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In Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Tim McLoughlin draws upon his three-decade career in the criminal justice system with his characteristic wit and his fascination with misfits and malfeasance. A lifetime immersed in New York City feeds short stories that evoke a landscape of characters rife with personal arrogance and misjudgment; and nonfiction essays about toeing the line when the line keeps disappearing.

Hard Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirizes the social and economic conditions of the era. Hard Times is unusual in several ways. It is by far the shortest of Dickens's novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London. Instead, the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town.

Ever since the accident that changed Sophie’s life, she sees numbers everywhere. From the leaves on a tree to the volume of a puddle, everything has its number. And every person she meets? Their number is counting down the number of days they have left. Despite being lonely, Sophie has decided she’s not dating anyone with a number smaller than 20,000 days: 55 years together should be plenty. Which is fine, until Adam—her first love and most definitely the one that got away—suddenly reappears. And his number? Just 24 days…

El atropello de Chico B, un acontecimiento demasiado habitual en el entorno hostil donde transcurre la novela, es el detonante de un cambio en los dos protagonistas de esta historia: el narrador y el barrio. Esta dolorosa muerte avivará un recuerdo que el narrador creía tener bajo control y sepultado en lo más hondo de su memoria, y acelerará a la vez la transformación del barrio.

El atropello de Chico B, un acontecimiento demasiado habitual en el entorno hostil donde transcurre la novela, es el detonante de un cambio en los dos protagonistas de esta historia: el narrador y el barrio. Esta dolorosa muerte avivará un recuerdo que el narrador creía tener bajo control y sepultado en lo más hondo de su memoria, y acelerará a la vez la transformación del barrio.