An experimental headset draws Rubius into a network of video game worlds that feels startlingly real. When the test turns into a trap, he must navigate unfamiliar rules, protect his companions and confront a masked enemy. This graphic adventure brings the logic of gaming into a story of friendship, danger and escape.
Born in Madrid in 1930, Antonia grows up amid war, scarcity and the struggle to keep a family alive. Drawing on her mother’s life, Nieves Concostrina follows a working-class woman through the pressures of the postwar years. Everyday ingenuity and endurance shape an account of survival across generations.
Whenever Harry August dies, he begins his life again as a child, carrying the knowledge of his previous lifetimes. Near the end of his eleventh life, a girl arrives with a message that interrupts this recurrence. Harry must consider how his accumulated experience connects the past he remembers to a future in danger.
In northern Mali, truck driver Gacel Mugtar is drawn into a violent effort to defend Tuareg honour against mercenaries and extremists. His knowledge of the desert becomes a weapon he never wanted to wield. The demands placed on him collide with his conscience and his understanding of justice.
In postwar Madrid, eighteen-year-old Manolita struggles to support her siblings while her family is scattered by imprisonment and clandestine resistance. A plan involving a duplicating machine and a prisoner draws her into relationships that reshape both her private life and her political understanding.
His sister’s death pushes lawyer Gonzalo Gil to investigate a revenge killing and his family’s concealed history. The search gradually unsettles the heroic image of his father, connecting present-day violence with the Soviet Union, Spain’s Civil War and choices made generations earlier.
In Augsburg in 1913, Marie leaves an orphanage to work in the kitchen of the wealthy Melzer family. The household’s hierarchy separates servants from the textile industrialists upstairs. As she seeks a place among them and encounters heir Paul, class divisions and family secrets complicate her new life.
A shocking arrest in Boston brings psychiatrist Jenkins and FBI profiler Stella Hyden into an investigation that reaches back seventeen years. As different timelines converge, disturbing connections challenge their understanding of the suspect, of his relationships and of the boundary between reason and obsession.
Writer Leire Altuna finds a murdered woman near the Faro de la Plata on the Basque coast. Drawn into the investigation and placed under suspicion herself, she follows connections between the crime, local interests and family secrets. The case also evokes the shadow of a nineteenth-century killer.
Seven stories explore men’s experiences of solitude and the absence of important women in their lives. Actors, students, doctors and former lovers navigate memories and uncertain attachments, while Murakami brings ordinary encounters into contact with the unsettling and unexpected.
Rupi Kaur brings together short poems, prose and drawings in a collection that moves through hurt, love, separation and healing. Its four sections approach violence, intimacy and femininity through direct language, tracing the effort to make a life beyond painful experiences.
Sara makes a living working with feathers and prefers her life carefully organised. That order collapses as her father, her sister and her sister’s fiancé crowd into her home, while an absent boyfriend returns to the picture. Family entanglements turn her search for control into romantic comedy.
Years after his wife and son disappeared during a cruise, Martin Schwartz receives a call suggesting their fate is not settled. Returning to the ship, he encounters a missing girl who has reappeared carrying an object linked to his family.
Emily Stone leaves New England for Honolulu with her missionary husband, but her attraction to a sea captain challenges the life they planned. Decades later, another woman encounters the family’s legacy. Their intertwined stories explore faith, desire and the enduring consequences of choices made in Hawaii.
Darrow believes his work beneath Mars is preparing the planet for future generations, until he discovers the deception sustaining his caste's servitude. A revolutionary group offers him a way into the rulers' elite training institute, where infiltration demands a transformed identity.
Cut off behind enemy lines, Tamas must lead the remnants of his army home without supplies or reinforcements. Meanwhile, political struggles in Adro and the advance of an angry god leave his allies defending a country whose commanders cannot agree.
A missing girl emerges from the winter woods near Fjällbacka and is struck by a car. Evidence of prolonged abuse leads Patrik Hedström toward other disappearances, while Erica Falck uncovers a connection to an older murder. Their investigations reveal how unresolved violence can reach into the present.
Beneath the University, Auri inhabits a forgotten network of tunnels and abandoned rooms. This short companion to The Kingkiller Chronicle follows the small tasks, discoveries and private meanings through which she makes a place for herself in that hidden world.
Trying to resume school after a traumatic summer, Mackenzie finds her nightmares intruding into waking life. A series of disappearances appears to connect back to her, making the Archive’s keeper a suspect in a mystery that could cost her memories and freedom.
Amalia finally gathers her family for New Year’s Eve in Barcelona, hoping that everyone will remain at the same table. As dinner unfolds, humour and affection coexist with concealed grievances, revealing the delicate work required to keep a family connected.