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Unde ajung oamenii indragostiti dupa ce se dezindragostesc

Unde ajung oamenii indragostiti dupa ce se dezindragostesc

Translated title: Where Do People in Love End up After Falling out of Love

Author: Tucan, Ana-Valeria

Genre: Romance

Year: 2025 | Pages: 208 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91459

'Where do birds go when they fly?' Known to everyone, this rhetorical question still signifies an uncertainty expressed by a smile at the corner of the mouth.

But 'Where do people in love go after they fall out of love?' Probably, caught in the whirlwind of 'falling out of love', few have asked themselves the question and even fewer have sought the answer. In reality, the answer, in its concrete form, may not even exist, but may actually constitute an accumulation of experiences and actions that cannot be quantified in words.

Does Ana Valeria Tucanr manage to find it in this volume? It is up to the reader to decide, after browsing the pages written in an alert and modern tempo, sprinkled with humor that often disguises disappointment.

Written as a romance novel, the volume Where People in Love Go After Falling Out of Love simply represents everyday life, with everything that entails. Plus love
Salinger si fata cu parul roscat

Salinger si fata cu parul roscat

Translated title: Salinger and the Girl with Red Hair

Author: Mocuta, Andrei

Genre: Short Stories

Year: 2025 | Pages: 288 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91466

A magnetic, lucid and irresistible prose, in which a doctoral thesis gradually takes on the shape of an interior novel, and Salinger is just the ideal pretext to talk about loneliness, fascination and the deep need to be listened to. At the seminar led by a reserved and ironic doctoral student, the lectures become mirrors, and the students' comments - confessions.

In Salinger and the Girl with the Red Hair, Andrei Mocuta manages the rare feat of transforming room 420, with its dusty air and gentle fluorescence, into a living, tense, often tender space, where the professor's voice oscillates between erudition and vulnerability.

Surrounded by lyrical interventions, eccentric observations and silences with subtext, he discreetly keeps his attention, while literature opens bridges between generations, between solitudes, but especially between words and feelings. And the girl with the red hair and ethereal gestures spreads a gentle mystery, enough to keep you captivated until the last page
Sub gravitatia memoriei

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
Carbo

Carbo

Translated title: Carbon

Author: Ciobotaru, Andrei

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2025 | Pages: 156 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91476

Andrei Ciobotaru's novel Carbo unfolds on the border between lucidity and dream, between the order of reason and the fascination of chaos. The story of a young naval engineer sent on a technical mission to eastern Siberia gradually becomes an initiatory journey, a test of one's own humanity
Mai e ceva ce nu ti-am spus

Mai e ceva ce nu ti-am spus

Translated title: There's Something Else I Didn't Tell You

Author: Chelsau, Stefana

Genre: Crime / Thriller

Year: 2025 | Pages: 288 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91494

Silvia's life is shaken to its foundations when she accidentally witnesses a horrible crime.

But it's not the crime itself that will haunt her forever, but the fact that the victim asked her in deathly tones to fulfill one last wish. And she, under the pressure of the moment, couldn't refuse him.

A word spoken in haste. A promise made in a desperate situation. A good deed that will cost it dearly.

To keep her word, Silvia must face a painful past, which she has tried her best to leave behind.

But the past has a face. A name. And a lot of questions that can no longer remain unanswered
Tony, baiat de cartier, politist si aventurier

Tony, baiat de cartier, politist si aventurier

Translated title: Tony, Neighborhood Boy, Policeman and Adventurer

Author: Gyula, Anton I.

Genre: Social Novel / Adventure

Year: 2025 | Pages: 160 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91477

Since I was a child, I always dreamed of a life at sea and in the port of Constanta. God helped me, and my dream came true: I attended three years of maritime school, and at not even 27 years old I was appointed commander of the port of Constanta, responsible for Romania's maritime gateway and its security.

Being a port operations officer means a great responsibility, but also a great joy. It is a job that gives you the freedom to travel, to see the world and to always learn something new. My career has been and will remain a devoted service to the sea.

For us, people of ports and oceans, life means movement. And movement is, in turn, life - a continuous flow, from birth to death.

Even after I was injured, with God's help I managed to continue on my path. I lived a beautiful and meaningful life, growing up on the shores of the sea, in the great port dear to my soul - Constanta
Micii asasini din viata lui Tom

Micii asasini din viata lui Tom

Translated title: The Little Assassins in Tom's Life

Author: Lavin, Cristi

Genre: Crime / Thriller

Year: 2025 | Pages: 320 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91504

London is the financial center of the world, but at certain fateful moments it also happens to become the center of crime. Tom is a charming but old-fashioned Londoner who practices a profession so shameful that it would make even prostitutes blush.

