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Haruki Murakami’s highly anticipated first novel in six years follows the narrator as his enduring memory of his formative teenage relationship leads him to the mysterious City, and a disruption to the barriers between the real and shadow worlds.

In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation. Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions for becoming 'lion women.'

Nevada; the near future; a family about to implode. In a world run by computers, hackers have power - and awkward, home-schooled Colt is among the best. But when Colt secretly submits his mother Naomi's breakthrough research to a biotech conference and it is immediately shut down, mother and son are forced to go on the run. Now Colt is coding for his life.

Tea es una joven productora de música trap que intenta hacerse un hueco en la escena indie barcelonesa. A pesar de la paridad que existe en el movimiento, la figura del productor se sigue relacionando mucho con el género masculino y ella, desde su barrio del extrarradio, produce bases por las que ningún cantante ha apostado fuerte todavía.

بين زمنين تتحرك رواية الهجران، زمن الأب الذي سُجن وقُتل بسبب معارضته، وزمن اللاذقية الجديدة، لاذقية جيل جديد عاش عنفاً مختلفاً يحاول أن يخرج منه عن طريق الحب.

This is a touching and heartwarming fictional Christmas story about two actual characters from history—the acclaimed American photographer, Robert Cornelius, and the visiting British writer and most famous man in the world, Charles Dickens. Cornelius is credited with shooting the first photograph in history of a human face, in Philadelphia in 1839—one of photography’s greatest milestones. Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has yet to be published.

The exciting conclusion to the story of the Curran siblings, their family, and their friends. Recommended to fans of witchcraft, epic fantasy, or something a little different. No Artificial Intelligence technologies were utilized in the creating of this work.

Cuando la muchacha, adornada por su extraña cabellera rojiza, pone los pies en la ciudad, es vendida a Aspacia de Mileto, amante de Pericles, el autocrátor que, rodeado de prohombres de las artes, la filosofía y la política como Fidias, Sócrates o Anaxágoras, ansía promocionar el conocimiento del ser humano y conducir a su pueblo hacia una cada vez más consolidada democracia.

A Tōkyō c’è un quartiere che raccoglie il più alto numero di librerie al mondo. Si chiama Jinbōchō, e gli amanti dei libri possono trovarci di tutto, purché stampato: romanzi dell’epoca Meiji, manga, copioni teatrali e vecchie mappe. Ma non solo: i cacciatori di prime edizioni o di copie autografate sono di casa qui, e vederli all’opera è uno spettacolo. Alla libreria Morisaki, un piccolo negozio a gestione familiare specializzato in letteratura giapponese moderna, entrano a malapena cinque persone insieme. I libri affollano gli scaffali fino a invadere ogni angolo del pavimento.

After 13 years it’s time for Mac to return home to face a past he’s been running from. A past his best friend Dave has been unable to escape. It was 1990, their final year of school and with an INXS soundtrack, life was moving on. Bus stops, homework and football were giving way to pay slips and beer, to first cars and first loves. Until one night changed it all. As the story of that evening unravels, so too do the binds that cross generations of family.

Ranging from Texas, to Chile, to New Mexico and New York, in this new collection Berlin writes about the good, the bad and everything in between: struggling young mothers, husbands who pack their bags and leave in the middle of the night, wives looking back at their first marriage from the distance of their second.... Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from Lucia Berlin's remaining stories - a jewel box follow-up for her hungry fans.

Moll Robbins is a journalist in a rut. But she gets wind of a very exciting story: it concerns a small piece of celluloid, a pornographic film purportedly shot in a bunker in the climactic days of Berlin's fall - with Hitler as its star. One person claims to have access to this unique piece of Naziana; inevitably, more than one wants it. Unfortunately for Moll, in the black-market world of erotica, the currency is blackmail, torture and corruption, and no price is too high.

You can run from your past, but the truth will always find you. Luckiest Girl Alive is an intense, compulsive debut thriller, described by Reese Witherspoon as 'the kind of book that grabs you and doesn't let go'. Now a New York Times best seller and optioned for film by Reese Witherspoon and her production partner, Bruna Papandrea, in conjunction with Lionsgate Films. Her perfect life is a perfect lie....

For Oxford, the arrival of 27 American tourists is nothing out of the ordinary...until one of their number is found dead in Room 310 at the Randolph Hotel. It looks like a sudden and tragic accident. Only Chief Inspector Morse appears not to overlook the simultaneous theft of a jewel-encrusted antique from the victim's handbag. Then, two days later, a naked and battered corpse is dragged from the River Cherwell. A coincidence? Maybe. But this time Morse is determined to prove the link.

Smita, Giulia, Sarah: three lives, three continents, three women with nothing in common but nevertheless bound by a rare expression of courage...like three strands in a braid. Through the story of one woman’s hair, three women’s destinies are drawn together. Laetitia Colombani’s The Braid is the powerfully moving story of three women’s courage in the face of adversity.

In the heart of a languid July, eleven-year-old John Reddy Heart drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of Willowsville, New York. His mother, Dahlia Heart, a blackjack dealer, has brought her family east from Las Vegas to claim the rambling mansion left to her by a wealthy suitor. But it is John Reddy—already growing into a heartbreaking hybrid of James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Elvis Presley—who will claim the town itself.

يتناوب راويان على سرد هذه الرواية, الأول هو روائي يعجز عن انهاء روايته التي يكتبها, بعدما أخفق في دفع بطلته الى الانتحار. والثاني شاب مثقف وقارئ نهم, مصاب بمرض الاكتئاب, يسرد ايامه في السجن الذي رمى فيه بعد اتهامه بجريمة قتل هو برئ منها.

تقوم الرواية على ثنائية الحب والموت، اللذان يشكلان قطبي المعادلة القصصية في كافة نصوص مارغريت ويتنازعان دائماً. وفي هذه الرواية نرى الكثير من الشخصيات التي تعيش داخل أسوارها الذاتية مكرسة لحبٍ مستحيل، يعمل على إخراجها من هذه الأسوار. ولعل عبارة الحب المستحيل هي أكثر توافقاً مع عالم دوراس الملموس والمحسوس والعاطفي المتدفق. في هذا العمل نرى الحب، ونرى الموت أيضاً في صورة صيّادٍ يجري وراء ضحاياه. وتحتوي الرواية على خليطٍ من المشاعر والفلسفة والأفكار، والكثير من الألم والمعاناة والخوف متجسدةً في هذا العمل المتقن.

Los relatos que recoge este libros –todos inquietantes y cargados de significado- dan cuenta de personajes inocentes y fatales, pero, sobre todo, constituyen una búsqueda al fondo de la literatura. El conjunto, pues, es una muestra de la potencia que ya le ha dado al estilo de su autora un carácter distintivo.

Muchas voces hablan de Estrella González, pero no todas evocan la misma imagen de la niña de delantal cuadrillé que entraba al colegio de la mano de su padre militar. ¿Qué hace que sus compañeros sueñen una y otra vez con ella después de la dictadura? Esta historia, que se cuenta en el momento justo entre el sueño y la vigilia, revela el pasado que marcó a Chile.