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        2021

        Magnum

        by Illya Makarenko

        Fine travel reading with a twist of mystery - Magnum will give you everything: rain and wine, love and betrayal, despair and cowardice, Ukrainian seasonal workers and Portuguese revolutionaries. For various reasons - including the Russian invasion into the East of Ukraine - the protagonist of the novel finds himself in Lisbon – the faraway coast of the Western Europe. While in Lisbon he inadvertently plunges into a tragic family history that began almost half a century ago. The main character of the novel is Lisbon itself, a bright and friendly city one cannot but fall in love with; the city which, however, hides a lot of secrets.

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        Fiction
        October 2001

        Cult

        by Lyubko Deresh

        "Cult" is the first novel of the young author, which immediately became a hit among the readership to the extent that in some circles, as if justifying its title, became almost a cult. Youth life, relationships, slang, risky and funny games of teenagers, their attempts to get to "the other side of reality" at any price - this is all Deresh and one of his best books, which became a kind of summary of literary searches of the 90s of the 20th century

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        Fiction
        October 2008

        The Passion Collection

        by Natalka Sniadanko

        You are about to see the passion collection of a girl "from a decent Galician family" during her coming-of-age years. It contains not only common passions in Ukrainian and Russian but also more exotic ones, in Italian and German and a few aristocratic passions as well. Every time the girl tries to understand whether it is passion or love? And whether you can distinguish passion from love is up to you.

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        Relationships
        2021

        Radio Night

        by Yurii Andrukhovych

        Andrukhovych’s hero, rock musician Joseph Rotsky, supported the revolution in his home country by being a "barricade pianist". Forced into exile, he earns his living playing salon music. In a Swiss hotel he is forced to perform for his country’s dictator. He throws an egg at him, accidentally killing him. After his release from prison, Rotsky retreats to the Carpathian Mountains, where he is soon found by secret service agents and other sinister characters who are out to get him. His escape takes him as far as Greece – with his raven Edgar and his lover Animé as his faithful companions. He ends up on a prison island on the prime meridian, where he hosts his own radio programme: "Radio Night" – his own label that allows him to broadcast music, poetry and good stories into a darkening world. Yurii Andrukhovych’s long awaited new novel, a revolutionary saga, biographical burlesque and agent thriller set against the backdrop of the immediate present – Andrukhovych pulls out all the artistic stops to counter the fears and real threats with the sovereignty of imagination. Radio Night received great acclaim from readers and critics alike.

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        Relationships
        2021

        Who are you?

        by Artem Chekh

        “Who are you?” hears young Tymofyi from Feliks, his friend and foe, torturer and mentor, a man shell-shocked by a faraway war. “Who am I?” asks himself the almost-adult, autobiographical Tymofyi at the end of the novel. The road from the first question to the second is inevitable for any coming of age novel. In the case of Artem Chekh - coming of age in the shadow of repulsive experiences from a foreign war, which suddenly turns out to be only the mind and body’s training in preparation of a war of our own, though we won't find it in this novel. However, we are likely to find all those childish and youthful initiations, through which we all had to fight on our path towards adult lives that turn out to be unlike anything we had imagined.

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        2021

        Apricot Bookstore

        by Oresta Osiichuk

        Due to poverty, Maria Farinyak is forced to give her nine-year-old son Mykhailo to the relatives of her late husband: Nuncle Stefan, the owner of a bookstore, and Auntie Kasia, a strict woman who is not happy to have someone else’s child in the house. Thus begins the story of Mis’ko Farinyak, a boy of the early twentieth century, which is strangely intertwined with the story of Mykhailo Farinyak, a man of the early XXI century.

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        Relationships
        2021

        Ask Miechka

        by Eugenia Kuznetsova

        The story of “Ask Miechka” features four generations of women captured during one summer. Two sisters, Mia and Lilia, come to their “shelter”, their grandmother's old house where they have spent their childhood, in an attempt to put on hold their upcoming life-changing decisions: deciding on immigrating or staying, choosing between a reliable man or wild love. Their grandmother, Thea, is nearing the end of her life and her daughter and the sisters’ mother are fearful to take the place of the oldest woman in the family. The old house, overgrown with weeds, shrubs, and sprawling trees, seems to be frozen in time, lost in oblivion. Yet the sisters bring it back to life: new people come, new cats wander in, pumpkins are grown, and the porch is renovated. The house changes, along with the lives of the women who inhabit it as the summer nears its end. In her debut novel, Eugenia Kuznetsova told a deeply intimate story about the relations between sisters, mothers, and daughters. Vivid dialogues, when the most sensitive things remain unspoken, but somehow felt, define the atmosphere of the story, and highlight the unique ties existing between the generations of women in the family.

