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Days before her wedding, Julia Walsh is blindsided twice: once by the sudden death of her estranged father...and again when he appears on her doorstep after his funeral, ready to make amends, right his past mistakes, and prevent her from making new ones. Surprised, to say the least, Julia reluctantly agrees to turn what should have been her honeymoon into a spontaneous road trip with her father to make up for lost time.

The three Theban plays by Sophocles - Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone - are great landmarks of Western theatre. They tell the story of Oedipus, King of Thebes, who was destined to suffer a terrible fate - to kill his father, marry his mother, and beget children of the incestuous union. He does this unknowingly but still has to suffer terrible consequences, which also tragically affect the next generation.

The online game Yamada Kenichi had been playing religiously is shutting down its servers, leaving him with a void in his heart. He looks for a new game to fill it, but everything he finds is way too easy. The kind of game he likes—the kind punishing enough to make players want to spend thousands of hours on it—just isn't around anymore.

Monica, the Silent Witch, has infiltrated Serendia Academy on a top-secret mission to protect the second prince. So far, she's been appointed accountant of the student council and things are going great! ...Or so she thought. With her former mentor arriving at the academy and her over-powered...

Brought to you by Penguin. The heartwarming Japanese bestseller for fans of Matt Haig, Fredrik Backman and THE CAT WHO SAVED BOOKS 'Library. What a nice-sounding word. So comforting. I feel like I'm a student again. Library ... Am I allowed to borrow books?' 'What are you looking for?' asks...

A caravan flying the flag of the Nation of Darkness has been attacked by a noble who hails from the Re-Estize Kingdom. Coincidence...or conspiracy? Either way, Nazarick interprets this as an act of brazen hostility and readies for war! The people of the kingdom, still reeling from the disastrous...

An army forty thousand strong is clamoring at the gates for human blood, and there is little hope of reinforcements. The Sacred Kingdom’s stron­gest paladin, Remedios, leads the defense of the city, but even she cannot stem the tide on her own. Despite the dire circumstances, the unimaginably...

In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humor, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression.

When Toru Narazaki's girlfriend, Ryoko, disappears, he tries to track her down, despite the warnings of a private detective he's hired to find her. Ryoko's past is shrouded in mystery, but the one concrete clue leads him to a compound in the heart of Tokyo, with a group that seems to be a cult led by a charismatic guru. Narazaki plunges into the secretive world of the cult, ready to expose himself to any of the guru's brainwashing tactics if it means he can learn the truth about Ryoko. But the cult isn't what he expected, and he has no idea of the bubbling violence beneath its surface.

Imagine immersing yourself in the most powerful, thought-provoking, and psychologically complex stories ever written-now curated into a single, comprehensive volume that brings Dostoevsky's brilliance to life like never before. The Complete Fyodor Dostoevsky Collection offers his most celebrated novels, novellas, and short stories, designed to captivate your mind and soul with timeless themes of guilt, redemption, madness, morality, and the human condition.

Little My is a true firecracker; small but fierce yet clever and brave - and one of Moomintroll’s best friends. She is independent and wherever Little My goes, something exciting is bound to happen. From Little My's first meeting with the Moomin family to turning a garden into a jungle, these...

OUT OF THE FRIEND ZONE AND INTO THE FIRE! Few titles are more revered among horndogs-(ahem) connoisseurs of Japanese erotic video games-than Magical Explorer. One day, our smut-loving hero wakes up to find he has been reincarnated into the body of the game’s dreamboat protagonist! Or rather...

Immerse yourself in the labyrinthine narrative of Jorge Luis Borges' masterpiece, "The Garden of Forking Paths," now brought to life in a captivating audiobook narrated by the talented Mike Vendetti. In this spellbinding tale, Borges weaves a story of espionage, mystery, and philosophical intrigue set against the backdrop of World War I. Follow Dr. Yu Tsun, a Chinese professor turned spy, as he races against time to deliver a crucial message, navigating a maze of choices and consequences that blur the lines between reality and fiction.

This novel centers on the "It's me" telephone scam - often targeting the elderly - that has escalated in Japan in recent years. Typically, the caller identifies himself only by saying, "Hey, it's me", and goes on to claim in great distress that he's been in an accident or lost some money with which he was entrusted at work, etc., and needs funds wired to his account right away. ME's narrator is a nondescript young Tokyoite named Hitoshi Nagano.

Ela parecia ser a solução, mas tornou-se o pesadelo. Após um incêndio, tudo o que Gina e sua família desejam é paz na casa temporária onde se abrigam. A chegada de Mary, a governanta, parece ser a ajuda perfeita. Eficiente e educada, ela logo se torna indispensável, mas sua presença constante se mostra inquietante.

One day, the life of middle-aged Japanese businessman Ryoma Takebayashi came to a rather sudden and disappointing end. Ryoma had never had a blessed life, but after his death, three great gods sought his cooperation and reincarnated him as a child in another world with swords and magic!

Em uma noite de terça-feira muito fria, Carl, um cara qualquer, não conseguia dormir e resolveu fumar um cigarro na companhia de Donut, a gata da sua ex-namorada. Mas o momento tranquilo de contemplação foi bruscamente interrompido pelo COLAPSO DE TODAS AS CONSTRUÇÕES DA FACE DA TERRA!

All Quiet on the Western Front stands as one of the greatest condemnations of war of all time. Follow a firsthand account of German enlisted man, Paul Baumer as he recounts details mundane and profound. His account moves and tears at our hearts with the horrors of war and the stark realities of humanity. All while somehow skirting around the question: Why?

Die Romanvorlage zum beliebten Studio-Ghibli-Anime-Film! Die kleine Hexe Kiki läuft nie vor einer Herausforderung davon. Als ihr dreizehnter Geburtstag ansteht, will sie unbedingt der Hexentradition folgen und sich eine neue Stadt aussuchen, in der sie ein Jahr lang leben möchte. Während...

1920년대 '재즈 시대'의 충실한 재현, 통속적 사랑 이야기에 맞닿아 있는 '아메리칸드림', 이스트에그와 웨스트에그라는 공간적 배경에 담긴 동부와 중서부의 관계 묘사. 피츠제럴드는 자신의 경험을 바탕으로 한 자전적 소설...