A woman who reads the future in the faces of her lovers, a dice-player whose unfailing luck becomes a curse, a manuscript illuminator who leaves his monastery to become a most fearsome bandit. Set in the Balkans in the nineteenth century, Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow follows eight characters—all defined by a quest, all marked by a hidden, often torturous talent—whose fates become...

Strikingly modern in his depictions of society's shambolic structures, Gogol plunders the depths of bureaucratic and domestic banalities to unearth moments of dark comedy and outrageous corruption. Defying categorisation, the stories in this collection range from the surreal to the satirical to the grotesque, united in their exquisite psychological acuteness and tender insights into the bizarre...

It's the summer of 1932, and Johann Schulz is accused of killing a police officer during a demonstration. Wanted for murder, Schulz leaves the city to seek shelter with his relatives in a small village on the Rhine. But the Nazis are beginning to recruit there, and it's only a matter of time before the price on his head is too great a temptation for the villagers.

Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-its-kind snail. This darkly comic novel explores survival, love, and hope in times of encroaching darkness.

Gabriele Tergit’s Effingers is a novel, at once epic and intimate, about the lives and fates of three generations of a German Jewish family. Beginning in 1878 and ending in 1948, we follow the Effingers, a family of modest craftsmen from southern Germany, who are joined through marriage to two families of high-society financiers in Berlin, the Goldschmidts and the Oppners. The Effingers soon...

Will i Maddie pomagaja w negocjacjach miedzy Toskanczykami a Arydia. Zwiadowca przynosi wiadomosc, ze Temudzeini zblizaja sie do Toscano, a Will i Maddie wiedza, ze ich przybycie nie wrózy niczego dobrego. Musza jak najszybciej wkroczyc do akcji. Will potrzebuje wsparcia. W tym celu musi przekonac innego dawnego wroga, Genowenczyków, do udzialu w walce. W dolinie Sorato na Temudzeinów czeka...

Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance. But Nick is struggling with feelings of his own, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high school, they come to understand the surprising and...

Gdy wyszlo na jaw, ze w zylach Deba plynie królewska krew, na Jude spoczelo brzemie odpowiedzialnosci za to, zeby jej braciszek po prostu dozyl dnia, w którym bedzie mógl przywdziac na swoje skronie korone. Tymczasem na tronie elfów zasiada zly król, Cardan, a Jude przybiera niewdzieczna role szarej eminencji. Nie dosc, ze w swiecie opetanych zadza wladzy magicznych istot wciaz zmieniaja sie...

Krwawa zbrodnia na zawsze odmienia los trzech sióstr. Zostaja porwane do swiata elfów, bajecznego Elysium. Uplywa dziesiec lat; Jude pragnie za wszelka cene odnalezc swoje miejsce w krainie elfów – lecz dumni elfowie gardza smiertelniczka, a wzgardliwszy od innych jest ksiaze Cardan, najmlodszy i najokrutniejszy z potomków Najwyzszego Króla.

Teraz jest królowa elfów, lecz na wygnaniu i wyczekuje okazji, by odzyskac, co utracila. Sposobnosc pojawia sie w osobie Taryn, nielojalnej siostry blizniaczki, której smiertelnemu zyciu zagraza teraz smiertelne niebezpieczenstwo. Aby ja ratowac, Jude ryzykuje wlasnym zyciem; zakrada sie w przebraniu na elfowy dwór, choc oznacza to konfrontacje z Cardanem i wlasnymi uczuciami. Tymczasem w...

Ksiaze Dab placi za swoja zdrade. Uwieziony na lodowatej pólnocy moze polegac tylko na wlasnym uroku i umiejetnosci przetrwania. Kiedy Najwyzszy Król Cardan i Najwyzsza Królowa Jude staraja sie za wszelka cene uwolnic skradzionego spadkobierce, Dab musi zdecydowac, czy spróbuje odzyskac zaufanie dziewczyny, która zawsze kochal, czy pozostanie lojalny wobec Elfhame.

After Katmere, I shouldn’t be surprised by anything. Including the existence of a world beyond my world called the Shadow Realm. Yet here I am, stuck in a strange, dangerous place with the worst of the supernaturals, the monster that other monsters fear: Hudson Vega. He might be Jaxon’s brother and ridiculously hot, but he’s a complete bona fide pain in my ass.