A K-DRAMA IN A NOVEL with PRAISE FROM READERS: “Beautifully written and transportive.” · “A creative blend of modern perspectives with historical richness.” · “Funny, refreshing, and poetic.” “A timeline branches, and a new timeline begins. It’s what love does.” Hanul loves historical Korean dramas. But her real life of motherhood and seven years of marriage with Jiwan falls quietly short of the flutters, the intrigue, the sense of possibility. So when she wakes in 1588 Joseon, as the Governor’s unmarried daughter, she’s swept into a world of rustling silk hanboks, spring blossoms, and expressive suitors. It’s the break she imagined she needed—until she meets a man she cannot ignore. Jiwan is the town’s newest eligible bachelor. He awoke in a Joseon strategy game and accepted his exhilarating mission as a steadfast commander against the mysterious red enemy. In a superordinary world that offers them a second chance at love, ambition—a fulfilling life—Hanul and Jiwan must confront the hidden truths of their history and decide... Whether to let their marriage fade with the changing seasons or to renew their love, again and again. Calling fans of Korean dramas, culture, and history as well as spouses and mothers! Debut author Jasmine Jinhee invites readers to a story that will entertain and give life.

This is not a romance, but it is about love - and set in a cute coffee shop!One crescent moon, an azure cat takes over the running of the Full Moon Coffee Shop. The evening's first customer is an aging mother living alone in a crumbling cottage perched on a sea cliff.Fujiko hasn't seen her only daughter, a high-flying actress in Tokyo, longer than she remembers. She passes the days reminiscing about times gone by in the company of a fluffy white kitty, until her little life collapses in on itself when blast from the past hits the headlines.In a little multi-dimensional coffee shop tucked away somewhere between past and future, Fujiko makes a new feline friend. But this cat isn't just any old they are planet of our deepest desires in disguise, and they have the power to bend time.Under the mystical influence of the blue planet, the third book in the beloved healing fiction series weaves an enchanting, empowering story about owning your truth before it's too late.

From a dazzling new international voice, an audacious, darkly funny novel about a young woman whose carefully crafted office persona threatens to crack when she’s forced to attend her company’s annual retreatOn the surface, Marisa's life looks enviable. She lives in a beautiful apartment in the center of Madrid, she has a hot neighbor who is always around to sleep with her, and she’s quickly risen through the ranks at a successful advertising agency. And yet she’s drowning in a dark hole of existential dread induced by the banality of corporate life. Marisa hates her job and everyone at it. She spends her working hours locked in her office hiding from her coworkers, bingeing YouTube videos, and getting high on tranquilizers. When she has the time, she escapes to her favorite museum where she contemplates the meaning of life while staring at Hieronymus Bosch paintings, or trying to get hit by a car so she can go on disability.But Marisa's dubious success, which is largely built on lies and work she's stolen from other people, is in danger of being exposed when she's forced to go on her company’s team-building retreat. Isolated in the Segovia forests, haunted by the deeply buried memory of a former coworker, and surrounded by psychopathic bosses, overzealous coworkers, flirty retreat staff, and an excess of drugs, Marisa finds herself acting on her wildest impulses and is pushed to the brink of a complete spiral.

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Sorrow and Bliss comes an achingly tender, poignant, funny and bittersweet new novel'So smart, so funny, so moving. I absolutely loved it' Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry'A moving examination of what it means to be alone in the world, and what it means to find connection. It is, by turns, heartbreaking, hilarious, and deeply hopeful. Meg Mason is a dazzling talent' Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Tom Lake and The Dutch House_____Sophie Pattison is a lovely person – warm, kind, relentlessly positive. She's cherished by her brother Laurie, adored by her best friend Emma and valued by her colleagues. Sometimes, it's true, one day in her life can feel like the entire month of January. It's also true she can go an entire day without speaking. But she's fine really. She spends her time alone reading, finding comfort in the pages of the books she devours. Until one day she stumbles upon an author she hasn't read in years. Her books, interviews and podcasts soon become a lifeline; every word is a solace, company she hasn't felt in so long. It's almost like love. A lot like love. And Sophie would love to meet the author, although she never will obviously. In a way, thank goodness, because that would change everything. Sophie's entire life. Wouldn't it? Hilariously candid and raw, Sophie, Standing There is a bittersweet story of love, loneliness and finding connection in the most unlikely of places._____'Sophie, Standing There unfolds like a strange origami crane in reverse - so achingly tender and so brilliantly subtle that I could never put it down... Dazzling' Catherine Newman, bestselling author of Wreck and Sandwich'I loved Sophie, and I love Meg Mason's brain and the strange, wonderful, funny stories she gives us' Ann Napolitano, bestselling author of Hello, Beautiful and Dear Edward

