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When Fauzia's brother turns up with a dead body, her perfect life is shattered. She'll protect him to the ends of the earth, but who is he running from? Keisha knows all too well that family comes first. Reeling from rejection, she's determined to make Malton pay. And she'll hurt him in the worst way imaginable. Craig Malton is on the hunt for a violent drug lord who's wreaking havoc and destruction in Manchester. Little does he know what's coming for him.

Berlin, 1922: Die Weimarer Republik steuert auf die Inflation zu und die Nachwehen der Revolution haben sich noch nicht gelegt, als Artur, Isi und Carl nur knapp einem Mordanschlag durch rechte Verschwörer entgehen. Artur macht seinem Ruf alle Ehre und schlägt gnadenlos zurück. Derweil leidet Carl unter Regisseur Fritz Lang, für den er an »Dr. Mabuse« arbeitet, und gerät in den Bann des neuartigen Tonfilms. Und dann ist da noch die Sorge um Isi, die Schöne und Starrköpfige, die seit dem Anschlag Streit mit jedem sucht.

Half-human Hannah Bates isn’t thrilled when her vampire king father orders her to seduce an alpha werewolf—a suspect in a recent murder—to gain his trust and then gather evidence against him. She’s a little less hesitant when she sees a photo of gorgeous Victor Rogan, but even though she must do as her father commands—her blood requires it—she still resists.

Danny Byrne has grown up on a sprawling council estate in Pimlico. He knows every stone of it, and until now, his life has followed the same pattern as all his friends. Danny is heading for A-levels and then university. Dodds is following his dad into the family butcher’s business, Crockett will sail on opportunity’s wings as it comes his way, and Nobby is flirting with drugs, and disaster. As the long summer unfolds, the boys focus on girls, trade banter and test their friendships to the limit. When things take a darker turn, Danny must wrestle with his conscience.

La ciudad de Dios es una antología de artículos y relatos que Pier Paolo Pasolini escribió en su mayoría en la década de los cincuenta, recién llegado de Friuli a una Roma aún extraña y ya desesperadamente querida, telón de fondo a la vez grotesco y poético de estas páginas publicadas por primera vez en España.

Crush Hour: A Musical presents a series of heart-warming and hilarious chance encounters via London’s transport links, in the run up to Christmas.

Ishmael Holloway felt the weight of everyone around him finding their happily ever after. His problem isn’t that his brothers' priorities have changed, but that his forever had been right in front of him—in the form of his sister-in-law's best friend—for years. Ishmael had no way of knowing that Sawyer Peterson, too, saw him as her forever.

Bentley has been struggling after losing the love of his life. With a new business venture at his feet and family trouble, he doesn't have time for a love life. That is until he bumped into Chasity. He didn't want to entertain the thought of falling in love, but there is something about the caramel beauty that has him reconsidering. Chasity's life as a widow has been hectic. Running a business and raising two children is overwhelming, to say the least, but she manages to get the job done.

The nation's capital is descending into the darkness of violence and despair. Street beef and dirty cops rule the day. One of the principal reasons behind all the bloodshed and death is the city's lucrative drug trade. Enter Sean Kaine, an enigmatic high school prodigy with a genius-level IQ who leads a fledgling operation in the Benning Heights section of Southeast DC.

In working-class Bay Ridge, Michael drives for a car service and gives lifts to his father, a former sanitation worker and current small-time bookie. He has a friend with a heroin habit, and a longtime girlfriend who expects they’ll get married one of these days. Michael spends most of his time on the familiar streets where he grew up, but now he’s crossing the bridge into Manhattan for some college classes—where he meets a seductive female classmate who seems to come from a whole different world.

La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat, on signa contractes per viure. Vol tenir un fill i això l'obliga a fer-se amb homes. ¿Com resistir el formiguer humà quan tens instint de caçador solitari?

