Elisangela Bearigo – författare

Every door in the old town wears a doll. Ask why, and no one will answer you.Come to the Albanian coast for the cheap wine and the gold evenings, and you'll never notice what the locals do: the little grey teddy bears hung by the neck over every doorway, the garlic braided beside them, the way no one who lives here will look up at the ruined house on the hill after dark.They've kept the same silence for a thousand years, and the same terrible bargain: feed the hill, and it leaves your children alone. The strangers who climb up there each summer are never really missed. The town looks away. The town has always looked away. It is the price of a paradise, and until now the price has always been someone else's.Nada is a stranger too, a woman the world has spent her whole life learning to look past, who sees what no one else can: the lightless thing wearing a beautiful man's face, the ancient Prince who has fed on this coast since before it had a name, and who has just looked at her and decided she is his.But the season is dying. The house on the hill is starving. And a bargain a thousand years old is about to break because when the winter closes in and the strangers stop coming, something has to be fed, and the cold is turning, at last, toward the town's own.A gothic vampire novel of dread, desire, and a debt paid in blood.Hope is the last to die.

He rides under a name that isn't his. She has one year to become someone.In Vale do Boiadeiro, the dust never settles, and neither do the secrets people carry into the arena.Nara Marino has one year to remake herself. Fifty-two weeks to become a woman who can walk into any room and own it, and she's almost there. Then, in the gold light of a Saturday rodeo, she meets a bull rider competing under a name that isn't his.He's the best anyone has seen in a generation. He's also the hidden son of a living legend, a father who swore his boy would never climb into a chute and who is two hours down the road, certain his son is nowhere near one.What follows is a story told eight seconds at a time: of ambition and inheritance, of first love measured against the thing that could kill you, and of the people who cannot stop because, as he says of the sport that owns him, "e;the day it stops is the day it kills me."e;Set in the heart of Brazil's rodeo country and written by a former Rodeo Queen, The Unstoppables is a sweeping coming-of-age story about courage, identity, and the names we choose to carry.

They stole her body. They never touched her name.Before the chains, there was greatness — African kingdoms of stone and gold, queens who ruled markets and led armies, a whole world the ledgers of empire tried to erase.Aruanda's Children follows the stolen across the Atlantic and into the sugar estates and diamond towns of colonial Brazil:Muxima, silenced by an iron mask but never truly owned.Aqualtune, the Kongo queen who led ten thousand into battle, was enslaved, and founded a free nation that kept no chains.Zumbi, born free, stolen into the Church, and returned as the king an empire could not kill.It does not flinch from the truth of the transatlantic slave trade and Brazilian slavery — but it refuses to let suffering be the last word. Because across the water lies Aruanda, the ancestral homeland of the dead, where the branded are made whole, the sundered are reunited, and no name is ever lost.Braiding real history — Aqualtune, Zumbi, Ganga Zumba, Dandara, Chica da Silva — with unforgettable invented lives, Aruanda's Children is a sweeping, lyrical epic of African greatness, unflinching truth, and the long road home. It honours every side of a painful history — without hatred, and with justice.A story of dignity, resistance, and return, for everyone the world tried to forget.Die standing. Do not live on your knees.Perfect for readers of The Underground Railroad, Homegoing, Beloved, and The Book of Night Women.