Sechs Frauen, ein Der große Roman aus Südkorea über den sozialen Druck, der auf Frauen lastet, Mütter zu werden. Munjeong und ihre fünf Mitstreiterinnen lernen sich in der Baby-Angel-Fruchtbarkeitsklinik in Seoul kennen. Sie alle sind getrieben von dem Wunsch nach einem Baby, der sich auf natürliche Art nicht erfüllen will. »Hello Baby« heißt der Gruppenchat, in dem sie sich gegenseitig beistehen. Bis eine von ihnen, die 46-jährige Jeonghyo, plötzlich offline geht und spurlos verschwindet. Ein Jahr später taucht sie auf mysteriöse Weise mit einem Baby wieder auf ... Sechs unfruchtbare Frauen finden sich im blinden Fleck der Gesellschaft wieder, ihr Kampf schweißt sie in einer Freundschaft wider Willen zusammen. Ein bewegendes Porträt darüber, was es bedeutet, heute Frau zu sein und sich Erwartungen in patriarchalen Gesellschaften zu widersetzen.

Turr is fighting back for what was stolen from her: her body and her children living on it. After the humans tried to colonize her, Turr was forced to resort to mass violence to reclaim her skin. But in fleeing the planet, the humans left behind a chemical disaster—the dead zone. To bring peace and life back to herself, Turr sends out a desperate plea to two shroom people: Invidia and Clyra. Invidia, though surrounded by death, is tasked with learning how to breathe life back into the land. Clyra must lead a group of broken failed experiments through the forest, following a trail of visions. Death and uncertainty face them at every turn, but only when they’re all together can the planet truly begin to heal. Human Scars on Planet Skin will leave you haunted by the stark realities of upsetting the balance of life, aching against the sorrow unmitigated death brings, and shivering against the horrors of being trapped within your own body. More than anything, it will leave you comforted, knowing hope always exists in the life around us, no matter how dark our surroundings may seem.

A K-DRAMA IN A NOVEL with PRAISE FROM READERS: “Beautifully written and transportive.” · “A creative blend of modern perspectives with historical richness.” · “Funny, refreshing, and poetic.” “A timeline branches, and a new timeline begins. It’s what love does.” Hanul loves historical Korean dramas. But her real life of motherhood and seven years of marriage with Jiwan falls quietly short of the flutters, the intrigue, the sense of possibility. So when she wakes in 1588 Joseon, as the Governor’s unmarried daughter, she’s swept into a world of rustling silk hanboks, spring blossoms, and expressive suitors. It’s the break she imagined she needed—until she meets a man she cannot ignore. Jiwan is the town’s newest eligible bachelor. He awoke in a Joseon strategy game and accepted his exhilarating mission as a steadfast commander against the mysterious red enemy. In a superordinary world that offers them a second chance at love, ambition—a fulfilling life—Hanul and Jiwan must confront the hidden truths of their history and decide... Whether to let their marriage fade with the changing seasons or to renew their love, again and again. Calling fans of Korean dramas, culture, and history as well as spouses and mothers! Debut author Jasmine Jinhee invites readers to a story that will entertain and give life.

Sechs Frauen, ein Der große Roman aus Südkorea über den sozialen Druck, der auf Frauen lastet, Mütter zu werden. Munjeong und ihre fünf Mitstreiterinnen lernen sich in der Baby-Angel-Fruchtbarkeitsklinik in Seoul kennen. Sie alle sind getrieben von dem Wunsch nach einem Baby, der sich auf natürliche Art nicht erfüllen will. »Hello Baby« heißt der Gruppenchat, in dem sie sich gegenseitig beistehen. Bis eine von ihnen, die 46-jährige Jeonghyo, plötzlich offline geht und spurlos verschwindet. Ein Jahr später taucht sie auf mysteriöse Weise mit einem Baby wieder auf ... Sechs unfruchtbare Frauen finden sich im blinden Fleck der Gesellschaft wieder, ihr Kampf schweißt sie in einer Freundschaft wider Willen zusammen. Ein bewegendes Porträt darüber, was es bedeutet, heute Frau zu sein und sich Erwartungen in patriarchalen Gesellschaften zu widersetzen.

