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The neon lights of New York City flickered like stars in a velvet sky, casting a vibrant glow over the streets below. In the heart of the bustling metropolis, amidst the cacophony of honking horns and the distant hum of sirens, lay the emblem of Ethan Scott and Marcus Turner’s success—a nightclub called "Inferno." Its dazzling facade, ablaze with crimson and gold, promised nights of untamed revelry and escape from the ordinary.

Lucas will nichts als seine Ruhe in einer Welt, die ihn einfach nicht in Ruhe lässt. Eine Kurzgeschichte vom internationalen Bestsellerautor Fredrik Backman Videospiele, Wein und Pad Thai – das ist der perfekte Abend für Lucas. Andere Menschen? Muss nicht sein. Warum denn, wenn er auch alleine glücklich sein kann? Als der dreiköpfige Vorstand der Bewohnervertretung überraschend an seiner Tür klingelt und eine Inspektion seiner Bratpfanne verlangt, ist Lucas alles andere als begeistert. Doch Abwimmeln ist nicht.

كان كلَّما دخل منزلًا هجره أهله تسلَّل إليه الشعور ذاته، مزيجٌ من الرَّهبة والحزن تختلط بروائح مختلفة من العفونة والحليب الفاسد والطعام الذي تُركَ في المطبخ...

يسير المغني الإيطالي "طوني باغودا" في نابولي هائمًا على وجهه فهو يحبّ هذه الشوارع ويكرهها، يحبُّ الأزقة ويكرهها ،إنّه يكره الجميع ويكره نفسه، لا يستمتع بشيء سوى...

1938: Divya has made the long sea journey from India to England, employed as a nanny by a British family. But once they arrive, she is cruelly abandoned, with no means to return home. Afraid and alone, she faces prejudice and rejection… until she finds her way to an Irish-run boarding house on West India Dock Road and meets Jack, Charity and a host of unexpected friends.

Coco is having a hell of a month. She’s lost her boyfriend and her business, been forced to uproot her daughter to move back in with her parents in Paris, and now an infuriatingly handsome stranger is yelling at her for acting like a tourist… Right underneath the Eiffel Tower. Storming away from him – and swearing off men for life – she decides she’s going to take the first job that comes her way. Then, as if fate hears her, later that day she stumbles into a little bookshop – but not any old bookshop.

Tasha Price is the lead cocktail waitress at Club Daze in Atlanta, GA. One shift she finds herself in a deadly predicament; in the delicate space between life and death her late mother visits her with pressing information. In efforts to decode her mom's words, Tasha visits a slew of questionable professionals; money-hungry gurus, misguided hypnotists, psychics, and more.

Te afli în fața unui thriller irezistibil, pe care pur și simplu nu îl vei putea lăsa din mână. Așa cum te-ai aștepta de la orice poveste care poartă semnătura lui Musso. În rest, tot ceea ce ține de acest roman este 100% surprinzător. "Cine sunteți dumneavoastră și ce...

"Un día, asomado a una ventana de la casa de sus padres, junto a su profesor de hebreo, allí en la vieja Praga, fue indicando con el dedo, cuidadoso, despacio, los lugares de la ciudad que, como puntos cardinales —Norte, Sur, Este, Oeste—, delimitaban su mundo diminuto. Ahí, en la calle...

Detective Lola is heading back over the river from a rare night out when she spots a crowd of people looking over the parapet. Someone’s gone in. A young man called Cammy witnessed everything. He swears it’s the work of the Clyde Pusher, but is terrified of the police. The Clyde Pusher is the stuff of urban legend. A hooded figure who throws men into the river to drown. Eight victims in five years. But according to the police, the Pusher doesn’t exist. There are no reliable witnesses, nothing to link the victims.

Wenn das Licht des Tages stirbt und sich das Totenhemd der Nacht auf Pflastersteine und Asphaltstraßen herabsenkt, geht ein Raunen durch alte Ziegelmauern. Es ist die Zeit des Zwielichts, in welcher die Gebäude im Mondlicht zu träumen beginnen... Die schiefen Palazzi von Venedig flüstern einander längst vergessene Geheimnisse zu. In den verfallenen Häuserblocks von Berlin ertönt ein Wispern. Beide Städte erzählen dem Leser unheimliche Geschichten. Grotesk, bizarr, durchwoben von Schmerz und Angst.

No one should have a grudge against a meditation-loving yoga teacher, but my bank-robbing father’s associates seem to believe that I know where he hid his missing fortune... and they’ll do anything to get their hands on it. Gruff giant Kade Campbell is determined to protect me, but I don’t want him in the firing line. The rugged former special forces soldier may be a badass—and able to give me butterflies like nobody’s business—but he isn’t immune to bullets.

Celebrated stage actress Mona Zahid wakes up on Thanksgiving morning to the clamor of guests packed into her Manhattan apartment and to a wave of dread: her in-laws are lurking on the other side of the bedroom door; she’s still fighting with her husband; and in just a few weeks she will begin rehearsals as Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, the hardest role in theater. In an impulsive burst, Mona bounds out the door with the family dog in tow (“I forgot the parsley!” is her lame excuse) to find her estranged mentor, Milton Katz, who was recently forced out of the legendary theater company he founded.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

Francis, Mr. Frankie, decide regresar al lugar donde vivió las primeras cosas, su barrio. Se marchó de allí persiguiendo su particular sueño de rock'n'roll, que le llevó a acariciar con la punta de sus dedos una fama tóxica y efímera. Ahora Francis vuelve para dejar atrás la miseria y la...

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Dans le New York des années 1930, le fabuleux destin d'une jeune femme qui allait révolutionner l'univers de la beauté : Estée Lauder. Une épopée romanesque et féministe, un vrai bijou de lecture. New York, l'endroit parfait pour se faire oublier. C'est en tout cas l'espoir de la jeune Gloria qui fuit un scandale familial dévastateur. Prête à se réinventer, il ne lui manque plus qu'une nouvelle amie pour l'accompagner dans la ville de tous les possibles. C'est alors qu'elle va trouver sur sa route la très idéaliste Estée.

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David a la batería, Fran a la guitarra, Javi al bajo, tocan en bares de mala muerte mientras están en tratos con una multinacional para que financie su próximo disco. Sobreviven a base de curros esforzados, jugarse la piel en los atascos, o de la distanciada generosidad paterna. Con ellos...

"Ho trentacinque anni, un buon lavoro, un bello stipendio, un appartamento al quarantesimo piano e vivo nella città più desiderata del mondo. Eppure sento che dentro questo quadro di luci e movimento non riesco più a trovare la mia dimensione. In realtà non so neanche bene quale sia stato il momento esatto in cui ho smesso di provare fiducia in New York, e in me stesso. Ma questa città è così: quando inizi a credere che tutto scorra senza motivo, lei ti sorprende e ti spiazza ancora una volta." Il protagonista di questa storia ha perso quell'indefinitezza ed entusiasmo adolescenziale.