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El desplazamiento entre la ciudad y el campo construye la dinámica de esta novela. La protagonista es una joven estudiante de veterinaria, cuyo discurso a la vez indolente y desamparado enhebra una trama de sobrio desarrollo y exquisita resolución. En las primeras páginas la narradora se presenta como empleada de una veterinaria que vive con otra mujer, Aída, quien al poco tiempo desaparece de manera misteriosa.

Teniendo como escenario una ciudad donde convergen el pasado y el presente, Armando Ramírez nos ofrece una novela que mezcla crónica, guiños autobiográficos y ficción. El resultado es una historia hecha de muchas historias que se fraguan en la difusa frontera entre lo vivido y lo imaginado, entre lo tangible y lo etéreo.

«Unos años más y me corto la coleta. Tengo la sensación de haber estado diciendo esas palabras la mitad de mi vida. Es así como funciona este mundo, y la razón por la que nunca puedes escapar de él. Todos esos favores que deben devolverse de un modo u otro. Siempre en deuda; nunca libre. Ello es aplicable a todos los habitantes de los bajos fondos y el modo en que se capta a los que no son delincuentes. Una pequeña deuda que pasa a ser grande; una deuda ficticia por un honor mancillado que deviene gigantesca. Una vida de mierda. Un mundo de mierda. Por suerte la voy a palmar pronto.»

I’d given up everything to fight for the Resistance. But nothing prepared me for discovering my sister was a traitor. Kept by a Nazi SS officer, outwardly she barely resembles my beloved Justine anymore. But I guessed her secret. About her beautiful, fragile little child. The baby she’ll do anything to protect. And I believe that deep down she still knows what is right. As the Nazis threaten everything we ever held dear, I know I have one chance. I must convince her to betray the evil she seems to have chosen. I need her to find her true self once more.

Batallas sangrientas, bandas callejeras, asesinatos, racismo, prostitución y corrupción en Boston: así es la ópera prima del gran maestro del noir estadounidense. Kenzie y Gennaro asumen una tarea en apariencia simple: descubrir el paradero de Jenna Angeline, una mujer de la limpieza negra que, según parece, ha sustraído documentos confidenciales. Pero la pareja se entera de que Jenna no posee documentos. Tiene un hijo y un esposo que lideran pandillas callejeras, una hermana enojada y una foto de un político con su esposo en una habitación de hotel.

H is a boxer past his prime. Haunted by the memory of the fight that should have made him great, he is chasing his dream through the seedier side of the London boxing circuit, losing fights against his untalented opponents, his wife and, ultimately, himself. When a gunfight at an illegal gambling shebeen drags him down into a multicultural underworld of violence and extortion, H finds himself in debt to the sinister sociopath, White Alan.

The banned books club was only the beginning; a place for the women of Prague to come together and share the tales the Germans wanted to silence. For bookshop owner, Jana, doing the right thing was never a question. So when opportunity comes to help the resistance, she offers herself – and her bookshop. Using her window displays as covert signals and hiding secret codes in book marks, she’ll do all in her power to help.

Tricey, Vic, and Lyric are three friends from the Southside of Chicago fighting in the tumultuous war to find the one amongst the chaotic sea of Mr. Wrongs. After breaking up with her baby's father, Memphis, Vic is in the arms of one new beau after the next, turning her heartbreak into a life filled with bald-headed h*e shenanigans. Vic's new approach to love terribly clashes with Asa's uncontrollable need to be more than her next sneaky link.

As the economy collapses around her in 2008, recent art school graduate Binnie takes a job as a paralegal to pay the bills. As her art projects languish on the back burner, she begins to obsessively imagine her daily grind expressed in unsettling and sometimes violent dioramas. Somehow, someday, she’ll find the time to construct them. In the meantime, she’ll walk this unsatisfying tightrope between financial stability and the life of a working artist. But after a shocking and surreal death occurs at the law firm, Binnie wonders if her frustration is pushing her darkest imaginings into life.

