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“Fleeting Creatures and Other Psychotherapeutic Stories” by Irwin Yalom
Issued by: “East West”
Publication date: April 15, 2024
Translation: Angelin Michev
Editor: Vera Yancelova
About the book: What are our greatest challenges as human beings: making sense of our lives and accepting the inevitable end. In these pages, you will read the true stories of various people who have fallen into a life crisis and cannot find a cure for their suffering. They are often confused and distrustful, but thanks to psychotherapy, they reach shocking insights that radically change their personality and life.
“Irrelevant” by Vi Keeland
Issued by: “Era”
Publication date: April 15, 2024
About the book: Fired for indecent behavior! After 9 years of hard work for one of the biggest companies in the industry, I was fired with a terse letter that I found upon my return from Aruba. And all this because of a video taken during a vacation with friends and published on my personal profile. Or so I thought… In a fit of perfectly justified rage, aided by a bottle of white wine, I send my indignant reply directly to the CEO. Which I think I’m done with. You can imagine my surprise when I got a reply and it was Grant Lexington himself insisting that I get back to work. But he has completely different plans for me. There’s no way I’m messing with my boss’s boss’s boss. Although he is absurdly handsome, confident and charming. It would be wrong, completely inappropriate. Much more irrelevant than the clip that got me in this situation. But the more I get to know him, the more right it seems to me to fall in love with him.
Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler
Issuing: “Hermes”
Publication date: April 16, 2024
Translation: Dilyana Georgieva
Editorial: Ivelina Baltova
Cover artwork: Fidelia Koseva
About the book: Adelaide is a twenty-six-year-old American in London with a few close friends and bold ambitions for the future. After a series of disappointing relationships with the wrong men, she gives up looking for her soulmate. Everything changes when she meets the charming Englishman Rory, who seems like the man of her dreams. The two embark on a fling that turns into a serious relationship and before long Adelaide falls in love with him. For some reason, however, he doesn’t reciprocate: he’s often secretive and distant, doesn’t respond to her messages, avoids her, and changes their plans at the last minute. But when an unexpected tragedy strikes him, she is unfailingly by his side and supports him, even though in doing so she turns her back on herself. But is her sacrifice worth it? Despite her unreserved support, Rory abandons her, pushing her to the brink. In order to move on with her life, Adelaide must take care of her mental health and learn to put herself first when love demands too much of her.
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
Issued by: “SoftPress”
Publication date: April 16, 2024
Cover Design: Radoslav Donev
About the book: Known as Lady Death, Ludmila was a single mother, graduate student, researcher and librarian who went down in history as the deadliest female sniper in World War II with 309 enemy kills. The story in the book begins in 1937, when student Mila’s daily life is reduced to three main tasks – her history studies, her work in the library and the care of her young son. But when, on a sunny day, the news thunders through the streets of Odessa that Hitler is attacking Russia, Lyudmila Pavlichenko’s fate is unexpectedly pushed in another direction. To the front. The student replaces the books with a rifle and in a short time becomes an excellent shooter. She is determined to do everything to protect her child’s future, but she doesn’t even suspect that amidst the nightmare of war, she will know not only pain, but also fleeting moments of happiness from true shared love. Three hundred and nine Nazis killed – the number of enemies brought down by her hand brought Mila national fame and the Soviet authorities readily exploited her popularity. Lady Death was sent to the United States to help push the idea of a new front and active American aid in the war .
“Araptament 614” by Tatiana de Rhone
Issuing: “obsidian”
Publication date: April 18, 2024
Translation: Nadia Baeva
Cover Design: Liliana Dvoryanova
About the book: 1960 Reno, Nevada. Pauline must clean suite 614 at the legendary Hotel Mapes. Although she is told that there is no one there at the moment, she finds a dizzy and sleepy woman inside, not guessing that it is Marilyn Monroe. Because the pale and tired Mrs. Miller is nothing like the glamorous blonde from the movies and magazines. In the following months, Pauline witnesses one of the most difficult moments in the life of the actress – the filming of her latest film in the Nevada desert is exhausting, and her marriage to the playwright Arthur Miller is falling apart. A novel about the collision between two worlds and an intimate portrait of the most iconic star seen through the eyes of an ordinary woman.
“Here It Is” by Abo
Issuing: “Riva”
Publication date: April 18, 2024
About the book: There are stories that time lifts from the bottom of consciousness to the surface of recognition. Abo’s book “Here it is” is a memorial to ten years of his maturation and growth. A time of youthful transition, TV idols and freaks, Nokia 1100, sweet hooliganism and first encounters with the police, juicy dialect, “Samokov’s hard”, shame and laughter until bursting. Each of these stories is remarkable in the path of a young man’s self-determination – whether he will be the Smart One, the Handsome One, the Funny One, or the Rich One. And in the end to realize what his tears come from – from mocking laughter or from suffering.
