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Cashmere, a rising R&B star, is left wondering if his girlfriend Jeda's secret will destroy the love that connects soul mates. In the midst of her facing her demons, she makes a decision that will change their lives forever. Mason "Mase" Cotton's skills on the court almost guarantees him a million-dollar NBA contract, but will his situationship with Qwana, a married woman, cost him the very thing he loves? While his cousins are caught up in their relationships, Kareem's main focus is getting money. All money is not good money, and he soon finds out by the blood left on his hands.

Punk pushes both the rules of writing and the dominant ideas and expectations of our society. Thrown into the world of punk rock in the early 1990s, this novel follows the intertwining lives of a wandering reject and the people he meets as he learns of his fathers’ unexpected death. It explores themes of social structure and religious indifference through the eyes of this disenfranchised man living from one high to the next. The story takes place over a few hot summer days in Edmonton, Alberta.

Cuatro personajes inmersos en la apocalíptica modernidad de una gran urbe verán cómo se cruzan sus destinos. Un taxista viudo que no supera la pérdida de su mujer, un médico desencantado, una prostituta africana aferrada a la vida y una vieja científica protagonizan esta novela urbana, sobre un trasfondo vertiginoso de asesinos en serie, amas sadomasoquistas un tanto estrafalarias y pequeños prodigios.

Cammie, a dancer in her thirties, has just landed her first part in a show since coming to New York City. Yet the tug of familial obligations and the guilt of what she sacrificed to be there weigh down her dancing feet. Cammie’s lover, Tom, an older piano player, came to the city as a young man in the 1980s with a story eerily in tune with Cammie’s own. Through their triumphs and failures, both learn the fleetness of glory, the sweetness of new love, and how a dream come true isn’t cherished until it’s passed.

Un día de otoño de 1686, una joven de dieciocho años llama a la puerta de una casa señorial en el barrio más acomodado de Ámsterdam. Nella Oortman se ha trasladado del campo a la ciudad para convivir con su marido, Johannes Brandt, un hombre maduro y distinguido comerciante que habita en la mansión en compañía de su hermana soltera y rodeado de fieles servidores.

Jess is a single mother to two teenage children, and although life can be tough, she’s just about keeping things together. But when her landlord asks her to move on so he can sell the house they’re living in without warning, Jess’ worries take on a whole new meaning. As Jess struggles to regain her footing, cracks begin to appear in other areas of her life, and suddenly she feels she’s failing at everything.

1974. La Muna és una nena òrfena d’onze anys que treballa a Bombai i no pot oblidar la seva germana petita, de qui la van separar. La Sita té sis anys i, sense altres records que els dels orfenats de Nasik i Bombai, on ha crescut, somia tenir uns nous pares. En Solomon, un nen etíop de vuit anys, viu a Addis Abeba i descobreix que el seu món està canviant sense entendre per què. Les vides d’en Solomon, la Muna i la Sita coincidiran trenta anys després entre Addis Abeba, Mumbai i Barcelona, més enllà de destins i cultures, passats comuns i futurs imaginats.

"Ich heiße Niu. N und I und U." Ein Neustart in New York. Die Hoffnung auf bessere Zeiten. Doch die Vergangenheit reist mit. Aber dann kommt Niu... Carmen und Thomas sind gerade erst nach New York gezogen. Sie haben große Pläne für ihr neues gemeinsames Leben. Doch dann lernen sie unabhängig voneinander Niu kennen. Wie zufällig taucht sie immer wieder auf: in der U-Bahn, im Coffee Shop, an der Brooklyn Bridge. Beide verfallen schnell Nius Bann und beginnen, ihr bisheriges Leben zu hinterfragen.

When a missing teenage girl reappears unharmed but pregnant, the case falls to DI Edina Ogborne, the newest recruit of Canterbury Police. But Ed’s already got her hands full with a team who don’t want her, an ex who won’t quit and terrible guilt over a secret from her past. As Ed investigates the case, she discovers Canterbury has seen this crime not once, but several times before. And when Ed and her detectives encounter missing historic police files, falsified school records and Ed’s new lover as a prime suspect, it becomes clear that the system has been corrupted.

