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How much would you pay for a painting with nothing on it? Would it be art? Marc's best friend Serge has just bought a very expensive - and very white - painting. To Marc, the painting is a joke, and as battle lines are drawn, old friends use it to settle scores.

With friendships hanging in the balance, the question becomes: how much is a painting worth?

Welcome to Kahaanipur Junction. This is not merely a railway junction but a place where everyone is a character and their lives are plots of some interesting stories which are waiting to be told.

Dix ans jour pour jour après la mystérieuse disparition de son fils, Hélène croise la route d’un garçon qui lui ressemble à s’y méprendre. Elle a besoin de croire qu’il peut revenir, qu’il peut sauver sa famille de ce deuil impossible. Et Liam, ce jeune homme à l’existence...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM FOX 2000 STARRING MILO VENTIMIGLIA, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AND KEVIN COSTNER MEET THE DOG WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD HOW TO BE HUMAN The New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein—a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love...

The Subtle Art of Folding Space, is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of really good dim sum. This isn't your usual jaunt through quantum physics. “[Katharine Chin's]...

एक आपस में लड़ते झगड़ते माँ-बाप की संतान अमर हम्सा एक पुराने ढहते और गिरते हुए मकान में पलता-बढ़ता है जिसे बंगलो...

‘Rebecca meets Brideshead Revisited meets Saltburn’ STYLIST ‘A subtle, claustrophobic, seduction of a novel’ CLAIRE FULLER ‘Evocative, gripping and, at times, verging on horror’ IRISH TIMES ‘Hypnotic and immersive ... Utterly addictive’ COLIN WALSH ‘A hugely talented writer’...

2004 wurde Emmanuel Carrère Zeuge der Tsunami-Katastrophe. In den Trümmern des Desasters lernte er ein junges Paar kennen, dessen Tochter von der Welle fortgerissen wurde. Carrère kümmert sich um die verwaisten Eltern – und beginnt, ihre Geschichte festzuhalten. Zurück in Paris, umlagert das Unglück weiter Carrères Leben: Seine Schwägerin stirbt und lässt drei Kinder zurück. In der Trauer blitzen Erinnerungen auf, fließen Erzählungen von Freunden und Verwandten zusammen, die Hoffnung und Stärkung verheißen.

After her mother is sent to prison for art forgery, Edie Brown returns to Northern Vermont to rebuild her family’s fine art and antiques business. She’s certain she can do it now that her mother is gone. After all, butting heads with her mom over bad business practices was what drove Edie away three years ago, including a screw-up that landed Edie on probation for selling stolen property. When Edie scores a job appraising a waterfowl decoy collection at a hoarder’s farmhouse, she’s determined to take advantage of the situation to rebuild the business’s tarnished reputation.

El insigne autor frances Andre Maurois en esta obra, en el estilo ameno que lo caracteriza, plantea unas reglas basicas de vida, para que uno pueda desarrollarla con serenidad, pueda pensar con acierto y logica y pueda envejecer con dignidad. Vivir es un arte, dice el autor y como todo arte hay tecnicas que permiten vivir la vida exitosamente y con acierto.

“The Kyiv Mysteries provide timely lessons for anyone living under an oppressive regime.” —The Atlantic “Though [The Lost Soldiers] is set more than a century ago, its parallels to conditions today are clear. A darkly comic mystery with deep roots in history.” —Kirkus (starred...

When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be - until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father’s past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will reaffirm the listener’s belief in the power of love to move mountains.

Making a living reproducing famous artworks for a popular online retailer and desperate to improve her situation, Claire is lured into a Faustian bargain with Aiden Markel, a powerful gallery owner. She agrees to forge a painting - a Degas masterpiece stolen from the Gardner Museum - in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But when that very same long-missing Degas painting is delivered to Claire's studio, she begins to suspect that it may itself be a forgery. Her desperate search for the truth leads Claire into a labyrinth of deceit where secrets hidden since the late 19th century may be the only evidence that can now save her life.

He's the only one without magic at a school for mages. That just makes him the most dangerous student. Laku arrives at the prestigious Dzidzo Institute with a deadly secret: he's a Zero, completely unable to use magic. Armed only with Awakening, an ancient martial art, he must find his missing grandfather while hiding the truth that could get him killed.

2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER "One of the funniest books of the year ... a delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." —The Washington Post From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture...

Widely regarded as Bengal's earliest and boldest feminist writer, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) was a pioneering and creative educationist and social activist, and the school she founded in Kolkata, the Sakhawat Memorial School for Girls, still thrives. Sultana's Dream, written in...

Nisha has crossed oceans to give her child a future. Now she spends her days caring for someone else's daughter while her own waits for her return, half a world away. For Petra, it is only natural to hire a domestic worker to keep her house clean and her family fed. Their lives have nothing in common, except the love they feel for their daughters. Then one day, Nisha vanishes. No one cares about the disappearance of a foreign domestic worker, except Petra and Nisha's secret lover, Yiannis, the only connection to her daughter back in Sri Lanka.

A paying guest seems like a win-win proposition to the Joshi family. He's ready with the rent, he's willing to lend a hand when he can and he's happy to listen to Mrs Joshi on the imminent collapse of our culture. But he's also a man of mystery. He has no last name. He has no family, no friends...

Arrival meets Wild Dark Shore in this captivating novel that follows a family over fifty years—a bold and compassionate exploration of the universe around us and what it truly means to be human. “The Radiant Dark is incandescent.” —Sarah Jessica Parker It’s March 1980, and Carol Girard...