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Ning is a retired boxer, but to the customers who visit her nail salon, she is just another worker named Susan. On this summer's day, much like any other, the Susans buff and clip and polish and tweeze. They listen and smile and nod. But beneath this superficial veneer, Ning is a woman of rigorous intellect and profound complexity. A woman enthralled by the intricacy and rhythms of her work, but also haunted by memories of paths not taken and opportunities lost. A woman navigating the complex power dynamics among her fellow Susans, whose greatest fears and desires lie just behind the gossip they exchange.

At work, Margaret is the well-regarded curator of fashion for a big city museum. At home, she is the mother of lively, teenaged twin girls, the spouse of a successful mystery writer, and a daughter still grieving the recent death of her beloved father. As she prepares to launch a career-defining exhibition on the haute couture of legendary French designer Dior, she faces fierce internal politics from her peers alongside unsettling questions from a younger generation. To make matters more worrying, items in the Dior collection mysteriously begin to disappear.

Six is 6′7″, scheming to rejoin the starting lineup, and barely checks her phone. Green is 6′1″, always building her brand, and secretly jealous of her more famous girlfriend. Together, they’re going where no Asian American trans woman has gone before: the men’s pro indoor volleyball league. Our hot girls with balls just thought playing with the boys would spare them some controversy . . . haha.

മനസ്സിന്റെ ചാഞ്ചല്യങ്ങള്‍ വ്യക്തിന്ധങ്ങളെ പലപ്പോഴും നിയന്ത്രിക്കാറു്യുെണ്ടങ്കിലും ഊഷ്മള ബന്ധങ്ങള്‍ നിലനില്‍ക്കുമെന്ന് ജീവിതത്തിന്റെ ഭിന്നമുഖങ്ങള്‍ മനോഹരമായി ആവിഷ്‌കരി ക്കുന്ന ഈ നോവല്‍ സാക്ഷ്യപ്പെടുത്തുന്നു.

En 1899, Rafael Vega pierde en un torneo de póquer las escrituras de su casa y de su hacienda. Abrumado por la culpa y sin nada con lo que mantener a su familia, decide quitarse la vida dejando desamparadas a sus dos hijas junto a su mujer. El mismo día del funeral, el ganador pide ejecutar las escrituras o recibir a cambio el dinero equivalente a su deuda, obligando a la viuda a tomar una pronta decisión. Robert Conde, un hombre que consigue amasar grandes cantidades de dinero que invierte en la compraventa de tierras, conocerá a Natalia, la hija menor de los Vega, y le propondrá un ...

THE REAL AMERICA In a time when too much emphasis is on America's past sins, instead of our many celebrated accomplishments, The Pot of Gold at the Rainbow Café is a breath of fresh air. It's a story about what’s right with America, its big heart and its kind and generous people. It is an inspiring, touching, humorous story about main-street America, still the land of opportunity and exceptionalism, where fairy-tale endings are still common. It’s a place of random acts of kindness, where neighbors look out for each other and for strangers, too, passing their American good fortune along...

Nels Watson has been having nightmares for as long as he can remember—some so violent and real he wakes up sweat-soaked and trembling with fear. His problems start when he travels to the beachfront community of Costambar, on the north shore of the Dominican Republic. He meets his long-time girlfriend Novelee and strange things start happening—his worst nightmares begin coming true. He dreams of his friends being stalked and killed and suddenly realizes he is being hunted by a ruthless killer. Novelee’s behavior becomes increasingly erratic and belongings go missing from his apartment....

Amor entre las sierras II: Susurros desde el cielo Suele decirse que los amigos son la familia que uno escoge, pero, ¿cuánto hay de verdad en estas palabras? Tal vez más de lo que imaginas. Y si deseas asegurarte, comprueba por ti mismo el grandioso e invencible vínculo que nuestro ya conocido Lumber logró formar con las personas que pasaron a vivir en su hospitalario rancho. Regresa a las majestuosas sierras uruguayas y aprende definitivamente el verdadero significado de la palabra “amor” Adelante, las puertas de “Más allá del Horizonte”, se abren una vez más para ...

Tomando un té Como todos los jueves, Damián Núñez salió del consultorio de su terapeuta y fue a tomar un té a su confitería preferida, “La Posada del Mar”, ubicado frente a la Playa Pocitos, uno de los barrios residenciales de Montevideo. Sin duda el jueves era su día predilecto, no solo porque tenía libre en el supermercado donde trabajaba como reponedor, sino porque también tenía su consulta semanal con el Doctor Brandon, su psicólogo desde hacía ya cinco años. -Sin duda me cambió la vida. Además de ayudarme a comprender que siempre sería Gay, me convenció acerca de ...

La vida era perfecta para Verónica. Estaba perdidamente enamorada del hombre más maravilloso del mundo, y en tres semanas se iban a casar. Pero un viaje a Estocolmo trastocará todos sus planes. Envuelta en un inesperado accidente, Verónica tendrá que aprender a reencontrarse consigo misma, y poner sus sentimientos en orden. En medio de su confusión aparecerá Nathan, hermano de Marco, y su futuro cuñado. Aunque en un principio Verónica no lo traga, su opinión empieza a cambiar radicalmente. Él joven hará todo lo posible porque se enamore de él, pero Marco no se dará por vencido...