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Sorrow and Bliss comes an achingly tender, poignant, funny and bittersweet new novel'So smart, so funny, so moving. I absolutely loved it' Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry'A moving examination of what it means to be alone in the world, and what it means to find connection. It is, by turns, heartbreaking, hilarious, and deeply hopeful. Meg Mason is a dazzling talent' Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Tom Lake and The Dutch House_____Sophie Pattison is a lovely person – warm, kind, relentlessly positive. She's cherished by her brother Laurie, adored by her best friend Emma and valued by her colleagues. Sometimes, it's true, one day in her life can feel like the entire month of January. It's also true she can go an entire day without speaking. But she's fine really. She spends her time alone reading, finding comfort in the pages of the books she devours. Until one day she stumbles upon an author she hasn't read in years. Her books, interviews and podcasts soon become a lifeline; every word is a solace, company she hasn't felt in so long. It's almost like love. A lot like love. And Sophie would love to meet the author, although she never will obviously. In a way, thank goodness, because that would change everything. Sophie's entire life. Wouldn't it? Hilariously candid and raw, Sophie, Standing There is a bittersweet story of love, loneliness and finding connection in the most unlikely of places._____'Sophie, Standing There unfolds like a strange origami crane in reverse - so achingly tender and so brilliantly subtle that I could never put it down... Dazzling' Catherine Newman, bestselling author of Wreck and Sandwich'I loved Sophie, and I love Meg Mason's brain and the strange, wonderful, funny stories she gives us' Ann Napolitano, bestselling author of Hello, Beautiful and Dear Edward

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Every month, a letter. That's what Lauren decides to leave her husband when she finds out she's dying. Each month, she gives Josh a letter containing a task to help him face this first year without her, leading him on a heartrending, beautiful, often humorous journey to find happiness again in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins. Joshua and Lauren are the perfect couple. Newly married, they're wildly in love, each on a successful and rewarding career path. Then Lauren is diagnosed with a terminal illness. As Lauren's disease progresses, Joshua struggles to make the most of the time he has left with his wife and to come to terms with his future--a future without the only woman he's ever loved. He's so consumed with finding a way to avoid the inevitable ending that he never imagines his life after Lauren. But Lauren has a plan to keep her husband moving forward. A plan hidden in the letters she leaves him. In those letters, one for every month in the year after her death, Lauren leads Joshua on a journey through pain, anger, and denial. It's a journey that will take Joshua from his attempt at a dinner party for family and friends to getting rid of their bed...from a visit with a psychic medium to a kiss with a woman who isn't Lauren. As his grief makes room for laughter and new relationships, Joshua learns Lauren's most valuable lesson: The path to happiness doesn't follow a straight line. Sometimes heartbreaking, often funny, and always uplifting, this novel from New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins illuminates how life's greatest joys are often hiding in plain sight.

From bestselling novelist Nadia Hashimi—a gripping, occasionally terrifying, yet ultimately hopeful novel focusing on the women of Afghanistan in the years since the Taliban regained power. In February 2020 the US began to withdraw troops from Afghanistan after nearly twenty years of occupation. A whole generation of Afghan women had been born during that time—women who had grown up in relative peace, gone to school, entered the professions, even served in the army and Parliament. The women of Afghanistan watched as the Taliban filled the streets again. They knew everything was about to change. In the bustling, cosmopolitan city of Kabul, women are TV newscasters, shop owners, doctors, teachers, lawyers, even soldiers. They include Marjan, who fought with the Afghan army, and will risk everything to keep her daughter Hawa safe. In her earlier days Marjan was called Rahima and had lived the life of a bacha posh—a girl raised as a boy until she came of age. Forced into an early marriage, Rahima took the name Marjan when she fled her warlord husband. She’s created a whole new life for herself, one she will not give up easily. So has Soraya, who defiantly wore red lipstick as she led the army’s all-female combat force over the objections of her upper-class family. Soraya’s now a wanted woman whose brother may choose not to shelter her from the Taliban. What will become of her? Or Mina, a journalist and broadcaster whose beautiful face is known to everyone in Kabul—including the new regime? Fight or flight? Or find a third way? One thing is for none of these women will meekly accept her fate. An epic saga of fear, resistance, change, and reinvention, City of Widows gives voices to the unforgettable Afghan women at a crossroads of history.

