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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.

Forty years ago, the name Rachel McMahon was synonymous with evil. After killing four men in the most brutal of ways, the world rejoiced as she was locked up. Now Rachel has done her time, repented for her crimes, and is ready to live a quiet life back in Scotland under a new name.

Macon Detornay is a suburban white boy possessed and politicized by Black culture, and filled with rage toward white America. After moving to New York City for college, Macon begins robbing white passengers in his taxicab, setting off a manhunt for the Black man presumed to be committing the crimes. When his true identity is revealed, Macon finds himself to be a celebrity and makes use of the spotlight to hold forth on the evils and invisibility of whiteness.

Leo sta per lasciare la sua città, Taranto, e gli amici di sempre per giocarsi la carta dell'Accademia a Modena. È un duro ed è un ribelle, per cui saprà tener testa alla violenza che permea le giornate da cadetto, ma quella vita non fa per lui. Tenterà di strappare una laurea in Giurisprudenza a Bari e poi di lavorare a Milano, sempre alla ricerca della sua sfuggente vocazione, ovunque capace di sodalizzare con i più deboli, con coloro che vivono ai margini per imposizione o per scelta.

Glasgow, 1981. A cidade está morrendo. A pobreza, aumentando. A esperança, desaparecendo. Agnes Bain sempre esperou por mais. Ela sonhava com coisas grandiosas: uma casa com entrada particular, uma vida confortável. Quando seu segundo marido, um taxista mulherengo, sai de casa, ela e os três filhos se veem presos em uma cidade mineradora dizimada pela política da então primeira-ministra Margaret Thatcher. Enquanto Agnes se entrega cada vez mais ao álcool em busca de conforto, seus filhos tentam salvá-la. Porém, um a um, vão desistindo porque precisam salvar a si mesmos.

Jonás va a nadar cada mediodía, es una de las pocas rutinas que conserva de cuando todavía vivía con Ada. Ahora vive solo, en un estudio al sur de la ciudad, sin que la fotografía le interese como algo más que una manera de ganar dinero, con las únicas amistades de Sergio y Sebastián y alejado de sus padres, que están divorciados.

With his once thriving casino business now in ruins, Seb Stoker is certain about two things: One – he will rebuild bigger and better than ever. And two – someone will pay for torching his club. But until that day comes, Seb has bigger things to worry about and a business deal that could make or break them all. Sam Reynold knows Seb is out for revenge, and she’ll do anything she can to help him. But Sam has her own enemies and battles to fight – ones much closer to home. With pressure mounting for both of them, tensions run high.

Young flippert zwischen Bude, Hörsaal und den Betten seiner letzten Tinder-Matches hin und her. Er studiert in Seoul, zusammen mit Jaehee, seiner BFF und Mitbewohnerin, zieht er durch die glitzernden Bars und queeren Clubs der Stadt. Mit noch einem Glas Soju in der Hand und eisgekühlten Marlboro Reds zwischen den Lippen beschwören sie die Euphorie, jede Nacht. Gegen die Ängste, gegen die Liebe, gegen die Ansprüche der Familie und die Not mit dem Geld. Doch als auch Jaehee endlich ankommen will, bleibt Young allein zurück im Partymodus.

In Great Uncle Edward, a family gathers for dinner. At ninety-three, Great Uncle Edward commands the table in his three-piece suit; Cousin Russell attended both Harvard and Yale but is now reduced to selling off the family books; sisters Betty and Molly are caught between ghosts of a storied past and creeping destitution. These lives are signposts along the downward spiral of an old aristocracy.

Visible Amazement is the story of a precocious, talented teenage cartoonist Roanne Chappell whose journey of discovery takes her along the American West Coast as the Seventies transitions into the Eighties. As a precocious and physically mature young woman she experiences love, friendship and heartbreak. She savours new words and delights in word play greeting the world with open arms and an open heart in unforgettable adventures that are wilder and more fantastic than most adolescents dream about.

