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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.

Maggie Wilson was only 33, but life in the teeming streets of Walworth was not that easy in 1908 - not if you were a widow with four young daughters. It was pretty much a hand-to-mouth existence, and without the lodger Maggie really wouldn't have managed at all. Constable Harry Bradshaw thought the Wilsons were a gutsy and brave little family.

In a crumbling apartment block in the Angolan city of Luanda, families work, laugh, scheme, and get by. In the middle of it all is the melancholic Odonato, nostalgic for the country of his youth and searching for his lost son. As his hope drains away and as the city outside his doors changes beyond all recognition, Odonato’s flesh becomes transparent and his body increasingly weightless.

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.

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.

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.

In working-class Bay Ridge, Michael drives for a car service and gives lifts to his father, a former sanitation worker and current small-time bookie. He has a friend with a heroin habit, and a longtime girlfriend who expects they’ll get married one of these days. Michael spends most of his time on the familiar streets where he grew up, but now he’s crossing the bridge into Manhattan for some college classes—where he meets a seductive female classmate who seems to come from a whole different world.

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.

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”.

"Assalto a un tempo devastato" e vile è il audiolibro cult di Giuseppe Genna, l’opera che, al momento della sua prima pubblicazione, fece gridare alla nascita di una voce potente e originalissima della letteratura italiana. Questo piccolo classico contemporaneo torna ora in una nuova edizione riveduta e ampliata. Utilizzando le forme del racconto, del saggio, del reportage, Genna esplora il cuore delle città in cui viviamo e di un paese intero, componendo un vertiginoso mosaico del nostro tempo.

Virginia träumt von einem Leben in Berlin, doch aus Rücksicht auf ihre alleinerziehende Mutter – süchtig nach Schlaftabletten und der Liebe ihrer Tochter – beginnt sie ein Studium in deren Nähe. Beim Besuch einer feministischen Hochschulgruppe trifft sie auf Gleichgesinnte, junge Menschen, die sich für eine diverse Gesellschaft einsetzen. Obwohl sie alle mit eigenen Herausforderungen kämpfen, entsteht schnell eine tiefe Freundschaft. Und dann wäre da noch der Jurastudent Benedict, der seine Selbstzweifel durch überehrgeizige Leistung kompensiert.

Paris, 1981: Die Hauptstadt der ehemaligen Kolonialmacht ist für viele vietnamesische Flüchtlinge der rettende Hafen nach einer langen Irrfahrt über die Weltmeere. Auch der namenlose Ich-Erzähler und sein bester Freund Bon haben es aus ihrer Heimat nach Europa geschafft. Auf der Suche nach einem Job geraten sie an die vietnamesische Drogenmafia. Als Dealer machen sie ein gutes Geschäft, und der Ich-Erzähler, ein ehemaliger kommunistischer Spion, profitiert von einem Wirtschaftssystem, das er eigentlich ablehnt.

In Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Tim McLoughlin draws upon his three-decade career in the criminal justice system with his characteristic wit and his fascination with misfits and malfeasance. A lifetime immersed in New York City feeds short stories that evoke a landscape of characters rife with personal arrogance and misjudgment; and nonfiction essays about toeing the line when the line keeps disappearing.

Chicago: home to urban Indians and immigrants and working folks and the whole gamut of people getting by in a world that doesn't care whether they do so or not. Sacred City is an incomparable follow-up to Van Alst's award-winning debut collection, Sacred Smokes. Our young narrator now heads deeper into the heart of the city and himself, accompanied by ancestors and spirits who help him and the audience see that Chicago was, is, and always will be Indian Country.