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Abbey Mei Otis's short stories are contemporary fiction at its strongest: taking apart the supposed equality that is clearly just not there, putting humans under an alien microscope, putting humans under government control, and more. Otis has long been fascinated in using strange situations to explore dynamics of power, oppression, and grief, and the 12 stories collected here are at once a striking indictment of the present and a powerful warning about the future.

Depuis que j’ai commencé à participer à cette étude clinique, ma vie me semble lourde, déréglée, impossible. Oui, l’argent que j’y reçois aide beaucoup ma sœur, mais toute cette expérience me dépasse. Je suis de moins en moins charitable, de plus en plus impatient. Et je commence à faire des cauchemars. À avoir des hallucinations qui me semblent parfois tellement vraies....

The idea is simple, vain, exciting. Tap the app, upload a picture of yourself, find your lookalike. When Ella and Jem meet, the physical resemblance is uncanny, but their lives couldn't be more different. One is from a tiny island in a deprived Northern community – pretty much the back of beyond – where she has no job, no boyfriend, limited prospects. The other is a London socialite, an aspiring actress living in a multi-million-pound mansion. Can either hide in her double's skin? And at what cost? Will it solve any of the problems or merely compound them?

Black Writers Read showcases, celebrates, and honors the words, work, and traditions of Black writers from across the country, across genres, across experiences, and across the African Diaspora. This podcast series is produced and hosted by performance poet, playwright, events curator, and educator Nicole M. Young-Martin. Find us on Instagram: @blackwritersread. Find Nicole on Instagram: @coco_penexplore.

Joanie Brewer's children meant the world to her. She'd do anything to protect them, even resorting to prostitution and petty crime in order to feed and clothe them. So when her beautiful teenage daughter is raped and murdered, only one thing will stop Joanie's pain - seeing her daughter's killer...

Anna had never believed in love at first sight until she met Martin. In no time, Martin has gotten to know Anna’s body, feelings and desires even better than she does herself. But even a relationship as lustful and intense as theirs is not without problem. Love relations are complicated, very complicated. "Stay with Me" is an erotic short story about love - and lust - at first sight. About desires so intense, that they are impossible to get rid of. About longings that overpower everything else.

"If you think life is better than fiction, then you haven’t read Alexa Martin’s fiction."—NPR One of... Amazon's Best Romances of November Buzzfeed’s New Romances to Read This Fall Cosmopolitan's Best Books Coming Out In November Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of November Women's...

Nicola Bryant reads the novelisation of a ‘lost’ TV story for the Sixth Doctor and Peri. “Is it the Doctor I have drawn to me?” The TARDIS has been pulled off course and sent hurtling through space and time. When it finally stops, Peri is amazed to witness the Doctor’s transformation...

“The kind of book that's destined to be passed from friend to friend."—PopSugar Two best friends say "I do" to living together, for better or worse, in this bold women's fiction novel from Alexa Martin. Jude Andrews is famous. Well, at least on Instagram. Her brand is clean eating, good...

Brought to you by Penguin. Max is thirty, a published poet and grossly overpaid legal counsel for a tech company. She’s living her best life! Or is she? The debris of years of dysphoria and failed relationships rattle around in her head. When she tumbles down the stairs at a New Year’s Eve...

Como miembro de los satmar, una comunidad de judíos ultraortodoxos de Williamsburg (Brooklyn, Nueva York), Deborah Feldman crece bajo un estricto código de normas que rige desde su idioma -el yiddish- o su indumentaria hasta sus lecturas y las personas con las que se le permite relacionarse. Siendo adolescente, intuye que puede existir una forma de vida alternativa entre los rascacielos de Manhattan, y se debate entre la responsabilidad de ser una buena judía jasídica y sus anhelos de independencia.

From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult, a powerful novel that explores the unbreakable bond between parent and child, and questions whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime—or if your mistakes last forever. Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the...

Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Small Great Things, pens her most riveting book yet with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy. Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its...

When Willow is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, her parents are devastated—she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. In this provocative story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, “Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance” (Stephen King)...

Lorsque Marie, l'amour de sa vie, meurt dans des circonstances dramatiques, François rompt avec son passé, son milieu, sa famille, et surtout avec sa sœur qu'il tient pour responsable de cette disparition. Persuadé qu'aucune femme ne pourra jamais remplacer Marie, François se jette à corps perdu dans les études. Il devient écrivain. Marie hante chacun de ses romans. Un jour, une lettre lui parvient, et le plonge dans l'incompréhension. Se serait-il trompé ? Que s'est-il réellement passé le soir où Marie a disparu ? François se met en quête de vérité, et découvre l'impensable.

Die Magie von Geschichten zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch Neil Gaimans Werk. So auch durch diese Kollektion von Erzählungen und Gedichten, in der ein mysteriöser Zirkus sein Publikum in Angst und Schrecken versetzt, Sherlock Holmes in einem seltsam verzerrten viktorianischen England einen royalen Mord aufklären muss oder eine Gruppe von Feinschmeckern nach der letzten ungekosteten Gaumenfreude forscht. Neil Gaimans erzählerisches Genie und sein beängstigend unterhaltsamer Sinn für schwarzen Humor machen diese Sammlung zu einer Geschenkbox voller Zauber.

Julian Epstein er forsvundet fra jordens overflade. De eneste spor, han efterlader sig, er en nedslidt lejlighed samt en kuffert med monogram, fundet i ørkenen. Epsteins forsvinden markerer afslutningen på den forvandling, hans familie gradvist har været vidne til: I kølvandet på sine forældres død, skilsmissen fra sin kone gennem mere end 35 år og sin pensionering fra et advokatfirma, får den velhavende Epstein nemlig en uimodståelig trang til at skille sig af med alle sine værdier og ejendele.

Qu'on se le dise, qu'on se l'enchante, par les temps qui courent en accéléré-à-reculons, s'adonner au merveilleux constitue un acte politique. Une escouade de résistants poétiques se sont mis à l'œuvre dans le plus grand secret. Réunis plus ou moins télépathiquement pour une mission de la plus haute importance amusante : s'émerveiller suffisamment fort pour que le bleu de la flamme de leurs souvenirs d'enfance puisse éclairer vos nuits.

Modern technology is terrifying. The average smartphone carries out 3.36 billion instructions per second. The average person can carry out only one instruction in that time. Stop and think about that for a second. Sorry, that's two instructions; you won't be able to do that. But what if modern technology was... literally terrifying? What if there really was a ghost in the machine? Prepare to travel through the bad gateway as acclaimed actor, writer and comedian Tom Neenan (The Mash Report) finds out what horrors may be lurking in our apps and gadgets.

Martin Christmas is a local government worker in the Sanitation department, whose days are shaped by endless recycling initiatives and green league tables, and whose nights are shadowed by his failed relationships and curmudgeonly interior monologues. While Martin is trying to cultivate his inner peace, things keep getting in his way.