Nachdem Daniel im ersten Teil erfahren hat, wie er wiedergeboren wurde und seinen eigenen Mörder ermittelt hat, birgt eine Reise nach Linz tödliche Gefahren! "Rebirth 2.0 ...willkommen in Paradise City"!: Daniel Jones weiß mehr über Leben und Tod als ihm lieb ist, und gerade als er mit sich und mit seiner Seele im Reinen ist, bringt eine Einladung nach Europa ihn und seine Freundin in äußerste Gefahr. Wenn es um Milliarden-Erträge geht, werden Freunde schnell zu Feinden und eine Urlaubsreise leicht zum Alptraum.

All This Could be Different introduces us to Sneha. A recent college graduate freshly arrived in Milwaukee, she occupies her days with rote, stressful work as a young consultant for a battery production corporation. She is, as her boss reminds her, a 'contractor, no benefits'. Her nights are spent ordering furniture off the internet, trying out the newfangled invention of dating apps and avoiding confrontation with the terrifying property manager who lives below her. But the rewards are bountiful.

Un cuento de hadas con el sabor de Amélie y la inocencia optimista de Cinema Paradiso. En él acompañamos al inolvidable Nico, un escritor en horas bajas que se muda a París a perseguir unos sueños que se empeñan en esquivarlos. Unos nuevos amigos y un misterioso dibujo abandonado por una chica en el metro le abrirán la puerta que lleva al más preciado de los tesoros: la felicidad.

New Delhi, three a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the kerb, and in the blink of an eye five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold.

Amado amo es una novela sobre el poder, pero un poder con minúsculas, cotidiano y perfectamente reconocible: el que ejercen las empresas, el que sufren los asalariados, un poder risible que se mide en metros de despacho o en el número de veces que el feje se ha parado a hablar contigo.

Leonard Dunning wakes up in a home he doesn’t remember—and to a face in the mirror he doesn’t recognize. He soon discovers he attends Blue Cherry High with his best friend, Josh Bernstein, who seems to be the most popular boy in school, with several girls competing for his attention. As the girls collide and clash over the oblivious Josh, Leo realizes each of them displays quirks of characters found in an anime harem comedy. So if Josh is the story’s protagonist, what does that make Leo?

Una inolvidable historia de corte costumbrista en uno de los momentos más duros de la historia reciente de España. En Las Hurdes, a finales de los años cincuenta, campan el hambre, la tristeza y la desolación que ha engendrado la dictadura franquista. Nuestros personajes intentarán llevar la vida adelante a pesar del peso de los recuerdos y la esperanzas rotas.

Die dreiundzwanzigjährige Edie lebt in Bushwick, Brooklyn, und hält sich nach ihrem abgebrochenen Kunststudium finanziell mit einem Assistenzjob in einem Verlag und emotional mit wechselnden Liebschaften über Wasser. Dann beginnt sie eine Affäre mit Eric, einem weißen Mann, der in einer offenen Ehe lebt und fast doppelt so alt ist wie sie. Während sich Edie mit Erics Ehefrau und vor allem mit der Adoptivtochter des Paares, Akila, einem Schwarzen Mädchen, anfreundet, verschieben sich alle Perspektiven.

Der Bestsellererfolg aus den USA − nominiert für den Women's Fiction Prize. Reese und Amy waren ein glückliches Paar, zwei Transfrauen in New York mit dem Traum von einer Familie. Doch dann entschloss sich Amy, wieder als Mann zu leben, und die Beziehung zerbrach. Als Ames drei Jahre später seine Chefin Katrina, eine starke, unabhängige Frau, schwängert, fasst er den Plan, dieses Kind gemeinsam zu dritt aufzuziehen. Ungewöhnlich − aber machbar. Ein moderner Gesellschaftsroman, der den Nerv der Zeit trifft. Intensiv gelesen von Britta Steffenhagen.

When underworld loan shark Davie Saunders is gunned down at his daughter's wedding, his loved ones are sure that a rival East End crime family is responsible. Davie's widow and daughters must now step up and take control of Davie's empire, but from the beginning it's clear they're in way over their heads. Shy bride Mia has no experience of giving orders, self-centred middle-child Kelsey is more concerned with keeping her affair with bodyguard Todd a secret, and baby of the family Scarlett is very firmly kept out of the business while she finishes her education.

1812. In Bath and London, Jane Austen's characters are attending balls, and the Bridgerton family are making waves in Regency high society. But these are the grimy streets of Liverpool: a city where the extreme wealth of international commerce meets brothels and brawls, smugglers and secrecy; where both high and low society operate amidst revolutionary rumblings from France and the shadow of the recently abolished slave trade.