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In a near-future New York City ravaged by climate change and economic inequality, a superstorm hits, leaving behind only those who had nowhere else to go and no way to get out. Among those who remain are 24-year-old Makayla, and Jesse, an 18-year-old, genderqueer anarchist. In the aftermath of the storm, Jesse joins Makayla's group of remainders in an abandoned luxury condo building, carving out a small sanctuary in the midst of a destroyed city. Meanwhile, mysterious, colorful murals begin to appear throughout NYC, bringing hope to the forsaken and left-behind.

Dopo il fallimento del suo matrimonio, Leo Cernitori, fotografo, evita qualsiasi coinvolgimento emotivo. Lo si vede nelle foto che fa, nella qualità delle relazioni che intreccia con le donne conosciute. Ma, in una Milano sbigottita per le rivelazioni di Tangentopoli, Leo incontra Emanuela. È una strana ragazza, che indossa jeans e giacche in pelle, suona talentuosamente l'arpa in orchestre classiche ma frequenta discoteche afro. Leo viene travolto in un vortice di musica, dolore, desiderio, paura.

En la Nochevieja de 1937, Katey Kontent, mecanógrafa en un bufete de abogados de Wall Street, y Eve Ross, su compañera de pensión, salen dispuestas a exprimir a fondo la libertad que promete Nueva York. Se dirigen a The Hotspot, un bar de tercera fila donde se toman el jazz lo bastante en serio como para que nadie moleste a dos chicas de buen ver, y donde la ginebra es suficientemente barata como para beber un dry martini cada hora.

In part two of Homies, Lovers And Friends, Michelle is left with the fact that her life with Tasheem just might have caused her cousin to be murdered. When taking four steps forward, she feels as if she's pushed back fifteen. Just when she thought she had gotten rid of Tasheem and his evil ways, he came back and decided to cause harm to not just her, but Miracle.

Author, bookseller, spy-breaker, killer. Enter the world of Russell Stickles. Not since George Harvey Bone in Hangover Square has there ever been a singular protagonist as compelling. As sickly. As sick. From the creator of Dead Funny: Horror Stories by Comedians comes a stunning novel that re-invents the tale of the empty man.

1979. In the vast and often unforgiving city of London, two Irish outsiders seeking refuge find one another: Milly, a teenage runaway, and Pip, a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginning to drink it all away. Over the decades their lives follow different paths, interweaving from time to time, often in one another's sight, always on one another's mind, yet rarely together.

I’m Natasha Resnova. The miracle child. The one who lived when doctors said I wouldn’t. The one who hides behind a camera instead of facing my violent bloodline. The Resnov bratva thrives on brutality. I survive in stillness. Until one photo puts me in the path of Lachlan MacKenzie—Dodger’s star batter and son of a Scottish crime boss. Lach sees me. The broken parts. The girl behind the blood-soaked legacy. Then he appears, and everything unravels.

The brilliant new summer bestseller from Lindsey Kelk, author of the I Heart series Everyone loves a bridesmaid. Except Maddie, who’s perpetually asked to be one. Everyone loves a wedding. Except Maddie’s best friend, who’s getting divorced. And everyone loves the way Maddie’s so happy...

Sara Goldfarb is devastated by the death of her husband. She spends her days watching game shows and obsessing over appearing on television as a contestant—and her prescription diet pills only accelerate her mania. Her son, Harry, is living in the streets with his friend Tyrone and girlfriend Marion, where they spend their days selling drugs and dreaming of escape. When their heroin supply dries up, all three descend into an abyss of dependence and despair, their lives, like Sara’s, doomed by the destructive power of drugs.

La “costa brava” de Madrid es un conjunto de barrios del sur de la capital donde los índices de delincuencia son superiores y la esperanza de vida inferior a la media del resto de la ciudad. Por ellos pululan, entre colillas apagadas, chabolas hiperpobladas y pisos rebosantes de inquilinos desahuciados, los protagonistas de esta novela, Israel Cruz, un perdedor nato con una última misión que cumplir; Fraile, el tipo más espabilado de todo Madrid, jugando a mil bandas, siempre viviendo al filo; Santos, un policía con mil secretos y otros tantos confidentes.

Breathtakingly tender, Seven Days in Tokyo is an astonishing debut about the intricacies of desire and a search for belonging. It is a lyrical, immersive portrait of how some things, however beautiful and profound, are destined to be as short-lived as the cherry blossoms.

Para comemorar seu aniversário de quarenta e três anos, Tati decide organizar uma festa em seu apartamento, na rua Maranhão, em Higienópolis, bairro nobre de São Paulo. Durante a celebração, ela recebe uma mensagem preocupada de uma amiga contando que errou o endereço e foi parar em "um lugar medonho": o Largo do Maranhão, no Tatuapé, bairro onde Tati cresceu. O pavor da amiga desencadeia em Tati uma crise de pânico, o que a obriga a deixar a sala, os convidados e a certeza momentânea de seu pertencimento de classe...

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.

"Paura alla Scala" fu pubblicato nel 1949, dopo il successo de Il deserto dei Tartari e I sette messaggeri. Nelle venticinque storie che compongono la raccolta si dispongono, con esiti letterari altissimi, i grandi temi della narrativa dello scrittore bellunese: il senso di solitudine di fronte alla vastità e all'inaccessibilità del cosmo; l'attesa di qualcosa che rompa l'incanto della mediocrità cui ci sentiamo fissati; l'impressione che esista un destino più forte degli uomini, che pure tanto si affannano per poi scoprire quanto sono modesti rispetto alle loro presunzioni.

WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is...

She’s no damsel in distress, and he’s certainly not wearing shining armour. But one knight can change everything… Daisy Hastings has always thought she was born in the wrong era. So when she bags a summer job at the Tower of London helping to run their Knight school, it feels like a...

Beach Read fans will love this steamy romcom where a recently dumped TV heartthrob enlists a jaded romance novelist to throw him off romance for good. . . “a romcom lover’s dream of a book” (Ava Wilder, author of How to Fake It in Hollywood). ​ Sawyer Greene knows romance. She’s a...

Two people. One life-changing connection. ‘At times joyful and funny, at others heartbreaking, The Lifeline is an honest yet hopeful exploration of love, loneliness and the power of connection. Captivating, romantic and real – I loved it.’ Holly Miller ‘I'll read anything Tom Ellen...

On a cold February night, the police find the third corpse on the quayside in the Pool of London, her body covered with flower petals and pearls. The killer walked away singing. When the cargo ship Cape Farewell sets sail, she carries nine passengers, one of whom is known to be the murderer. Which is why Superintendent Roderick Alleyn joins the ship at Portsmouth on the most difficult assignment of his professional career....

""It’s easy to see why this quick and endearing read was so popular in Korea and beyond; U.S. readers are in for a treat."" — Library Journal In this million-copy international bestseller from Korea, the owner of a corner store takes in an unhoused man who does a good deed, a kind soul whose...