Belletristik

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 ....

Arab women poets have been around since the earliest of times, yet their diwans (collected poems) were kept in the shadows.Spanning more than 5000 years, from the pre-Islamic to the Andalusianperiods, Classical Poems by Arab Women presents rarely seen work by over sixty women writers who boldly refused to be silenced. From sorrowful ....

Colette ist unvergleichlich. Die Frau, die heute neben Flaubert und Proust steht, beginnt als Enfant terrible: Ihre provozierenden »Claudine«-Romane veröffentlicht der Ehemann unter seinem Namen; später sorgt ihr freizügiges Leben für Skandale. In »Claudines Elternhaus« schreibt Colette ihre eigene Geschichte: Kindheit und Jugend in dem ....

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 ....

A triangle with a twist, Coming Home is the story of three good people caught up in an impossible situation. Rob, a charismatic ex-fighter pilot severely disabled with MS, has been steadfastly cared for by his wife, Jan, for many years. Quite by accident one day, Terry, a young writer/postal carrier, enters their lives and turns it upside ....

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 ....

Wenn zwei Papageien sich in die Lüfte schwingen, von da nach dort flattern, hier und dort ein wenig schauen, dem bunten Treiben unter sich zusehen, dann das Strandleben, die Bars, die Strasse ins Visier nehmen, kurz, das Leben auf Erden beobachten, sich dann niederlassen, die Federn ordnen, sich anblicken, vielleicht ganz kurz den Kopf ....

Jack Sheppard - a transgender carpenter's apprentice - has fled his master's house to become a notorious prison break artist, and Bess Khan has escaped the draining of the fenlands to become a revolutionary mastermind. Together, they find themselves at the center of a web of corruption leading back to the dreaded Thief-Catcher General ... ....

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 ....

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of ....

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the prevailing style. She also has dreams: of being seduced by a throng of older women, of kissing a friend in a dorm-room closet. But the dreams are private, not real.One night, she meets another woman at a bar, and an escape hatch ....

Welcome to a mosaic of (inner) visions, fractals of (outer) perceptions! Waking up in a dream, you open your eyes and see pages from parallel realities, experience facets of different dimensions, of fantastic worlds, of horrendous scenes. Not a single story but a multitude of intraconnected, cosmically crystalline dreams. Miriam ....