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One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica is about flesh and spirit, vanity, mortality, and mortal affection. Set mostly in Paris and Manhattan in the desperately...

Verónica invita a sus seis mejores amigos a una cena en una casa en Soacha. Sabe que les parecerá extraña una cena fuera de Bogotá, pero no le cabe duda de que llegarán. Todos llevan un buen tiempo experimentando unos sueños extraños en los que se ven a sí mismos como si fueran otras...

Tara had read in books of people turning white with shock. At that moment, she found out what it felt like. All the blood left her head. There was a roaring in her ears, and her legs wobbled. He knows who I am. Which means he knows I'm on the run. Any chance of smoothly covering for her awkwardness had shot right out the window when she froze like a deer in the headlights at the sound of her real name. And now Sexy Sheriff was getting up. And up...

¡Descubre el thriller más trepidante de Lisa Jewell! Es el hombre perfecto . Te dice que te ama . Crees que es tu media naranja . En poco tiempo, se ha instalado en tu corazón y en tu casa . Y luego se va durante días. No sabes adónde ha ido ni con quién está. Pronto te das cuenta de que, si pudieras volver el tiempo atrás, te dirías a ti misma: no le dejes entrar. « Apasionante. Impactante. Magistral. » FREIDA McFADDEN, autora de La asistenta

When it was first published in 1909, Ann Veronica caused a sensation, due to Wells' groundbreaking treatment of female sexuality. Twenty-one, passionate, and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable ball, she leaves her family home and makes a fresh start in London. There, she finds a world where she can be truly free. But when she meets the brilliant Capes, a married academic, and quickly falls in love, she soon finds that freedom comes at a price.

സോക്രട്ടീസിന്റെ കഥകള്‍ പലപ്പോഴും ഫാന്റസിയും മാലിക്കും കലര്‍ന്നഒരു കുഴമഞ്ഞാണ്. വേറോണിക്ക @ 15 ഒരു പ്രായത്തിന്റെ കഥ മാത്രമല്ല. മുറിവേറ്റ സ്ത്രീത്വത്തിന്റെ ഏകാംഗ കലാപം കൂടിയാണ്.

Years ago, Juliet left a little piece of her heart in Paris - and now, separated from her husband and with her children flying the nest, it's time to get it back! She puts on her best red lipstick, books a cosy attic apartment near Notre-Dame and takes the next train out of London. Arriving at the Gare du Nord, the memories come flooding back: bustling street cafés, cheap wine in candlelit bars and a handsome boy with glittering eyes. But Juliet has also been keeping a secret for over two decades - and she begins to realise it's impossible to move forwards without first looking back.

Fifteen years ago, five ordinary teenagers were singled out by a prophecy to take down an impossibly powerful entity wreaking havoc across North America. He was known as the Dark One, and his weapon of choice - catastrophic events known as Drains - leveled cities and claimed thousands of lives. Chosen Ones, as the teens were known, gave everything they had to defeat him. After the Dark One fell, the world went back to normal...for everyone but them. Of the five, Sloane has had the hardest time adjusting.

Morgan Krahe har återvänt till sin hembygd, där livet, och arbetet som präst, nu har fallit på plats. Men en kväll väcks han av ett samtal som ska komma att omkasta hela hans tillvaro. På kyrkoherden Arthurs begäran åker Morgan ut till Luts kyrka, där han möts av ett tragiskt besked. Kyrkvärden Anna-Lisa har omkommit i vad som ser ut att vara en fallolycka. Men det dröjer inte länge innan sprickor uppstår i den annars så idylliska byfasaden. Kan ont uppsåt vara inblandat i dödsfallet? Är Anna-Lisas barnbarn Anja något på spåren när hon pratar om lustiga oblater?

Ella von Beijer är uppväxt på Östermalm och van vid att få som hon vill. En dag får hon reda på att hennes mormor har råkat ut för en olycka och då rämnar hennes tillvaro. Hon får sparken från en ansedd nyhetstidning och tvingas ta ett jobb på ett smaklöst modemagasin. James Jensen är musiker i bandet Timeless Kings och är uppväxt i stadsdelen Fosie i Malmö. Han har en intervju inbokad med ett modemagasin och en journalist som heter Ella.

