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        Spirit Mates - The New Time Relationship

        by Anni Sennov, Carsten Sennov

        Most people have heard of the terms ‘soul mate’ and ‘twin soul’.  What most people may not yet know is that the concept of soul mate refers to a consciousness realm that is about to completely disappear from the Earth in order to be replaced by the purer and more powerful spirit energy. This is creating great changes in consciousness on Earth and it also means that we humans finally have the opportunity to join together with our spirit mate. In this book the co-authors and spirit mate couple Anni and Carsten Sennov describe with love and insight the different paths and circumstances that can lead you to your spirit mate.

      • Relationships

        Crazy Town: Money. Marriage. Meth.

        A Riveting Personal Account and a Thorough Global History of Methamphetamine Abuse and Addiction

        by Sterling R. Braswell

        Sterling Braswell was a millionaire—palatial ranch, stock options, and money in the bank. Then he met his high school sweetheart after not seeing her for over ten years. With their love rekindled, they were married. Life was beautiful. They had no real worries, a lovely son, and a bright future. Then she started using meth. The craziness of the next few years would leave Sterling almost completely broke—financially, emotionally, and spiritually—and nearly murdered. Welcome to crazy town . . .

      • Fiction
        January 2016

        Bonds of Love and Blood

        by Marylee Macdonald

        Whether far from home or longing to escape, the people in these stories find themselves displaced from their normal routines. They misread the signals and wind up stranded on lonely beaches or seizing the moment before happiness flits away. "MacDonald applies insight, power, and delicacy to create characters between whom the psychic space virtually sizzles." —FOREWORD REVIEWS "engrossing"—MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW "With elegant prose enlivened by shards of mean humor, MacDonald captures how hard it is to love and/or trust abroad or at home."—KIRKUS REVIEWS "Author Marylee MacDonald has done an absolutely masterful job of presenting her readers with short stories so beautifully written that the characters will stay in your mind long after the story, and indeed the book, is done."—READERS’ FAVORITE "In her collection of twelve brilliantly-written short stories, MacDonald explores the pain and beauty of human relationships. MacDonald’s writing is raw and visceral, creating a strong emotional connection between her characters and the reader."—US REVIEW OF BOOKS "Bonds of Love and Blood is brilliantly written and nothing less than emotive."—HOLLYWOOD BOOK REVIEWS "Poignant, honest,and compelling... Highly recommended."—PACIFIC BOOK REVIEW "MacDonald dares to question which is the greater, more unsettling risk: the alluring intimacy of foreign terrains, or the intimate dangers of domesticity?" —Tara Ison, author of Reeling Through Life and Child out of Alcatraz "Her characters remind us of our universal and contradictory longing for solitude and for connection. Savor this book. Enjoy being in the hands of a generous and visionary writer." —Eileen Favorite, author of The Heroines "These elegantly crafted stories brim with emotional wisdom and eloquence. Bearing you around the world, they will imprint themselves, deeply, indelibly, upon your heart." —Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        March 2006

        Marisa

        by Peter Cowlam

        The book’s central time frame is the 1970s, when Bruce takes over a financial consultancy firm founded by his father, and Marisa inherits property. Love, lust and money are what drive them both, until their relationship meets its first challenge. Bruce retreats further into the world of commerce. Marisa’s interests are social and political.   Twenty-five years on from their affair, a chance entry in one of Bruce’s business listings shows that Marisa is now boss of the Rae Agency – a media PR concern. Bruce, as he recollects their tumultuous relationship, is torn between his harmonious family life, and renewing contact with Marisa. Finally, when he does decide on a course of action, he has to face the truth of not having grasped the cultural separation their two different views of the world have wrought over the last quarter century.   Available at Amazon and other online retailers.

      • Fiction

        Mission

        by Paul Forrester-O'Neill

        A boy and his father are separated by an unforgivable lie. They meet again as adults. The father, close to death, tells of the men who cheated him of all he owned and the town of Mission that spurned him. John plans revenge. The sting that follows is so well sprung that you will feel the greed of his father's enemies and smell the mud they crawl in. 90,000 words

