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「友おじさん、どうして人は色とかお金とかに目がくらむの？」「人はいつだって、今の人生をとにかく変えたいと思ってるからだよ。」下町で生まれ育ったキヨカは幼いころから、目に見えないものが見える能力を持っていた。

I’ve always felt like the main character in a movie… but never in a good way. Selena Holmes spent her life watching herself from the outside, as if she were just a character playing a role—trapped in a script she never wrote. Raised by a distant father and an absent mother, she longed for love but only found it in the wrong places. Heartbreak, betrayal, and self-doubt became the soundtrack of her life. She tried to fix people who didn’t want to be saved. She fought for love that was never enough. She kept running—toward something, away from something, she was never sure which.

They stole his bread. They mocked his speech. Now, he's taking it all back—one quack at a time. Meet Thaddaeus McQuack: a furious, foul-mouthed duck with a grudge the size of a city pond and a speech impediment that only makes his threats funnier. After a mime-related incident lands him in a zoo, Thaddaeus breaks free—and declares war on mankind. With a deranged cockatoo named Steve, a flying squirrel militia, and a revolution built on stale bread and pure rage, Duck Off: The Quack Chronicles is a wild, action-packed satire you never knew you needed.

In the shadows of grief, physicist Alex Mercer has lost his way. His beloved wife, Emily, passed too soon, trapping him in painful nostalgia. With each day, Alex feels his grip on reality slipping, his logical mind yearning for solace he can't find in science alone. Desperate for peace, he embarks on an unexpected journey into the quantum realm through meditation. Along the way, he encounters guides and teachings that reveal more about life-and the universe-than he ever thought possible.

A debut collection of four intriguing stories from a talent that will leave you wanting more.

After witnessing a crime, I ran. For three years, I’ve hid from everyone. I abandoned Birchwoods Spring, my home, my plans, and the life I planned to build. I told myself it was the only way to stay safe. But when my grandmother falls ill, I have no choice but to come back—even if it means confronting the past I tried to escape. The moment I step onto my land, I feel it. The unease creeping in.

A second collection of six diverse stories from award-winning short story and flash fiction writer J.B. Linkwater. The Forty Eights: Priceless antiques collected over a lifetime. But at what cost? Bonnie: Out of chaos and into the light. Bonnie and her daughter defeat the bad vibes and shadows that follow them. Bonnie has a close call with her nemesis but fate eventually delivers them into the sunlight. The Hammer Man, the Elephant, the Artist, the Mystic and the Runaway: Strange happenings in the desert.

Un escritor que curiosamente responde al nombre de Juan José Millás recibe el encargo del periódico en el que colabora para escribir el que, cree, puede ser su último reportaje. Por ello debe pensar con cuidado el tema que sirva de broche de oro a toda una carrera.

La destrucción de todas las cosas sobresale entre las joyas más asombrosas de la literatura mexicana. Si el lector desea saber cómo fue la historia de la conquista de México no a manos de los españoles sino de los extraterrestres debeleer esta portentosa novela de Hugo Hiriart: como relato de ciencia ficción no le pide nada a las historias de Tim Burton , mientras que su crítica de las costumbres nacionales solo se puede leer a carcajadas.

Amane is ten years old when she discovers she's not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by artificial insemination, and raised in the normal way, by parents in 'clean', sexless marriages. But Amane's parents committed the ultimate taboo: they fell in love, had sex and procreated. As Amane grows up and enters adulthood, she does her best to fit in and live her life like the rest of society: cultivating intense relationships with anime characters, and limiting herself to extra-marital sex, as is the norm.

The remarkable new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which leaps across centuries past and future as if different eras were separated by only a door. Why did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time? Lina and her ailing father have taken refuge at an enclave called the Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions, among them three volumes from The Great Lives of Voyagers encyclopaedia series.

Der "Tractatus logico-philosophicus" ist das frühe Hauptwerk des Philosophen Ludwig Wittgenstein und das einzige philosophische Buch, das er zu Lebzeiten veröffentlicht. Diese gerade einmal etwa 100 Seiten zählende Abhandlung, an der Wittgenstein 7 Jahre gearbeitet hat, ist nicht nur einer der Meilensteine der modernen Sprachphilosophie, sondern besitzt heute den Rang eines Klassikers der Philosophie überhaupt.

Displaced by the Russian invasion, Vira, carrying little but her precious viola da gamba, is a refugee in the Uniting for Ukraine program.

»Ein großes, ergreifendes Buch, bei dem ich mich so sehr nach einem Happy End gesehnt habe wie noch niemals zuvor.« Olga Grjasnowa. Ukraine, 90er Jahre. Große Party der Freiheit. Manche tanzen und fressen oben auf dem Trümmerhaufen der Sowjetunion, andere versuchen noch, ihn zu erklimmen. Auch Samira. Mit sieben Jahren macht sie sich auf die Suche nach Freiheit und Wohlstand. Während teure Autos die Straßen schmücken, lebt Samira mit ein paar anderen Kids in einem Haus, wo es keinen Strom, kein warmes Wasser und kein Klo gibt. Aber es geht ihr bestens.

The best of cult author Bruno Schulz's captivatingly strange and beautiful short stories. The stories in this collection are rich, tangled, and suffused with mystery and wonder. In the narrowing, winding city streets, strange figures roam. Great flocks of birds soar over rooftops, obscuring the sun. Cockroaches appear through cracks and scuttle across floorboards. Individuals careen from university buildings to dimly lit parlour rooms, through strange shops and endless storms.

Caro führt ein glückliches Hundeleben ... bis Bella in seinem Heim auftaucht. Hund und Katze vertragen sich nicht? Davon könnte Caro ein Lied singen. Oder Bella ein Gedicht schreiben. Obwohl - nicht nötig! In Versform, um die herrschende Dramatik besser ausdrücken zu können, erzählt dieses Hörbuch die Geschichte von Bella und Caro.

She lived in the shadow of others—quietly, dutifully, without question. Her world was small: a kitchen hearth, the rhythm of chores, a parrot who would outlive most dreams. But in that stillness, something vast took root. A devotion so complete, it blurred the line between the sacred and the simple. This story doesn't shout. It listens. It watches. It waits. And by the time it's done, you'll understand how the softest hearts carry the heaviest truths.

Book One: The Romantic Egotist. Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner, believes that he has a great destiny, but the precise nature of this destiny eludes him. He attends a preparatory school where he becomes a football quarterback. He grows estranged from his eccentric mother Beatrice Blaine and becomes the protégé of Monsignor Thayer Darcy, a Catholic priest. During his sophomore year at Princeton, he returns to Minneapolis over Christmas break and falls in love with Isabelle Borgé, a wealthy debutante whom he first met as a boy. Amory and Isabelle embark upon a romance.

The world can be a very strange and unusual place where wierd and wonderful things happen. Are you ready to engage with these?

Un intenso romanzo su una donna libera e anticonformista la cui vita danza a tempo di jazz. Figlia ribelle di una famiglia borghese, razzista e benpensante degli Stati Uniti, Grace scopre fin da piccola la danza e il jazz. Vive un rapporto tempestoso coi genitori e per fuggire da loro si sposa giovanissima con un ragazzo da cui ha la sua prima figlia. È proprio il primo marito a portarle via la bambina. La danza e la vita la spingono a scappare ancora più lontano per reprimere la perdita e il dolore, fino a New York, una città in grande fermento.