Bea Abbot and her husband have been running a highly successful domestic agency for many years, but when he falls ill and dies, she is pressured by her MP son and novelist daughter to retire. Bea is so tired from the long years of nursing her husband that all she wants is peace and quiet, and to have her pretty early Victorian house in Kensington, London, all to herself. What she gets is a couple of young lodgers with troubled backgrounds and an old friend banging on her door, asking for help.

The fake diamond in Dilys Holland's engagement ring implies that all is not well with her marriage. And Bea Abbot has already clashed with Dilys's husband, the bullying Benton, when she refuses to help him rescue his ailing company. But matters are about to turn a great deal worse when Dilys tries to commit suicide. Or does she?

Le cœur ne gèle jamais, même au milieu des icebergs. Le plus souvent, Veronica, 84 ans, passe ses journées à chercher où elle a mis ses lunettes, à ramasser les déchets sur la plage ou à aboyer des ordres à sa dame de compagnie, Eileen. Depuis peu, la vieille dame s'interroge : que faire d'utile durant les années qu'il lui reste et, surtout, à qui laisser sa fortune considérable ? Quand elle a soudain une illumination : et si elle mettait tout en œuvre pour sauver les pingouins d'Antarctique ?

What's right is right. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan—she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation. Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked in the Aperture, a prison on the outskirts of the city. And everyone else, now free from monitoring, went on with their lives.

Nothing's more romantic than matching with the same guy every time you reluctantly download a dating app. Hotter than ever—check. Off-limits—double check. Why does the universe hate me? Cole Kincaid is unfairly irresistible and the one guy I'll never have. My brother's best friend is all grown up, but he's not here to witness my messy girl era. He's Dad's new assistant coach for Heston U's hockey team. Match me once, we'll laugh it off and never talk about it again. Match me twice, well, this is awkward. Match me three-four-five times? My resolve is only so strong.

Durante décadas, essa frase permeou o dia a dia de todos os habitantes da megalópole Seattle-Portland, controlada pelo regime autoritário da Delegação. A maior forma de controle, no entanto, vinha do Insight, um implante ocular que permitia acompanhar tudo o que era feito e dito pelos cidadãos, punindo os que saíam das regras e recompensando os que as seguiam. Mas isso foi há muito tempo: uma revolução tirou a Delegação do poder, libertando todos da vigilância do Insight.

Emilia Berg brottas med varannan vecka-livet på hemmaplan och storpolitiken i Riksdagen. Livspusslet blir inte enklare när hon av en slump upptäcker att hennes barndomsvän Josefine blir misshandlad av sin beundrade make. Kan hon hjälpa någon som inte vill bli hjälpt? Och om hon inte gör något, vad är hon då för människa? Är alla fina ord i plenisalen bara en fasad? Det eskalerande våldet, rädslan och Josefines försök att ta sig vidare driver utvecklingen fram till det oundvikliga.

Sonya Kantor conosce molto bene questo motto, visto che ha ispirato, meglio condizionato, gran parte della sua vita. In realtà queste parole hanno condizionato la vita di tutti gli abitanti della megalopoli di Seattle-Portland-Vancouver. Per anni, infatti, hanno dovuto adattarsi a un codice morale molto rigido e a una costante sorveglianza da parte della Delegazione, resa possibile da una sofisticata tecnologia. Poi la rivolta ha cambiato tutto. La Delegazione è stata rovesciata e sostituita da un nuovo governo.

Iført en lyserød, nedringet blondeting har Jeanett Veronica indfundet sig ved det årlige swingerparty for litteraere og finkulturelle: Bogmessen i Bella Center. Egentlig burde hun forsumpe hjemme under dynen i Farum, da laegen har stemplet hende "alvorlig stressramt", men i stedet står hun nu her og finder slet skjult nydelse i, at en journalist tydeligvis har vanskeligt ved at holde blikket fra hendes blondeindpakkede attributter.

En hjertevarm julehistorie om at få nok af julens trængsel og alarm – og alligevel finde juleglæden til sidst

Lizzy Kingham elsker julen. Når duften af julebag spreder sig, og julelysene funkler, føler hun sig altid varm og lykkelig. Men i år er det anderledes. Dagene op til jul føles som hårdt arbejde snarere end hygge, og Lizzy begynder i det stille at undre sig … Hvad ville der mon ske, hvis hun simpelthen droppede julen?

På en studs rejser Lizzy alene til sit yndlingssted ved kysten for at få en tiltrængt tænkepause.