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Sex bomb Así la guardaba en su móvil. Y es que Estela era una bomba de relojería y Poncho se derretía cada vez que la tenía cerca, por muy diferentes que fueran. Superpijo Así le llamaba. Y con razón. De buena familia, con un piso en la mejor zona de Madrid, un cochazo impresionante y Director General de una gran compañía, Poncho Álvarez era exactamente eso... un pijo arrogante y pagado de sí mismo que coleccionaba mujeres.

Patrick Kenzie recibe el encargo de la conocida psiquiatra Diandra Warren de proteger a su hijo Jason, víctima de amenazas y mensajes anónimos, supuestamente por parte de la mafia irlandesa. El caso suena arriesgado, aunque sencillo: sin embargo, cierta incongruencia en los hechos parece indicar la existencia de una amenaza más profunda. La investigación se complica cuando el degradado barrio bostoniano de Dorchester, en el que Kenzie vivió su adolescencia, se convierte en escenario de asesinatos cuya singular crueldad recuerda crímenes ocurridos veinte años antes allí mismo.

Decades after the Haywoodian Menace threatened our reality and safety and freedom… In Zenith City, a new hero rises with the assistance from his uncle and best friend as they protect the city's right to be different and special, which is being challenged by a tyrannical media mogul, Dr. Katz.

Nairobi moves to the beat of Gengetone—bass-heavy, raw, unapologetic. The kind of sound that rattles matatu windows, spitting stories of the hustle, the wins, the losses. It’s loud, it’s real, just like the streets. And no one owns them like Vee—fast, fearless, and running the game like she was born for it. VEE: Matatu Diaries is a high-energy urban fiction set in the streets of Nairobi.

Agent Richard Chance is on a relentless mission to avenge his partner's murder by bringing down master counterfeiter Eric Masters. As Chance delves into the dangerous underworld of Los Angeles, he faces a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where every move could be his last.

Un thriller cargado de adrenalina, poderoso y original, que arrastrará al lector a una aventura peligrosa y excitante de la que no podrá salir indemne. Soleil disfruta de una vida convencional. Esposa del juez Eric Bisset y madre del pequeño Daniel, de solo dos años, trabaja como ingeniera informática desde su casa en Carcasona (Francia). Convencional, pero no feliz. La vida de Soleil está controlada por su marido y su suegra, quienes siempre parecen saber qué es lo mejor para todos. El refugio de Soleil es su ordenador, desde donde se siente capaz de controlar el mundo.

Breathtakingly tender, Seven Days in Tokyo is an astonishing debut about the intricacies of desire and a search for belonging. It is a lyrical, immersive portrait of how some things, however beautiful and profound, are destined to be as short-lived as the cherry blossoms.

In 1978, two tenements on Livonia Avenue in Brownsville burn to the ground, killing one resident and displacing dozens of others. It remains unclear who set the buildings ablaze, but the survivors are convinced the culprit is Mr. Wong. Who exactly is Mr. Wong, and what allegedly drove him to this extraordinary act of violence, is the question that consumes this novel as it plunges into four generations of Wong family history.

Pourquoi dans la nuit du 16 septembre 1932, Peg Entwistle, jeune actrice talentueuse au destin prometteur, aimée de tous et filant le parfait amour avec la nouvelle coqueluche des studios, se jette-t-elle du haut de la lettre « H » du mythique panneau « Hollywood » ?

Throw together a magical cat, a cursed tarot card deck and a free-spirited, obsessive-compulsive witch getting in touch with her sorceress forces, and you get Jane Starr, and her adorable ragdoll-Cheshire cat, Theodosia. With a large glass of wine in hand, Jane romps through a contemporary fantasy, in an absurd and surreal land full of magical, light-hearted mystery.

Elio Rossi is a dream on paper. He's rich, handsome, and head of his family's multi-billion-dollar business. He's also a ruthless Mafia Don and my older brother's best friend. But even that isn't a huge issue to me. No, Elio is my nightmare because he used to be my dream man. We've been betrothed since childhood. But the night of our engagement years ago, our parents died in a tragic accident. One that I'm sure Elio's family planned.

