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Olympic silver medalist Kalista Brooks has built a successful life in California, complete with a thriving sports technology company and a handsome fiancé. But when her father’s heart condition takes a critical turn, she rushes home to Atlanta. There, her father makes a surprising request: to relive favorite memories from all four seasons in just one month at their old farmhouse in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

1939, Poland: Would you save a child in a warzone? Marcin is just hoping to keep himself safe during the Nazi invasion. But once he befriends his Jewish neighbors, his fate is sealed, and when their building is raided by the Nazis, Marcin finds himself hiding their son, Adam. Marcin vows to keep Adam safe at all costs. But as he starts an impossible journey across the borders of wartorn Europe towards safety, he begins to realize Adam isn’t the only child who needs his help. And when they encounter more orphaned children in hiding, Marcin becomes determined to save as many as possible.

In the heart of Memphis, four best friends-Tricia, Paula, Kathy, and the wild and unapologetic Mary Sue navigate love, heartbreak, motherhood, and the beautiful chaos of grown womanhood. Tricia’s heart is torn between the man she’s with and the one she never stopped loving. Paula is transitioning and preparing to carry a baby with her fiancée, Isabella. Kathy, once broken by betrayal, rediscovers passion and purpose with the I.T. Guy who for some reason protected her heart from the start. And Mary Sue? She’s bringing the drama, the truth, and the fire every time.

From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine’s Penobscot Reservation. He caught brief moments of his neighbor Elizabeth’s life—from the day she came home from the hospital to her early twenties. But there’s something deeper and more dangerous than the river that divides him from her and the rest of the tribal community. It’s the secret that Elizabeth is his daughter, a secret Charles is no longer willing to keep.

In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty—with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight—breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future.

Pasadena, 1903: Eighteen-year-old Ryunosuke “Ryui” Wada staggers off the boat from Yokohama, Japan, ready to reinvent himself after the untimely deaths of his parents. Though battling loneliness and culture shock, Ryui does his best to settle into his work as an art dealer’s apprentice while adjusting to his new home. From his enigmatic photographer roommate, Jack, to the beautiful seamstress living downstairs, Ryui finds himself surrounded by colorful characters and unbelievable opportunities and is soon utterly swept up in all “Crown City” has to offer.

Paulo Honório é um homem bruto e áspero, que usou mão de violências inúmeras para, a qualquer custo, enriquecer. Após tomar posse de S. Bernardo, fazenda na qual havia trabalhado, anos antes, ele se empenha em transformar suas terras em um lugar onde tudo e todos servem para a produção e para o acúmulo de capital. Assombrado por ruídos de uma casa onde já não mora mais ninguém, Paulo Honório procura escrever as memórias de sua vida e de seu casamento com Madalena, uma história de ciúmes e de ruína.

After a brutal assault leaves New York's premier wedding planner Samantha Rutherford shattered, she flees to her Southern roots and purchases Magnolia Grove—a decrepit plantation with a haunted history. As she works to restore the grand estate into a wedding venue, Samantha discovers she's not alone in her new home. The spirit of Eliza Whitley Beauregard, who died in childbirth a century and a half ago, seems determined to communicate with her.

A migrant fleet, a million strong, sets sail from Calcutta. Its destination: Europe. As the fleet advances, the continent is submerged under a torrent of words. Will the old nations of Europe resist the migrants or welcome them? Honor their past or embrace the radiant future? Open fire or open their hearts? Enthusiasm, delusion, cowardice. And, finally, panic. The migrants make landfall...

La pubblicazione di Il buio oltre la siepe di Harper Lee nel 1960 fu un evento memorabile: il romanzo vinse il premio Pulitzer, fu tradotto in quaranta Paesi, vendette quaranta milioni di copie, fu adattato in un film che vinse tre Oscar e diventò un classico della letteratura americana. I suoi protagonisti, Scout, Jem e Atticus, sono tra i personaggi più amati dai lettori di tutto il mondo.

