Perfektionist*innen loslassen müssen, um ausgeglichener, gesünder und glücklicher zu sein.

Keep No Secrets is a treehouse with a handpainted sign hanging from the front door that reads: House Rules:1. Truth first.2. Have fun.Welcome.

A celebration of Ms.—the most startling, most audacious, most norm-breaking of the magazine's groundbreaking pieces on women, men, politics (sexual and otherwise), marriage, family, education, work, motherhood, and reproductive rights, as well as the best of the magazine’s fiction, poetry...

Valkyrie Ellis has always been able to see ghosts. Brock Walker and Jess Poole had waited 20 years to be seen, and they are making themselves heard in the Ellis household in every way they know how. Jess gives fashion advice. Brock helps her with Spanish homework. Both crash family movie night. When Val is paired up with the school’s social media star for a senior-year monthlong English project, it becomes a struggle to keep her gift a secret and under the radar enough to make it to Harvard in the fall without any permanent social or physical damage.

Scarlett Ray’s life has never been steady. Every few months, there’s a new apartment, a new job, a new boyfriend.... The only constant is Daisy, her unruly shelter dog, and the man who raised Scarlett—Gramps. So when Gramps calls from the hospital, Scarlett abandons her messy life yet again and heads to the coast to take care of him. But being closer to Gramps means being closer to her past—a past that promised a version of herself that Scarlett lost somewhere along the way. And without the safety of distance between them, the messy truth keeps threatening to spill out.

An Indie Next Pick In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s revenge on the man who caused her mother’s death sets off a series of unexpected reckonings. On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a...

In the 26th book in the award-winning Faith Fairchild Mysteries series, Katherine Hall Page’s beloved amateur detective is hunkered down with her family during the pandemic when a Zoom-bombing scandal sends the community into a tailspin … and a dead body is discovered. Faith Fairchild joins...

Von Jungen und Walen. Sam traut seinen Augen nicht: Der Zwerg-Pottwal, den er am Strand gefunden hat, lebt. Aber wie kann er ihn retten? Er allein wird es nicht schaffen. Und die Fischer wollen das Tier töten, denn das Wal-Gebiss ist eine begehrte Trophäe.

Feeling the pressure of inner-city life, and drawn by a strange calling, Elena Lees walks away from everything and keeps on walking. She unhooks in nature and her extraordinary adventure across Europe unfolds, upturning her world and her understanding of what it means to be alive.

Katherine was born on the 14th October 1888 into a prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand, the middle child of five. At 19 Katherine left for England, where she met and befriended the modernist writers D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, amongst others. She then travelled to Europe before returning to New Zealand. There she began to write the short stories that she would later become so famous for. But there was another less-heralded side to Katherine’s writings; that of poetry. Her verse certainly reflects much of the themes of her life and interests.

A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the non-magical world and a place called the Archipelago, a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures we tell of in myth live and breed and thrive alongside humans. They have been protected from being discovered for thousands of years; now, terrifyingly, the protection has worn thin, and creatures are breaking through.

Growing up with a mother with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is one of the most painful and damaging experiences anyone can live through. Many adult daughters believe there is something wrong with them, when in fact they are suffering from complex post-traumatic stress disorder, low self-esteem, anxiety, and depression.