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Twenty-eight-year-old Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his stepbrother, an incident that caused him to flee New York seven years previously. Now he lives in Florida, photographing the last traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure during the banking crisis. When a complicated romance forces him to go on the run again, he returns to Brooklyn to confront his father and his past.

From the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1 and The New York Trilogy comes Paul Auster's luminous, tour de force novel set during the 2008 economic collapse. "Auster fans and newcomers will find in Sunset Park his usual beautifully nuanced prose.... [and] a tremendous crash bang of an ending.” —...

Ruth and Hannah are sisters. They build each other up and tear each other down. Even as polar opposites they make each other laugh more than anyone else in the world. Ruth is forever single, aimless and wild while Hannah is radiant, organised and hard-working. Together, they are a force to be reckoned with. But a summer holiday changes everything, and Ruth finds herself entering a long period of self-imposed exile from the world.

After witnessing the fallout of her parents' divorce, love has never been a priority for garden designer Frankie Cole. The only man in her life is her friend Matt - but that's strictly platonic. If only she found it easier to ignore the way he makes her heart race... Matt Walker has loved Frankie for years but has always played it cool - until he uncovers new depths to the girl he's known forever and doesn't want to wait a moment longer.

In the chaos of New York, true love can be hard to find, even when it's been right under your nose all along… Love has never been a priority for garden designer Frankie Cole. After witnessing the fallout of her parents' divorce, she's seen the devastation an overload of emotion can cause. The...

La gioventù e il caso, il cinema e il sesso, New York e la scrittura, le ambizioni e il rimorso, la morte ma soprattutto la vita. Miles Heller ha ventotto anni e vive in Florida. Ha poco, eppure ha tutto: l'amore di un'adorabile ragazza, la passione trasmessagli dal padre per il baseball, e i libri. Il lavoro non è un granché, ma lui sembra farlo come se vi intuisse un misterioso legame con la sua esistenza: affinché le banche possano rimetterle in vendita, deve entrare nelle abitazioni abbandonate e fotografare gli oggetti che gli inquilini vi hanno lasciato.

The most acclaimed Scottish novel of all time, Sunset Song is a powerful portrait of a land and people in turmoil, seen through the life and struggles of its heroine, Chris Guthrie. In the years up to and beyond the First World War, Chris' resilience, like the land itself, endures despite everything and is portrayed with a lyrical intensity that echoes through the years and still resonates today.

Una mirada realista, viva y totalmente actual de la familia y la sociedad norteamericana posterior a la crisis. Miles Heller es un joven introvertido que a los 20 años decidió dejar Nueva York y romper toda relación con sus padres. Siete años después no ha retomado el contacto y reside en Florida, donde trabaja en una empresa que se dedica a vaciar y a limpiar los pisos de los desahuciados para venderlos de nuevo. A diferencia de sus compañeros, que saquean lo que pueden, Miles fotografía los objetos abandonados para demostrar que las familias desaparecidas estuvieron alguna vez allí.

Eric didn't ask to be a vampire. In fact he didn't even believe in them. Biting your own tongue with your fangs does a lot of convincing. Even so, being a part-time undead isn't as easy as you might think. It can let you hold down a day job, true, but sometimes the night "life" can be more than a little difficult, what with those bloodthirsty urges and predatory instincts kicking in.

Soon after the cats reached their new home by the lake, ThunderClan's medicine cat Leafpool received an ominous warning from StarClan: Before there is peace, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red. As the Clan slowly recovers from a devastating badger attack, Leafpool can't help but wonder…do her prophetic dreams mean there are even worse dangers still in store for the warrior cats? At the same time, shadows of the past continue to haunt the forest as some old friends struggle to find their place, others appear to be lost forever.

San Francisco attorney Cecily Chang is ready to tackle the New Year head on, so she creates a list of resolutions guaranteed to reboot her life—right after her dutiful visit home to Sunset Park, Brooklyn, for the Lunar New Year. Cecily prepares to face her critical, meddling mother, nosy relatives, and the chaos and drama family togetherness brings. At least the food will be delicious. This holiday, Cecily vows to remain calm—as long as she doesn’t see him.

Raymond has to get his act together and find a place of his own. But when out-and-proud David Butler offers to be his roommate, Raymond agrees for reasons other than needing a place to crash. David is Raymond's opposite in almost every way - he's Connecticut prim and proper while Raymond is a sarcastic longshoreman from Queens - but their friendship is solid. Their closeness surprises everyone as does their not-so-playful flirtation, since Raymond has always kept his bi-curious side a secret.

Hong Kong, 1941... To the residents and defence forces of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong, the war in Europe remains remote. Even the massive build-up of Japanese forces on the Chinese border cannot dent their carefree optimism. Yet one man suspects the truth. Lieutenant-Commander Esmond Brooke, captain of HMS Serpent and a veteran of the cruel Atlantic, sees all too clearly the folly and incompetence of Hong Kong’s colonial administration. To Brooke, attack by Japan seems inevitable.

Seit dem Tod seines Stiefbruders quälen Miles Heller Schuldgefühle, den Kontakt zu seiner New Yorker Familie hat er abgebrochen. In Florida gestrandet, fotografiert er wie besessen in der Wirtschaftskrise zwangsgeräumte Häuser. Als er wegen einer pikanten Liebschaft in Schwierigkeiten gerät, holt ihn sein Freund Bing zurück nach Brooklyn. Dort, in der heruntergekommenen Siedlung Sunset Park, trifft er auf andere strauchelnde Menschen und lernt, seinen Dämonen ins Auge zu sehen.

As John Baxter makes plans to marry Elaine, one of the Baxters enters into the most trying season of all. During a time of renewed love and hope for the future, the Baxters try to come together to establish the sacred ground of marriage and to chart a course for the future. Memories of times gone by meet with the changes of today in a story that proves only the support of faith and family can take a person into the sunset years of life.

Intrigué par une rumeur sur des Français qui auraient caché un cadavre dans les décombres des attentats du 11 septembre 2001, Victor Guilbert part en quête de l'histoire derrière la légende. Une histoire qui va se révéler aussi vraie que tragique, celle d'un meurtre au sein d'une colocation franco-italienne de Brooklyn. De New York à Paris, l'auteur mène l'enquête sur ce fiasco judiciaire. Fiasco qui permettra à l'un des complices de poursuivre sereinement, aujourd'hui encore, une carrière impressionnante...

Jane Wilcox went into hiding when she and her best friend had to disappear to stay safe. The woman who emerged wore Jimmy Choo heels and Prada gowns and used her brilliant math skills incognito as a poker scout to help a notorious rock star poker player.

Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the western section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, USA. We cover the most newsworthy stories and events in Sunset Park.

I knew the odds were against me, a divorced 20-year-old with two babies under the age of four, trying to escape a life that started with an abusive stepfather and now on the run from the fate of a life in a small town with an abusive ex-husband. I had promised myself, come hell or high water, I would live the life I had always dreamed of, and now, I was making my way down the California I-10 freeway to the city with the Hollywood sign on the hill.

Twenty-two-year-old Charlotte Ford reconnects with Danielle, her best friend from high school, a few days before Danielle is found bludgeoned to death in a motel room. In the wake of the murder, Charlotte's life unravels and she descends into the city's underbelly, where she meets the strippers, pornographers and drug dealers who surrounded Danielle in the years they were estranged. Ginsburg's Houston is part of a lesser known south, where the urban and rural collide gracelessly.