One day, while surfing the Internet, looking for a social media specialist, he discovered the following ad: 'I'm not on Facebook, contact me by phone! No matter who gets in your way, I'll solve your problems: with a gun, a knife, or a nylon stocking. In case you want something more spectacular, I'll tie them to the tracks and make sure they don't miss the train! If someone gives you a headache, don't try aspirin - try a hired assassin!'

The truth is that the best PR is an assassin, so the irony of fate made Tom meet the right person. However, this type of professionals, like the hired assassins, cannot be found on all roads, but you have to dig deep into the Dark Web until you find one. But sometimes they do appear in the light, and Tom is lucky and hits the crime headquarters on the first try. And so he can make the difference between the wolf into whose den he has ventured and the other people he knows. And the differences are not as great as he imagined, because inside each of us lies a criminal.

So, besides the elite assassins, there are also the small assassins, those who sneak discreetly into our lives and who slowly poison us. There is a Dark Web in everyone's entourage. The whole point is not to neglect the warning signs around you. Tom slaloms among the criminals, managing to escape safe and sound. But he will not escape depression either, because it is not at all pleasant to surprise every person with criminal intentions as often as you see buses on the street
Toata violenta oamenilor

Toata violenta oamenilor

Translated title: All the Violence of People

Author: Colize, Paul

Genre: Crime

Year: 2025 | Pages: 304 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91505

Michel Lebrun Polar Prize 2020.

A young woman is found stabbed to death in her Brussels apartment. All clues point to Nikola Stancovici, an artist who was the last person the victim called before she died. He appears on surveillance footage immediately after the murder, police find his bloodstained clothes, and discover sketches of the crime scene in his studio.

Beneath his lost child appearance, Niko is a genius graffiti artist, nicknamed 'The Tightrope Walk' by the press after a series of anonymous and ultraviolent murals appeared on the streets of the capital. From behind the walls of silence with which he surrounded himself and under psychiatric supervision, the young man denies everything. His only form of defense is to repeat a phrase: 'It wasn't me.'

But Niko's story is intertwined with the story of war-torn Yugoslavia. All the violence of that time finds echoes in the present
Aventurile detectivului Rafistol si a doctorului Baipas

Aventurile detectivului Rafistol si a doctorului Baipas

Translated title: The Adventures of Detective Rafistol and Doctor Baipas

Series: Volume 2

Author: Surubaru, Mihai

Genre: Crime / Humorous Fiction

Year: 2025 | Pages: 144 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91502

In volume II of the series 'The Adventures of Detective Rafistol and Doctor Baibas', Mihai Surubaru orchestrates with a sure hand a spectacle of ironic absurdity, functional grotesque and a world in which logic is reversed: authority becomes farce, and the tragic is dissected with the scalpel of sarcasm. What transforms this volume into a valuable literary object is not only the author's narrative ability or the ingenious composition of the detective episodes, but the way in which the author manipulates humor. Mihai Surubaru does not offer solutions or judge, but only points the finger at the deep wounds of a world deformed by stupidity, ignorance and fear. The laughter he provokes is not gratuitous, but profound - a laughter in which, in the end, he forces us to ask ourselves: who are we in this tragic comedy called life?
Cafea cu mirodenii si iubire

Cafea cu mirodenii si iubire

Translated title: Coffee with Spices and Love

Author: Gilmore, Laurie

Genre: Romance

Year: 2025 | Pages: 288 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91451

When Jeanie inherits the Cinnamon Pumpkin Cafe in Dream Harbor, she sees it as the perfect chance to reinvent herself and make a new life for herself, leaving her boring job behind.

Logan, a local farmer who stays out of the limelight, finds his routine disrupted by a jovial young woman who has crossed his path. The problem is that he feels inexplicably attracted to her.

Will Jeanie, with her cheerful nature, be able to overcome Logan's grumpy attitude? Or will she discover that she's come across the only person in town who doesn't fall for her charms - or his spiced coffees... But sometimes, love appears exactly where you least expect it... even between a girl with big dreams and a man who no longer believes in fairy tales.

A romantic comedy, perfect for fans of the Gilmore Girls series, with an autumn atmosphere, sparkling lines and a guaranteed happy ending!

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