Urban

In a hilarious short story from New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, the absurdities of modern life cause one man’s solitary world to spin suddenly, and comically, out of control.

Als der Australier Lindsay mit falschen Papieren in Bombay strandet, hat er einen spektakulären Ausbruch aus einem Hochsicherheitsgefängnis...

Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, divorces her husband, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop....

It’s time for more confessions... As heartfelt and hilarious as the bestselling first novel, Nell discovers that there’s no such thing as having it all figured out....

From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel about a gay writer in New York City whose life is irrevocably altered, and then again thirty years later....

Golden Globe-winning actor Michael C. Hall (Six Feet Under) performs Truman Capote's provocative, naturalistic masterstroke about a young writer's charmed fascination with his unorthodox neighbor....

A jolting look at the maladies of late capitalist life through the unique and fascinating lens of modern Japanese culture, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job is as witty as it is unsettling.....

Anthony Trollope was one of Victorian England’s most popular and prolific authors. He worked for the Post Office while establishing himself as a writer, and is credited with introducing the pillar box to Britain.

Der Bestsellererfolg aus den USA − nominiert für den Women's Fiction Prize. Reese und Amy waren ein glückliches Paar, zwei Transfrauen in...

Als Jack und Elizabeth 1993 ein Paar werden, spricht alles gegen sie. Doch der junge Fotograf mit den bäuerlichen Wurzeln und die...

Elizabeth Gaskell was one of Victorian England's pre-eminent female novelists. This comprehensive collection comprises dramas and readings of her finest works and some lesser-known pieces....

Mann und Frau. Mutter und Tochter. Freunde und Freundinnen. In zwölf Stories erkundet Kristen Roupenian das Lebensgefühl von Menschen in...

From mingling with tabloid millionaires to trading favours and fortunes with royalty, she will stop at nothing to reach the top of the career ladder at the Mercury newspaper....

A teenager becomes a romantic hero in an artificial-reality school full of supernatural secrets in the first book of a slice-of-life, urban-fantasy series....

Things are looking up for Joe Hustle. A Gulf War vet and ex‑con scraping by in Los Angeles, he has just met an intriguing new woman and gotten a rare windfall. Before long, though, his luck has turned again and he and his girl are in a car speeding through the Southwest....

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.

Bayou transplant Odessa Dean has a lot to learn about life in Brooklyn. She has a new job working at Untapped Books & Café, but things turn more sour than an IPA when the death of a fellow waitress goes viral, caught on camera in the background of a couple's flash-mob proposal video....

Eleanor and Jonathan have joined a few of their most irritating best friends for an intimate catered gathering. Through all the intellectual chatter, Eleanor’s on watch. Jonathan has already confessed to wanting an open marriage, and tonight, Eleanor has decided to accommodate him....

After eight years spent locked up, Max has gotten very good at being a prisoner...

Seventeenth-century Amsterdam is a city in the grip of tulip mania, basking in the wealth it has generated....

Kailyn Flowers was always calm, rational, and controlled—until she ended up sprawled all over Daxton Hughes, the former actor she totally crushed on as a teenager. Then she did the unthinkable: She became a mortifying fangirl in five seconds flat....

Two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives from scratch....

A razor-sharp short story about anonymity, mutual deception, and the perils of overexposure - debut fiction by Jia Tolentino, the New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror....

Durch jahrelange, ausgefuchste Ausweichmanöver und heroische Trägheit hat Herr Lehmann arglistfreie, bis ins Mark ambitionslose Bierzapfer erfolgreich Ansprüche...

Greta Davies, the features editor at a women’s magazine, is accomplished and successful. That is, in all areas except her love life. Determined to help, Greta's boss - and friend - secretly enlists the help of the Ever After Agency, and sets out to make her dreams come true.

جاءت الرواية معالجةً للتحولات التي طرأت على المدينة التونسية في عهد ما وصفه الكاتب بـ"دولة التغيير الكاذب". والتجوال في روائح المدينة المختلفة من الفل والياسمين إلى النفايات والمزابل، والأطعمة والتوابل، وتحولاتها عبر الزمن.

Allà a l'avinguda del Tibidabo, per on circula el vell Tramvia Blau entre mansions modernistes imponents, es troba l'Harem, un prostíbul ben exclusiu que ja en temps del franquisme havia estat molt popular: el més luxós de la ciutat, amb portes daurades, càmeres de vigilància, vitralls de colors, cortinatges i tapissos, i replet de refugis, amb sales clandestines i passadissos secrets. Tan secrets com els misteris que amaguen també bona part dels seus personatges.

