Un juego inocente que se desboca hasta dejar de ser un juego. Una broma, una burla, un mote, un rumor, un mensaje anónimo, una amenaza, un golpe, una paliza. Así empieza todo, y no como en las películas. Una historia que sucede todos los días, en todas partes, a un montón de personas distintas. Víctimas que ya no saben si se meten con ellas por ser como son o si son así porque se meten con ellas. Hasta que, un día, una de esas víctimas decide...

¿C̤mo llegamos a conocernos? ¿Qǔ significan los otros en nuestras vidas? Asle, un pintor viudo que vive solo en un fiordo noruego, observa su vida entera con la mirada fija en el flujo del mar. No se trata de la nostalgia de un recuerdo, se trata de una observaci̤n meticulosa que busca d̤nde ha fallado.Ha sufrido la adicci̤n, la incomprensi̤n de una sociedad cerrada y su propia oscuridad como artista pero es el amor hacia Ales lo que le obliga...

"The . . . story of a queer Black recovering opioid addict recently out of prison, who fights to stay clean and regain custody of her two children while her old life beckons"--Provided by publisher.

Wyatt Westlock has one plan for the farmhouse she's just inherited -- to burn it to the ground. But during her final walkthrough of her childhood home, she makes a shocking discovery in the basement -- Peter, the boy she once considered her best friend, strung up in chains and left for dead. Unbeknownst to Wyatt, Peter has suffered hundreds of ritualistic deaths on her family's property. Semi-immortal, Peter never remains dead for long, but he can't...

A female psychiatrist at a state mental hospital finds herself at the center of a shadowy conspiracy in this dark and twisting tale of psychological suspense. Menaker State Hospital is a curse, a refuge, a prison, a necessity, a nightmare, a salvation. When Dr. Lise Shields arrived at the correctional psychiatric facility five years ago, she was warned that many of its patients-committed by Maryland's judicial system for perpetrating heinous crimes-would...

"In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches children to read and play music; her husband, Tasso, who paints pictures of the forest, his greatest muse; and Chara, their young daughter, whose name means joy. On the fateful day that will forever alter the trajectory of their lives, flames chase fleeing birds across the sky. The wildfire that will consume their home, and their lives as they know it,...

In this big-hearted debut about ambition, race, and class, a family grapples with how much of their lineage they're willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation's first federal reparations program. Almost a decade ago, Willie Revel gave up her burgeoning journalism career in New York to help run her father's struggling construction company in Philadelphia. An ambitious single mother, Willie has reluctantly put family first without being...