Mostrando títulos en Ficción Contemporánea

Von der Autorin des Bestsellers Die sieben Männer der Evelyn Hugo und Daisy Jones & The Six kommt ein epischer neuer Roman über die außergewöhnlichen Anstrengungen, die wir unternehmen, um über unsere Grenzen hinaus zu leben und zu lieben. Joan Goodwin sieht zu den Sternen auf, seit sie denken kann. Als Professorin für Astrophysik hat sie ihre Leidenschaft zum Beruf gemacht, und sie ist glücklich, wenn sie ihrer Nichte abends unter freiem Himmel die Sternbilder erklären kann.

The irascible A. J. Fikry, owner of Island Books - the only bookstore on Alice Island - has already lost his wife. Now his most prized possession, a rare book, has been stolen from right under his nose in the most embarrassing of circumstances. The store itself, it seems, will be next to go. One night upon closing, he discovers a toddler in his children’s section with a note from her mother pinned to her Elmo doll: I want Maya to grow up in a place with books and among people who care about such kinds of things. I love her very much, but I can no longer take care of her.

Den smukke, succesfulde advokat Sarah, bor i en lille, faldefærdig lejlighed med sin kæreste Phil. Hverken forholdet til ham eller hendes fremtidsudsigter tegner lovende. Men da en af Sarahs klienter dør og efterlader hende sit imponerende hus og store formue, ændres hendes liv for altid. Huset viser sig hurtigt at have større værdi for Sarah, end hun kunne have forestillet sig, og hun sætter alt ind på at få det tilbage i sin oprindelige stand.

Geoff Rickly’s debut novel Someone Who Isn’t Me is a feverish journey through the psyche of someone who no longer recognizes himself. When Geoff hears that a drug called ibogaine might be able to save him from his heroin addiction, he goes to a clinic in Mexico to confront the darkest and most destructive versions of himself. In this modern reimagining of the Divine Comedy, survival lurks in the darkest corners of Geoff’s brain, asking, will he make it? Can anyone?

Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Dry Bones, the first in the Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. Johnson draws on his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary mystery of stunning authenticity, full of memorable characters.

In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads to the colors of the houses to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter, Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons.

Una mañana, un cliente olvida allí un cuaderno y sus páginas empiezan a llenarse de confesiones, miedos y sueños anónimos. Desconocidos que antes solo se cruzaban en silencio comienzan a entrelazar sus vidas a través de las palabras, compartiendo apoyo y consuelo. Pero un día, el diario revela un relato más oscuro. Ahora, los habituales de la lavandería deberán desentrañar el misterio para proteger la armonía de la comunidad que, sin darse cuenta, han construido juntos.

Spirited, romantic, and full of danger, Kidnapped is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic of high adventure. Beloved by generations, it is the saga of David Balfour, a young heir whose greedy uncle connives to do him out of his inherited fortune and plots to have him seized and sold into slavery. But honor, loyalty, and courage are rewarded.

STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David Wong. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korrok, about the invasion, and the future. But it's too late. You touched the book. You're in the game. You're under the eye. The only defense is knowledge. You need to read this book, to the end. Even the part with the bratwurst. Why?

It is the story of 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment.

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he'll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life. In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity.

Savannah has awakened to the fact that she's made too many concessions in her marriage. Bernadine has watched her megadivorce settlement dwindle. Robin has an all-American case of shopaholism. Gloria has taken happiness and security for granted. But being at the wrong place at the wrong time can change everything. All four are learning to heal past hurts and to reclaim their joy and their dreams; but they return to us full of spirit, sass, and faith in one another.

Arthur MacDonald, 85, is having an end-of-life crisis. His beloved, dying wife of over 60 years no longer knows who he is. His older brother still has all his hair and a wife almost half his age. The man his middle-aged daughter is dating has a ponytail. His teenaged grandson wants to cook desserts for a living. And his daughter wants him to move into Silvermine retirement home. Then Arthur meets the gorgeous, radical, 80-something-year-old Robbie and learns that nobody is ever too old to fall in love all over again.

De fire exceptionelt dygtige traumelæger, Bill, Stephanie, Wendy og Tom bliver sendt fra San Francisco til Paris for at arbejde på et internationalt katastrofe-træningsprogram med deres parisiske kolleger. Det er en fantastisk chance for at tilegne sig ny viden og opnå uvurderlig erfaring, men den byder også på alvorlige arbejdssituationer. Men da en voldelig hændelse ryster Paris, må de gribe til handling – og deres liv er forandrede for altid.

When her ten-year marriage to Alistair ends with his infidelity, Kate Easton vows she will not make the same mistake twice. She will never put herself - or her two children - through a relationship again. Then Alistair announces that his new wife is pregnant and he intends to cut his financial support to Kate. To keep her home she must divide it up and make way for a lodger. Enter Davis Calder, a glamorous and charismatic tutor with a failed marriage of his own behind him.

If you follow a stray bullet into a project day, you'll see small schemes turn into big dreams. Conflict of Interest is a hard concrete story where bullets, beauty, and deception turn into late-night gunfights. Where the smoke and mirrors are broken through jealousy, manipulation, and hatin’. Pistols are drawn between the infamous Spanish Fly and the cutthroat gangster Popcorn. Their friendship is held at gunpoint, and it doesn’t help that the conniving broad Luv Luv, whose sexy loose lips tend to sink ships, is in on all the drama.

脱サラし、お笑い芸人になった西野勤。しかし才能がなく、８年間、売れることなくくすぶっている。そんな彼の元にガネーシャが降臨！

The Ferguson Clan has a problem. A couple thousand years ago, one of their ancestors uttered a curse with complete sincerity. In that curse, a woman named Srine offered all of herself for retribution on the world that had tortured her. The curse was so sincere that it echoed into places distant. In the darkness of the universe, something even darker than her words accepted her offer. Despite her being too old, and her husband incapable of siring a child, she became pregnant. This child was filled with dark potential. Unchecked, he could destroy the world. Join the fight!

Baptiste y Marion llevan una vida feliz y tranquila con sus cabras a las afueras de un pequeño pueblo en la montaña. Una noche de invierno, Marion sufre fuertes dolores y, para asombro de ambos, da a luz en el baño de casa. Este es el punto de partida de Caída de las nubes, un relato coral que combina múltiples puntos de vista sobre la llegada de este bebé inesperado que pondrá en cuestión todo lo que los personajes creían saber y que explora el conflicto íntimo entre el instinto maternal y las consecuencias de un hecho traumático.

Марина — образцовая жена, мать семейства и уважаемый педагог, отправляется с мужем в хорошо спланированный долгожданный отпуск. Однако с самой первой минуты все пойдет не так ради того, чтобы ее мир в конце концов стал таким, каким он и должен был быть: ярким и счастливым. Образцовой жене, матери семейства и уважаемому педагогу предстоит вломиться в чужой дом, оказаться на чьих-то похоронах, свалиться с горы, выяснить, что ее скучный муж — суперзвезда, спастись от погони, разоблачить опасный заговор, помочь сбыться предсказаниям старой гадалки и наконец-то понять, кто же она на самом деле.