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Elise loves the farm that is her home; she loves playing with beetles and chameleons in the garden, buying sweets from the village shop and listening to the stories of spirits and charms told by her nanny, Beauty. As a young white girl in 1990s Zimbabwe, her life is idyllic. Her clothes are always clean and ironed, there is always tea in the silver teapot, gin and tonics are served on the veranda, and, in theory at least, black and white live in harmony.

The adolescent Christopher and his soul mate, Toni, had sneered at the stifling ennui of Metroland, their cosy patch of suburbia on the Metropolitan line. They had longed for Life to begin - meaning Sex and Freedom - to travel and choose their own clothes. Then Chris, at 30, starts to settle comfortably into bourgeois contentment himself. Luckily, Toni is still around to challenge such backsliding.

She's on a roll: A glamorous job at a glossy magazine. A home of her own. A cute live-in boyfriend. Annie Rafferty has worked damn hard for all of it. If demands are made, she delivers. If people need her, she's there. And if she suspects something is missing? Well, she ignores it. But cracks start to appear. Her boyfriend leaves his job, and Annie is paying the bills. Work descends into a handbags-at-dawn struggle for survival, and there's a new exec in the office - rude, opinionated but strangely attractive - questioning exactly what she's trying to prove.

A novel about human relationships, focusing, unusually for Brookner, on two male characters. Hartmann and Fibich met at school and 40 years later they can no more think of living apart than of divorcing their wives. This book deals with their gradual coming to terms with the emotional gaps in their lives.

Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. Reviving a university dream, she invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to live, and to stave off the prospect of old age. All have their own reasons for accepting.To begin with, omens are good. They laugh, dance, drink and behave badly, as they cling to the heritage they thought was theirs for ever: power, health, stability.

When Amy consults her doctor about her increasing mood swings, she is advised to keep a diary as an outlet for her bursts of irritation. And her life obligingly becomes eventful enough to provide interesting reading. But it is the tantalising allusions to Amy's past - so at odds with her appearance as the stereotypical retired schoolmistress - that intrigues, delights, and eventually reveals a woman of surprising qualities.

Um velho homem escreve suas memórias de infância, vivida num bairro proletário do RJ, na virada dos anos 1950/1960. Naturalmente, e logo nas primeiras páginas, uma criança, um menino pequeno, apodera-se da narrativa, pois é na sua visão que iremos conhecer as histórias de um tempo, cronologicamente recente, mas cujo resultado de passagem, porém, foi comparável a de todo um milênio, tamanhas as mudanças ocorridas em tão breve espaço de tempo.

A Pontinia, piccolo centro di fondazione fascista nel mezzo dell'Agro Pontino, la giovane Elena è stata uccisa dal fidanzato. A distanza di un anno, i suoi amici sono ancora divisi tra il dolore di quel trauma e il bisogno di un'adolescenza normale. Nell'arco di un'estate afosa, vissuta fra le architetture metafisiche di Pontinia e di Latina e le sensuali dune di Sabaudia, e con Roma, la grande città, sullo sfondo, si intrecciano i loro destini. C'è Diana, con la sua voglia sulla gamba che la rende tanto insicura, e c'è la sua migliore amica Vera, che sembra invece non aver paura di niente.

Ana Robbins was an Olympic star in the making—until tragedy forced her to leave that world behind. At the age of sixteen, she gave up her dream and never looked back. Fourteen years later, she’s a successful defense attorney, revered for her work with minors. But when her former coach turns up dead, Ana lands right back where it all began, and abruptly ended: The Palace, a world-renowned skating facility nestled high in the mountains of Colorado.

Joan Lennon é uma menina de 10 anos com um dom surpreendente: ela é capaz de lembrar, com exatidão de detalhes, tudo que aconteceu com ela. Sabe quantas vezes a mãe disse “sempre dá certo” nos últimos seis meses, lembra dos dias e dos motivos para ter chorado, mas compreende também que nem todos têm essa capacidade. A maioria das pessoas, ela sabe, esquece as coisas, mas Joan não quer ser esquecida pelos outros.

Glasgow, 1981. A cidade está morrendo. A pobreza, aumentando. A esperança, desaparecendo. Agnes Bain sempre esperou por mais. Ela sonhava com coisas grandiosas: uma casa com entrada particular, uma vida confortável. Quando seu segundo marido, um taxista mulherengo, sai de casa, ela e os três filhos se veem presos em uma cidade mineradora dizimada pela política da então primeira-ministra Margaret Thatcher. Enquanto Agnes se entrega cada vez mais ao álcool em busca de conforto, seus filhos tentam salvá-la. Porém, um a um, vão desistindo porque precisam salvar a si mesmos.

