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Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Priyanka Champaneri’s transcendent debut novel brings us inside India’s holy city of Banaras, where the manager of a death hostel shepherds the dying who seek the release of a good death, while his own past refuses to let him go.

Chi vive a Taranto è stanco di sentir parlare di Ilva, tanto nulla cambierà mai. Mezzo secolo fa la fabbrica ha strappato la città di pescatori alla povertà assicurando lavoro e benessere, e anche oggi la città di uomini pensa di non poter fare a meno della città di acciaio. Così, tutto diventa normale: la polvere nera si spazza via, il divieto di giocare nei parchi appare come una cautela eccessiva, i morti si seppelliscono. Si va avanti. È in questa Taranto malata e impotente che, nell'estate del 2009, fa ritorno Daniela Spera, dopo alcuni anni trascorsi a Parigi.

He’s not exactly who he appears to be. But then again, neither is she...Chase: I’ve never felt as out of my league as I did when I met Sydney Frost. Not in the years I’ve spent starting successful companies or since. Working for a prestigious firm gives me status and power, and I’m already a master at charming my way through a crowd - or into the bedroom. One new office colleague should be a piece of cake to win over. Ms. Frost, however, is giving my efforts a chilly reception. Time to remind her that I’m not afraid to live up to my name, either...

Dead End the Musical is a powerful and entertaining adaptation of Dead End, Sidney Kingsley’s landmark 1935 stage production. Like Kingsley’s play, Dead End the Musical shines a light on the social ills of a time and place that still resonate today: poverty, crime, class struggle, and economic and social inequality. It is also a story about justice and redemption, love and desire, hopes and dreams.

Marzo de 2016 fue un mes agitado en La Habana. Esta novela cuenta el viaje de un antropólogo argentino para escribir un artículo sobre la ciudad, en el preciso momento en que Barack Obama y los Rolling Stones visitaban la isla, como parte de la breve apertura de relaciones entre Cuba y Estados Unidos. Dentro de ese contexto se dará su encuentro con Nabetse, la guía que lo acompaña, una mujer cubana negra, abogada y docente, con quien tendrá un romance y varias conversaciones sobre la vida actual en Cuba.

When a flock of crows invades their shared apartment block, farmer-turned-debt collector Ludovic and fashion designer Aurore speak for the first time. With nothing but the birds in common, the two are destined for separate lives, yet are drawn inexplicably together. As Aurore faces losing her business and Ludovic questions the ethics of his job, they begin a passionate affair. Love between such different people seems doomed to failure, but for these two unhappy souls trapped in ruthless worlds, perhaps loving one another is the greatest form of resistance.

All Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving and driving across the desert. Her mother is French, her father Algerian. When racial tensions begin to surface in their neighbourhood, her mother suffers an unspeakable act of violence that forces the family to flee the country.

Thomas Ransom, born to a severely dysfunctional Southern family transplanted to New York City, is left to his own devices by neglectful parents and spends his childhood shadowing his criminally inclined half brother and roaming the city with hard-drinking teenage pals. He eventually finds an outlet as the flamboyant singer of a downtown rock band, and later as the young editor of the Detroit-based magazine that invented punk, only to return to New York, at the height of the 1970s bacchanal, and crash. 

Meet five bachelor brothers and the women who bring them to their knees in this USA Today best-selling series! When Cole North volunteers to be his boss Sierra’s fake date, nothing goes as expected. Can the lifelong loner evolve from her right-hand man at work to the right man for her forever? Carefree Drake North is fully aware his best friend’s little sister is off-limits, but when she sets her sights on him, he can’t get her off his mind. Can he give up his noncommittal ways and become the caring man she deserves?

Life can change in the blink of an eye. That's a truth Andy Slater learns as a young man in 1982, taking the Chicago "L" to work every morning. Andy's life is laid out before him: a good job, marriage to his female college sweetheart, and the white picket fence existence he believes in. But when he sees Carlos Castillo for the first time, Carlos’ dark eyes and Latin appeal mesmerize him. Flash forward to present day. Andy is comfortable but alone, and has never forgotten the powerful pull of Carlos’ gaze on the "L" train. He vows to find him once more, hoping for a second chance.

Winter blankets Montreal, while a bookseller and her lover dream of Prague. As the narrator’s open marriage becomes the subject of a novel, reality blurs with fiction, and she tries to reconcile the need to create with the desire for love and sex. Written in stark, spare prose, Prague is an introspective and intimate account of the making of a novel from life.

The Jazzsipper is set in the big Southern cities of New Orleans and Atlanta. New Orleans known for Jazz and casually mislabeled as The Murder Capital of the United States, and Atlanta known as the new power house locale for African-American meetings and conventions. There were an estimated 1,600 Black conventions and conferences with an economic impact of $5.6 billion in the US with African-American meetings and events with Atlanta accounting for more than 320,000 visitors and bringing a $264.5 million economic impact on the city this summer alone.

Come si fa a dimenticare a comando? Com'è possibile perdere per strada la memoria di una storia, se prima non si ha la pazienza di recuperarla passando al setaccio tutto quanto l'ha riempita da venticinque anni a questa parte? È quello che si accinge a fare lo Scrittore, seduto su una sedia all'inizio della Rambla e proprio nessuna voglia di scrivere e di vivere come gli altri. Contraltare di questa sua volontà di oblio programmatico e globale è la figura cicciuta e tracagnotta dell'especialista, un docente universitario "che di sé non ha mai saputo niente di essenziale.

Love in Five Acts explores what is left to five women when they have fulfilled their roles as wives, mothers, friends, lovers, sisters and daughters. As teenagers they experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall, but freedom brings with it another form of pressure: the pressure of choice. Punchy and entirely of the moment, Love in Five Acts engages head-on with what it is to be a woman in the 21st century.

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.

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.

New York City, 1921. The war is over, the twenties are roaring, but in the depths of the city that never sleeps, Dorothy Parker is struggling to make her mark in a man’s world. She’s penniless, she’s unemployed and her marriage is on the rocks when she starts a bridge group with three extraordinary women—but will they be able to save her from herself? When tragedy strikes, and everything Dorothy holds dear is threatened, it’s up to Peggy, Winifred and Jane to help her confront the truth before it’s too late. Because the stakes may be life or death.

Becca and Charlie have known each other since university. Becca and Charlies have also hated each other since university. Until now. Until Ally’s bucket list. The death of their loved one should mean they can go their separate ways and not look back. But completing the list is something neither of them can walk away from. And sometimes, those who bring out the worst in you, also bring out the very best. Over the course of ten years, Becca and Charlie’s paths collide as they deal with grief, love and life after Ally.

Paras is a spirited young racehorse living in a stable in the French countryside. That is until one afternoon when she pushes open the gate of her stall and, travelling through the night, arrives quite by chance in the dazzling streets of Paris. She soon meets a German shorthaired pointer named Frida, two irrepressible ducks and an opinionated crow, and life amongst the animals in the city’s lush green spaces is enjoyable for a time.

Por la autora best seller mundial de "La edad dorada", llega la nueva epopeya histórica de Sara Donati sobre dos doctoras pioneras en el Nueva York del siglo XIX. La obstetra Dra. Sophie Savard regresa a casa con los ritmos dolorosamente familiares de Manhattan a principios de la primavera de 1884 para reconstruir su vida después de la muerte de su esposo. Con la ayuda de la Dra. Anna Savard, su amiga más querida, prima y compañera médica, planea continuar su trabajo ayudando a las mujeres desfavorecidas que la sociedad preferiría olvidar.