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Twenty-five-year-old Francine Veyrenattes, confined to the family farm, already feels that life is passing her by. But after Francine lets slip a terrible secret, culminating in the violent deaths of her brother and uncle, her world is shattered. Fleeing the farm for the seaside, Francine finds herself disintegrating. Lying in the sun with her toes in the sand, she restlessly wishes for things to be somehow easier, to have a life worth living.

n Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter and two women meet, changing the course of one another’s lives. Dinah has come to Japan from New Zealand to teach English and grieve the death of her brother, Michael. Yasuko is polished, precise and keenly observant of her students and colleagues at the language school, and of the natural world. When she was 13, animals began to speak to her, to tell her things she did not always want to hear.

An Australian literary hoax lies at the core of My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey's captivating contemplation of the art world. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, editor of a London poetry journal, meets the mysterious Christopher Chubb. An Australian literary hoaxer, Chubb is carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. In this dubious work Sarah recognises a real genius. But whose genius? She is drawn into a fantastic story of imposture, murder, kidnapping and exile, which couldn't be true unless its teller were mad. Or perhaps haunted.

As single mother Leah struggles to get her children ready one morning, the doorbell rings. Standing on the doorstep of their terraced house in Whitley Bay is a well-dressed stranger, Clio, who feels an emotional tie to the house that she can’t explain.

Doggone is a story of loss. It is also a wickedly wry tale of love gone wrong in three generations of a middle-class American family. It combines the heartaches and longings of the parents, grandparents, and children as they struggle with the skeletons and secret addictions kept hidden deep in the household closets. Suicide becomes a stumbling stone on their path. Learning to survive their losses presents them with an even greater hurdle.

Jhilli has come to New York for a few months from Kolkata for training at the School of Social Sciences, staying with her childhood friend Shipra in Queens. Through Jhilli’s eyes, we see the wonders of New York, meet their Bengali friends, and experience their friendships and romances with native New Yorkers Gloria, Joshua, and Benjamin.

Normalerweise ist das Café Marble montags geschlossen. An jedem ersten Montag im Monat findet hier jedoch eine Teeverkostung der besonderen Art statt. Alle Gäste des Cafés sind an einem Punkt in ihrem Leben, an dem sie Halt und Trost brauchen. Und so wird das Café zu einem Ort unerwarteter Begegnungen – und zu einem Ausgangspunkt für Neubeginn und zweite Chancen.

Based on true events, this author/narrator takes you on a disturbing ride as she shares her story of generational trauma and dysfunction. Presented in a matter of fact approach, this weave of tales is understandable and unbelievable. The behaviors of her siblings, parents and grandparents sets the stage as we are introduced to her family’s manipulation and continuous plotting and truth twisting. Each character gives the listener an inside view of how they embraced and expressed their emotional and social deficiencies and used them as a method of control, abuse, and extreme cruelty.

Eine Löwenoma gibt niemals auf Und plötzlich sind ihre geliebten Enkelkinder weg — von jetzt auf gleich — durchs Jugendamt! Für Roberta und ihre Tochter Gloria bricht eine Welt zusammen: Das kann doch nicht wahr sein! Hat das Jugendamt nur einen Fehler gemacht oder steckt hinter der Wegnahme der Kinder eine böse Absicht? Verzweifelt wird ihnen klar, dass sie die Kinder nicht beschützen können und der Behördenwillkür hilflos ausgeliefert sind. Nachdem sie die Schockstarre abgelegt hat, nimmt Roberta an der Seite ihrer Tochter den Kampf um die Kinder auf.

Flight 816 has been hijacked and the terrorists have decided to auction off the passengers online. The passengers who receive the highest bids will be released. The passengers who receive the lowest bids will be executed. Life can't be better for veteran pilot Larry Walder. He has a great job, a terrific kid, a gorgeous wife - and no inkling that tonight will be the end of the world as he knows it. In the early hours before the Fourth of July, three men break into Larry's home.

Dorrie Gilbert, a potter who lives alone, is completely unprepared for motherhood when her oddball, overweight, and orphaned nephew Hugo comes to live with her, demanding to know the truth about his parents and horrified that she doesn't own a television so he can watch the soap opera he's devoted to. As Dorrie and Hugo attempt to work things out, each learns some hard and surprising, but deeply satisfying, truths about real life.

Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Vanessa has always found it easy to pretend to be somebody different, somebody better. When things get tough in her real life, all she has to do is throw on some nicer clothes, adopt a new accent and she can escape. That's how it started: looking round houses she couldn't possibly afford. Harmless fun really. Until it wasn't. Because a man who lived in one of those houses is dead. And everyone thinks Vanessa killed him.

Alcoholism is a creeping, crippling tragedy that affects the lives of millions. It's irrevocably affected the life of Louis van Pletten. At 45 years old, he is still struggling to complete his third book, his great masterpiece, his magnum opus. Trouble is, at over 300 pages, it's morbid, dark as hell, and as full of utter misery and self-loathing as he is. He can barely stand to read it himself. He should burn it, but it's taken him three years to write the damn thing. And he has no spark left to start over - and just enough money left to last him three more months.

The Time of Women by Elena Chizhova is a poignant story set in mid-20th century Soviet Union, where a single mother, Antonina, raises her mute daughter with the help of three elderly women in a communal apartment. Together, they create a fragile haven in a challenging world, sharing their histories and protecting the child from state intervention.

El reparto de la herencia familiar se convertirá en un tema de desencuentro. La aparente disputa entre los hermanos por las propiedades encierra algo mucho más profundo: los fantasmas del pasado regresan y lo que parecía olvidado revive en la familia.

The novel begins when the man who assaulted Andrew Harrison’s sister is released from prison. Benjamin Williams was barely more than a kid when he was sentenced to 11 years, but it is impossible to know what he has become since. Andrew, nicknamed H, is compelled to learn for himself when his uncle Billy hands him a gun and says to go find the man. As H’s interest in Williams grows, he struggles to keep his world in balance.

Una vida regalada dibuixa un territori, la Barcelona més confusa i opaca del barri de la Ribera. La matèria primera d'aquesta història és la relació, contradictòria i variada, que el narrador i protagonista ha mantingut amb les dones amb qui ha compartit la vida. És una autobiografia literària, una introspecció sense contemplacions i una mirada fresca i poc respectuosa projectada sobre el carrer. La novel·la explora un triangle impúdic entre un Diògenes modern reciclat per la psicoanàlisi, les dones i la literatura.