"Tras la deportación de su madre un año atrás, todo lo que Soledad "Sol" Gutiérrez desea es volver a tener una vida normal. Su entorno cambió por completo: nuevo departamento, nueva escuela, nueva dinámica familiar... ella simplemente quiere encajar, y la mejor manera de conseguirlo es uniéndose al Club de Historia de su escuela. Para ello, Sol debe participar de un rito de iniciación: entrar a la vieja casa de los Westray y robar... ¿un...

"When a long-lost sister shows up as a trans man named Luke, a series of precipitous events throws the lives of boyfriends Daniel and David into turmoil. While David attends an extravagant family reunion in Sicily, Daniel's ex Marcus plans the world-premiere of his one-man show. The couple's vertiginous exploration of sex, intimacy and love comes to a head when a shocking revelation tests their commitment and future together."--

"Middy Sweet Young, a wealthy widow bearing a baffling disease, returns to Creel, her hometown, in search of her youth lured by a promise she had made to Luke Mercer, her high school boyfriend: "One day we'll be together....Maybe in our eighties. Maybe before, but it's going to happen." The Forever Wish of Middy Sweet is the story of that prophecy-a former beauty queen and a retired history teacher reunite fifty years after the vow. It is a prophecy...

She was a smart, snappy, light-hearted girl who knew it all at fourteen and let television audiences everywhere know it. Now a woman in her late twenties, her searching blue eyes are more serious, but mostly amused by the people around her. The gap-toothed smile that made her seem younger than she really was is gone, but she still lightens up the room. Her unpredictable wardrobe rocks just like when she was a kid, but her fashion sense has evolved...

When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are plunged into the here and now. Time begins." David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town, Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun...

In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must have it like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light, and say Yes, it might have happened just like that. This journey...

Segodni︠a︡shnie sorokaletnie, po suti, i estʹ Rossii︠a︡: oni perezhili chetyre fenomenalʹnykh desi︠a︡tiletii︠a︡ i seĭchas sposobny zhitʹ i deĭstvovatʹ v polnui︠u︡ silu. Aleksandr Snegirëv (laureat "Russkogo Bukera" za roman "Vera") - odin iz i︠a︡rkikh prozaikov ėtogo pokolenii︠a︡. Temy novogo sbornika "Plokhai︠a︡ zhena khoroshego muzha" - izvechnye otnoshenii︠a︡ polov, poisk sebi︠a︡, odinochestvo, dushevnai︠a︡...

"La gran urbe de Madrid en la actualidad, y una pareja, unos Ella y Él emblemáticos que se separan tras cuatro años de convivencia. Ella, arquitecta, tiene miedo a hacer proyectos de futuro, aunque ha esgrimido una razón falsa: un amante. Él, escritor de ensayos, se queda totalmente desconcertado ante una nueva realidad indescifrable. En el naufragio de la relación, por las grietas de lo que fue entran las amistades, sus consejos y sus vidas,...

"The novel in Europe in the early 20th century took a decidedly inward turn, and Choucas (1927) is an intriguing example of the modernist psychological tradition. Its author, Zofia Nalkowska (1884-1954), was a celebrated Polish novelist and playwright. She rose to prominence in interwar Poland and was one of a group of early feminist writers that included Pola Gojawiczynska, Maria Dabrowska, and Maria Kuncewiczowa. Choucas is set in the Swiss Alps...