Evie and Leo met in foster care as children and formed a bond of friendship. As they grew, their bond turned to love, and they vowed to make a life together when they turned 18 and were no longer a part of the system.

She expected to start Harkness College as a varsity ice hockey player. But a serious accident means that Corey Callahan will start school in a wheelchair instead. Across the hall, in the other handicapped-accessible dorm room, lives the too-delicious-to-be-real Adam Hartley, another would-be hockey star with his leg broken in two places. He's way out of Corey's league. Also, he's taken. Nevertheless, an unlikely alliance blooms between Corey and Hartley in the "gimp ghetto" of McHerrin Hall.

Pip is an orphan, brought up by his sister and her husband, the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery. One evening, while visiting his parents' graves, he has a shocking encounter with an escaped convict who forces Pip to help him. The very next day, he is invited to go and see Miss Havisham, a rich old lady who is seeking a playmate for the beautiful Estella. These two chance events are to change Pip's life in ways he could never have imagined...

Che fine ha fatto Kala? A Kinlough, una cittadina irlandese che si affaccia sul mare, è l’estate del 2003. Un gruppo di amici quindicenni sta vivendo il momento più bello della vita: i primi amori, le prime sbronze, l’amicizia viscerale come può esserlo solo a quell’età. È un’estate vissuta come se dovesse durare in eterno. È l’estate che cambierà per sempre le loro vite. Kala Lanann, carismatica leader del gruppo, trasgressiva e spericolata, al culmine di quella stagione scomparirà senza lasciare traccia. Quindici anni dopo, tre dei vecchi amici si ritrovano nella cittadina.

A Oslo, una scrittrice sessantenne assiste come tutti gli anni a un concerto di Natale; siede accanto a una coppia accompagnata dalla figlia adolescente, che si mostra palesemente infastidita e viene rimproverata di continuo dalla madre. La scena fa scattare nella donna il ricordo dei suoi sedici anni, e il lettore viene catapultato nel racconto del suo passato: un’adolescenza su cui grava una figura materna opprimente, che controlla la figlia in maniera ossessiva, terrorizzata al pensiero che possa bere, fare sesso, assumere droghe.

Elle croit que notre histoire est terminée. Alors que cela ne fait que commencer. Lennon Washington est la star de tous mes rêves et de tous mes cauchemars depuis que je l'ai perdue. Depuis que j'ai laissé mes démons intérieurs prendre le dessus et qu'elle m'a glissé entre les doigts. Son souvenir m'a hanté. M'a changé. M'a détruit et m'a reconstruit. J'avais presque renoncé à nous. Un drame l'a aujourd'hui ramenée dans ma vie. Mes secrets sont à sa disposition. Et les siens sont en train d'éclater au grand jour les uns après les autres.

In the early 1970s, Poe is living a nomadic life, hopping trains, sleeping rough, and juggling to feed himself. He eventually settles in Philadelphia and masters his street act before ever-growing crowds. When one of his fellow buskers presents him with an opportunity—a bank heist—he should have refused, an innocent bystander is killed, and he splits town a felon.

Ein faszinierender Roman über die großen Pioniere der Luftfahrt Otto Lilienthal und Graf von Zeppelin. Zwei Männer machen sich im 19. Jahrhundert auf, den Himmel zu erobern. Im pommerschen Städtchen Anklam sucht der junge Otto Lilienthal Zuflucht in der Natur. Als er in den Niederungen den Flug der Störche beobachtet, keimt in ihm der Wunsch, selbst einmal wie ein Vogel fliegen zu können. Unterdessen wächst Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin als Spross einer Adelsfamilie bei Konstanz am Bodensee auf.

Ein kauziger älterer Herr, Geschichten über ein Land, das es nicht mehr gibt und die Frage, ob ein Leben eher durch Wahrheit oder durch Phantasie gelingt. Gemeinsam mit seiner Frau Anja Tsokos erzählt Bestsellerautor Michael Tsokos in dem Roman «Heinz Labensky – und seine Sicht auf die Dinge» von der ehemaligen DDR. Wir tauchen ein in das Leben des liebenswerten Einzelgängers Heinz Labensky und begeben uns auf eine verschmitze Reise durch die deutsch-deutsche Geschichte. Heinz Labensky hat auch nach der Wende den Osten Deutschlands nie verlassen und sitzt in einem Seniorenheim die Zeit ab.