A propulsive family drama, the story of a woman determined to recover her kidnapped daughter in the ruins of Chávez’s social revolution—the fast-paced English-language debut of an award-winning and bestselling author that brings the Venezuelan migrant crisis to life in lyrical, seething prose, for readers of Elizabeth Acevedo, Jesmyn Ward, and Gabriela GarciaIt was too late, y la ternura no basta—now that she’d tasted the gunpowder, and the gunpowder was bolivariano, revolutionary. And that unthinkable traitor Camilo was using it to blow up her life. “Elisa left with Camilo.” “Camilo took her out of the country.”These are the text messages Nina receives while living in the storage room of a university in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where she’s cleaning houses to make money to send back home. Home is 4,500 miles away, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, where the water never runs on Mondays and there’s yet another blackout. Where a trip to the grocery store costs 220 times the minimum wage. Home is Elisa, her thirteen-year-old daughter, who loves to run around the house and belt out Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.” Who should be growing, when instead her waist is shrinking. Home is Graciela, Nina's mother, who lately stays shut up in her room all day talking with her dead, most urgently her beloved husband, Raúl (who’s just as eager to talk back from the grave). And what the hell does Camilo think he’s doing now, stealing off with their daughter to the United States of America—the one place Nina most assuredly never wants to call home? Narrated through the voices of Nina and her family, and through the voice of her treacherous ex, Camilo, The Winds of Maracaibo is the heart-racing tale of a mother fighting to get her daughter back across the border, at any cost—a brave and furious reversal of the American Dream and an ode to the Venezuelan women who gave their blood, sweat, and tears to a nation dismantled by the egos of men.

Turr is fighting back for what was stolen from her: her body and her children living on it. After the humans tried to colonize her, Turr was forced to resort to mass violence to reclaim her skin. But in fleeing the planet, the humans left behind a chemical disaster—the dead zone. To bring peace and life back to herself, Turr sends out a desperate plea to two shroom people: Invidia and Clyra. Invidia, though surrounded by death, is tasked with learning how to breathe life back into the land. Clyra must lead a group of broken failed experiments through the forest, following a trail of visions. Death and uncertainty face them at every turn, but only when they’re all together can the planet truly begin to heal. Human Scars on Planet Skin will leave you haunted by the stark realities of upsetting the balance of life, aching against the sorrow unmitigated death brings, and shivering against the horrors of being trapped within your own body. More than anything, it will leave you comforted, knowing hope always exists in the life around us, no matter how dark our surroundings may seem.

A propulsive family drama, the story of a woman determined to recover her kidnapped daughter in the ruins of Chávez’s social revolution—the fast-paced English-language debut of an award-winning and bestselling author that brings the Venezuelan migrant crisis to life in lyrical, seething prose, for readers of Elizabeth Acevedo, Jesmyn Ward, and Gabriela GarciaIt was too late, y la ternura no basta—now that she’d tasted the gunpowder, and the gunpowder was bolivariano, revolutionary. And that unthinkable traitor Camilo was using it to blow up her life. “Elisa left with Camilo.” “Camilo took her out of the country.”These are the text messages Nina receives while living in the storage room of a university in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where she’s cleaning houses to make money to send back home. Home is 4,500 miles away, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, where the water never runs on Mondays and there’s yet another blackout. Where a trip to the grocery store costs 220 times the minimum wage. Home is Elisa, her thirteen-year-old daughter, who loves to run around the house and belt out Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.” Who should be growing, when instead her waist is shrinking. Home is Graciela, Nina's mother, who lately stays shut up in her room all day talking with her dead, most urgently her beloved husband, Raúl (who’s just as eager to talk back from the grave). And what the hell does Camilo think he’s doing now, stealing off with their daughter to the United States of America—the one place Nina most assuredly never wants to call home? Narrated through the voices of Nina and her family, and through the voice of her treacherous ex, Camilo, The Winds of Maracaibo is the heart-racing tale of a mother fighting to get her daughter back across the border, at any cost—a brave and furious reversal of the American Dream and an ode to the Venezuelan women who gave their blood, sweat, and tears to a nation dismantled by the egos of men.