„Die Riesinnen‹ saugen einen auf der ersten Seite ein, und am Ende dieses Drei-Generationen-Porträts großer Frauen wird man atemlos ausgespuckt. Wüst, wild, bewegend und voller Poesie.“ „Mager ist sie, wie ein Kleiderhaken, zurechtgebogen zu Menschenform. Dünn und stark und Keine ist größer als sie, im Dorf nicht, und auch nicht im nächsten. Dazu die Kupferwollehaare, die wütend nach dem Himmel greifen. Wer sie sieht, weiß, wer sie ist, man weiß es sofort, und sie hasst es, hasst es, hasst es. Vielleicht hätte sie es, an einem anderen Ort, zu einer anderen Zeit, auch lieben können, aber das geht nicht, nicht hier.“ Wittenmoos, ein kleines Dorf im Schwarzwald, ist die Heimat dreier Frauen. Groß und dünn überragen sie alle anderen und wollen so gar nicht in die Dorfgemeinschaft passen. Und doch sind sie hier verwurzelt und müssen ihren eigenen Weg in den engen Grenzen des Dorfes finden. Liese, die still und unerbittlich die Metzgerei führt. Cora, ihre Tochter, die Wütende, die ausbrechen wird und lernen muss, dass Heimkehr keine Niederlage ist. Und Eva, Coras Tochter, die den Wald so sehr liebt und sich dessen erst bewusst werden muss. In dunkler, satter, aber auch zarter Poesie erzählt Hannah Häffner mit stilistischer Präzision, feinem Humor und einer subtilen Beobachtungsgabe die Geschichte dreier Frauen, die sich von den 60er Jahren bis in unsere Zeit spannt. Ein lange nachhallender Roman über die Sehnsucht nach Freiheit und Wurzeln, über Mütter und Töchter und über die Kraft der Natur.

They said Aia was destined to be a model, and Jun was bullied for her freckles. Together, they will take back the power to define themselves in an inspirational fashion manga that asks cutting questions about what it really means to be beautiful--and what it takes to overcome an arbitrary system that seems to respect talent over hard work. At a young age, Aia Utagawa was scouted as a model, but his real ambition is to become a makeup artist. But, even as the end of high school approaches, it's a dream he hides inside, afraid of stepping outside his prescribed role as a pretty face. Then, one day, he meets Jun, a quiet classmate who hunches because she's ashamed of her face, covered in freckles. He convinces her to enter a school runway fashion contest together--with him doing her makeup. They make an incredible team, with Jun discovering a confidence she never knew she could show and Aia finally learning that, while it may be tough to open yourself up to failing at the one thing you care about, the difficulties can be worth facing.

From the author of the nationally bestselling Dungeons and Drama comes another gaming romance that's sure to win you over!Quinn Norton is starting over at a new high school and hopes that joining a D&D game will be the trick to making friends. The plan sounds even better when she’s invited into a group that includes Logan Weber, the cute and charming guy she met on her first day of class. But this isn’t your average D&D campaign— this group livestreams their games and enforces strict rules: no phones allowed, and no dating other group members.Quinn is willing to accept the rules, even if it makes Logan off-limits. And she quickly learns that doing so won’t be a problem, since Logan goes from charismatic to insufferable as soon as she agrees to join. As their bickering—and bantering—intensifies inside and outside the game, Quinn can’t help wondering: Is Logan’s infuriating behavior a smokescreen for hidden feelings? Quinn is risking it all, and the twenty-sided dice are rolling!

Life's tough for Melody Bittersweet. She's single, addicted tosugar and superheroes, her family areofficially bonkers, and she sees dead people. Is it any wonder no-one's swiping right on Tinder? Waking up lonely on her twenty seventh birthday, Melody finally snaps. She can't carry on basing all of her life decisions on the advice of her magic 8 ball; things have got to change. Fast forward two months, and she's now the proud proprietor of her very ownghostbusting agency - kind of like in the movies but without the dodgy white jumpsuits. She's also flirting with her ex Leo Dark, fraternising with her enemy in alleyways, and she's somehow ended up with a pug called Lestat. Life just went from dull to dynamite and it's showing nosign of slowing up anytime soon. Melody's been hired to clear Scarborough House of its incumbent ghosts, and now it seems like there's the smallmatter of a murder to solve too... Welcome to Chapelwick, home of the brand new and hilarious Girls Ghostbusting Agency series, where things reallydogo bump in the night."

The unmissable new novel of friendship and dangerous obsession from Asako Yuzuki, the award-winning author of the global bestselling sensation Butter. Eriko really wouldn't mind being savaged, if it was her best friend doing the savaging … Eriko's life appears perfect – devoted parents, spotless apartment and a job in the seafood division of one of Japan's largest trading companies. Her latest project, to reintroduce the controversial Nile perch fish into the Japanese market, is characteristically ambitious. But beneath her flawless surface she is wracked by loneliness. Eriko becomes fascinated with a popular blog written by a housewife, Shoko. Shoko’s posts about eating convenience store food and her untidy home are the opposite of the typical Japanese housewife’s manicured lifestyle. When Eriko tracks Shoko down at her favourite restaurant and befriends her, Shoko is at first charmed by her new companion. But as Eriko’s obsession with Shoko deepens, her increasingly possessive behaviour starts to raise suspicion. As Eriko’s carefully laid plans begin to unravel, how far will she go to hold on to the best friend that she’s ever had? Beautifully translated by Polly Barton, Hooked is a thrilling and unsettling story of the line between friendship and dangerous obsession. A delicious exploration of food, loneliness and womanhood in contemporary Japan, Hooked brings together all the ingredients for which Asako Yuzuki is so adored.

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace—and will touch lives in a ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao's drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future.  Full of Ozeki's signature humour and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.