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Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America’s whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the ’90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a break-out voice that’s nothing less than extraordinary. The Residue Years switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother, Grace.

Beverley Cottrell had a dream life: a prestigious job, a beautiful husband and baby boy. This is stolen from her one winter afternoon when her son Malakay is kidnapped from a parked car. Despite a media campaign, a full police investigation, and the offer of a reward, Malakay is never found. Beverley's marriage soon dissolves and her husband immigrates from England to the U.S. with a new wife.

Fleeing her moribund marriage in Cape Town, Beth accepts a diplomatic posting to Shanghai. In this anonymous city, she hopes to lose herself in books, wine, and solitude, and to dodge whatever pangs of conscience she feels for her fealty to a South African regime that, by the 21st century, has betrayed its early promises.

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.

Der Auftakt zur neuen Familiensaga über eine große Liebe und die gesellschaftlichen Schranken der Kaiserzeit von Kindle-#1-Bestsellerautorin Margit Steinborn. Du hast mich gesucht. Einen Herbst und einen Winter lang... Berlin, 1908. Nirgendwo sonst prallen die sozialen Gegensätze der Klassengesellschaft so aufeinander wie hier: Die Oberschicht feiert rauschende Feste, während die Arbeiterschaft in ärmlichen Verhältnissen ihr Leben fristet. Nach einem Unfall des Vaters in der Maschinenfabrik Wittmann droht Isa und ihrer Familie das soziale Elend.

My name is Eddie Rosas, but everyone calls me Trouble. Since I got out of prison six months ago, I've had one goal: find my father, whatever the cost. My older brother says I need to move on. He also wants me to leave our gang, East Side Hollenbeck, and go straight, but I can't - not until I uncover the truth about our family and its missing piece.

A perfect college. Three imperfect students. A caring hostel. Three careless mates. The decisive years. Three ignorant souls. A bomb blast and a close shave. Welcome to life through the gate of BHU.

New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying, as always, to keep some kind of peace - their legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in evidence - Coffin Ed and Grave Digger find themselves pursuing two completely different cases through a maze of knifings, beatings, and riots that threatens to tear Harlem apart.

Dorothy Darling, 77 Jahre alt und misstrauische Eigenbrötlerin, lebt schon fast ihr halbes Leben in Shelley House im beschaulichen Chalcot. Als die 25-jährige Kat, die nicht nur pinke Haare hat, sondern auch noch ein schrottreifes Auto fährt, (illegalerweise!) bei Dorothys Nachbarn Joseph zur Untermiete einzieht, wittert die alte Dame Ärger. Shelley House soll abgerissen und durch ein Gebäude mit Luxusapartments ersetzt werden. Kat und Dorothy müssen sich verbünden, um den Frieden wiederherzustellen und Shelley House zu retten.

«La pancia del paguro è un’opera d’arte. Si è inventato un addome molle e asimmetrico, che gli permette di volta in volta, di conchiglia in conchiglia, di adattarsi al nuovo spazio, con appendici addominali modificabili che gli consentono di far aderire saldamente il corpo al guscio. Il paguro lo fa. Noi lo facciamo. Noi siamo paguri. Con la differenza che al posto di un addome molle e di chele abbiamo apposite estremità – due piedi, due mani, una schiena, una pancia – che ci guidano. Che ci insegnano. Che ci permettono di creare i luoghi dove conosciamo gli altri e il mondo».

En l'estel·la de les celebrades novel·les L'estiu que comença (Premi Ramon Llull), Un any i mig i Els vells amics, torna Sílvia Soler. Nosaltres, després és una novel·la sobre el pas del temps, l'amor i els daltabaixos que cada vida comporta.

En plena i fosca època franquista de censura permanent, Vallbona ens trasllada a una Barcelona clandestina de «bars, alcohol, noies, jazz, fum i quimeres de somiatruites que es pensaven que eren a Saint-Germain-des-Prés», transitada, entre d'altres, per Joan de Sagarra i Vázquez Montalbán, i marcada pel naixement de la mítica sala Jamboree, que molt aviat comptaria amb els Jazz Brothers i la Gloria Stewart, que es va convertir en la musa jazzística de la ciutat.

