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      • December Heat
        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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      • Bonds of Love and Blood
        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

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      • Sweet Introduction to Chaos
        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.

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      • IT ALL COMES BACK TO YOU
        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.

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      • BLUE 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.

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      • Una música futura
        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.

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      • Kintsugi
        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.

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      • Restlöcher (Open Pits)
        Fiction
        March 2021

        Restlöcher (Open Pits)

        Roman

        by Lena Müller

        “You can't hold onto love. Just wait until it comes back.” Sando loves the Fox. The Fox, among all people. This young man with the unsettling smile who he met at a demo and who he cannot really get a hold of. But Sando has learned that you can't hold onto love, you have to wait until it comes back. He has learned that from his mother, who decided twenty years ago to leave her social background and to pursue her own goals, to not always be there for others: “The possibility of disappearance is always there. Because we are not just the ones the others want us to be”, she said. And now his sister Mili calls Sando because their mother has left their father – again. Without leaving a note. Sando agrees to embark with Mimi on the search, hoping to escape his lovesickness on the way. Lena Müller‘s first novel is about love and freedom, obligations and longing – and about what is left over.

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      • Extremely Feminine Messages
        Fiction

        Extremely Feminine Messages

        by Ghada Karim

        Ghada Karim is an Egyptian writer and relationship expert who has a great interest in discussing the relationship between men and women from all different characters, she also writes weekly in many websites and has a constant column in a famous newspaper, and has published several books such as (seven Signs of Love), (12 Months Confessions), ( 50 Questions in Love), ( Love catalogue) and (Secrets of Closed Hearts), where she discussed all the causes of gender disagreement based on real and concrete experiences and complicated problems of her clients. In this book she writes about woman needs and what she represents in Arab society in a mature way, revealing the subjects and hidden within each woman, her writings reach every woman and fortify her in the details of her life and what she goes through in her various experiences and problems. Very Feminine messages bearing 40 letters from the author for each woman, letters about relationships and life partner, feelings and depression, marriage and motherhood, separation and all the stages that a woman may go through. The book addresses almost all women who live the same reality in different details. And represents the reality of women in the Arab world and their role in society. It also focuses on the mind of men in order to accommodate the feelings of their partner Mirror expressed by the author brilliantly and honestly. She moved from the addressee box to the sender box where she wanted to express each woman's tongue to know that she was not alone in this cruel world.

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      • Asparagus in Africa
        Fiction
        September 2020

        Asparagus in Africa

        by Corinna Antelmann

        Asparagus in Africa is a quiet, personal narrative between melancholy and irony, a monologue disguised as a dialogue, a wordy and at the same time speechless confrontation between a caring son and his life-weary, 90-year-old father who is in hospital and is about to die. The son senses that he too is getting older and will take his father's place in the succession of generations. During what may well be their last encounter, both touch on the theme of nourishment and being nourished as a universal human need. Memories of eating together help them to find agreement where it seems to have become impossible to express their own feelings and needs in words.

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      • The Adventures of Little Gustavo
        Relationships
        February 2021

        The Adventures of Little Gustavo

        by Sr Curri, Santi Girón

        Gustavo is a child with a lot of imagination, a big heart and very few lights, who thinks that putting a sweater on his shoulders gives him super powers. Manoli, his mother, goes out of her way to help him, but that doesn't stop her from also being aware of everything that is going on around him, including the affairs of her husband Matías, a man from another era, from the cave era to be precise, who devotes himself to something that nobody knows very well what it is, but that has all the appearance of being illegal. Gustavo is secretly in love with his cousin Macarena, a vitalist girl, proud and a bit conceited, who doesn't keep track of her boyfriends. Anthony, Macarena's teenage brother, doesn't stop picking on Gustavo. Luckily, he gets along with Emilio, his other cousin, a very joking boy who doesn't know who his father is, but who looks suspiciously like the neighborhood priest. In addition, his neighbor Santi and his cat Cervecita will make Gustavo's life very entertaining.

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      • The Grand Tour
        Fiction
        December 2020

        The Grand Tour

        by Olivia Wearne

        This vivid story of campervans, stowaways and mischief at any age is essentially about families: the ones you have and the ones you make.   When Ruby and Angela embark on a Grey Nomads road trip, the last thing they expect is a tiny stowaway; one who will turn them from unsuspecting tourists into wanted kidnappers and land them in a world of trouble. As their leisurely retirement plans unravel, Angela's relationship with her brother Bernard goes from bad to worse.   Bernard has his own problems to contend with. Adrift in life, his career as a news presenter has been reduced to opening fetes and reading Voss as an audio book (a seemingly impossible task). His troubles are compounded when his wife starts dating a younger man and a drink-driving incident turns him into a celebrity offender.   As Angela and Ruby set about repairing burnt bridges and helping their unexpected guest, and Bernard attempts to patch together his broken life, they discover that even after a lifetime of experience, you're never too old to know better.   A warm, funny, sharply observed story about aging disgracefully and loving the one you're with.

