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The black snow cloud roared over the János Hill, swallowing everything in its path unstoppably. The cold air fled in a shriek, the larch trees along the Kálvária Hill shivered from the piercing February wind. In the gnashing winter of 1924, old Aunt Marika Wimmer trudged up the steep side of the Kálvária Hill in Budakesz. She tried to get to the chapel, but instead of safety, fear awaited her in the consecrated building. Visceral fear.

Looking in through a side window, she was greeted by a horrific sight: the body of a young girl lying sprawled on the church floor. The village closed in. Mistrust was creeping among the residents, which did not make the job of the two investigators, Károly Pinelli and Ottó Márzay, sent from the capital, easier. Their investigation was not only hampered by the suspicion of the locals, but also by the snowfall that covered everything. And as the snow increasingly buries the tracks, more and more bodies turn up - and the serial killer must be stopped at all costs

Thriller

Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister Ami is an eternal champion... she even managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a slew of contests. Unfortunately for Olive, the only thing worse than constant bad luck is having to spend the wedding day with the best man (and her nemesis), Ethan Thomas

Romantic novel

Ava Jenkins lives a happy, ordinary college life. No one has any idea that she is actually the sister of the world-famous actor Oliver Jenkins and the daughter of the celebrated actress Carry Morrison. Ava doesn't want to hear about fame, a luxurious life, or acting, until her mother announces: she has arranged for Ava to get her first leading role in an Oscar-nominated bestseller adaptation.

Tom Hardy has become a celebrated Hollywood movie star in just a few years. He has achieved everything he wanted. Film studios are competing for him, he is getting better and better film role offers, the whole world is at his feet. Millions of women are in love with him. And what's more, he also got the male lead role in The Journey of Shadows. Everything is going well until he meets his future film partner, Ava Jenkins. From then on, his life is turned upside down.

What would a film shoot be like if the two main characters hated each other from the inside? If they were constantly arguing and throwing insults at each other during breaks, but as soon as the camera rolls, they had to play passionate lovers, while they could drown each other in a spoonful of water.

And what if they had to start with a hot kiss scene on the first day of filming? When they both realize that although neither of them would ever admit it, they are attracted to each other. Not just a little, but a lot

2021. Velence, Fejér County:

A veil of mourning surrounds Adelin Szalai after the loss of his grandfather. But among the nostalgic belongings, he comes across a long-forgotten letter that carries a shocking truth: He is the rightful heir to the Velence Castle. He decides to reveal his family's hidden past, but as soon as he gets off the train, he encounters obstacles. He comes face to face with the charming but surly Count of Velence, who not only stirs up the secrets of the castle, but also Adelin's life.

1890. Velence, Fejér County:

Count Teodor Rosetti lives as a popular womanizer among women, but an unexpected encounter stirs up his world. However, the moment comes in the man's life when he must bow his head to his duty so that the title of count can be inherited. But the count awakens to a secret desire that takes hold of him so fiercely when he meets his bride's companion.

Intertwined lives and passions meet within the castle walls over two centuries. A story of opposites attracting and forbidden passions unfolds that could change the fate of both families forever

The popular anthologies - Short Stories of the Year and Poems of the Year - have been published for the twenty-third year now, presenting the best of Hungarian literary life to readers. True to our traditions, the representative collections offer a high-quality, versatile selection of the best short stories and poems of the past year, based on publications from around forty Hungarian magazines in Hungary and abroad

Zsolt Láng's new novel, The Tale of Men, is an emotional journey that takes us from Paris to Budapest, from Bolivia to a remote Transylvanian village. We follow the adventurous journey of Professor André Tavasz and his son Zsombor, swept by waves of love, guilt, fear, and selfishness

Romance

The sect of sun-jumpers plunges the world into cosmic darkness; a young bioinformatician sees a hundred thousand versions of himself locked in fractals; the deer of Hísz reclaims his stolen leg; the rite of bodily reality responds to the music of the universe; the cultists of the black aether awaken...

The selected writings of The Black Aether short story competition evoke the diversity of the centuries-old past and present of weird and horror literature. In the fourteen short stories of the anthology, well-known and emerging Hungarian authors of the genre reveal to us the secrets of the futility of existence. The reader is invited on a journey beyond reality through space and time to the source of terror rooted deep in humanity