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Vera DeSoto runs a cafe in Marfa, Texas in 1968. The cowboys and truckers who come in fantasize and hope for a chance with her, but she enjoys her solitary life and isn’t ready to settle down with anyone.

Immigrato, attaccabrighe, ribelle, megalomane, sprezzante e perennemente in lite con tutti: Arturo Gabriel Bandini, l'eroe di Chiedi alla polvere, ossessionato dall'idea di scrivere un libro e animato dalla rabbia che si prova a diciott'anni, quando facciamo una vita che non ci piace e sogniamo le rivoluzioni che cambieranno il mondo. Un romanzo sfrontato, un inno alla spregiudicatezza amatissimo dai piú giovani, che vedono in John Fante il prototipo di tutti gli sbandati-sognatori che popolano la letteratura.

C'era una volta una storia che giaceva silenziosa e nascosta tra le pieghe del tempo, protetta dalla luce di tre piccole stelle. Brillando nel cielo notturno, formavano un triangolo invisibile agli sguardi più distratti, ma luminoso per chi lo sapeva scovare. Era, quel triangolo, il racconto di un amore, narrato e tramandato per secoli da un'antica leggenda, ma che aveva atteso con pazienza il momento giusto per essere riscoperto.

Deine Projekte tragen endlich Früchte und bringen dir ein Einkommen ein, das deiner edlen Abstammung würdig ist? Du hattest die Möglichkeit, dein Un-ternehmen auszubauen und gleichzeitig alle Vorzüge des Lebens eines jungen Lords zu genießen? Mach es dir bloß nicht zu bequem. Diese Welt hält eine neue Herausforderung für dich bereit – die Akademie wartet auf dich, und du wirst Kadett!

Mordecai’s growing power and success have made him a threat, not just to the gods and their minions, but also to the king of Lothion. An unholy bargain has been struck to bring him to heel and increasingly it seems that victory may not be worth the price, not if the cost is measured in the blood of his family. Wizard, lord, husband, father, and now archmage...no man can balance so many roles without sacrificing something. Will the world be worth saving if it costs him the very reasons he has for living in it?

Twenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou and never read about “Chinese-y” things again. But after years of grueling research, all she has to show for her efforts are a junk food addiction and stomach pain. When she accidentally stumbles upon a curious note in the Chou archives one afternoon, it looks like her ticket out of academic hell.

Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson - a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake - and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible, haunting vision of death. As Cory struggles to understand his father's pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that surround him.

Il bel viso della bambina Giovanna si è trasformato, sta diventando quello di una brutta adolescente. Ma è proprio così? E in quale specchio bisogna guardare per ritrovarsi e salvarsi? La ricerca di un nuovo volto oscilla tra due Napoli consanguinee che però si temono e si detestano: la Napoli di sopra, che s'è attribuita una maschera fine, e quella di sotto, che si finge smodata, triviale. Giovanna oscilla tra alto e basso, in una città che pare non offrire né risposte né scampo.

Miller Stratton is a survivor. After a harrowing childhood of poverty, he will do anything it takes to find security for himself and his mom. He’s putting all his hopes and dreams in the fragile frame of his guitar and the beauty he creates with its strings and his soulful voice. Until Violet. No one expects to meet the love of their life at age 13. But the spunky rich girl steals Miller’s heart and refuses to give it back.

Ava Thompson left her one true love, Jasper White, to unearth her destiny. It was the only way for Ava to grow into the woman she’s always wanted to become. Sadly, that destiny has led her back to the place that broke her…Singapore. And more importantly, it has led her back to the man who broke her…Harper. Ava is no longer the scared, lost girl she once was. She is stronger and determined to accomplish her dreams in order to find happiness. Hopefully, at the end of it all, she will return into the loving arms of Jasper White.

In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was 15, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere, she paints a vivid portrait of a particular time and place....

One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward is the sole survivor.

Culture shock is nothing compared to this. Eva Calabrese lives with her parents and wants out of her dead-end job, so when her former college classmate, Tobio, reconnects with her, she makes the leap across the planet to teach English in Japan. In Osaka, Eva is confronted by the Japanese language and culture, while navigating her feelings for Tobio, but everything changes one night at karaoke when she's kissed by the intimidatingly handsome tattoo artist, Yuya.

A mysterious disappearance leaves fourteen-year-old Emma on her own with a necklace and a cryptic story about a magical place called Miren. Soon, she, along with two cousins she never knew, finds herself on a quest to fulfill a prophecy and save a world on the brink of war against a dark and evil force. Magic and bravery collide with hope and faith in this adventure to Miren.

En esta novela, el sexo y la cultura coinciden en un extraño mundo que mezcla el despertar sexual de un grupo de jóvenes con las citas de películas y libros que satisfacen la curiosidad de los personajes. La narrativa realiza descripciones que pasan permanentemente del cinismo al éxtasis y viceversa, donde toman un valor particular las amistades, los amores, el alcohol, la política, y los detalles más insignificantes del día a día.

Una delicia costumbrista en forma de colección de cuentos que abordan la vida rural, la adolescencia, el paso del tiempo y el fracaso en retrospectiva con una prosa inigualable. Hombres anodinos atrapados en una cárcel de rutina en forma de trayecto de metro, viajeros sumidos en su propia amargura, amas de casa que intentan encontrar un oasis de paz en medio de su asfixiante vida. Pablo Sanz es un autor español nacido en Madrid.

Zanzíbar, años noventa. Karim, Fauzia y Badar, tres muchachos que han crecido en entornos muy distintos, sueñan con las enormes posibilidades de su naciente país. Karim regresa a su tranquila ciudad natal con nuevos bríos y ambiciones tras sus estudios universitarios. Fauzia, apasionada por la escuela y con el sueño de ser maestra, ve en él una oportunidad para escapar de una educación asfixiante. Para Badar, en cambio, un sirviente sin estudios que nunca conoció a sus padres, parece que todas las puertas están cerradas.

Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer (“A great chronicler of our times.” –San Francisco Chronicle) showcases his wit, sophistication and deep knowledge of focaccia in this magical and madcap tale of a young man who takes an unspecified job with a charismatic elderly Baronessa at her...

Told in incandescent prose, Cay Kim’s debut novel is a portrait of a brilliant young woman growing up between worlds, and a glorious love letter to girlhood, family, and the great dreams we hold for ourselves, no matter where we’re from.

Written as a confessional letter to his son, an 18th century opera singer recounts how his gift for sound led him on an astonishing journey to Europe’s celebrated opera houses and reveals how he came to raise a son who by all rights he never could have sired.