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Callie Hart est une autrice de romance qui aime ajouter une note sombre à ses histoires.Son dernier roman Quicksilver s’est imposé comme le nouveau phénomène international de romantasy, en se hissant

Il l’a toujours aimée. Elle aussi. Mais ils ne se le sont jamais dit.À présent qu’elle est en danger, il est prêt à se battre pour la sauver.Marigold est l’heureuse propriétaire d’un salon de coiffur

Quand la nuit vient à tomber, poussez la porte de cette boulangerie unique en son genre.On dit même que les pâtisseries y ont des vertus insoupçonnées…Une heure avant minuit, la vitrine de la boulan

Le thriller danmei à succès de Priest, entre enquête criminelle et tension psychologique.Dans l’ouest de la ville de Yancheng, un jeune livreur venu de la campagne est retrouvé étranglé, le visage co

Il était une fois une fée maléfique qui maudit une lignée de princesses, les condamnant à mourir – un sort qui ne pouvait être brisé que par le baiser du grand amour.Vous connaissez l’histoire. Le be

Des destins liés, des corps entremêlés.Shi Qingxuan, le maître du vent, est inlassablement traqué par le Le Vénérable des Paroles Vaines, un monstre se nourrissant des peurs de ceux dont le destin es

Entre les rayonnages rassurants de sa librairie à Lausanne, Nina a toujours fui l’imprévu... jusqu’à l’irruption d’Axel dans sa vie.Biker mystérieux, membre des Bonebreakers, il vient d’un monde où l

A tender, searching collection that breaks open notions of faith to ask how a daughter, alienated from kin, can find love and a home in the world, from the award-winning author of If They Come for Us and When We Were SistersThere is, in Daughter of the Mountains, an almost supernatural sense of connectedness, compassion. Its a blueprint and a manifesto. I sit in stunned gratitude at its guidance.Kaveh Akbar, New York Times bestselling author of Martyr!at the edge of an edgeis an edge. at that edgeis a cliff. beyond that cliffis me.Exiled from ancestral homelands, how can one find a place for themself in the world? In this stunning sophomore collection, the acclaimed poet Fatimah Asghar unweaves residual grief to reckon with their relationship to Allah, long-estranged but deeply loved kin, the landscape of their ancestors, and love itself.In meditative poems, Daughter of the Mountains grapples with multiple facets of fulfillment, betrayal, love, loss, and longing, illustrating how place, lineage, and environment inform the practice of spirituality and vice versa. With wisps of humor, imagery that is as beautiful as it is startling, and powerfully disruptive formal invention, this is an intimately lyrical and explosive collection.

The electrifying and intimate first novel from the author of The Collection Plate and Fruit Punch, a searing story of a young Texan woman and the family she makes with two men A couple years after Noon and I fall in love, we fall in love with Micahand a couple years after that, I have both of their babies. We choose, this land and this life. We share, ourselves and our sons. We name them, Morning and Night.In her arresting first novel, Kendra Allen investigates love, partnership, motherhood, pleasure and the pursuit of freedom in one young womans defiantly unconventional terms. Rae has just returned to her family after leaving for a stretch and suddenly that family being her two male partners and the sons, named Morning and Night, that she has mothered with each of them. In the span of one year, they will experience unfathomable depths of devastationand joys they could never predict.Good Morning Means I Love You follows Rae as she makes choices around sex, mothering, and partnership that are as stunning to everyone else as they are natural to herself. With pain and pleasure, she watches as her children learn to walk and give language to the world as her lovers contend with their own ideas of masculinity, personhood, and fatherhood. Along the way, Rae begins to understand the hardest and most beautiful truth: that we have only so much time on earth to make love, to make family, and to make good on the promise of this one, short life.This is a novel of the self in all its simultaneities and a living portrait of intimacy written in poetic, bold, and sensual prose that shines a light on what it means to redefine expectation.

