Мэриэнн Кронин4.4 Это история дружбы двух умирающих женщин — 17-летней Ленни и 83‑летней Марго. Их болезни неизлечимы, конец близок, но обе они находят в себе силы жить полной жизнью, использовать все время, что им осталось, с удовольствием и пользой. Нашим героиням сто лет на двоих, и они решают запечатлеть прожитый ими век — Марго рисует самые значимые эпизоды, а Ленни их описывает. Это рассказ об удивительной дружбе, преодолевающей время, о том, какое наследие мы оставляем, как мы влияем на жизнь других, даже когда нас самих уже нет.
Женевьева Горничек4.0 История Ангербоды начинается там, где большинство историй о ведьмах заканчивается: на костре. За отказ открыть ему знания о будущем бог Один решает сжечь непокорную ведьму. С трудом выжив, израненная и обессиленная Ангербода скрывается в безлюдных лесах… где встречает легендарного трикстера Локи.
Их отношения рождаются с недоверия, но перерастают в любовь. У них появляются трое необыкновенных детей, у каждого из которых — особое предназначение. Ангербода растит малышей на краю света, укрывая от всевидящего ока Одина… до тех пор, пока пророческий дар не открывает ей: ее дети в опасности. В опасности весь мир. И теперь Ангербода должна решить, примет ли она предначертанную судьбу — или восстанет, пытаясь изменить будущее.
Роман для поклонников «Цирцеи» Мадлен Миллер, который переосмысливает скандинавскую мифологию и рассказывает современным читателям вечную историю любви, надежды и потерь.
Kareem Rosser0.0 A memoir of defying the odds from Kareem Rosser, captain of the first all-black squad to win the National Interscholastic Polo championship.
Born and raised in West Philadelphia, Kareem thought he and his siblings would always be stuck in “The Bottom”, a community and neighborhood devastated by poverty and violence. Riding their bicycles through Philly’s Fairmount Park, Kareem’s brothers discover a barn full of horses. Noticing the brothers’ fascination with her misfit animals, Lezlie Hiner, founder of The Work to Ride stables, offers them their escape: an after school job in exchange for riding lessons.
What starts as an accidental discovery turns into a love for horseback riding that leads the Rossers to discovering their passion for polo. Pursuing the sport with determination and discipline, Kareem earns his place among the typically exclusive players in college, becoming part of the first all-Black national interscholastic polo championship team—all while struggling to keep his family together.
Ryka Aoki4.0 Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts.
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six.
When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate.
But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four. Shizuka doesn't have time for crushes or coffee dates, what with her very soul on the line, but Lan's kind smile and eyes like stars might just redefine a soul's worth. And maybe something as small as a warm donut is powerful enough to break a curse as vast as the California coastline.
As the lives of these three women become entangled by chance and fate, a story of magic, identity, curses, and hope begins, and a family worth crossing the universe for is found.
T.L. Huchu0.0 Sixth Sense meets Stranger Things in T. L. Huchu's The Library of the Dead, a sharp contemporary fantasy following a precocious and cynical teen as she explores the shadowy magical underside of modern Edinburgh.
When a child goes missing in Edinburgh's darkest streets, young Ropa investigates. She'll need to call on Zimbabwean magic as well as her Scottish pragmatism to hunt down clues. But as shadows lengthen, will the hunter become the hunted?
When ghosts talk, she will listen...
Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghostalker. Now she speaks to Edinburgh's dead, carrying messages to the living. A girl's gotta earn a living, and it seems harmless enough. Until, that is, the dead whisper that someone's bewitching children--leaving them husks, empty of joy and life. It's on Ropa's patch, so she feels honor-bound to investigate. But what she learns will change her world.
She'll dice with death (not part of her life plan...), discovering an occult library and a taste for hidden magic. She'll also experience dark times. For Edinburgh hides a wealth of secrets, and Ropa's gonna hunt them all down.
