Pestii cubanezi
Translated title: Cuban Fish
Author: Stanescu, Bogdan-Alexandru
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2025 | Pages: 256 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91468
Far from being an attempt at psychobiographical analysis, this book is rather an attempt to unify two sides apparently separated by a chasm: life and work, like two halves of a symbolon, both equally mysterious and inexhaustible in interpretation. They do not explain each other, rather they deepen the mystery that the Author constitutes for me. The heroes of this book enter the binder carrying the colorful scales of a vanished world, but whose shadow casts its coldness on the one we live in. They are my Cuban fish, whose contemplation helps me to keep my inner space intact, paradoxically, admiring the pattern of struggles waged in the world. Equally paradoxically, the eyes that admire the colorful scales of the fish belong to authors who do not appear de facto in the book, but are ghostly presences, reading filters located outside the binder, looking over the philatelist's shoulder
Toate cartile. Testamentul lui Abraham
Translated title: All Books. Testament of Abraham
Author: Igor Bergler
Genre: Thriller / Mystery
Year: 2025 | Pages: 496 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91496
An extermination camp, a bullet-riddled diary and a historical wound that still bleeds. A personal story tangled among the threads of a global warp of unimaginable proportions. A detective who digs up coffins and files, brings from the underground of history a disturbing truth and stirs the ghosts of a Europe whose silence is far from an answer.
Thousands of tons of gold, hundreds of thousands of art objects and millions of evaporated lives. A colossal loot converted into currency in the financial sanctuaries of the neutral paradise. A novel that opens up forbidden archives, secret libraries and your mind
12 povesti nefiresti
Translated title: 12 Unnatural Stories
Author: Amoran, Lucian-Claudiu
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2025 | Pages: 308 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91475
The volume brings together twelve short prose texts, written over the years, at large and irregular intervals, starting in adolescence, and (re)discovered through a few notebooks already yellowed by time and two files recovered with difficulty from a floppy disk long out of use.
The themes are varied, but the common thread that unites them is... the unnaturalness of the events narrated and/or the characters that populate them
Cheia ascunsa
Translated title: The Hidden Key
Author: Ahndoril, Alex
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 256 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91510
The first volume of the Julia Stark series.
A shocking photo. A night without memories. A question: 'Did I kill this man?'.
A novel by international bestselling author Alex Ahndoril.
Julia Stark is a private detective. PG Mott, the owner of one of Sweden's most successful family businesses, shows up at her agency. The day after attending the firm's board meeting, she makes a macabre discovery: a photo of a man covered in blood with a bag over his head appears on her phone.
Due to alcohol-induced amnesia, PG doesn't know where the picture came from and wants to hire Julia to find out the truth before involving the police. The woman asks Sidney, her ex-husband, who works for the Stockholm Metropolitan Police, to help her with the investigation. In this way, she still has a shred of hope that she can win him back.
Welcomed with open arms to the opulent estate, Julia and Sidney begin to search for the truth while socializing with family members, who could theoretically all be involved in the murder
Caftul
Author: Chirculescu, Florin
Genre: Romance
Year: 2025 | Pages: 304 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91460
The Caftul - A love novel with invective. In the midst of communism.
In socialism, Bucharest students of Military Medicine are sent to Baragan for patriotic agricultural work. Each escapade from the Dragalina farm, on the Ciulnita - Slobozia - Ograda route, can be a breath of fresh air, which liberates and nourishes, but also one that can shackle. The protagonist of the book, Secundo, will feel this firsthand. Because, alongside his 'companions in suffering', with the constant thought of Baca, the one who has no equal, he constantly gets into all sorts of... messes.