Juliette é uma jovem e solitária parisiense que leva uma vida metódica - todas as terças vai ao supermercado e às sextas, ao cinema. As viagens de metrô para o trabalho, típicas da rotina, possibilitam que Juliette observe sempre os mesmos passageiros e os livros que cada um lê. Todos têm suas particularidades, como a idosa que folheia um livro italiano de culinária e sorri diante de algumas receitas ou a garota que lê romances e sempre derrama minúsculas lágrimas quando chega à página 247. "Por que a página 247?", pergunta-se Juliette.

In the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests. They must follow the café's strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold. Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, in Before we forget kindness our new visitors wish to go back into their past to move on their present, finding closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future.

After years of owning an iconic Chicago barbershop, Charlie has sold it and is facing the prospect of his last day. Clinging to the past will not help him as he bravely faces the end of all he has ever known.

Following a chilling winter of revelations and newfound relationships, sunshine breaks through, and Koya Priest finds herself basking in its rays. Before truly enjoying them, dark clouds warn her of a brewing storm. Coming to terms with what she didn't want to accept, the fearless beauty despises that she may be more like her father, Duke, than she realized. Having been referred to as intimidating and downright ruthless, Parish Sneaux doesn't let the opinion of others worry him. Parish makes no exceptions regarding his respect, family, and the gang. That's until he gets a rude awakening.

Was tust du, wenn du nach einer durchzechten Nacht neben einem One-Night-Stand aufwachst und panisch feststellst, dass du ausgerechnet an deinem ersten Arbeitstag zu spät kommst? Als wäre das noch nicht genug, übersieht ein Kerl die rote Ampel und fährt dir direkt ins Auto. Mit Müh und Not schaffst du es noch ins Büro, und vor dir stehen deine neuen Chefs, die dir sehr bekannt vorkommen: rechts Mr Autounfall, der Rot von Grün nicht unterscheiden kann, und links Mr One-Night-Stand, dessen Name dir einfach nicht einfallen will ... MANCHMAL HAT MAN EBEN DIE QUAL DER WAHL!

Julius Jeffrey is a local self-made Entrepreneur/Treasure Hunter. Intrigued by a local legend, he embarks on an electrifying journey to find the truth. His journey will not be easy though, There are dark forces at work that would rather this truth never be discovered. Will he succeed in his mission? Or will he fail? And what truly lies within The UnderPass?

The Peppermints are realizing your day one is not always your only one. Big lot has been called off the thrown because the palace has gotten out of control.

Fiona is set to tie the knot with her dashing captain, Archie Somersby. But, while Fiona is busy planning her happily ever after, side-kick Kitty Lane and a group of judo-chopping suffragettes are kicking up trouble at the Piccadilly Jujitsu Club. When Kitty is found unconscious in the locker room during a high-stakes competition, Fiona must forsake her bouquets and bridal gown to investigate. Her sleuthing leads to a posh lady’s luncheon where a mysterious death crashes Fiona’s wedding plans.

Darrell Donnelly and his daughter Laykin embark on their yearly hiking trip to a scenic and remote part of the Ocala National Forest. What started as a long weekend turned into a fight for survival as the hikers attempt to return home in the face of civil unrest and lawlessness, the aftermath of a coordinated attack on the power grid and most electronic devices.

He wasn't born a savage, but he became one. Life used him as its toilet and the results were something the streets weren't ready for. He didn't just catch a raw deal though; it was brokered for him by forces whose identity no one seems to know. He finds himself caught up in a world full of lies, deception, and unimaginable pain. Who is he? Well, he just may be the stuff that nightmares are made of, and someone made the mistake of waking him up. Now he's on the loose and ready to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting world.

In seinem ersten Roman Buddenbrooks erzählt Thomas Mann nur wenig verschlüsselt die Geschichte seiner Familie und ihrer Stellung in der Vaterstadt Lübeck, soweit er sie nachvollziehen, in Einzelheiten überblicken konnte, ja sogar noch miterlebt hat. Verwandte, Honoratioren und markante Persönlichkeiten seiner Jugend werden integriert. Es ist die Geschichte des langsamen Niedergangs einer reichen Kaufmannsfamilie über vier Generationen hinweg. Auch mehr als hundert Jahren nach seinem ersten Erscheinen hat der Roman nichts an Charme und Aktualität eingebüßt.