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Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (2025)
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family' is a celebrated German novel written by Thomas Mann and first published in 1901. Mann, who would later win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, was only twenty-six when he wrote this masterpiece. Drawing inspiration from his own family’s background, Mann created a richly detailed portrait of a wealthy merchant family in Lübeck, Germany, tracing their gradual decline across four generations.\ The novel chronicles the fortunes of the Buddenbrook family, beginning in the 1830s and ending toward the late 19th century. At the start, the family stands at the height of prosperity, led by the dignified patriarch Johann Buddenbrook. Over time, however, their wealth, social status, and sense of purpose begin to erode. Each generation becomes increasingly disillusioned and detached from the values of hard work and tradition that once defined the family’s success. The final heir, Hanno Buddenbrook, embodies the ultimate collapse — a sensitive, artistic boy ill-suited to the materialistic world of business.\ Mann’s narrative blends social realism with psychological insight, portraying the conflict between individual desires and social expectations. His detailed descriptions of family life, commerce, and bourgeois values reveal the fragility of prosperity and the inevitability of change. Beneath the story of one family lies a deeper commentary on the decline of the German middle class and the moral and spiritual decay of modern society.\ With its elegant prose and philosophical undertones, Buddenbrooks established Thomas Mann as a major literary voice in Europe. The novel remains a cornerstone of German literature, admired for its realism, moral depth, and profound understanding of human weakness. It stands as both a family saga and a timeless meditation on ambition, decay, and the passage of time.
The Witch in the Tower by Júlia Sardà Portabella (2025)
Everything is changing for Carmela. Her older sister, Franca, has new, mean friends, and Carmela is feeling lost and lonely. So she decides to go for a walk—to walk until she can’t anymore, then walk a bit more. Her walking takes her to a strange tower, and what she finds there will transform her life forever. In this companion to The Queen in the Cave, her authorial debut, renowned illustrator Júlia Sardà ventures into a mesmerizing world where mermaid grease washes away envy, a giant’s hair helps you face bullies, a circular library holds all your secrets, and a dome of crystal prisms opens a view to the cosmos. Dreamlike and filled with whimsy, the artist’s kaleidoscopic patterns, decorative borders, glowing colors, and layered, elaborately detailed imagery will bewitch young readers as readily as the title character does Carmela—and beckon them to return for many a visit.
Por si un día volvemos by María Dueñas (2025)
**Hui de un crimen involuntario.** **Hui de los hombres que no me quisieron.** **Hui de una guerra.** Esta es mi historia, entre España y Orán, junto al Mediterráneo. **Orán. Años 20, siglo xx.** En esta ciudad africana de origen árabe, pulso español y administración francesa **desembarca una joven** con el falso nombre de Cecilia Belmonte. En apariencia, **ha cruzado el Mediterráneo para escapar de la miseria**, como tantos compatriotas. Su razón, sin embargo, es más turbia. La **urgencia por sobrevivir** la obliga a dejarse la piel en plantaciones y lavaderos, como empleada doméstica y operaria de fábrica a destajo. Hasta que una madrugada, en la tabaquera Bastos, participa en un delito por el que paga con su sometimiento a un hombre despreciable. **Su entereza será lo que la libere** y le aporte el coraje para rehacerse y emprender un **camino en ascenso, repleto de quiebros, logros y desafíos** a lo largo de tres décadas vibrantes. Esta es la **historia de una mujer que vivió el auge colonial** y el trágico fin de la Argelia francesa. Y, en paralelo, sus páginas rescatan la memoria de los **desconocidos pieds-noirs españoles** que, arrastrados por la emigración y el exilio, formaron parte de aquel mundo.
Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez (2025)
There might be no such a thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes—all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediately yes. That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. Like, really wrong. Of course, there’s nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong… . . . unless, of course, he can admit he made a mistake. But after one incredible and seemingly endless date—possibly the best in living history—Samantha is forced to admit the truth, that her family is in crisis and any kind of relationship would be impossible. Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. To remember their night together as a perfect moment, as crushing as that may be. Only no amount of distance or time is nearly enough to forget that something between them. And the only thing better than one single perfect memory is to make a life—and even a love—worth remembering.
