Katya

It's 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump rope, puddle of urine on the floor, barely alive. Upstairs, 14-year-old Mae had fallen into one of her trances, often a result of feeling too closely attuned to her mother's dark moods. After Marianne is unwillingly admitted to a mental hospital, Edie and Mae are forced to move from their childhood home in Louisiana to New York to live with their estranged...

Following a traumatic accident, a special friendship helps talented musician Annie heal and rediscover her love of music in this stunning novella from celebrated author Katya Balen. The blackbirds' song uplifts and restores in this captivating novella from one of the most exciting voices in children's fiction. After a devastating car crash, Annie is unable to play her flute and retreats from the music she's always loved. She exists in a world of angry...

Haunting of Hill House meets found-footage horror in this edge-of-your-seat thriller that explores the power of family ties and the trauma that lurks there.
When Sophia Galich was twelve, she starred in her older sister Layla's amateur horror movie Vermillion, which recorded raw footage of her very real reactions to scenes her sister concocted in their old Californian house on the coast—Cashore House.
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Salvados por sus hijos, náufragos de sus padres, los protagonistas de estos cuentos se zambullen en las profundidades de los vínculos esenciales. Las casas, el mar, el campo son encierro y escape, el espacio donde las generaciones se alimentan, sueñan, procrean. Con trazo lírico, despojado e irónico, Katya Adaui ensaya su teoría de la paternidad: un mapa opaco en el que los seres humanos rastrean con fuerza e inteligencia cómo sobrevivir a...

What if we could feel more like human beings and less like human doings? Ours is a noisy, busy world. We flit from one task to the next and get bombarded by infinite distractions. We ask ourselves, "What's next?" while yearning to slow down time. And yet, our days blur together and the years rush past. Perhaps there's a better way to be. What if we could pause time to see the spark in the mundane and return our attention to the ordinary moments...

«Juste une Gifle?» s'inspire d'une histoire vraie. Il a été présenté par la Banque Mondiale lors de la semaine «Loi, justice et développement 2017». La maison Les éditions des femmes-Antoinette Fouque, a décrit ce livre comme un «texte, très technique et documenté, avec des références précises et des citations du Code pénal,... indéniablement un beau travail autour de la violence». Katya comptable, la trentaine, décrit la violence...

Gaultry enjoyed the simple, pastoral life of a hedge witch, where her most daunting task was to travel to the nearby village to purchase supplies. But, her peaceful life is shattered when it becomes entangled in an ancient prophecy-a prophecy which names her and her headstrong twin sister, Mervion, as their nation's salvation...or its destruction.

No one chooses to be a refugee. To leave your home - all that's familiar - all that you love. The war in Ukraine has added many millions more to the 70 million people who are being forcibly displaced around the world. Every year. No one chooses to be a refugee. But we can choose how we respond. Now. And always.' This is the story of Katyar Tokar, a young married teacher from Kharkiv, who survives the first terrible assaults of a vicious enemy, witnesses...

Part real-world survival guide and part nitty-gritty how-to handbook, The Nonprofit Marketing Guide will show you how to hack through the bewildering jungle of marketing options and miles-long to-do lists to clear a marketing path that’s right for you and your organization, no matter how understaffed or underfunded. You’ll see how to shape a marketing program that starts from where you are now and grows with your organization, using smart and...