Titres dans Vie en ville

"- Det här som jag säger nu är mycket känsligt. Ni måste lova att inte sprida uppgifterna vidare." David, Johannes och Carina sitter på ett möte inför Västsaharakonferensen när de hör nyheten. Agenten Ali från den marockanska säkerhetstjänsten har hoppat av och tagit kontakt med Polisiaro. Han har ett viktigt avslöjande att förmedla på konferensen: han kan bevisa att högt uppsatta officerare i den marockanska säkerhetstjänsten organiserar och tjänar stora pengar på narkotikasmuggling. Men alla är inte lika entusiastiska över situationen.

"El millor lloc del món" transcorre entre la Barcelona grisa, lenta i temorosa dels anys seixanta, on queden restes d'un temps que s'acaba, i l'actualitat, envoltada de decisions ràpides i passions breus. Famílies d'abans, homes i dones d'ara, en diversos escenaris: Catalunya, Astúries i el sud de França. La Rosa, directora d'una oficina de la Caixa fa cinquanta anys practica els balls de saló i s'escapa, enlloc, amb autobús.

Júlia ha tornat a Barcelona per preparar un documental sobre Salvador Dalí, però les ombres del passat es despleguen davant seu amb una força insospitada. De Nova York a Barcelona per retrobar la passió i els secrets de Dalí Després de viure més de vint anys a Nova York, la Júlia ha decidit retornar a Barcelona. L'excusa és la preparació d'un documental sobre la vida de Salvador Dalí, però tan bon punt arriba, les ombres del passat i un torrent de sensacions noves es despleguen davant seu amb una força insospitada.

Cammie, a dancer in her thirties, has just landed her first part in a show since coming to New York City. Yet the tug of familial obligations and the guilt of what she sacrificed to be there weigh down her dancing feet. Cammie’s lover, Tom, an older piano player, came to the city as a young man in the 1980s with a story eerily in tune with Cammie’s own. Through their triumphs and failures, both learn the fleetness of glory, the sweetness of new love, and how a dream come true isn’t cherished until it’s passed.

Cuatro personajes inmersos en la apocalíptica modernidad de una gran urbe verán cómo se cruzan sus destinos. Un taxista viudo que no supera la pérdida de su mujer, un médico desencantado, una prostituta africana aferrada a la vida y una vieja científica protagonizan esta novela urbana, sobre un trasfondo vertiginoso de asesinos en serie, amas sadomasoquistas un tanto estrafalarias y pequeños prodigios.

1974. La Muna és una nena òrfena d’onze anys que treballa a Bombai i no pot oblidar la seva germana petita, de qui la van separar. La Sita té sis anys i, sense altres records que els dels orfenats de Nasik i Bombai, on ha crescut, somia tenir uns nous pares. En Solomon, un nen etíop de vuit anys, viu a Addis Abeba i descobreix que el seu món està canviant sense entendre per què. Les vides d’en Solomon, la Muna i la Sita coincidiran trenta anys després entre Addis Abeba, Mumbai i Barcelona, més enllà de destins i cultures, passats comuns i futurs imaginats.

Un cuento de hadas con el sabor de Amélie y la inocencia optimista de Cinema Paradiso. En él acompañamos al inolvidable Nico, un escritor en horas bajas que se muda a París a perseguir unos sueños que se empeñan en esquivarlos. Unos nuevos amigos y un misterioso dibujo abandonado por una chica en el metro le abrirán la puerta que lleva al más preciado de los tesoros: la felicidad.

Amado amo es una novela sobre el poder, pero un poder con minúsculas, cotidiano y perfectamente reconocible: el que ejercen las empresas, el que sufren los asalariados, un poder risible que se mide en metros de despacho o en el número de veces que el feje se ha parado a hablar contigo.

My reputation with women stinks. I'll admit I haven't always treated them with the respect they deserve. That's not to say I'm a bad guy or anything. What my sisters and cousin would call toxic, I prefer to think of as selfish. But I'm ready to change everything if it means I'll have a chance with the lovely, sweet, wounded Sofia Diaz—and her adorable son Mateo. They've been through a lot with her ex—and she's still dealing with him far more often than I'd like—but I'm prepared to be there for both of them, to do whatever it takes to make them happy.

