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Darin steht der Namensgeber des „Big Apple" Peter Stuyvesant im Mittelpunkt, um den sich zu viele Legenden ranken, als dass man alle in einem Hörbuch komprimieren könnte, aber Irving beschreibt im gewohnt humoristischen Stil dessen Machtergreifung zum wichtigsten Mann der holländischen Kolonien und sein Wirken als Staatsmann, das in eine Zeit fällt, in welcher die neuen Siedler des amerikanischen Kontinents sich gerade im Aufbau eigener Verwaltungsstrukturen befanden und damit eine Konfrontation mit den anderen europäischen Ethnien unausweichlich wurde.

David Kepesh, sessentão, personalidade conhecida no mundo cultural nova-iorquino, coleciona namoradas jovens como coleciona livros e objetos de arte, mas quando se apaixona por Consuela Castillo todas as suas certezas são destruídas. Narrativa breve e envolvente, de um erotismo feroz...

Tida como a obra mais importante de Burroughs, Almoço nu é uma mistura de delírios sádicos, homossexuais e paranoicos induzidos pelas viagens de heroína. Lançado em Paris em 1959, Almoço nu logo se tornou um dos romances mais importantes do século XX. Influência determinante na...

Dramatisations of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most popular works, plus bonus documentary Often described as ‘the laureate of the Jazz Age’, F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the reckless, hedonistic spirit of 1920s America in his classic novels The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned and Tender is...

Endlich aus dem Gefängnis entlassen, hat Ian nur ein Ziel: Sein Leben wieder in den Griff zu bekommen und sich dabei von nichts und niemandem ablenken zu lassen. Doch die Rechnung hat er ohne die Tochter seines neuen Chefs gemacht. Auch wenn er weiß, dass Madison tabu für ihn ist, schafft er es nicht, die Finger von ihr zu lassen. Ganz zum Ärger der Einwohner des Örtchens, in dem er bei seinen Großeltern lebt, denn die wollen ihn nicht in ihrer Stadt haben und schon gar nicht an der Seite der unschuldigen Madison sehen.

This collection of stories explores the hidden, sentient lives of discarded objects in a fictional city. The narrative is set in the “Residual World", a subterranean reality where waste and debris possess memories, emotions, and a shared history. Through personified characters like Barnaby and...

Crystal Fox is new to Riverstone Academy. She lives alone, has purple eyes, is half human and half...vampire?! Conan Knight is the son of an Alpha werewolf who is determined to chase her away so that he can keep the humans of his school safe. After learning of her past, he just might change his mind on how he's viewed vampires his entire life...Mature Jewel Edition of The Blood Fate Series: Book One

THE BROKEN PANTHEON: WAKEWhen the old gods wake up in a world of screens and feeds, some adapt. Some fight back. And some learn to build something entirely new. Lilith wakes up on the floor of an abandoned church with less power than she remembers and more work than she wants. The god of spectacle has weaponized attention itself, turning confession into currency and shame into fuel. But she's not fighting back with miracles —she's fighting back with chairs, consent, and the radical act of speaking in first person.

From the author of Glass Bottle Season comes a gritty new coming-of-age novel that examines what happens when one man’s desperate journey to become a New York Writer leaves him more “tortured” than “artist.” Sidewalk Dance is an American masterpiece of the artist as a deluded self-saboteur. Haunted by his brother’s tragic death in the War in Afghanistan and unable to process this trauma, Fisher shuns his elitist pedigree by abruptly quitting Yale Law School, changing his name to Fish, and moving to New York City. Once there, he sets about reinventing himself as a doomed playwright.

This last year has proven what I've already known. My marriage is strong. Strong enough to survive a decision most couples would never make. And now it's being tested again. This time, a weekend getaway with a person of our choice. No lies, no boundaries but still…. no names. The man I chose...

A pitch-black, Dexter-like thriller with a razor-sharp skewering of our darkest fantasies, in which a Tokyo paparazzo commits murders to generate the photos his magazine’s readership ghoulishly demands. Ken Kato is a half-British, half-Japanese photojournalist working for a low-brow weekly...

泣きたいときもあるけれど、食べて、飲んで、生きていく！ 犬森祥子、バツイチ、アラサー、職業は「見守り屋」。営業時間は夜から朝まで。様々な事情を抱える客からの依頼で人やペットなど、とにかく頼まれたものを寝ずの番で見守る。

Modern dating’s a mess. A fun, relatable love story from Vogue's dating columnist and the author of Notes on Heartbreak Daisy and Maya bounce around the city like they own it, from all-night house parties to sticky-floored smoking areas, drinks in hand. But after a regrettable one-night stand...

Mars, Snickers, Happy Cherries – wenn Emma die Späti-Regale aufstockt, sieht sie nur eins: Kalorien. Ihr Studium hat sie abgebrochen, genauso wie den Kontakt zu ihrem Vater, der vermutlich irgendwo auf einer Parkbank seinen letzten Rausch ausschläft. Und auch Emma steht kaum einen Abend ohne...

Just when Tokyo thinks life can't get any worse . . . she loses her sister. Depression rears its ugly head, and she finds herself in a hole she's barely able to climb out of. As a result of the darkness she can't seem to escape, a friendship that was once dear to her shockingly comes to an end...

One reckless hook-up in a broken elevator . . . The big shot billionaire kissed me senseless against the glass doors. There was zero chance of seeing the Armani-clad stranger again. I didn't even catch his name—just that he was the hottest mistake of my life. But the universe? It loves a plot...

Bloomsbury presents Please Don't Touch the Body by Emily Doyle, read by Alice Dodd and Daniel Henning “A magnificent debut” (Laila Lalami) that explores loneliness and community, religion and repression, and the pleasure and pain of womanhood. By turns tender and irreverent, the 11...

Miami's still hot, but the streets have gone cold. With El Blanca's blood still fresh, Dominic Royal and his empire tighten their grip on the city. Every move is watched, and every secret is guarded like their life depends on it, while every loss cuts deeper. Carmen stands beside him, holding...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A cult classic and Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, this sharp, insightful novel by New Yorker contributor Han Ong explores racial and social hierarchy, personal identity, and alienation. William Paulinha—a resourceful gay Filipino sex...

An uncompromising and sensually charged collection from one of the great practitioners of the short story. Squandering the Blue is Kate Braverman’s debut story collection, a fierce, hallucinatory vision of Southern California and the women who move through its heat, glamour, and wreckage. Set...