Csilla Béresi Books

The scorching new installment of Marriage to a Billionaire

Pearl and May are carefree sisters living in 1937 Shanghai, a vibrant city filled with wealth and glamour. Their lives take a dramatic turn when their father reveals he has gambled away their fortune and must sell them as brides to suitors from California. As Japanese bombs begin to fall on Shanghai, the sisters embark on a perilous journey through the Chinese countryside, navigating the dangers posed by soldiers and the chaos of war. Eventually, they cross the Pacific to America, where they hope to start anew in Los Angeles. In this new world, they face the challenges of finding love with their unfamiliar husbands while grappling with the allure of Hollywood and the complexities of American life. Despite their beauty and modern outlook, they confront discrimination, the threat of Communist witch hunts, and the constraints of Chinatown’s traditional values. Pearl, a strong and stubborn Dragon, and May, an adorable and placid Sheep, must navigate their contrasting personalities and the trials that come with their new lives, all while striving to maintain their identities and bond as sisters amidst the upheaval.

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café's time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold ... Toshikazu Kawaguchi's beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?

Síron túli fuvallatoktól borzonghat az olvasó, miközben olvassa ezeket a kísértethistóriákat. A legjobbakat válogattuk ki a rémtörténetek bőséges tárházából. Képzeletgazdag illusztrációk mutatják be nekünk a kísértetek, a családi átkok és a vérfagyasztó események világát, a széppróza legördögibb, nemegyszer földöntúli jellemeit. A kötetben többek között Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Oscar Wilde és Bram Stoker rémtörténetei kaptak helyet.