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After a rough year at NYU, aspiring writer Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul. Cat takes Lora under her wing, soliciting her help with side projects and encouraging her writing. As a friendship emerges between the two women, Lora opens up to Cat about her financial struggles and lost scholarship. Cat’s solution: Drop out of NYU and become her ghostwriter.

Set in middle America during the economic hard times of the Nixon era, this tragicomic, epistolary masterpiece chronicles everything Andrew Whittaker - literary journal editor, negligent landlord, and aspiring novelist - commits to paper over the course of four critical months. From his letters, diary entries, and fragments of fiction, to grocery lists and posted signs, we find our hero hounded by tenants and creditors, harassed by a loathsome local arts group, tormented by his ex-wife, and living on a diet of fried Spam, cupcakes, and Southern Comfort.

"Wie geht es Dir?" Als Johanna von Max, ihrem alten philosophischen Lehrer, eine Postkarte mit dieser scheinbar harmlosen Frage erhält, bricht es aus ihr hervor: die Trauer über den Tod ihrer Mutter, die Wut, dass man ihr im Krankenhaus verwehrt hat, die Sterbende zu begleiten. Provoziert durch weitere Postkarten, beginnt Johanna, sich den Dämonen hinter ihrer Verzweiflung zu stellen.

Gunelle Keith, châtelaine à Mallaig, dans les Highlands écossaises, épouse du chef de clan Iain MacNèil, a connu bien des déceptions avant d’embrasser pleinement sa fonction. Désormais à la tête d’une maison respectable, mère de deux enfants et correspondante de la Reine, Gunelle utilise aussi sa plume pour prendre une part active aux entreprises de ses proches. C’est alors que son amie d’enfance Davina lui apprend la fugue amoureuse d’une camarade et son dénouement tragique.

In this searing novel, Kathrine Kressmann Taylor brings vividly to life the insidious spread of Nazism through a series of letters between Max, a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco, and Martin, his friend and former business partner who has returned to Germany in 1932, just as Hitler is coming to power. A powerful and eloquent tale about the consequences of a friendship - and society - poisoned by extremism, Address Unknown remains hauntingly and painfully relevant today.

Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer looking down the barrel at 30, is planning a cross-country road trip. He buys a beat-up old tour bus. He hires a young army vet to drive it. He puts out an ad for others to join him along the way. But this will be a road trip like no other: His passengers are all fellow disheartened souls who have decided that this will be their final journey - upon arrival in San Francisco, they will find a cliff with an amazing view of the ocean at sunset, hit the gas, and drive out of this world.

Cuando conocí a Bruno, no sospechaba de la existencia de este cuaderno. Cuando él me conoció, no imaginaba los peligros a los que lo había expuesto su supuesto amor. Su plan consistía en escribir todo lo que hacía, pensaba y sentía en un cuaderno de tapa de cuero marrón para ofrecérselo a Lucila, la chica por la que había enloquecido. Por giros que Bruno no supo predecir, este cuaderno terminó en mis manos, y ahora está en las tuyas.

It’s 2084, and Aldus, an elderly robot repairman, is writing the history of the 21st century for his grandson, Luca. Born in 2010, Aldus lived through it all—the War on the Warming, the repair of the planet, the rise of true artificial intelligence, automation everywhere, and much more. Aldus also fears his time is short. Unlucky members of his generation sometimes experience long-delayed side effects from childhood infection with COVID. Aldus could be among them, and so his writing may have a literal deadline.

Love letters, born from high school dances, stereoscopic slides of toddlerhood, Ferris wheels, suntan oil, the streets of Hollywood and Toronto, 1980s music, driving too fast, Hershey bars, and bottles of Molson Golden ale. First real kisses and broken hearts. Our 11th birthday parties, our first cars, our true loves, and our monsters. Getting old. Falling in love. A dash of each, and all together. Letters to all of us, from all of us—the things we remember and the things we’ve lost.

Lilia Liska is 81. She has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children and seen the arrival of 17 grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to a strange little book published by a vanity press: the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair.

Die Geschichte von Erich Kästner und seiner Mutter ist eine besondere: 'Meine Mutter war mein bester Freund', sagte er über sie. Und sie wusste: 'Mein Sohn verschweigt mir nichts.' Tatsächlich war der kleine Erich seiner Mutter Lebenselixier sowie Schutzengel. Auch in späteren Jahren versuchte er, ihr beides zu sein – und sich trotzdem ganz behutsam ein wenig von ihr zu lösen.

