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The Fantasies of Future Things follows two Black men working for the real estate development company responsible for the revitalization of Summerhill in Atlanta, Georgia, for the 1996 Olympics. But Summerhill is a predominantly Black neighborhood, and real estate agents Jacob and Daniel know that “revitalization” is code for “gentrification”—which means they will be tasked with displacing people from their own community.

Tartufo is much more than a charming romp through the foothills of Tuscany. Written in the same enchanting style and raucous humor that defines Hollow Kingdom and Feral Creatures, Buxton’s newest story is a reflection on the interconnectedness of life in all its manifestations—and how holding on to harmony in the face of hardship can grow something beautiful and rare beneath the surface.

On a bright spring afternoon, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes off the clothesline, she straps her two young daughters into her car and drives away. Head spinning, all she knows for certain is that home is no longer safe—and that this time, when she leaves, she must stay away.

Кто последний уедет из города — потушите свет на вокзале». Про ваш город так говорят? Вот и про Заводск тоже. Людей становится меньше. Каждый уходит своим путем. Не прощаясь, так уж заведено. Один за другим... А может, уже и вовсе никого не осталось, и однажды, выскочив за хлебом к ужину, ты не встретишь на улицах ни души — ни живой, ни мертвой. С Балбесовки, где ветшают деревенские дома да зарастают бурьяном огороды, поднимется волна тоскливого собачьего воя.

Обретение любви, надежды или даже своей судьбы не может обеспечить счастья, пока ты не найдешь себя… У Иден была идеальная жизнь в Нью-Йорке: любимая работа преподавателя, завидный жених, отличная квартирка в Верхнем Вест-Сайде. Но за одну ночь весь ее мир разрушился, и ей пришлось сбежать в крошечную английскую деревню. Здесь Иден знакомится со старой травницей — последней в многовековой череде целительниц — и сама учится готовить лечебные отвары и снадобья. Она, следуя своей давней мечте, начинает писать книгу о знахарстве.

Перевернутый Гражданской войной Крым 1920 года, нидерландский Делфт времен расцвета голландской живописи, придворные интриги вокруг последних из Габсбургов в Испании XVII века и Москва несколько лет назад. И три кольца с вензелем ICE испанской принцессы Изабеллы Клары Евгении, запечатленные на ее портрете работы фламандского художника Адриана Брауэра, и с тех пор гуляющие по свету. Где и когда они встретятся в следующий раз? Конец эпох, конец правлений, конец прошлой жизни. Конец как начало. Вторая книга трилогии Елены Афанасьевой Театр тающих теней.

Кадзу родился в 1933 году, в том же году, что и император, и вся его жизнь благодаря ряду совпадений была связана с императорской семьей, а также с парком возле станции Уэно. Здесь началась жизнь Кадзу в Токио в качестве чернорабочего в преддверии Олимпийских игр 1964 года, и здесь же он, шокированный цунами 2011 года и разгневанный объявлением Олимпийских игр 2020 года, закончил свои дни, живя в палатке в деревне для бездомных.

Идея Оплота возникла у Теодора Драйзера еще в 1912 году. Считая книгу необычайно значимой и личной, автор никак не мог добиться желаемого совершенства. Раз за разом переписывая текст, он работал над рукописью почти до самой смерти. В итоге роман был опубликован лишь в 1946 году, спустя несколько месяцев после кончины писателя. Банковский казначей Солон Барнс воспитывался в семье квакеров — представителей радикального протестантского течения. Переняв суровые религиозные взгляды отца, Солон пытается воспитывать в схожей строгости и собственных детей.

In this captivating historical fiction novel set in the 19th century, young Margaret Dashwood’s lifelong dream is to travel to Pompeii. Accompanied solely by female companions, Margaret learns that danger is real – but that she can overcome it. Margaret refuses to let a lack of money ruin her dreams of visiting Pompeii and making discoveries of her own. To her family’s dismay she begins earning her own living as a companion to an elderly lady in London.

