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The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she's an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs.Honestly, it's a pretty sweet gig - until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favourite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor's career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And he's the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT, standing right between Elsie and her dream job.

The Last Letter is a haunting, heartbreaking and ultimately inspirational love story. (InTouch Weekly) Beckett, If youre reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didnt. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have. I need one thing from you: get out of the army and get to Telluride. My little sister Ellas raising the twins alone. Shes too independent and wont accept help easily, but she has lost our grandmother, our parents, and now me. Its too much for anyone to endure. Its not fair. And heres the kicker: theres something else you dont know thats tearing her family apart. Shes going to need help. So if Im gone, that means I cant be there for Ella. I cant help them through this. But you can. So Im begging you, as my best friend, go take care of my sister, my family. Please dont make her go through it alone.

Il n'est jamais entré dans un musée, il ne lisait que Paris-Normandie et se servait toujours de son Opinel pour manger. Ouvrier devenu petit commerçant, il espérait que sa fille, grâce aux études, se

El preludi és una obra magna que William Wordsworth, el poeta més longeu i més important del Romanticisme anglès, va anar escrivint i reescrivint durant gairebé cinquanta anys com a tribut al seu germa espiritual, el poeta Samuel Taylor Coleridge, que va dir d'ell que «per la força de la seva imaginació, Wordsworth es troba més a prop de Shakespeare i de Milton que cap altre escriptor modern». Aquest llarg poema unitari és una autèntica aventura de la memòria i del pensament en què el vers s'activa a partir del record de les accions més íntimes i humils, i com aquestes es connecten amb la potència sagrada de la divinitat. El preludi és també un cant d'amor a la natura, que es descriu com una entitat totpoderosa que acompanya el geni creador quan aquest sap aprofitar els poders que el món li atorga. Es tracta també d'una oda d'exaltació de la passió, de la llibertat i de la gran meravella d'existir. El preludi va ser el pinyol primordial que acabaria inspirant un joveníssim Marcel Proust a l'hora d'escriure A la recerca del temps perdut i ara arriba, per primer cop, traduït de forma completa en llengua catalana.

Què tenen en comú Azalais de Porcairagues, zitrobairitz nascuda l'any 1146; sor Isabel de Villena, religiosa i escriptora valenciana del segle xv, i Rita, una youtuber que carrega el pes de 5000 anys d'història? En @Rita_Trobador, Joan Nave ens planteja un joc literari que reflecteix en el passat la posició feminista de la nostra era mitjançant tres dones que ens ofereixen tres mirades en el temps que, en el fons, són una sola veu.

Che cos'è l'andare in montagna senza la conquista della cima? Un atto di non violenza, un desiderio di comprensione, un girare intorno al senso del proprio camminare. Questo libro è un taccuino di viaggio, ma anche il racconto illustrato, caldo, dettagliato, di come vacillano le certezze col mal di montagna, di come si dialoga con un cane tibetano, di come il paesaggio diventa trama del corpo e dello spirito. Perché l'Himalaya non è una terra in cui addentrarsi alla leggera: è una montagna viva, abitata, usata, a volte subita, molto lontana dalla nostra. Per affrontarla serve una vera spedizione, con guide, portatori, muli, un campo da montare ogni sera e smontare ogni mattina, e soprattutto buoni compagni di viaggio. Se è vero che in montagna si cammina da soli anche quando si cammina con qualcuno, il senso di lontananza e di esplorazione rinsalda le amicizie. Le notti infinite in tenda con Nicola, l'assoluta magnificenza della montagna contemplata con Remigio, il saliscendi del cammino in alta quota, l'alterita dei luoghi e delle persone incontrate. Questo è il viaggio che Paolo Cognetti intraprende sul finire del suo quarantesimo anno, poco prima di superare il crinale della giovinezza.

p i Raó del cos /i , obra pòstuma de Maria-Mercè Marçal, en paraules de Pere Gimferrer una de les nostres veus poètiques més altes , és el seu últim recull poètic que ens ha llegat. /p p Del pròl

Ola. Son Andre. Sobrevivín á avaricia e ao capitalismo máis atroz. Aquí, na Horta do Cura, chegou o momento de comezar a reconstruírnos. Acompáñasme?