Without question, Fawn Birchill knows that her used bookstore is the heart of West Philadelphia, a cornerstone of culture for a community that, for the past twenty years, has found the quirkiness absolutely charming. When an amicable young indie bookseller invades her block, Fawn is convinced that his cushy couches, impressive selection, coffee bar, and knowledgeable staff are a neighborhood blight. Misguided yet blindly resilient, Fawn readies for battle.

My dearest love, where are you now? Spring, 1847, and Lady Franklin is back in London expecting to greet her hero husband, polar explorer Sir John Franklin, upon his triumphant return from the Northwest Passage. As weeks turn to months, she develops an unconventional friendship with Russell Square's gardener even as she reluctantly grows into her public role as Franklin's steadfast wife, the "Penelope of England.” In this novel that imagines a rich interior life of one of Victorian England's most intriguing women, the boundaries of friendship, propriety, and love are sure to collide.

Ein Briefroman von Else Lasker Schüler, die sich selbst vergnügt und verzweifelt, aber immer unbeirrbar als Prinz von Theben oder Tino von Bagdad betitelt. Ein geheimnisvoller und starker Abgesang auf die Ehe im avantgardistischen Stil einer Dichterin.

Octave Mirbeau donne la parole à Célestine, une chambrière, qui perçoit le monde par le trou de la serrure et ne laisse rien échapper des "bosses morales" de ses maîtres. Le lecteur pénètre au cœur de la réalité cachée de la société, dans les arrière-boutiques des nantis, dans les coulisses du théâtre du "beau" monde. Octave Mirbeau arrache le masque de respectabilité des puissants, fouille dans leur linge sale, débusque les crapuleries camouflées derrière les manières et les grimaces avantageuses.

"L'amour relève-t-il d'un processus chimique ou d'un miracle spirituel ? Existe-t-il un moyen infaillible pour déclencher la passion, comme l'élixir qui jadis unit Tristan et Iseult ? Est-on, au contraire, totalement libre d'aimer ?" Anciens amants, Adam et Louise vivent désormais à des milliers de kilomètres l'un de l'autre, lui à Paris, elle à Montréal. Par lettres, tout en évoquant les blessures du passé et en s'avouant leurs nouvelles aventures, ils se lancent un défi : provoquer l'amour.

Il ne l'a jamais rencontrée, et pourtant elle ne le quitte pas : il sait qu'elle lui est destinée. Et c'est à elle, l'absente infiniment présente, que sont dédiées les lettres réunies dans ce splendide carnet de voyage. De l'Amazonie au Chili, en passant par les coulisses des scènes parisiennes, Bernard Giraudeau décrit "son" monde, à la fois réel et imaginaire, à son amour rêvé. Un voyage dans l'éblouissement du monde et le clair-obscur des sentiments.

"Le relazioni pericolose", pubblicato la prima volta nel 1782, è uno dei capolavori della letteratura francese del diciottesimo secolo. Accolto all'epoca da uno straordinario successo di pubblico e da un uguale scandalo, questo romanzo epistolare svela, attraverso le 175 lettere che lo compongono, i crudeli piani di seduzione e di vendetta orditi dai due nobili e astuti protagonisti - il visconte di Valmont e la marchesa di Merteuil - ai danni della giovane Cécile e della devota Madame de Tourvel.

Ann Workman is smart but naïve, a misfit who’s traveled from rural Kentucky to graduate school in the transformative years of the late 1960s. While Ann fervently seeks higher learning, she wants what all girls yearn for—a boyfriend. But not any boy. She wants the “Real Thing,” to be in love with someone who loves her equally. Then Jimmy appears, as if by magic. Although he comes from a very different place, upper-middle class suburban Chicago, he is a misfit too, a rebel who rejects his upbringing and questions everything.

Akiko "Jane" Thompson, a half-Japanese, half-Caucasian woman in her mid-30s, is attempting to forge a quietly happy life in the Bay Area with her fiance, Shiro. But after a bizarre car accident, things begin to unravel. An intruder ransacks their apartment but takes nothing, leaving behind only cryptic traces of his or her presence. Shiro, obsessed with government surveillance, risks their security in a plot to expose the misdeeds of his employer, the TSA. Jane's mother has seemingly disappeared, her existence only apparent online.