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One Girl Began entwines the stories of three women, separated by history but connected by the same building. For Ellen in 1909, it is a box factory where she finds work and a transformative circle of friendship when her family fall on hard times. For Frances in 1984, it is a derelict ruin, where she joins a group of squatters and is drawn into a coercive relationship. And for Amanda in 2020, it is a gentrified conversion, where she finds herself trapped in a tiny flat and grappling with new motherhood as the pandemic looms into view.

Um retrato (único e cativante) de personagens sobre os quais prestamos pouca atenção. Com este seu primeiro romance, José Falero já se apresenta como um dos nomes mais relevantes da nova literatura brasileira. Ao criar um narrador culto e perspicaz — que contrasta com o dialeto a um só tempo urbano e filosófico da periferia —, o autor mostra seu talento incomum, fazendo uma verdadeira arqueologia da pobreza. Falero nos leva direto ao supermercado Fênix, na região central de Porto Alegre.

A laugh-out-loud opposites attract romance from rom com superstar Laura Carter A Hotshot Manhattan Attorney. Drew Harrington knows exactly who he is—a legal shark with a love ‘em and leave ‘em attitude that works just fine in his cutthroat world. He’s on the cusp of being named a partner...

A man of the night and a man of the city, some would even say a renaissance man. Ron Etienne maneuvers through the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the same way as many other single men in their early 30s. Stumbling across a fair chance at love, Ron learns the hard way that it’s easier for him to catch a good woman than it is for him to keep her.

En los noventa, Rachel Walsh era un desastre. Pero, después de pasar por una clínica de desintoxicación, todo mejoró. En estos momentos tiene una vida llena de amor, una familia y un buen trabajo como consejera en adicciones. Además, es capaz de mantener vivo su jardín y el único vicio que le queda son las zapatillas caras.

When Margaret Hale is forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural South of England for the industrial Northern town of Milton, she finds herself in a very different country run by men, like mill owner John Thornton, with very different beliefs to her own. Margaret is sickened by the working conditions she witnesses and, sympathetic to the poor workers, clashes with their boss, Thornton.

Mimi e Kodachi sono due gemelle che vengono cresciute nella cittadina di Fukiage da una coppia di amici dei genitori perché il padre è rimasto ucciso in un incidente stradale e la madre è in coma. Compiuti i diciotto anni decidono di trasferirsi a Tōkyō, dove vivono una vita tranquilla, quando, all’improvviso Kodachi svanisce nel nulla.

Old Michael Snowdon returns to London with an inheritance that he determines should go towards helping the poor—but goodness and charity are not to play a part here. Everyone has an agenda, and scheming spreads through the story like a disease. Gissing’s own experience of London as an outsider in a vast city that both fascinated and appalled him gave him the tools and the drive to create a visceral sense of place. Life is unremittingly grim for just about everyone, from the weak and well-intentioned Jane to the coarse, cunning Clem Peckover and her feckless rival Pennyloaf Candy.

The guardians were created for protection, but they were used in the past to protect a power-hungry vampire. Made of stone, they're all impervious to harm, but their hearts can still be broken. All three books surround the same faction of gargoyles, but each highlights a different fated mate couple.

Brought to you by Penguin. When age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hide Lydia imagines her new job running a Senior Citizen's Social Club three afternoons a week will involve drinking tea while playing gentle games of cards, listening to The Beatles and reminiscing about food...

You ever felt like someone was made for you? Crafted in your image the same way Eve was for Adam? Javen Cooper knew Luna Moony was made for him. First, in the form of a best friend—the female version of the boy he loved like a brother. But as time moved forward, something else bloomed—something that blurred the lines of love and lover. It was so magnetic, that nothing could keep them apart. Except life. And Luna's need to protect Javen.

‘A lovely mystery evocative of the period from a talented writer’ Helena Dixon, bestselling author of the Miss Underhay mysteries Someone’s been read their last rites… 1915, London: Working in the dusty bookshop that her Aunt Violet mysteriously inherited, Hannah Merrill is accustomed to...

Meet Madam Jeong Geum-nam, affectionately known as "Hyehwa-dong Grandma", a self-proclaimed "cool senior". Her dosirak are the best in town (much better than from Heja Lunchbox, thank you!) but there is something else that makes her restaurant special: Grandma's warm notes wrapped in silver foil...

Der kleine Markus schlägt die Warnung seiner Mutter in den Wind und füttert jeden Morgen am Waldrand eine streunende Schäferhündin mit seinem Schulbrot. Eines Tages passiert ein Unglück: Laika fällt einen Menschen an, und niemand glaubt Markus, dass sie ihn nur beschützen wollte. Der alte Förster Lothar Seidel soll sie jagen und erschießen. Doch zuerst müssen er und die Polizei Markus finden, der ebenso wie die Schäferhündin im Wald verschwunden ist.

New York 1925: Amy Kennedy wächst als Kind armer irischer Einwanderer auf. Wie alle Frauen ihrer Familie arbeitet sie als Näherin im berühmten Revuepalast „National Wintergarden". Insgeheim jedoch träumt sie von einer Karriere als Showgirl. Sie verfolgt ihr Ziel hartnäckig und ergattert mit 17 ein Engagement als Tänzerin. Kurz darauf trifft sie Jack McClary.

Rule #1: Don’t mess with the Mafia. Rule #2: Definitely don’t fall for three of them. Guess I like breaking rules. The Vegas Mafia’s hottest men weren’t part of my plan. Now they’re the only plan I’ve got. Three men — dangerous, demanding, and far too tempting. One is quiet, always watching. His gaze scorches, his touch burns. One is volatile, a storm I should avoid — until he drags me into the fire. And the last? He hides a filthy imagination behind an innocent smile. They’ve pulled me straight into Vegas’s darkest underworld. I should resist.

When Tara Silverthorne catches her husband with donuts in places donuts should never be, her twenty-year marriage implodes faster than a botched soufflé. Fleeing her suburban life for a trendy Richmond apartment, forty-two-year-old Tara thinks the hardest part of starting over will be learning to parallel park. She’s wrong. Landing a job at a high-end shoe company introduces her to torturous designer heels and her charming French boss, who’s still nursing a decades-old crush.

What can cause an ordinary citizen to become a serial killer? After the death of his wife, children, and grandchildren in a highway accident, which also killed the drivers who were at fault, Barry Wilk has nothing to live for —until he receives a mysterious summons to visit Lark Castle, his former sweetheart and the great love of his life. Lark is dying; it’s too late for them to have a second chance. Forty years ago, during his freshman year at college, their romance had been derailed — accidentally, he’d thought at the time.

'With the open-hearted rashness that belongs to every true writer, Saviano returns to tell the story of the fierce and grieving heart of Naples.' Elena Ferrante In Naples, a new kind of gang rules the streets: the ‘Paranze’, the ‘Children’s Gangs’, groups of teenage boys who divide...

As recommended on Davina McCall's podcast! Hilariously read by Sally Phillips, star of Smack the Pony, Bridget Jones Diary and Miranda - Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up is a must-listen for anyone whose life isn’t working out quite how they’d planned. Now a major TV series: Not Dead...