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余命の告知を受けた妻…

Una oda al disparate como antídoto a la incertidumbre y el desamor. Javiera es una joven chilena que ha llegado a Barcelona gracias a una beca de posgrado en Literatura. Estudiar es el pretexto más decente, y genuino, que ha encontrado para dejar su país y descubrir el hemisferio del bienestar. Pero la disponibilidad apabullante de libros en la biblioteca y de papel higiénico en los supermercados se ve contrarrestada por unas condiciones habitacionales tan desastrosas como las del Cono Sur, aunque el doble de caras.

Endlich: Wassermusik als Komplettlesung! Boyle erzählt die weitgehend wahre Geschichte des schottischen Forschers Mungo Park, der Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts als erster Weißer den Verlauf des Niger erkundete und von seiner zweiten Reise nicht mehr zurückkam. Frei erfunden ist hingegen die Figur des Ned Rise, der mit dem spröden Briten die wildesten Abenteuer besteht. Den beiden Helden zugesellt ist ein phantastisches Panoptikum von Hexen und Schlägern, Kannibalen, Huren, Glücksrittern. Mit einem Wort: Boyle at his best!

こんなはずでなかった結婚。捨て去れない華やいだ過去。拭いきれない姉への劣等感。夫から切り出された別離。いつの間にか心が離れた恋人。……真面目に、正直に、懸命に生きてきた。なのに、なぜ? 誰に

நாம் வாழும் மண்ணுக்குக் கீழ் ஏழு உலகங்கள் உள்ளன என்பது புராண நம்பிக்கை. ஏழாவது உலகம் பாதாளம். ஆனால் புராணத்தில் மட்டும்தான் அப்படியா? நிஜவாழ்க்கையில் இல்லையா என்ன? நாம் வாழும் இந்த சமூகத்துக்குக் கீழே நம்மால் மிதிக்கப்பட்டு அமுக்கப்பட்ட எத்தனை சமூகங்கள் நம் கவனத்துக்கு வராமலேயே இருந்து கொண்டிருக்கின்றன!

”I’ll read anything she writes” — Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author While blogger Angela Clark explores the most romantic city in the world, she must keep her relationship, and her career, from falling apart—in this sequel to Lindsey Kelk’s I Heart New York Angela...

Som datter og barnebarn af to prominente Manhattan-advokater har Meredith McKenzie ikke bare fået retfærdighedsfølelse ind med modermælken, hun har også haft adgang til de bedste skoler og de mest indflydelsesrige omgangskredse. Da Meredith træder ud i voksenlivet, er det med en drøm om at kæmpe det godes kamp og agere forsvarer for alle dem, som ikke kan selv. Hun vil leve sit eget liv og ikke dikteres af samfundet, på trods af traditioner og forældrenes formaninger.

A brilliantly original debut about a love affair cut short, and how lonely it is to live inside a secret -- for fans of Sally Rooney, Sheila Heti, and Ottessa Moshfegh. Ana Kelly can deal with death. As an estate lawyer, an unfortunate part of her day-to-day is phone calls from the next of kin...

« Sintiendo un chingo » es un ejercicio literario que oscila entre géneros y que surge, también en un equilibrio preciso, de la mente y espíritu de su autora Greta Garrett. A través de estos textos, acaso de apariencia efímera gracias a su breve morfología, Garrett explora con una mirada personal y profunda todos esos destellos que la vida nos regala, ya sean para enfrentarnos a nosotros mismos, para ser disfrutados sin reparos, o que nos impondrán una enseñanza eterna e inolvidable.

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.

板橋の商店街で、父の代から続く中華そば屋を営む康平は、一緒に店を切り盛りしてきた妻を急病で失って、長い間休業していた。ある日、分厚い本の間から、妻宛ての古いはがきを見つける。

Ed is having a hard time - at work, in his love life and, well, generally. Then he meets an unlikely Buddhist - who drinks and smokes and talks his kind of language. Bit by bit, things begin to change...Ed doesn't always take Geoff's advice. Or, when he does he lapses at the crucial moment. His path to understanding is not a straight one, especially as life keeps throwing more and more 'stuff' at him.

A thrillingly original story of the adventures of a small band of feral cats in Delhi who communicate by whisker mind-link and face an unprecedented threat to their tribe's survival; for listeners of Life of Pi and Philip Pullman. In the labyrinthine alleys and ruins of Nizamuddin, an old neighbourhood in Delhi, India, lives a small band of cats.

In Scarborough, a low-income urban neighborhood, three kids struggle to rise above poverty, abuse, and a system that consistently fails them. The adults in their lives either rise to the occasion or fall by the wayside; together, they make up a troubled yet inspired community that refuses to be undone.

Cette nuit j'ai rêvé que je retournais au Cimetière des Livres oubliés... Dans la Barcelone franquiste des années de plomb, la disparition d'un ministre déchaîne une cascade d'assassinats, de représailles et de mystères. Mais pour contrer la censure, la propagande et la terreur, la jeune Alicia Gris, tout droit sortie des entrailles de ce régime nauséabond, est habile à se jouer des miroirs et des masques. Son enquête l'amène à croiser la route du libraire Daniel Sempere.

Agnes Martí es una joven arqueóloga que se muda a Londres en busca de una oportunidad. Poco tiempo después de llegar a la ciudad, sorprendida por una repentina lluvia mientras pasea por el barrio del Temple y se refugia en una librería muy especial: Moonlight Books. Edward Livingstone está buscando una ayudante y, en el tiempo que Agnes tarda en secarse y tomar una taza de té caliente, ambos comprenden que no es casualidad que sea precisamente ella quien ha llamado a su puerta.

Loner Cole North has always been the odd guy out. His IQ is sky-high, but he’s not so bright when it comes to people or relationships. Years ago, he spurned expectations, shunned his family’s business, and embraced a career in construction, instead. Now, he values his job above everything, in part because of his secret feelings for his boss Sierra.

エリートバンカーの恋窪商太郎は、いわれなき罪を着せられ大手銀行を辞職、地方銀行の庶務行員となって静かな日々を過ごしていた――元ライバル・桜井の「話したいことがある」という電話に出るまでは。

Two worlds, two timelines and one person's impact. Manhattan, 1963: weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy, fresh-faced Raymond Wallace lands in the New York Times newsroom on a three-month bursary from Cambridge University. He soon discovers his elusive boss, Bukowski, is being covertly blackmailed by an estranged wife, and that he himself is to assist the straight-laced Doty on an article about the ‘explosion of overt homosexuality’.

Esta magnífica novela explora las corruptas interrelaciones entre el crimen organizado, las altas finanzas y el periodismo. La acción se desarrolla a lo largo de un día normal en la sede de un periódico londinense.