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One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica is about flesh and spirit, vanity, mortality, and mortal affection. Set mostly in Paris and Manhattan in the desperately...

From Rob Thomas, the creator of the television series and movie phenomenon Veronica Mars, comes the first book in a thrilling mystery series that picks up where the feature film left off. Ten years after graduating from high school in Neptune, California, Veronica Mars is back in the land of sun...

In the second book in the New York Times bestselling mystery series, Veronica Mars is back with a case that will expose the hidden workings of one of Neptune’s most murderous locations. The Neptune Grand has always been the seaside town’s ritziest hotel, despite the shady dealings and...

Die 85-jährige Veronica McCreedy lebt entfremdet von ihrer Familie in einem großen Anwesen an der schottischen Küste. In letzter Zeit fragt sich die rüstige alte Dame oft, was sie noch mit ihrem Leben - und ihrem Vermögen - anfangen soll. Als sie eines Abends im Fernsehen eine Sendung über eine Kolonie bedrohter Kaiserpinguine in der Antarktis sieht, ist Veronica zutiefst beeindruckt und fasst einen tollkühnen Plan: Sie wird den Pinguinen in der Antarktis einen Besuch abstatten.

One scandal, one season, one shy baron, and a heart that doesn’t want to follow the plan. With her family insisting that she have a season to find a husband, Veronica Smith has one mission: restore her family’s reputation with a match that dazzles society. After her sister’s scandalous elopement with a dockworker, Veronica convinces her parents to send her to Bath instead of London.

Verónica invita a sus seis mejores amigos a una cena en una casa en Soacha. Sabe que les parecerá extraña una cena fuera de Bogotá, pero no le cabe duda de que llegarán. Todos llevan un buen tiempo experimentando unos sueños extraños en los que se ven a sí mismos como si fueran otras...

Fifteen years ago, five ordinary teenagers were singled out by a prophecy to take down an impossibly powerful entity wreaking havoc across North America. He was known as the Dark One, and his weapon of choice - catastrophic events known as Drains - leveled cities and claimed thousands of lives. Chosen Ones, as the teens were known, gave everything they had to defeat him. After the Dark One fell, the world went back to normal...for everyone but them. Of the five, Sloane has had the hardest time adjusting.

La lingua batte dove il dente duole, e il dente che duole alla fin fine è sempre lo stesso. L'unica rivoluzione possibile è smettere di piangerci su. In questo romanzo esilarante e feroce, Veronica Raimo apre una strada nuova. Racconta del sesso, dei legami, delle perdite, del diventare grandi, e nella sua voce buffa, caustica, disincantata esplode il ritratto finalmente sincero e libero di una giovane donna di oggi. "Niente di vero" è la scommessa riuscita, rarissima, di curare le ferite ridendo. "All'inizio c'è la famiglia.

Years ago, Juliet left a little piece of her heart in Paris - and now, separated from her husband and with her children flying the nest, it's time to get it back! She puts on her best red lipstick, books a cosy attic apartment near Notre-Dame and takes the next train out of London. Arriving at the Gare du Nord, the memories come flooding back: bustling street cafés, cheap wine in candlelit bars and a handsome boy with glittering eyes. But Juliet has also been keeping a secret for over two decades - and she begins to realise it's impossible to move forwards without first looking back.

What's right is right. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan—she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation. Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked in the Aperture, a prison on the outskirts of the city. And everyone else, now free from monitoring, went on with their lives.

Glaubst du ans Schicksal? Julie hat ihren Traummann gefunden. Seit über zehn Monaten sieht sie ihn täglich im Bus zur Arbeit. Doch um ihn anzusprechen, fehlt ihr der Mut. Außerdem scheint sich der junge Mann nicht für sie zu interessieren. So bleibt ihr nichts weiter übrig, als heimlich seinen Anblick zu genießen und weiter von einem Kennenlernen zu träumen. Als Julie jedoch eines Morgens in den Bus steigt, ahnt sie nicht, dass sich alles verändern wird, denn das Schicksal geht seine eigenen Wege.

