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Netflix’s Inventing Anna and Hulu’s The Dropout meets Catch Me If You Can in this captivating novel about an ambitious young woman who gets trapped in a charismatic con artist’s scam. A Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Parade, New York Post, Shondaland, E!...

Una vieja factoría de la calle del Planeta, en el corazón de Gràcia, alberga un coworking con una singular fauna: Uwe es el hijo único de un industrial alemán que le ha dado "un año de gracia" para vivir la bohemia antes de hacerse cargo del negocio familiar. Maurici no para de diseñar nuevos e inverosímiles negocios que siempre están «a punto» de procurarle éxito. Vilma es una fotógrafa de misteriosos hábitos, como dormir dentro del coworking o desaparecer en una playa secreta. Gus es nómada digital y trabaja como lanzador de cursos online, acompañado de un ejército de figuras de Star Wars.

""It’s easy to see why this quick and endearing read was so popular in Korea and beyond; U.S. readers are in for a treat."" — Library Journal In this million-copy international bestseller from Korea, the owner of a corner store takes in an unhoused man who does a good deed, a kind soul whose...

For Bryce Derrickson, rejection is nothing new. He’s used to Broadway casting directors seeing his size and assuming he can’t be a graceful dancer. But getting dumped with no notice is a special kind of burn. At least his sweet dog Bobo still loves him. As if being left without warning isn’t bad enough, Bryce’s ex sublets their apartment without telling him, leaving him without a place to live. When his new ‘roommate’ turns out to be a stuffy, elbow-patches-on-blazer, permanent-frown-on-face professor, Bryce is furious. No way will he give up his bohemian pad without a fight.

Als bei der Zwangsräumung der Wohnung seiner Mutter durch eine Verwechslung alles von Wert in die Müllverbrennungsanlage wandert, bleibt dem Erzähler wortwörtlich nur der Abfall der eigenen Familiengeschichte. Wie hat es so weit kommen können? Der Erzähler blickt auf die Biografie seiner Familie: ein Stammbaum des Wahnsinns. Die Großmutter bipolar, zwölf Suizidversuche, der Großvater Stammkunde in Steinhof, die Mutter Alkoholikerin, der Vater depressiv.

Que contient l'armoire allemande qui trône en bonne place au cœur de la demeure corrézienne des Delalande ? C'est la question qui hante Alexandrine depuis son enfance. Jusqu'à ce jour de l'été 1979 où elle hérite de la fameuse armoire et surtout des secrets qu'elle recèle. Les carnets d'Hélène, sa mère, projettent Alexandrine aux heures fiévreuses de la Libération, après que cette femme singulière, volage et insouciante, s'est trouvée emportée par une passion scandaleuse. La découverte de cette part d'ombre, soudain révélée, va à jamais bouleverser son existence.

When all seems lost, hope remains...Val Murray has mislaid her most precious mementoes of the people she’s loved and lost. Can her family, the wonders of technology and a little divine intervention somehow mend her shattered heart? Sophie Smith had to take a rain check on a marriage proposal. Will her bid to turn back the clock lead her to her greatest love or yet another heartbreak?

Claude McKay’s most well-known Harlem Renaissance novel now in Penguin Classics A Penguin Classic Claude McKay’s first novel, Home to Harlem, was published in 1928 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay portrays Harlem post-WWI through two Black migrants to New York: Jake, a...

In una piccola strada di Parigi, percorrendo rue Bonaparte fino a scorgere la Senna e girando due volte l'angolo, si trova un luogo incantato: il Cinéma Paradis. È questo il regno di Alain Bonnard, l'appassionato e nostalgico proprietario del locale. Ed è qui che ogni mercoledì, al secondo spettacolo, va in scena "Les amours au Paradis", una rassegna dei migliori film d'amore del passato. In quelle sere il Cinéma Paradis è avvolto da una magia particolare.

Inspired by one of the first real-life female columnists at the New Yorker, this enticing historical mystery follows Freddie Archer as she solves crimes while reporting on the glamorous world of the rich and famous in 1920s Manhattan. This writer just found her next scoop . . . and it’s deadly...

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.

Kara McIntyre is supposed to be jetting off to her destination wedding in Hawaii. However, a last-minute hitch appears to have left her without a job, home and, more importantly, a fiancé. TV sensation Ollie Chiles and Kara always have each other’s backs. But when his wife goes viral in a compromising clinch with another man, Ollie must choose between supporting his best friend in her hour of need or going home to save his marriage.

A prophetic lost classic from interwar Germany, following a group of Berliners navigating economic turmoil and the rise of fascism, now translated into English for the first time Berlin in the 1920s is the largest city in Europe, a cultural mecca, and a political mess: a hedonistic Babylon...

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a...

Gory, sticky, creepy, with a dry humor, Maniac is an invitation into the 80's New York madness, which follows a disreputable man, Frank Zito... that we challenge you to meet!

Julianne hasst Überraschungen. Ihr Leben ist durchgeplant, jeder Tag bis ins kleinste Detail organisiert. Als ihr launischer Vater Jean nach einem Hausbrand bei ihr einzieht, gerät ihre perfekte Struktur aus dem Takt. Jean, der schon immer ein Freigeist war, bringt seine Rente mit Teleshopping durch, hört laut Hardrock im Wohnzimmer und legt sich mit den Nachbarn an.Doch hinter seinem exzentrischen Verhalten scheint mehr zu stecken. Julianne, die das Chaos nicht mehr ignorieren kann, spürt eine lähmende Sorge in ihrem Magen – die Diagnose Alzheimer steht wie ein Schatten zwischen ihnen.

Un viaggio in una Napoli inquieta e indimenticabile attraverso episodi al limite del paradossale che ci permettono di incontrare personaggi che resteranno per sempre nel nostro immaginario. "Una straordinaria discesa agli Inferi: nel regno della tenebra e delle ombre" per usare le parole di Pietro Citati. Una discesa attraverso corpi miseri e disperati nel buio profondo di una disparità intollerabile che ci svela i due volti di una città insieme meravigliosa e conturbante.

The anti-rom-com debut collection that took Nigeria by storm, featuring twelve “bewitching and revelatory” (The New York Times) and “ridiculously entertaining” (Booklist starred review) stories about the perils and pitfalls of dating men in Lagos, from a rising star of Nollywood...

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...

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