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This book revolves around the life of renowned Indian Urdu poet and lyricist of films in Hindi, Majrooh Sultanpuri. This book describes his life and career as an Urdu poet, lyricist, and songwriter in the Hindi film industry. He has written lyrics for a number of Hindi–Urdu soundtracks. He was one of the most dominant figures in Indian Urdu poetry and is still considered to be one of the finest avant-garde poets of 20th-century Urdu literature.

"The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame or Notre-Dame de Paris is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The story is set in Paris in 1482 during the reign of Louis XI. The gypsy Esmeralda (born as Agnes) captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, but especially Quasimodo and his guardian Archdeacon Claude Frollo. Frollo is torn between his obsessive lust for Esmeralda and the rules of Notre Dame Cathedral.

Viernes, 13 de noviembre de 2015, diez menos diez de la noche, sala Bataclan, París. Mil quinientas personas disfrutan de un concierto de rock del grupo Eagles of Death Metal. Tres terroristas irrumpen de pronto en el local y una ráfaga de fusil acalla con su estrépito los riffs de las guitarras eléctricas. Para el narrador de esta historia, un español presente en la sala junto a su novia y otra desprevenida pareja de amigos, es el inicio de una odisea que no acabará siquiera cuando sea rescatado con vida 

Segundo y poderoso poemario de esta autora best seller. Dividido en cinco movimientos (marchitarse; caer; enraizar; crecer; florecer), este poemario se desliza desde las profundidades de un desamor y el dolor que conlleva hasta la fuerza y la alegría que pueden florecer tras ese sufrimiento. Un vibrante y trascendental viaje sobre el crecimiento y la curación, la descendencia y el honor por las raíces de uno, la expatriación y la búsqueda del hogar en uno mismo. 

The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality, rape, insanity, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead. Kurniawan's gleefully grotesque hyperbole functions as a scathing critique of his young nation's troubled past: the rapacious offhand greed of colonialism....

Only very special people are chosen by children's author Laura White to join 'The Society', an elite group of writers in the small town of Rabbit Back. Now a 10th member has been selected: Ella, literature teacher and possessor of beautifully curving lips. But soon Ella discovers that the Society is not what it seems. What is its mysterious ritual, 'The Game'? What explains the strange disappearance that occurs at Laura's winter party, in a whirlwind of snow? Why are the words inside books starting to rearrange themselves?

Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythical island of Neverland as the leader of the Lost Boys, interacting with fairies, pirates, mermaids, Native Americans, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside Neverland.   

In The Humour of America, 88 short stories, poems, anecdotes, and essays from the 18th and 19th century will keep you smiling and chuckling!  

In the not-too-distant future, 2185 AD, anti-gerisone is the new drug that stops ageing. People are now living into their hundreds until it's time to take their own big trip up yonder, and in the case of the Ford family and Gramps, the notable patriarch, families are living and fighting together in one home for much longer. Eventually there are no prisons, slums, asylums, poverty, wars, or disease. and 200 years later the population of the US is set at 40 million people. But since no one gets any older, someone must volunteer to die if a baby is born. 

Charlie Dixon always yearned for love. For a long time, she gave the saying “looking for love in all the wrong places” its meaning. She thought she had finally found true love, but now she is out for revenge. Charlie is pregnant, and she just found out her baby daddy is married. As far as Charlie is concerned, this cheater has to pay. Emerson Dayle is a true Instagram influencer and just hooked up with her hometown’s NBA star. She has everything she wants in life and expects to live happily ever after, until a medical scare threatens to end it all.  

Blinde tanzen nicht? Adam will ein Leben, das man tanzt. Keines, das lediglich die Wahl des geringsten Übels bedeutet. Der Studienabbrecher ist auf der Suche nach dem, was andere haben: einen gleichberechtigten Platz in der Gesellschaft. Um endlich auf eigenen Beinen zu stehen, immigriert er in seine Traumstadt Hannover. Doch die Möglichkeiten, sich als Mensch mit Behinderung ein eigenständiges Leben aufzubauen, sind begrenzt. Er verheimlicht seine Sehbehinderung, ohne zu erkennen, dass er sich damit selbst die größten Hürden baut.

Dragons, magic, princesses of mighty kingdoms: elements of fantasy that have carried on throughout the many ages and yet may one day be forgotten. Enter, and delve into the roots of fantasy, rediscovering the fantastic, and exploring lost worlds. This is storytelling at its best. This collection of original works will take listeners back to the moment when they first fell in love with the genre; featuring stories from writers across the spectrum such as Mark Lawrence, R.S. Belcher, Miles Cameron, and many more.

La Kambirí, una nena africana acabada de néixer, és rescatada d’una patera a l’illa italiana de Lampedusa, juntament amb la seva mare morta i una setantena de migrants. Un metge decideix acollir-la i tot el poble l’ajuda a criar-la mentre intenten localitzar el pare de la nena. 

En Wolfgang té 11 anys i un coefi cient intel·lectual de 152. Li agrada fer llistes de coses impossibles, esbrinar com es viatja a Neptú, o fabular que es convertirà en un gran pianista. Tocar el piano és la seva passió, per a ell suposa el seu refugi d’emocions. El dia que la mare mor, li toca anar a viure amb el desconegut del seu pare i inicia un pla per fugar-se a la millor acadèmia de música del món.

It's 1960s London and spy Joe Wilderness should be living like James Bond. But alas, in the wake of an embarrassing disaster for MI6, Wilderness has been posted to remote northern Finland in a cultural exchange program to promote Britain abroad. Bored and with nothing to spy on, he strikes a deal with his old KGB pal Kostya to smuggle vodka into the USSR - but there is something fishy about Kostya's sudden appearance. Could it be connected to cobalt mining, a critical component in atomic bomb casings? Wilderness's posting is getting more interesting, but more dangerous too.... 

Sulla corrente dei fiumi nulla cambia mai davvero. Al timone degli affusolati burchi dal fondo piatto, da sempre i barcari trasportano merci lungo la rete di acque che si snoda da Cremona a Trieste, da Ferrara a Treviso. Quando Ganbeto sale come mozzo sulla Teresina del nonno Caronte, l'estate si fa epica e avventurosa. Sono i ruggenti anni '60, nelle case entrano il bagno e la televisione in bianco e nero, Carosello e il maestro Manzi.

I’m the most authentic version of myself when I’m around Jack. We’ve known each other since we were kids, and our relationship was always one of mudpies and mocking. Then everything changed. Beautiful Kate, my best friend, disappeared on a moonlit beach after Jack dumped her for me. Jack was a suspect and, sure of his innocence, I lied to protect him. I know Jack didn’t kill her. Our betrayal did.

Elise Carmichael is a court sign-language interpreter who reads lips all the time. As a widow with a young son who is deaf, lipreading is simply second nature, until the day she reads the lips of someone on the phone discussing an attempt to be made on a senator’s life - a senator who just happens to be her mother-in-law. Before she can decide what she needs to do, she receives the information that her son is rushed to the ER and that she must leave. Then she later sees the news report that her mother-in-law has been shot and killed. 

Like her sister before her, June leaves her Michigan home to embrace her future as a mail-order bride to a young Washington State pastor. But from the start, nothing works out as June expects. Caught up in her fiancé’s vision for an elaborate tabernacle that would befit God’s glory, she soon learns that not everyone approves of the plan; some would rather support the local orphanage. June finds herself drawn to the orphanage run by her friend Samantha and her aging aunt. Caring for the orphans is a natural outlet for June’s generous, nurturing spirit.