Уилл Литч3.2 Несмотря на редкое генетическое заболевание и невозможность ходить и разговаривать, Дэниел ведет прекрасную жизнь: у него есть друзья, работа в авиакомпании, налаженная рутина. Вообще-то он считает себя весьма удачливым парнем!
Жизнь Дэниела меняется, когда он узнает об исчезновении студентки Ай-Чин. Ведь он много раз видел ее в одно и то же время, сидя по утрам на крыльце. А затем он вспоминает, что в утро исчезновения ай-чин села в машину к незнакомому мужчине... Получается, что Дэниел - единственный свидетель похищения? Что, если преступник тоже видел его?
Kate Quinn4.7 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses—but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart.
1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter--the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger--and their true enemy--closer...
Everina Maxwell4.2 While the Iskat Empire has long dominated the system through treaties and political alliances, several planets, including Thea, have begun to chafe under Iskat's rule. When tragedy befalls Imperial Prince Taam, his Thean widower, Jainan, is rushed into an arranged marriage with Taam's cousin, the disreputable Kiem, in a bid to keep the rising hostilities between the two worlds under control.
But when it comes to light that Prince Taam's death may not have been an accident, and that Jainan himself may be a suspect, the unlikely pair must overcome their misgivings and learn to trust one another as they navigate the perils of the Iskat court, try to solve a murder, and prevent an interplanetary war... all while dealing with their growing feelings for each other.
Heather Walter3.7 A princess isn’t supposed to fall for an evil sorceress. But in this darkly magical retelling of “Sleeping Beauty,” true love is more than a simple fairy tale.
Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. A curse that could only be broken by true love’s kiss.
You’ve heard this before, haven’t you? The handsome prince. The happily-ever-after.
Utter nonsense.
Let me tell you, no one in Briar actually cares about what happens to its princesses. Not the way they care about their jewels and elaborate parties and charm-granting elixirs. I thought I didn’t care, either.
Until I met her.
Princess Aurora. The last heir to Briar’s throne. Kind. Gracious. The future queen her realm needs. One who isn’t bothered that I am Alyce, the Dark Grace, abhorred and feared for the mysterious dark magic that runs in my veins. Humiliated and shamed by the same nobles who pay me to bottle hexes and then brand me a monster. Aurora says I should be proud of my gifts. That she . . . cares for me. Even though it was a power like mine that was responsible for her curse.
But with less than a year until that curse will kill her, any future I might see with Aurora is swiftly disintegrating—and she can’t stand to kiss yet another insipid prince. I want to help her. If my power began her curse, perhaps it’s what can lift it. Perhaps, together, we could forge a new world.
Nonsense again.
Because we all know how this story ends, don’t we? Aurora is the beautiful princess. And I—
Рэйчел Смайт4.5 Популярный веб-комикс «Предания Олимпа», номинированный на премию Айснера, — это современный, романтический и честный взгляд на одну из самых известных историй в греческой мифологии.
Дерзкие сплетни, роскошные вечеринки и запретная любовь... а чем еще, как вы думаете, заняты боги, стоит солнцу зайти за горизонт?
Там, на Олимпе, таком притягательном и гламурном, боги влюбляются, дружат, заводят семьи, ссорятся, лгут, расстаются и ошибаются, а еще готовят обед в мультиварке, ищут аптечку, пишут друг другу смс... Оказывается, они не так уж отличаются от нас, людей, особенно когда пытаются разобраться в отношениях и собственных чувствах.
Персефона — юная богиня весны, выросшая среди смертных, впервые на Олимпе. Она совершенно беспомощна перед опасностями, которые скрывает божественный мир. Девушка бросается навстречу ночной жизни и страсти, вот только мир богов далек от книжной романтики...
Теперь Персефоне предстоит научиться жить заново и вместе с тем осознать свою значимость и собственную силу. А это непросто, особенно, если ты без ума от Аида, владыки подземного мира.
