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With Alex Silva facing time behind bars, his family are in freefall. Wife Maggie doesn't know how she's going to cope without her beloved Alex. How will they survive? But survival is in the Silva blood and Alex has taught his children well. And this new generation is going to cause more trouble than anyone can handle...Will the Silvas survive or will trouble follow them...

Teniendo como escenario una ciudad donde convergen el pasado y el presente, Armando Ramírez nos ofrece una novela que mezcla crónica, guiños autobiográficos y ficción. El resultado es una historia hecha de muchas historias que se fraguan en la difusa frontera entre lo vivido y lo imaginado, entre lo tangible y lo etéreo.

Dora Fairweather wasn’t cut out to be a wife and mother, and as soon as she’s able, she turns her back on her young daughter Lissie. With no parents to protect her, Lissie has no option but the dangerous streets of soot-sodden Bradford or the workhouse orphanage. Life in the orphanage is bleak and Lissie longs for the warm embrace of her beloved father. As the years pass, Lissie learns to enjoy the camaraderie of the other girls in the workhouse, and when she’s taken under the wing of matron Connie Briggs, things begin to look up..

Tommy Jr might be one of the youngest members of the Carter family, but he has plans to one day step into his Uncle Jonny’s shoes as head of the family. But when his young girlfriend Aimee announces she’s pregnant, everything changes. Although only nineteen, Tommy’s determined to be the best dad he can. Aimee’s dad Kevin Fox feels the Carters owe him big time and now he’s going to part of the family it’s time to pay up. But publicly rejected by the Carters, Kevin plots his revenge and Tommy Jr is firmly in his sights.

With her twin sister still missing, Daisy Kennedy is determined to do all she can to bring her sister home. She’s sure she knows who’s to blame – her old boos and renowned nightclub owner, Samson Fox - but she’s going to need help if she’s going to make Samson pay. And so Daisy joins forces with Samson’s biggest rival – Roscoe Allen – a man who has seen and done things that makes Daisy shiver. But if she wants Lily back safe, she’s going to have to make a deal…even if it is with the devil himself.

Five years after their break-up, Eve still hasn’t found a reason to believe in true love. But when Foster has an accident and she discovers she’s still listed as his next of kin, Eve knows she can’t let him wake up in hospital with no one by his side. After all, those devilishly blue eyes have always been hard to say no to… Foster isn’t sure if his poor battered brain is playing tricks on him when he sees the only woman he’s ever loved sitting next to his bedside.

L’esordio nella narrativa di Alessandro Baricco è un libro fuori dal tempo e fuori dal mondo come Quinnipak, questa città immaginaria dove la gente sogna il progresso tecnologico e la meraviglia, sogna l’amore romantico e l’omicidio. E, mentre gli abitanti sognano, Baricco gioca con la lingua, con le parole, con il ritmo, costruendo un castello letterario che ancora si erge magnifico e commovente.

Since dropping out of school three years ago with no qualifications, no pals, and no ambition, Jamie Skelton spends most of his days asleep and most of his nights wanking, playing video games with his online friend, Lee, and occasionally making the journey downstairs to the kitchen. When Fiona, Jamie's maw, tries to get Jamie to apply for a job, he sees her as the cause for all of his problems. Then Lee tells Jamie he's realised there's a name for what they are - incels - and that there's a guy he's met through the forums they can go stay with in London, to get away from their nagging mams.

Juliette é uma jovem e solitária parisiense que leva uma vida metódica - todas as terças vai ao supermercado e às sextas, ao cinema. As viagens de metrô para o trabalho, típicas da rotina, possibilitam que Juliette observe sempre os mesmos passageiros e os livros que cada um lê. Todos têm suas particularidades, como a idosa que folheia um livro italiano de culinária e sorri diante de algumas receitas ou a garota que lê romances e sempre derrama minúsculas lágrimas quando chega à página 247. "Por que a página 247?", pergunta-se Juliette.

Thomas, a young German musician, is dying. Leo, a renowned Italian writer and Thomas's boyfriend, finds it impossible to mourn his loss and condemns himself to wandering the Earth, in the hope of finding the dividing line between the living and the dead. He travels through a Europe where past and present overlap, roads intersect, years merge and faces emerge - and tries in vain to bring into focus the blurred lines of their relationship.

Feeling slighted by the only man to ever show her genuine love, Kenya picks up the pieces of her life and moves on a single mother with a thriving business. After finally finding the strength to open her herself up to dating again, she meets the man that just might be patient enough to handle her fragile heart.

Legacy, a former hustler turned successful security entrepreneur, has fought his demons specifically to reclaim his life, family, and Bless. No matter the time that has passed, his love for and obsession with Bless never wavered. But old wounds keep him longing for her from afar. Bless, a resilient and devoted mother, has battled her own fears and doubts. She stood by Legacy’s side through his darkest moments. But that loyalty weighed so heavily on her that she had to walk away from the man she will forever crave.

H is a boxer past his prime. Haunted by the memory of the fight that should have made him great, he is chasing his dream through the seedier side of the London boxing circuit, losing fights against his untalented opponents, his wife and, ultimately, himself. When a gunfight at an illegal gambling shebeen drags him down into a multicultural underworld of violence and extortion, H finds himself in debt to the sinister sociopath, White Alan.

After years of owning an iconic Chicago barbershop, Charlie has sold it and is facing the prospect of his last day. Clinging to the past will not help him as he bravely faces the end of all he has ever known.

Set against an eventful decade that included the soap opera of five Prime Ministers plus Brexit and Covid, Consider Yourself Kissed puts the subjects of love and family on a grand stage, showing how the intimate dramas in our homes inescapably compete for energy and attention with the shared public dramas of our times. Told over ten years of one woman’s life, Consider Yourself Kissed is an unforgettable literary love story which effortlessly balances sweetness with bite, the public with the personal, and humour with heart.

Sarah spends her time worrying about how she will be able to get a permanent academic position, and also doing ketamine and watching 80s movies with her best friend, Nathan. Nathan was the only person to believe Sarah when she was assaulted by a fellow student during her first year. Sarah reported it to the university and to the police, but nothing happened. 'He's such a good guy.' 'He wouldn't do that.' 'Were you drinking?' When Nathan is found dead of an alleged heroin overdose, Sarah is convinced it is a murder but, once again, the police don't believe her.

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Julius Jeffrey is a local self-made Entrepreneur/Treasure Hunter. Intrigued by a local legend, he embarks on an electrifying journey to find the truth. His journey will not be easy though, There are dark forces at work that would rather this truth never be discovered. Will he succeed in his mission? Or will he fail? And what truly lies within The UnderPass?

Darrell Donnelly and his daughter Laykin embark on their yearly hiking trip to a scenic and remote part of the Ocala National Forest. What started as a long weekend turned into a fight for survival as the hikers attempt to return home in the face of civil unrest and lawlessness, the aftermath of a coordinated attack on the power grid and most electronic devices.

He wasn't born a savage, but he became one. Life used him as its toilet and the results were something the streets weren't ready for. He didn't just catch a raw deal though; it was brokered for him by forces whose identity no one seems to know. He finds himself caught up in a world full of lies, deception, and unimaginable pain. Who is he? Well, he just may be the stuff that nightmares are made of, and someone made the mistake of waking him up. Now he's on the loose and ready to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting world.