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Imagine a world in which the hopeless and vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society. Imagine a world divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In that world lives Elimina Dubois, one of only 100 children selected as a social experiment by the Mainland government to be taken from their mothers in the Gutter and raised in the land of opportunity. But when her Mainland mother dies when Elimina is just a teenager, Elimina finds herself all alone, forced into an unfamiliar life of servitude, unsure of where she belongs.

Auf dem Totenbett beauftragt der geheimnisvolle H - Jacobs letzte Verbindung zu seinem geliebten Großvater Abe - Jacob mit einer unmöglichen Mission: Er soll die Besondere Noor Pradesh zu einer geheimnisvollen Verbündeten namens V bringen, von der Jacob nur den Namen kennt. Noor steht im Mittelpunkt einer uralten Prophezeiung, die den Untergang aller Besonderen vorhersagt. Sie wird von mächtigen Gegnern gejagt und die wenigen Hinweise, die Jacob zu V führen sollen, sind mehr als verwirrend.

When Bergen PI Varg Veum finds himself at the funeral of a former classmate on a sleet-grey December afternoon, he’s unexpectedly reunited with his old friend Jakob – the once-famous lead singer of 1960s rock band The Harpers – and his estranged wife, Rebecca, Veum’s first love. Their rekindled friendship come to an abrupt end with a horrific murder, and Veum is forced to dig deep into his own adolescence and his darkest memories, to find a motive...and a killer.

Convencido de que para alguien con sus aspiraciones literarias podía convenir vivir en el país de Franz Kafka y de Milan Kundera, el joven Eugen Salmann acepta la propuesta que le hacen de irse al este europeo. Ni de lejos sospecha este aprendiz de escritor que en Praga no conseguirá ni abrir una nueva filial para su empresa ni escribir una sola línea. Más aún: como si fuera un personaje de Kafka, más que escribir una novela… ¡se encuentra viviendo dentro de una! Las ficciones se hacen realidad y se tornan peligrosas.

A la protagonista de esta novela le dan una terrible noticia y, desesperada, con todo perdido, ha de tomar una decisión: Huir. Ser libre. Así emprende un camino hacia ninguna parte, hacia su interior, hacia su liberación, que le llevará a descubrir el sentido final y esencial de su existencia, el valor real de las cosas y los recuerdos, la importancia de los sueños y los mitos y, cuando menos se lo esperaba, el amor, un amor apasionado que le hará vivir cada momento con ansias renovadas.

"Mai no tiris contra ningú; mai no tiris per seduir ningú; mai no tiris per ser més que ningú; mai no tiris per demostrar-te res a tu mateixa; el tir amb arc és un estat que es pot compartir." Aquestes són les paraules que acompanyen la Haru des de la seva entrada al dojo, on aprendrà l'art del tir amb arc, fins al camí vital que li farà qüestionar-ho tot, arriscar-ho tot i perdre-ho tot. Per rebre-ho tot.

La Judit té gairebé dotze anys i un do per dibuixar. Viu amb la seva mare i el seu avi a Ginebra. El seu pare, un famós pintor, va marxar a Hongria quan era petita. La Judit està preparant-se per a un concurs de dibuix quan, inesperadament, els escacs es creuen en el seu camí i comença a aficionar-s’hi. La Judit jugarà moltes partides, però una d’elles li canviarà la vida: la que jugarà contra Mr. Aliyat, un estrany mestre dels escacs, nascut a l’Iran, que es comunica a través de notes enigmàtiques.

Manuela Penarrocha té tretze anys. Asseguda en una cadireta baixa al portal de casa seva, cus les espardenyes com ningú. La nena d’ulls grisos i cabells d’or recorda el seu pare. Ell, per fer la guerra, n’ha portat unes com aquestes, com la resta de carlistes, homes d’espardenya, garrot, trabuc i navalla a la faixa. Vol abraçar-lo, sentir l’escalfor del seu petó al front. Enyora la mirada dura i alhora plena de tendresa, el seu riure estrident.

A young boy comes of age within the confines of post-civil-war Beirut, with conflict and comedy lurking round every corner. Adam dreams of becoming an astronaut, but who has ever heard of an Arab on the moon? He battles with his father, a book-hoarding journalist with a penchant for writing eulogies, his closest friend, Basil, a Druze who is said to worship goats and believe in reincarnation, and a host of other misfits and miscreants in a city attempting recover from years of political and military violence.

In a nameless Hungarian town, teenagers on a competitive swim team occupy their after-training hours with hard drinking and fast cars, hash cigarettes and marathons of Grand Theft Auto, the meaningless sex and late-night exploits of a world defined by self-gratification and all its attendant recklessness. Invisible to their parents and subject to the whims of an abusive coach, the crucible of competition pushes them again and again into dangerous choices. When a deadly accident leaves them second-guessing one another, they’re driven even deeper into violence.

