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Three lives are brought together by chance in 90s London, in this spellbinding story of friendship and loneliness, healing and redemption *Guardian Book to Read 2026* Jaycee finally has a room of her own in Sky City, a housing estate in north London carved out of the glow-in-the-dark sky. But...

The gods stopped smiling."Is an intelligent, provocative, story about love and friendship. Between friends who've become wealthy NBA stars. "Kendaji Lorde" and "Mickey O' Reilly" a tough Irish-Italian point guard. This 1990's story exposes the hypocrisy of fame, wealth, and shame; when a young...

رواية ثرية تتناول في إطار عاطفي فلسفي علاقة العمارة بالموسيقى وأثرهما معا على بناء الإنسان وتطور إحساسه بصوته الداخلي من خلال كشكين يقومان على حديقة خلفية صغيرة في حي مصر الجديدة. وتدور الأحداث والحوارات بين المهندس المعماري أدهم صاحب كشك الحاتي وبيريهان مدرسة الموسيقى الشريكة في كشك الجيلاتي وعدد من زبائن الكشكين حول قضايا الفن والعمارة والموسيقى، وتتساءل الرواية هل ما يزال نموذج مصر الجديدة القديم بتخطيطه وفلسفته العمرانية قابلا للتطبيق في عصرنا الحالي؟

Vivir es un acto solitario, tanto en el gozo como en el dolor, pero también simultáneo entre extraños o íntimos. Esa diferencia existencial rompe ineludiblemente con la falsa unicidad del tiempo. Nadie vive lo que otro: ni el beso compartido garantiza la experiencia común de los amantes...

Chicago is under attack. And Detective Billy Harney is running out of time to stop a killer who is always one step ahead in this unputdownable new detective thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Chicago has never needed its police force more. The mayor and governor have been shot. A...

New York City, 1997. Six strangers – Maria, Nadine, Jesse, Emmie, Blake and Anthony – meet as classmates at the prestigious American School of Ballet. They are the chosen ones: young, hungry, and united by shared greatness. They throw themselves into friendship with the same adolescent...

The latest from the master of Brooklyn-set crime fiction is a zany, foul-mouthed, and tender-hearted screwball noir that unfolds over one madcap day, centered around a stolen Joe DiMaggio–signed baseball and the lengths people will go to find it. “William Boyle’s Brooklyn is a place where...

From beloved icon Kelly Bishop, the Gilmore Girls star and New York Times bestselling author, comes a spirited novel that’s Golden Girls meets Sex and the City, following four women in their seventies who become roommates in a Manhattan apartment. Roz is fine. Seventy-eight, retired, divorced...

Dani Tsai and Parker Tran grew up inseparable in middle-of-nowhere Silverpine, Oregon. She was the bookish girl, introverted and dreamy. He was the quintessential boy next door: charming, popular, and destined to be a football star. They were an unlikely pair of best friends—until they left for college and their friendship came to an unexpected end.

Der neue Roman nach dem Bestseller "Die Ladenhüterin" Der neue Roman von Japans Erfolgsautorin Sayaka Murata erzählt die Geschichte zweier Außenseiter, Natsuki und ihr Cousin Yu, die sich jung verlieben und gemeinsam gegen eine Welt verbünden, die ihnen beileibe nicht nur Gutes will. Im alten Farmhaus der Familie, in dem früher die Seidenraupen ihren Dienst verrichteten, sind sie glücklich, denn sie sind beieinander. 20 Jahre später geht Natsuki an diesen Ort zurück.

Giappone, inizi degli anni '70. In un paese già scosso dagli effetti dei violenti moti studenteschi del '68, Ryū, Lily e il loro gruppo di amici gravitano nei dintorni della base militare americana di Yokota, a poche decine di chilometri da Tokyo, di cui frequentano alcuni dei soldati lì di stanza. Vivono una quotidianità scombinata, fatta di un uso costante e ossessionato di qualsiasi sostanza stupefacente si ritrovino a portata di mano, di sesso estremo, di piccoli furti e di qualunque altro comportamento vada a costituire un'anomalia e una sfida alle regole.

Disaya Morgan, a character first introduced in Girls from Da Hood 4, returns in this gritty tale of a money-hungry woman who finds her life spinning out of control. When Disaya meets Indie and falls hopelessly in love, she is determined to keep her lifestyle a secret - but everything done in the dark eventually comes to light. When she loses control of her own hustle, things go horribly wrong, and she learns the hard way that, in the game she’s playing, there are no winners.

From the author of the prize-winning title The White Tiger comes a compelling and entertaining coming-of-age story. Manjunath Kumar is 14. He knows he is good at cricket - if not as good as his elder brother, Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented sibling and is fascinated by the world of CSI and by curious and interesting scientific facts. But there are many things, about himself and about the world, that he doesn't know.

From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name. Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter-ego, is pushed to translate a semi-autobiographical book into a screenplay for John Pinchot. He...

A national best seller in both hardcover and paperback, the first book of the masterful Cairo Trilogy introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s.

Read by Hugh Fraser and Dan Stevens Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook In Agatha Christie’s class mystery Murder on the Links, Hercule Poirot attempts to unravel the grisly conundrum of not one, but two dead bodies discovered on a French golf course. An urgent cry...

Trina Key has always poured her heart into her blog, writing about the chaos of college, the bond she shares with her free-spirited aunt, and her secret hopes for the future. Between balancing classes, tutoring at the local community center, and late-night conversations with her best friend Louise, Trina uses her words to make sense of life, love, and the city that never sleeps. But when she crosses paths with Mark—“Basketball Boy,” as her readers know him—Trina begins to discover that some stories aren’t meant to stay behind a screen. As their connection deepens, life throws her curveballs.

As Houston Lonestars’ enforcer, my job on the ice is simple—protect my team and break anyone who gets in our way.After a shoulder surgery sidelines me, I’m left with one goal: get healthy, get back on the ice, and fix a reputation that took a hit while I was benched.Enter Jett. She’s...

Riotously funny and unexpectedly heartfelt, Boston Psychiatric is the story of a doctor who falls from the top of Boston’s medical elite into the controlled chaos of a struggling free clinic. Not long ago, Dr. Raj Malika’s future seemed all but guaranteed: He was the CEO of a billion-dollar pharmaceutical startup and winner of Boston’s “30 Hot Doctors Under 30.” Then came the trial that destroyed his career. Now he is a parolee with something to prove, assigned community service at Boston Psychiatric, a free clinic barely holding itself together.

MINE (20) zieht nach Berlin und kann die Wohnung einer Freundin übernehmen. Das ist nicht legal, und schon bald fliegt sie auf und verliert die Wohnung. Mine, die als Postzustellerin jobbt, um Geld für ein Studium anzusparen, versucht zuerst, die Nächte in Bars, Bussen oder S-Bahnen zu...