Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end. In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains audio transcripts from every single patient Dr. Hale has ever interviewed. As Tricia listens to the cassette tapes, she learns about the terrifying chain of events leading up to Dr. Hale’s mysterious disappearance. Tricia plays the tapes one by one, late into the night. With each one, another shocking piece of the puzzle falls into place, and Dr. Adrienne Hale’s web of lies slowly unravels. And then Tricia reaches the final cassette. The one that reveals the entire horrifying truth.

Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her. Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of Blunder—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets. But nothing comes for free, especially magic. When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure Blunder from the dark magic infecting it. And the highwayman? He just so happens to be the King’s nephew, Captain of the most dangerous men in Blunder…and guilty of high treason. Together they must gather twelve Providence Cards—the keys to the cure. But as the stakes heighten and their undeniable attraction intensifies, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him.

“İnsanlar hatalarından ders alır. Ben alamam. Çünkü ben hata yapmam.” İnsanları yöneten ve iyiliksever bir yapay zekâ olan Fırtına Bulutu, kusursuz bir dünyanın kusursuz hükümdarıdır ancak Tırpan Cemiyeti üzerinde hiçbir kontrolü yoktur. Rowan’ın ortadan kaybolmasından bu yana bir yıl geçmiştir. O zamandan beri Rowan, yozlaşmış tırpanları öldürmeye başlayan bir şehir efsanesi, bir kanun kaçağı olarak anılmaktadır. Kıta genelinde onun hakkında dedikodular yayılır. Çıraklık eğitimini tamamlayan Citra ise merhametle devşirmeye başlar ve açıkça “yeni düzen”in ideallerine meydan okur. Ancak yöntemlerinin sorgulandığını gören Citra değişime herkesin açık olmadığını ve hayatının tehlike altında olduğunu fark eder. Eski düşmanlar ve yeni tehditler bir araya gelirken, Tırpan Cemiyeti’ndeki yozlaşma gittikçe artar ve Rowan ile Citra umutlarını yitirmeye başlar. Acaba Fırtına Bulutu bu yozlaşmaya müdahale edebilecek mi? Yoksa bu kusursuz dünyanın çözülüşünü sadece izlemekle mi yetinecek?

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. A mesmerizing Mobius strip of a novel that asks who we are to the people we love.Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an elegant and accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, and young—young enough to be her son. Who is he to her – and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse – and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us best.Taut, hypnotic, Audition is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.

Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end. In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains audio transcripts from every single patient Dr. Hale has ever interviewed. As Tricia listens to the cassette tapes, she learns about the terrifying chain of events leading up to Dr. Hale’s mysterious disappearance. Tricia plays the tapes one by one, late into the night. With each one, another shocking piece of the puzzle falls into place, and Dr. Adrienne Hale’s web of lies slowly unravels. And then Tricia reaches the final cassette. The one that reveals the entire horrifying truth.

Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago. In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the picture brides’ extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war.

“Toprak ayağımızın altında yumuşacık, kırmızı. Bacaklarımızı ısıran dikenlere aldırmıyoruz. Çalıların içinde bin bir çeşit hışırtı, kıpırtı, çıtırtı, vızıltı... Kuşlar, böcekler, taşlar... Uçanlar, koşanlar, sürünenler, sıçrayanlar ve dahi öylece durmayı seçenler. Doğa, yavaş yavaş yükselen güneşle birlikte başlıyor günlük serüvenine. Hep birlikte uyanıyoruz. Hep birlikte yaşayacağız gelen günü. Birimiz diğerimizden ne daha az ne daha çok var olacak. Her şey yan yana ve her nasılsa öyle.” Başlayıp biten aşklar, terk edişler, mutsuzluklar... Annelik halleri, yalnızlıklar, çaresizlikler... Yarım kalan hesaplar, pişmanlıklar... Denize dönüşler, tekrar ayağa kalkışlar... Çocukluktan kalan tatlı hisler, yüzleşmeler, umutlar... Melisa Kesmez, iç içe geçmiş birbirinden farklı hayatları, kendine özgü diliyle her birine ince ince bakarak, usul usul anlatıyor; insan ilişkilerini bir kuyumcu titizliğiyle işleyip, “büyük resmin” detaylarını ustalıkla ortaya koyuyor. Üstelik doğayı, denizi, güneşi, doğumu ve ölümü de atlamadan... Küçük Yuvarlak Taşlar, kaybedişlerin ve hayata yeni başlangıçların kitabı...