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The Vanderhaven family of Manhattan has it all: wealth, prestige, good looks, and a thriving business empire. But their seemingly perfect world is ripped apart when their younger daughter, eight-year-old Brenna, runs off after overhearing her parents arguing. Out on the streets, she quickly realizes shes lost. Even more frightening, Brenna soon realizes that a man is following her. Meanwhile, in a townhouse in Brooklyn, Callie Griffin is throwing a birthday party for her one-year-old son, Oliver. The joy of the day is ruined by her sister Lauren's too-short, drive-by appearance.

The Not Wives traces the lives of three women as they navigate the Occupy Wall Street movement and each other. Stevie is a nontenured professor and recently divorced single mom; her best friend, Mel, is a bartender, torn between her long-term girlfriend and her desire to explore polyamory; and Johanna is a homeless teenager trying to find her way in the world who bears shared witness to a tragedy that interlaces her life with Stevie’s.

Zbiór opowiadań o mieszkańcach Odorkowa - postaciach różnorodnych i wyrazistych, które w niestrudzonej aktywności próbują realizować swe plany oraz marzenia. W Odorkowie mieszka zatem skory do skandali i prowokacji Malarz, niezbyt lotny Burmistrz, refleksyjny Śmieciarz, żądny wrażeń Nastolatek... Właśnie oni, a także kilku pozostałych charakterystycznych bohaterów, tworzą jedyną w swoim rodzaju społeczność, za sprawą której Odorków nabiera życia i autentyzmu.

Questo racconto lungo, che in Francia è stato definito un récit, tenta di dare voce a chi Venezia la abita e si trova costretto a subire gli assedi del turismo di massa. In un alternarsi fra la laguna e Saint-Nazaire, dove gran parte delle navi da crociera vengono costruite, l’io narrante e la sua compagna fanno i conti con le conseguenze di queste anomalie epocali. Cercano, come altri veneziani, una chiave possibile di resistenza in una città dove gli ostacoli aumentano giorno dopo giorno, davanti all’indifferenza delle istituzioni spesso ostacoli esse stesse.

After an unsuspected raid destroys the Bishop family empire, many hands fight to take over the territory now up for grabs. While Nessa thinks she’s won against her cheating, womanizing ex-man, Luke plays a few chess moves of his own. His plan to win at a game his father instilled in him, while testifying against those he once loved, backfires terribly. Chetti simply isn’t having it, and she’ll do whatever it takes to remain in control and live in the lap of luxury, while taking down her very own family.

Whoever said the king has to be a man? In this gritty tale of money, sex, and mayhem, Chetti Bishop must protect her family empire at all cost, despite the violence launched against her. As a self-proclaimed b---h, her sights are set on becoming untouchable. Nothing gets in her way…not even Nessa, a sexy outsider who secretly plots her revenge. The stakes soon become treacherous, while loyalty becomes nonexistent. As unsuspecting enemies emerge, murder is eminent, and the last one standing will walk away with millions.

Eight-year-old TC skips school to explore the city’s overgrown, forgotten corners. Sophia, 78, watches with concern as he slips past her window, through the little park she loves. She’s writing to her granddaughter, Daisy, whose privileged upbringing means she exists in a different world from TC - though the two children live less than a mile apart.

Cold-hearted Keema takes the world by storm as she navigates her way through every trick and scam she can pull off. With four kids in tow, living off the welfare system had become her life along with the extra cash, sex, and violence her gangsta boyfriend Dupree brought into her life. Soon, chaos erupts, causing Keema’s secret past to become a problem. When the chips fall, they fall hard, leaving Keema willing to do whatever it takes to keep money in her pocket. She’s willing to go that extra mile, even if it means selling her kids or setting up her man.

Toulouse-Lautrec's iconic Parisian poster stars come to life in these full-cast dramas, set in 19th-century Montmartre 1889, Paris. When Charles Zidler's extravagant pleasure palace, the Moulin Rouge, opens in bohemian Montmartre, he commissions local artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to create a...

Is it worse to lie to your husband or the police? Rikke is deceiving them both. When their upstairs neighbour Jørgen is found dead, she's questioned alongside her husband Åsmund. How can Rikke admit in front of Åsmund that Jørgen and she were having an affair? Or explain to the police the complexity of her feelings for Jørgen? The hint of relief that he's dead. And, as the investigation closes in on the neighbourhood, how long can she conceal the affair from her neighbours, her husband and her teenage daughter?

