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The Fracturing Light is a deeply emotional coming-of-age novel about love, loss, and the quiet strength it takes to grow through change. Told through the eyes of eleven-year-old August Somerville, the story follows a once-happy family as it begins to unravel when his parents—Emma, a strong-willed nurse, and Tyler, a compassionate police officer—separate.

Eighty-year-old Sakaye Hatashita's life as he knows it is over. His wife, Shizuko, is dead, and his bold promise to return her ashes from California to her family in Japan is unfulfilled. With his honor at stake, he vows to sail alone halfway around the world if it is the last thing he does. But demons from his past, passing ships the size of skyscrapers, and one of the worst cyclone seasons in recorded history will make the Pacific far from welcoming. But first, he will need to buy a boat and remarkably learn how to sail.

In the 1920s, Margery Crandon captivated both Boston society and psychic researchers with her astonishing seances. At her gatherings, her deceased brother Walter regularly appeared, entertaining the circle with his witty and cheeky remarks. Margery’s abilities earned her the admiration of luminaries, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William Butler Yeats. But one man stood in opposition: Harry Houdini, the legendary magician, who was determined to expose her as a fraud.

Guernsey, 2010. After a stroke, an elderly woman shocks her family by speaking perfect French—a language they never knew she possessed. As her granddaughter unravels seventy years of silence, a hidden wartime story emerges... Paris, 1941. After her brother is declared missing in action at Dunkirk, eighteen-year-old Lenny Gallienne vanishes into Churchill’s secret army. In a bookshop on Rue de la Pompe, she poses as a shop girl while encoding intelligence from Nazi headquarters into knitting patterns. Each sweater smuggled to prisoners contains flight paths. Each scarf holds radio frequencies.

" Je suis sur ta clavicule, sur ton poignet, dans tes mains. Je suis dans tes cheveux, sur ton sein, dans tes yeux. Je regarde ta bouche, tes mouvements, ta robe. Je te connais sans te connaître, Enriqueta. " La vie d'Enriqueta bascule le 18 août 1936, quand, en quelques minutes, elle doit...

For fans of Philippa Gregory and Allison Pataki, Butterfly Games is Kelly Scarborough’s debut biographical historical fiction novel about a young Swedish countess whose youthful love affair with the heir to her country’s throne has profound personal and political repercussions. In some games, winning means losing everything that matters. In the opulent world of the Swedish royal court, Jacquette Gyldenstolpe walks a dangerous tightrope between romance and political intrigue.

Opowieść rozpięta jest między dwoma światami: dawnym – pełnym podróży, rodzinnego spokoju i radości z debiutu literackiego – oraz nowym, zamkniętym w ciasnej szpitalnej izolatce, przesyconym bólem, lękiem i niepewnością jutra. Plastyczne opisy przywołują miejsca, które bohaterka odwiedziła przed chorobą: rozgrzane uliczki Mostaru, nocne życie Florencji, norweskie fiordy, paryskie bulwary czy wietrzne wybrzeże Cabo da Roca.

Sie hinterlässt drei Kinder und einen Bindestrich. Sie hinterlässt mir ihre Freundinnen, ihre Bibliothek, ihr Unbehagen. Ich schreibe ihr hinterher als vermissende Tochter, als wütende Frau, als verstummte Dichterin und wundere mich, wie wenig sie sich beschwören lässt, wenn ich es will. Ich schreibe über meine mannigfaltige Mutter, ihre Weisheit und Komik, ihren Mann, die Sache mit den Meerschweinchen und mich.

1936: Spanien steht vor dem Ausbruch des Bürgerkriegs. Clara und Daniel, jung und verliebt, glauben nicht, dass der Putschversuch unter Francisco Franco viel ändern wird, doch dann verschwindet Daniel spurlos. 2019: Die Fernsehreporterin Marina soll über die Exhumierung des Diktators Franco aus seinem Grab in der Basilika des Tals der Gefallenen berichten. Als ihre Großmutter Clara davon erfährt, kommt die Familiengeschichte zutage, über die die Hundertjährige bislang eisern geschwiegen hat.

