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Set in 1640s Puritan Massachusetts, this "flawlessly crafted" ( Booklist) historical novel by Christy Award finalist Siri Mitchell delivers a heart-wrenching tale of true love and triumphant grace. While Susannah awaits an overdue marriage proposal, a powerful villager takes a fancy to her. But after a dashing military captain comes to town, she's unprepared for the sinister turn her life soon takes.

Laconic, sharp and playful, 99 Nights in Logar is a stunning coming-of-age novel and a portrait of Afghanistan like no other, from an unforgettable new voice. It is 2005 in Logar, Afghanistan, and twelve-year-old Marwand has returned from America with his family for the summer. He loses the tip of his finger to the village dog, Budabash, who then escapes. Marwand's quest to find Budabash, over 99 nights, begins.

Kris Merrill's life changed irrevocably when, a year ago, she was targeted for termination by the Meridian corporation, one of the mega-conglomerates that controls the government in this dystopian future. She hid amongst the underground resistance - but now, right as her training with the anti-corporate movement is nearing its end, their compound is destroyed. Ready or not, Kris and the other trainees are recalled to the dangerous metropolis of San Angeles.

Kris Merrill is a member of a small insurgent group operating within a multi-level metropolis that stretches from San Francisco to the Mexican border. Her attempt at rescuing Ian Miller failed, leaving her alone and her unborn son without a father. Without the trust of the insurgents, Kris is relegated to low-level assignments for them, and trying desperately to keep her pregnancy a secret. She is alone. War has started between the corporations. The people living in the lower levels of San Angeles have become the victims.

1989: When 15-year-old Leila is exiled from her exotic home on Lace Island to a cold English boarding school, the life she once loved becomes a distant memory. 2016: Jess dreams of far off places, of white sandy beaches and warm tropical seas. When she gets her longed-for job as cabin crew, those dreams are suddenly realised. But Jess has a troubled past, and her present is about to become complicated and dangerous....

Newbery medalist Karen Hesse recreates the glorious experience of a quenching rainstorm on a sweltering summer day. "Come on, rain!" Tess pleads to the sky as listless vines and parched plants droop in the endless heat. Up and down the block, cats pant while heat wavers off tar patches in the broiling alleyway. More than anything, Tess hopes for rain. And when it comes, she and her friends are ready for a surprising joyous celebration...

Joon is a young Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s. Her parents have crumbled under the weight of her father's infidelity and mental illness has rendered her mother nearly catatonic. So Joon, at the age of 13, decides she's better off on her own and sets out on a harrowing and sometimes tragic journey, exposing herself to all the pain and difficulty of a life lived on the margins.

"The crow crossed the sky, slow-beating her wings. Beat, beat, beat. It was night, not yet morning, and her feathers were so black that she coasted the air invisible above the city wall." Thus begins Ali Smith's retelling of Sophocles' tragedy, about a young Theban princess who decides to bury...

In cycle two of the series, the Harbingers team investigates more unsettling mysteries that drive them to the breaking point. Will they be strong enough to keep overcoming the world's dark forces? Fast-paced and ongoing, this thrilling collection is like your favorite TV series, with each linked episode written by a talented author.

Sixteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho crime authors! This captivating collection of short mysteries and crime capers - which features New York Times best-selling authors, Crime Writers Association Gold and Diamond Dagger winners, and Edgar Award nominees - contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season.

In cycle three of the series, the Harbingers team investigates more mysterious and fascinating supernatural occurrences in Hollywood, a small town in North Carolina, and elsewhere. Can they keep the growing darkness at bay? This fast-paced and ongoing collection plays like your favorite TV series, with each linked episode written by a talented author. Featuring "Leviathan", "The Mind Pirates", "Hybrids", and "The Village".

Baby is a teenager in trouble, and her last chance is a foster home with a husband and wife whose idea of fun is dogsledding. Still, it beats going to the juvenile detention center. Baby comes to love the dogs and takes naturally to sledding, but when her old boyfriend, Bobby, shows up, she can't stop herself from running off with him. Life with Bobby goes bad, and Baby has to make some hard decisions.

ليست مجرّد رواية عادية بل هي نافذة مفتوحة على عوالم ألف ليلة وليلة ونفحة ممّا سكتت عنه شهرزاد... تنطلق أحداثها من محلّة الكرخ ببغداد وبساتين البصرة أيّام بني...

From the author of the Oprah Book Club Pick Dream State, a riveting and profoundly moving story collection by a writer “uncannily in tune with the heartbreak and absurdity of domestic life” (Los Angeles Times). A boy on the edge of adolescence fears his mother might be a robot; a...

Wie gemein – Ellis ältere Schwester darf Reitunterricht nehmen und sie nicht! Zum Glück weiß Oma ihre Enkelin zu trösten: Sie vertraut ihr die geheimnisvolle Muschelfarbe an, mit der Elli ein wunderschönes Pferd malt. Kaum hat sie den letzten Pinselstrich vollendet, bringt ein Farbstrudel Elli ins verborgene Tal von Umbra. Neben ihr steht plötzlich jenes Traumpferd, das sie eben noch gezeichnet hat: Wundermähne. Es ist zum Leben erwacht! Gemeinsam mit weiteren Wildpferden und Liron, dem Hüter der Herde, lebt Wundermähne geschützt in dem verborgenen Tal.

Ein eindringlicher Hilferuf von Wundermähne erreicht Elli, denn sie wird auf Umbra gebraucht! Ohne zu zögern, malt Elli sich mit Omas geheimer Muschelfarbe in das verborgene Tal hinein. Statt Wundermähne begrüßt sie dort das liebenswürdige Pony Klecks und führt Elli zu ihrem Traumpferd, den anderen Wildpferden und dem Hüter Liron. Der hat schlechte Neuigkeiten für Elli: Die Magie des Tals schwindet! Um sie wieder ins Gleichgewicht zu bringen, muss Liron schleunigst sein Seelenpferd finden.

An inspiring, honest and intimate memoir about family, love and rising from the ashes. 'Ali's memoir absolutely wrecked me - in the best, most necessary way. It's brutally honest, beautifully written, and I have huge respect for her for putting this into the world' Paula Penfold 'I couldn't put...

Ein Mädchen findet in Katar die Liebe, ihren Mut, aber auch die Gefahr. Normalerweise kann Rea so schnell nichts aus der Fassung bringen, in letzter Zeit jedoch wächst ihr einfach alles über den Kopf: Prüfungen, Theaterproben, Fahrstunden – nichts will ihr mehr gelingen. Als Rea dann auch noch erfährt, dass ihr Diplomatenvater nach Doha, Katar, versetzt wird, kriegt sie endgültig die Krise.

Brought to you by Penguin. Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir’s captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality ‘These carefree faces, on which we allowed our smiles to spread, were for others the mask of tragedy.’ Jean Blomart...

‘We may look the same, but I am not you . . . We share nothing but a reflection in the mirror’ 'A bold, intriguing act of imagination' - Aube Rey Lescure, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of River East, River West ‘Beautiful, thought-provoking and meaningful’ - Nussaibah Younis, author...