The River Between Us by Ravin Kumar (2025)
The River Between Us is a poetic and heartwarming romantic short story by <a href="https://mr-ravin.github.io" target="_blank">Ravin Kumar</a>, exploring the quiet power of childhood connection, fate, and timeless love. Set across a serene village and a modern cruise ship, the story follows Ravin and Pooja—two soulmates bound by paper boats, a copper ring, and a mysterious letter “R”. As life separates them and time flows on like a river, a quiet reunion unfolds through symbols, silence, and destiny. This story blends memory, emotion, and subtle symbolism to remind us that true love never forgets—and always finds its way home. **About the Author:** <a href="https://mr-ravin.github.io" target="_blank">Ravin Kumar</a> (born 21 August 1993) is a curious person blessed with the ability to see life through the perspectives of an artist, engineer, researcher, inventor, economist, poet, mathematician, ethical hacker, game developer, author, and writer. He has authored the books “The Engineer’s Plan” and “Philosophy of the Trident” (along with its Hindi version “त्रिशूल दर्शन”), and runs the YouTube channel “CodeBeings”, dedicated to sharing knowledge related to computer programming. Some of his contributions include the creation of a computer language; computer ransomware and its antivirus software (an academic project in cybersecurity); the “Adaptive Base Representation Theorem” in computing and mathematics; multiple theorems in geometry and pure mathematics; two research contributions in theoretical economics, including “Addictive Auctions: Using Lucky-Draw and Gambling Addiction to Increase Participation during Auctioning” and “The Economics of Sovereignty: Phased Virtual Currency and Coalition Reserve Entity”; cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and deep learning, including the “APTx Neuron” and “APTx Activation Function”; a novel algorithm in quantum computing; the “cyclic scheduling algorithm” in operating systems; and “modified counting sort” in algorithms. He is also a multiple patent holder with inventions spanning artificial intelligence and electronics. He began his career in artificial intelligence and continues to work in the field. Beyond science and technology, he also embraces the arts through painting, poetry in English and Hindi, short stories such as “The River Between Us: Because Even Rivers Choose Love”, and shayari. These experiences have broadened his understanding of the world. His project of experiencing ten different life paths began in August 2013 and concluded on 31 October 2021. Details of this project can be found at: <a href="https://mr-ravin.github.io" target="_blank">https://mr-ravin.github.io</a> Available on: 1. <a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=zgZ0EQAAQBAJ" target="_blank">Google Play</a> 2. <a href="https://books.google.co.in/books/about?id=zgZ0EQAAQBAJ" target="_blank">Google Books</a> 3. <a href="https://mr-ravin.github.io/The_River_Between_Us__by_Ravin_Kumar.pdf" target="_blank">Github</a> 4. <a href="https://archive.org/details/the-river-between-us--by-ravin-kumar" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> 5. <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/1009108034/The-River-Between-Us-By-Ravin-Kumar" target="_blank">Scribd</a> 6. <a href="https://leanpub.com/the_river_between_us__by_ravin_kumar" target="_blank">Leanpub</a>
Han cantado bingo by Lana Corujo (2025)
Todo empieza con un algunas noches, en los diez minutos suspendidos antes de que Abuela regrese del bingo, dos hermanas salen a escondidas por la puerta de atrás hasta El Ahorcado —un volcán redondo como una panza bocarriba—, cuentan hasta tres y corren de vuelta sin mirar atrás. Sin embargo, una noche algo cambia… porque una vez traspasado el terreno de una infancia violenta, ¿cómo se mira el mundo? En un cartón de bingo aparecen quince números —los mismos que las edades de la protagonista a lo largo de la novela, presentes como una mosca o una mariposa revoloteando sobre el título de cada capítulo—, y en esos diez minutos suspendidos que dura una partida, todo es posible. Han cantado bingo presenta una familia con un don que se hereda y se sufre, y una historia agreste como el rofe grueso de Lanzarote. Con un lenguaje juguetón y cautivador, cruel y bellísimo, Lana Corujo nos acerca a los silencios y la culpa, las verbenas, las heridas y la magia oscura que solo se teje entre dos hermanas que comparten un secreto.