When a young engineer dies under suspicious circumstances, OSBI Detective Jack Hollander and Agent Betty Cash are drawn into a tangled web of corporate secrecy, tribal jurisdiction, and political ambition. As they navigate the overlapping authorities of the Chickasaw Lighthorse Police, state investigators, and federal courts, they uncover a mystery that stretches from the corridors of power to the quiet banks of the Canadian River.

From the celebrated author of Philomath, an astonishingly inventive collection of poems illuminating human, planetary, and personal survival.

Wallensteins Soldaten aus vielen Ländern erzählen von ihrer Hingabe zu ihrem Heerführer, der außerordentlich erfolgreich ist und seine Soldaten gewähren lässt. Doch es droht Ungemach: Wallenstein soll auf des Kaisers Geheiß einen Teil seiner Armee abtreten - an den Kaiser von Spanien. Unmut regt sich bei den Soldaten - und der Grundstein für Wallensteins Sturz wird gelegt.

Max Ehrmann’s Desiderata is a gentle manifesto for the human spirit, written with the clarity of wisdom that comes not from abstraction but from lived experience. First published in 1927, the poem speaks in a calm, almost parental voice, guiding the listener toward a life of quiet dignity amid the disorder of the modern world. Its opening injunction—“Go placidly amid the noise and haste”—establishes both its tone and its philosophy: serenity is not the absence of chaos, but a way of moving through it.

A taut, lyrical folk-horror about buried bargains and the price of memory. When Maren digs up a weathered crate stamped H.V. in her family’s orchard, she releases an old ledger and a lullaby that lodges in Moonreach’s dreams. As bargains traded in seed and silence begin to ripple through the town—barns whispering, neighbors eyeing one another, crates that demand repayment—Maren must defend her newborn’s laugh from a landscape that remembers debts and collects in blood.

Jesse Thomas, a humble, unassuming war hero from a tiny northeast Mississippi town, has dealt with a lot in his short life, including the tragic loss of his parents in a car crash. But what troubles him most is the disappearance of his wife, Mary, over a year ago. Cleared as a suspect by investigators, Jesse is perplexed that no one talks about her anymore. It’s as if she never existed. Only one clue was left behind: the remains of Mary’s dog. Although dismissed by law enforcement, Jesse thinks it’s significant to the case.

The eight short stories in Judge Dee at Work cover a decade during which the judge served in four different provinces of the T’ang Empire. From the suspected treason of a general in the Chinese army to the murder of a lonely poet in his garden pavilion, the cases here are among the most memorable in the Judge Dee series.

Весна 1942 года. На далёком разъезде старшина Федот Васков получает в подчинение отделение зенитчиц. Молодые девушки, недавно пришедшие на фронт, сталкиваются с суровой реальностью войны, когда неподалёку обнаруживаются немецкие диверсанты. Маленький отряд вступает в неравный бой, где решаются судьбы, проверяются сила духа и цена человеческой жизни. Роман Бориса Васильева «А зори здесь тихие» — одно из самых известных произведений о Великой Отечественной войне, написанное с точностью, уважением и глубоким знанием того времени.

Le jour où sa femme disparaît inexplicablement, la vie de Toru Okada bascule – et emporte avec elle les repères du monde. C'est dans une réalité qui s'enfuit sous d'excentriques mirages que le jeune homme s'éveille un matin. Un théâtre d'ombres débutant par de mystérieux coups de téléphone, et où se croisent peu à peu des êtres déroutants, inclassables, aux confins d'un univers guidé par le chant d'un oiseau à ressort.

Born with visions pressed against his chest like a second heart, Song walks along a road no other can see. Omens follow him, the scream of the panther from the ridge, the pale Indian Pipe rising in the dark soil, the red-banded Cecropia moth beating its wings against firelight. These are not accidents. These are messages. Song has been chosen to carry them. But every song casts a shadow. That shadow has a name: Cypian, the River Wolf.