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Whisper is a collection of stories that center around the rural Tennessee town of Kaden Hollow. The first, a short novel, follows the experiences of Samuel "Sketch" Thibodeaux as he navigates the odd world of human interaction and morality following the death of his adoptive mother. The subsequent three short stories focus on other characters in this quaint, troubled town.

You’ve heard of the Afterlife. Welcome to the Beforelife. There are four of us: Samuel, Lucy, Thomas, and me – Eliza. We came into being the day Becca Valentine was born. We’ve been by her side ever since. What she doesn’t know yet, is that one day she might become our mother. Then two men come into her life. Both seeking her heart. And then we realise: everything rests on Becca’s love story. Because one of the men is Lucy and Thomas’s father. And the other is mine and Samuel’s. And there’s simply no way we can all be born.

Emma is having a fresh start. After a successful teaching career, an exciting new chapter awaits Emma – helping her fiancé Grayson run one of Beatrix Potter's farms. While imagining days spent supporting Grayson with his dream, working the land and helping with the animals, Emma harvests a dream of her own – to set up an alpaca-walking business around the farm. But working together isn’t as easy as Emma expected. Soon her dreams are in tatters and, broken-hearted, she must start over yet again.

Clair’s normal life in Healdsburg, California, was changed forever when The Gate to eternal life stopped in her town. After discovering her magical powers as part-seraph, she was trained to hone her gift by Minor Angels Chris and Sam. But now, after being thrown from the Garden of Eden, she must train harder while dealing with her tragic past.

Wenn du nach Jahren endlich auf Menschen triffst, die so sind wie du... Destiny besitzt magische Fähigkeiten, die sonst niemand in ihrem näheren Umfeld hat, weswegen sie schon ihr Leben lang eine Außenseiterin ist. Bis sie nach ihrer Flucht von der sterbenden Erde, auf eine Gemeinschaft von sogenannten Sternenmagiern, den Guardians, trifft. Dort lernt sie Arilian kennen, ein selbstbewusster junger Sternenmagier, der es Destiny zu Beginn alles andere als leicht macht. Als frisch ernannter Pionier und den damit erlangten Freiheiten, gefällt es ihm gar nicht, dass man ihm Destiny als Schülerin zuteilt.

Rising star Jules Costa loves re-creating vintage recipes for her popular online cooking show. But when personal and professional disaster strikes, her only chance of saving her career is to complete her new cookbook before the end of the summer. Panicked, Jules returns to her family’s beloved olive farm on the shores of Italy’s stunning Lake Garda. Seeking culinary inspiration, she's hoping to convince her spunky eighty-year-old Nonna Bruna to share her precious collection of family recipes. Jules’ plans quickly go awry as she discovers Nonna’s cookbook has magical and unpredictable powers.

It is the year 1613, and King James is sending his messenger Andrew Logan into Scotland with secret orders to arrest Sir David Moray, close friend and advisor of the late Prince Henry. Secrets are second nature to Andrew, who must hide his Second Sight to stay alive. Joined by a court scrivener and the scrivener's spirited daughter Phoebe, Andrew slowly untangles the true purpose of his mission—to frame Sir David for Prince Henry's murder. But Andrew is unwilling to betray an innocent man.

Ojos Grises es producto de un mágico encuentro entre una experiencia vital y simbolismo mítico. El infierno de la Divina Comedia sirve de trampolín para que Javier Beas se lance a componer una obra donde, paso a paso, ingresamos en la primera etapa de la vida un encuentro, a través de los otros, con nosotros mismos. El amor que impacta, y que no se sabe aún manejar enteramente, sirve de base para que los personajes sean un reflejo de lo que un símbolo se extiende hacia latitudes externas e internas a un mismo tiempo.

The quaint coastal town of Paramour Bay is once again hosting their annual garage sale, and Raven Marigold is happily participating for the first time with two tables of gently used items and select pieces of clothing. She's taken special care to ensure that no magical auras remain on the items that she's included for sale, and she is quite confident that her first time joining in on the sale will go off without a hitch.

Beaten down, broken, and battle-scarred, Anastasia has been forced to bury one too many friends. Seeing yet another body lowered into the ground fractures what's left of her soul. Now, with only one goal in mind, she is willing to stop at nothing to put an end to her enemy. Even if it means sacrificing the worlds themselves. Which is precisely what will happen if she obtains the power she seeks.