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (2025)
First published in 1959, ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ is Shirley Jackson’s masterful and unsettling exploration of psychological terror. The novel follows Eleanor Vance, a quiet and lonely woman who joins a small group at the infamous Hill House to assist in a paranormal investigation. Led by Dr. John Montague, and joined by the vivacious Theodora and the skeptical Luke Sanderson, the group soon finds themselves at the mercy of the house’s dark and inexplicable forces.\ As strange and eerie events unfold, the boundaries between the supernatural and the psychological begin to blur. Eleanor, emotionally fragile and deeply affected by the house, finds herself drawn into its malevolent presence in ways the others cannot fully understand.\ Rather than relying on overt horror, Jackson crafts a chilling atmosphere filled with dread, ambiguity, and emotional intensity. ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ is more than a ghost story—it is a study of isolation, vulnerability, and the haunting nature of the human mind. With elegant prose and unforgettable imagery, the novel remains one of the greatest and most influential works of supernatural fiction, a timeless classic that continues to captivate and disturb readers worldwide.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (2025)
One of Shakespeare's most popular and accessible plays, Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star-crossed lovers and the unhappy fate that befell them as a result of a long and bitter feud between their families. The play contains some of Shakespeare's most beautiful and lyrical love poetry and is perhaps the finest celebration of the joys of young love ever written. Shakespeare's use of his poetic dramatic structure, especially effects such as switching between comedy and tragedy to heighten tension, his expansion of minor characters, and his use of sub-plots to embellish the story, has been praised as an early sign of his dramatic skill. The play ascribes different poetic forms to different characters, sometimes changing the form as the character develops.
El albatros negro by María Oruña (2025)
***En el fondo de los océanos todavía se ocultan las más bellas historias del mundo…*** **Vigo, en la actualidad** Lucía Pascal, una historiadora naval, ha encontrado la pista de un tesoro legendario que lleva siglos perdido. Todo apunta a que formaba parte de uno de los galeones que se hundieron en la ría durante la batalla de Rande, en 1702. Pero, antes de que pueda terminar con sus investigaciones, aparece muerta en su cabaña de la costa viguesa. Pietro Rivas, un nuevo subinspector de origen italiano, será el encargado de investigar el caso junto con Nagore Freire, del Departamento de Patrimonio, una mujer extravagante que parece salida de otra época. Con la ayuda de una extraña pandilla de investigadores, profesionales del buceo, la arqueología y la ciencia, Pietro y Nagore tratan de descubrir qué ha sucedido con la investigadora y en qué consiste el tesoro que buscaba. Pero, cuando las muertes comienzan a sucederse, comprenden que la clave para desvelar el misterio está en la verdadera historia del Albatros Negro. **Vigo, 1700** La joven Miranda de Quiroga regresa a su tierra gallega con su familia después de unos años viviendo en el Nuevo Mundo. Allí ha aprendido a desarrollar su gusto por la naturaleza y, en especial, por los insectos, una afición que será el horror de sus padres, que han organizado su matrimonio con el propietario de uno de los pazos más importantes de la zona. Sin embargo, tras la muerte repentina de su esposo, Miranda tendrá que decidir entre convertirse en la primera entomóloga de la historia o defender su patrimonio de la amenaza angloholandesa que se cierne en el horizonte. Junto con un hidalgo y un fraile corsario, se verá envuelta en la batalla naval más importante de la zona, aquella en la que un gran número de galeones se hundieron en las costas viguesas. Unidos serán capaces de cambiar, con su audacia, el curso de la historia.
Heart Strings by Ivy Fairbanks (2025)
**She doesn’t do second chances. But he's not done writing their song.** Cielo “Lo” Valdez doesn’t believe in second chances. Surviving cancer taught her life is too short to spend time on someone who wronged you. But Aidan O’Toole is determined to show her life is best spent together. When the tough-as-nails Texan moved to Galway for medical school, she wasn’t looking for love. Aidan, a gorgeous, tattooed, mandolin-playing lawyer, slipped past her defenses. They each fell hard and fast. But when Aidan was given the opportunity of a lifetime—to move to London and record an album—he took it, breaking Lo's heart. Yet more than two years and a successful album later, every song he writes is still about her, the one he let get away. And every time Lo hears his voice on the radio singing about love, it’s an arrow straight to her soul. Now they’re on a collision course as maid of honor and best man at a weekend-long Irish castle wedding. Are some mistakes worth forgiving? Can Aidan convince Lo their song wasn’t meant to end?
Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch (2025)
Detective Sergeant Peter Grant takes a much-needed holiday up in Scotland. And he'll need one when this is over. If more's the merrier, then it's ecstatic as his partner Beverley, their young twins, his mum, dad, his dad's band and their dodgy manager all tag along. Even his boss, DCI Thomas Nightingale, takes in the coastal airs as he trains Peter's cousin Abigail in the arcane arts.
Eat Your Heart Out by Victoria Brownlee (2025)
Chloe Bridgers, Australian food blogger in Paris, has landed an interview to write the tell-all memoir of controversial celebrity chef Carla Duris. The only catch? To nab the role, she has to compete against a group of cut-throat, world-class food writers during a weekend-long job interview at the Duris family villa on the glistening Cte d'Azur. Already feeling like a fish out of water, Chloe starts to worry that old-school French journalist Henri de la Fontaine has been sabotaging her from the get-go. But is winning the only thing he has in mind? As the weekend unfolds, interviewees are seemingly sent packing at random and tensions among those remaining boil over. Does Chloe have what it takes to land the job, or will she become the next casualty in the fight to write for Madame Duris?
A Language of Dragons by S. F. Williamson (2025)
**EVERY ACT OF TRANSLATION REQUIRES SACRIFICE** **Welcome to Bletchley Park… with dragons.** London, 1923. Dragons soar through the skies and protests erupt on the streets, but Vivian Featherswallow isn’t worried. She’s going to follow the rules, get an internship studying dragon languages, and make sure her little sister never has to risk growing up Third Class. By midnight, Viv has started a civil war. With her parents arrested and her sister missing, all the safety Viv has worked for is collapsing around her. So when a lifeline is offered in the form of a mysterious ‘job’, she grabs it. Arriving at Bletchley Park, Viv discovers that she has been recruited as a codebreaker helping the war effort – if she succeeds, she and her family can all go home again. If she doesn’t, they’ll all die. At first Viv believes that her challenge, of discovering the secrets of a hidden dragon language, is doable. But the more she learns, the more she realises that the bubble she’s grown up in isn’t as safe as she thought, and eventually Viv must What war is she really fighting? **An epic, sweeping fantasy with an incredible Dark Academia setting, a clandestine, slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance, and an unputdownable story, filled with twists and turns, betrayals and secret identities, A Language of Dragons is the unmissable debut of 2025, from an extraordinary new voice.**
The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan (2025)
Who is Cate Kay? **Cate Kay** is the most famous author on the planet. But it's just a name. Somehow, despite her bestselling novels and the record-breaking film franchise, the writer has remained completely anonymous. **Anne Marie Callahan** is the name nobody knows. Only the people she left behind. And Annie knows there's no one there anymore who could connect the dots between the girl who ran away all those years ago and the famous novelist. If you asked, she'd say her name was **Cass Ford**. That's what her barista shouts each morning. And it's how she introduces herself to the woman she'll eventually call the love of her life. Three names, three lives. But Cate Kay is finally ready to tell you who she really is. And when the truth is out, will everyone's favourite novelist hold on to her place in our hearts or are some betrayals impossible to forgive?
