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Twelve doors. Twelve lives. One chance to stop shrinking and start living. Imani has spent eight years folding herself into a beige box. She straightens her natural coils, silences her loud laugh, and dulls her shine to fit into her husband Grant’s safe, corporate, and colorless world. She has become an accessory to his relaxation—and she is suffocating. Then, a mysterious package arrives on December 13th. The Sankofa Calendar isn't filled with chocolates. It’s filled with magic. Each midnight, opening a door transports Imani into an alternate life with a different man. From the ...

A stunningly original love story between a museum employee and the man in a masterpiece hanging on the walls—a breathtaking debut about time, art, and the enduring power of love. “This wildly inventive, deeply moving novel blurs the line between art and those who behold it.”—Jodi Picoult...

Longlisted for the National Book Award Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Shortlisted for the 2025 Housatonic Book Award for Nonfiction Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in Memoir A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music...

In 1967, the dancer Marta Becket and her husband were traveling through Death Valley Junction when they came across an abandoned theater. Marta decided it was hers. She painted her ideal audience on its walls and danced her own dances until her death five decades later. In the present day, Gia has ended a relationship and taken a leave from her job in film studies at a university. She is sleeping fifteen hours a night and ignoring calls from her mother.

She thought she was just another fighter—until the world turned her into a story. In a future where martial arts are streamed like sport and packaged like myth, Maya Sabino enters the ring with something the cameras can’t explain. The Pulse. An uncanny flicker. A gift. A glitch. And the feed is always watching. As fame coils tighter and every move is rewound, reframed, and rebranded, Maya finds herself caught between who she is and who the algorithm wants her to be. Fighter, fraud, savior, spectacle—what happens when you no longer control the narrative of your own body? One Pulse is a...

📖 The Ashkeeper: A short story where the ashes speak and the wind doesn’t forget. 🌬️ A spiritual fable about loss, memories, and the art of letting go. He is only known as the Ashkeeper. No one knows where he came from, nor how long he has been carrying out his sacred task: to scatter the ashes of those who have passed, in the places they once loved. 🕯️ With each journey, he carries an urn, a letter, and the weight of someone else’s final wish. He reads their words aloud to the wind. Sometimes he weeps. Sometimes he smiles. He always listens. He asks for no recognition. ...

In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India", Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.

A year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont), leaving all the comforts of home behind—a rollicking, lyrical novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of North Woods and one of America’s greatest living writers Miles Krzelewski...

John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the hundred-odd he has published. "A&P", recounting a moral crisis on the checkout counter, is his most anthologized story. "Pigeon Feathers," the longest story included, tells of a fourteen-year-old boy's fear of death and the answer he finds...

An uproarious, sensual novel, Leone Ross's Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are broken, and love awaits. Everyone in Popisho was born...with a little something...The local name for it was cors. Magic, but more than magic. A gift, nah? Yes. From the...

The novel tells the story of renowned American artist Edward Hopkins and his turbulent marriage to his wife Jo. Talented yet acerbic, Edward lives in a world of his own, viewing Jo as more of a servant than a partner. But Jo harbors her own artistic ambitions. She hopes to escape from the long shadow cast by Edward and make her own mark in the world of art. As her dissatisfaction with her marriage intensifies, she meets and is drawn to the playwright Pádraig Maguire. But she does not know if Pádraig offers her freedom or another type of prison. This is a tale of passionate egos crashing ...

Aila Quinn's mother, Juliet, has always been a mystery. Vibrant yet guarded, she keeps her secrets beyond Aila's reach. When Juliet dies, Aila and her younger brother, Miles, are sent to live in Sterling, a rural town with mysteries of its own. In Sterling, the experiences that weave life together - scents of flowers and food, reflections from mirrors and lakes, even the ability to dream - vanish every seven years. No one knows what causes these Disappearances or what will slip away next.

Hear the Wind Sing is the first novel by Haruki Murakami. First published in the June 1979 issue of Gunzo, one of the most influential literary magazines in Japan, it was published one month later as a book. Hear the Wind Sing is the first book in the "Trilogy of the Rat," a series of...

Leo’s world has always been gray. He was born colorblind, and while other kids paint rainbows and sunsets, Leo can only guess what “blue” or “red” really mean. But one quiet afternoon by the park fountain, everything changes—Leo hears a soft hum rising from the blue tiles beneath his feet. It’s warm, deep, and calm… like the sound of happiness. Soon, Leo realizes every color sings its own song. Red drums like a heartbeat. Yellow giggles like sunshine. Green hums with peace. With the help of his curious new friend, Mira, Leo begins to explore a world of music and color that ...

Published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, Pnball, 1973 is the second book in the "Trilogy of the Rat" series. It is preceded by Hear the Wind Sing (1979) and followed by A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), and is the second novel written by Murakami...

Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her...

Enter the world of the speculative in this anthology of tales, poems, and art. Immerse yourself into works where a goose escapes her prison, a woman encounters la Llorona, a child meets his numerous Moms, a man chases a spectral night cyclist, family encounters the afterlife, folktales come to life, and more. The boundary between the real and speculative becomes an interwoven tapestry of wonder for 43 of the best contemporary fiction writers, poets, and artists. In its breadth and variety, this speculative anthology is like no other. Contributors include Beth Patterson, Paula Shablo, ...

Enter the world of magical realism in this anthology of modern tales, poems, and art. Immerse yourself into worlds where demons ride the subway, gods work at food pantries, characters travel through time, creatures vent their frustration, ghosts befriend children, folktales come to life, and more. The boundary between the real and magical becomes an interwoven tapestry of wonder for 50 of the best contemporary fiction writers, poets, and artists. In its breadth and variety, this magical realism anthology is like no other. "Unity Volume 1: A Magical Realism Anthology is a collection of ...

Lola is back in Galveston after twenty years drinking and clubbing in Spain. She’s inherited an old house she’s afraid of and a family secret that might be either her undoing or her salvation. Lola has nothing to show for herself after two decades abroad except for a serious drinking problem and a penchant for picking up strangers. She’s missed her beloved aunt’s funeral and lacks the capacity to digest some of the mysteries of her upbringing – from the demons that plagued her beautiful yet volatile mother, to the ways in which her aunt loved her but kept her at arm’s length.

A tricky art theft and talking teacup… Throw in a perky ghost and a perkier toddler! FREE on Kindle Unlimited! When a slightly tricky art theft takes place in an upscale Upper East Side neighborhood, Mandy and Rick are called in to crack the case. With their daughter Sophie and Mandy’s ghost pal Jackie in tow, the USCAB duo tackle a baffling switcheroo. An art dealer’s pricey Japanese vase has been replaced with a cheap fake and an attempted murder complicates the situation. The only witness: a talking teacup. Can Mandy coax the spirit of an ancient Samurai with a fuzzy memory to ...