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ansa is a stress expert who can't manage her own stress. A mother whose children barely call. A daughter haunted by her mother's dementia. A woman one breath away from breaking. When she steps into a rickshaw in Mumbai, everything changes. Kirit, her calm driver, navigates impossible chaos with inexplicable peace.

“One of the passengers waiting for a bus . . . said the area . . . was empty. She looked away for a few seconds. When she looked back, he wassitting there in his wheelchair.” Justin Moore returns in this final book of the trilogy as the Director of the East Side Rescue Mission, a shelter for homeless people in San Diego. The broken human beings he experiences every day in the shelter eventually convince him the planet Earth is under siege from some powerful apocalyptic force.

In the days after high school graduation, Alex “Preacher” Michaels and his best friend see their hopes for a final breezy summer go up in smoke. More trouble looms when shy and indecisive Alex falls for Shannon, a mystifying girl who arrived late in the school year with a snarl on her lips and a guitar over her shoulder. Set on The Loop in the small town of Renton, Washington, the three cruise through a summer of humorous mishaps and dangerous misadventures leading to the most consequential decision of Alex’s life, a choice between his best friend and the girl he loves.

En Canillejas hay un edificio de renta antigua sobre el que pone los ojos un fondo de inversión para comprarlo y echar a los vecinos. El bloque de pisos alberga a veinte familias y el bar del Julito. En él vive el Botas, protagonista de la novela Yonqui, que, junto a personajes de otras novelas del autor como Zip, el Tijeras o el Pirri empiezan a organizarse para intentar salvar el edificio.

Nadia is an abstract thinker coming to terms with the harsh realities around her. She is a bookworm, a prankster, a wanderer, and a note-taker. She sees people gambling with life and soul for little apparent gain and wonders what she can do to make a difference. Progressively, her life is pulled apart by her family’s migration to Ukraine, a dubious courtship, the Chernobyl disaster, police surveillance, and an Afghan war. As Nadia comes of age, she finds that the bonds of family and friendship create an inseparable fate: to rescue one another or to drown.

In diesem Buch erwarten dich 30 rabenschwarze Kurzgeschichten, jede so kompakt, dass sie in fünf Minuten gehört ist, doch ihr Echo hallt viel länger in deinem Kopf nach. Düsterer Humor, unheimliche Wendungen und kleine Alltagsmomente, die plötzlich aus dem Ruder laufen, ziehen dich in ihren Bann. Jede Story ist ein schneller Trip in die Abgründe der menschlichen Psyche, perfekt für zwischendurch, aber garantiert nichts für schwache Nerven.

When his older brother gets gunned down, 14-year-old Junius Posey puts down the weed he’s pushing and grips a gun for the first time. As he makes his way into the Rindge Towers, a territory of vicious drug dealers, Junius is forced to defend his best friend to deadly effect. Now there’s no going back. Shocked by the violence he’s created and determined to see his quest through to its end, he pushes ever farther into the towers to find a woman known as “The Oracle” who might have his answer.

In the gritty streets of Chargeton, a fictional London borough known for its high crime rates, hope emerges from an unlikely source: the Chargeton Oaks basketball team. Richard Furzton and his childhood friend Walton join Chargeton College in 2015, balancing their studies with their dreams of basketball careers. The Oaks are a mismatched group, struggling to overcome their differences and form a cohesive unit. Amidst internal conflicts and external pressures, Coach Lake must lead a conflicted team through a journey of transformation.

Ce lundi-là, l'énigmatique propriétaire du Café Marble à Tokyo organise une dégustation de thé. Caché sous les cerisiers qui changent de couleur au fil des saisons, ce havre de paix se transforme alors en un lieu magique où l'amertume du matcha vient apaiser celle de l'existence. Alors qu'un chat blanc comme neige observe paisiblement les étonnants humains qui l'entourent, le Café Marble devient le lieu de rencontres insolites qui vont bouleverser la vie de ceux qui en ouvrent la porte.