A Stocking Full of Spies by Robin Stevens (2025)
It's December 1941, and almost Christmas, when a bomb falls on Deepdean School for Girls. May and Nuala are whisked away from the chaos and sent to stay with May's big sister, Hazel Wong, who is working at Bletchley Park. Within seconds, they're thrown straight into their most dangerous case yet. A codebreaker has been shot in what appears to be a tragic accident - until a suspicious and top-secret message is discovered in his pocket. Was he a spy, working for the other side? Was the message planted on him? Most importantly - was this murder? Worst of all, Daisy's big brother, Bertie Wells, is being blamed. It’s up to May, Nuala and their friend Eric to prove Bertie's innocence and solve the mystery. But Bletchley is a strange and secretive place, full of Britain's most ingenious minds. They'll need to watch, listen, and puzzle out the incredible, unthinkable truth…
House of the Beast by Michelle Wong (2025)
"Step into the House of the Beast in this dark fantasy debut from The Legend of Korra graphic novel illustrator Michelle Wong, about a young woman who strikes a deal with a mysterious and alluring god to seek revenge on her aristocratic family—featuring illustrations throughout by the author. Born out of wedlock and shunned by society, Alma learned to make her peace with solitude, so long as she had her mother by her side. When her mother becomes gravely ill, Alma discovers a clue about her estranged father and writes a message begging for help. Little does she know that she is a bastard of House Avera, one of the four noble families that serve the gods and are imbued with their powers—and her father is a vessel of the Dread Beast, the most frightening god of all, a harbinger of death. In a desperate exchange for her mother’s medicine, Alma agrees to sacrifice her left arm to the Beast in a ceremony that will bind her forever to the House and its deity. Regardless, her mother soon passes, leaving Alma trapped inside the Avera’s grand estate, despised by her relatives and nothing but a pawn in her father’s schemes. Now vengeance is the only thing that keeps Alma going. That, and the strange connection she has with her god—a monster who is constantly by her side, an eldritch being taking the form of a beautiful prince with starlit hair that only she can see. He tells Alma that she has been chosen to bring change upon their world, and with his help, Alma plots a perilous journey to destroy the House that stole everything from her. A gripping fantasy novel marked by divine rituals, intense combat, and twisted romance, House of the Beast is a tale of revenge, resilience, and the power of love to see us through the darkness."
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (2025)
First published in 1990, ‘The Tempest’ is a play by William Shakespeare, an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely considered the most splendid writer in the English language and the world's most remarkable dramatist. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the suitable Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her proper place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He invokes a storm, the eponymous tempest, to lure his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to the island. The characters outshine the roles of villains and heroes. Prospero seems heroic, yet he enslaves Caliban and has a hunger for revenge. Caliban seems to be a monster for attacking Miranda but appears heroic in opposing Prospero, prompting the period of colonialism during which the play was written. Miranda’s engagement to Ferdinand, the Prince of Naples and a member of the shipwrecked party helps resolve the drama.
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (2025)
First published in 1623, 'Macbeth' is an iconic play by William Shakespeare, an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely considered the most splendid writer in the English language and the world's most remarkable dramatist. It is regarded as one of Shakespeare’s darkest works. Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the psychological and political effects when evil is chosen to fulfill the ambition for power. On a moor, three witches appear to Macbeth and prophesize his fate to become Scotland’s King. Macbeth embraces his greed and lust for power to fulfill his destiny by the most disgraceful of means, fuelled by his wife’s cold ambition. His wife, Lady Macbeth, urges him to seize the opportunity and take the throne. One night, Macbeth murders King Duncan in his sleep and frames the guards for the crime. He becomes the new king and kills more people out of paranoia. Civil war erupts to overthrow Macbeth, resulting in more death.
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (2025)
First published in 1943, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry has been translated into more than 250 languages, becoming a global phenomenon. The Sahara desert is the scenery of Little Prince’s story. The narrator’s plane has crashed there and he has scarcely some food and water to survive. Trying to comprehend what caused the crash, the Little Prince appears. The serious blonde little boy asks to draw him a sheep. The narrator consents to the strange fellow’s request. They soon become friends and the Little Prince informs the pilot that he is from a small planet, the asteroid 325, talks to him about the baobabs, his planet volcanoes and the mysterious rose that grew on his planet. He also talks to him about their friendship and the lie that evoked his journey to other planets. Often puzzled by the grown-ups’ behavior, the little traveler becomes a total and eternal symbol of innocence and love, of responsibility and devotion. Through him we get to see how insightful children are and how grown-ups aren’t. Children use their heart to feel what’s really important, not the eyes. Heart-breaking, funny and thought-provoking, it is an enchanting and endlessly wise fable about the human condition and the power of imagination. A book about both childhood and adulthood, it can be read as a parable, a war story, a classic children's fairy-tale, and many more things besides: The Little Prince is a book for everyone; after all, all grown-ups were children once.