Triggerwarnung: Gewalt, Missbrauch, Folter In den düsteren Straßen von Salt Lake City wächst Richard in einer Welt der Vernachlässigung und Gewalt auf. Seine Mutter, überfordert und emotional distanziert, behandelt ihn mit Härte und Ablehnung. Was als Liebe getarnt ist, hinterlässt tiefe Wunden in seiner Seele. Im Hochsicherheitstrakt von Colorado, Jahre später, blickt Richard auf seine grausame Vergangenheit zurück. Er erzählt von seiner obsessiven Liebe zu Mary Jane, einer Frau, die er auf perfide Weise in seine Gewalt gebracht hatte. Ein Strudel aus Manipulation, Entführung und Folter.

Hausbesetzer. Politischer Aktivist. Engagierter Geschichtslehrer. Ziggy Kern weiß, was richtig ist und was nicht. Das war gestern. Heute ist Ziggy der meist gehasste Mann Düsseldorfs. Und das wegen eines aus der Zeit gefallenen Nazi-Schergen und eines Tafellappens im brennenden Gesicht von Betsy Spenkel. RUNTERGEROCKT ist die tragikomische Story eines ausgemusterten Idealisten und seiner verzweifelten Suche nach einem Platz im 21. Jahrhundert. Ein urbaner Roadtrip auf der Fahrbahn des Wahnsinns - schmerzhaft witzig und rasend schnell erzählt.

For as far back as she can remember, Vicky has been fascinated and obsessed with death as the only inevitable thing in life. From living above a Chinatown funeral parlor to working at a celebrity start-up for bespoke urns, she has surrounded herself with death—in her home, in her work, and in her ever-growing collection of zhizha, paper creations meant to be burned for the dead, adorning the walls of her apartment. Yet, though living in Manhattan and working her dream job is all she ever wanted, she still struggles to have meaningful connections—or find any meaning at all—in her life.

With her lowlife husband Gavin’s latest hustle blown to hell, Callie Renfrew knows it’s only a matter of time before he comes crawling back, hungry for revenge. But before he can strike, Callie’s got a few brutal scores of her own to settle. But if her plan is going to work, she’ll have to cut deals with the kind of people who deal in blood and– rival families who play by a whole different set of rules.

June Hayward et Athena Liu ont étudié ensemble à Yale, ont déménagé à Washington après avoir obtenu leur diplôme et sont toutes les deux écrivaines, mais les similitudes s'arrêtent là. Athena est une étoile montante de la littérature, et June n'est personne. Après tout, qui s'intéresse de nos jours aux histoires d'une fille blanche aussi banale qu'elle ?

Life for Winona Dalloway is not as it should be. Her husband is no longer her husband, her children are not at home with her, and the city in which she lives is besieged by fires. Black ash falls like snow, songbirds screech like dinosaurs, and the doctors are calling her mad....

Dans une petite rue de l’élégant quartier de Ginza à Tokyo se dresse la célèbre papeterie Shihodo, où ceux qui entrent sont sûrs de trouver ce qu’ils sont venus chercher, des papiers washi les plus fins aux encres les plus colorées. Loin de la frénésie urbaine, Ken Takarada, le propriétaire, a aménagé un espace où les clients peuvent coucher sur le papier leurs émotions les plus intimes. Le contact de la plume sur la feuille, le tracé délicat des lettres et des idéogrammes, l’odeur du papier… Dans ce havre de paix, chacun redécouvre le pouvoir de l’écriture.

Купить билет, поехать в Питер, можно даже одному. Обязательно в кого-нибудь влюбишься, в крайнем случае - в город. Достичь высот, стать великим - вот и ему казалось, что с высоты видно все.

Повышение по службе… Переезд из Саратова в Москву… Личное знакомство с Императором… Большие карьерные перспективы… Даже новая любовь появилась! Враги в порталах все опаснее, задачки все сложнее, и самая главная из них — откуда вообще появляются эти порталы?