Every spell costs a memory. Saving a country could cost everything that makes her herself.The Veyre Marches survive behind sea walls powered by living glass. Those who wield it pay with memories: familiar voices, beloved faces, the names of their dead.Sorrel Vane has been paying since childhood.Now a smuggler, she carries forbidden glass beneath her skin and a wax slate to record what she can no longer trust herself to remember. When the Salt Vigil catches her, she ...

A hidden riad. A city full of turns. One love that must make room for two futures.Leo arrives in Marrakech hoping a new job will help him leave his old life behind. As manager of a restored riad—a traditional courtyard guesthouse—he expects long days and unexpected repairs, not Amal: the observant, quietly ambitious housekeeper who knows the Medina by heart and wants a future beyond the work she does now.Amal has plans of her own: language classes, translation work, a famil...

At fifteen, Amal’s father disappears, leaving her to hold her family together. For thirteen years, she sacrifices her dreams for the people who depend on her.Then an old letter reveals a family secret that changes everything.To uncover the truth about her father, Amal must confront the people she loves—and finally decide whether she can build a life of her own.Amal is an emotional story of family, sacrifice, secrets, forgiveness, and the courage to ...

**“When the Stammer Came to Stay is a book about stammering, but it is also a book about love, kindness and sensitivity. It is one of those rare books that leaves a warm feeling, and for some it might just go a little further and leave a better understanding of stammering, and an idea of how to achieve a positive outlook in life.” – STAMMA British Stammering AssociationFrom Maggie O'Farrell, the best-selling and award-winning author of Hamnet – now a Baft...

**A fierce, tender collection of stories about the lives, traumas, and dreams of Mapuche youth in modern-day Chile.**Jesús, Valeska, Yajaira, and Ale are some of the vivid characters that inhabit the stories told in Piñen , a book that casts an unflinching gaze on the stark margins of urban life. Within its pages unfold the bullet-ridden death of a big shot from the blocks; the fraught, often violated sexuality of women in a displaced community; the unwavering bond between two fri...

Mothering always comes at a price, paid by women regardless of their means."Daniela Rea's Fruto is a calm room late at night where women gather to talk: with their stories and their words they take care of each other and then, by sharing that, they care for all of us."—Miriam Toews, author of Women Talking"This transformative book is the product of eyes that see across generations, ears that truly know how to listen, and a...

I came back into a world that no longer fits me.Where the Light Begins explores one of the most subtle and yet profound frontiers of human experience: children's near-death experiences. When children come close to death, some return with memories that challenge easy explanation. They describe a light that feels like home, presence without form, and connection beyond language. Their words are simple and expressed with calm certainty. They do not sp...

From the winner of the 2022 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize: a fractal exploration of a woman's grief as she moves through disjointed segments of time.Divided Island is the story of a woman with a neurological disorder. The day she goes in for the encephalogram that will lead to her diagnosis, she finds herself splitting in two. One of the two women she becomes decides to travel to an island to take her own life; the other remains behind. Scenes and images...

Rooted in the timeless principles of Vitruvius – Firmitas (Strength), Utilitas (Relevance) and Venustas (Beauty) – Vitruvian Woman invites you to master the art of image literacy: the ability to feel, shape and project your presence with purpose. Through compelling personal stories and practical tools, it reimagines executive presence as a strategic leadership asset, empowering women to lead with clarity, confidence and authenticity in a world that often...

With a precise and visceral style, Daniela Tarazona presents the clinical course of a radical mutation—a change whose physiological symptoms emerge from a more intimate evolution.After the death of her mother, Irma decides to take a plane and hole up on a faraway beach. Through the course of her grief, the protagonist’s body, her instincts, and her perception, begin to experience a transformation as unexpected as it is natural. The skin over her joints become thick...

What is the role of multi-species ecologies in creating spaces that counteract the violence in carceral systems and environmental destruction? This book brings together, for the first time, contributions on issues related to prison, jail, and reentry programs, community-based interventions, environmental justice, and sustainability. Through rigorous analysis, detailed case studies, poetry, and personal reflections, the book offers ways of thinking and acting at the intersection of environm...

A girl who has just graduated, with the dream of becoming a prominent journalist; a newspaper, The Voice of the Shadows, put together as best as possible by new journalism graduates to try to make ends meet, with the ambitious goal of entering the information elite; Omar Xantios, a famous and mature South American orchestra conductor, which is in his Venetian tour, and whose past is surrounded by a mystery regarding his controversial role in South America, during the political upheavals in...