This tale begins in the year 1849, in a bedroom of a plantation house. A woman, the lady of the house, is in labor, and her unborn son, unbeknownst to all present but she, will be the first warlock gifted in the ways of the South to be born in over two hundred years. The child, Henry, along with his three older sisters—Josephine, Alma, and Marjorie—will, for reasons they will not learn of until several years after their mother’s murder, be considered by most of their kind as the four chosen to lead their people to a level of power and prosperity like the witches and warlocks have never known.

When Elise Duncan accepts a position as director of health at the Academy of Halcyon Heights, she’s relieved. Working at the prestigious private prep school allows her to be home with her children and critically ill husband during the evenings and over the summer. Elise quickly discovers the Academy has no guidance counselors. After all, the mere presence of a counselor might attract students with issues. So instead students gravitate to Elise with their problems, by default moving her into the role of confidant.

The extraordinary range of work gathered here is united by a fascination with how everyday interactions can transform our lives in unpredictable ways. These are stories of lonely people, outcasts and misfits, and the ghosts that inhabit our intimate spaces. The result is a compelling, arresting and, at times, devastating collection – not least in the title story, which was inspired by the tragic true events of the 1943 Cavan orphanage fire.

The third of four children born to a middle-class Calcutta family, quiet Durga is surprisingly the first to leave the nest of her loving, overbearing family. She is not as charming as her sister, Tia, as lighthearted as her brother, Arjun, or as clever as her youngest sister, Parul. But when she arrives in Ireland to work at a tech company, she finds that for the first time ever she is free—to have fun, to stay out, to sample everything that life has to offer. Suddenly, Durga can be whoever she wants to be. And she wants it all.

May, 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin, an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the bright spring days, anything seems possible for them - it is only many years later, after her death, that Kaspar discovers the price his wife paid to get to him in West Berlin. Shattered by grief, Kaspar sets off to uncover Birgit's secrets in the East. His search leads him to a rural community of neo-Nazis, and to a young girl who accepts him as her grandfather. Their worlds could not be more different - but he is determined to fight for her.

Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young man is nearly bludgeoned to death with a solid gold bar. An ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic columnist, and a radical anarchist movement that has taken up residence on the farm. She solves the mystery, but her viral exposé raises more questions than it answers, namely: Who wrote it? Why? And how much of it is true?

In a lighthouse on a crumbling coastline, two greying wives keep the fires lit, reading futures in fish scales and sending signals into the dark, while a monster with an almost human face circles their garden, sly and hungry. Further up the coast, a woman experiencing strange cravings after an intense heartbreak feels herself pulled to the light at the cliff's edge, where she might finally be able to satisfy her hunger.

Born into poverty, illiterate, eighteen-year-old Sarah Evans has been raised to believe she has no rights at all. She and her childhood friend, Lucy Burnes, struggle daily to find food and shelter, drawing strength and comfort from their friendship. When she is falsely accused and found guilty of theft, Sarah is sentenced to transportation, but, instead, she is secretly transferred to Coldbath Fields, one of London's most notorious prisons, at the request of its sadistic governor, Thomas Aris.

The Dead is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. The other stories in the collection are shorter, whereas at 15,952 words, The Dead is almost long enough to be described as a novella. The story deals with themes of love and loss as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity. The story centres on Gabriel Conroy, a professor and part-time book reviewer, and explores the relationships he has with his family and friends. Gabriel and his wife, Gretta, arrive late to an annual Christmas party hosted by his aunts, Kate and Julia Morkan, who eagerly receive him.

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel.

Das Neonlicht flackert in den Clubs von San Francisco, und draußen wartet ein neues Leben auf die Barbary Lane 28. Die Achtziger haben San Francisco und seine Bewohner in ihren Bann gezogen. Mary Ann durchlebt wieder romantische Irrungen und Wirrungen und jagt einem charismatischen Psychopathen hinterher. DeDe wird unverhofft zu einer queeren Galionsfigur, und Brian richtet seinen Blick gen Zukunft.