      • Fiction

        Sweet Introduction to Chaos

        by Marta Orriols

        Sweet Introduction to Caos, by Marta Orriols Full tex available in Catalan and Spanish German Rights sold to DTV   What happens to the pain that arises from a feeling that we didn't even know we harbored? What about the silence that is created around a desire that we cannot share and that we can only repress? Marta and Daniel have recently been a couple and react differently to the news of an unexpected pregnancy. For a week they will feel lost, walking in a limbo of doubts and indecisions that will make them rethink themselves as individuals and as a couple. In a world obsessed with resolutions, this story does not admit polarities and forces us to flee from mere black and white debates. And to stop and closely look at nuances and uncertainties. An invitation to swim in the sea of contradictions that the possibility of fatherhood and motherhood becomes. The will, instinct, freedom, social and political structures that affect our privacy are questioned here by the gaze of a man and a woman and the masterly skill of Marta Orriols when it comes to dissect intimacy and emotions.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        May 2020

        The Mushroom Effect

        by Michael Connor

        From the food and travel writer, Michael Connor, author of the much acclaimed The Soho Don, May All Your Names Be Forgotten and The Cleansing comes this powerful portrayal of egos, betrayal, torment, resilience & resolution.

      • Fiction

        Boulder

        by Eva Baltasar

        Short, intense and full of dazzling images, Boulder is the story of a woman who wants to be alone. Life makes it very difficult for her and she betrays herself. After the successful Permagel/Permafrost, Eva Baltasar's second novel explores the contradictions of motherhood.   In 2018, Permagel/Permafrost became a 'must-read' thanks to an enthusiastic reception, although it did not have a great advertising campaign behind it. Written with functional prose, the book brought together the lesbian experience and the death wish with a touch of ironical rawness.   Translation rights of Permagel/Permafrost were acquired by Literatura Random House (World Spanish, already published), Verdier (France, publication Fall 2020), Nottetempo (Italy, already published), And Other Stories (World English, publication 2021), Kalandraka (Galician, to be published) andConfluencias (Portugal, to be published).   Two years later, Eva Baltasar (Barcelona, 1978) has published Boulder, the second novel of the triptych where Baltasar explores the voice, life and body of three women.   The book begins with the narrator in Chiloé (an island in Chile, in Patagonia), although she comes from a precarious situation in Barcelona. She flees the city and ends up embarking on a merchant ship and decides to stay there as a cook.   One day, when the ship is docked, the protagonist/narrator - nameless throughout the novel - falls in love with Samsa, an Icelandic geologist who ends up taking her to her island and who will call her Boulder. Driven by desire and what she assumes to be love, she leaves the ocean and her work on the ship, to move to land and start a typical life that she does not know if she will get used to. We will accompany Boulder on her journey to the common things: a house, a woman, and a daughter. The normality of a life from which she doesn’t know what to expect.   In Iceland Boulder and Samsa will live a more or less conventional life as a couple, but the protagonist will always keep an eye on her old life of isolation in the sea. When, after a few years in Iceland, Samsa tells Boulder that she wants to be a mother we already know that things will not go well because the protagonist has already warned us: "I am not a children person."   The protagonist's happiness is based on not feeling responsible for anything or anyone, not hurting anyone and making her life. As Eva Baltasar puts it, “loneliness can be hard, but it also frees you up." Boulder explores other major themes that we could also read in Permagel/Permafrost, such as motherhood and living as a couple, which can enrich you but also end up diluting you in that couple.   Through this relationship Eva Baltasar addresses issues such as couple relationships, and how these change before the arrival of motherhood. The author manages to give a twist to this topic and shows us a totally different perspective of motherhood from the one we are used to. It teaches us that there is another reality, another way of seeing it beyond that beautiful and happy stage that we have always been told. It also tells us about sexuality and how desire within a couple is transformed over the years, in a direct and taboo-free way.   The landscape is also very important in Boulder: desolate landscapes like the ones we find in Chiloé, the ocean or Iceland. It is those open spaces with few people around that the protagonist likes.   To say Eva Baltasar is also to speak of an elaborate, poetic language which makes the story slide smoothly. Boulder also reflects on this, because “language stakes us when we are born and shapes us, governs our cells.” Baltasar thinks that the way we speak also “builds us as people and sometimes we are not aware of it.”

