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Raphaëlle ne croit pas aux contes de fées. Même lorsque tout va bien, elle est persuadée que la tempête n’est jamais très loin. Pourtant, entre deux orages, son existence se remplit de rencontres amoureuses et de précieuses amitiés. Aux côtés de son père, qui sait trouver les mots justes et les silences pour lui faire du bien, la vie est douce. Et grâce à Chanterelle, sa complice exubérante au nom étrange, même les jours de pluie se transforment en fêtes.

It’s the mid-’90s. Studious, smart and sincere, Veda harbours big dreams for the future. But her parents arrange a marriage for her, and the 20-year-old discovers she has no say in the matter. Forced to leave behind an idyllic life in the hill town of Joshimath - filled with conversations and pleasurable times with her siblings and her best friend, the handsome Suraj - she puts aside her ambitions and moves into a flat in Pune with an indifferent husband and a mother-in-law from hell. Though brought up to be quiet and obedient, Veda chafes at the meaninglessness of her existence.

La vida, a menudo, se divierte y, escondido en una palabra, una sonrisa, un billete de metro o el pliegue de una cortina, nos entrega un diamante capaz de colmar todas nuestras expectativas. Para Joséphine el diamante podría ser la propuesta de su editor de que escriba una nueva novela, las llamadas de Philippe a las que no contesta o la incondicional amistad de su amiga Shirley. ¿Será Joséphine el diamante de Philippe? ¿Y cuál es el que persigue Shirley?

Até que ponto uma decisão tomada há décadas reverbera em nossa existência? Ricardo paga suas dívidas emocionais do passado em um prostíbulo de Copacabana, pois era “nessas horas que se fortalecia, como se, ausentando-se de si mesmo, encontrasse mais força para fazer-se Ricardo”. Após um acidente de moto em que é obrigado a convalescer no hospital, recebe a inesperada visita de Rafaela, filha de sua irmã Rosana, uma garota “com mania de sonhos e afetos”. Estaria o destino lhe reservando a chance de reescrever sua história?

It's 1980s New York, and though the coke flows freely, money and glamour are the more powerful intoxicants. While fortunes are being made in SoHo galleries and on Wall Street, an underclass of transient drag queens and dandies, club kids and strippers, artists and actors, models and waitstaff wander the streets, providing the city's background color, cheap labor, and even cheaper entertainment.

High up on the 17th floor of a South London council block, a study circle is being held. They are studying the Koran, and Ishaq has been attending for five years now, but official interest in the group is building. With an EDL march in just a few days' time, some of them think they might be under surveillance. Ishaq is secure in his identity as British and Muslim, but as papers discuss Asian sex gangs in the North and a European politician appears on television discussing a final solution, he wonders if Britain itself sees him the same way.

Cuando Natalia toma la decisión de dejar atrás al hombre que no la hace feliz para llenar su vida de viajes, nuevas experiencias y emociones, su abuela Beatriz le habla de la librería Le club de minuit, situada en el quinto distrito de París frente a la Catedral de Notre Dame. A la joven le atrae la idea; siempre quiso vivir en París, por lo que toma la decisión de ir hasta allí y trabajar durante dos meses en la librería, a las órdenes de la misteriosa anciana Corinne Whitman.

Cuando Natalia toma la decisión de dejar atrás al hombre que no la hace feliz para llenar su vida de viajes, nuevas experiencias y emociones, su abuela Beatriz le habla de la librería Le club de minuit, situada en el quinto distrito de París frente a la Catedral de Notre Dame. A la joven le atrae la idea; siempre quiso vivir en París, por lo que toma la decisión de ir hasta allí y trabajar durante dos meses en la librería, a las órdenes de la misteriosa anciana Corinne Whitman.

Cabrera Infante aborda, de manera única y brillante, varios de sus amores, de sus obsesiones, y de sus temas: La Habana, el inglés, la literatura, la jerga de la cuidad, las habaneras, el cine, la música, y la "nostalgia de la noche". Ciertas novelas de horror y de intriga llevan la indicación de que no deben escucharse de noche. Tres tristes tigres tendría que llevar una banda sobre la cubierta que diga "Debe escucharse de noche", porque el audio libro es una celebración de la noche.

Zara Das is Bollywood’s hottest property, her every move watched by the press. Riding high from the success of a string of blockbusters, she has the world at her feet, but the scandal from her latest film threatens to dethrone her as Bollywood’s reigning queen. So when superstar director Raj Dillon stages a lavish retelling of Pride and Prejudice, moving the shoot from Mumbai’s soundstages to London, Zara knows this is the role that could put her back on top. Coming with them are the Bollywood Wives - Jackie, Sasha and Rani - bringing their own offscreen drama.

