Résultats Éditeur "----RM Alexander" dans Fiction

Billington, Texas, is a place where nothing changes. Well, almost nothing. For the first time in nearly four decades, Mary Alice Roth is not getting ready for the first day of school at Billington High. A few months into her retirement—or, district mandated exile as she calls it—Mary Alice does not know how to fill her days.

In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another. The youngest, Kausar, grapples with the incomprehensible loss of her parents as she also charts out her own understanding of gender; Aisha, the middle sister, spars with her "crybaby" younger sibling as she desperately tries to hold on to her sense of family in an impossible situation; and Noreen, the eldest, does her best in the role of sister-mother while also trying to create a life for herself.

Vikki Victoria, Anfang 40, lebt als bekannte Künstlerin in der Nähe des Viktualienmarkts in München und ist ihres Lebens froh. Bis eines Morgens zu unchristlicher Zeit (vor 12 Uhr!) ein Anruf von ihrem Ex-Freund Wolf kommt: Der Toni, der Vikki jahrelang Morddrohungen geschickt hat, ist aus dem Gefängnis ausgebrochen. So muss sich die Vikki au-gen-blick-lich in Sicherheit bringen. Doch wohin? Natürlich in die alte Heimat, nach Übertreibling. Mit wehender Perücke und dem Motorradrocker Wolf an ihrer Seite beginnt für sie eine eine absurde Odyssee, bei der Vikki Victoria alle Register ziehen muss, um zu schützen, was sie liebt.

An estranged father. An abused and abusive mother. An army of relatives. A tapestry of violence, woven across generations and geographies, from Turkey to Lebanon to Western Sydney. This is the legacy left to Jamal Smith, a young queer Muslim trying to escape a past in which memory and rumour trace ugly shapes in the dark. When every thread in life constricts instead of connects, how do you find a way to breathe? Torn between faith and fear, gossip and gospel, family and friendship, Jamal must find and test the limits of love.

Mallory sees the woman for the first time at her college gym and is immediately transfixed. As a naturally reserved person who is now reeling from the loss of her mother, Mallory finds herself compelled by the woman's assurance and longs to know her better. Despite the discovery that she is a professor at the college, Mallory finds herself falling into a complicated love affair with the woman, the stakes of which she never quite understands.

A thrill-seeker studies a language learned through close encounters with death. A flock of extinct birds haunt a grieving woman for reasons unknown. A boy participates in a public-access cannibal-cooking show to win his family's love. A couple panics when Mothman shows up to their slice of rural paradise with omens in tow. In his debut short story collection, Eric Raglin presents 16 queer and weird horror stories.

The Carters have always run the streets of Liverpool, but now there’s a new family in town who thinks it’s time to challenge the system. And when threats are made, both loyalty and money is at stake. Of course, the Carters will seek revenge, but first Grace and her boys must find out who is responsible. Being at the top of your game is tough, especially when your enemies—both old and new—want to take you down. Now it’s time for the fight of their lives. The only question is, who will win?

After Matthew’s grandfather dies suddenly, four friends struggle to face the trauma of their pasts in the wake of this fresh tragedy. Leah and Jay, a couple since their school days, find their relationship tested, while Nathan deals with a vast and unrequited love and Matthew grapples with his sexuality. In the days that follow, Matthew begins to unearth his grandfather’s past. He finds a different life, full of secrets, and discovers that he and his grandfather may have had more in common than he once thought.

En El delfín, Mark Haddon ha elaborado una recreación contemporánea de una de las tragedias menos conocidas de Shakespeare, Pericles, príncipe de Tiro, versión a su vez de la leyenda de Apolonio de Tiro. El relato clásico narra la huida del héroe, perseguido por el rey Antíoco, tras haber revelado la relación incestuosa del rey y su hija.

After Ace Wales has what could only be described as a mental breakdown, he is taken away for evaluation. Besides, the violence he displayed worries not only his family, but also child protective services. His removal from his home means that Banks Wales and Mason Louisville are forced to rehash their dark history, a past not entirely clear to Banks, who still suffers memory loss.