A novel of love and confrontation, Caftul tells us the story of permanent tensions: between passionate love and sex, between power and powerlessness, between brutality and fragility, between meaning and its lack, between ideas and deeds, between conspiracies and ideologies. Between struggles - verbal, emotional, symbolic or physical
Un loc indepartat, numai al lor
Translated title: A Distant Place, Only Theirs
Author: Perta, Cosmin
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 216 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91467
Adrian: corporatist, with an atypical brain. Cristi: former member of the Sicilian mafia, retired. Maria: supermarket cashier, daughter of a corrupt minister. Radu: middle-aged university professor, crushed by the feeling of failure. Faceless forces, a cruel and immoral world, lives suspended between the desire for change and the burden of the past. One by one, we witness the end of one of the most dangerous heads of the Bucharest underworld, the involvement of mercenaries in the war in Ukraine or the clash between the desire to lead a simple existence and saving one life at the cost of another. Alert pace, narrative complexity, provocative structure, a novel that explores the causality of the connections that form between the marginalized of society, refugees in their own personal dramas and wars, a meditation on fragile and contradictory human nature
Orizont imperfect
Translated title: Imperfect Horizon
Author: Tache, Ionel
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 144 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91479
'Imperfect Horizon' is an attempt to introduce the reader to the daily life of the main characters, with their accomplishments and illusions.
The main characters are more deeply portrayed because all the action takes place around them, being exponential in their interaction with the other less sketched characters. The two characters oscillate between the deep joy of fulfillment and the futile, useless search for the precious thing lost, respectively between the easy life and the almost desperate rush to the horizon, hoping not to miss the only train to complete fulfillment. Reality is strictly tangential to the imagination, meeting only at a few points necessary to anchor everything in a real time and necessary to give veracity to the characters
Sentimente contra timp
Translated title: Feelings Against Time
Author: Vilceanu, Simona-Viorela
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2025 | Pages: 132 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91473
I wish I could still be a memory in the corner of a smile... a smile that slips into the past and stays stuck for a while... It doesn't hurt anymore, it just breathes and goes away like a ghost.
To know that I am alive somewhere, in a moment, that I left a trace.
We all want to pray and count. I just want to know that I can create a smile
Sub gravitatia memoriei
Translated title: Under the Gravity of Memory
Author: Lungu, Dan
Genre: Historical / Short Stories
Year: 2025 | Pages: 232 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91461
Under the Gravity of Memory is first and foremost a book with countless stories. Some span centuries, others years, days or minutes, but all are fascinating. Stories full of meaning, which compress worlds and times, people and histories, places and mentalities, which distill collective experiences in a new, surprising way. They create vertigos of memory and short-circuit times.
The author's pleasure in storytelling emanates from every sentence of the book. For him, the world seems to be made just to be told, it is its only reason for existing. If it were not told, it would not exist. The narrative lines of his texts bring together everything they encounter: from historical or family events to personal testimonies, from archive details to direct observations or those of contemporaries, from literary evocations to press excerpts. The texts in the volume are a hybrid of autobiographical prose, reportage, literary history, cultural studies and essay, in a relaxed and often playful tone, in which the scrupulousness of analysis or observation gives way to meditation, humor and poetry.
Among other things, we learn how the Sugar Factory in Ripiceni financially supported the literary avant-garde in the interwar period, that the outlaw Coroi was connected to legionnaires, about the avant-garde wedding in Iasi of Marcu Taingiu and what became of Moldov, the co-founder, along with Sasa Pana, of the magazine UNU, about the 'indestructible toy' factory 'Teddy' in Botosani, about how Scarlat Callimachi earned the nickname 'the red prince', how Dumitru Cornilescu ended up translating the Bible in the mansion in Stancesti and much more
Iubire si suferinta
Translated title: Love and Suffering
Author: Onoleata, Ana-Maria Alexandra
Genre: Romance
Year: 2025 | Pages: 326 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91449
In the world of teenage Eliana Evans, everything seemed like a beautiful dream. At just 16, she had a reliable friend and a perfect family. Her happiness seemed to reach new heights. But when her parents begin to distance themselves and James, her dear friend, becomes seriously ill, her universe begins to crumble.
James Lancaster, the girl's best friend, seems like an ordinary teenager at first glance. Passionate about reading, chess and all things outdoor, always calm and collected, he seems to have everything he could want.
However, he faces his own challenges as the cruel disease that has slowly taken hold of him continues to advance. Hiding a painful secret about its true nature, the boy struggles to remain optimistic and strong despite the overwhelming suffering.
Despite all the challenges and obstacles, the feelings between James and Eliana grow deeper and their bond grows stronger. Their friendship turns into a solid, harmonious, enviable relationship!
However, when James' secret is revealed, the future of their relationship becomes uncertain. Will the two lovers be able to stay together forever, as they promised, or will they be separated? Will their love withstand these trials or will everything fall apart?
