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Toriumi Ningyo ha il nome di un uccello marino, vive sola con la madre e ha un padre che aleggia su di lei come un temporale. Quando incontra il giovane Arashi, un innamoramento fragile – il primo – prende forma. Solo curare la madre le farà capire che a volte l’amore è come il mare...

There can be no victory without betrayal. Hara Duja Gatdula, queen of the island nation of Maynara, holds the divine power to move the earth. But her strength is failing and the line of succession gives her little comfort. Her heir, Laya, is a danger—a petty and passionate princess who wields...

COMPASSIONE INVECE DI PERFEZIONE: IL PRIMO LIBRO DI PSICOLOGIA PER CURARE IL TUO BAMBINO INTERIORE E CRESCERE FIGLI FELICI Spesso vorremmo comportarci meglio con i nostri figli: siamo ansiosi, arrabbiati, perdiamo le staffe o ci sentiamo in colpa se li lasciamo soli anche solo per un minuto. Il...

Jaya’s a rich kid. Rasa’s broke and without guidance. On the edge of adulthood and on the opposite sides of the tracks. Romeo and Juliet, on fair Oahu. Seventeen-year-old Jaya Mehta detests wealth, secrets, and privilege, though he has them all. His family is Indian, originally from Gujarat...

“These gripping, magical tales span time travel, portals, menacing butterflies, and more. A can’t-miss meditation on families and survival.” —People “A gorgeous book that also serves as a series of unanswerable, probing questions: How did we get here? How will we move forward? Can we...

Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers, the award-winning, best-selling author of Blonde A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an Indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author’s encounters with gun violence. Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Goop Book Club Pick “Essential . . . We need...

In Brunemar, Lord Luceran Frostwyn commands all: the Aurevault mine, the land locked in eternal winter, and every human who lives beneath his rule. Every year, a tithe is owed. This year, my father cannot pay. When he is summoned to the Winter Lord's castle to answer for his debt, I make a...

She survived the dragonfire that destroyed her village and vowed to avenge her loved ones. He survived countless wars except one . . . the war of the heart. The night the dragon came, Sera became the sole survivor of a village reduced to ash. On the same night, her powers were awakened...

Ranked a Best Book of 2025 by Vulture CrimeReads BookBub Ms. Magazine and more! A young woman is drawn into a dangerous game after being invited to the mazelike home of her childhood friend, a rumored witch, in this gothic horror set in 1986 Philippines. In this game, there’s one...

From the author of The Portrait of a Mirror, a modern tragicomedy transforms the myth of Icarus into a blazing romp through bureaucracy, B-list fame, and college basketball . . . Phil is ordinary. A mid-level Washington lobbyist for a decidedly unsexy organization, unhappy in the way all mildly...

“The essay has taught me how to live,” writes Jia Tolentino, this year’s Best American Essays guest editor. In a time of escalating authoritarianism and disinformation, we turn to artists and writers to make sense of the world around us. The twenty-one authors featured in this collection...

Best-selling author, co-host of the hit podcast The Murder Squad, and true-crime investigative journalist Billy Jensen goes to Columbus, Ohio, where he examines the unsolved cases of 18 dead and missing women whom he suspects were the victims of serial killers on the loose and operating under cover of the opioid epidemic in America's heartland.

Agnes Chan never expected to be the punchline of her own life . . . But how else do you explain getting accidentally run over and seeing a lifetime of careful preparation, endless training, and all your hopes of a track scholarship to college destroyed in a split second? Not to mention the only witness to your humiliation being your #1 archnemesis, Royce Taslim. So, when Agnes finds a new answer to her scholarship predicament in the form of an international stand-up comedy contest for teens, the last person she expects to be up against is also the last person she wants to see: Royce.

London, 1857: Two teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where newspapers pick up their story. Are the girls truly escaped slaves from Kentucky? Or will the city's dystopian Mendicity Society catch them in a lie, exposing them as born-and-raised Londoners and endangering their safety? With its many accounts of people like these who lived and made their living on the streets, Vagabonds forms a moving picture of London's most compelling period.

Joe Jackson is an adventurous twelve-year-old boy from the boring English town of Highcross. His exploration of the site of an unexploded World War II bomb will see the beginning of the most amazing experience of his life where he will meet up with Max, an extra-terrestrial from the planet Proxima Centauri b. Joe, Max and their friends, Mo and the Robinson family will embark on an adventure through time and space where they will encounter dinosaurs, Roman legionaries and medieval knights as they try to stop the evil and ambitious Dardan from taking over Planet Earth.

The audio course designed to teach the U.S. Midwestern American accent focuses on proven instructional methods to help learners acquire this specific way of speaking. The course is structured to guide students through understanding and practicing the accent, leveraging oral posture, common phrases, listen-and-repeat exercises, and real accent examples.

It's the Philippines in the 1800s. The Filipino gentleman Crisostomo Ibarra returns from his studies abroad and finds the city of Manila changed, especially after he learns of his father's mysterious death. After a violent encounter with a monk, Ibarra is excommunicated. Maria Clara has to choose between being a dutiful daughter and the love of her life. Poor Sisa searches for her children, while municipal guards try to capture her for the alleged gold coins that have gone missing from the church. Elias wrestles with a mysterious crocodile in the dark waters of the Pasig.

L’Impero romano non è mai caduto. Tutti gli imperi della storia si sono presentati come eredi degli antichi romani: l’Impero romano d’Oriente; il Sacro Romano Impero di Carlo Magno; Mosca, la terza Roma. E poi l’Impero napoleonico e quello britannico. I regimi fascista e nazista. L’impero americano e quello virtuale di Mark Zuckerberg, grande ammiratore di Augusto: il primo uomo a guidare una comunità multietnica di persone che non si conoscevano tra loro ma condividevano lingua, immagini, divinità, cultura.

Pippa Fleming is a woman who always has a plan…until she finally secures a coveted promotion and her dream job suddenly feels worse than getting caught under the sun as a redhead with no sunscreen. Exhausted and confused, Pippa seeks an escape by signing up for a reality dating show. Everyone is allowed one identity crisis, right? And where better to recharge than on a beach sipping cocktails with little umbrellas? As long as she remembers she’s only here to have fun not to lose her heart…