Look into the rainbow light...Nick Carraway is new to Long Island, and he's got queer company. There's bullish and hypermasculine Tom, his wife Daisy, and his lover Myrtle - or is it Myles? And does Daisy have something going on with butch golfer Jordan? Everyone's got something to hide, but the secrets come out at Gaylord Gatsby's parties - the gayest affairs West Egg ever had. And when Nick finds Gatsby staring off at the rainbow light across the bay, his heart pounds - and he gains a secret he can't bear to keep.

En kvindes forvandling er en autobiografisk roman om Édouard Louis' mor. Om hendes triste tilværelse gennem hans barndom og hendes frigørelse sent i livet. Lige dele tragisk forfaldshistorie og smuk genforeningshistorie. Både et råt portræt af et miljø gennemsyret af armod og et livsbekræftende vidnesbyrd om forvandlingens evige mulighed.

In the 1960s, Midwestern boy and Boy Scout, Nathan delivers newspapers and mows lawns. Nathan uses his cover to move about yards and sneak into the homes of his neighbors, uncovering their secrets. In high school, one of the local misfits introduces him to diet pills, which help him overcome his shyness. In an amphetamine high, he meets Cindy, who he hopes will steer him along the “morally straight” path of the Boy Scout Oath he swore to.

Danny Scudd is absolutely fine. At 27 years old, he's finally moved to London and escaped his parents' tiny fish and chip shop, his beloved collection of house plants are thriving and every Monday evening he has a date night with his boyfriend, Tobbs. But Danny's life is thrown into chaos when he discovers at an STI clinic that Tobbs might be cheating on him. And then he—and his plants—are unceremoniously evicted from his London flat. So, he's forced to move in with his best friend Jacob, a non-binary artiste who Danny's known since childhood.

When a woman is brutally murdered and an eyewitness claims to have seen the killer transform into a mysterious light, Eli and Dag are forced to set aside their own problems and face a difficult truth: There is another monster out there. Worse, there doesn’t seem to be anybody else who can stop it from killing again. But not all monsters are the same, as Eli and Dag discover. And the most dangerous monster might be the one who can give you what you’ve always wanted.

Diese unglaubliche Geschichte von Männern und Frauen, Täuschungen und Intrigen, unwahrscheinlichen Affären, heimlichen Fluchten und dramatischen Triumphen ist die Geschichte des Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, den es wirklich gab. Er war Diplomat, Soldat, Bibliothekar, Freimaurer, Degenfechter, Schriftsteller und Spion - und verbrachte den größten Teil seines turbulenten Lebens als Frau. Bis zu seinem Tod rätselte ganz London, wer die militante Madonna, die in öffentlichen Degenkämpfen alle Männer in die Knie zwang, wirklich war.

Award-winning producer Courtney Southerland turned down lucrative career opportunities to learn the truth about the legend of Palo Duro Canyon. Determined to track down the famous Black Panther and the girl that had been seen with it, Court devoted two years of her life living in caves and tents as she tracked the pair through the second largest canyon in the United States. She was about to relegate the panther’s legend to the category of Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster when the girl appeared from nowhere to save her life.

In Our Darker Angel, the mystery begins with FBI Agent Rick Clark's investigation into a series of murders committed by a terrorist group identifying itself as ARC, Anarchists for Real Change. Terrorism has become a personal issue with Clark. Two years earlier, his daughter perished in a bombing orchestrated by EMMA, an acronym for Emergent Movement of Militant Anarchists. The ARC murders bear a striking resemblance to the killings by EMMA, as they, too, target the rich and powerful and morally bankrupt.

Rachel Saunders knows gossip is the price you pay for a rural lifestyle and outstanding schools. The latest town scandal is her divorce - and the fact that her new girlfriend has moved into the family home. Laura Spence lives in a poky bedsit on the wrong side of town. She and her son, Max, don’t really belong, and his violent tantrums are threatening to expose the very thing she’s trying to hide. When the local school introduces a new inclusive curriculum, Rachel and Laura find themselves on opposite sides of a fearsome debate.

In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she’s been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants.