Retirement leaves Benjamín Chaparro preoccupied with a young woman’s murder decades earlier. Revisiting the investigation also revives his unspoken love for Irene, now a judge. Set against Argentina’s political violence, the novel connects the pursuit of justice with memory, passing time and desires left unfulfilled.
After moving to Forks, Bella Swan is drawn to the reserved and unusually gifted Edward Cullen. Her determination to uncover his secret brings her into a world of vampires, where attraction and the risk to those around her become increasingly inseparable.
A family takes in a lost kitten and discovers how much a small animal can change an ordinary home. Through Chi's encounters with people, unfamiliar creatures and everyday objects, this first manga volume follows the beginnings of a shared life, finding comedy in the kitten's curiosity and her new family's attempts to understand her.
Jack and Victoria become involved with a resistance formed by exiles from Idhún, a world ruled by the necromancer Ashran and winged serpents. On Earth, the assassin Kirtash pursues survivors. The opening volume follows two young people discovering a conflict that reaches far beyond their familiar world.
FBI agent Rachel Walling learns that the serial killer known as the Poet has returned. Harry Bosch, investigating an old friend’s death, follows a trail towards the same adversary. Their inquiries converge across Los Angeles and Nevada, forcing an uneasy partnership against a killer familiar with investigative methods.
As many refuse to believe that Voldemort has returned, a secret order prepares to resist him. Harry’s fifth year brings danger inside and outside Hogwarts, while an unsettling connection to his enemy makes learning to protect his mind increasingly urgent.
Marjane Satrapi recounts her childhood in Tehran as revolution and war transform the world around her. Family conversations and private rebellions collide with the demands of public life. This first English volume of her graphic memoir follows a girl trying to understand political upheaval while growing into her own convictions.
A murdered preacher draws Stockholm lawyer Rebecka Martinsson back to Kiruna, where an old friend needs her help. Investigating the death means returning to a religious community and a past she had escaped. Beneath the northern winter, loyalties and concealed conflicts complicate the search for a killer.
Changed by the First World War, Byron Aldridge finds work policing a remote Louisiana sawmill. His younger brother Randolph arrives hoping to reconnect with him while managing the family business. Their different responses to violence and exploitation turn a struggle over the mill's future into a test of loyalty, courage and moral responsibility.
A murder at the Louvre draws Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu into a trail of coded clues. Their investigation links works of art, secret societies and a contested religious mystery while turning the two investigators into targets.
A goldsmith returns to the town where a youthful affair changed his life. Remembering Celia draws him towards an encounter in which desire and time no longer obey familiar rules. This short novel follows the uncertainty between recovering a lost love and discovering an impossible new beginning.
Rolf Potts explores extended independent travel as a way of arranging time, work and personal priorities. Practical discussions cover saving money, preparing to leave, adapting abroad and returning home. Alongside those decisions, he considers the attitudes that distinguish sustained exploration from simply collecting destinations.
Sold by his father, Kalil Mtube is forced to work on a cocoa plantation. Friendship and the desire for freedom help him resist a system that treats children as merchandise. His account follows exploitation, escape and the effort to reclaim a life that others have tried to control.
After achieving international recognition as a model, Waris Dirie returns to her Somali roots and to the family she left behind. This memoir explores the pull of home, the distance created by migration and the difficulty of reconciling affection for a culture with criticism of its traditions.
Exiled fairy tale characters live secretly among the people of New York. When Rose Red disappears and her apartment suggests a violent crime, Bigby Wolf begins an investigation that unsettles their community. This opening collection combines a murder mystery with the rivalries and compromises of familiar figures adapting to a very different world.
Mineko Iwasaki recounts her upbringing and artistic training in Kyoto’s geisha world, from childhood in the Iwasaki household to professional prominence. Her memoir describes the discipline and expectations behind public performances, as well as the choices that led her to retire at twenty-nine.
Fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura runs away from home, while the elderly Nakata follows an equally mysterious course. Their stories move toward one another through talking cats, unsettling coincidences and uncertain borders between dream and reality, as questions of fate and identity accumulate.
After nuclear devastation makes the surface uninhabitable, survivors shelter in the Moscow underground. Stations become separate communities, and the tunnels linking them form a new world shaped by fear, competing beliefs and threats left by humanity's collapse.
A threatening letter gives psychoanalyst Frederick Starks a deadline to identify an enemy from his past. As the stranger dismantles his professional and private life, Starks must work out whom he harmed before the attack reaches the people around him.
In 1937, fourteen-year-old Korean schoolgirl Sangmi is abducted by the Japanese army and forced into sexual slavery. Her hope of finding the French father she has never known accompanies a struggle to survive wartime Asia. Based on testimony, the novel connects personal endurance with a history of exploitation.