      • Fiction
        August 2018

        IT ALL COMES BACK TO YOU

        by BETH DUKE

        "It All Comes Back to You is one of those stories you need to savor. You want to put the book down so as to have more to read tomorrow, but you can't. It becomes attached to you, a part of you. " -Dan Brown, Author of Reunion Alabama, 1947. War's over, cherry-print dresses, parking above the city lights, swing dancing. Beautiful, seventeen-year-old Violet lives in a perfect world .Everybody loves her. In 2012, she's still beautiful, charming, and surrounded by admirers. Veronica "Ronni" Johnson, licensed practical nurse and aspiring writer, meets the captivating Violet in the assisted living facility where Violet requires no assistance, just lots of male attention. When she dies, she leaves Ronni a very generous bequest―only if Ronni completes a book about her life within one year. As she's drawn into the world of young Violet, Ronni is mesmerized by life in a simpler time. It's an irresistible journey filled with revelations, some of them about men Ronni knew as octogenarians at Fairfield Springs. Struggling, insecure, flailing at the keyboard, Ronni juggles her patients, a new boyfriend, and a Samsonite factory of emotional baggage as she tries to craft a manuscript before her deadline. But then the secrets start to emerge, some of them in person. And they don't stop. Everything changes. Alternating chapters between Homecoming Queen Violet in 1947 and can't-quite-find-her-crown Ronni in the present, IT ALL COMES BACK TO YOU is book club fiction at its hilarious, warm, sad, outrageous, uplifting, and stunning best. In the tradition of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and Olive Kitteridge, Duke delivers an unforgettable elderly character to treasure and a young heroine to steal your heart.

      • Fiction

        BLUE HEART

        by Costas Zapas

        Poseidon, an alcoholic teenager working as underpaid transporter at the harbor, meets his girlfriend Lydia and his best friend Fotis, a young male whore, in a no-name fast food in the poor suburbs of Athens. Lydia met an Arab full of cocaine in his villa and Fotis is trying to convince them to steal the stuff and set up a business. They will hire young Greek-Russian emigrant women to sell the stuff. The discussion is interrupted by the arrival of Poseidon’s mother and his autistic sister in her wheelchair. His mother has to go to work and he has to take care of his over-aged grandmother and his autistic sister at home. They decide to hit the Arab. Lydia will date the Arab in his villa and Poseidon and Fotis will organize to hit him. But when things go wrong, everything around them changes. To survive they have to live beyond any rules and regulations. Rough heroes living on the edge. Life is recorded as it is, funny and tragic.

      • Fiction

        Permagel/Permafrost

        by Eva Baltasar

        Published in Catalan (Club Editor).   Shortlisted for the Médicis Étranger Award 2020 (France).    Rights sold: World English (And Other Stories), French (Verdier), Spanish (Literatura Random House), Italian (Nottetempo), Portuguese/Portugal (Confluencias), Galician (Kalandraka).   The #1 Catalan bestseller and winner of the Llibreter booksellers prize, poet Baltasar’s debut novel is a forthright study of lesbian sexuality and suicide.   Permafrost’s no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, ‘because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I knew I would like’; as an au pair in Scotland, she develops a hatred of the colour green. And everywhere she goes, she tries to break out of the roles set for her by family and society, chasing escape wherever it can be found: love affairs, travel, thoughts of suicide.   Full of powerful, physical imagery, this prize-winning debut novel by acclaimed Catalan poet Eva Baltasar was a word-of-mouth hit in its own language. It is a breathtakingly forthright call for women’s freedom to embrace both pleasure and solitude, and speaks of the body, of sex, and of the self.

      • Fiction

        Una música futura

        by María José Navia

        In "Una música futura" ("A future music"), awarded Best Literary Works 2019 in the category of unpublished short stories, María José Navia delves into intimate relationships mediated and sometimes infected by technology. Screens and screen-families, women who take refuge in the excess of information or try to completely disconnect from the world, foreigners who face fierce self-demanding or frankly violent scenarios. Seven stories that reflect on the possibilities of a threatening future where the uncertainty of our time seems to sing a secret and disturbing melody from which perhaps books can save us.

      • Fiction
        October 2018

        Kintsugi

        by María José Navia

        How can a family be told? What are the pieces that make up your memory? What do we know about someone, beyond what they decide to show us? In Kintsugi, a family breaks down and those who make it up look for ways -sometimes subtle, sometimes extreme- to repair it. Characters who take refuge in their jobs or in caring for others, who need technology as a way to organize their affections, to perform small gestures of vigilance or even to survive in a precarious world. In the manner of the Japanese art that gives this book its title, María José Navia recomposes in this novel-in-stories the broken lives of its characters, beautifully highlighting the scars of those who leave and those who remain.