When Alexander the Great’s body began to rot, so did the world that believed in him. The empire did not fall; it dissolved—from loyalty into appetite, from divinity into rumor. Babylon became a crucible where ambition, grief, and faith melted together and could no longer be separated.

In The Quiet Gift: A Journey of Self-Worth and Resilience, co-authors Pamela Cass and Natalie Davis introduce Emily—a young woman who’s spent her life trying not to be seen. Silenced by dyslexia, shaped by self-doubt, and burdened by a quiet belief that she’s not enough, Emily’s world begins to shift when she receives a worn red journal filled with questions that speak to her soul.

One of the foremost writers of her generation explores the strength and pain of being young As winter approaches in Norway and the daylight dwindles, a chance encounter prompts a novelist to reexamine her past. The seismic events following her sixteenth birthday return with haunting vividness...

Der Roman erzählt eindrucksvoll die Lebensgeschichte von Furkan F., einem Mann, der schon in jungen Jahren mit zahlreichen Herausforderungen konfrontiert wird. Trotz aller Rückschläge verliert Furkan nie seine Träume aus den Augen. Mit der Zeit entwickelt er neue Lebensziele – allen voran den Wunsch, Schriftsteller zu werden. Der Roman endet hoffnungsvoll: Ein gereifter Furkan blickt seiner Pension mit Freude entgegen – bereit, sich dem Schreiben zu widmen, neue Reisen anzutreten und sich mit Menschen zu umgeben, die das Leben einfach und ehrlich gestalten.

Brought to you by Penguin. A mother forced to leave her family. A daughter forced to reckon with what is left behind. Lipa, Philippines, 2001. Neneng is 11 when her mother, Rosa, leaves to work as a nurse overseas: abandoning Neneng to care for a distant father, unsettled relatives and...

Роман Александра Гефтера «Секретный курьер» во многом автобиографичен и повествует о полной опасностей работе белых подпольщиков в годы Гражданской войны. Роман посвящен памяти погибших секретных курьеров, «безвестных, как и их могилы». Это проникновенный рассказ об опасных похождениях моряка Балтфлота Келлера, сбежавшего из Петербурга во время революции. Его вербует британская разведка, и Келлер становится секретным курьером, осуществлявшим связь между Северной и Северо-Западной армиями Белых и белогвардейцами в Петербурге и Кронштадте.

" On pourra bien l'étouffer, elle n'est qu'une petite créature de rien. Une femme afghane. Mais elle n'étouffera pas sans avoir piqué. " Saint-Malo, 1926. Élisabeth, pétillante secrétaire bretonne, rencontre un jeune prince afghan, le beau Naïm Khan. Après la naissance de leur premier...

What happens when a love story turns into a political nightmare? From the moment Amalia enters his shop, the immigrant shoemaker Erasmo imagines she will fulfill his dream of America. And their story begins in promise. The lovers are passionate for life and each other, but they both come to see the truth beneath the surface. Amalia has opened Erasmo's eyes to inequality and the exploitation of the poor. Against the backdrop of the WWI Red Scare, while the Spanish Flu rages, Erasmo becomes embroiled in the battle between Italian anarchists and the federal government.

Brought to you by Penguin. The heartbreaking Japanese classic telling the story of two orphans fighting for survival at the end of World War Two, published in English for the first time In the dying days of the War, Seita and Setsuko must fend for themselves. Firebombs have obliterated their...

A mother, a wife, a woman of substance... At nineteen, Elizabeth Seymour is already a mother, has been recently widowed, and seen her Queen, Anne Boleyn, lose her life. Against the wishes of her father, she heads North, away from Wulf Hall and the court in London to Yorkshire, determined to...

Felicite St. Maxent, the brilliant and beautiful daughter of a wealthy businessman in colonial New Orleans, is tragically widowed at the age of eighteen. She soon meets the dashing young Spanish General Bernardo de Galvez on his first day as governor, and despite the scandal of their courtship, they receive the King's blessing to marry. Through wisdom and bravery, they restore New Orleans to prosperity and, through epic battles, drive the British from the American South, becoming heroes of the American Revolution.