Títulos em Vida na Cidade

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.

Evolutionary biologist Amina Abdul accepts a post-doc in Washington, DC, choosing her career studying hybrid zones over a faltering West Coast romance. Her brother and sister-in-law welcome her to the city, but their marriage is crumbling, and they soon rely on her to keep their son company. Omar, hungry to understand his cultural roots, fakes an Indian accent, invents a royal past, and peppers his aunt with questions about their cultural heritage. When he brings an ornamental knife to school, his expulsion triggers a downward spiral for his family.

A brutal murder. A young woman’s body is discovered with horrifying injuries, a recent newspaper cutting pinned to her clothing. A detective with everything to prove. This is her only chance to redeem herself. A serial killer with nothing to lose. He’s waited years, and his reign of terror has only just begun.... Introducing DI Eve Hunter, Hold Your Tongue is your new obsession.

The narrator of Rob Doyle's Threshold has spent the last two decades traveling, writing, and imbibing drugs and literature in equal measure, funded by brief periods of employment or "on the dole" in Dublin. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, his travels to far-flung places have acquired a de facto purpose: to aid the contemporary artist's search for universal truth.

By night Regina Bugbee runs an outreach center near Bellevue Hospital for men who don’t trust the regular shelter system. By day she cares for the impaired man who would have been her husband had he not been badly injured on 9/11. She struggles through this complex, tangled life, but clarity eludes her - until one day she encounters a baffling stranger claiming to be, of all things, a Greek god, who is brought to her center by cops after a fight with one of her regulars. But he’s too clean, too sober, and too articulate to fit the usual mold....

As a mother and a famous author, Ward DeFleur has it all. She lives in a beautiful estate in picture-perfect Connecticut, along with her teenage daughter, Stevie, where nothing can go wrong. Until, one night, when Stevie is brutally murdered and Ward’s entire world is shattered. Consumed by panic and grief, Ward vows never to put pen to paper again. Enter Bree Bennett. Bree is a recently divorced, former-journalist-cum-housewife, desperate to fill her days with something other than Pilates classes and grocery shopping.

When Grace’s fiancé vanishes without a trace the night after proposing, her life is turned upside down. But has Nick walked out on her, or is he in danger? As Grace desperately searches for answers, it soon becomes clear that Nick wasn’t the uncomplicated man she thought she knew. And when she uncovers a hidden tragedy from his childhood, she realises an awful truth: that you can run from your past - but your secrets will always catch up with you....

It is the evening of 16-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress - the very same dress that was sewn for a different wearer, Melody's mother, for a celebration that ultimately never took place. Unfurling the history of Melody's parents and grandparents - from the 1921 Tulsa massacre to post-9/11 New York....

It was supposed to be our last weekend away as friends, before marriage and respectability beckoned. But what happened that Saturday changed everything. In the middle of the night, someone died. The six of us promised each other we would not tell anyone about the body we buried. But now the pact has been broken. And the killing has started again.

When a twin-engine Beechcraft crashes into one of Richmond’s watering holes and turns happy hour into Hell, theories run rampant. Was it terrorists who, for some reason, decided to vent their spleens on unsuspecting Richmond? Was it a statement by homegrown killers less-than-thrilled that the city still, in the 21st century, chooses to honor Confederate leaders on its most prominent avenue? The obvious answers, though, just don’t pan out. Hard-charging reporter Willie Black’s search for the truth eventually leads him to a small town on the Chesapeake....

Damasco suona magica e favolosa, e continua a suonare così mentre si riempie di violenza e di fantasmi. Nessuno meglio di Suad Amiry poteva raccontare il fulgore del passato per aprire una porta sul presente. Il racconto comincia nel 1926, nel palazzo di Jiddo e Teta - marmi colorati, soffitti a cassettoni, fontane che bisbigliano nell'ombra -, comincia quando, dopo trent'anni di matrimonio, Teta torna per la prima volta ad 'Arrabeh, il villaggio da cui era partita poco più che bambina per andare in sposa al ricco e nobile mercante damasceno Jiddo.

