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The debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the book examines the lives and morality of American youth in the aftermath of World War I. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking.

In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a Black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston's myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a group of young hustlers, hurricane survivors, a local drug dealer who takes a Guatemalan teen under his wing, a reluctant chupacabra.

'Sunshine in book form' – Daily Mail 'A joyfully escapist celebration of friendship and freedom' – Mail on Sunday 'Delightful, heartwarming . . . An especially welcome reminder of the bright spots even in dark times' – NPR Paras is a spirited young racehorse living in a stable in the...

Jordi Viassolo consigue un trabajo de becario - temporal y mal pagado - en una agencia de detectives de Barcelona. La misión que le encargan es simple: mantener el despacho abierto durante el verano sin meterse en líos. Todo cambia cuando aparece un cliente desesperado asegurando que su mujer ha desaparecido.

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.

Sei sconosciuti con una cosa in comune: la loro vita non è così perfetta come vogliono far credere... Uno di questi è Julian, un artista eccentrico che da qualche tempo è precipitato in una profonda solitudine. Nell'accogliente caffè di Londra dove si rifugia nei momenti peggiori, decide di affidare la sua storia alle pagine di un taccuino verde che abbandona incurante su un tavolino. Mai più pensa che Monica, la giovane proprietaria del bar, lo legga e ne rimanga sconvolta.

La tua storia è narrata QUI... Tu sei il protagonista! Viaggerai insieme a ROMEO nei tondi della vita e nel Colosseo per vivere un'emozione unica, irripetibile. Troverai e perderai le zampe, conoscerai passanti e fermanti, parlerai con il Padre e incontrerai Armonia. Una storia mozzafiato che, traccia dopo traccia, ti coinvolgerà sempre di più. La storia di Romeo è la tua storia: vita, percorsi, amore, passione, tentazione, ricerca, avventura, sogni e realtà... scritta appositamente per te!

In a city teeming with stories, how do lost souls find one another? It’s a question Meg Rhys doesn’t think she’s asking. Meg is a self-identified spinster librarian, satisfied with living with her cat, stacks of books, and her dead sister’s ghost in her New York City apartment. Then she becomes obsessed with an intriguing library patron and the haunted house he’s trying to research. The house has its own story to tell too, of love and war, of racism’s fallout and the ghost story that is gentrification, and of Brooklyn before it was Brooklyn.

A young writer is brutally attacked in her home and left for dead. For her sister, Nina Bergmann, it's the beginning of a nightmare that will threaten to destroy her marriage, her job and ultimately her life. As she sets out to unravel the truth about what really happened to her sister, Nina comes face-to-face with inner demons she believed long since banished and discovers that her sister's past and that of the once-divided city are intertwined in unimaginable ways. The Wall may be gone, but its legacy still haunts Berlin.

Brought to you by Penguin. It’s late 1944. Hitler’s rockets are slamming down on London with vicious regularity and it’s the coldest winter in living memory. Allied victory is on its way, but it’s bloody well dragging its feet. In a large house next to Hampstead Heath, Vee Sedge is just...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE TWISTY NEW THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE RUMOUR As a child, it was just a game. As an adult, it was a living nightmare. When teenage friends Lizzie and Alice decide to head off for a walk in the countryside, they are blissfully unaware...

Als die Ich-Erzählerin, eine zurückgezogen in New York City lebende Schriftstellerin, ihren besten Freund verliert, bekommt sie überraschend dessen Hund vermacht. Apollo ist eine riesige Dogge, die achtzig Kilo wiegt. Ihr Apartment ist eigentlich viel zu klein für ihn, außerdem sind Hunde in ihrem Mietshaus gar nicht erlaubt. Aber irgendwie kann sie nicht Nein sagen und nimmt Apollo bei sich auf, der wie sie in tiefer Trauer ist. Stück für Stück finden die beiden gemeinsam zurück ins Leben. Ein Hörbuch über Liebe, Verlust und Freundschaft - und die tröstliche Verbindung zwischen Mensch und Hund.

Jeremy Jordan and Alexandra Chen hope to make a quiet home together but struggle to find a space safe from their personal secrets. For Jeremy, this means leaving behind his former life as an intelligence operative during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. For Alexandra, a high-powered job in image management for whole countries cannot prepare her for her missing brother's sudden reappearance. In a culture of limitless surveillance, Jeremy and Alexandra will go to great lengths to protect what is closest to them and answer the question of whether their love will be returned. 

Dicen que cuanto más oscuro está el cielo, más brillan las estrellas. La isla de Jeju es el polo opuesto de la deslumbrante Seúl... y también el hogar natal de Jaehwa, que se arrepiente de haber invitado a Hyunsoo a pasar allí el verano. Aunque se preparan juntos para convertirse en ídolos del K-pop, su amigo no está acostumbrado a la vida en una aldea de pescadores. Pero esa preocupación desaparece al reencontrarse con Yuna y Siwon, sus antiguos compañeros de clase, y conocer a Riley, una recién llegada que parece perseguida por los recuerdos.

In this robust, elegantly plotted, and ultimately life-affirming novel, Zoe Whittall presents a dazzling portrait of the Millennial Generation - the 25-year-olds who grew up on anti-anxiety meds, text-messaging each other truncated emotional reactions, unsure of what's public and what's private. Holding Still explores an unusual love triangle involving Billy, a former teen idol, now an anxiety-ridden agoraphobic; Josh, a shy transgendered paramedic who travels the city patching up damaged bodies; and Amy, a fashionable filmmaker coping with her first broken heart.

Joe Keen and Ana Urbanek have been a couple for a long time, with all the requisite lulls and temptations, yet they remain unmarried and without children or a mortgage, as their Midwestern values (and parents) seem to require. Now on the cusp of 40, they are both working jobs that they're not even sure they believe in anymore, but with significantly varying returns. Ana is successful; Joe is floundering; both are in limbo, caught somewhere between mainstream and alternative culture, sincerity and irony, achievement and arrested development.

Twenty years of addiction to cloud, a drug which wipes the user’s short-term memory, have left single mom Mellie with her mind in fragments. With the help of a tough-minded sponsor, and motivated by her own medically challenged daughter, Mellie clings to a fragile sobriety. Then, on the evening of her 29th day sober, a stranger pulls into her driveway and her heart surges. However, when Mellie’s pursuit of this man and the past they may share threatens her sponsor, Mellie will have to put her tiny family and her recovery at risk in hopes of saving the woman who saved her first.

Athena and Dexter live a happy but insular life, bound by routine and the care of their young sons. When Elizabeth, an old friend from Dexter’s university days, turns up with her much younger sister, Vicki, and her lover, Philip, she brings an enticing world to their doorstep. And Athena finds herself straining at the confines of her life.

It’s October in Montreal, 2002, and winter is coming on fast. Past due on his first freelance gig and ensnared in lies to his family and friends, a graphic design student with a gambling addiction goes after the first job that promises a paycheck: dishwasher at the sophisticated La Trattoria. Though he feels out of place in the posh dining room, warned by the manager not to enter through the front and coolly assessed by the waitstaff in their tailored shirts, nothing could have prepared him for the tension and noise of the kitchen, or the dishpit’s clamor and steam.