"Der Tag, an dem Irgendwer McIrgendwas mir eine Waffe auf die Brust setzte, mich ein Flittchen nannte und drohte, mich zu erschießen, war auch der Tag, an dem der Milchmann starb." Mit Milchmann legte Anna Burns das literarische Großereignis des vergangenen Jahres vor. Ein Roman über den unerschrockenen Kampf einer jungen Frau um ein selbstbestimmtes Leben - weltweit gefeiert und ausgezeichnet mit dem Man Booker Prize. Eine junge Frau zieht ungewollt die Aufmerksamkeit eines mächtigen und erschreckend älteren Mannes auf sich, Milchmann.

Esta obra que tienes es un clásico de la literatura. La historia se desarrolla en una casita situada al norte de los Estados Unidos, donde vivían las cuatro hijas de un soldado que luchaba por la liberación de los esclavos. Las cuatro hermanas eran muy distintas físicamente y en su manera de ser y se llamaban Meg, Jo, Beth y Amy. Vive con ellas sus aventuras y diviértete con las tremendas travesuras de Amy.

Zindagi 50-50's young writer Bhagwant Anmol manages to cover sensitive topics which tug at the very fabric of our society. In Bali Umar he has managed to do the same. At the center of the novel are a child’s innocence, his shenanigans, and a child’s raging curiosity to fathom everything about life. The main protagonists of the novel are children, and the plot is set in a village. The novel is an attempt to address societal-political and caste angle issues through the medium of children.

A Hindi translation of Ruskin Bond’s A Handful of Nuts by Rachna Bhola ‘Yamini’, this novel is the story of a 21-year-old writer in a small town in India. Alternately witty, poignant, tender and hilarious, the tale begins with the writer describing his simple and frugal life in Dehra. He occupies a tiny room, spending his days eating at the roadside restaurants, watching cinema and reading all English publications he can find. His goal is to find avenues to get his short stories published, and though he finds plenty such publications, none of those pay well.

Call me what you want: Bad Boy Next Door. Trouble. That Kid Who Can’t Do Anything Right. When Willow moves into my neighborhood, nothing should have happened. She’s geeky. Shy. A true wallflower. Willow is a good girl. Too good for me. And how the hell was I supposed to know that she’s related to Loren Hale - yeah, that douchebag celebrity that lives on my street. The same guy I've been pranking by spray painting vulgar words on his mailbox and worse. Much worse. I'm cursed. Simple as that. People who are cursed break everything they touch. And yet...I still want to touch her.

You know that old saying “opposites attract” - well, no one ever tells you what happens after the attraction part. Do opposites stick together forever? Or do they just self-combust? And then there’s the third option: Someone or something forces them apart. Look, the third option isn’t happening to us. I will end the bastard who thinks he can keep me from her. I only need to worry about one thing.... Epic, soul-crushing self-destruction. Because I screw up everything I touch. Even her.

Fake. That's what we are. That's what we agreed to be. So why does it feel so real? I thought it would have been harder, convincing everyone our school's star receiver was mine and mine alone, but I was wrong. We played our parts so well that the lines between us began to blur until they disappeared completely. The thing about pretending, though, is that someone's always better at it, and by the time I realized my mistake, there was no going back.

Elusive online journalist Scott King examines the chilling case of a young vlogger found frozen to death in the legendary local ‘vampire tower’, in another explosive episode of Six Stories. In the wake of the 'Beast from the East' cold snap that ravaged the UK in 2018, a grisly discovery was made in a ruin on the Northumbrian coast. Twenty-four-year-old vlogger Elizabeth Barton had been barricaded inside what locals refer to as 'The Vampire Tower', where she was later found frozen to death.

Shay Gable hated my guts, and I hated hers, too. We went out of our way to avoid one another at all times. When she came in my direction, I went the other. When we locked eyes, she’d turn and walk away. All of that changed the day I was presented with a challenge. It started out as a stupid bet: make Shay fall in love with me before I fell in love with her first. That was an easy bet for me to win. I didn’t love. I hardly liked. Yet slowly the game started to shift. Shay made me crave things I never knew I wanted.

Marlene Beckmann ist 31 Jahre alt und lebt das Leben, das sie sich gewünscht hat. Auf die Frage, wie es ihr geht, antwortet sie meistens: "Super, und dir?" Marlene hat sich äußerlich im Griff. Bis sie ihren ersten richtigen Job als Social Media Managerin in einem multinationalen Unternehmen antritt. Bis sie vor lauter Überstunden kein Privatleben mehr hat. Bis der Druck schließlich zu groß wird.