Der neue Roman der Queenie-Erfolgsautorin ist ein einzigartiges Familienporträt: gegenwärtig, rasant und unglaublich komisch. Cyril Pennington ist das, was man als "People Person" bezeichnet: gesellig, umtriebig, extrovertiert. Was er vor allem nicht ist: ein Vater. Und das obwohl er fünf Kinder von vier verschiedenen Frauen hat. Seine Kinder wachsen ohne ihren Dad auf und ohne einander wirklich zu kennen. Bis ein dramatisches Ereignis die Halbgeschwister zusammenbringt und sie stärker aneinanderbindet, als ihnen lieb ist.

Alfie doesn't forget... and he certainly doesn't forgive. Can Nathan and Gemma's marriage survive the mob boss's return? Nathan has tried to be a changed man for Gemma after they escaped gangster Alfie's clutches, but it doesn't take long for him to give into temptation... and now Alfie's back to get what's his. Alfie doesn't like losing. The gangster has been biding his time ever since Nathan and Gemma escaped his clutches, but he's determined to collect his debt now. It helps that he knows about Gemma's big secret.

First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise proved to be a best-selling novel in Fitzgerald’s own lifetime. The book follows the early life and education of Amory Blaine and is, in fact, a thinly disguised account of Fitzgerald’s own experience as an undergraduate at Princeton and as an aspiring writer. Brilliantly original in its experimental narrative, it comprises a series of contrasting styles and structures.

Este apasionante thriller distópico nos traslada a La isla, una sociedad apartada del mundo y controlada por el misterioro Adalid, que la gobierna con mano de hierro. Sin embargo, la irrupción de un terrorista conocido como Madre empieza a insuflar aires de rebeldía en el pueblo. Nuestro protagonista, el ejecutor Fauno Rohen, será el encargado de eliminar a Madre, pero quizá lo que encuentre no sea lo que espera.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.

Manuel Amaro es un autor español nacido en 1976 en Andújar (Jaen)...

Jacob Townsend was never supposed to be my husband, let alone the man of my dreams. Our relationship went from fake to real in the blink of an eye. Now, it’s him and I against all odds.

Berlin, 1922: Die Weimarer Republik steuert auf die Inflation zu und die Nachwehen der Revolution haben sich noch nicht gelegt, als Artur, Isi und Carl nur knapp einem Mordanschlag durch rechte Verschwörer entgehen. Artur macht seinem Ruf alle Ehre und schlägt gnadenlos zurück. Derweil leidet Carl unter Regisseur Fritz Lang, für den er an »Dr. Mabuse« arbeitet, und gerät in den Bann des neuartigen Tonfilms. Und dann ist da noch die Sorge um Isi, die Schöne und Starrköpfige, die seit dem Anschlag Streit mit jedem sucht.

La ciudad de Dios es una antología de artículos y relatos que Pier Paolo Pasolini escribió en su mayoría en la década de los cincuenta, recién llegado de Friuli a una Roma aún extraña y ya desesperadamente querida, telón de fondo a la vez grotesco y poético de estas páginas publicadas por primera vez en España.

Crush Hour: A Musical presents a series of heart-warming and hilarious chance encounters via London’s transport links, in the run up to Christmas.

Ishmael Holloway felt the weight of everyone around him finding their happily ever after. His problem isn’t that his brothers' priorities have changed, but that his forever had been right in front of him—in the form of his sister-in-law's best friend—for years. Ishmael had no way of knowing that Sawyer Peterson, too, saw him as her forever.

In working-class Bay Ridge, Michael drives for a car service and gives lifts to his father, a former sanitation worker and current small-time bookie. He has a friend with a heroin habit, and a longtime girlfriend who expects they’ll get married one of these days. Michael spends most of his time on the familiar streets where he grew up, but now he’s crossing the bridge into Manhattan for some college classes—where he meets a seductive female classmate who seems to come from a whole different world.