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Luis García Montero follows the illness and loss of his partner, Almudena Grandes, through poems grounded in everyday life. Walks, hospital visits and the silence of familiar rooms become ways of measuring absence. The collection brings love, care and memory together as the poet learns to inhabit a world changed by bereavement.
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Ángel Martín reconstructs the mental health crisis that led to his hospitalisation and the work of rebuilding his life afterward. Written from personal experience, the account combines candour and humour while examining lost contact with reality, the support of others and the difficulty of speaking openly about psychiatric illness.
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Wallace Price discovers he is dead when a reaper arrives at his funeral. He reaches Charon’s Crossing, a tea shop run by Hugo, who also works as a ferryman for souls. Before moving on, Wallace has a chance to reconsider his life as a lawyer and learn how to connect with other people. A one-week deadline gives urgency to this standalone adult fantasy about grief, companionship, queer love and the possibility of change.
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Jon, an elephant keeper, and Edith, a widow surrounded by cats, form an unlikely friendship in a nearly empty village. Their companionship makes room for long-held dreams and difficult decisions, exploring the possibility of beginning again through care for another person and for animals.
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Toni, a disillusioned teacher, gives himself a year before a decision to end his life. He begins writing every night and revisiting his relationships with family, friends and his dog Pepa. His bitter observations gradually expose contradictions between the judgment he passes on life and the attachments that persist.
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Seeking help for her anxiety, Gilda enters a church and is mistaken for a job applicant. She becomes its receptionist despite being an atheist and conceals more of herself as complications multiply. Emails connected to her predecessor draw her towards questions about a death and her own fragile sense of belonging.
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Klara is an Artificial Friend waiting in a shop to be chosen. She observes customers and the people passing the window with unusual attention, before her life becomes connected to a girl named Josie. Through a manufactured companion's view of a household, Kazuo Ishiguro's standalone novel asks what care and affection mean when companionship is also an assigned purpose. Its intimate setting offers a literary science-fiction approach to artificial consciousness, human expectations and the limits of interpretation. The original novel was published in 2021; translated editions and later paperbacks are separate bibliographic events.
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Adam Grant examines the ability to revise beliefs, question expertise and remain curious when certainty is tempting. Research and stories from work, education and public debate illustrate the difficulties of changing one’s mind. He explores how individuals and groups can make room for disagreement and intellectual reconsideration.
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A young actor makes his Broadway debut in Henry IV while his marriage falls apart under public scrutiny. Rehearsals and performances become a demanding counterpoint to his private crisis, as the novel follows the competing pressures of fame, desire and theatrical work.
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Radio host Jordan Briggs agrees to play a caller's game on air, despite her producer's objections. As the broadcast takes a deadly turn, her past decisions become part of a confrontation unfolding before an enormous listening audience.
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Nesta Archeron struggles to find a place in the Night Court after the war and her unwilling transformation into High Fae. Training with Cassian brings anger, attraction and painful memories into close contact, while a new threat tests the court’s fragile peace.
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This collection follows Pip through three investigations, from reopening a supposedly solved murder for a school project to confronting the consequences of her true-crime podcast. Each case carries the secrets of her community further into her own life.
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Rafia Zakaria examines how influential strands of Western feminism have sidelined women of colour and reproduced colonial assumptions. Drawing on political analysis and personal experience, she argues for a movement that takes different histories and unequal distributions of power seriously.
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Marta D. Riezu assembles a personal collection of people, objects and places associated with an unforced kind of elegance. Public libraries, artists, animals and ordinary habits share space in these short reflections. A dictionary of affinities extends an inquiry into taste, attention and the quiet pleasures found close at hand.
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Their introductory training over, Carl and Donut enter the ruined streets of the Over City. A catastrophe, a sinister circus and an audience hungry for spectacle complicate their next dungeon challenge, where finding out what happened may be essential to surviving.
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In a mountain community, Mariette lives with her silent, immensely strong son, known for his affinity with animals. The appearance of a young girl prompts an investigation and a chorus of conflicting accounts. Village assumptions, inherited legends and fear of difference complicate the search for an explanation of what has happened.
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In a Chicago suburb in 1971, the Hildebrandt family approaches Christmas with each member imagining a different escape. A pastor’s troubled marriage and his children’s competing ideas about desire, responsibility and faith become entangled with the life of a church youth group.
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A widening galactic war exposes weapons capable of destroying entire planetary systems. Spensa seeks to understand the mysterious forces behind them, following her unusual abilities into a journey that may reveal whether humanity has any way to resist.
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This novel centres on the boundary people draw between being different and being considered normal. Through an emotional exploration of belonging and exclusion, Eloy Moreno questions the expectations imposed on others and the ease with which a label can obscure a person’s experience.
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An aspiring actress worn down by auditions and an established artist facing a creative crisis become part of a story involving valuable paintings discovered in an attic. Deception opens unexpected possibilities. The novel connects romance with artistic ambition and questions about who gets to create rather than merely inspire another person’s work.
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