On a Mississippi plantation in 1847, enslaved child Granada lives in the household of a mistress grieving her daughter. The arrival of healer Polly Shine changes Granada’s position and understanding of the people around her. Their relationship opens a story of memory, community and dignity under slavery.
Young archaeologist Adriana accepts a job at the museum in her hometown of Santander. Her new employer’s connection to the past proves far more direct than she expects: he belongs to a family whose lives span extraordinary lengths of time. Her discovery draws historical research into a mystery of identity and longevity.
Fourteen-year-old Dita arrives at Auschwitz with her family and becomes responsible for a small collection of forbidden books. Keeping them safe requires courage under constant threat. Drawing on Dita Kraus’s experience, this historical novel follows the effort to preserve learning and human connection within the camp’s brutality.
Loch wants to recover an elven manuscript that belonged to her family and is now held by the Republic’s most powerful man. Escaping prison is only the beginning: she needs an unusual team to enter the floating fortress of Heaven’s Spire and reach its vault. With magical companions and Justicar Pyvic pursuing her, the recovery requires a plan that can accommodate far more than ordinary thieves.
When his mentor Harry Quebert is implicated in a decades-old murder, novelist Marcus Goldman starts investigating. The disappearance of a teenage girl leads him through a small town's secrets and forces him to reconsider the writer he thought he knew.
The imprisoned assassin Celaena Sardothien is offered a chance at freedom through a competition to become the king’s champion. As contestants begin dying under mysterious circumstances, she must investigate the danger within the castle while navigating its rivalries and alliances.
An old shop sign found in a Madrid antiques store carries the name of Alice Humbert and a Parisian past. The discovery prompts a woman in the present to imagine changing her own life. Two stories unfold across time, connecting personal renewal with the possibilities of 1920s Paris.
Auggie Pullman, a boy with a facial difference, enters a mainstream school for the first time. He hopes to be treated as an ordinary classmate, but other people’s reactions complicate the year. Voices from his family and school reveal how friendship, prejudice and kindness shape belonging.
Siegel and Bryson present twelve approaches to understanding children’s emotions and responding to everyday conflicts. Illustrations and age-related examples connect their account of development with situations at home, offering parents a framework for discussing feelings, managing difficult moments and strengthening communication with their children.
Elena recalls the beginnings of her friendship with Lila in a working-class neighbourhood of Naples. Childhood games, school and family pressures gradually give way to adolescence and diverging possibilities. Their closeness and rivalry form the starting point of a long story about ambition, class and the power of education.
Sara has found stability with her young son and her father when she falls in love with a student at the language school where she teaches. What begins as an intimate relationship conceals a connection to violent extremism. Discovering the deception places her family and her freedom in danger.
Events in Mérida in 1941 and Barcelona four decades later bind several families through violence and revenge. A lawyer’s investigation brings buried loyalties and betrayals back into view, showing how political upheaval continues to shape private lives long after its apparent end.
At sixteen, Beatrice must choose the faction that will define her place in society. Her aptitude test reveals that she does not fit its categories, and a demanding initiation forces her to conceal that difference while discovering cracks in the system around her.
Rafael Santandreu examines how rigid expectations and catastrophic interpretations can shape emotional distress. Using anecdotes and examples, he presents his approach to questioning beliefs about success, relationships and personal worth. The book introduces a cognitive perspective on everyday difficulties and the possibility of responding to them differently.
Oil infrastructure becomes the focus of attacks that expose the political and financial interests surrounding the energy business. Moving between the threat of violence and the workings of international power, this thriller places the exploitation of oil at the centre of conflicts reaching well beyond the drilling platforms.
A grandmother and granddaughter share a period of convalescence that opens onto the lives of several generations of women. Family stories, concealed pain and enduring attachments gradually reveal how people remain connected even when they cannot say what they need from one another.
Avice Benner Cho returns to a distant settlement where humans coexist with the Ariekei. Only specially altered human Ambassadors can speak the Hosts' Language. Avice cannot speak it herself, although she has become one of its living similes. When a new Ambassador arrives, the arrangement that sustains communication is disrupted, threatening a community whose survival depends on its interpreters.
After leaving Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele begins a job in publishing and tries to build a life apart from him. Their renewed relationship brings fresh negotiations over intimacy and control, while people and secrets from Christian’s past complicate the choices ahead.
Literature student Anastasia Steele meets businessman Christian Grey while conducting an interview. Their attraction develops into a relationship shaped by his insistence on control and her uncertainty about its terms, as she begins to discover the secrets behind his carefully managed life.
Dani searches for missing children, but his own life is unsettled when his partner leaves. A new case takes him to Capri and revives formative memories. As the investigation draws him backward, he revisits encounters that shaped his understanding of loss, affection and the person he has become.