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La vida en la sociedad urbana actual está llena de sorpresas como se describen en estos catorce cuentos. Ellas ocurren de improviso y afectan radicalmente la vida de quienes viven este tiempo, cambiando cómo se percibe el pasado y el presente, cuando algo, hasta ese momento desconocido, irrumpe.

En la ciudad de Nueva York, las vidas de tres exitosas profesionales se verán alteradas tras la muerte accidental de un reconocido empresario de la industria textil. Rodeadas por el sofisticado ambiente de la ciudad de los rascacielos y la industria de la moda, las tres mujeres, que en principio no deberían haber coincidido nunca, deberán aliarse para enfrentar un futuro incierto, pues sus vidas profesionales y sentimentales serán expuestas y cuestionadas por una élite empresarial que está dispuesta a verlas caer.

Emma y Samuel entran a un estudio de tatuajes en Tlatelolco y se topan de frente con alguien cuya perversión terminará por cambiar el rumbo de sus vidas. Este es un thriller de persecución, crimen e impunidad que muestra las cicatrices visibles einvisibles de nuestra sociedad. El tatuaje invisible refleja la ira y el dolor en todas sus caras. En él se reconocen las distintas formas de violencia que enfrentan las personas diariamente y cómo éstas reciben e infligen daño a la vez.

Esta es la historia de mi amigo William Duncan y de cómo cambió su vida el día que descubrió que Freddie Mercury no estaba muerto. Fue por casualidad. Una gata que se coló por su ventana, la certera flecha de Cupido y una confesión en circunstancias extrañas. Podría haberlo dejado pasar, como haría cualquiera que estuviera en sus cabales, pero él se empeñó en perseguir su sueño. ¿Qué si era cierto o solo una quimera? ¿Qué si lo consiguió? La respuesta tienen que buscarla ustedes mismos.

Aaliyah and Tokyo Monroe are sisters. They’re both doing their own thing as popular and successful women with bright futures, and they love it. However, when passion, lust, envy, and narcissist behavior shows its face, the sisters are faced with drama and chaos.

You Can't Park 'Ere! is a Comedy Novella about Traffic Wardens. Marek, a 20-year-old fresh recruit, is a Polish man who recently moved to the U.K but dreams of one day becoming a Police Officer. He is taken under the wing by Mosi, an ex-child soldier from Sierra Leone, who teaches him the tricks of the trade on how to best avoid grief from the public while dishing out parking tickets, how to side-step hassle from Management, and how to always focus on a side-hustle, at all times, no matter the circumstances.

As Liverpool and its residents begin to heal from the wounds and memories of World War I, life on Weaver Street in 1924 is blessedly peaceful. But as the Depression begins to bite, and the arrival of the Muller family on Weaver Street signals the worrying drumbeats of conflict coming from Germany, the fragile happiness and peace Liverpool has been enjoying looks destined to end. And as the neighbours pull together in the toughest of times, the women on Weaver Street face the prospect of waving their menfolk off to war.

Raphael Waters grew up accustomed to being in a constant state of survival. When he becomes the muscle for known street figure, Rah, he believes his life has taken a turn for the better. That is until a string of unfortunate circumstances leave Rah missing and Raphael grasping for answers in the streets of the concrete jungle—once again. A chance encounter with the intriguing Alex Gatts promises to be the life-changing turnaround he needs.

1985. Uprooted from her home in Bangladesh, 18-year-old Nazneen is sent to London for an arranged marriage with a much older man. Her new life is strange and bewildering - the busy streets and crowded tower blocks of the East End are a world away from the rural village she grew up in, and she struggles to adapt to living with her self-important husband, Chanu. Back in Bangladesh, Nazneen's sister Hasina has eloped with the man she loves, and been disowned by her family.