Ikasgelara mutil marokoar bat iritsi da. Said mutil azkarra eta atsegina da, eta gainera guapoa. Bigarren batxilergoko neska guztien begiak harentzako dira. Klarak bereganatu du mutila. Maitemintzea (eta maitatzea) sakrifizio eta sufrimenduarekin batzen dituen estereotipo patetikoenean elikatzen da Klara. Maitasun erromantikoa, zenbat frustrazioren iturri!Mirenek ez du gustuko guapoa delako, edo ez horregatik bakarrik. Said pertsona inteligentea eta adeitsua da, eta gainera atsegin zaio. Pertsona sentibera iruditzen zaio Mireni, eta hori bai estimatzen duela berak, Klararen konbentzionalismo klasista eta arrazistatik urrun. Mirenen hiztegian, ordea, zintzotasuna, laguntasuna, tolerantzia eta askatasuna esangura handiko balioak dira, eta bere egiten du Literaturako irakasleak iradokitakoa, alegia, batzuetan ez dagoela beste erremediorik, baina ez garela jaio sufritzeko. Bere alde du Erromantizismoaren alderik onuragarri eta ederrena. Daukaguntxoa (eta garena) hobetzeko errebeldia eta aspirazioa. Maitasunaz eta bizitzaz ari zaigu nobela; eta bide horretan sentsibilitatearen heziketak (eta arteak) eskain dezakeenaz.Ramon Saizarbitoriak, behin berriz, maisutasun narratibo eta humanoaren erakusgarri bikaina eskaintzen dio irakurle gazte eta helduari.

Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is working on the case of a missing dog - and on her own need to be more assertive - when she sees the footage on TV. But when she tunes in again, to the late-night report, she realises there is something not quite right about the correspondent who was first on the scene. So begins 'If It Bleeds', a stand-alone sequel to the No. 1 bestselling THE OUTSIDER featuring the incomparable Holly on her first solo case - and also the riveting title story in Stephen King's brilliant new collection. Dancing alongside are three more wonderful long stories from this 'formidably versatile author' (The Sunday Times) - 'Mr Harrigan's Phone', 'The Life of Chuck' and 'Rat'. All four display the richness of King's storytelling with grace, humour, horror and breathtaking suspense. A fascinating Author's Note gives us a wonderful insight into the origin of each story and the writer's unparalleled imagination.

Agosto 1938. Un momento tragico della storia d'Europa, sullo sfondo del salazarismo portoghese, del fascismo italiano e della guerra civile spagnola, nel racconto di Pereira, un testimone preciso che rievoca il mese cruciale della sua vita. Chi raccoglie la testimonianza di Pereira, redatta con la logica stringente dei capitoli del romanzo, impeccabilmente aperti e chiusi dalla formula da verbale che ne costituisce il titolo: Sostiene Pereira? Questo non e detto, ma Pereira, un vecchio giornalista responsabile della pagina culturale del "Lisboa" (mediocre giornale del pomeriggio) affascina il lettore per le sue contraddizioni e per il suo modo di "non" essere un eroe. Introduzione di Andrea Bajani.

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"La mort i la primavera" es la novel·la que Rodoreda volia convertir en la seva obra mestra, i la mes autobiografica de totes les que va escriure sota la seva aparença fantastica. Els grans temes rodoredians -l'amor que neix i mor, l'afany de llibertat que topa amb la repressio, la solitud davant la meravella del mon, el talent dels homes per convertir la vida en un infern- s'hi despleguen amb mes esplendor i mes horror que mai. En un lloc sense nom i en una epoca indeterminada, allat enmig duna natura inquietant, viu un poble sotmes a una llei rigorosa que vetlla per destruir tota forma de desig. Un noi de catorze anys, en el moment de fer-se home, comença a rebel·lar-se i sembra sense voler la llavor d'una guerra civil. Real com un contes de fades modern, "La mort i la primavera" es un llibre sobre la sedicio i el testament d'una escriptora que va posar la seva llibertat per damunt de tot.

Avant, Gabriel faisait les quatre cents coups avec ses copains dans leur coin de paradis. Et puis l''harmonie familiale s''est disloquée en même temps que son « petit pays », le Burundi, ce bout d'

Educated is a remarkable memoir of a young woman raised in a survivalist family in Idaho who strives for education while still showing great understanding and love for the world she leaves behind.' - BARACK OBAMA ________________________ Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she'd never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn't believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn't exist. As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd travelled too far. If there was still a way home. EDUCATED is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, from her singular experience Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it. ________________________ * Shortlisted for the 2018 BAMB Readers' Awards * Recommended as a summer read by Antony Beevor, India Knight, Blake Morrison and Nina Stibbe 'A memoir to stand alongside classics by the likes of Jeanette Winterson and Lorna Sage ... a compelling and ultimately joyous account of self-determination' - Sunday Times

Editorial Galaxia publica Ollos de auga, novela coa que Domingo Villar inicia a súa andaina na narrativa policial en galego. Protagonizada polo inspector Caldas, esta obra salienta por combinar suspense, personaxes orixinais, ambiente urbano e humos nas doses precisas que esixe o xenero negro. Un novo autor para a literatura galega e unha novela na que lectura e diversion son sinonimos.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2025 An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian McEwan''s Atonement. It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother''s country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel''s doorstep - as a guest, there to stay for the season In the sweltering heat of summer, Isabel''s desperate need for control reaches boiling point. What happens between the two women leads to a revelation which threatens to unravel all she has ever known. ''A thrilling, razor-sharp, perfectly plotted debut novel'' Sunday Times ''Moving, unnerving and deeply sexy'' Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING ''A brave and thrilling debut about facing up to the truth of history, and to one''s own desires Van der Wouden brings stunning power and control to her page-turner about trauma and repression'' Justine Jordan, Booker Prize Judge 2024