Publicados entre 1992 y 1998, los poemas de La arena errante de José Emilio Pacheco reflejan la inquietud existencial y el asombro de estar vivos. La arena es tiempo que transcurre en un reloj. La arena es playa en la que se estrella el mar interminablemente. La arena errante es la que viaja en el desierto, sin dirección ni destino. La arena errante es la conciencia del tiempo en vilo que nunca se detiene. La poesía es el registro del instante y, en el caso de José Emilio Pacheco: conciencia de la vida que transcurre con todas sus imperfecciones y, también, con todas sus dichas.

Das Problem der Spielsucht ist heute aktueller denn je. Der weltweit berühmteste, auch mehrfach verfilmte Roman zu diesem Thema ist Der Spieler von Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski. Keine leichte Lektüre!

Author of the Lady Ashcroft Mysteries series, brings you her historical fiction drama. A fictional historical drama, set in the mid 1800s Ireland. Kirkville is situated on the eastern coastline of Ulster, County Down. There are several estates that are controlled by their masters, but not everyone is pleased by this authority, and who is charging them rent during a time when the famine is taking its hold. Olivia travels from her homeland of America to visit her cousin right here in this quiet little village, though she is soon to realise that her first opinions were but a skim across a very...

Coming of age in 1990s Florida... Sex & drugs & dark music... Goth & Fetish Clubs... Abandoned Cocaine Gangster Hotels... Love & Violence... Friendships that last for life & beyond... A psychedelic underground in pastel-colored Miami... Ivy and her girlfriends roll with the crazy Florida waves and vibes and weirdos as they learn the ropes of reality (so-called)... And things happen. They really do. THINGS HAPPEN is American artist & psychoanalyst Vanessa Sinclair’s debut novel: a prism of stories, fragments, and memories chronicling a young woman’s experiences of growing up in the ...

Con poemas escritos entre 1985 y 1996, en El silencio de la Luna José Emilio Pacheco sintetiza hasta sus últimas posibilidades las palabras que animan sus poemas, hasta demostrar que están hechas "de la esencia del mundo". En la poesía de José Emilio Pacheco se reúnen la imaginación y la memoria, el gozo de la vida y la pesadumbre por el tiempo que pasa. El registro de los temas que abarcan sus poemas es amplio y generoso. Pero, más allá de eso, están la música de su poesía, los múltiples ritmos del mundo —música y ruido— que supo captar su oído prodigioso y la tenacidad de su honda mirada.

POESIA Y LIBERTAD: PEREGRINACIÓN, TETRALOGÍA INDÍGENA CANTOS DEL EXILIO . Escribir y transmitir ha sido hoy y siempre una larga y profunda actitud. Repensar nuestra cultura, nuestra historia, nuestra identidad no nos aleja de esa actitud. En el caso de nuestros pueblos centroamericanos, en especial nuestros pueblos que en un pasado habitaron y hasta hoy en día continúan vivos a través de la cultura y su descendencia, en donde se asentaron lejanos pueblos llamados originarios, hemos contado no sólo con tradición oral, que es válida y honrosa; asimismo hemos contado con escritura, ...

Marcos Valdez already had more women than he could stand. But no, the rich playboy just had to have the very beautiful, the very innocent Chasity Bradshaw too. In doing so, he set off a chain of events that splattered both of their lives with vivid pain and agony for many years to come. Unfortunately for Marcos, he realized too late that he really was in love with Chasity and desperately wanted her back. As for Chasity, her faith in people was devastated, her faith in God was severely tested, and she wanted nothing else to do with Marcos. Will Marcos ever reclaim the heart of the woman he ...

A woman wanting freedom. A man determined to keep his family safe and secure. A marriage doomed before it’s begun…"A shepherd's hut, twenty-four hours, a stranger..." It's not the perfect start to Gemma Winters' new life--another man is the last thing she needs after the suffocating control of her ex. But this man proves hard to resist! Callum Mackenzie blames himself for his wife’s death—he should have taken better care of her. So, when a one-night stand with a beautiful red-head has consequences, he’s determined to make sure both she, and their baby, are looked after and safe. ...

An art restorer looking for a home. A grief-stricken widower running from his emotions. A painting which brings them together but which reveals a mysterious past from which neither can escape…After an itinerant and lonely childhood, art restorer Lucia yearns for what other people have—a home, husband and children. There is no way she’s going to get involved with a commitment-phobe again. Guy takes the concept of a commitment-phobe to a whole new level—but with good reason. He’s been running from his emotions since his wife’s death. But their lives become entwined when Lucia ...

A grieving mother intent on revenge. A millionaire who values honesty above all else. A love threatened by the legacy of family….Cassandra Lee is a woman on a mission. She’s lost both her son and father in tragic circumstances and she’s determined to exact revenge on the man she holds responsible by attacking the only thing that matters to him—his wealth. And Dallas Mackenzie’s wealth is important to him. He’s spent years intent on two things—being the opposite of his father and restoring his family’s fortunes. But, in so doing, he’s created an emotionally empty life for ...