Comment l’amour fonctionne-t-il dans un monde désenchanté comme le nôtre? Qu’est-ce qui peut attacher deux êtres l’un à l’autre? Quelle vérité se cache sous le désir qui les rapproche? Et quel mensonge? Magalie, quarante ans, est designer de cuisines. Elle vit avec Mathieu, le père de sa fille, un avocat qui la trompe, et qu’elle trompe en retour. À cause d’un lien de famille qui les rapproche tout à coup, elle fait la connaissance de Guillaume, policier de son métier et père célibataire.

Polly, 28, lives in London with her 'perfect-on-paper' boyfriend. She works a dead-end job on a free London paper.... Life as she knows it is dull. But her banal existence is turned upside down late one drunken night on her way home, after a chance encounter with a man on a packed tube train. The chemistry between them is electric, and on impulse they kiss, giving in to their carnal desires. But it's over in an instant, and Polly is left shell-shocked as he walks away without even telling her his name.

In 2001, a woman’s skeleton was found in the woods overlooking Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital. Despite an audit of the hospital’s patient records, a forensic reconstruction of the woman’s face, missing-person appeals, and DNA tests that revealed not only where she had lived but how she ate, the woman was never identified. Assigned the name Madame Victoria, her remains were placed in a box in an evidence room and eventually forgotten. But not by Catherine Leroux, who constructs in her form-bending Madame Victoria 12 different histories for the unknown woman.

This story is about four friends who feel very differently about the notion of love. Eventually, when they do fall in love themselves, they realize that the world of college and the world outside are two very different things. And so their struggle begins - the struggle of love, of “practicals”, of assignments, of professors and of the society.

"Al mattino la superficie del fiume splende come se migliaia di fogli d'oro stropicciati scorressero sull'acqua." Sei bozzoli di preziosa seta esistenziale. Sei fili tesi dal destino. Sei racconti intorno al tempo, alla guarigione, al fato. Sei racconti tessuti in una Tokyo sfolgorante di luci notturne e pulsante di vita. Tutti feriti, chi da un trauma infantile, chi da un abbandono, chi da una storia d'amore tormentata, i protagonisti si sono chiusi in un guscio che li protegge ma insieme li separa dal mondo.

Qu’ont en commun l’hassid de la rue Durocher se pressant vers la synagogue, l’artiste qui donne une performance au Quartier des spectacles et la foule au Centre Bell, galvanisée par un but des Canadiens? Ils ont Montréal. Ils ont la ferveur, l’appel au dépassement qui palpite dans le sol montréalais. Un gisement mystique est bel et bien enfoui sous les artères de Montréal depuis que Jeanne Mance, empreinte d’absolu, est venue il y a plus de trois cents ans et y a laissé son cœur.

Dopo aver perso il padre in quello che ha tutta l'aria di essere stato un doppio suicidio d'amore, Yoshie si trasferisce dalla sua casa di Meguro a un minuscolo e vecchio appartamento a Shimokitazawa, un quartiere di Tokyo famoso per le sue stradine chiuse al traffico, i ristoranti, i negozietti, nonché meta degli alternativi della capitale. Qui Yoshie spera, aiutata dall'atmosfera vivace, di superare il dolore e dare una nuova direzione alla sua vita. Un giorno, però, sua madre le si presenta a casa all'improvviso con una borsa Birkin di Hermès e qualche sacchetto.

An easy but interesting listen, When Strangers Meet.. has a story to which youth can relate. It shows the father-son relationship from the points of view of the three main characters in the audiobook, each belonging to different ethnicities and stratas of society.

Mathieu vit dans la rue. Il l’a choisi. Ce n’est pas un aventurier, et ça n’a rien à voir avec la liberté. Est-ce qu’il s’autodétruit? Est-ce ainsi qu’il se préserve? Peu importe. Sa chienne Sam est là, qui l’aide à continuer. Mais quand elle disparaît, Mathieu doit mettre fin à son errance. Pour la retrouver, il entreprend un voyage dont les bifurcations le ramènent au secret de son passé.

L'inverno è alle porte, Kaede e Kataoka sono ritornati in Giappone, Shizukuishi ritrova il calore del tempo trascorso insieme e si sente finalmente un po' più a casa. A breve, tuttavia, dovrà spostarsi di nuovo: ha deciso di andare a vivere con Shin'chiro, e così si mettono alla ricerca di un posto dove abitare, tra appartamenti improbabili e agenti immobiliari dalle dubbie capacità. Le persone, però, non sempre sono ciò che sembrano, e questo vale anche per Shin'chiro.