From global phenomenon Callie Hart comes a highly addictive enemies-to-lovers Romantasy with razor-sharp banter, heart-stopping action, and blistering hot romance that you wont be able to put down!Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate.In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isnt much a girl wouldnt do for a glass of water.Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queens reservoirs for as long as she can remember.But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone.When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently re-opens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares... but it turns out theyre real, and Saeris has landed herself in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed.The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemists magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him . . . or her.Death has a name. It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. His past is murky. His attitude stinks. And hes the only way Saeris is going to make it home.Be careful of the deals you make, dear child. The devil is in the details . . .N.B. Quicksilver contains depictions of graphic violence/adult situations and is therefore recommended for readers 17+. For a full list of tropes and TWs, please visit the authors website.

Tras a espectacular acollida das súas anteriores novelas negras, Arantza Portabales inicia unha nova serie, Os crimes de Loeiro, protagonizada por Santaclara & Araújo. A inspectora Iria Santaclar

Després de 10 anys, Enric Pardo Ramírez torna a la ficció, aquesta vegada en valencià, amb una novel·la tendra i íntima que ens farà reflexionar sobre el paper de tantes mares dels anys 80. «Aquesta

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the rivers banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin), Jims agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.

A charming break from reality Publishers WeeklyEvery book in the Dream Harbor series can be read as a standalone.Kira North hates Christmas. Which is unfortunate since she just bought a Christmas tree farm in a town thats too cute for its own good.Bennett Ellis is on vacation in Dream Harbor trying to take a break from both his life and his constant desire to fix things.But somehow fate finds Ben trapped by a blanket of snow at Kiras farm, and, despite her Grinchiest first impressions, with the glow of the fairy lights twinkling in the trees, and the promise of a warming hot chocolate, maybe, just maybe, these two lost souls will have a Christmas theyll remember forever

Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction **** An Evening Standard One to Watch in 2023 **** An Independent Best Romantic Summer Reads' **** A Book of the Month pick for Diva, Irish Examiner, Novellic & Sainsburys Magazine **** A Most Anticipated pick for PinkNews & Queer on the Street **It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend.Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love.Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah.

The 2 New York Times bestseller The August 2024 Read With Jenna book club pick UTTERLY CHARMING PANDORA SYKES WICKEDLY FUNNY JENNY JACKSON A PERFECT NOVEL CATHERINE NEWMAN THE BEST READ OF THE YEAR SO FAR THE TIMES It s a beautiful day in Newport Rhode Island when Phoebe Stone arrives at a grand beachside hotel wearing her best dress and least comfortable shoes Immediately she is mistaken for one of the wedding people but she s actually the only guest at the Cornwall Inn who isn t here for the big event Phoebe has dreamed of coming here for years She hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband but now she is divorced and depressed and not sure how to go on She s not been sure how to do anything lately except climb into bed and drink gin and tonics and listen to the sound of the refrigerator making ice When the bride discovers her elaborate destination wedding could be ruined by this sad stranger she is furious She has spent months accounting for every detail and every possible disaster except for well Phoebe Soon both women find their best laid plans derailed and an unlikely confidante in one another Uproariously funny and devastatingly tender The Wedding People is an irresistible novel about love frien

The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World*****There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, centred around three enchanting characters living on the banks of the River Thames and the River Tigris their lives all curiously touched by the epic of Gilgamesh.*****Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature Ian McEwan'Shafak makes a new home for us in words' Colum McCann'One of the best writers in the world today' Hanif Kureishi

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero''s descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and inconveniently in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him. But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down, and if shes going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will have to work together. Thats if they can agree on anything. Will they triumph, or kill each other trying? 2025s most unexpected love story is going to be hell in the new novel by Sunday Times Number One Bestseller R.F. Kuang. Coming August 2025.