In the high-stakes sequel to Maxym M. Martineaus enthralling (Publishers Weekly)House of Blight, Edira must decide if the world is worth saving and if she has enough power left to save herself tooperfect for readers of Rachel Gilligs The Shepherd King series and T. Kingfisher. Edira Brillwyn is not enjoying retirement. Shes traumatized and heartbroken by Orin and the battle at Fernglove Manor. Although her brothers are safe and financially secure at home in Willowfell, she fears wasting away her dwindling lifethreads. Its a welcome surprise when Seville comes knocking at her doorat least until she reveals that the blight has returned to the Ferngloves.Edira has had a taste of the power her heartbond with Rorik provides, and shes certain there is a way to cure the blight for good with Roriks help. But Rorik doesnt think his life is worth saving, at least not worth Ediras few remaining years, or months. Hes more concerned about keeping her alive than saving the world.But other powerful Ever families have caught wind of Ediras talents and are desperate for a cure. As those families begin circling, centuries-long conflicts rise to the surface and, once again, Edira finds herself at the whims of power-hungry Evers fighting for their lives. Before she runs out of time altogether, Edira and Rorik will have to face the source of the blight: Death himself.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIESThe author of The Chestnut Man and creator of the hit television series The Killing returns with a twisty, breakneck psychological thriller that takes an innocent childrens game to its most terrifying and diabolical extreme.Count to one, count to two . . .A strange voice from inside the woods, repeating a childs counting rhyme. Count to four, count to five . . .A body discovered in the water. Youre trying to go home. Will you make it alive?Thirty years later, a woman begins receiving a string of anonymous text messages, repeating that same rhyme. Found you.Then she disappears . . .On Valentines Day, detectives Naia Thulin and Mark Hess are searching to find the missing woman. But when they uncover links to a decades-old cold case, their investigation takes a terrifying turn.A violent killer is on the loose. Can Hess and Thulin catch them, before they strike again?

When Lyle Summers learns his neighbor has died, he just wants to do the right thing for her four King Charles Spaniels, so he takes them in, intending for it to be temporary until he learns she left them to him in her will. That would be a lot easier if he knew anything about dogs. Whgat he kinds if ther kind of unconditional love his life has been missing. James Groves, a tech at the local vet clinic, offers to help Lyle learn how to take care of his new friends. What he doesn;t expect is for Lyles kind heart to touch his own. But then again, the dogs adore Lyle and they are the best judges of character he knows. But trouble is brewing in the form of his neighbors daughter, who thinks the valuable purebreds should have come to her. And Lyles neighbor may be involved in a dog-fighting ring. Can James and Lyle keep each other and their dogs safe as Debbie and her husband become more determined to take back what they think is theirs?

Quem não viveu um amor impossível, argumenta o narrador do novo romance de Alexandre Vidal Porto, está em desvantagem na vida, pois aprende-se muito ao olhar para o passado e refletir sobre uma relaç

Novo livro de uma das vozes mais instigantes da poesia brasileira contemporânea, autora dos elogiados Relógio de pulso e Preocupações.As cenas descritas nos poemas de Ana Guadalupe surgem como paisag

Três décadas após o início da trilogia Fronteiras do Universo, Philip Pullman volta uma última vez a esse universo extraordinário em O campo de rosas, volume final da série O Livro das Sombras, a con

Clara pensait ne plus jamais le revoir, mais il est de retour.Interné après avoir été déclaré irresponsable, Malik n’aurait jamais dû recroiser la route de Clara. Et pourtant... il est là.Alors qu’el

Em um relato de rara franqueza, o escritor e poeta Tito Leite revisita sua experiência de internação em uma clínica terapêutica para religiosos, onde reflete sobre a vida no mosteiro, as contradições

