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Stephanie explores the depths of prayer, love, and forgiveness when she is torn from her life and plunged into a place where escape seems impossible. Will she be overtaken by the darkness, or will she find the strength to hold on to hope? “Every time you lose someone you love, they become a part of you—their memory buries itself deep inside your heart, whispering its way into every chapter of your life.”

In this short book illuminated by a deep understanding and love of humanity, John Steinbeck retells an old Mexican folk tale: the story of the great pearl, how it was found, and how it was lost. For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to the tragedy. For Steinbeck, Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems.

While on a writer’s residency, a nameless narrator focuses on the color white to creatively channel her inner pain. Through lyrical, interconnected stories, she grapples with the tragedy that has haunted her family, attempting to make sense of her older sister’s death using the color white. From trying to imagine her mother’s first time producing breast milk to watching the snow fall and meditating on the impermanence of life, she weaves a poignant, heartfelt story of the omnipresence of grief and the ways we perceive the world around us.

Mark is the accused rapist. Miss P. is the victim, his former teacher. Moira M. is an apathetic juror. As the trial unfolds in this intense short story, three personal histories emerge, along with three alarmingly different points of view: Obsessed and angry. Menaced and disillusioned. Disaffected and searching through an unexamined life for moral conviction.

Matthew, Claire, Ian, and Mason haven’t set foot on the Merle family property since the summer they were sixteen. They tried for years to put their history behind them, to forget the mystery of the girl who vanished so long ago. But a powerful force from their past is still at play. This time, there’s no hiding from it.

Fuminori Nakamura's Akutagawa Prize-winner plunges us into the depths of a young man's winding, troubled psyche. An unnamed taxi driver in Tokyo has experienced a rupture in his everyday life. He cannot stop daydreaming of suicide, envisioning himself returning to the earth in what soon become terrifying blackout episodes. His live-in girlfriend, Sayuko, is in a similarly bad phase, surrendering to alcoholism to escape the memory of her miscarriage.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next.

The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov’s classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special bud on the verge of bloom.

"Chess Story," also known as "The Royal Game," is Stefan Zweig's compelling novella that unfolds on a passenger steamer. It narrates the psychological duel between Mirko Czentovic, a chess champion with a mysterious past, and Dr. B, a reclusive genius. Set against the backdrop of World War II, the story explores themes of isolation, obsession, and the struggle for intellectual sanity.

Звичайний шкільний тиждень — психологічна повість Ніни Бічуї про Мирка Трояна, трохи наче зухвалого, а насправді — доброго, веселого і дотепного хлопця, котрий може і вміє дуже багато: ловити раків, розмовляти з Сатурном, піклуватися про молодшого брата, по-справжньому товаришувати, не боятися грози і відповідальності за власні вчинки. Вперше видано 1973 року.

देश के सर्वोच्च साहित्यिक सम्मान ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार से सम्मानित मराठी लेखक विजय तेंदुलकर का यह नाटक भारत के महानतम आधुनिक नाटकों में से एक माना जाता है और पिछले कई दशकों में इसकी प्रस्तुतियाँ देश की अलग अलग भाषाओं में हुई हैं.

Sam has a problem. In a world where all of your memories can be digitally augmented and recorded for later viewing and sharing, Sam's are eroding fast due to malfunctioning equipment. Unfortunately for Sam, that particular bit of equipment is installed in his brain, and a simple malfunction can lead to a decidedly less than simple cerebral hemorrhage, coma, and even death. Sam's only hope to prevent losing everything is a pithy computer program, a piece of technology known as The Goldfish.

Skull-Face is a fantasy novella book that deals with conquering drug addiction. Written in 1929, the controversial story deals with a fictional opium den in London's Chinatown.

In a small village on the outskirts of Casablanca, young Albert’s life unravels after a staggering family tragedy. Struggling to understand his father’s sudden death and weighed down by strained relationships with his distant aunt and violent older brothers, Albert is thrust into a world of isolation and quiet grief. As he navigates empty rooms and long sleepless nights, he wrestles with the darkest corners of his own mind—questioning faith, family, and the fragile boundary between hope and despair.

El gran escriptor irlandès situa una de les seves millors narracions al Pirineu català, en una història sobre la fredor, la distància i el dolor d’una família. A Un llarg hivern, Colm Tóibín mostra amb un control emocional impressionant l’expressió més eloqüent del vincle entre una mare i un fill. L’enyorança i la pèrdua que sent en Miquel cap a la seva mare s’entrellaça amb l’enyorança silenciosa que sent per un jove policia i per en Manolo, el servent.

The Metamorphosis is a story about a man who wakes up transformed into a bug and the repercussions it has on his life and the people around him. What does it all mean? It is most probably an autobiography of how Kafka himself experienced early life living with his parents. Kafka describes how he endured his mother and father's financial and emotional exploitations, to the point of detaching from them and thereby ceasing to be their son (the real metamorphosis).

Although, they looked exactly the same, these twin brothers couldn’t be any more different. While they were complete opposites, for the most part, they always got along well until success showered on one more than the other. The other began to despise the successful one, and it took on a whole new meaning of sibling rivalry. Their lives would take several different twists and turns along the way. As the one harbored ill will, he was determined to get what he wanted. He wanted his brother's successful life and his wife, but did he go too far?

Con un lenguaje preciso, cuidado y cargado de silencios, esta novela acusa dentro de sí el rumor seco, sordo y remoto de las piedras que arrastra en torbellino furioso el río revuelto de los secretos familiares y sus prejuicios. Núñez Handal acude una vez más a la tradición literaria de la locura como ficción, en esta historia de mujeres que se miran al espejo, sin el miedo de verse en lo que son. Historias sin maquillaje, sin afeites, contadas apenas con la luz con que ilumina y salva al final del camino, la verdad.

After an encounter with a homeless man, a high school graduate becomes obsessed with the idea of doing heroin, challenging himself to try it just once. A bleak tale of addiction, delusion, and flowers.

Stacy Keach and Jane Kaczmarek star in this 1949 masterpiece by Arthur Miller, a searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream. Willy Loman (Keach) is the play's iconic traveling salesman, whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with greatness and social acceptance. As his two sons cast about aimlessly for their station in life, Willy begins to come unraveled when the reality of his life threatens his long-cherished illusions.