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Self-proclaimed hot mess Scout Myers is determined to prove she’s got her act together. Raised by grandparents who saw her as her wayward mother’s wayward daughter, Scout’s used to being written off. So when the opportunity for a promotion arises at Paws in the City, the talent agency where she works, Scout is desperate to rise to the occasion. With shared custody of her little sister also on the line, Scout can’t afford a single mistake…like suddenly needing a canine stand-in for an important photoshoot. Luckily (or not) she knows the owner of the perfect pup replacement....

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.

Join Keith as he opens windows on peoples’ loves, lives, hopes, and dreams—some humorous, some sad. Keith performs a series of works prompted by his favorite pastime—people watching. Each story progressively builds a picture of a life from a first day at school. We meet a West Country Marilyn Monroe and fall in love with a Welsh Audrey Hepburn. We meet Miss Rebecca of Paris and see if diamonds are a girl’s best friend. We grow old and reminisce.

Not having Krucial was the last thing she needed amongst everything else she was already dealing with. But how will the troubled beauty deal this time, without the protection she's used to, and with so many people gunning for her...even the people she loves? Not to mention the men who now see her as free game. The other couples return as well, with one realizing that no matter how hard they try to stray from one another, it's nearly impossible. And the other, let's just say they've gone from lovers to downright enemies, while still vying for the bond they once shared.

The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry includes "The Trimmed Lamp", "A Madison Square Arabian Night", "The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball", "The Pendulum", "Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen", "The Assessor of Success", "The Buyer from Cactus City", "The Badge of Policeman O'Roon", "Brickdust Row", "The Making of a New Yorker", "Vanity and Some Sables", "The Social Triangle", "The Purple Dress", "The Foreign Policy of Company 99", "The Lost Blend", "A Harlem Tragedy", "The Guilty Party—An East Side Tragedy", "According to Their Lights", and more.

Izekiel Holloway was content with his career, the people in his life, and all that came with it...until her. One look at the self-assured Jonae Martin and nothing seemed right anymore. In fact, everything seemed wrong. What he once thought was a solid foundation now had one too many cracks to ignore. And ignore it, he would not.

Infused with drama, values, love, and hurt, Family Reunion is a captivating and delightful novel written by Nike Areola. The creative story revolves around Sophia, the youngest wealthy family member. It encapsulates her journey from living in a small town outside the city that she had never left to moving out to explore and live in New York City. It takes us through her challenges in the new city, including her relationship experiences, elucidating the ups and downs she faces trying to balance her personal and professional life.

Like Jim Sheridan’s acclaimed movie, In America, Me and Five Guys tells the story of a first-generation immigrant family’s life in New York, relating both the good and the bad events with bold, straightforward charm. The listeners first meets Frankie, the winsome narrator, in the birth canal on the day JFK is shot. Her Irish father is in the bar, drinking away his sorrow at the president’s murder. Her Italian mother, who is delighted to finally have a daughter, chooses an Italian name for her, Francesca.

Fatherless and as good as motherless, Messiah "Mash" Bankfield must shake his nagging religion from his conscious if he wants to level up in a city centered around the '90s drug boom, twisted sexual exploitation, hardcore hip hop, and deep ghetto philosophy. Even if it requires hustling the same stuff that turned his mother into a dope fiend or taking out the big homies who showed him love, some things just must be. Shaped by the unsavory lifestyle of his sugar-daddy seeking sister and haunted by the spirit of his deceased grandmother, Mash sinks deeper into the darkness.

Terrance Mack has a wife and two young boys. Never in a million years did he expect to find his family living on the streets, with no home, no jobs, in a position where everything they owned has been taken from them in the cruelest of ways. As the family struggles to stay together, they encounter a hard and unfriendly way of life, having to move from town to town, being harassed by the police and by locals, and confronting danger each day. Living on the streets is nothing as he expected. All Terrance wants for his family is for someone to give them a chance.

Es una novela en la que se narra la historia de la isla de Manhattan, principal borough de Nueva York, a principios del siglo XX con el inicio de la construcción de los primeros rascacielos, esbozando los de la segunda mitad del XX. Se describe la formación de la ciudad, los puentes que unen Manhattan con los otros borough, la creación del metro, los tranvías, etc. Se cuenta asimismo la vida de la sociedad elitista y selecta de la ciudad, que vive en la zona noble de la isla, conjuntamente con la de la clase obrera y necesitada que se sitúa en la periferia.

Dans une ville imaginaire de Californie, se croisent les destins d’hommes et de femmes venus des quatre coins du monde pour participer à la construction d’un gigantesque pont suspendu. Après une interruption pour des raisons écologiques, le chantier reprend de plus belle, une histoire d’amour imprévue se dessine et une grève se profile. Un récit épique sur les effets collatéraux de la mondialisation.

Una nena de 10 años asiste a la enfermedad del padre y la asimila como hacen los niños: mediante el juego.

Rarri: a hustler from the streets of Cali with a rough life and a complicated past. As he learns to navigate the streets as a drug dealer, he begins to learn of the life that his deceased father led and dreamed for him—a life filled with money, excitement, lessons, and, most of all, ladies. Follow Rarri as he finds out what "babe" means to him, as he tries to not only live up to his father's memory, but surpass it.

Prepare for the ultimate showdown. The prize is Earth. Time is running out. The invader is poised to strike, and the final battle for dominance must soon take place. Before we confront our enemy, my women and I must unlock my ultimate power. Only then can I face my nemesis. With my companions at my side, strong walls at my back, and ultimate power raging in my veins, I must win.

Nella ist die einzige Schwarze Lektorin in einem großen New Yorker Verlagshaus und daher zuständig für alle Diversity-Themen. Die Freude ist groß, als mit Hazel eine zweite Schwarze in ihre Abteilung kommt. Doch Nella beschleicht schnell ein ungutes Gefühl: Nicht nur erobert Hazel mit ihrem coolen, hippen Auftreten die Herzen der Kolleg:innen im Sturm. Auch fällt sie Nella mehrfach in den Rücken und lässt die erwartete Solidarität vermissen. Dann erhält Nella eine Botschaft – mit einer klaren Aufforderung zur Kündigung.

Eigentlich kehren die ungleichen Freundinnen Zoe und Hailey New York den Rücken, um im Berlin der Nullerjahre Kunst zu studieren. Hailey auf der Suche nach Erfolg; Zoe, um über den Tod ihrer besten Freundin hinwegzukommen. Immer tiefer tauchen sie ins Berliner Nachtleben ein und versuchen, sich in der Szene einen Namen zu machen. Schließlich eröffnen sie einen illegalen Club in ihrer Wohnung, die ihnen die Krimi-Autorin Beatrice überlassen hat, und veranstalten immer wildere Partys. Schon bald verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Wirklichkeit und Fiktion.

Rent's due, and Saturn is in Capricorn. My twin brother just got out of jail. He's got some ideas.

Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents—neighbours, separated only by the thin walls of a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial centre of Vacca Vale, Indiana. Welcome to the Rabbit Hutch. Ethereally beautiful and formidably intelligent, Blandine shares her flat with three teenage boys she neither likes nor understands, all, like her, now aged out of the state foster care system that has repeatedly failed them.

All seems normal and well from the outside. But something doesn’t seem quite right to this little girl, she knows there is more than what appears. A certain horror is lurking within her family. Will she uncover the secret?