I was invisible until I wasn’t. One mistyped number became the catalyst to my hell on earth when I accidentally sent a risqué photo to the blackmail king of Silver Lake High. Now Connor Bishop holds it as a bargaining chip over my head. I’ve become his doll, at his mercy in a corrupt castle.

Ella von Beijer är uppväxt på Östermalm och van vid att få som hon vill. En dag får hon reda på att hennes mormor har råkat ut för en olycka och då rämnar hennes tillvaro. Hon får sparken från en ansedd nyhetstidning och tvingas ta ett jobb på ett smaklöst modemagasin. James Jensen är musiker i bandet Timeless Kings och är uppväxt i stadsdelen Fosie i Malmö. Han har en intervju inbokad med ett modemagasin och en journalist som heter Ella.

Veronica pasa su infancia y adolescencia en un barrio de Roma junto con su excéntrica familia: una madre omnipresente que vive permanentemente angustiada, un padre lleno de estrafalarias obsesiones y un hermano mayor, casi perfecto, que es el centro de toda la atención. Día a día tendrá que sortear situaciones tan embarazosas como desternillantes y descubrirá la impostura como forma de mantenerse cuerda y lidiar con la vida que le ha tocado en suerte.

Hard times prove who’s a survivor and who’s not. Me? I’m a survivor. The plan was perfect: steal one of his cars for a payout to set us up for life. All while getting back at him for tormenting me from the moment I first stepped foot in stuck-up Silver Lake High School. But he caught me red-handed. What’s worse, a jail sentence or becoming the devil’s favorite toy? My devious monster made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. Now I’m selling everything to him. Even my soul.

"Che vuoi fare da grande?" è la domanda più comune del mondo, tranne se a farla è una madre diversa dalle altre. Una che si trascina per casa con le gambe di piombo, che si veste di tutto punto solo quando piove per inzupparsi in giardino, che si rifugia a letto come fosse l'unico posto sicuro in compagnia dei suoi aiutini farmaceutici. Mentre i suoi coetanei giocano a fare gli adulti, lui spaesato cerca di capire cosa significhi diventare un uomo, in una casa dove gli uomini non ci sono neanche in fotografia e gli oggetti sembrano avere più vita delle persone.

സോക്രട്ടീസിന്റെ കഥകള്‍ പലപ്പോഴും ഫാന്റസിയും മാലിക്കും കലര്‍ന്നഒരു കുഴമഞ്ഞാണ്. വേറോണിക്ക @ 15 ഒരു പ്രായത്തിന്റെ കഥ മാത്രമല്ല. മുറിവേറ്റ സ്ത്രീത്വത്തിന്റെ ഏകാംഗ കലാപം കൂടിയാണ്.

A curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins proves it's never too late to be the person you want to be in this rich, heartwarming story from the acclaimed author of Ellie and the Harpmaker. Eighty-five-year-old Veronica McCreedy is estranged from her...

Una scrittrice in crisi cede alle richieste via via piú insidiose dell'anziana vicina, con inaspettate ricadute sul suo romanzo. Una promessa della danza scopre con il suo maestro le possibilità del proprio corpo, e del proprio piacere. Mentre un aereo si schianta contro un grattacielo, una ragazza di «bella presenza» ma dai denti strani progetta la fuga dalla villa degli zii, ben difesa da una schiera di nani da giardino, e da un arsenale di armi nell'armadio.

As climate disasters wreak havoc, a sister and brother take opposing sides on the fate of the human race. Syrah Carthan wants to save it. A tour guide for the Sequoia National Park, Syrah has an affinity for the millennia-old giants that extends to Rhiza, a subterranean world as ancient as Earth itself. Syrah is the reluctant heir apparent as its Keeper. Her duty is to maintain a balance between nature and humans. But Syrah’s greatest adversary has his duty as well.