Daddy’s girl Samantha Reynold hadn’t bargained on unexpectedly needing to step into her father’s shoes and take over the family casino business. Pampered and spoiled, Sam knows nothing about the rules of this glamorous but deadly new world. She has a lot to learn and even more to prove. But she won’t let her family down, especially when it looks like they could lose everything to their biggest rivals - the Stoker family.

Het mooiste boek over Barcelona dat ooit is geschreven - een historische klassieker. De stad der wonderen is een onvergetelijke kroniek over Barcelona tussen de twee wereldtentoonstellingen van 1888 en 1929. Een halve eeuw geschiedenis van een woelige stad, bevolkt door dagloners, gangsters en politici. Tegen deze achtergrond vertelt Eduardo Mendoza het verhaal van Onofre Bouvila, die als dertienjarige plattelandsjongen in Barcelona arriveert en door moord, verraad, chantage en list erin slaagt de rijkste en machtigste man van Spanje te worden.

Sie ist jung und erfolgreich, als Schwarze Frau hat sie es in den Olymp der Londoner Hochfinanz geschafft. Ihr Freund kommt aus dem alten Empire, aus betuchtem Hause. Doch als sie zu einer Gartenparty bei seiner Familie eingeladen wird, muss sie am eigenen Körper erfahren, dass erlittenes Unrecht tiefere Wurzeln geschlagen hat, als sie dachte. Ein außergewöhnlicher Roman, der die toxische Wirkung der Vergangenheit in unseren Worten und in unserem Besitz nachzeichnet. Natasha Brown macht das Drama der Gegenwart erfahrbar, das sich aus dem jahrhundertalten Erbe von Sexismus, Rassismus, Klassismus und Kolonialismus ergibt.

Martin, a market analyst, and Lily, a corporate attorney, have a life that many would envy - they share an expensive New York apartment with their twin toddlers, sample the delicacies of Manhattan's finest restaurants, and take Caribbean vacations. But when the couple's nanny announces her imminent departure, they panic: How will they ever find a replacement capable of managing their spirited boys? Enter Maeve, a young Irish emigre.

Susana Hernández ens presenta "Mai més", una novel·la que ens situa en dos barris multiculturals de Barcelona, la Mina i el Besòs, i se centra en els entramats socials i els focus de delinqüència. Com la mateixa autora explica, "en aquesta segona novel·la apareix la lluita dels personatges, la realitat dels narcopisos i el rebrot de l’heroïna" i se serveix de les pàgines del llibre per retratar aquest somni europeu dels immigrants, que al final es converteix en un malson.

The “Metro” of the title of this brilliant and mordant social comedy refers to the Moscow underground - the sparkling subway system that enchants its young hero, seven-year-old Sasha, on his first visit to Moscow. The vaulted ceilings and gleaming escalators appear to his young eyes as emblems of a higher life, of beauty, harmony, and hidden strength. Years later, Sasha escapes the jaws of a provincial ammunition factory and returns to Moscow as an aspiring actor, whereupon he enters quite another “Moscow underground”.

Siegfried Lenz' unvergleichlicher Stil in Kombination mit der angenehmen Stimme von Schauspielerin Hannelore Hoger macht dieses Hörbuch zu einem Genuss. Lenz beschreibt auf feinfühlige Art und Weise die Eigenarten der Bewohner seiner Wahlheimat Hamburg und blickt dabei auch hinter die Fassade der Hamburger Originale. Wer sich besonders hineinfühlen möchte, sollte diese Erzählung unbedingt während eines Stadtspaziergangs durch Hamburg hören.

London, 1946. Struggling to cope with the idea of raising her daughter in a hostile environment, African Caribbean nurse Hope makes the difficult decision to entrust her precious baby to her best friend, Eunice, to take back home to Antigua. But their plan goes disastrously wrong. In the decades that follow, all of them will witness - and play a part in - the seismic changes rocking the British Isles, as the old establishment crumbles, immigration builds and the country adjusts to the realities of a post-war, post-colonial future.

It is the mid-eighties, two decades into the kleptocratic, brutal rule of Ferdinand Marcos. The Philippine economy is in deep recession, and civil unrest is growing by the day. But Primi Peregrino has her own priorities: tracking down books and pursuing romantic connections with their authors.

What was meant to be a straightforward jewellery heist goes horribly wrong, and the thieves are forced to take a hostage to make their escape. But when they discover their prisoner is the infamous Nina Glass - one of the bosses of the most dangerous criminal dynasty in London - they soon realise they have made a terrible mistake. Greed wins out over good sense, and the gang decide to make the best of a bad situation.