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Desperate to escape their high-pressure life in Los Angeles, the Finch family moves to rural Oregon. But it doesn’t take long to learn that “small town” is not code for “stress-free.” As the new owners of Applegate's one and only general store, the Finches find that the simple life’s anything but simple when your little store is the town's only grocery store, gas station, hardware store, fire station, and occasional dentist’s office.

Can she stop messing it up before she hits fifty? Millie is old enough to know better. Just don’t tell her that. At forty-nine, her life is in freefall. Everyone around her seems to have it all figured out—meanwhile, she’s stuck in a job she hates and back living with her mum. Avoiding...

Kyle Clayton, a once-hot-now-not young author/provocateur moves through the New York nightlife in an inebriated haze until he meets his literary hero, the dyspeptic and obscure novelist Richard Whitehurst, who tries to set him right. Whitehurst is suffering his own form of breakdown, due to years of public ambivalence to his work and his own neglect of his much younger wife. As the two spirits collide, they find in the other the crutch they've both been seeking.

Turn every corner and you'll easily find someone ready to tell you what to do, but you won't find many willing to tell you what NOT to do. WHY? Because it would show vulnerability and may even be a little embarrassing. That's where F-BOMB YOUR LIFE COMES IN.

Emiliano, un joven sin perspectivas de futuro estancado en Miami, recibe una tentadora oferta económica por parte de un reality show alemán. El único detalle es que su padre, el poeta Alfonso Dubuc, debe acompañarlo. El anciano está convencido de ser el mejor escritor de América Latina y jura tener el vigor sexual de un adolescente. Para él, la próxima invitación debería venir de Suecia y anunciar un premio Nobel. En medio hay una madrastra que todo lo resuelve con unas pastillas anaranjadas. En el pasado, un momento fundacional del mito, y un lugar: La Habana de principios de los ochenta.