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Behind the Mirror is a deeply emotional and empowering story that pulls back the curtain on a seemingly perfect life. Margaret Sinclair, a successful and admired woman, has everything—or so it seems. Beneath the flawless facade lies a world of hidden pain, where she struggles to survive in an abusive marriage. As she embarks on a journey of self-discovery, courage, and healing, Margaret learns that true strength comes not from pretending, but from facing the truth behind the mask.

It's 1582, a time when books are banned, and witches live next door. Citizens of the European principality of Salm are free to pray the way they want. However, both Catholic and Protestant fanatics surrounding them believe theirs is the only truth. Everyone is a heretic to one side or the other. Martin, an accused seditionist, seeks safety in Salm, and he teaches Nicolas, the mayor's son, to read. Though Nicolas knows Martin's books are banned, he cannot resist them.

In the Hollywood hills, a mountain lion is struggling to survive. Isolated and afraid in a place devastated by drought, the lion’s endless hunger begins to get to him. As the land around him continues to decay, he begins to fantasize about killing the hikers who pass him. As it protects the precarious welfare of a nearby homeless encampment, it confronts temptations and threats, taking us on a tour that spans the city’s cruel inequalities to the toll of climate grief, all while grappling with the complexities of its own gender identity and memories of a vicious, absent father.

The Curran siblings set about crossing the country once more, this time with the objectives of helping their friends and learning more of their mother. With their identities no longer so private, every decision could have life-altering consequences.

By the age of 15, Deirdre has become unhappy at home. With a teenager s optimism she hitchhikes down to the Bahamas, hoping to bask on beaches for ever. But she finds the adult world of earning wages and paying rent includes racism, sexual harassment and abuse– with the daily fear of being found out as an underaged illegal alien and sent back to a place she no longer considers home. Was it ever supposed to be this weird? Deirdre, the Wanderer; Part Two In Books 5-7 of the complete novel, a series of startling propositions at a stately home, on a deserted island, and in the midst of...

By the age of 15, Deirdre has become unhappy at home. With a teenager’s optimism she hitchhikes down to the Bahamas, hoping to bask on beaches for ever. But she finds the adult world of earning wages and paying rent includes racism, sexual harassment and abuse– with the daily fear of being found out as an underaged illegal alien and sent back to a place she no longer considers home. Was it ever supposed to be this weird? Deirdre, the Wanderer: A modern picaresque; Part One In Books 1-4 of the complete novel, Deirdre uses her nascent womanly wiles to secure a ride south from snowy ...

In the fifth book in the sensational, cozy Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests. They must follow the café's strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold. Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, in Before We Forget Kindness our new visitors wish to go back into their past to move on their present, finding closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future.

Tagsüber hilft Juno ihrem schwerkranken Mann Jupiter dabei, seinen Alltag zu meistern. Außerdem ist sie Künstlerin, tanzt und spielt Theater. Und nachts, wenn sie wieder einmal nicht schlafen kann, chattet sie mit Love-Scammern im Internet. Martina Hefter hat einen berührenden Roman über Bedürfnisse und Sehnsüchte im Leben geschrieben. Und darüber, wie weit man bereit ist, für die Liebe zu gehen. Juno schreibt online mit Männern, die Frauen online ihre Liebe gestehen und so versuchen, sie um ihr Geld zu bringen.

On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the trappings of wealth and privilege, a responsible job as a surgeon specialising in skin grafts, a beautiful flat in a sought-after development, and a flash car. But it wasn’t always like this. Hers is a life founded on darkness. Did what happened to Freya as a child one fateful summer influence the adult she would become – or was she always destined to be that person? Was she born with cruelty in her heart or did something force it into being?

Post-university life doesn’t suit Phyl. Time passes slowly living back home with her parents, working a zero-hour contract serving Japanese food to holidaymakers at Heathrow’s Terminal 5. As for her budding plans of becoming a writer, those are going nowhere. That is, until family friend Chris comes to stay. He’s been on the path to uncover a sinister think-tank, founded at Cambridge University in the 1980s, that’s been scheming to push the British government in a more extreme direction. One that’s finally poised to put their plans into action.

With the lover everyday life recedes,” Roth writes—and exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in Deception the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that has no equal in American fiction. At the center of Deception are two adulterers in their hiding place. He is a middle-aged American writer named Philip, living in London, and she is an articulate, intelligent, well-educated Englishwoman compromised by a humiliating marriage to which, in her thirties, she is already nervously half-resigned.

Flush with ill-gotten gains from the Caribbean and intent on following her heart, fifteen-year-old Deirdre arrives in the hemisphere of her ancestry. But can anyone return to the bliss of a tropical paradise? Still she gains an education both academically and practically, increases her personal wealth, and finds friends like family in three great civilisations. It might be enough for some girls; but wanderlust will drive the indefatigable heroine ever farther from Connecticut on two epic sea voyages, over ancient trade routes… and the sea shall call her towards yet another as she ...

Heartsick and once again homeless, Deirdre turns her back on a Bahamian paradise and sails a thousand miles to the mystical Virgin Islands, the destination of her most cherished daydreams. But debilitated by drinking binges she is easily seduced by a sadistic drug smuggler; and shady intrigue, sensual interludes, and the perils of storm season in unprotected seas become routine. Now the indefatigable teenaged heroine must challenge the limits of her own endurance, both physically and emotionally, if she is to survive the most onerous ordeals so far. Deirdre, the Oyster's Pearl; Part Two...

Flush with ill-gotten gains from the Caribbean and intent on following her heart, fifteen-year-old Deirdre arrives in the hemisphere of her ancestry. But can anyone return to the bliss of a tropical paradise? Still she gains an education both academically and practically, increases her personal wealth, and finds friends like family in three great civilisations. It might be enough for some girls; but wanderlust will drive the indefatigable heroine ever farther from Connecticut on two epic sea voyages, over ancient trade routes… and the sea shall call her towards yet another as she ...

إحدى روايات القائمة القصيرة لجائزة البوكر 2012 على الرَّغم من نهايتها الغريبة والتي خالفت جميع التوقعات، وربما كانت هذه النهاية بحبكتها الذكية السبب في وصول الرواية إلى قائمة البوكر القصيرة.

رواية شائكة، مُتعبة وقريبة للقلب، ستشعر بأنَّك عاصرتَ بعض أحداثها وتتفاجىء بأحداث وتفاصيل أخرى لم تنتبه إليها يومًا.

هل سمعت عن هذه الرواية من قبل ؟!! إنّها تتربع على صدر قائمة أفضل مئة رواية عربية.

روايةٌ عجيبة فعلى الرَّغم من قصرها ومن كونها العمل الأول لكاتبها إلّا أنّها استطاعت اقتناص الجوائز الأدبية والتربّع في مجالس الحديث وعلى صفحات مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي.

En esta novela hablan por primera vez y en primera persona algunas de las mujeres que amaron al emperador Carlos V: su madre Juana de Castilla; sus tías Margarita de Austria y Catalina de Aragón; sus hermanas Leonor, Isabel, María y Catalina; su mujer Isabel de Portugal; sus amantes Germana de Foix, Bárbara Blomberg y Johanna van der Gheynst; sus hijas María y Juana; su bastarda Margarita de Parma y sus sobrinas Cristina y Dorotea.