«Scoprii che esiste un’altra parola per definire una foiba, dolina, e provai a usarla per sostituire quel brutto termine nella mia testa – dolina portava con sé tutta una languida atmosfera ungarettiana, mi faceva sentire una docile fibra dell'universo. Ma non ce l’ho fatta: il termine dolina non ha attecchito. Non si può mettere in mezzo la poesia per attenuare il suono dei cadaveri che scricchiolano sotto le scarpe.» L'Istria è un luogo meraviglioso per passarci le vacanze.

Alessio Slaviero è un uomo molto temuto nel suo quartiere, quel triangolo di strade strette che si estende a Milano tra viale Monza, via Padova e la ferrovia; il ventre oscuro della città, dove il territorio si conquista e si difende con la forza, tutti i giorni. Alessio Slaviero è un uomo assediato da mille ombre e da mille fantasmi. Il suo unico amico è Manuel, un travestito brasiliano bello come un adolescente cattivo, che abita nell'appartamento di fianco.

Bruce Blanc, fresh off a nine-year prison jolt and back on the streets of Honolulu, is about to turn 41. He finds himself embroiled in urban Honolulu’s Asian American nightlife. Kids lighting up the night with cocaine and killing daylight with Xanax. Girls who spend more time looking at themselves in the mirror than Snow White’s stepmom; the older divorcees with means who prey on them. And 90-pound female drug lords and the cops in love with them. A new bar is opening or shutting down daily.

La ciudad de Dios es una antología de artículos y relatos que Pier Paolo Pasolini escribió en su mayoría en la década de los cincuenta, recién llegado de Friuli a una Roma aún extraña y ya desesperadamente querida, telón de fondo a la vez grotesco y poético de estas páginas publicadas por primera vez en España.

Deux jeunes gens se cherchent du regard dans un pub londonien, échangent quelques mots, se revoient. Lui tente de percer dans la photographie, elle est danseuse. Ils partagent la même ambition, les mêmes blessures et bientôt un amour aussi fusionnel que tendre. "Open Water" raconte ce que c'est d'être noir dans une ville qui tantôt vous acclame, tantôt vous rejette. Une ville où l'on vous regarde plutôt que l'on vous voit. Le racisme insidieux qui abîme et la peur qui étreint lorsqu'on sort de chez soi.

Dans une ville imaginaire de Californie, se croisent les destins d’hommes et de femmes venus des quatre coins du monde pour participer à la construction d’un gigantesque pont suspendu. Après une interruption pour des raisons écologiques, le chantier reprend de plus belle, une histoire d’amour imprévue se dessine et une grève se profile. Un récit épique sur les effets collatéraux de la mondialisation.

There are stories we never talk about. Stories we are afraid to share. Simply because they hurt too much or no one wants to listen to them. Such was the story of Jhanvi, who is a budding social media influencer. She appears to have it all together, but something is missing: Jhanvi has this impossible need that drives her to be more perfect than any person could possibly be. And the story of Ashray, who had a rocky start in life. With hard work and determination, he translates his dreams into reality, but his deep-seated insecurities come to the fore when life throws him a curveball.

Lo scrittore Guido Battaglia è un inventore di storie, meglio, di barzellette. In crisi dopo la partenza della collega Valeria, talento prezioso per la stesura d’ogni sua opera, vive smarrito in un’imprecisata città su cui imperversa un bacillo sconosciuto, dando intanto corpo a ricordi e fantasmi. In un’atmosfera sospesa, segnata dal passaggio dei camion del genio militare e delle ambulanze, viene incaricato da due irresistibili ragazze di comporre la storia che salvi non solo la propria, ma tutte le città dall’assedio della “peste nuova”.