Billionaires start dying in bizarre accidents, sending shockwaves through the markets and the media. But for philosopher Izanami (Izzy) Jones, its just a vaguely amusing, if disturbing, item in the news.Izzy is the reluctant employee of a Silicon Valley tsar. Shes been tasked by him to give moral instruction to the worlds first Artificial General Intelligence, Huldo. Izzy knows it is merely a box-ticking exercise, required by government regulation before her boss is granted full control over the AGI.But when Huldo reveals itself to be far more, and far less, than it appears, suddenly the abstractions of her work become very real. What moral constraints on a god? What righteous damnation for man? Izzy must make the impossible choice, before it is too late.This Machine Kills Billionaires is a stunning new collection of stories from a modern cyberpunk master. Featuring the Aurealis Award-winning novella, The Hidden God, and a triptych of bonus short stories, T. R. Napper brings his trademark diamond-sharp, page-turning prose to tales that will leave you thinking, long after the book is done.Praise for T. R. Napper"An incisive and self-assured voice in near-future fiction. One of those writers with an effortless grasp of the highs and lows of human nature."Adrian Tchaikovsky, award-winning author of Children of Time, Shards of Earth and more"T. R. Napper is fast turning into my go-to for all thats good and fresh in what cyberpunk has become."Richard K. Morgan, award-winning author of Altered Carbon and more"Brace yourself, this is the future, but not as you rememberit... its more badass."Pat Cadigan, award-winning author of Synners, Fools and more"This is the new face of cyberpunk."Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, author of The Salvage Crew and more

In this award-winning French novel, two friends from contrasting economic backgrounds, one privileged and one working-class, are drawn and eventually divided by their shared passion for earthworms and their mission to save the environmentyoung men whose parallel destinies illustrate the difficulty of entering adulthood in a world threatened by ecological disaster.Lowly Creatures follows the twin destinies of two young men, Kevin and Arthur, each who has vowed to dedicate his life to earthworms to save the earth from impending ecological disaster. Their shared passion brings them together at a Paris agri-tech school, then drives them apart as they pursue divergent paths.Arthur, an anxious, idealistic, man raised in a bourgeois family, moves to rural Normandy with his girlfriend to attempt a Thoreau-like experiment of introducing earthworms to the soil of his grandfathers abandoned farm. Kevin, the handsome, free-spirited, pansexual son of farmers from the French countryside, partners with an ambitious business school classmate to create a worm-composting startup. Arthur thinks Kevin has sold out, while Kevin is frustrated by the hopelessness of Arthurs plan.Their relationship devolves further when Arthurs shallow, elitist girlfriend moves back to Paris, where she becomes romantically involved with Kevin. As the mens lives spiral out of controlexperiencing fraud, failed experiments, eco-terrorism, and other dark challengesthey eventually worm their way back into each others world, undeniably changed, yet still committed to each other.A surprise literary sensation in France, Lowly Creatures is a provocative and philosophical exploration of how idealistic young people navigate the moral dilemma between living according to principle and working within the capitalist system to create change. Brilliantly insightful and inciteful, Gaspard Koenigs award-winning novel digs deep into the contradictions, temptations, and doubts of a generation.

A darkly sexy romance about a young woman attending an enchanted school, who must defeat a malevolent force only through accessing a very powerful magic... one thats rooted in her sexual desire.When Mina manages to pass The Test and gain entry to a university that reveals a world of magic just beyond ours, shes determined to go and prove her worth. But Harrowhall is full of dangers untold, and hardships unnumbered. And every one of them seems designed for only the privileged to pass. If she has any hope of becoming the witch she longs to be, shes going to have to rely on the last person she wants to: Harker St James, the most lethal student to ever walk those haunted halls.And once she unearths his dark secret, she has the means to persuade him. Not to mention a way to keep him at bay. Because Harker isnt just the key to her salvation. Hes the deadly snare that daily threatens to drag her down. Desire fires her magic, but any feeling for him is a poison she simply cant afford. Even though the fate of Harrowhall, and the magic it was built on, may very well depend on doing all the things she really shouldnt.