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        2019

        Daughter

        by Tamara Horikha Zernia

        The events of the novel unfold in the spring and summer of 2014 in Donetsk. Donbas is a zeroing out point; it’s a place of strength where the country’s most important questions have sounded. And only there are the necessary answers hidden. It was here that the novel’s nameless heroine lost her family, home, job, and illusions, and it was here that she gathered up the fragments of her life and discovered new meaning and new support. Step by step the reader observes the process of transformation, the metamorphosis of a crop-sower into a warrior. Because war is when you eat the earth. So what’s more important than feeding the earth?

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        Relationships
        2019

        Felix Austria

        by Sofia Andrukhovych

        The events of Felix Austria unfold in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Stanislav, present-day Ivano-Frankivsk — an ordinary city in the Reczposolita territories of Felix Austria (Austro-Hungarian Empire), whose residents live, suffer, inseparably fall in love, delight in science and the charlatan performances of world-renowned illusionists, seek amusement at balls and carnivals, shpatzir aroun their neighborhoods, and hide secrets in the carved wooden chests. And against the backdrop of an era that, for posterity, will become overgrown in myths about an idyllic way of life, arise the fates of two women, intertwined as closely as the trunks of two trees, who are bonded in an inextricable relationship that doesn’t allow them to live or breathe, stay or leave. Drama surrounded by the luxury and buzz of the beginning of the 20th sentury.

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        Spirit Mates - The New Time Relationship

        by Anni Sennov, Carsten Sennov

        Most people have heard of the terms ‘soul mate’ and ‘twin soul’.  What most people may not yet know is that the concept of soul mate refers to a consciousness realm that is about to completely disappear from the Earth in order to be replaced by the purer and more powerful spirit energy. This is creating great changes in consciousness on Earth and it also means that we humans finally have the opportunity to join together with our spirit mate. In this book the co-authors and spirit mate couple Anni and Carsten Sennov describe with love and insight the different paths and circumstances that can lead you to your spirit mate.

      • Fiction
        2018

        Who killed Boxey?

        by Rainer Petter

        Boxey was a famous and very controversial youtuber that died in mysterious circumstances. With a twist-packed plot, this comic book discusses, among other topics, prejudice, freedom of expression, hate speech, sexism and intolerance. Anyway, who is guilty?

      • Fiction

        The sad years of Kawabata

        by Miguel Sardegna

        “Kanjis aren’t words, but images, concepts. Unlike our alphabet, you don’t read a kanji, you look at it. The kanji for tree is the drawing of a tree. The Japanese don’t read the word tree, they stare at the tree”, Japanese literature professor Facundo explains. Days ago, an unknown voice told him about the death of his father. Since that moment, Facundo is enveloped by confusion and memories; his mother, his father, death and a pact of silence that carries him into the present.The protagonist of this novel will find in Kawabata a friend and a teacher, who will help him rethink his family history; and in the Japanese culture, the words to find beauty in the most atrocious circumstances.Miguel Sardegna introduces us to the oneiric world of Japan through his avid gaze of knowledge, and through a plot that traps us forever in this wonderful and ancestral culture. “It’s a love letter to literature, an amazing and amazed journey through the universe of Yasunari Kawabata. You will be surprise by the power of the images”.Juan José Millás

      • Fiction

        The Salt

        by Adriana Riva

        “The silence stretches. We have come this far. Mom is that unreachable inch of skin between my shoulder blades, that bit that itches and I can’t scratch”.Beginning with a childhood accident, Ema digs into the bond with her mother and, pregnant with her second child, sets on a journey for answers: who is Elena, really? Does she know her well enough? Her mother is distant and there’s an area she can’t reach, no matter how hard she tries; that hasn’t changed over the years.With an appearance of simple prose, but charged with truthful images, Adriana Riva examines family relationships with an admirable precision, humor and rawness that turn The Salt into an intimate and touching novel. “This is the age of women, and argentinian literature is being renewed by many writers. Adriana Riva writes with verbal brilliance, creates wonderful images and shoots at the heart of empathy. With this book she asserts herself, without a doubt, as a truly unique voice in this literary scene”.Santiago Llach

      • Fiction

        Everything works out for us

        by Julia Coria

        Everything works out for us is an autobiographical novel where care, love and bravery come together to hold the family when Fabián is diagnosed. Julia documents every chapter of the illness, shedding light to it with happy memories: their first meeting, the declaration of love, the arrival of the children, the trips, projects, life. Is in that thorough record where she finds the strength before the crumbling of her world and before the imperative to become shelter to Cuca and Fidel, and provide them with answers she doesn’t have.Julia Coria moves us with her experience and vulnerability, but above all, with her lucidity in the face of pain, necessary to carry on.

