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  Life After Kafka

  Magdaléna Platzová

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  A novel of Felice Bauer, Franz Kafka's first fiancée, and the story behind Letters to Felice 
   
   
   
  Franz Kafka scholars know Felice Bauer, his onetime fiancée, through his Letters to Felice, as little more than a woman with a raucous laugh and a taste for bourgeois comforts. Life After Kafka is her story. The novel begins in 1935 as Felice flees with her children from Hitler's Berlin, following her family and members of Kafka's entourage—including Grete Bloch, Max Brod, and Salman Schocken—as they try to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. Years later, a man claiming to be Kafka's son approaches Felice's son in Manhattan and the drama surrounding Kafka's letters to Felice begins. 
   
   
   
  While taking the measure of literary fame's long shadow, Life After Kafka depicts the magic and poison of memories, and what we cling to when all else is lost. Most of all, it illuminates the bravery required to move forward through the shattered remains of one world to rebuild life in a new one.

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  The Recruiter

  Alexander Mukte

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  This new thought fiction series explores pursuing your higher self, transcending ego and fear, the interconnectedness of all things in nature, and the importance of listening to the universe. Read by an Earphones Award-winner as part of a dual narrator performance, this 2022 International Book Awards Winner is “one of those well-written, nuanced books” that will “keep you guessing, keep you thinking…an impressive read” (Reader Views). Ori may seem like an idealist, but he understands how this world works. Powerful people want to stay that way, and a degree of social order is needed to ensure that’s possible. Ego can be dangerous…However, through everything he has done as founder and CEO of Singularity Group, Ori has proven what good can come from granting people certain freedoms. Though he hoped otherwise, he knew the day might come when powerful opposing forces would threaten what he’s built. When a series of suspicious events escalates to an attempt on his life, Ori must use all he is capable of to see the bigger picture and who, or what, is pulling the strings. Is protecting this legacy worth exposing who he truly is?With imaginative twists that span across time into the near future, this visionary thriller explores greater possibilities for humanity. The Recruiter is “an intriguing thriller” with an “intelligent storyline” that “feels quite original” (The BookLife Prize by Publishers Weekly).Recognition for The Recruiter:2022 International Book Awards Winner, African-American Fiction2022 International Book Awards Finalist, Visionary Fiction2021 American Fiction Awards Winner, African-American Fiction2021 Royal Dragonfly Ebook Awards Winner, Mystery2021 CIBA Finalist, Mystery & Mayhem

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  Cumbrian Ghost Stories

  Tony Walker

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  Sixteen supernatural stories set in the county of Cumbria. The collection includes classic ghost stories such as A West Cumberland Coalmine, modern horror stories such as The Derwentwater Haunting and The Highest Inn in England, stories based on local legends such as The Mallerstang Boggle and The Little Man of Carlisle, and some folk-horror themed stories such as The Grizedale Forest Wedding.Tony Walker is the narrator of The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast.

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  Christmas Castle in Scotland...

  Julie Caplin

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  Unwrap this gorgeous gift of a book for an escape to the snow-peaked caps of the Scottish Highlands and a romance that will melt your heart… 
  Izzy McBride had never in a million years expected to inherit an actual castle from her great uncle Bill but here she was, in the run up to Christmas, Monarch of her own Glen – a very rundown glen in need of a lot of TLC if her dream of turning it into a boutique bed and breakfast was to come true. 
  But when Izzy’s eccentric mother rents a room to enigmatic thriller author Ross Adair and the Scottish snow starts to settle like the frosting on a Christmas cake, it’s a race to get the castle ready before they’re all snowed in for the holidays.Praise for Julie Caplin: 
  ‘One unputdownable story’ Katie Fforde 
  ‘An irresistible slice of escapism’ Phillipa Ashley 
  ‘Five big fat stars’ Sue Moorcroft 
  Set against the backdrop of Europe's history-rich Scotland, this contemporary romantic comedy is a testament to Julie Caplin's ability to weave fiction at its best. Izzy's unexpected inheritance and her interactions with Ross, a top thriller author, make for a captivating read. 
  For fans of Jessica Redland (Sunshine After the Rain), Alison Sherlock (Winter Magic on Railway Lane), Heidi Swain (Best Summer Ever), Rachael Lucas (Christmas at Applemore), and Mandy Baggot (One Wish in Manhattan). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  Nellcott Is My Darling

  Golda Fried

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  Nominated for a 2005 Governor General's Award
     
  Alice Charles has just moved to Montreal to go to McGill University. She’s never had a boyfriend and doesn’t know how to do laundry. She joins the Film Society and hangs out in the library. She drifts away from boring Bethany, her best friend from high school, and starts to trail after Allegra, the caffeine-addicted, dish-throwing artist in the dorm room next to hers.And, most of all, she thinks about how she’s still a virgin and how she’ll never figure it all out.
     
  And then she meets Nellcott Ragland, a 23-year-old who works at Basement Records and wears black eyeliner, and he asks her on a date.
     
  Alice tries to hide out in the Film Society office. She spies on Nellcott at the record store. She gets advice from Walker, her filmmaking, womanizing friend from Toronto. But sooner or later her parents are going to visit and watch her cry. She won’t admit it to them, but Nellcott has become her darling.
     
  Praise for Nellcott Is My Darling:
     
  ‘… a sensitive, sensual, funny and accurate map of the rocky and mystifying territory between childhood and maturity.’
     
  – The Globe and Mail
     
  ‘[Nellcott Is My Darling] is one of the few genuinely good small-press books that will be published this year. Read it to restore your faith in writers you’ve never heard of’
     
  – Georgia Straight
     
  ‘Reading Fried’s novel is as close as one gets to re-experiencing those first fearful days of university, when the anxious gulf between looking like an adult and feeling like an adult will probably never be wider … Fried captures a slice of university life that feels far more complex and resonant than this kind of novel usually does. It’s one of those rare novels that captures innocence without resorting to nostalgia.’
     
  – Montreal Mirror
     
  ‘There’s something captivating about Fried’s prose that makes Alice and Nellcott’s relationship feel like a slow-motion whirlpool. Writing in such short sentences and with such a fine eye for the minutiae of relationships, she circles around emotional pivot points until the reader feels dragged into the depths of her characters, unaware of how he got there.’
     
  – Time Out Chicago

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  The Truth We Seek

  Lisa Harris

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  One solid lead. 
   
   
   
  One final mission—if they can make it out alive. 
   
   
   
  Deputy U. S. Marshal Tucker Shaw has spent months hunting Jace Krueger, head of a criminal empire with a sprawling human trafficking network. Tucker and his team have come close to bringing the network down, but to finish the job, they need someone with an inside connection. 
   
   
   
  That someone is Riley Bishop—the woman Tucker loves and the one person he's determined to protect at all costs. She's his best shot at getting close to Krueger, but putting her back in the man's sights is a risk Tucker isn't sure he's willing to take. 
   
   
   
  As Riley steps into the darkness she thought she'd escaped, the lines between hunter and hunted begin to blur. 
   
   
   
  With danger closing in, Tucker and Riley must outmaneuver a man who won't go down without a fight. Because in this game, exposing the truth might not be enough to save them—it could instead cost them their very lives. 
   
   
   
  The Truth We Seek is the fourth and final book in a fast-paced psychological thriller series that starts with The Lies We Believe.

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