Funny, fragrant (sometimes even by BDZ standards), frank and bright as an unloved hen, Abo’s second book deserves full reading immersion. Iva Doichinova
“The girl who fell into the sea” by Aksi O
Issuing: “hummingbirds”
Publication date: April 19, 2024
Translation: Dilyana Georgieva
Cover Design: Zhivko Petrov
About the book: Deadly storms ravage the lands where Mina grew up. Floods engulf entire villages, and the last resources of the natives are used up in bloody wars. The people of Mina believe that the god of the sea, once their protector, is now responsible for all the misfortunes that befall them. In an attempt to appease him, every year they send him a beautiful maiden in the hope that he will meet his “true bride” and one day their torment will end. Mina decides to sacrifice herself and throws herself into the sea instead of the chosen bride. With the help of a mysterious young man named Shin, as well as his circle of demons, gods, and spirits, she will attempt to awaken the god of the sea from his magical slumber and end the storms once and for all. But her time is quickly running out, as one cannot survive long in the spirit world. And there are creatures ready to do anything to prevent Mina…
“Salvation Island” by Patricia Wilson
Issuing: “Noble Star Books”
Publication date: April 19, 2024
Translation: Violeta Nenova-Videnova
Editorial: Stanislava Parvanova
Cover Illustrations: shutterstock
About the book: Patricia Wilson introduces us to strong women ready to do the unthinkable to save love, family and loved ones. Each one of them is looking for deliverance, haunted by memories and dark forebodings, dedicated to the most important thing – life and freedom. Just like in her first book published in Bulgarian – “The Summer of Secrets”, Patricia Wilson creates a family saga against the background of dramatic events from Greek history.
“Silver Song, Night Flame” by Amelie Wen Zhao
Issued by: “Dandelion”
Publication date: April 19, 2024
Translation: Denitsa Raykova
Editorial: Preslava Koleva
Cover illustration: Sija Hong, adaptation: Stoyan Atanasov @Kontur Creative
About the book: Lan once had a different name, but now bears the one given to her by the invaders. Twelve years ago, the Elantians conquered her country, killed her mother, and outlawed her people’s magic. Lan spends his nights singing in the tea house that serves to entertain foreigners. Denem searches for relics of his people’s past. Anything that might help her figure out what the strange symbol on her hand her mother burned in the moments before she died was. Most inexplicably, no one can see this sign until one night when a mysterious boy saves her life. Zen is one of the legendary wizards of the Last Kingdom. When he encounters Lan’s unusual energy, he senses the mighty power hidden in her hand sign. Zen had never seen anything like it. But he knows the answers lie high in the misty mountains of the Last Kingdom and in the only surviving school that has preserved the magic of their ancestors. Fate has entwined Lan and Zen’s paths, but their future is shrouded in uncertainty. They have the power to liberate their country, but also to destroy the world.
“The Many Rooms of the Heart” by Kristina Pavlova
Issued by: “Siela”
Publication date: April 20, 2024
Responsible editor: Milena Tasheva
Editor: Veselina Sedlarska
Concealer: Nia Haralampieva
Cover Artist: Fidelia Koseva
About the book: Kristina Pavlova’s bright, deep and extremely tender novel “The Many Rooms of the Heart” is a story about great love, which adds to the ordinary everyday life and turns it into magical realism with operatic passion. With a title inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s iconic quote: “The heart has more rooms than a brothel,” this sensual tale reminds us that we never know which of the “Many Rooms of the Heart” fate will open before us. And yet, we can’t help but secretly hope that she will be the right one – the one who fills us with light, warmth and that magical feeling under the spoon called love.
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Issued by: “Egmont Publishing House”
Publication date: April 20, 2024
Translator: Alexander Draganov
Editorial: Vida Delcheva
Concealer: Tanya Simeonova
Cover design: Greg Heineman
Cover illustration: Jim Tierney
About the book: In a land without magic, an assassin is summoned to the palace. Selene Sardothien doesn’t have warm feelings for the cruel king who rules from his glass throne, but she hasn’t come to kill him either. She came to win her freedom. If she can defeat twenty-three other assassins, thieves, and warriors in a deadly contest, she will be released from prison to serve as the king’s champion. But something rotten lurks around the palace and its purpose is to kill. When the other contestants start dying mysteriously one by one, Selena’s fight for freedom turns into a battle for survival. The young woman throws herself into a desperate battle to eradicate evil before it destroys the world and the people she has come to love. Book one of the “THRONE OF GLASS” series.
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