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'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.' Forty-nine, with a kind face, no serious ailments (apart from varicose veins on his ankles), a good salary and three moody children, widowed accountant Martín Santomé is about to retire. He assumes he'll take up gardening, or the guitar, or whatever retired people do. What he least expects is to fall passionately in love with his shy young employee Laura Avellaneda.

Mary-Margaret has always planned to join the church as a religious sister, but falls in love with her childhood friend, Jude Keller, a ne'er-do-well with a soul needing saving. Born in 1930 on a beautiful island off Chesapeake Bay, Mary-Margaret Fischer knows exactly what she wants to be: a religious sister. Despite the violent circumstances of her conception and birth, she simply wants to be in love with Jesus and serve Him the rest of her life.

Un couple qui dure serait-il la plus grande aventure des temps modernes ? Alice et Jules vivent ensemble depuis soixante ans. Par un tour de force littéraire, Eliette Abécassis remonte le cours de leur relation amoureuse, étape par étape, pour nous en révéler les nuances, les rêves, les désirs, les trahisons et les regrets. Vieillesse, routine, retrouvailles, désamour, haine, jalousie, enfants, mariage, passion : le film défile à l'envers, par une série de rebondissements, passant de l'ère des réseaux sociaux à la chute du mur de Berlin, Mai 68, la guerre d'Algérie...

Half the folks in America love reading the gunslinging tales of Granite Westwind. But nobody knows the real story behind the legend: Granite Westwind is a woman. True McCormick grew up wild and free among the Texas Rangers and Harvey Girls of the untamed West. Now she’s a famous published author, writing Wild West adventures under the name "Granite Westwind." But when her publisher wants to send Granite Westwind on tour, she has two choices. She can 'fess up to her true identity, or hire someone to play the part of the lightning-fast gunslinger.

When death is that close, will your heart skip a beat? Two patients are admitted to room no. 509. One is a brilliant nineteen-year-old medical student, suffering from an incurable, fatal disease. She counts every extra breath as a blessing. The other is a twenty-five-year-old drug addict whose organs are slowly giving up. He can't wait to get rid of his body. To him, the sooner the better. Two reputed doctors, fighting their own demons from the past, are trying everything to keep these two patients alive, even putting their medical licenses at risk.

19-year-old Arya Mahtani has been accepted to the University of Westley. But does she really belong there, or is she occupying a seat that would be better warmed by a more deserving student? Plagued by self-doubt, Arya begins her college life. Along the way, she meets Sahil, aka South Delhi ka Drake—the privileged little rich boy desperately trying to keep up with the Kardashians of Cuffe Parade and Connaught Place—and Vladimir Petrov, the vodka to Arya's hot chocolate, and the only way out of her imminent deportation.

In this first full-length novel from the acclaimed Birdverse, new love blossoms between an impatient starkeeper and a reclusive poet as they try together to save their island home. Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte finalist R. B. Lemberg (The Four Profound Weaves) has crafted a gorgeous tale of the inevitable transformations of communities and their worlds. The Unbalancing is rooted in the mystical cosmology, neurodiversity, and queerness that infuses Lemberg’s lyrical prose, which has invited glowing comparisons to N. K. Jemisin, Patricia A. McKillip, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

Clara Gutierrez is an AI repair technician and a wanderer. Her childhood with her migrant worker family has left her uncomfortable with lingering for too long, so she moves from place to place across retro-futuristic America. Sal is a fully autonomous robot. Older than the law declaring her kind illegal due to ethical concerns, she is at best out of place in society and at worst vilified. She continues to run the tea shop previously owned by her long-dead master, lost in memories of the past, struggling to fulfill her master's dream for the shop while slowly breaking down.

At White Ravens University, where athletes train to become professional sportspeople, Alex is on the swimming team with her best friend, Xiuying. Having grown up mostly alone—parents absent and brother often busy with his own life—Alex tends not to meet new people unless she and Xiuying are together. After an embarrassing encounter with a boy from the volleyball team, Alex soon discovers that the world isn't so big after all and that the universe has a funny way of setting people up, especially when and with whom they're least expecting.

Anton never thought anyone would ever want to date him. Everyone knows nobody wants a transgender boyfriend, right? So he's as shocked as anyone when seemingly-straight Jude Kalinowski asks him out, and doesn't appear to be joking. The only problem is ... well, Jude doesn't actually know. Anton can see how this will play out: Jude is a nice guy, and nice guys finish last. And Anton is transgender, and transgender people don't get happy endings. If he tells Jude, it might destroy everything. And if Jude tells anyone else ... it will.