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      • Granby au passé simple
        Fiction

        Granby au passé simple

        by Akim Gagnon

        In Granby, Past Tense, we find Akim, his brother and his Pop in the modest mobile home in Granby where he grew up. In this incredibly tender novel and behind Akim’s trashy bravado, we discover ordinary small town misery: unemployment, the father’s solitude and depression, cloyingly close quarter and hygiene that’s thrown out the window, adolescent ineptitude, and the resulting tensions… The Gagnons’ house is full of cracks— both literally and figuratively. Faced with this excruciating spectacle, young Akim seeks refuge in movies, theatre classes and especially the lens of his camera, through which he attempts to remix reality to better tell its story, if not escape it. At once trashy, tender and hilarious, Granby, Past Tense casts a sad yet empathetic eye on depression and anxiety, father-son relationships and poverty.

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      • The wisdom of the rainbow - guide of the heart
        Fiction
        May 2020

        The wisdom of the rainbow - guide of the heart

        Wegweiser des Herzens

        by Jando / Illustration :Antjeca

        Oben angelangt, hatte Sina einen erhabenen Blick auf das offene Meer. Die untergehende orangerot leuchtende Sonne hatte schon fast den Horizont erreicht. Sie schien direkt im Meer zu versinken. Ihr leuchtender Feuerball spiegelte sich in der Meeresoberfläche. Ein fantastisches Schauspiel der Natur. In diesem Moment erinnerte sich Sina an etwas, das ihre Mutter einmal vor vielen Jahren, als beide einige Tage auf einer Insel verbrachten, gesagt hatte. Damals hatten sie zusammen im warmen Sand gesessen und gemeinsam dem Sonnenuntergang zugesehen.„Weißt du mein Mädchen, wenn du dich alleine fühlst und deine Ängste wachsen, denke immer an diesen herrlichen Sonnenuntergang. Er kann dir Hoffnung geben. Warte auf die Sterne, die am Himmel erscheinen werden. Sie werden dir den Weg leuchten. Hier im Norden sagen die alten Schiffer: Wenn du deinen Weg suchst, schau hinauf in die Sterne. Sie führen dich zum Ziel. Das ist so sicher, wie dass auf Ebbe die Flut folgt.“Sina beobachte gedankenversunken den wunderbaren Sonnenuntergang. Warum dachte sie ausgerechnet jetzt so oft an ihre Mutter? Gerade als sie versuchte, darauf eine Antwort zu finden, riss sie lautes Hundegebell aus ihren Gedanken. Sie drehte sich in die Richtung, aus der das Gebell zu kommen schien und sah einige Meter entfernt, hinter der Dünenlandschaft ein altes Friesenhaus. Vor dem Haus lag ein Fischerboot. Neben diesem stand ein Mann, der mit zwei Hunden spielte. Das Toben ging schließlich in Streicheleinheiten über, als sich der Mann auf den Boden fallen ließ und die Hunde sich rechts und links von ihm auf seine ausgestreckten Arme legten. Sina beobachte gerührt die Szene, die eine ganze Weile andauerte, bis der Mann sich erhob und den beiden Hunden zurief: „So ab geht es, ihr Streuner.“ Die Hunde wedelten freudig mit dem Schwänzen und trollten sich ins Haus. Der Mann wandte sich seinem Boot zu und griff gerade nach der Schleifmaschine, als er hoch in Richtung der Dünen blickte und Sina entdeckte. Sina fühlte den durchdringenden Blick des Unbekannten auf sich. Deshalb hob sie den Arm und winkte ihm zu. Erst passierte gar nichts. Keine Reaktion. Doch dann hob der Mann seinen Arm, winkte zurück und rief: „Komm doch runter! Der Sonnenuntergang ist vorbei“. ‚Seine ruhige, tiefe Stimme klingt ein wenig schelmisch,‘ dachte sich Sina, ‚aber auch irgendwie sehr sympathisch.‘ Und so machte sie sich auf den Weg zu ihm.

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      • Starrider
        Fiction

        Starrider

        by Jando / Illustration: Antjeca

        Was zeichnet diese Lichtgestalt, diesen kleinen, sonderbaren Jungen aus, der wie „aus heiterem Himmel“ nächtens in einem Krankenhaus am Meer auftaucht? Obwohl er in seinem braunen Umhang leicht verschroben und in seinem Reden bisweilen etwas altklug wirkt, zieht seine mysteriöse Aura magisch an. Alsbald gewinnt er unter Patienten, Ärzteschaft und Pflegepersonal Freunde, weil er seine eigene Freude trotz einer rätselhaften Krankheit selbstlos-kindlich teilt. Und weil der Junge aus seinem Herzen spricht und mit dem Herzen sieht, lenkt er den Blick der Erwachsenen wieder auf das, was im Leben wirklich wichtig ist: Liebe, Freundschaft und Hoffnung und dass wir unsere Träume nicht aufgeben dürfen. Auch der Ich-Erzähler Mats besinnt sich durch die Gespräche mit dem kleinen Jungen darauf, dass seine persönlichen Werte und Wünsche verloren gegangen sind. Er versucht zu seiner Familie und seinen ursprüng­lichen Zielen zurückzukommen. Und auch der sehnlichste Wunsch des Jungen, einem Delfin zu begegnen, könnte sich mit Hilfe des Ich-Erzählers erfüllen, doch muss Mats erst einmal wieder lernen, an seine Träume zu glauben.