Trish, an LA actor, is bereft with guilt after her best friend commits suicide. Glamorous yet tough-as-nails, Hollywood is Trish's backdrop and a reflection of her life as she stumbles on through an actor's life of casting calls and premieres, rejection, and acceptance. Slowly, Trish realizes the idea of how her life should be and embraces the messy and flawed yet stunningly beautiful truth of how it is.

Danny - formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he’s been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden accent and highlights in his hair, he is as close as he has ever come to living a normal life. But then one morning, Danny learns a female client of his has been murdered.

Ein Sommer in Rom, 231 Jahre und acht Monate nach Goethe. Ein junger Mann kommt in die ewige Stadt, um die Gegenwart abzuschütteln. Er sucht einen eigenen Weg, fühlt fremde Zeiten in sich leben. In Rom erinnert er sich. In Rom verliebt er sich. In Rom trauert er. Er trifft auf außergewöhnliche Menschen und findet seine Aufgabe: Alles wahrnehmen, nichts auslassen. Römische Tage führt zu den vielen Anfängen und Enden unserer Welt und fragt, was wir morgen daraus machen. Der Erzähler zieht in eine Wohnung schräg gegenüber der Casa di Goethe und die Stadt wird ihm zur Geliebten.

Chihiro ha perso da poco la madre e sta cercando di rifarsi una vita a Tokyo, lontano dalla cittadina di provincia a cui la legano brutti ricordi. Nakajima è tormentato da un passato misterioso che gli impedisce di vivere fino in fondo i propri sentimenti. Mino e Chii vivono in una casa nei pressi di un lago, un luogo fuori dal tempo e dallo spazio.

Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. But in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away. A modern classic, Man and Boy is a hilarious and touching novel about how Harry comes to terms with his life, brings up his son alone and, gradually, learns what words like love and family really mean.

Harry Gelbs Rohstoff sind Opium auf einem Dach in Istanbul und LSD in einer Kommune in Berlin, sind Heroin in einer Göttinger Mansarde und unzählige Biere in Frankfurts Kneipen - vor allem aber ist sein Rohstoff das Schreiben. Rasant, brutal ehrlich und witzig erzählt Fausers Alter Ego von einer gefährlichen wie gefährdeten Jugend und von einem Mann, der weder als Nachtwächter noch als Flughafenpacker vergisst, was er sein will: Schriftsteller.

Carla ha vent'anni e sogna la libertà. Odia l'amore da cui scappa per non esserne dipendente, odia la mancanza d'amore che la fa sentire sola e la costringe alla continua ricerca di altro, ma soprattutto odia la sua famiglia: collusa con la malavita, l'ha privata dell'amor proprio e dell'affetto di suo fratello Claudio, l'unico sentimento in grado di farla sentire completa. Giunta a Roma da un piccolo paesino del Salento, disillusa ma affamata di vita, Carla cerca sé stessa nella stravagante umanità che incontra.

Die kleinen Dinge, das sind der Streifen auf einem Wespenflügel, roter Nagellack auf den Fingern eines Schreiners, die geballte Faust auf einer Motorhaube. Die großen Dinge dagegen lauern unausgesprochen im Innern. Das wissen die siebenjährigen Zwillinge Rahel und Estha, und sie wissen auch, dass sich alles an einem einzigen Tag verändern kann. Und sie werden recht behalten. Als Rahel nach vielen Jahren zurückkehrt in ihr Heimatdorf im südindischen Kerala, ist nichts mehr, wie es einst war. Die Konservenfabrik der Familie verfallen, die geliebte Mutter tot, der Zwillingsbruder verstummt.

Giovanni arriva a Los Angeles carico di sogni e aspettative: lo attendono gli amici Ron e Tracy, e la vaga speranza di un futuro nel cinema. La città lo accoglie però con freddezza e lui cerca di arrangiarsi passando da un mestiere all'altro, fino all'incontro con Marsha, attrice bella e famosa, che gli aprirà le porte di Hollywood nella notte più luminosa della sua vita.