      • Fiction

        Underwater

        by Melina Pogorelsky

        Underwater is a short-lived novel about a hinge stage in the life of Pablo, a first-time father who was widowed the same day his daughter Lola was born. After a long mourning period in which he exclusively raises her, he now finds in that half an hour in the pool time for himself, while Lola swims in the “mojarritas” lane.With an emphasis on the B side, the darker side of maternity and the politically incorrect, Underwater reflects a theme in crisis: the mandates that society imposes on each gender when, faced with an irreversible event, we feel that we can no longer stand.Absent of low blows, Melina Pogorelsky’s agile and forceful writing operates in different depths of sensitivity, where the skin of the other will be the main moving organ. Ironic dialogues and mental monologues converge towards a poetic immersion that manages to equalize us only to show the most valuable thing: our differences.

      • Relationships
        October 2018

        Heldinnen

        Neue Kurzgeschichten

        by Tina-Maria Urban

        Wie ist es, im Sternzeichen Apfel mit Aszendent Tofu zu sein? Macht Feige-Vanille mutig? Und: Kann frau die Liebe ihres Lebens tatsächlich im Supermarkt finden – direkt vor den gefrorenen Champignons?Mit feiner Klinge, Einfühlungsvermögen und einer gehörigen Portion Humor gibt Tina-Maria Urban Antworten auf Fragen, die die (queere) Welt bewegen, und schildert in 22 erfrischenden Kurzgeschichten Szenen aus dem lesbischen Alltag in Österreich.Auch in ihrem zweiten Buch befasst sich Tina-Maria Urban gekonnt unterhaltsam mit den wichtigen Fragen des (queeren) Alltags in Österreich. Sie schildert in ihren Erzählungen Erlebnisse, wie sie Frauen quer durch Alter, Rasse, Religion und Nationalität machen und zeigt auf ihre einzigartige Weise, dass sich (Liebes-)Beziehungen zwischen Frauen im Prinzip nicht wesentlich von jenen zwischen Heteropaaren unterscheiden.

      • Relationships
        September 2018

        366 Tage vom Himmel entfernt

        by Sina Wunderlich

        Als Mila das Tagebuch ihrer verstorbenen Mutter findet, ahnt sie noch nicht, dass sie damit auch ein Familiengeheimnis ans Licht bringt. Wer war ihre Mutter wirklich? Zusammen mit vier neuen Freunden, die plötzlich in ihr Leben treten, macht sie sich auf eine unvergessliche Reise. Gemeinsam begegnen sie Liebe, Schmerz ... und dem Tod.Und dann beschließt Mila, den letzten Wunsch ihrer Mutter zu ihrem eigenen zu machen.

      • Fiction

        Extremely Feminine Messages

        by Ghada Karim

        Ghada Karim is an Egyptian writer and relationship expert who has a great interest in discussing the relationship between men and women from all different characters, she also writes weekly in many websites and has a constant column in a famous newspaper, and has published several books such as (seven Signs of Love), (12 Months Confessions), ( 50 Questions in Love), ( Love catalogue) and (Secrets of Closed Hearts), where she discussed all the causes of gender disagreement based on real and concrete experiences and complicated problems of her clients. In this book she writes about woman needs and what she represents in Arab society in a mature way, revealing the subjects and hidden within each woman, her writings reach every woman and fortify her in the details of her life and what she goes through in her various experiences and problems. Very Feminine messages bearing 40 letters from the author for each woman, letters about relationships and life partner, feelings and depression, marriage and motherhood, separation and all the stages that a woman may go through. The book addresses almost all women who live the same reality in different details. And represents the reality of women in the Arab world and their role in society. It also focuses on the mind of men in order to accommodate the feelings of their partner Mirror expressed by the author brilliantly and honestly. She moved from the addressee box to the sender box where she wanted to express each woman's tongue to know that she was not alone in this cruel world.

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