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The call disconnected. Vijay put his phone down and sat thinking. His mind spun. Who was this mysterious caller? He clearly had an urgent need to meet. So why wait for six months? His explanation didn’t make sense. What preparation did he have to do? And what was he going to reveal to Vijay when they did meet? There were too many questions that were unanswered. Six months from today this puzzle would unravel. He would have to wait.

Gentlemen and Pigs could best be described and compared to the television show Seinfeld. It's a book about nothing. But of course we all know that it is the story within the story that ties all the loose ends together as you laugh yourself silly along the way. Gentlemen and Pigs is a real hoot! Its author and narrator, Robert C. Brewster, brings his characters to life in some very unique ways. Sit back, listen, and enjoy.

Adagiata tra il mare e la grande città c’è Piana Tirrenica, una delle tante campagne trasformate in dormitori industriali, un paesaggio di edifici in continua costruzione, centri commerciali, fabbriche, margini dimenticati. Greta ci è arrivata che aveva nove anni. È venuta con i genitori dal Sud, come altri hanno fatto, in cerca di progresso e benessere, ideali presto svaniti nel nulla. Greta a Piana cresce, cambia appartamenti, incrocia altre solitudini e conosce Michela.

The threads that lead to a tiger attack at the San Francisco zoo. McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco.

The story of a young woman shipwrecked in a storm off the coast of California. McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco.

The Bottom of the Sky is an aching rags to riches family saga that surges from rural squalor into the opulent power chambers of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. The story contrasts the 30-year struggles of an abused sister and brother who seek to reclaim themselves from their abhorrent past. One is abandoned to a life of sexual desecration and addiction. The other escapes with his demons to wield fragile, uncanny genius and unrelenting ambition to amass staggering wealth.

With a pimp for a daddy and a professional booster for a mother, a life of crime was the family business, so Tara had no choice but to major and graduate with a degree in hustling. At the age of nine, Tara had learned every lesson her true-to-the-game parents ever taught her. By 18, she had found her niche: boosting the best merchandise from the best boutiques in the city and flipping it on the streets for cash - keeping the very best pieces for herself, of course. Tara became known as one of the baddest boosters on the East Coast, second only to her mother.

Cesare Annunziata è vedovo, ha settantasette anni e nessuna voglia di essere un vecchietto come si deve. Cinico e irriverente, trascorre le giornate fra le bevute in compagnia del mite amico Marino e le chiacchiere stentate con Eleonora, la gattara che abita sul suo stesso pianerottolo. A queste si aggiungono il tedio di una figlia in carriera, il tiro alla fune con un figlio che gli tiene nascosta un’omosessualità che lui ha indovinato da tempo e gli appuntamenti con Rossana, la matura infermiera che soddisfa gli anziani del quartiere per denaro.

Auchincloss' tale of a New York family dynasty opens with the suicide of Geraldine Brevoort, a woman whose pride and envy fed her alcoholism and kept her alone, and leads the listener through an odyssey of love, marriage, and adultery.

"Vi måste avsluta vårt samarbete". Orden träffar Courtney som ett slag i magen. Låten hon nyss spelat upp för skivbolagets chef PW skulle ju bli en nystart, inte slutet på hennes tjugoåriga karriär som schlagerdrottning. Drömmen att få visa vem hon verkligen är med egna låtar i en annan genre, har gått i kras. Med en kalender som gapar tom bestämmer sig Courtney för att flytta ut till väninnan Bea på skärgårdsön Svarvö en tid.

Andrew Stilman, grand reporter au New York Times mène l'enquête la plus importante de sa carrière. Au lendemain de son mariage, il est victime d'une agression et s'effondre, mortellement blessé, dans une mare de sang. Étrangement, il reprend connaissance, deux mois plus tôt. Revenu soixante jours en arrière, Andrew Stilman doit choisir entre mener à terme son enquête ou découvrir son assassin et déjouer le destin. De New York à Buenos Aires, le reporter se retrouve précipité dans un engrenage vertigineux.

