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Originally written as a series of viral Facebook posts, then released as a cult hit in St. Petersburg, Meshchaninova’s serialized memoir-novel tackles gender politics and abuse with honest, cutting language. Stories of A Life depicts the life of Natasha, a young woman who suffers abuse first at the hands of her stepfather Sasha and then by young men in the village nearby. This powerful, postmodern novel witnesses the Dickensian struggles of provincial life and reckons with the com...

In the Talnikov household, violence is in the air. Natasha grows up in a chaotic and abusive family, surrounded by screaming relatives and scurrying cockroaches. Her father whips his children but dotes on his pets. Her aunts and governess take a grim satisfaction in doling out discipline—in between primping and preening for suitors. Amid this bleakness, Natasha and her siblings conspire to steal stray moments of childhood joy.Avdotya Panaeva’s The Talnikov Family portrays ...

A paranormal women’s fiction cozy mystery – because midlife can be a real witch!It’s been less than a month since Juniper “JJ” Jones discovered (at the tender age of 46) that she was a witch and moved to the magical beach town of Miracle Bay. Now she’s running her grandmother’s bookstore with the aid of a tarot-reading fire witch and a snarky familiar who looks like a black cat but claims he isn’t (long story).Everything is running smoothly (more or less) u...

It’s moving day at Chez Holmes.Somehow, against Kit’s better instincts, he and J.X. are setting up house together. But while J.X. is off at a mystery fiction convention, Kit unpacks a crate that should contain old china.It doesn’t.Within the mounds of Styrofoam popcorn is a dead body.A very dead body.There goes the neighborhood.

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic tale of one man’s pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulationThe twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a ...

Do you know how to pray? Is there a correct way to pray? Have you wondered if there is an effective prayer you should repeat as most of your prayers seem to be unanswered? A prayer is a conversation with God that you can have at anytime, anywhere. The purpose of prayer is not to beg to God but to talk to him and ask for his help. You should feel as burden has been lifted off your shoulders after you are finished with your prayer. If not, you may not be praying correctly. This essay teaches...

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative life.Considered the greatest short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressi...

" The Big Green Tent, for all its grand ambition, manages an intimacy that can leave a reader reeling . . . a masterpiece." ―Colin Dwyer, NPRWith epic breadth and intimate detail, Ludmila Ulitskaya's remarkable novel tells the story of three school friends who meet in Moscow in the 1950s and go on to embody the heroism, folly, compromise, and hope of the Soviet dissident experience. These three boys—an orphaned poet; a gifted pianist; and a buddin...

I was recently confronted with the great sadness of incest when a family friend revealed that she had learnt it occured in her family forty years earlier.It shocked her to the very core and it brought back to me a focus on how significant a problem this is when you look at the statistics.They are shocking numbers.This is a short commentary on the sadness of incest.It contains NO graphic details.

“Imagine if Annie Proulx wrote something like White Oleander crossed with Geek Love or Cruddy, and then add cults, God, motherhood, girlhood, class, deserts, witches, the divinity of women . . . Terrifying, resplendent, and profoundly moving, this book will leave you changed." —T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless GirlsDrought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley whe...