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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 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.

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.

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?

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 full-frontal confrontation of the ways we perform desire and shamefrom the downright bizarre to the frighteningly relatableby the award-winning author of A Sharp Endless NeedFunny and bleak like a queer George Saunders, these stories weird up daily life . . . I love this book!Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal GirlAn employee at a hunting ground where people pay to act out hate crimes prepares to meet their girlfriends parents for the first time. A self-destructive client engages in an affair with their therapist, careening their relationship toward its inevitable breaking point. At a theme park where men pay to ogle women dressed as sirens, a mild-mannered boat attendant gets engaged to the star performer. And in the title story, a pregnant internet sex worker blackmails her clients into attending a disastrous party. Nothing is off limits for Mac Crane as they rework classic stories of rejection, isolation, and connection to suggest that the so-called pervert, by existing in the margins of society, may be the one who sees the world most clearly. Crane brings their keen eye for the unsavory to seventeen transgressive stories that are as tantalizing and addictive as the characters experiences. A provocative and uproarious collection about pleasure, performance, and pain, Perverts is an exaltation of the awesome depravity of queer modernity.

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.

Dans le paisible village agricole de Bringville, Sam, dix ans, nourrit une passion dévorante pour l’espace. Un soir, une étrange lumière traverse le ciel avant de s’écraser dans un champ de maïs. Ave

Irak, 2020. Sous les vestiges de l’antique Ninive, un trésor exceptionnel refait surface : une tablette unique, gravée des secrets du dernier roi d’Assyrie.Mais l’archéologue qui a fait la découverte

Um livro único na obra de Dalton Trevisan, que desafia os limites dos gêneros literários. Publicado em 1994, nove anos após seu único romance, Dinorá é um dos livros mais incomuns de Dalton Trevisan,

Com graça, elegância e engenho, este romance articula desejo, culpa e envelhecimento, questionando o que resta de nós quando as escolhas do passado vêm nos trazer sua derradeira cobrança no fim da vi

Um romance de estreia arrebatador que explora as cicatrizes que herdamos — e o que podemos fazer com elas.No velório da mãe, Amélia confronta a realidade. Depois de uma vida de extremos, Iraci comete

Bien plus qu’une pratique autour des cordes, le shibari repose sur une connexion profonde entre deux personnes, où la confiance, l’écoute et la présence sont au cœur de chaque échange. Chaque rôle y

From New York Times bestselling author Corinne Michaels comes the first book in the new Heartstone Ranch series.--------------------------------------------------Tristan Stone is off limits.It doesnt matter that the grumpy, single dad did nothing wrong. Hes a cowboy and his last name means Im bound by blood to hate him. My family would never be okay with me having feelings for our enemy.When he stops-in the pouring rain-because I have a flat tire, the last thing I expect is for him to help me.I do my best to ignore the water sliding off his hat and how he fills out those jeans. My best, however, is not good enough. Each night I close my eyes and dream of a future we can never have. And after he defends me at the bar and we share one magical dance? It only gets worse.I know I should forget about him, but when I find him alone one night, I offer up a no-strings attached relationship that we both promise to keep secret. Sidelong glances across property lines morph into clandestine meetings under the stars wrapped up in each others arms.It doesnt matter that our families will never approve or that hes told me he can never love again, I crave him.Soon our no feelings agreement is in tatters, and my heart belongs to that broken cowboy. Will he break it or will he defy them all and choose us instead?--------------------------------------------------"A must-read small-town romance with all the delicious heart Corinne Michaels does to perfection. You dont want to miss this read!" - Catherine Cowles, New York Times Bestselling Author

Il a suffi d’une mission désastreuse pour que sa vie bascule.Cela fait neuf mois que Christopher a perdu tous ses coéquipiers SEAL. Neuf mois que, submergé par la culpabilité et l’horreur de la mort

LE ROMAN CULTE QUI A INSPIRÉ LE FILM TOUT AUSSI CULTE, LES ENSORCELEUSES,AVEC SANDRA BULLOCK ET NICOLE KIDMAN !ELLES SONT SŒURS.L’UNE EST RÉSERVÉE, L’AUTRE INDOMPTABLE.MAIS RIEN NE POURRA JAMAIS LES

LE ROMAN CULTE QUI A INSPIRÉ LE FILM TOUT AUSSI CULTE, LES ENSORCELEUSES,AVEC SANDRA BULLOCK ET NICOLE KIDMAN !ELLES SONT SŒURS.L’UNE EST RÉSERVÉE, L’AUTRE INDOMPTABLE.MAIS RIEN NE POURRA JAMAIS LES