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Der junge Arzt Dr. Roy Basch verbringt sein erstes Praxisjahr im "House of God". Voller Enthusiasmus und Erwartungen, beseelt von dem Wunsch, zu helfen und zu heilen, muss er im Alltag bald erkennen, dass die Medizin ein dreckiges Geschäft ist. Verstört und desillusioniert versuchen er und seine jungen Kollegen, sich einen letzten Rest an Nächstenliebe zu bewahren. Drastisch und makaber stellt Shem einen bis heute vollkommen normalen Krankenhausalltag dar, in dem ein einzelner Mensch wenig, Profit dagegen alles zählt.

昭和末期の日本を騒然とさせた、あの名著がいま甦る。丸の内の東京海上ビルの高さが９９．７mに抑えられた理由は？　お召し列車運行の際の３原則とは？　ヨーロッパでポピュラーな「ミカド」ゲームとは？　アメリカ・ミシガン州に「ミカド」という町がある？　欧米では誰もが知っているオペラ「ミカド」とは？「プリンスホテル」が発展してきた陰にあったブランドとしての皇室の意味は？

Pat Peoples knows that life doesn’t always go according to plan, but he’s determined to get his back on track. After a stint in a psychiatric hospital, Pat is staying with his parents and trying to live according to his new philosophy: get fit, be nice and always look for the silver lining...

'This is a story about culture and identity and about fighting to keep your memories while being robbed of your history, but it's written with a warmth and humor that never leaves the reader alone on the journey' Fredrik Backman, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove 'A must-read...

Middle-aged Acuthan Nair returns home to restore his childhood house and to confront old ghosts. He hires the town painter, One-Screw-Loose Bhasi, to oversee the renovation, and the two men quickly develop a close friendship. Bhasi, who has a special talent for healing the wounded, helps Acuthan come to terms with his mother's violent death and teaches him how to stand up to his overbearing, manipulative father. But when members of the town elite tempt Acuthan with a chance at gaining the status he's always craved, his loyalty to Bhasi is tested.

What if Princess Diana hadn't died? Diana's life and marriage were fairy tale and nightmare. Adored by millions, in her personal life she suffered heartbreak and betrayal. Within a life of privilege, she frequently felt trapped and alone. Constrained by protocol and precedent, she refused to...

Pothivelu Pandaram is known as a successful and God-fearing man about town–he has a loyal wife, three daughters, and ample money to pay for their dowries. However, it is an open secret that his success is fueled by a tawdry yet deeply profitable trade–for he owns a group of physically deformed beggars and places them outside various temples to make money for him. The beggars are mere "items" to Pandaram, hardly human, to be bought and sold like cattle.

*NOW A MAJOR FILM by Sony Pictures, starring Chloe Grace Moretz* 'Wildly entertaining . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' The New York Times *The 5th Wave is the first book in the bestselling series from award-winning Rick Yancey. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and Maze...

La protagonista de Boulder és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la vida fent de cuinera en un buc - la situació perfecta: una cabina, l'oceà, moltes hores per encarar el buit i algun port on conèixer dones. Fins que una la reté, se l'emporta entre les quatre parets d'una casa i l'embarca en la gestació assistida d'una criatura. ¿Què en farà, la maternitat, de l'amant coneguda en un bar? ¿I què farà ella a la gàbia? Dos anys després de Permagel i d'un viatge a través de mitja dotzena de llengües, l'obra de Baltasar torna a atracar entre nosaltres amb una heroïna com només sap crear-les ella.

Brought to you by Penguin. The hilarious romantic comedy from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Sophie Kinsella Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking she's twenty-five with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually three years...

A triumphant return by the author of Snow Falling on Cedars, as an attempted suicide becomes a life-enhancing diversion. Following the death of his wife Rachel and diagnosis of his own medical condition, Dr Ben Givens left his home in Seattle – heading east with his Winchester and hunting dogs...

A parte il fatto di essere fratelli, Peter e Ivan Koubek sembrano avere poco in comune. Peter è un avvocato di Dublino sui trent'anni - affermato, abile e apparentemente irreprensibile. Ma, ora che gli è morto il padre, prende farmaci per dormire e si barcamena con fatica fra due relazioni con donne molto diverse: il primo, imperituro amore, Sylvia, e Naomi, una studentessa universitaria per cui la vita è un'unica lunga barzelletta. Ivan è un campione di scacchi ventiduenne. Si è sempre considerato uno sfigato, un paria, l'antitesi del suo disinvolto fratello maggiore.

Toby Jones and Holliday Grainger star in a new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dodie Smith's enduringly popular coming-of-age novel In the 1930s, seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain lives in a crumbling ruin of a castle in the Suffolk countryside. Her father, an author wrestling with...

Il mondo devastato dell'Undici settembre, le inquiete solitudini della famiglia di un sopravvissuto al crollo delle torri e la paradossale normalità di un terrorista che si prepara al martirio. Scendendo con altre migliaia di persone le scale della Torre nord del World Trade Center, Keith Neudecker riesce a mettersi in salvo pochi minuti prima del crollo. Ha i vestiti impregnati di sangue e di cenere, la faccia cosparsa di frammenti di vetro, e negli occhi immagini che non potrà mai dimenticare.

Rachel's most dangerous fear will come alive, and she has to confront that fear to save her love. What depths of her life will surround her in her journey? What mysteries will she unravel in that journey of her life? Is it a dream? Or is it real?

Tony Parsons writes for the first time about his rock and roll years in a touching novel about friendship and growing up This is the UK of the summer of 1977 – in the midst of the Silver Jubilee celebrations, a generation are trying to grow up and discovering the limits of freedom. It is 16th...

Bonita è una giovane studentessa di Delhi in viaggio in Messico per imparare lo spagnolo. Seduta su una panchina del Jardín di San Miguel de Allende, all'ombra della maestosa cattedrale, si gode l'estraneità di un luogo mai visitato. Non conosce nessuno lì, e nessuno la conosce. Eppure un'anziana donna in abiti tradizionali, loquace ed eccentrica, l'avvicina con accalorata familiarità, affermando di rivedere in lei la figlia della sua cara amica, Rosarita, conosciuta proprio lì tanti anni prima, quando Rosarita era arrivata dall'India, come ora sua figlia, per seguire la sua vocazione di pittrice.

After 30 years of marriage, Wilson is forced to face a painful truth. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him. Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun (originally recounted in The Notebook), and their 50-year love affair, Wilson is unable to express his true feelings. With his daughter about to marry and his wife thinking about leaving him, Wilson knows it is time to act. He will do anything he can to save his marriage. 

Like any married couple, Allie and Tony have had their fair share of heartache. But when Tony's actions force Allie and her young sons out of their home, things take a turn for the worse. Without her husband around, Allie must cope with two inquisitive children - as well as the reappearance of her estranged father. So when her eldest Mark befriends next-door neighbour Jeremy, Allie's glad he's found a distraction. The trouble is that Mark believes Jeremy is Santa Claus and that he can put the family back together.

You can never go back - but can you forgive? A gripping story of love and redemption. The Brennans - parents, Finn and Bridget, and their sons, Jarrah and Toby - have made a sea change, from chilly Hobart to subtropical Murwillumbah. Feeling like foreigners in this land of sun and surf, they're...