Powerful and enigmatic billionaire Braden Black doesn't do relationships. He doesn't fall in love. But ever since meeting Skye Manning, he's breaking every one of his careful rules. He just can't get enough of her fierce independence and the white-hot sizzle of attraction between them. Of course, there are still lessons Skye has yet to learn . . . Only Braden isn't sure Skye is ready. Falling in love is one thing. Inviting her completely into his world—and the reality of his darker, most forbidden appetites—is quite another. It's about trust. His and hers.

Scott Fitzgerald schrieb diese Kurzgeschichten in den letzten Monaten vor seinem Tod. Sie sind eine faszinierende Selbstsatire, die seine Hollywood-Jahre zum Leben erwecken. Der Schauplatz: Ein großes Filmstudio; die Figur: Pat Hobby, ein abgehalfterter Drehbuchautor, der ständig versucht, wieder ins Showgeschäft einzusteigen, aber mehr Glück empfindet, wenn er in den einschlägigen Bars in der näheren Umgebung herumhängen kann. Die siebzehn Pat-Hobby-Geschichten wurden zwischen 1940 und 1941 veröffentlicht, als F. Scott Fitzgerald für die Universal Studios arbeitete.

Finn ist eigentlich nicht der Typ für Beziehungen. Er geht ihnen so gut er kann aus dem Weg - bis er Lena kennenlernt. Sie ist etwas ganz Besonderes und für sie ist er vielleicht sogar bereit, seine eigenen Regeln zu brechen. Wie oft findet man(n) schon eine Frau, die sich auch von seinem Geplapper nicht abschrecken lässt? Wird Finn es schaffen Lena für sich zu gewinnen, oder macht er mit seinen unbedachten Äußerungen oder seinem Geheimnis alles kaputt, bevor es richtig angefangen hat?

Monday Woolridge is a fighter with a face covered in scars and life full of debt. Her Avondale flat has no furniture, her father’s dead, her catatonic mother’s in an expensive nursing home and her kickboxing gym is going to Thailand. Monday's shitty bartending job pays fifty cents over minimum wage, and she desperately needs another way to generate income. Dealing drugs off the dark web with her flatmate JJ looks like it's working – until it really doesn’t, and the pair have to flee Tamaki Makaurau to escape the gangsters, the vampires and the ghosts of Monday’s past.

Una pareja joven en plena espiral de drogas, obsesiones y autodestrucción decide dejar la ciudad y mudarse a una casa de campo para escapar del círculo social tóxico que le rodea. Una novela en la que Rosa Moncayo nos descubre con crudeza poética la intimidad de una pareja al borde del colapso.

Inglaterra, 1573. Los días de la pequeña Ellyn transcurren trabajando de sol a sol en la humilde granja de su familia, paleando las heces de los animales y recibiendo los menosprecios y los golpes de su hermano Tomas. Desde que su padre quedara inválido en un accidente, y más ahora que una nueva hermanita, Agnes, ha llegado a ese mundo de miseria y privaciones, todos han de deslomarse aún más para asegurar el sustento. En esa atmósfera de brutalidad, fatiga e inmundicia, la única alegría de Ellyn es Agnes, a quien la une un vínculo muy especial.

Maggie Bennett is a devoted and experienced emergency department nurse who works at a hectic level one trauma center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Although the work is constantly demanding, she gives everything she has to the patients in her care.

For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She gave up on her own career as a concert pianist many years ago, but her husband Bowen, an executive at a car company, has long rebuffed her pleas to have a child. He resists even when his mother arrives from the southwestern Chinese region of Yunnan and begins her own campaign for a grandchild. As tension in the household rises, it becomes harder for Song Yan to keep her usual placid demeanor.

Unfinished Business focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. Faced with the regular stuff of life - work, aspiration, marriage, age, divorce, bereavement - his ordinary plight is sharpened, becoming increasingly urgent. Having lived in a modern condition, confusing pleasure with happiness, wanting the dream to deliver, what do you do when you notice the shadows begin to lengthen on the lawn?