Legacy, a former hustler turned successful security entrepreneur, has fought his demons specifically to reclaim his life, family, and Bless. No matter the time that has passed, his love for and obsession with Bless never wavered. But old wounds keep him longing for her from afar. Bless, a resilient and devoted mother, has battled her own fears and doubts. She stood by Legacy’s side through his darkest moments. But that loyalty weighed so heavily on her that she had to walk away from the man she will forever crave.

"عالم منصور" رواية لذيذة في سردها وسخريتها، ومؤلمة في وقائعها ومآلاتها...

"ستيلّا مارس، أو نجمة البحر، هي شرفة الله المُطلّة على الحمامة التي تسبح في الماء، ونسمّيها حيفا...

„Nieczęsto się zdarza, że Autor tylu znanych, co więcej, tak znaczących tekstów muzycznych szuka dla siebie miejsca w literaturze i zwraca się ku prozie. Pisząc niewielkie opowiadania ukazuje nam świat szczególny, tak różny od tego, którym żyją jego wielbiciele. Poruszyła mnie głęboko ta potrzeba i skłoniła do przeczytania tych poruszających tekstów, z których niejeden mnie, staremu reżyserowi rysuje się, jak scenariusz przyszłego filmu. Przeznaczenie, traf, przypadek?” – Andrzej Wajda.

It is 2003 – ten years since Spud Milton’s class of 93 matriculated and the boys went their separate ways. Despite their seemingly unbreakable bond, the Crazy Eight – Rambo, Mad Dog, Vern, Fatty, Garth Garlic, Boggo, Simon and Spud – have not kept in touch. Or at least, not as far as Spud knows. When he receives an invitation from the school to attend the ten-year reunion weekend, Spud is determined to avoid the event at all costs, but he hasn’t reckoned with the bombardment of intrusive messages and threatening phone calls from his former dorm mates.

Sofia is an ordinary schoolgirl living in a future Singapore where the population is divided into three social strata. When she inadvertently unlocks the gateway to a new world, she realises she must escape the government's radar. She ventures into the lowest rung of society, the Voids, and meets with the eccentric Uncle Kirk and the resourceful Father Lang. While on the run, she learns why her father disappeared seven years ago and why the new world exists in the first place.

When you’re at the top, people question why. Zeek and Zoe moved to Staten Island to lay low, but instead found out that there was money to be made there. Wanting Ghost’s position in the street, they’re willing to do whatever to get it, including killing whoever means the most to him. When Zeek makes a call that he thought would end Ghost, but could possible end him too … what happens? Ghost wants to know who would try him and his family this way?

With Alex Silva facing time behind bars, his family are in freefall. Wife Maggie doesn't know how she's going to cope without her beloved Alex. How will they survive? But survival is in the Silva blood and Alex has taught his children well. And this new generation is going to cause more trouble than anyone can handle...Will the Silvas survive or will trouble follow them...

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

"مع وقف التنفيذ" حكايةٌ تدور أحداثها في أحد أحياء مدينة القاهرة المزدحمة بالطبقة الوسطى وما تحتها حيث نرى سلاسل البنايات المتراصّة دون تناسق ملتحمةً ببعضها البعض وكأنّها قطعةٌ واحدة وهذا حال أهل المدينة هناك فهم متشابهون جدًا..لديهم نفس الطباع، نفس حدّة المزاج ونفس الضحكات التي تنبع صادقةً من القلب.

Tea es una joven productora de música trap que intenta hacerse un hueco en la escena indie barcelonesa. A pesar de la paridad que existe en el movimiento, la figura del productor se sigue relacionando mucho con el género masculino y ella, desde su barrio del extrarradio, produce bases por las que ningún cantante ha apostado fuerte todavía.

Tea es una joven productora de música trap que intenta hacerse un hueco en la escena indie barcelonesa. A pesar de la paridad que existe en el movimiento, la figura del productor se sigue relacionando mucho con el género masculino y ella, desde su barrio del extrarradio, produce bases por las que ningún cantante ha apostado fuerte todavía.

Tea es una joven productora de música trap que intenta hacerse un hueco en la escena indie barcelonesa. A pesar de la paridad que existe en el movimiento, la figura del productor se sigue relacionando mucho con el género masculino y ella, desde su barrio del extrarradio, produce bases por las que ningún cantante ha apostado fuerte todavía.