      • Fiction

        Twin Flame

        by Nish Amarnath

        TWIN FLAME is an inter-racial love story with literary overtones, multicultural stripes and strands of magical realism.   A South Asian Math prodigy’s wish for a boy in a painting to come alive materializes in the form of an Austrian-Jewish writer. But a troubling secret wrenches them apart, forcing them to confront their worst fears, if life is to give them one final chance. Sherry Kasal, diagnosed with type-1 diabetes at the age of five, hopes to draw upon her passion for Math to discover a cure for conditions like her own. She stumbles upon a painting of a boy trapped in a snowstorm. She talks to the boy in this picture whenever she's sad, frustrated, angry and/or dejected. When writer Shaddy Haas enters her life, Sherry is motivated to resume work on a concentric model of electromagnetism that she had abandoned as a teen. Alas, circumstances wrench Sherry and Shaddy apart. Sherry, who reluctantly marries a lawyer, lands in Manhattan, where she scrambles to pick up the vestiges of her shelved research dream and realizes that she’s living a lie. Sherry must also unravel a flabbergasting secret that links Shaddy to the painting of the boy in the snowstorm as they try to find their way back to each other.   Twin Flame, whose narrative is embedded with the alternating voices of its protagonists in both first-person and third-person points of view, combines the mystical ethos of Elif Shafak's 'Forty Rules of Love' with the futuristic cadence of Erich Segal's 'Prizes' and the exotic romanticism of Jan-Philipp Sendker's 'The Art of Hearing Heartbeats.'

      • Fiction
        April 2012

        Spionin wider Willen

        by Mila Roth

        Stell dir vor, du willst jemanden vom Flughafen abholen, und plötzlich steht dieser gut aussehende Fremde vor dir, drängt dir einen Umschlag mit einer DVD auf und verlangt, dass du ihn jemandem übergibst. Würdest du den Umschlag annehmen und den Auftrag ausführen? Und was, wenn du dadurch ins Fadenkreuz einer internationalen Terrorvereinigung gerätst? Genau das passiert der 32-jährigen Janna Berg aus der kleinen Stadt Rheinbach bei Bonn. Ehe sie sich versieht, findet sie sich inmitten von Geheimdiensten und gefährlichen Terroristen wieder. Und als wäre das nicht genug, wirbelt der attraktive und rätselhafte Geheimagent Markus Neumann auch noch ihre Gefühlswelt ordentlich durcheinander. Spionin wider Willen: Die erste Vorabendserie in Buchform   Klappentext zu Band 1 der inzwischen 13-teiligen Agenten-Thriller-Serie: Janna Berg, 32, Pflegemutter von achtjährigen Zwillingen, will eigentlich nur ihre Schwester vom Flughafen Köln-Bonn abholen. Doch plötzlich steht ein gut aussehender Fremder vor ihr und drängt ihr einen Umschlag mit einer DVD auf. Widerwillig nimmt sie den Umschlag an, nicht ahnend, dass sie sich damit ins Fadenkreuz einer internationalen Terrorvereinigung begibt.Der attraktive Geheimagent Markus Neumann setzt alles daran, die DVD zurückzubekommen und das Rätsel um deren Inhalt zu lösen. Doch dann scheint ausgerechnet Janna den Schlüssel zur Lösung des Geheimnisses zu kennen. Und das bringt die beiden in Lebensgefahr …   English Version: Imagine you want to pick someone up from the airport, and suddenly this handsome stranger stands in front of you, forces an envelope on you with a DVD on it and demands that you give it to someone. Would you accept the envelope and do the job? And what if it puts you in the crosshairs of an international terrorist organization? This is exactly what happens to 32-year-old Janna Berg from the small town of Rheinbach near Bonn. Before she knows it, she finds herself surrounded by secret services and dangerous terrorists. And as if that weren't enough, the attractive and enigmatic secret agent Markus Neumann also throws her emotions into confusion. "Spy against her will" ("The Suburban Spy"): The first spy thriller book series in TV style.   Blurb for volume 1 of the now 13-part spy thriller series: Janna Berg, 32, foster mother of eight-year-old twins, actually only wants to pick up her sister from Cologne-Bonn airport. But suddenly a handsome stranger stands before her and forces an envelope on her with a DVD on it. Reluctantly, she accepts the envelope, unaware that she is putting herself in the crosshairs of an international terrorist organization.The attractive secret agent Markus Neumann does his utmost to get the DVD back and solve the mystery of its contents. But then Janna of all people seems to know the key to solving the mystery. And that puts the two in mortal danger ...

