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In a post-apocalyptic world scarred by monsters and societal collapse, a stoic wanderer named Agrippa rescues a young woman named Claudia from bandits and a monstrous dog near the isolated settlement of Mist. Reluctantly, Agrippa accompanies Claudia back to Mist, only to witness it be devastated by a massive, slug-like creature known as a loimos. The monster infects the settlement with a deadly green miasma, leaving survivors doomed without a cure.

‘Exquisite and deeply felt’ VOGUE ‘Beautifully rendered’ GRAZIA ‘Magnificent … melds sharp insight with great heart’ NICOLA DINAN ‘Thoughtful and beautifully compelling’ ALICE WINN A beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love and space from the award-winning author of...

When the world is rewritten by the System, twins Kalen and Aria are torn from their family and thrust into a deadly tutorial—where every choice is permanent, every monster is lethal, and survival is anything but guaranteed.

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2019 Celestial Bodies is set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, where we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries Abdallah after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla who rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved...

Giorgio, 44 anni, di mestiere fa l'agronomo ed è divorziato. L’estate che incombe su Torino gli porta una grossa preoccupazione: dovrà trascorrere due mesi con il figlio Emanuele, un adolescente affetto da una leggera forma di autismo. Un pomeriggio, quando le cose si complicano, nella mansarda sopra il loro appartamento arriva Agata, una modella con una personalità “particolare” e le certezze di Giorgio vanno a farsi un giro.

Raised far away on the moon, Xingyin was unaware she was being hidden from the Celestial Emperor–who exiled her mother for stealing the elixir of immortality. But when her magic flares and reveals her, Xingyin is forced to flee her home, leaving her mother behind. Alone, powerless and afraid, Xingyin makes her way to the Celestial Kingdom, a land of wonder and secrets. In disguise, she trains alongside the emperor’s son, mastering archery and magic, despite the passion that flames between them.

Tales of the Celestial Kingdom collects nine spellbinding stories – two previously published, seven original, including the epilogue to the duology – set in the enchanting world of Sue Lynn Tan’s stunning debut. Filled with magic and mythology, friendship and love, these stories intertwine through the past, present, and future of the two novels, told from the perspectives of multiple characters, including Chang’e, Shuxiao, Liwei, and Wenzhi.

Though published second after Altmann's Tongue, The Din of Celestial Birds (1997) consists of the best of Evenson's early stories. They take place in a country (perhaps several countries) that seems at once everywhere and nowhere, haunted by birds, ghosts, poverty, tyranny, and the permeability of the line between the living and the dead. These stories offer a heady mix of absurdity and bleakness on the one hand and exuberant magic realism on the other.

Ziggy Da Luca is a linguist recruited by NASA for reasons she can't quite fathom. After seeing the video they've intercepted, it becomes clear her work is far more central to their plans than she realised. Sent to the moon to investigate a hatch discovered by the Russians, Ziggy faces challenges she's never trained for. Seen by some as a liability, she must contend with her own crew as well as the Russian cosmonauts, as everyone races to uncover the hatch's mystery. What she finds there is beyond anything she could imagine.

La Cena Celestial es una novela psicológica y simbólica que explora temas como la conciencia, la identidad, la percepción de la realidad y las emociones humanas. A través de una narrativa reflexiva y misteriosa, la historia invita al lector a cuestionar el comportamiento humano, los conflictos internos y la conexión entre la mente, las experiencias y la espiritualidad desde una perspectiva metafórica y emocional. La obra combina elementos de psicodrama, simbolismo y reflexión existencial para crear una experiencia introspectiva que busca generar preguntas más que ofrecer respuestas absolutas.

It was a stupid wish. One that's come to haunt my doorstep fourteen years later. When I made a pact with my best friend to marry each other if we were both still single at thirty, I had no idea it would be magically bound . . . by me. Time and circumstance have separated us, and we're no longer...

'June the first, a bright summer's evening, a Monday . . .' And into the busy, bustling homes at 66 Star Street slips, unseen, a mysterious visitor. As the couples, flatmates and repentant singletons of No. 66 fall in and out of love, clutch at and drop secrets, laugh, cry and simply try to live...

Brought to you by Penguin. Jeremy is a child-like, painfully shy batchelor who has never left home. He lives on the third floor of his mother's boarding house and spends his days cutting up coloured paper to make mosaic sculptures - until the day his mother dies and the beautiful Mary Tell...

Station Eleven meets Leave the World Behind in this family drama at the end of the world about a crumbling household’s attempts to find their way back to each other amidst a cataclysmic event. "Our father had imagined the end of the world so often that, for a while, he believed that he...

An unspeakable terror is sweeping across the realm as the Celestial Emperor tightens his grip on power. The fragile peace Xingyin fought so hard for when freeing her mother is under threat. Forced to flee her home, Xingyin ventures into the unexplored lands of the Immortal Realm to seek aid in her fight, but, with alliances shifting quicker than the tides, she has to overcome past grudges and enmities to forge a new path forward, seeking aid where she never imagined.

When Suzy is literally knocked down by a pig when she arrives in Celestial River, she thinks her life can’t get any worse. She already lost her home and high-tech career, and now, apparently, her dignity. As a familiar sense of panic arises, she gets to her feet. So begins Suzy’s summer, stranded in the Blue Ridge Mountains in a tiny town without internet. More comfortable with computers than people, Suzy can’t keep the quirky townspeople at a distance.

In an Afterworld with Hell and Heaven on Earth, I'm the lowest a being can be. My life is one of drudgery, degradation—and danger. And that's before I started dealing Angelescence, a drug only I can produce, and everyone would kill for. Then I make one single mistake, and it gets me arrested, and my terrifying captor drags me to the Celestial Court—on a leash—to stand trial. My sentence?

‘Hearing you say my name was a way of seeing myself as I had never seen myself … you gave my name new meaning, new weight.’ Nerdy and shy, scholarship student Daniel de La Luna arrives at college nervous to meet his golden-haired, athletic roommate, whose Facebook photos depict a boy just...

The Celestial Compass: Navigating the Stars and the Soul is a speculative fiction novel that explores the profound relationship between the cosmos and the human spirit. A metaphysical adventure filled with philosophical insights, this story will captivate listeners with its exploration of destiny, self-discovery, and the grand design of the universe.

In the depths of cosmic eternity, a divine pact was forged between God and the Devil, safeguarding the universe from their omnipotent clash. They agreed never to set foot within the cosmos, fearing the cataclysmic consequences of their powers colliding. However, the Devil, ever the defier of pacts, dared to challenge this agreement. Sending forth a formidable demon to disrupt the delicate equilibrium of good and evil, he aimed to steal souls for Hell's nefarious dominion.