Nashquitten, Massachusetts, is a coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town''s industries for generations. When a young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously... Zobraziť viac
From Lucia Osborne-Crowley, author of I Choose Elena, comes an immersive polyphonic memoir exploring the intricacies of abuse, trauma, and shame. Widely researched and boldly argued, My Body Keeps Your Secrets reveals the secrets a body keeps,... Zobraziť viac
Walking on Cowrie Shells focuses on the lives of hyphenated-Americans with a multi-cultural heritage in the USA and Africa. The book spans genres – literary realism, horror, mystery, YA, science fiction – and features complex, fully-embodied characters... Zobraziť viac
Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories of her mother’s love... Zobraziť viac
Fifteen-year-old Noemi has no choice but to leave school and work in the house of the wealthy De Grandbourg family, just across the road from the Mauritian slums where she grew up. She encounters a world that is starkly different from her own yet one... Zobraziť viac
Epic Annette: A Heroine's Tale is the extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a world at war who, at nineteen years old, joined the French Resistance and saved the lives of two Jewish... Zobraziť viac
Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories of her mother’s love; the smell of fresh herbs,... Zobraziť viac
Jeanne learns from an early age to dodge her father''s abuse, but her mother and sister resign themselves to his brutality. One day when she is eight he attacks her viciously, angered by her self-assurance. Convinced that the village doctor will put an... Zobraziť viac
In surrealist artist Paul Klee’s The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer and broadcaster Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for... Zobraziť viac
Can an eleven-year-old boy succeed where others have failed? Can he recover a kidnapped child, disprove a false accusation of assault or win a sleep-deprivation competition that has driven others mad with tragic consequences? Zobraziť viac
The Consequences is set in the Mexican-American community of California''s Central Valley, depicting the lives of farmworkers and their children who contend with limited opportunities, queerness and the challenges of intimacy. Manuel''s ongoing project... Zobraziť viac
A confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest. Eliane Brum reveals the direct links between structural inequities rooted in gender, race, class, and even species, and the suffering that... Zobraziť viac
Moscow, 1985. Four teenagers struggle to survive in the hour between dog and wolf, twilight, when one state has ended and another has not quite begun. Zobraziť viac
A haunting debut novel inspired by the medieval poem of the same nameMarianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing.Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small ... Zobraziť viac
From bestselling Brazilian crime novelist Patri cia Melo comes a masterful thriller that is by turns poetic, inspiring, humorous and harrowing. Zobraziť viac
