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Valentina coule des jours paisibles sur sa petite île au large de l'Italie avec son fidèle acolyte à quatre pattes, Ferdinand, et travaille dans un bar. À Londres, Laure fait ses premiers pas en tant que journaliste, et tous les moyens sont bons pour épater le rédacteur taciturne qui la chaperonne.

Ioana powert sich aus: im Job und dabei, stets die Erwartungen ihrer rumänischen Familie zu erfüllen. Als ihr Großvater stirbt, gerät sie an ihre Grenzen – und muss sich dabei neu erfinden. Alexandra-Maria Pipos erzählt humorvoll und temporeich von einer jungen Heldin im Spagat zwischen zwei Ländern und verschiedenen Versionen ihrer selbst. Sowohl in ihrem Job bei Cadris Consulting als auch als aufopferungsvolle Tochter: Ioana glaubt an Leistung. Dass die Grenzen zwischen Selbstoptimierung und Wahn fließend ineinander übergehen, ignoriert sie.

Es un gusto para la editorial El Narrador poder traer ante ustedes este compendio de historias, narraciones y escritos de dudosa procedencia qué nacieron en las entrañas del Internet. Un conjunto de narraciones qué pertenece ya al bagaje cultural y la literatura de calle reconocible el folklore actual de México.

>One king. A group of incorrigible women. Nine nights. The demon-king, Mahisha, rules Jambudvipa with an iron fist. He wears the horns of a buffalo and has the will of a bull. With allies far and wide, his kingdom—usurped from the Aryas—is prosperous. All seems aboveboard. But Jambudvipa's underbelly rots. Teeming with crime, sin, and greed, the city and its people are not what they seem. Most of all, Mahisha himself.

पढ़ाई-लिखाई पूरी करने के बाद अपने गाँव या शहर को छोड़कर नौकरी करने या फिर बिजनेस करने के लिए दूसरे शहरों में जाकर बस जाने की प्रक्रिया इंसान की जिंदगी में बहुत झंझावात लेकर आती है। इस प्रक्रिया में बिछड़े हुए लोग अगर प्रिय हों, प्रेमी हों या प्रेमिकाएँ हों, तो फिर जिंदगी बार कहती है कि रिटर्न टिकट लेकर लौट जाओ अपनी जड़ों की तरफ। लेकिन जिंदगी सबको लौट जाने का मौका नहीं देती।

एक उपन्यासकार का मस्तिष्क बहुत हाल के नहीं अपने पूर्वज उपन्यासकारों के पाठ और कथा-विवेक से बनता है। यहाँ एक सुविधा के लिए मान लीजिए कि अब तक हुए सुप्रतिष्ठित उपन्यासकारों के मार्ग विविध-विभिन्न सही, पर उनका केंद्रीय लक्ष्य एक ही रहा होगा—उपन्यास की अब तक प्रस्तुत-प्रचलित परिभाषाओं, कथाओं और संरचनाओं से बाहर चले जाना। इसमें

गृहयुद्ध में तबाह सीरिया वहाँ की स्त्रियों के लिए भयावह यातनाघर बन गया। चोटिल देह और आत्मा लिए भारतीय मूल की एक सीरियाई लड़की भारत आती है। यहाँ उसकी मुलाक़ात भारतीय सेना के उस ऑफ़िसर से होती है, जो आतंकवाद से लड़ने में अपना बहुत-कुछ गँवा चुका है।

Introduction written and read by Rachel Maddow Narrated by Frances McDormand The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series, Tales of the City “A consummate entertainer who has...

From Richard & Judy Book club author Catherine Isaac comes the emotional and uplifting story of love, loss, friendship and a letter that changes everything. In late 1983, a letter arrives from Italy, containing secrets so unthinkable that it is hidden away, apparently forever. More than three...

Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic accord is in short supply. Matthew and Elspeth welcome three new arrivals, though the joys of multiple parenthood are somewhat lost due to sleep deprivation and the difficulties of telling their brood apart. Angus and Domenica are to marry, and Domenica has ambitious and disturbing plans for their living arrangements, especially when it appears that Antonia, in Italy recuperating from Stendhal Syndrome, may not return.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting To Exhale is back with the inspiring story of a woman who shakes things up in her life to find greater meaning. In I Almost Forgot About You, Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great friends, family, and...

Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anaesthetic at the dentists when something strange happens - and their identities are swapped. Suddenly Joey can use his six-foot frame to get his own back on his Hollywood persecutors. But Reggie has to endure everything Joey had to put up with in the horrible life of a child star - including kidnap.

Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband's brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philip's life crumble away when his father's ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him. Arming himself with weapons from the school chemistry cupboard, Philip vows to carry out the ghost's relentless demands for revenge.

From a small town outside Edinburgh comes the news that a young boy has been recounting vivid recollections of a past life: a perfect description of an island off the coast of Scotland which he couldn't possibly know and a house there where he claims to have spent his former life. When the boy's mother asks Isabel to investigate his claims, she feels she must - of course! - help them learn the truth, and she and her husband, Jamie, set off for the island.

In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami's visit and changes his life forever. Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic. Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the nuances of emotion that are the substance of passion.

Ada was born with one foot on the other side. Having prayed her into existence, her parents Saul and Saachi struggle to deal with the volatile and contradictory spirits peopling their troubled girl. When Ada comes of age and heads to college, the entities within her grow in power and agency. An...

Beauty journalist, and 40-something year old woman, Erica Pells, is tired of feeling invisible and disappearing behind her nematode wrinkles. She’s over the ‘pro-ageing’ articles she is exclusively asked to write (apart from the punny headlines that no one appreciates.) Frankly, she's over most things; getting older, heavy contouring, boring old Wiltshire and her exasperating Mum (who clearly prefers her prodigal brother, Simon).

Rosemary doesn't talk much and about certain things she's silent. She had a sister, Fern, her whirlwind other half, who vanished from her life in circumstances she wishes she could forget. And it's been 10 years since she last saw her beloved older brother, Lowell. Now at college, Rosemary starts to see she can't go forward without going back to the time when aged five, she was sent away from home to her grandparents and returned to find Fern gone.

Joan’s voice is almost a whisper. ‘Nobody talked about what they did during the war. We all knew we weren’t allowed to.’ Joan Stanley has a secret. She is a loving mother, a doting grandmother, and leads a quiet, unremarkable life in the suburbs. Then one morning there is a knock on the door, and suddenly the past she has been so keen to hide for the last fifty years threatens to overturn her comfortable world. Cambridge University in 1937 is awash with ideas and idealists

Hetty’s family was torn apart following the German invasion of the Netherlands. Rounded up by the Nazis and then separated from their parents, Hetty and her brothers were sent to the Children’s House, within Belsen concentration camp. As one of the eldest, Hetty became the ‘Little Mother’, helping to care for not only her siblings, but the other children as well.In a direct and powerful style, Hetty recalls one of the remarkable, largely untold stories of the Holocaust – the extraordinary struggle and survival of this group of children through those terrible years.