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In How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers listeners transporting and compelling stories of those taken, those missing, and those neither here nor gone—runaways, exiles, wanderers, ghosts, even the elusive Dame Agatha Christie. From the remote Siberian taiga to the harsh American frontier, from rural Long Island to postwar Belgium, Masih’s characters are diverse in identity and circumstance, defying the burden of erasure by disappearing into or emerging from physical and emotional landscapes.

Ubicada en un pequeño pueblo del norte de Chile que verá alterada su tranquilidad con la llegada de algunos personajes, "Albina y los hombres perro" relata la historia de dos mujeres, la amnésica giganta blanca Albina, cuya sensualidad transforma a los hombres en una jauría desenfrenada, y La Jaiba, mujer con bigote y joroba, unidas por un azar mágico que las relacionará con otros personajes igualmente fuera de lo común.

As cinco pessoas que você encontra no céu conta a história de Eddie, mecânico de um parque de diversões, que morre no dia de seu aniversário de 83 anos. Imerso numa rotina de trabalho e solidão, ele passou a vida se considerando um fracassado. Ao acordar no céu, encontra cinco pessoas que lhe mostram o verdadeiro valor de sua existência. Esse livro foi escrito para cada um de nós, pois frequentemente nos sentimos frustrados e inúteis – assim como Eddie – por não termos realizado nossos sonhos.

O acidente que causou a morte de Eddie no parque de diversões deixou marcas profundas e permanentes em Annie. Ferida, assustada e incapaz de se lembrar do que aconteceu, ela cresceu isolada, achando que toda a sua existência havia sido um erro. Até que reencontra Paulo - o grande amor de sua adolescência - e começa a acreditar que finalmente terá uma chance de ser feliz. Mas quando uma nova tragédia interrompe seus planos, Annie precisa enfrentar o passado e enxergar a verdade por trás das lembranças que reprimiu por tanto tempo.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'I am sick of the future. Up to here with the future. I don't want anything to do with it; don't want it near me.' This is a story about now. It's a story about a woman, and the family she has made for herself. It's about the dramas unfolding on our screens and behind...

Dios había muerto: para empezar. Y el romanticismo había muerto. La gallardía había muerto. La poesía, la novela, la pintura, todas habían muerto, y el arte había muerto. El teatro y el cine habían muerto. La literatura había muerto. Muchísimas cosas habían muerto. Sin embargo, otras no habían muerto, de momento. La vida todavía no había muerto. La revolución no había muerto. La igualdad racial no había muerto. El odio no había muerto.

Living deep within the mysterious southern forests, the spiritual Ninkuraaja people are being hunted to the brink of extinction by bloodthirsty raiders known only as Woves. Nobody knows better than a Ninkuraa that a Wove deserves only death.

Cadenza is the City of Words, a city run by poets, its skyline dominated by the steepled towers of its libraries, its heart beating to the stamp and thrum of the printing presses in the Printing Quarter. Carlo Mazzoni, a young wordsmith, arrives at the city gates intent on making his name as the bells ring out with the news of the death of the city's poet-leader. Instead, he finds himself embroiled with the intrigues of a city in turmoil, the looming prospect of war with their rival Venice ever-present. 

Bloomsbury presents The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews, read by Rupert Farley. THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SELECTED AS ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S 10 BEST DEBUT NOVELISTS OF 2022 'It’s hard to believe that such an accomplished novel could be a debut... Superb' Susan Stokes-Chapman, number one...

கல்வி என்பது கட்டாயமாக நம் ஒவ்வொருவருக்கும் அவசியம். அது நம் சுவாசம். நாளை நம் விலாசங்களை அறிவிக்கப் போகும் சாதனம் கல்விதான்.