Una inolvidable historia de corte costumbrista en uno de los momentos más duros de la historia reciente de España. En Las Hurdes, a finales de los años cincuenta, campan el hambre, la tristeza y la desolación que ha engendrado la dictadura franquista. Nuestros personajes intentarán llevar la vida adelante a pesar del peso de los recuerdos y la esperanzas rotas.

1812. In Bath and London, Jane Austen's characters are attending balls, and the Bridgerton family are making waves in Regency high society. But these are the grimy streets of Liverpool: a city where the extreme wealth of international commerce meets brothels and brawls, smugglers and secrecy; where both high and low society operate amidst revolutionary rumblings from France and the shadow of the recently abolished slave trade.

Con una trama tenue y la superposición de diálogos tan desbordantes como precisos, apenas once horas en la vida de seis personajes le bastaron a Fogwill para explorar, en esta novela publicada originalmente en 1998, una de las crisis más emblemáticas y contradictorias de la Argentina.

"Weißt du, Charly, im Leben muss man lieben und zwar sehr. Diejenigen, die den Schmerz fürchten, glauben nicht an das Leben." Der kleine Charly verliert in den berüchtigten Pariser Vorstädten seine Mutter. Mutig macht er sich auf die Suche nach ihr und nimmt die Hörerschaft mit auf eine Reise, die von Warmherzigkeit sowie Poesie geprägt ist und eine gänzlich neue Perspektive schafft.

Saul doesn’t get why he’s misunderstood. At his high-tech day job, he hides in the bathroom writing a novel about his dead grandfather and wonders why his boss wants to fire him. He tells his almost ex-wife about a blind date and wonders why she slams the door in his face. He aches with worry for his seven-year-old son, who seems happier living with his mom and her new man. When the blind date becomes a complicated relationship, and Saul’s blunders at work threaten the survival of the company, Saul has to wake up and confront his fears.

Did you know that O. Henry's real name, was William Syndey Porter? He had many pseudonyms but is most known as O. Henry. He wrote over 300 stories, and is known for playfully writing a twist at their end. Most of them are based in New York with characters being an average Joe. A census at the time, stated there were about four million individuals living in NYC at the time, and that is how this volume of short stories, received its name.

On the eve of the Occupy Wall Street protests, C is flat broke. Once a renowned textile artist, she’s now the sole proprietor of an arts supply store in Lower Manhattan. Divorced, alone, at loose ends, C is stuck with a struggling business, a stack of bills, a new erotic interest in her oldest girlfriend, and a persistent hallucination in the form of a rogue garden gnome with a pointed interest in systems collapse. Replaying recent history through a distorting glass, The Visitors charts the last days of a broken status quo as the path is cleared for something new.

Did you know that O. Henry's real name, was William Syndey Porter? He had many pseudonyms but is most known as O. Henry. He wrote over 300 stories, and is known for playfully writing a twist at their end. Most of them are based in New York with characters being an average Joe. A census at the time, stated there were about four million individuals living in NYC at the time, and that is how this volume of short stories, received its name.

Two people. One life-changing connection. ‘At times joyful and funny, at others heartbreaking, The Lifeline is an honest yet hopeful exploration of love, loneliness and the power of connection. Captivating, romantic and real – I loved it.’ Holly Miller ‘I'll read anything Tom Ellen...

The Vanderhaven family of Manhattan has it all: wealth, prestige, good looks, and a thriving business empire. But their seemingly perfect world is ripped apart when their younger daughter, eight-year-old Brenna, runs off after overhearing her parents arguing. Out on the streets, she quickly realizes shes lost. Even more frightening, Brenna soon realizes that a man is following her. Meanwhile, in a townhouse in Brooklyn, Callie Griffin is throwing a birthday party for her one-year-old son, Oliver. The joy of the day is ruined by her sister Lauren's too-short, drive-by appearance.

The Not Wives traces the lives of three women as they navigate the Occupy Wall Street movement and each other. Stevie is a nontenured professor and recently divorced single mom; her best friend, Mel, is a bartender, torn between her long-term girlfriend and her desire to explore polyamory; and Johanna is a homeless teenager trying to find her way in the world who bears shared witness to a tragedy that interlaces her life with Stevie’s.