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English Novel and Mystery
Woman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE.In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child – not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned and rejected, Circe grows up in the shadows, at home ....
Autor_innen: Miller, Madeline
Blake Maslin is a doctor. In an alternate America marked by volatile class warfare, he and his twin daughters are taken captive by armed men demanding urgent medical care.In an isolated desert compound, the family encounter a collective of people suffering from an unknown and deadly disease. They appear sickly yet possess unnatural ....
Autor_innen: Butler, Octavia E.
If there's one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it's that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad's in prison.Life's not perfect, but with a fly ....
Autor_innen: Thomas, Angie
The sequel to the groundbreaking novel, Margins and Murmurations, transfeminist speculative fiction. This standalone title introduces us to a post-revolutionary state with new contradictions and problems.Time has moved on and the City is no longer a place where queer folk live in fear or face expulsion. The forest, once burned to ....
Autor_innen: Lieffe, Otter
Grief and Healing on Two Wheels
Taking on the bicycle as a means of making sense of life and death, contributors write about their experiences on a bike enjoying the little things about everyday life, while also dealing with loss, trauma and fear. Contributions range from the lyrical to the profane, the deeply personal to the keenly analytical. Includes essays, art and ....
Autor_innen: Blue, Elly
When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987, growing up in a small British Columbia mining town where there were only a handful of Asian ....
Autor_innen: Yun Liew, Jamie Chai
What is Africa's own 'heart of darkness'? It is what confronts Ayane when, after three years abroad, she returns to the Central African village of her birth. Now an 'outsider' with foreign ways distrusted by her fellow villagers, she must face alone the customs and superstitions that bind this clan of men and women.
Autor_innen: Miano, Leonora ; Editions Plon
'This is crime writing of the very highest order ! Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around' The Times Dead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, a female private detective who does for Manchester what V.I. Warshawski has done for Chicago. As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moira Pollock, a ....
Autor_innen: McDermid, Val
Isolation and community, Restrictions and freedom. The near future is a militarised state, a fractured continent, and a world in which fascism is resurging following pandemics and climate devastation. Against this grim backdrop, the characters of Dignity form a deeply diverse resistance movement that brings connection, strength and hope ....
Autor_innen: Lieffe, Otter
Granta Best Young British Novelist Naomi Alderman's Disobedience is an insightful and witty novel on the search for love, tolerance and faith.By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man.But when Ronit's father ....
Autor_innen: Alderman, Naomi
Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until - betrayed and brokenhearted - she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. ....
Autor_innen: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth — a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother’s death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her ....
Autor_innen: Reyes, Dolores
