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When the superstar diva of the past decade doesn't want to play the hero's mother on screen, she insists that she be reshaped into the most beautiful woman in the world...by any means. This is just one of the many odd situations which plastic surgeon Dr. Dhruv faces in Mumbai. He dealt with tyrannical bosses and finicky patients while undergoing his training, during which he also won over a stunning doctor as his life partner. But satisfying the movie stars is a different ball game.

An NPR best book of the year and recommended by Oprah Daily, Good Housekeeping, Zibby Mag, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, and Katie Couric Media! ""A summer read with bite.”—NPR Disgraced model-writer Bianca Bridge can’t stand hotshot makeup maven Obadiah Cortland. And he lets her know the feeling...

Bells is always writing to her sister Katie, but Katie never replies. Preoccupied with her glamorous career in fashion, her busy life and her boyfriend Sam, she just doesn't have the time. Then Bells announces that she's coming to stay. She's not a secret exactly, but. . . Sam doesn't know she exists. For Bells doesn't fit into Katie's perfect world. But when Bells does arrive, everything changes for Katie. Perhaps her perfect life isn't so perfect after all?

As intricate as a house of mirrors, Nabokov’s last novel is an ironic play on the Janus-like relationship between fiction and reality. It is the autobiography of the eminent Russian-American author Vadim Vadimovich N. (b. 1899), whose life bears an uncanny resemblance to that of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, though the two are not to be confused (?).

Paris, 1941: Going against her mother’s orders, spirited Maggie devotes herself to the Resistance. Her life is a whirlwind of forged passports and secret midnight runs, helping Jews escape. Much to her high-society mother’s disapproval, she has fallen in love with Emil, a Jewish Resistance fighter who is wanted by the Nazis.

Aurora es una artista libre e impulsiva que vive rodeada de velas en un precioso estudio frente a la playa de un pequeño pueblo al sur de California. Adora las piedras naturales, los gatos y andar descalza contemplando el cielo nocturno. Pero todo da un vuelco el día que descubre que le quedan pocos meses de vida y, por si fuera poco, que su chico le ha sido infiel.

La historia de Juana Villegas donde las circunstancias la han llevedo al borde de la desepreacion, su madre acaba de morir, esta embarazada, sin trabajo, sin dinero, no quiere tener a su hijo para que no repita la misma vida que a ella la ahoga. No encuentra apoyo en ni en su padre ni en su hermano, ella piensa que todo esta en su contra, la unica esperanza que ella encuentra para salvarse es que ese dia llueva, ese dia parece que va a llover pero no llueve solo se encuentra a un antiguo novio.

Henry turns to watch a pretty woman pass, and in that instant his young daughter, Mary, is struck and killed by a bus. Tender; gorgeously told in bold, vibrant strokes; and utterly shocking in both its imagery and its rawness, Blue Flamingo Looks at Red Water lays bare the different pathways of grief as Henry and his wife, Isabel, deal with the unimaginable loss of their child.

Novel·la breu i intensa, esbalaïdora i poètica, sobre el misteri de la mirada de l'auriga de Delfos. La mirada de l´auriga, enllà e la trama de la nissaga dinomènida i de l´entrellat d´unes atziagues morts familiars, és una novel·la tan breu com intensa i tan esbalaïdora com poètica.