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      • The Revenge of Baba Jaga
        Fiction
        January 2020

        The Revenge of Baba Jaga

        by Artur Rosenstern

        Gisbert is 32 years old, Arminia fan, Slavic Studies student in his 20th semester at Bielefeld University. And he is in love: with the Ukrainian Julia, who is as beautiful as she is clever.But when he meets Julia's parents, he realises that eating pelmeni with her mother is no good. She thinks he's a loser, and under no circumstances does she want to entrust her daughter to him. First Gisbert has to prove to her that he is a good guy. She sends him to the Ukraine to get to know the customs, habits and above all the relatives there.Together with his friend Karl-Heinz, Gisbert sets off for Olexandriwka, a village in the Crimea. But his future mother-in-law, who is more reminiscent of the fairytale witch Baba Jaga, pulls the strings from Hanover to make his life as difficult as possible ...The programme features German-Ukrainian entanglements and faux pas with a dash of love, half guys, football, veil makers and the world's hottest pelmeni. From a time when Arminia was first class and Putin did not yet want the Crimea.

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      • 366 Tage vom Himmel entfernt
        Relationships
        September 2018

        366 Tage vom Himmel entfernt

        by Sina Wunderlich

        Als Mila das Tagebuch ihrer verstorbenen Mutter findet, ahnt sie noch nicht, dass sie damit auch ein Familiengeheimnis ans Licht bringt. Wer war ihre Mutter wirklich? Zusammen mit vier neuen Freunden, die plötzlich in ihr Leben treten, macht sie sich auf eine unvergessliche Reise. Gemeinsam begegnen sie Liebe, Schmerz ... und dem Tod.Und dann beschließt Mila, den letzten Wunsch ihrer Mutter zu ihrem eigenen zu machen.

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      • Le Coquelicot - Poppy Flower
        Fiction

        Le Coquelicot - Poppy Flower

        by Pavlo Matyusha

        After the breakout of war on the East of Ukraine, a young financialmanager is getting ready to leave his country, not able to live through theloss of love of his life However, he stays to join the PresidentialAdministration on the proposal of his childhood friend, another financierwho returned from Frankfurt to support the new political leadership Ajourney begins, full of aspirations to help the country but also deliria of thepast and conspiracy on the highest level The protagonist finds himselflocked in the world where wolves in sheep’s clothing get out hunting Willhe succeed to understand who is who while reassembling himself to begina new life?

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      • The sad years of Kawabata
        Fiction

        The sad years of Kawabata

        by Miguel Sardegna

        “Kanjis aren’t words, but images, concepts. Unlike our alphabet, you don’t read a kanji, you look at it. The kanji for tree is the drawing of a tree. The Japanese don’t read the word tree, they stare at the tree”, Japanese literature professor Facundo explains. Days ago, an unknown voice told him about the death of his father. Since that moment, Facundo is enveloped by confusion and memories; his mother, his father, death and a pact of silence that carries him into the present.The protagonist of this novel will find in Kawabata a friend and a teacher, who will help him rethink his family history; and in the Japanese culture, the words to find beauty in the most atrocious circumstances.Miguel Sardegna introduces us to the oneiric world of Japan through his avid gaze of knowledge, and through a plot that traps us forever in this wonderful and ancestral culture. “It’s a love letter to literature, an amazing and amazed journey through the universe of Yasunari Kawabata. You will be surprise by the power of the images”.Juan José Millás

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      • The Salt
        Fiction

        The Salt

        by Adriana Riva

        “The silence stretches. We have come this far. Mom is that unreachable inch of skin between my shoulder blades, that bit that itches and I can’t scratch”.Beginning with a childhood accident, Ema digs into the bond with her mother and, pregnant with her second child, sets on a journey for answers: who is Elena, really? Does she know her well enough? Her mother is distant and there’s an area she can’t reach, no matter how hard she tries; that hasn’t changed over the years.With an appearance of simple prose, but charged with truthful images, Adriana Riva examines family relationships with an admirable precision, humor and rawness that turn The Salt into an intimate and touching novel. “This is the age of women, and argentinian literature is being renewed by many writers. Adriana Riva writes with verbal brilliance, creates wonderful images and shoots at the heart of empathy. With this book she asserts herself, without a doubt, as a truly unique voice in this literary scene”.Santiago Llach

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