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Raphael Waters grew up accustomed to being in a constant state of survival. When he becomes the muscle for known street figure, Rah, he believes his life has taken a turn for the better. That is until a string of unfortunate circumstances leave Rah missing and Raphael grasping for answers in the streets of the concrete jungle—once again. A chance encounter with the intriguing Alex Gatts promises to be the life-changing turnaround he needs.

Miłość jest jak cytrusy – cierpka i słodka zarazem. Ada, u boku Bartka, wraca do równowagi po nieudanym związku. Czy ich krucha miłość przetrwa zaskakującą wieść o ciąży? Tymek przed domowymi awanturami ucieka w świat lotniczej pasji.

Mimi e Kodachi sono due gemelle che vengono cresciute nella cittadina di Fukiage da una coppia di amici dei genitori perché il padre è rimasto ucciso in un incidente stradale e la madre è in coma. Compiuti i diciotto anni decidono di trasferirsi a Tōkyō, dove vivono una vita tranquilla, quando, all’improvviso Kodachi svanisce nel nulla.

Diamond and Mya are best friends, who grew up in the one of the worst hoods in ATL. Both are determined to have it all, and soon become two of the dirty South's most notorious women. Getting money is their top priority, by robbing every hustler that crosses their path; but both women have different goals. Mya wants to be the next ghetto superstar. She resorts to sex and violence to reach her goal, as she stalks every man with swollen pockets. Nothing will stand in her way of becoming the girl who runs ATL.

Money, Power, and Respect were the only things that mattered to Trae Keal. He was one of D.C.'s most notorious gangsters and loved the fact that there was nothing anyone could do to stop him from ruling the streets. The FBI knows taking Trae down won't be an easy task so they enlist the help of Carmen, an undercover agent sent to infiltrate Trae's crew by any means necessary. Caught up in the drama with his new love Karina, Trae doesn't see his life unfolding in front of him. Unknowingly, he gives Carmen information about his operation that could send him away for years.

Most people think when you say, "I do" all problems come to an end. When happily ever after seems impossible, three women transform from good girls to bad women. Just when they think they've made it out of the grimy streets to a more ideal lifestyle in the suburbs, their lavish lives turn sour. Unfortunately, for the sexy threesome, they are all suddenly faced with financial hardships that land them between a rock and a hard place.

Divine's new home at Dunnridge State Correctional Institution has been nothing but a host of surprises. For the past seven years, he and his trusted friend Niko have gone from thick as thieves to throat-cutting rivals. Their brotherly connection takes a turn when Divine secretly works out a deal with the state leaving his boy no way out. His betrayal makes him a prime target from beat downs to being broke down...sexually that is! The roller-coaster ride of Divine's life will keep you thrilled!

What decades of rent increases and declining readership couldn’t do, a pandemic finally did: Phil Cooper has reluctantly closed his secondhand bookstore and moved his business online. Smoking too much pot and listening to too much Grateful Dead, he suspects that he’s overdue when it comes to understanding the bigger picture of who he is and what we’re all doing here. So he’s made another decision: to teach himself 2,500 years of Western philosophy. Thankfully, he meets Caroline, a fellow book lover who agrees to join him on his trek through the best of what’s been thought and said.

Três deliciosos contos oriundos do clássico "Brás, Bexiga e Barra Funda", onde Alcântara Machado explora os italianismos de São Paulo do início do século XX, com o pobre menino Gaetaninho e seu sonho premonitório, a sedução que o automóvel exerce sobre Carmela e, por fim, o sonho da riqueza do esperto comerciante Natale e sua esposa.

Dois contos com a usual excelência Alcântara Machado na constituição das personagens! Em "A piedosa Teresa", a linguagem coloquial dos participantes da festa vai se costurando à letra da canção de São Gonçalo, para trazer ao leitor o universo de Dona Teresa. Já em "O tímido José", a violência na madrugada fria de São Paulo é quem domina a cena.

