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America in the 1920s was a country alive with the wild fun of jazz, speakeasies, and a new kind of woman—the flapper. Vera Abramowitz is determined to leave her gritty childhood behind and live a more exciting life, one that her mother never dreamed of. Bobbing her hair and showing her knees...

On a December morning in 1982, the courtyard of a Beijing siheyuan - a lively quadrangle of homes - begins to stir. Auntie Xue’s son Jiyue is getting married today, and she is determined to make the day a triumph. Despite Jiyue’s woeful ignorance in matters of the heart - and the body. Despite a chef in training tasked with the onerous responsibility of preparing the banquet.

A lyrical novel, spanning four decades in New York City, about a couple torn apart and the lengths to which they will go to be reunited. Vince Passaro’s first novel, 2002’s Violence, Nudity, Adult Content, was a provocative book that explored the darkest human emotions and the traumas of...

Dasia Harris lives an ordinary life in London. Well, ordinary for a woman determined to blend in at all costs. Once a gifted computer engineer, now Dasia eschews social media and takes one temporary, dead-end job after another. Because her mother was right: she's not to be trusted. When Dasia does what comes naturally to her, people get hurt.

London is gripped by terror as a mastermind recreates history's most gruesome murders—without ever dirtying his hands. Paramedic Tom Freedman recruits his killers from the shadows of the internet, manipulating the broken and desperate to carry out his deadly vision. Emotionally damaged criminologist Ethan Marshall is dragged into the case, tasked with stopping a predator who thrives on control and chaos. When Tom's twisted game turns personal, Ethan receives chilling taunts and watches as the killer tightens his grip, pulling him further into the nightmare.

Imaginez : un homme vous sauve la vie, en échange de votre engagement de faire tout ce qu'il vous demande... pour votre bien. Le dos au mur, vous acceptez et vous vous retrouvez embarqué dans une incroyable situation où tout semble vous échapper. Vous n'êtes plus le maître de votre vie.

Ambitious event planner Daisy Haywood is torn between a safe and steady engagement to Harvey Harris and her lingering love for Max Galant, the adventurous journalist who left her to pursue this career overseas. Daisy must decide if love is a luxury she can afford or the only thing worth fighting for. Reckless Bridie Haywood returns from London under a cloud of mystery; her plight worsens when her movie star good looks attract the attention of notorious Beamer’s factory boss Henry Beamer who is only after one thing.

Znikają dzieci kontrowersyjnego działacza mniejszości niemieckiej. Śledztwo przeradza się w walkę z czasem. Przed trudnym zadaniem staje ambitna policjantka Olga Olszewska. Wspierają ją bezkompromisowy były milicjant Marian Żwirski i doświadczony oficer Bernard Bednar. Każdy krok na drodze do prawdy zmusi ich do konfrontacji nie tylko z porywaczem, ale także z własnymi lękami, bolesnymi sekretami, presją mediów i uwikłanych w polityczne układy przełożonych.

Jede Geschichte spielt in der Advents- und Weihnachtszeit, erzählt in einfachen, schönen Sätzen und mit viel Atmosphäre. Du spürst Nähe, Hoffnung und die leisen Wunder, die genau dann passieren, wenn man sie am meisten braucht. Dieses Buch schenkt dir vom ersten Satz an weihnachtliche Stimmung.

Editoriales embusteras, comediantes retirados y niños perdidos en el subsuelo convergen en esta novela, un caleidoscopio de personajes e hilos narrativos que van tejiendo la biografía de una ciudad. A través de fragmentos hábilmente entrelazados, moviéndose entre lo individual y lo colectivo Desafiante como un rompecabezas y ligera com una sonrisa, le devuelve a la narrativa su potencia de juego e invención.

Looking up at the departures board in Heathrow airport, her flight to New York boarding soon, she knows that getting on that plane changes everything. Her life in London has grown stale, her relationship with boyfriend Dom has run its course, and New York has always been her dream. But it’s a risk – she’ll miss her parents, her friends, her job. What if Bea could live both lives? In one she goes back home for Christmas, and in another she heads to the Big Apple.

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World-renowned pianist Gloria Banderas is at the height of her career when a curious ailment forces her to cancel a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall. The same day, she befriends one of the many free-spirited artists inhabiting the warren of apartments above the theater. With her career and marriage at a standstill, Gloria moves into an empty studio and convalesces among the poets, photographers, and dancers who eke out a living with total dedication to their art. As a return to her old routine beckons, Gloria must decide which parts of her life are worth fighting for.

What Pretty Girls Are Made Of breaks the lipstick seal of silence in this thinly veiled tell-all about what it’s like working in the cosmetic trenches. Roth’s roman-a-clef centers around the indefatigable Alison Kraft, who lands a new career in the cutthroat world of high-end makeup, ensnared under a new boss who could give even Miranda Priestly a run for her money.

Perché un paladino in copertina? Certamente perché il racconto, intrigante e pieno di atmosfera, è ambientato in Sicilia - ma tranquilli, di dialetto ce n'è poco. Quanto basta, "come il sale", secondo una lettrice di Parma. Ma c'è un secondo motivo. In tutti i racconti tratti da "Pilipintò - Racconti da bagno per Siciliani e non", come in questo che state per ascoltare dalla mia voce, troverete trame e capovolgimenti di prospettiva.

What if you got a second chance with your first love? What happens when you meet your teenage heart-throb - when you're both all grown up? When Cassie was fifteen, all she wanted was to marry Jesse Franklin, the bassist from her favourite band, Franko. Now she's single, in her late twenties and wondering what happened to that teenage dream. A chance encounter on Facebook soon leads to a transatlantic hookup, and soon, Jesse and Cassie are having a long-distance love affair spanning five thousand miles.

Harry Gelbs Rohstoff sind Opium auf einem Dach in Istanbul und LSD in einer Kommune in Berlin, sind Heroin in einer Göttinger Mansarde und unzählige Biere in Frankfurts Kneipen - vor allem aber ist sein Rohstoff das Schreiben. Rasant, brutal ehrlich und witzig erzählt Fausers Alter Ego von einer gefährlichen wie gefährdeten Jugend und von einem Mann, der weder als Nachtwächter noch als Flughafenpacker vergisst, was er sein will: Schriftsteller.

A surreal love letter to this private side of the Met, Metropolitan Stories unfolds in a series of amusing and poignant vignettes in which we discover larger-than-life characters, the downside of survival, and the powerful voices of the art itself. The result is a novel bursting with magic, humor, and energetic detail, but also a beautiful book about introspection, an ode to lives lived for art, ultimately building a powerful collage of human experience and the world of the imagination.

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Pretty Revenge—a “gripping tale of subterfuge, betrayal, and retribution” (Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish)—comes the story of a journalist obsessed with finding a crime novelist who disappears after a deadly attack on...

On an ordinary Saturday morning in 1996, the residents of Nightingale Point wake up to their normal lives and worries. Mary has a secret life that no one knows about, not even Malachi and Tristan, the brothers she vowed to look after. Malachi had to grow up too quickly. Between looking after Tristan and nursing a broken heart, he feels older than his 21 years. Tristan wishes Malachi would stop pining for Pamela. No wonder he's falling in with the wrong crowd, without Malachi to keep him straight.