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Siamo a Tel Aviv, in una palazzina borghese di tre piani. Tutto è tranquillo all'apparenza ma dietro le pareti le cose cambiano. In ognuno dei tre piani prende vita la storia di una famiglia che scivola attraverso le scale del condominio e passa da un appartamento all'altro. Tre storie che incarnano le tre istanze freudiane di Es, Io e Super Io, e ci raccontano personaggi intensi e indimenticabili che non si lasciano abbattere dalle proprie fragilità ma, anche quando sembra impossibile, si rialzano e ci sorprendono.

'His most accomplished and moving novel yet' Lisa Jewell 'Emotionally high-voltage' Metro From the author of The Man I Think I Know *** Strangers living worlds apart. Strangers with nothing in common. But it wasn't always that way... Kerry Hayes is a single mum, living on a tough south London...

"That's right! You are 100 percent guaranteed to succeed in any aspect of life when you never give up!" Percy Miller is living proof of the truth and power of that statement. He was born and raised in poverty, but today he's a successful multimillionaire. In this book, he shares the wealth wisdom that he has gained through his life's journey.

From the best-selling author of Bright Lights, Big City: a sexy, vibrant, cross-generational New York story--a literary and commercial triumph of the highest order. Even decades after their arrival, Corrine and Russell Calloway still feel as if they’re living the dream that drew them to New...

Nina does not have a drinking problem. She likes a drink, sure. But what 17-year-old doesn't? Nina's mum isn't so sure. But she's busy with her new husband and five-year-old Katie. Nina's almost an adult, after all. And if Nina sometimes wakes up with little memory of what happened the night before, then her friends are all too happy to fill in the blanks. Nina's drunken exploits are the stuff of college legend. But then one dark Sunday morning, even her friends can't help piece together Saturday night.

I sentimenti, il corpo, il sesso, la gelosia, l'onore, la morte, il sangue e l'esilio... Il riscatto di Napoli attraverso la formazione di un giovane orfano che cresce alla scuola di don Gaetano, diventando testimone dei giorni della rivolta della città alla fine dell'occupazione tedesca.

Yesterday John Fontanelli was just a pizza delivery guy in New York City. One day later, he's the richest man in the world. One trillion dollars - one million times one million - $1,000,000,000,000: more money than anyone could imagine. For generations the Vacchis, an old Italian family of lawyers and asset managers, had supervised the fortune as it grew over five hundred years, until one particular date that the benefactor had stipulated in his will.

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"Cine sunteți dumneavoastră și ce căutați la mine în casă?", întreabă o voce misterioasă. "Exact aceeași întrebare voiam să vă pun și eu", i se răspunde cu furie. Dintr-o întâmplare inexplicabilă, Madeleine și Gaspard au închiriat același apartament în Paris. Madeleine lucrase în brigada criminalistică din Manchester, apoi la New York. Locuiese și la Paris o vreme, iar aici se întorcea de fiecare dată când simțea nevoia să își oblojească rănile. Gaspard, un scriitor în căutarea inspirației, obișnuia să petreacă anual o lună în capitala Franței pentru a scrie o nouă piesă de teatru.

Guinea ve truncada su carrera como profesora en una universidad de Estados Unidos tras salir a la luz su relación con un alumno mucho más joven que ella. Huyendo del escándalo y en busca de una nueva vida llega al aeropuerto de Buenos Aires, donde descubre que se ha producido un apagón general.

Set in the punk-rock scene of the early 2000s and vibrating with the intense ache of bad choices and deep longing, a needle-sharp portrait of a young woman and how far she’ll go to find acceptance Kat is dying to be accepted by the North Carolina punks; she is totally desperate to seem cool...

The hit hopepunk sci-fi thriller starring Anya Chalotra and Chance Perdomo 'Pulse-pounding, breathtaking... like an HBO mini-series for the ear' LA Weekly When the cryptic Parallax puzzle appears online, it quickly becomes the world's most talked-about conundrum. A complex, multi-level cipher...

Traumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese “aunt”, he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. But the new life he is making has perils, whether the self-torture of addiction, the authoritarianism of a state locked in a colonial mindset, or the paradox of how to reunite his two closest friends.

Raphaëlle ne croit pas aux contes de fées. Même lorsque tout va bien, elle est persuadée que la tempête n’est jamais très loin. Pourtant, entre deux orages, son existence se remplit de rencontres amoureuses et de précieuses amitiés. Aux côtés de son père, qui sait trouver les mots justes et les silences pour lui faire du bien, la vie est douce. Et grâce à Chanterelle, sa complice exubérante au nom étrange, même les jours de pluie se transforment en fêtes.

Comment l’amour fonctionne-t-il dans un monde désenchanté comme le nôtre? Qu’est-ce qui peut attacher deux êtres l’un à l’autre? Quelle vérité se cache sous le désir qui les rapproche? Et quel mensonge? Magalie, quarante ans, est designer de cuisines. Elle vit avec Mathieu, le père de sa fille, un avocat qui la trompe, et qu’elle trompe en retour. À cause d’un lien de famille qui les rapproche tout à coup, elle fait la connaissance de Guillaume, policier de son métier et père célibataire.

For Brielle, survival isn’t just a fight—it’s a promise she’s made to herself, to find her way back to Lincoln. Taken by the prince of darkness, Brielle faces an existence in the depths of his dominion that is meant to crush all hope. But hope is the one thing she refuses to lose. With every grueling day, she discovers new strength and finds an unlikely ally who reminds her that surrender isn’t an option.

"Al mattino la superficie del fiume splende come se migliaia di fogli d'oro stropicciati scorressero sull'acqua." Sei bozzoli di preziosa seta esistenziale. Sei fili tesi dal destino. Sei racconti intorno al tempo, alla guarigione, al fato. Sei racconti tessuti in una Tokyo sfolgorante di luci notturne e pulsante di vita. Tutti feriti, chi da un trauma infantile, chi da un abbandono, chi da una storia d'amore tormentata, i protagonisti si sono chiusi in un guscio che li protegge ma insieme li separa dal mondo.

In late 2000, a young boy in Ahmedabad dreams of owning a business. To accommodate his friends' passion, he opens a cricket shop. However, nothing comes easily in a turbulent city. To realise their goals, they will have to face it all - religious politics, calamities, unacceptable love and, above all, their own mistakes. Will they make it? Can an individual's dreams overcome the nightmares of real life? Can we succeed despite mistakes?

L'inverno è alle porte, Kaede e Kataoka sono ritornati in Giappone, Shizukuishi ritrova il calore del tempo trascorso insieme e si sente finalmente un po' più a casa. A breve, tuttavia, dovrà spostarsi di nuovo: ha deciso di andare a vivere con Shin'chiro, e così si mettono alla ricerca di un posto dove abitare, tra appartamenti improbabili e agenti immobiliari dalle dubbie capacità. Le persone, però, non sempre sono ciò che sembrano, e questo vale anche per Shin'chiro.

Dr. Devlin Dane has had his sights set on my panties for months. But I've done a stellar job of fending him off. As Mercy Medical's most eligible bachelor, he has no problem in the panty-dropping department. He's tall, dark, and inked all over. I get the appeal; I'm not dead. I'm not stupid either. He's a walking heartbreak waiting to happen. But when Reese Dane comes crashing into my life - literally- the game suddenly changes. The two have an unstoppable pull like centrifugal force.