Duas pérolas do livro "Laranja-da-China", de Alcântara Machado. Em "O revoltado Robespierre", um curto trajeto de bonde feito pelo personagem é transformando em narrativa com base em seus gestos e comentários. Em "O patriota Washignton", outra viagem, esta de automóvel, de São Paulo a Mogi das Cruzes, é o alicerce para a exposição do patriotismo exagerado do protagonista.

«Scoprii che esiste un’altra parola per definire una foiba, dolina, e provai a usarla per sostituire quel brutto termine nella mia testa – dolina portava con sé tutta una languida atmosfera ungarettiana, mi faceva sentire una docile fibra dell'universo. Ma non ce l’ho fatta: il termine dolina non ha attecchito. Non si può mettere in mezzo la poesia per attenuare il suono dei cadaveri che scricchiolano sotto le scarpe.» L'Istria è un luogo meraviglioso per passarci le vacanze.

Se trata de una historia que ocurre en la ciudad de Barcelona donde se tocan temas referentes al conocimiento en distintas áreas; filosofía, arte, historia, libros y temas de la sociedad en general, como el alquiler de habitación en piso compartido (muy de moda en una ciudad donde llegan muchos extranjeros). Siempre está la naturaleza presente y el recuerdo de los rituales y la magia, que se asocia a la intuición y a los anhelos. Las situaciones ocurren en la Barcelona cosmopolita, en la cocina de un restaurante en el Collserola y en las calles del centro de la ciudad.

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.

With death nipping at his neck like cold in the winter, Lorenzo “Zo” Alverez is faced with the inevitable fate of stepping into his late father’s shoes. With enemies coming at him from all sides, Zo doesn’t know who he can trust. But when the light at the end of the tunnel comes in the form of family, he discovers secrets about his father that he never knew. These secrets threaten to pull him away from the other powerful families in New York and people that would risk their lives for his.

Funny Ethnics catapults listeners into the sprawling city-within-a-city that is Western Sydney and the world of Sylvia Nguyen: only child of Vietnamese refugee parents, unexceptional student, exceptional self-doubter. It's a place where migrants from across the world converge, and identity is a slippery, ever-shifting beast. Jumping through snapshots of Sylvia's life—from childhood to something resembling adulthood—this novel is about square pegs and round holes, those who belong and those on the fringes.

Twilight Sleep, a gothic satire of Jazz Age New York, was an instant best-seller when it was released in 1927. Quintessential Edith Wharton, it is stylish and sharp, at turns scathing, hilarious and melodramatic, but also deeply and surprisingly human. In a modernist twist, the story is told by three distinct narrators—19-year-old Nona Manford, her unflappable socialite mother Pauline, and Nona’s father and Pauline’s second husband, divorce lawyer Dexter Manford. All are trying to save the marriage of Nona’s half-brother, Jim Wyant, and his wife Lita.

Alessio Slaviero è un uomo molto temuto nel suo quartiere, quel triangolo di strade strette che si estende a Milano tra viale Monza, via Padova e la ferrovia; il ventre oscuro della città, dove il territorio si conquista e si difende con la forza, tutti i giorni. Alessio Slaviero è un uomo assediato da mille ombre e da mille fantasmi. Il suo unico amico è Manuel, un travestito brasiliano bello come un adolescente cattivo, che abita nell'appartamento di fianco.

Bruce Blanc, fresh off a nine-year prison jolt and back on the streets of Honolulu, is about to turn 41. He finds himself embroiled in urban Honolulu’s Asian American nightlife. Kids lighting up the night with cocaine and killing daylight with Xanax. Girls who spend more time looking at themselves in the mirror than Snow White’s stepmom; the older divorcees with means who prey on them. And 90-pound female drug lords and the cops in love with them. A new bar is opening or shutting down daily.

1985. Uprooted from her home in Bangladesh, 18-year-old Nazneen is sent to London for an arranged marriage with a much older man. Her new life is strange and bewildering - the busy streets and crowded tower blocks of the East End are a world away from the rural village she grew up in, and she struggles to adapt to living with her self-important husband, Chanu. Back in Bangladesh, Nazneen's sister Hasina has eloped with the man she loves, and been disowned by her family.