Dagens hus nattens hus er en mangetydig og farverig roman om mennesker og menneskeskæbner i grænselandet mellem Polen og Tjekkiet. En magisk fortalt lag-på-lag fortælling hvor personer og historier ligesom lægges oven over hinanden. Med jævne mellemrum møder man f.eks. en middelalderlig kvindelig helgen ved navn Kummernis der som ung fik Kristus ansigt for at undslippe et uønsket ægteskab. En anden genkommende figur er den transseksuelle munk Paschalis som er den der skriver Kummernis historie.

Presence, the Play offers a penetrating perspective on the vital role personal presence plays in the essence of life. This timely, captivating novel speaks to a growing hunger for a way of life that’s real and tangible, the opposite of an artificial existence lived in a realm of mediated connectivity.

After two centuries stuck in the Interim, a post-death limbo where souls must stay until they’ve been entirely forgotten by the living, Walter Augustus is finally about to move on to whatever comes next. But when Letty Ferguson uncovers the last remaining copy of Walter’s book of poetry, he finds himself in a race against time. Can Walter, aided by his former employer, Pemberton, and the mysterious and eccentric Hector, destroy the book before Letty fixes him into her memory, condemning him to eternity in the Interim?

Rebaa's adopted tribe lies slaughtered behind her. Rebaa's lover, Juran, lays down his life for hers, and now she must use all of her cunning and extraordinary powers to survive the inhospitable wilderness alone, ensuring that Juran's sacrifice was not in vain.

The situation is dire. The Alliance is crumbling. Thine, Pleidian, and Human civilizations are each at a crossroads for their very survival. Captain Galvin Quintos has a plan to defeat the Grish and the far more dangerous Varapin. But to pull this off, he’ll have to go it alone, cut ties with the US Space-Navy, and become a true outlaw - a full-fledged pirate. That and say goodbye to his loyal friend Derrota, Admiral Block, and Captain Gail Pristy. Feeling he may have just jumped from the frying pan into the fire, Quintos is forced to build new strategic alliances with the Pylors.

Following the acclaimed Secrets of The Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, this is an expansive, lyrical novel in the tradition of indigenous oral storytelling. Based on the author's many years of living in a Guatemalan village, Stealing Benefacio's Roses interweaves dramatic...

Includes three audiobooks from the Rise of the Arkansas Werewolves series: By the Light of the Moon, Beneath a Blood Lust Moon, and Desires of a Full Moon.

A crew of men are embarking on a voyage up a turbulent river through the rainforests of Guyana. Donne, their wild, domineering leader, is obsessed with hunting for a mysterious woman and exploiting Indigenous people as plantation labour. But their expedition is plagued by tragedies, haunted by drowned ghosts: spectres of the crew themselves, inhabiting a blurred shadowland between life and death. As their journey into the interior—their own hearts of darkness—deepens, it assumes a spiritual dimension, guiding them towards a new destination: the Palace of the Peacock.

In Almas Leben fühlt sich gerade nichts richtig an. Es ist, als würde sie sich mit ihren Problemen im Kreis drehen, obwohl sie sich nichts mehr wünscht, als endlich einfach glücklich zu sein. Aber was sie auch unternimmt, alles scheint wie blockiert - bis ihr eines Tages ein Paket gebracht wird. Darin: ein an sie adressierter Brief und ein Notizbuch. Es ist der Beginn einer inspirierenden Begegnung mit einer ihr zugleich fremden und doch so vertrauten Person, mit einer besonderen älteren Dame - und der Auftakt zu einer Reise zu sich selbst.

Titelnovellen handler om en kvindelig narratolog, der samler på eventyr. På en forelæsningsrejse i Tyrkiet forærer en ven hende en flaske af noget meget specielt glas, kendt som "nattergalens øje". Hun tager flasken med hjem på hotelværelset og snart efter befinder der sig en kæmpestor, charmerende, sandeltræsduftende tyrkisk djinn hos hende. De fortæller hinanden historier: han om adskillige årtusinder med erotisk tant og fjas, hun om sociale forskelle i nutidens England.