      • Fiction
        August 2014

        DEBOUT-PAYÉ

        by GAUZ

        NOVEL   A social satire with a keen eye on the excesses of the contemporary commercial world. A funny, rich and uncompromising portrait of French and African societies. Debout-Payé is Ossiri's novel, an Ivorian student who became a security guard after landing without papers in France in 1990. It is a song in honour of a family where, from father to son, one becomes a security guard in Paris, in honour of a mother and more generally in honour of the African community in Paris, with its failings, its sufferings and its differences. It is also the political history of an immigrant and his views of our country, through the evolution of the security guard profession since the 1960s - the triumphant Françafrique - after September 11.   AWARDS/SHORTLISTED - Gibert Joseph 2014 Prix des libraires- Best début novel of the year 2014 by Lire magazine.- Kaïlcedra Grand Prix des lycéens et collégiens, in Abidjan- Grand Prix des lycéens 2015

      • Fiction
        February 2018

        Eye of the Moon

        by Ivan Obolensky

        Built upon the fabric of the author’s background as a member of the 1%, yet woven from whole cloth, Eye of the Moon is an enchanting web of multigenerational intrigue, secret love affairs, sumptuous black- and white-tie dinner parties, potential murders, Egyptian occultism, vicious curses, unexpected magic, and secrets that break, or reshape, lives. It is peopled by characters like Russian dolls, with shocking elements revealed in layers over the five-day house party in Rhinebeck. Though the opening chapters are perhaps benign, readers and reviewers alike rave that they become ensnared in the story and can’t put the novel down, even if it means they burn their dinner or stay up to 4 am. Percy, the narrator, begins as someone raised on the fringes of the elite, quasi-abandoned by his traveling parents. He is abruptly reunited with his pseudo-brother and pulled into his hijinks. They stumble upon the dark story of Johnny's Aunt Alice, the legendary socialite who had died mysteriously twenty years earlier. Her letters and journals bring a more sinister world to the light and the two men dive headlong into the shadows. This inadvertently involves everyone at the estate, including the butler, Stanley, who was the only confidante of Alice with hidden knowledge of what happened behind closed doors before her death. She still lives in the places lit with magic, her narrative woven tightly with Percy’s. What will be the cost of revealing the truth? Where does Percy ultimately belong?

      • Fiction

        A Heart Too Big

        by Eider Rodríguez

        UN CORAZÓN DEMASIADO GRANDE (A Heart Too Big), is a wonderful book of short stories by Eider Rodríguez.   The book was published in 2018 in Basque and in 2019 in Spanish and Catalan (Literatura Random House and Edicions del Periscopi). Eider Rodríguez (1977) writes in Basque and translates herself into Spanish. The Basque edition was awarded the Euskadi Prize for Literature (the most prestigious in the Basque language) and the Booksellers of the Basque Country Prize (alongside with Vivian Gornik’s Fierce Attachments).   Great reviews have appeared in the most influential and prestigious Spanish literary supplements (Babelia, El Cultural, ABC, La Vanguardia). El País/Babelia chose the book as ‘Book of the week’.  And the author has been compared to other talended writers such as John Cheever, Samantha Swheblin, Sara Mesa or Raymond Carver.  The editions in Catalan and Spanish consist of the complete translation of Eider Rodríguez's last book of stories in Basque (also entitled A Heart Too Big, which is about 120 pages) followed by a selection of stories from the three previous books by Eider Rodríguez.   Un corazón demasiado grande was included in the list of Best Books of 2019 by newspapers as El País and ABC.

      • Fiction
        November 2017

        December Heat

        by Sara H Olsson

        Christmas is approaching and the easygoing life in Hallavik isabout to enter a new phase for Nina Becker and Johanna Seger. One of them is now voluntarily divorced and happy to put herlife as a married lady of leisure behind her. The other findsherself involuntarily co-habiting and is also told there herworkplace will undergo a reorganisation process. Roles arereversed and the two women try to adapt to their new situation. To celebrate her return to the little town on the west coast ofSweden, Nina decides to throw a glühwein party and a familiar face pops up when she least expects it and Nina doesn't know how to react. He is both pleasant and handsome, but Nina knows all about his secret. Johanna can't seem to let go of her personal issues, which leadsto her celebrating a little bit too much and ends up in an intimate situation with the wrong man.  December Heat is a charming and witty novel about life's ups and downs, and the sequel to Joyous Beauty, the first book in the Hallavikseries.

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