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Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that...

The Divine Comedy is not just a story with a beginning, development, and end. It is, first and foremost, an encrypted text in which the reader must bring order and detect the countless pearls scattered throughout the work, whether hidden or obvious. It was...

Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over. A trade and political alliance between the human kingdom of Gaur and the Kai kingdom of Bast-Haradis requires that he marry a Gauri...

In Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad’s second novel, Sonia Nasir—a 38-year-old British actress of Palestinian descent—returns to Israel to visit her sister in Haifa and is soon cast in an Arabic-language production of Hamlet in Ramallah. As she travels through Haifa, Gaza, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem,...

In this intimate and revealing book, Boris Cyrulnik offers us a profound reflection on the healing power of love. Survivors of deportations, wars, or genocides, victims of accidents, people living with disabilities, or simply people who have suffered abuse and humiliation find the opportunity...

Considered one of the most influential works of ancient philosophy, Meditations has endured through the centuries as a living testament to the possibility of maintaining calm, clarity, and humanity even in the most uncertain times. Throughout history—as in every individual life—periods of calm alternate...

A beautiful book for its honesty, also painful for its relatability, and entertaining for its humor, on the subject of the body, that map given to us all. The body is the object of literary reflection and creation from different voices and different perspectives:...

My name is Lucas. I am a three-and-a-half-kilogram Yorkie, born on the banks of the Danube and adopted in Madrid. And this is my story. For fifteen years, I witnessed—and was part of—a complicated, beautiful, and deeply human love: that of Silvia and Enrique....

La Misericordia Orphanage, Zabalburu (Bilbao), 1974. On her sixteenth birthday, Natalia, a young woman who has known nothing but beatings and silence, receives a visit from a rough and cold man who claims to be her father. He has returned. The nuns at the...

When we lose a loved one, the grieving process often begins with a clear farewell. But what happens when that farewell isn't possible, when death isn't confirmed or the person remains physically present but emotionally absent? Ambiguous loss—whether due to disappearance, neurodegenerative illness, or...

New York, 1918. After receiving news that the Great War is tearing Europe apart, Jessie Carson decides to leave the tranquility of the New York Public Library shelves and cross the ocean to join the American Committee for the Devastated Regions of France, founded...

Two roads lead into a dark forest. They meet at Greymist Fair, the village hidden in the trees, a place kept alive by the families that never leave. The people of Greymist Fair know the woods are a dangerous and magical place, and to...

Two hundred years ago, a slighted deity stole the magic from Auréal and vanished without a trace. But seventeen-year-old Odile has a plan. All her life, her father, a vengeful sorcerer, has raised her for one singular task: infiltrate the royal palace and steal...

When Georgina, recently fired and completely broke, agrees to a strange offer from an eccentric old woman to befriend her grandson in exchange for a generous payment, she doesn’t expect to meet Oliver: the most infuriating (and undeniably attractive) man she’s ever encountered. He,...

A funny, empowering, and provocative book that shatters stereotypes about middle-aged women. Cally Beaton shares her bold reinvention—from boardroom executive to stand-up comedian—with wit and candor. Drawing on her own story and insights from her podcast guests, she challenges the outdated belief that women...

This personal diary that the renowned Dzogchen master Khenpo Sodargye kept for one year gives serious Dharma practitioners a lifetime of inspiring, wise guidance for practicing right conduct on the path. The backdrop is the Tibetan plateau, from which Khenpo invites us to see...

Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka spends her days in her room in a care home outside Tokyo, relying on an electric wheelchair to get around and a ventilator to breathe. But if Shaka’s physical life is limited, her quick, mischievous mind has...

Open Heaven follows a transformative year in the lives of two teenage boys in a remote English village, where sixteen year old James, shy and newly aware of his sexuality, meets Luke, a charismatic and troubled outsider with a troubled past. As James grapples...

By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave laborer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds...

Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she’ll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father’s - now a famous writer...