Claire Walker has always had her life in perfect order, including her high-powered job at one of Manhattan's top corporate law firms. Yet the one thing she cannot seem to find is a perfect love to complete it, until fate pushes Matías de León into her path. Matías is a Spanish artist who is everything that Claire is not: free-spirited and creative, chaos to her order. She falls for him, hard—and he for her. A year later, however, Claire begins to question everything about their relationship. How can they possibly work long-term when they're so different? Might it be best to end it?

Londra, 1921. La giovane Opaline fugge dal matrimonio combinato a cui il fratello vuole costringerla per risolvere i problemi finanziari della famiglia. Appassionata da sempre di libri, si rifugia in un'incantevole libreria nel cuore di Parigi, la Shakespeare and Company, dove, con l'appoggio dell'eccezionale proprietaria Sylvia Beach, impara il mestiere di libraia. Quando il fratello riesce a rintracciarla, Sylvia prontamente la manda a Dublino, al numero 12 di Ha'penny Lane, presso un'antica bottega che, con talento e intuito, Opaline trasforma in una libreria specializzata in testi antichi e rari.

Uno studente senza nome sta per abbandonare gli studi in una prestigiosa università a Kyoto dopo due anni disastrosi: a causa di una serie di scelte sbagliate, prima fra tutte la compagnia del suo peggiore e unico amico, il teppista Ozu, si è rovinato la reputazione e la carriera accademica, al punto che la “rosea vita universitaria” che tanto sognava, ossia trovare una bella fanciulla dai capelli corvini, avere successo nello studio e avere tanti amici, sembra ormai impossibile da raggiungere. Ma il destino ha in mente per lui altri piani.

Voor de fans van Wij van David Nicholls, PS, I Love You van Cecilia Ahern en de film Groundhog Day. Het is maandagochtend en zoals gewoonlijk vliegt de Londense zakenvrouw Emma gehaast de deur uit. Door haar volle inbox en steeds langer wordende to-dolijst merkt ze niet dat de sfeer in huis gespannen is. Als ze na een lange dag thuiskomt en er duidelijk wordt dat ze alwéér hun jubileum is vergeten, is voor haar man Dan de maat vol. Na een knallende ruzie stormt hij naar buiten, de straat op. Emma hoort piepende remmen, een harde knal, een loeiend autoalarm.

When the stones of her house begin to rattle and shift and call out mysterious messages to her in the middle of the night, Pauline Sinclair, age ninety-nine, knows she will not make it to her one-hundredth birthday. She has lived a modest life in Mason Hall, a rural Jamaican village, educating herself with stolen books, raising her two children, surviving by becoming a successful ganja farmers in the area, and experiencing both deep passion and true loss with her beloved baby father, Clive. Behind this seemingly benign façade, however, Miss Pauline has buried many secrets.

For Edie Lane, a recipe for disaster doesn’t require that many ingredients. Take an unhealthy amount of wishful thinking and a sprinkle of desperation and that’s how Edie left everything behind in Ireland for her dream job at a bakery in Paris. Except the bakery isn’t in Paris – and neither is Edie. This might not be where Edie intended to be but she soon realizes it's exactly where she needs to be.

Set in Thailand from 1976 to the present, Mother, Ghost, Mango Seed is a haunting yet hopeful exploration of grief, motherhood, and cultural identity. Interwoven with real recipes and magic realism, the novel centres on Thai-English first-time mum Lin who, desperate to connect with her dead mother, travels across Thailand with her baby to find answers, lost recipes, and her mother's ghost, uncovering links to a devastating political past instead.

Longing to escape his island home, a boy named Hodaka runs away during his first summer of high school to find a new life in Tokyo. As rain falls for days on end and Hodaka struggles to adjust, he meets a girl named Hina who holds a mysterious power: With a single prayer, she can part the clouds and bring back the sun. But her power comes at a price, and as the weather spirals further and further out of control, they must choose what future they truly want for themselves.

When a young couple accidentally comes into possession of a playful kitten, their daily routine (and cramped apartment) is turned upside down. Soon they find their existence forever altered. Charting the couple’s ever-evolving relationship with cats – some they live with, others who exist only in their imagination – Invisible Kitties is a meditation on the quiet moments of everyday life and a celebration of cats in all their many forms.

Relocated to a coastal town, widowed teacher Sarah Grey is slowly rebuilding her life, along with her young son Alfie. But after an inadvertent séance one drunken night, her world is shaken when she starts to experience frightening visions. She tries to explain them away. But Alfie sees them too and Sarah believes that they have become the targets of a haunting attack.