Esther is out with her two friends, bemoaning her lack of relationship, when she finds a magazine from the noughties. Seeking comfort – and a laugh – she turns to the dating advice only to find an article that feels a little too close to home. According to the journalist, there are seven people a woman will date before finding the one: The First Love, The Work Mistake, The Friend with Benefits, The Overlap, The Missed Chance, The Bastard and The Serious One. Her friends laugh but Esther realises each of her exes fits these roles perfectly.

Beautiful, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse has lived twenty-three years in her tight-knit Upper East Side neighborhood with very little to distress or vex her…that is, until her budding matchmaking hobby results in her sister’s marriage—and subsequent move downtown. Now, with her sister gone and all her friends traveling abroad, Emma must start her final year of grad school grappling with an entirely new emotion: boredom. So when she meets Nadine, a wide-eyed Ohio transplant with a heart of gold and drugstore highlights to match, Emma not only sees a potential new friend but a new project.

Still reeling from the sudden death of her mother, Jess is about to do the hardest thing she's ever done: empty her childhood home so that it can be sold. As she sorts through a lifetime of memories, everything comes to a halt when she comes across something she just can’t part with: an old set of encyclopedias. To the world, the books are outdated and ready to be recycled. To Jess, they represent love and the future that her mother always wanted her to have.

Savant Black is a protector. More logic than emotion, he places emphasis on his present reality above all. When his sister suggests he speak with a life coach, Savant doesn’t believe she will be capable of opening his eyes and mind to any life altering revelations. However, the longer he works with Addison the more Savant realizes his need to feel so little comes from desiring so much.

Now that Mink has pushed her way to the front of the line to capture the Dominion family's oil billions, her life has become a luxurious whirl of easy money, fine whips, and sparkling jewels. But she'll need to come out of a whole new trick bag in order to throw shade on her sizzling swerve with Suge, her uncle-by-marriage only. Meanwhile, Suge is going toe-to-toe with the Dominion's oldest adversary, whose shameless mudslinging could cast dirt on their family name and ruin their good fortune forever.

In order to purge herself from the ultimate betrayal, Sariah Reign turns cold to the world around her. Her good girl image is no more. It’s the Reign family versus the Cannon family, and only one can come out on top.

Luke found it difficult to sleep during the late summer nights. Half the city seemed to be awake and partying outside until the early hours of the morning. Tonight he was resentful that he was both kept awake and not partying him-self, although it was a fact that he could have gone out on the town if he had wanted to.

Julia's uneventful life takes an unexpected turn when her parents separate, but that is just the beginning. Something dark and sinister is happening near her home. As she makes new friends and hopes for romance, residents of her quiet, little neighborhood start to disappear. What kind of community has she moved into?Are there unthinkable truths hidden beyond the casual facades we encounter every day?

Growing up in the Black Country under Mrs Thatcher's iron grip, Jamie dreams of a life in a magical metropolis, rubbing shoulders with the mythical creatures from Smash Hits. Despite the quirky characters in his hometown and his mother's witty one-liners, Jamie's heart is set on something greater. Follow him through secondary school, teenage turmoil, and art school, where he falls in love with Billy and the allure of the big city.

"Auf unsere Liebe. Auf die Kriege, die wir im Innern, in aller Stille führen. Bis aufs Messer." Frech, provokant, hemmungslos: Maria Pourchet erzählt von einer verhängnisvollen Liebe in Paris, von einer Frau und einem Mann, die in einer leidenschaftlichen Affäre aus den vorgezeichneten Bahnen ihres Lebens ausbrechen. Ein faszinierender Roman über die Komplexität der Liebe und die großen gesellschaftlichen Fragen unserer Zeit.

Forbidden love and fierce rivalry drive Jeff Hollister, a street-smart high school senior and gang leader of the Hurricanes, to the brink of disaster. Thinking he’s got the world in his back pocket, and the police at a safe distance, he and his scrappy gang of teenage delinquents come to discover they don’t always come out on top after all. A deadly vow by a member of the rival Tornadoes gang sets Jeff and his friends on a roller coaster of knife fray and gunplay, foot races and car chases, trust and betrayal, and murder.