Als nachts um halb zwei mein Telefon klingelt und Sarahs Name auf dem Display erscheint, weiß ich, dass etwas Schlimmes passiert sein muss. Nur wie schlimm, ahne ich noch nicht. Wir sind seit zwanzig Jahren getrennt, aber ich bin so ein Auf-mich-ist-immer-Verlass-Typ. Egal wie schlecht man mich behandelt hat. Und Sarah hatte mich gar nicht schlecht behandelt. Ich nehme den Anruf ohne Zögern an - und sie sagt darauf hin, ohne zu zögern: "Mein Baby ist tot." Was sagt man darauf? Ich sage nichts. Ich stehe auf und fahre los.

Das Herz denkt nicht, es fühlt – und doch versuchen wir, genau das zu vermeiden. Das Fühlen. Marinas Leben, geprägt von Höhen und Tiefen, nimmt seinen Lauf. Das Denken geht ihr noch immer leichter von der Hand als das Fühlen. Verunsichert vom Richtig und Falsch, vom Sein und Werden, sucht sie nach Sicherheit durch Kontrolle und strebt gleichzeitig nach Vertrauen. Mehr und mehr versteht sie sich selbst, beginnt, sich in ihrer Unvollkommenheit zu akzeptieren, und verändert sich, wird zu dem Menschen, der sie immer schon war.

Ruth Lember, Ethikprofessorin in Berlin, steht kurz vor der Krönung ihres bislang so erfolgreichen Berufslebens: Sie soll Mitglied des Deutschen Ethikrats werden. Nichts scheint in diesem Sommer 2022 ihre Zukunft zu trüben: Ben, ihr Mann, gewinnt einen Architekturwettbewerb, ihre Ziehtochter Jenny studiert Kommunikation in Leipzig, und die Corona-Pandemie flaut endlich ab. Dass Ruth bei ihrer morgendlichen Joggingrunde von einem nicht angeleinten Hund gebissen wird, scheint da nur ein störendes Missgeschick zu sein.

He has a goal and a plan. If he carries through with the plan, his sister will die first. His ex will die next, and he will die last. In between, he’ll take out as many people as he can. Students. Security guards. Teachers. First responders. They are all fair game.

Die Hölle, das sind immer die anderen... Was passiert, wenn man vier Männer und vier Frauen in ein riesiges Terrarium einsperrt? T. C. Boyles fabelhafter Roman, basierend auf einer wahren Geschichte, erzählt vom halsbrecherischen Versuch, eine neue Welt zu erschaffen, um sich vor dem Untergang unserer eigenen zu retten. Zwar bleibt die schöne neue Welt im Glas von Kriegen, Epidemien und Umweltkatastrophen verschont. Doch es kommt darauf an, wer mit im Glashaus sitzt.

Die junge, elternlose Nina Plisson weiß nicht, was aus ihrer Mutter geworden ist, auch nicht, wer ihr Vater war. Wissen andere in ihrer kleinen Heimatstadt Kall mehr? Was wird ihr vorenthalten. Nachdem das vereinsamte und widerspenstige Mädchen lange Zeit große Schwierigkeiten hatte, lesen und schreiben zu erlernen, wird sie sich, angeleitet von der pensionierten Lehrerin Sophia Molitor, grundlegend verändern. Sie beginnt Erinnerungen aus ihrer frühen Kindheit aufzuschreiben.

Julie Maxwell’s life is aglow with the promise of happily-ever-after - a wonderful husband, a new home, and an art studio of her own. She is living her dream, until suddenly, she isn’t. One of life’s random blows changes everything and Julie finds herself in an abyss of fear and grief. Immobilized by tragedy and unable to climb out of her despair, Julie descends into isolation. But life can be as benevolent as it can be cruel, and hope can find you no matter where you are.

Fifteen-year-old Hutch tells us his story about growing up as a kid of free-spirited, drug-addicted parents, to hustling on the streets of New York City, to befriending misfits in a Bowery flophouse where he’s forced to fight predators and face the brutalities that lurk in the darkest corners of a runaway’s world. Through his determination, and by fate, he’s given an opportunity to change his life, and the lives of others. Embracing his future, finding redemption in literature, he must say farewell to his haunting past.

This is the last thing you'll ever see. Welcome to Daxton. The neighbor is crazy. The roommate is running a perpetual scam. Being degraded by the boss on a daily basis is part of the job. The children are willingly abducted. The probability of getting shot while purchasing groceries is high. And don't forget to fill your quota of junk strategically placed in your yard to be viewed from the street. Why would you want to live anywhere else?