Through playful poetic prose, sharp social commentary and self-deprecating gallows humor, Love the World or Get Killed Trying dives into the mind of Alvina, a trans woman on the eve of turning thirty. The reader is invited to follow her journey through the breathtaking wilderness of Iceland and busy city boulevards of Berlin and Paris as she probes questions of eternity, sexuality, longing, death, love, and how hard it is to remain soft when you're a continuous target of straight men's secret...

Melanie Dwyer has had some disappointments to deal with lately. She’s lost her corporate job and her lover of many years just moved out. Buying an old house miles from nowhere in eastern Ontario, to run a bed and breakfast with a definite ‘green’ agenda, might be considered a poorly-researched decision, but she is undaunted. Along with her country education, she finds new friends―people with far more memorable lives than most of the city folk Mel knew. Together, they form a family for...

Ten years ago five friends took a decision and left Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam. Full of hope and dreams they bought a cheap old farm in Italy and renovated the house with their own hands. None of them would ever have thought that one fine day the German Tax Office would put a spoke in the wheel and destroy their beautiful plans. To survive and to avoid that they have to leave Italy they come up with creative and unorthodox ideas to solve their financial misery.

Darkly and amusingly written, Poor Me is about a self-destructive 26-year-old man named Matthew who finds himself wandering between loneliness and companionship. Being a lonesome drinker, he has the tendency to cause trouble wherever he goes. His life isn't nearly as exciting as his expectations wanted it to be so he does unforgivable attempts to pursuit happiness while destroying other's.

As the anti-German sentiment in Britain rises and the conflict between Britain and Germany escalates, half-German Royal Navy Officer, the always calm, serene and confident Hugh Edwards, faces professional and personal challenges as he tries to conceal his past fearing the growing anti-german sentiment in Britain. Will he free himself? And if so, at what costs?

Suspecting that her husband is unfaithful to her, the charming violet embarks on a romantic quest, searching for her mysterious admir...

"Ulysses" by James Joyce is a novel that follows the events of a single day, June 16th, 1904, in the lives of three main characters: Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom. The story takes place in Dublin, Ireland, and is divided into 18 chapters, each with its own unique style and structure.

The novel explores various themes, including identity, mortality, and the search for meaning in life. Joyce uses stream-of-consciousness narrative techniques and a variety of literary styles to ...

"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" is a novel written by Edwin A. Abbott in 1884. The story is set in a two-dimensional world called Flatland, where the inhabitants, geometrical shapes, are restricted to movement within two dimensions. The book satirizes Victorian society and explores the limitations of perception and understanding.

The protagonist, a square, discovers the existence of a one-dimensional world called Lineland and a three-dimensional world called Spaceland. He struggles t...

"The Night Land" is a dark and imaginative novel written by William Hope Hodgson. Set in a far-future Earth, the story takes place in a world shrouded in perpetual darkness, where the last remnants of humanity live within a colossal pyramid-like structure called the Last Redoubt. This structure serves as protection against the sinister creatures that roam the night, as well as the even greater threat known as the Watching Things.

The story follows an unnamed narrator who communicates through ...

First ever English translation of his classic, the Dutch cult book "Kees de jongen," the world seen through the eyes of a lower middle class boy of lively fantasy and intelligence.

Has the mind of a twelve-year-old ever been so intimately, so comprehensively, so compassionately exposed? With its delicious irony and its well dosed sentiment, had it been written by Chekhov this novel would have been one of his major works. No less an authority than the current doyen of Dutch literature, Remco C...

Some people want to be rich, some want to be happy, but most want to be both.

Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's greatest novel, The Great

Gatsby is a consummate summary of the roaring twenties, extravagance and a

flamboyant demonstration of the Jazz Age which is a phrase that was coined by

the author. F. Scott Fitzgerald decribes the life of those that are rich and

enjoy life on the background of those that are happy but want to be rich to do

the same. Through the narrati...