Fiction

Legends of the Fall is made up of three short novels that revolve around the insatiable triad of desire, revenge and wildness. In the first of them, Revenge, a man falls in love with the wife of a friend who brutally leads a Mexican...

The inspiring lives of 50 children who have become superheroes without the need for cloak and dagger. Featuring Alan Turing, Albert Einstein, Andre Agassi, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Charles Darwin, Dalái Lama, Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Haile Gebrselassie, Harvey Milk, Iqbal Masih, Jacques-Yves Cousteau,...

Sinner. Villain. Wicked. The Prince of Envy has never claimed to be a saint. But when a cryptic note arrives, signaling the beginning of a deadly game, he knows it will take more than a hint of sin to win and save his falling...

Soft and Sticky are total opposites, but does that mean the end of their friendship? Soft and Sticky are best friends, but Soft’s fluff always gets up Sticky’s nose, and Sticky sticks like glue to Soft! After one last argument, they decide to end...

Tonight is the night. The show of the year. The crowds hurry in, ready to cheer! Just one of these cats will win the chef’s crown, and the keys to a sparkly new restaurant in town. But … with a splash of hijinks and...

We're the Bad Dragon Club and we're bad as can be. We’re rascals and rogues and wrong’uns all three. We’re so full of bad, any badder and we’d burst. We're the Bad Dragon Club and we’re here to do our worst. Scorch, Grub and...

THIS Easter bunny looks a little bit funny. IN FACT, he looks a little bit like . . . A DINOSAUR. He has claws, and sharp teeth and seems pretty scary. Could he REALLY be the Easter bunny?!  Hilarious, anarchic and with hugely fun...

Let's stop at the "greed", ours and that of others. Everyone's. Desire, anxiety, ambition, greed. Lina Meruane exposes us to the material and metaphorical senses of this word through a multitude of insatiable mothers and daughters, incisive sisters, sharp friends and lovers as well...

The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back inside: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a...

Shurik Korn is a modern Casanova in the guise of a boy from a good Moscow family. Fatherless from the cradle, his education is carried out by his energetic grandmother - the French teacher Yelizaveta lvánovna - and his weak mother, Vera Aleksándrovna, a...

In this book, which is presented as a serialized novel, the great Russian novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya offers us subtle variations on the feminine lie. Well, according to our author, women's lies would be clearly distinguished from men's lies, and would almost always be devoid...

Milena Busquets writes about love, books, children, beauty and elegance in this dress rehearsal of life. One of her central texts, “Ten Years Less Three Days,” is a continuation of her novel This Too Shall Pass, in which she delves into mourning the death...

A young couple with a daughter settles in a town in the interior of Spain that languishes next to a swamp among the remains of their dreams: a dismantled nuclear power plant, unfinished housing estates, faded advertisements for a city of leisure that never...

July 1346. Ten men land on the beaches of Normandy. They call themselves the Essex Dogs: an unruly platoon of archers and men-at-arms led by a battle-scarred captain whose best days are behind him. The fight for the throne of the largest kingdom in...

An heir has been born in Gormenghast. Gormenghast Castle is the home of the ancient dynasty of the Groan counts, a place so huge, big as a city, that none of its inhabitants have walked through all its nooks and crannies. There we meet...

Loveday Cardew's beloved Lost for Words bookshop, along with the rest of York, has fallen quiet. At the very time when people most need books to widen their horizons, or escape from their fears, or enhance their lives, the doors are closed. Then the...

Margaret Laurence's most celebrated novel introduced readers to one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction. Hagar Shipley is stubborn, querulous, self-reliant, and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her, she makes a bold last step towards freedom and independence. As her...

Finding your way is never a simple journey… Alice sees the worst in people. She also sees the best. She sees a thousand different emotions and knows exactly what everyone around her is feeling. Every. Single. Day. But it’s the dark thoughts. The sadness....

Arwen Valondale never expected to be the brave one, offering her life to save her brother’s. Now she’s been taken prisoner by the most dangerous kingdom on the continent, and made to use her rare magical abilities to heal the soldiers of the vicious...

A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mom, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it’s been just the three of them―her mom has brought home guests...