PREMI RAMON LLULL Una novel·la que transcendeix en cada pàgina, amb una narrativa que emociona, provoca i inspira. Cal deixar d’enyorar per començar a viure.La Lena és una científica ambiciosa que ma

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE NEW JACKSON BRODIE NOVEL, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SHRINES OF GAIETY'How delicious to have Jackson Brodie back, this time in a story that starts off in Agatha Christie's world but soon becomes a landscape that could only have been crafted from the pen of the incomparable Kate Atkinson' Ian Rankin'Christie would be proud . . . I defy you not to snort with laughter as the novel progresses to its farcical denouement. Atkinson is brilliant' Observer*****Welcome to Rook Hall.The stage is set. The players are ready. By nights end, a murderer will be revealed.Ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off a bad case of midlife malaise when he is called to a sleepy Yorkshire town, and the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting.But one theft leads to another, including the disappearance of a valuable Turner from Burton Makepeace, home to Lady Milton and her family.Once a magnificent country house, Burton Makepeace has now partially been converted into a hotel, hosting Murder Mystery weekends.As paying guests, a vicar, an ex-army officer, impecunious aristocrats, and old friends converge, we are treated a fiendishly clever mystery; one that pays homage to the masters of the genrefrom Agatha Christie to Dorothy Sayers.Brilliantly inventive, with all of Atkinsons signature wit, wordplay and narrative brio, Death at the Sign of the Rook may be Jackson Brodies most outrageous and memorable case yet.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2025 An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian McEwan''s Atonement. It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother''s country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel''s doorstep - as a guest, there to stay for the season In the sweltering heat of summer, Isabel''s desperate need for control reaches boiling point. What happens between the two women leads to a revelation which threatens to unravel all she has ever known. ''A thrilling, razor-sharp, perfectly plotted debut novel'' Sunday Times ''Moving, unnerving and deeply sexy'' Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING ''A brave and thrilling debut about facing up to the truth of history, and to one''s own desires Van der Wouden brings stunning power and control to her page-turner about trauma and repression'' Justine Jordan, Booker Prize Judge 2024

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A beautiful novel full of lifeaffirming wonder and imagination' BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH'What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet . . .'When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a rundown house on a Mediterranean island by a longlost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a oneway ticket, no guidebook and no plan.Among the rugged hills and golden beaches Grace searches for answers about her friend's life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the lifechanging power of a new beginning.

THE GLOBAL #1 BESTSELLERAN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYA BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN THE GUARDIAN, TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, IRISH TIMES, LONDON STANDARD, INDEPENDENT, OBSERVER, NEW STATESMAN, iNEWS, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, THE SKINNY, CITY AM, DAILY MAIL, AND THE CONVERSATION'I read it in a state of rapture.' SUNDAY TIMES'A tender, funny pageturner.' OBSERVER'Come for the romance, stay for the meaning of life.' IRISH TIMES'A breathtakingly intimate look at love and desire in its many different forms.' REDFrom the author of the multimillioncopy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family.Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.Ivan is a twentytwoyearold competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

Haru té 15 anys quan el seu pare, Osamu, vidu de poc i actuant d’acord amb les últimes voluntats de la seva dona Kumiko, envia la filla a estudiar a un dojo perquè hi aprengui tir amb arc. Els enseny

**BOOKER PRIZE 2024**''Stunning... An uplifting book'' SUNDAY TIMESLife on our planet as youve never seen it before: in this spellbinding and uplifting novel six astronauts rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents, and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction.The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it.''A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas'' GUARDIAN***A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***

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Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize Winner of the PEN Translates AwardA monumental first collection in English from Banu Mushtaq: lawyer, activist, champion of Muslim women, and winner of Indias highest literary honors. 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 Mushtaqs years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed womens rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression. Written in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, its in her charactersthe sparky children, the audacious grandmothers, the buffoonish maulvis and thug brothers, the oft-hapless husbands, and the mothers above all, surviving their feelings at great costthat Mushtaq emerges as an astonishing writer and observer of human nature, building disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken style. Her opus has garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well Indias most prestigious literary awards; this is a collection sure to be read for years to come.

La Sara Bonsom és una dona independent (a la força), de Barcelona (però... és que hi ha gent que viu a altres llocs?), mare soltera d’un nen de tres anys (com a única solució que ha trobat per crear

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Emily Bronte s extraordinary masterpiece with foiled covers marbled endpapers sprayed edges beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon This is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft hearted husband and Heathcliff the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR S CLASSICS a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf

From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Housemaid, The Boyfriend and The Tenant comes a twisty psychological thriller like no other a story of sinister secrets that will keep you enraptured through to the shocking finale.Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime.To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family. She grabs her passport and heads for the northern border before the police can discover what shes done.But when an unexpected snowstorm forces her off the road, Quinn must take refuge at the broken-down, isolated Baxter Motel. The handsome and kindly owner, Nick Baxter, is only too happy to offer her a cheap room for the night.Unfortunately, the Baxter Motel isnt the quiet, safe haven it seemed to be. The motel has a dark and disturbing past. And in the dilapidated house across the way, the silhouette of Nick's ailing wife is always at the window. Always watching.In the morning, Quinn must leave the motel. She'll pack up her belongings and get back on the road to freedom.But first, she must survive the night.