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“Dottie Frank’s books are sexy and hilarious. She has staked out the lowcountry of South Carolina as her personal literary property.” —Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides Bulls Island is a supremely satisfying tale of honor, chance, and star-crossed love, infused with Southern wit...

The Ferguson Clan has a problem. A couple thousand years ago, one of their ancestors uttered a curse with complete sincerity. In that curse, a woman named Srine offered all of herself for retribution on the world that had tortured her. The curse was so sincere that it echoed into places distant. In the darkness of the universe, something even darker than her words accepted her offer. Despite her being too old, and her husband incapable of siring a child, she became pregnant. This child was filled with dark potential. Unchecked, he could destroy the world. Join the fight!

Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled, on a spectrum that stretches from "highly gifted" at one end, to "nutter" at the other. At least Kit knows who his father is; he and Guy live together in a decaying country house on the unstable brink of a vast quarry. His mother's identity is another matter. Now, though, his father's dying, and old friends are gathering for one last time.

Camille, trente-huit ans et quart, a tout, semble-t-il, pour être heureuse. Alors pourquoi a-t-elle l'impression que le bonheur lui a glissé entre les doigts ? Tout ce qu'elle veut, c'est retrouver le chemin de la joie et de l'épanouissement. Quand Claude, routinologue, lui propose un accompagnement original pour l'y aider, elle n'hésite pas longtemps : elle fonce.

あの日なら、僕はすべてを捨ててしまうことができた。仕事も家庭も金も、何もかもをあっさりと捨ててしまえた。

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR One of Christian Science Monitor's BEST FICTION OF 2019 "Funny and tender but also provocative and wise. . . One of the most hopeful and insightful novels I've read in years." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post "Serious yet joyous comedy...

The first rule of Sunday Lunch Club is...don't make any afternoon plans.

Every few Sundays, Anna and her extended family and friends get together for lunch. They talk, they laugh, they bicker, they eat too much. Sometimes the important stuff is left unsaid, other times it's said in the wrong way.

Mareike Fallwickls neuer Roman über die Last, die auf den ­Frauen ­abgeladen wird, und das Aufbegehren: ­radikal, wachrüttelnd, empowernd. Helene, Mutter von drei Kindern, steht beim Abendessen auf, geht zum Balkon und stürzt sich ohne ein Wort in den Tod. Die Familie ist im Schockzustand. Plötzlich fehlt ihnen alles, was sie bisher zusammengehalten hat: Liebe, Fürsorge, Sicherheit. Helenes beste Freundin Sarah, die ­Helene ­ihrer Familie wegen zugleich beneidet und bemitleidet hat, wird in den Strudel der ­Trauer und des Chaos gezogen.

Claudine is the prettiest, smartest and wildest girl in her class. A mischievous 15-year-old who delights in rollicking through the dusty corridors of a parochial school in provincial France, Claudine manipulates her less-astute classmates and her feeble-minded professors. This vivid, honest portrait of adolescent life in turn-of-the-century Montigny was shocking to some readers when it first appeared. Today the novel still sparkles with the freshness and edge that excited readers almost 100 years ago.

Kit Livingstone met his great-grandfather Cosimo in a rainy alley in London where he discovered the truth about alternate realities. Now he’s on the run—and on a quest—trying to understand the impossible mission he inherited from Cosimo: to restore a map that charts the hidden dimensions...

From the moment recent Oxford graduate Philip takes the helm of a new marine life institute in Palm Beach, his presence revives old feuds and sparks rivalries among the wealthy resident snowbirds, many of whom have invested heavily in a biotech company soon to be exposed for insider trading. It quickly becomes clear that Philip's quest for atonement on the behalf of his father will embroil many of the community's most prominent members.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude—a moving tale of female desire and abandon Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena...

Camille se acerca a la cuarentena cuando, de repente, se ve envuelta en un mar de dudas. No es que sea desgraciada, pero tampoco se siente realmente feliz. Tiene la impresión de que la felicidad se le escurre entre los dedos. Es cierto que ha conseguido un trabajo que le permite estabilidad financiera, pero en realidad no le apasiona. En casa, la rutina se ha instalado en su matrimonio: ya ninguno de los dos se esfuerza. Y la relación con su hijo... es más tensa que la cuerda de un equilibrista.

Helga Crane yearns to become more than she is and to feel the world more intensely. She consequently dismisses her native Chicago, New York's Harlem, Copenhagen even. She also passes on opportunities for extended family, for marriage, and for true love. What is always latent in this truly outstanding work; is how much the background of 1920's American racial segregation defines Helga's malaise, and how much - paradoxically - is of herown doing.

“Beautiful, devastating and complex.” —Chicago Tribune The award-winning debut novel from Jennifer Haigh, author of BakerTowers, The Condition, and Faith, tells the story of Birdie, Joan,and Dinah, three women who marry the same charismatic, predatory, and enigmaticopportunist: Ken Kimble...

Arthur MacDonald, 85, is having an end-of-life crisis. His beloved, dying wife of over 60 years no longer knows who he is. His older brother still has all his hair and a wife almost half his age. The man his middle-aged daughter is dating has a ponytail. His teenaged grandson wants to cook desserts for a living. And his daughter wants him to move into Silvermine retirement home. Then Arthur meets the gorgeous, radical, 80-something-year-old Robbie and learns that nobody is ever too old to fall in love all over again.

John Greystone is a twenty year old who lands a summer job as a wildfire spotter in Sequoia National Park. A helicopter pilot drops him off on a remote mountain top with a promise to return an hour later with supplies. The next day the pilot has not returned and John is out of water.

Award-winning Japanese author and poet Mieko Kawakami brings Ashes of Spring, a collection of short stories set in everyday life in Japan just before the pandemic lockdown.

Desde hace treinta y cinco años, Hanta trabaja en una trituradora de papel destruyendo libros y reproducciones de cuadros. En cada una de las balas de papel que prepara conviven libros, litografías, ratoncillos aprisionados y su propio esfuerzo. Pero para él, esos libros son mucho más que papel para prensar: son toneladas de saber que la humanidad ha ido acumulando a lo largo de los siglos y que Hanta ha ido adquiriendo con su trabajo. Mientras deambula por Praga, repasa su vida a la vez que reflexiona sobre las enseñanzas de los grandes maestros: Lao Tse, Nietzsche, Hegel o Kant.

El destino del ser humano se vuelve incierto cuando violenta la armonía del universo. Dos mujeres valientes entrelazan dos momentos históricos, el año 31 a.C. y el año 2055. En esos tiempos tan distantes entre sí, ambas transitan por una misma geografía, que hoy se conoce como el Camino de Santiago, en España. Es el futuro y las autoridades globales controlan las vidas de las personas. Como parte de un plan sistemático, ya no se ven adultos mayores en las calles: desaparecieron tras las últimas pandemias que azotaron el planeta. Eme perdió a sus padres y está sola, agobiada y sin trabajo.