Titres dans Vie urbaine

As Houston Lonestars’ enforcer, my job on the ice is simple—protect my team and break anyone who gets in our way.After a shoulder surgery sidelines me, I’m left with one goal: get healthy, get back on the ice, and fix a reputation that took a hit while I was benched.Enter Jett. She’s...

100万部読まれてほしい、史上最高のデブ小説！ 九段理江さん（小説家） この一年で読んだ小説の中で、一番好きかもしれない。 ラランド・ニシダさん（お笑い芸人） あなたは人に「デブ」と言えますか？ 欺瞞の薄皮をぴりりと剥ぎとる、 笑いと皮肉てんこ盛りの、傑作中編小説集！ 三國造船で働く安井は、職場の人たちを「サンゾウ」と一括りにし、直視せぬようやり過ごしてきた。労働組合からの要請を受け、改めて個々のサンゾウを観察し始めるが……。

Riotously funny and unexpectedly heartfelt, Boston Psychiatric is the story of a doctor who falls from the top of Boston’s medical elite into the controlled chaos of a struggling free clinic. Not long ago, Dr. Raj Malika’s future seemed all but guaranteed: He was the CEO of a billion-dollar pharmaceutical startup and winner of Boston’s “30 Hot Doctors Under 30.” Then came the trial that destroyed his career. Now he is a parolee with something to prove, assigned community service at Boston Psychiatric, a free clinic barely holding itself together.

MINE (20) zieht nach Berlin und kann die Wohnung einer Freundin übernehmen. Das ist nicht legal, und schon bald fliegt sie auf und verliert die Wohnung. Mine, die als Postzustellerin jobbt, um Geld für ein Studium anzusparen, versucht zuerst, die Nächte in Bars, Bussen oder S-Bahnen zu...

Wasn’t that the sign of a good time, a shattered glass after a party, a broken plate during a busy service? For fans of Before Sunset and Sweetbitter, the story of a restaurant hostess over a hot Parisian summer as she slips into an emotional affair with a regular—a famous, aging...

Parma, 1922. Anita non è una moglie. Non è una madre come si conviene. Non ha un uomo, né una casa vera. Per il borgo è solo la Bórda, una puttana da evitare di giorno e cercare di notte. Ma Anita è molto di più: è una sopravvissuta, una mamma feroce e amorevole che farebbe qualunque...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Random House presents the audiobook edition of Dead Men's Trousers by Irvine Welsh, read by Tam Dean Burn. Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless...

Als der Australier Lindsay mit falschen Papieren in Bombay strandet, hat er einen spektakulären Ausbruch aus einem Hochsicherheitsgefängnis hinter sich und ist auf der Flucht vor Interpol. Ohne Sprachkenntnisse und Kontakte ist das Überleben in der chaotischen Metropole jedoch schwer. Zu seinem Glück begegnet Lindsay dem jungen Inder Prabaker, der in den Slums lebt und ihn unter seine Fittiche nimmt.

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.

“An unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair” (USA Today), the classic novel by Richard Price, the bestselling author of Lush Life and a writer on The Wire—now with a new introduction by the author. Rocco Klein, a veteran homicide detective in a city across the river from...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, BROUGHT TO LIFE BY NARRATOR DIANE GUERRERO! “This was a fun, stay-up-late-to-finish read! Elle and Parker have chemistry from the jump, but a combination of forced proximity and her hatred of him is fuel for witty banter, a long, slow burn and plenty of...

'You know you're in the presence of an expert when you read The Siege. A gripping debut novel.' Jeffrey Archer Nine hostages. Ten hours. One chance to save them all. Lee James Connor has found his purpose in life: to follow the teachings of far-right extremist leader, Nicholas Farmer. So when...

Time has started to move faster, with three years having passed in the blink of an eye. Jamie has used the time well, managing a gut renovation on a Victorian charmer just a block away. Ryan’s been chipping away at her dissertation. Not exactly the path she thought she’d be on, but she’s finally come to accept that she’s a happier person when she lets life happen. But even a laid-back Ryan is not a Ryan without plans, and she’s been nipping at Jamie’s heels on a routine basis, certain now is the time to start their family.

Alex Bleach, ángel caído del rock francés, ha muerto de una sobredosis en la bañera de un hotel. Toda una desgracia para sus fans, pero sobre todo para Vernon Subutex, antiguo vendedor de discos cincuentón que aún conserva el magnetismo de antaño. Bleach no era un simple amigo, era la persona que le pagaba el alquiler, y su muerte ha arrojado a Vernon a la precariedad. Sin trabajo, sin dinero, sin familia y sin techo, la vida de Vernon parece abocada a una espiral de desgracias. Solo le quedan las filmaciones que realizó el propio Bleach y que dejó en su apartamento a modo de testamento.

Vacillating between a desire to get high and a yearning for a substance-free life, she finds herself alternating between cocaine and yoga, dependence and freedom. Will she be able to let go of her self-abuse and find sobriety one day, and one breath, at a time? An addict who once disappeared into crack dens, she now seeks solace at yoga studios. As Jessica attempts to create a path to recovery “on the mat” and in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous, she grapples with one unanswerable question: Is recovery worth it?

In Scarborough, a low-income urban neighborhood, three kids struggle to rise above poverty, abuse, and a system that consistently fails them. The adults in their lives either rise to the occasion or fall by the wayside; together, they make up a troubled yet inspired community that refuses to be undone.

"Paura alla Scala" fu pubblicato nel 1949, dopo il successo de Il deserto dei Tartari e I sette messaggeri. Nelle venticinque storie che compongono la raccolta si dispongono, con esiti letterari altissimi, i grandi temi della narrativa dello scrittore bellunese: il senso di solitudine di fronte alla vastità e all'inaccessibilità del cosmo; l'attesa di qualcosa che rompa l'incanto della mediocrità cui ci sentiamo fissati; l'impressione che esista un destino più forte degli uomini, che pure tanto si affannano per poi scoprire quanto sono modesti rispetto alle loro presunzioni.

Harry Gelbs Rohstoff sind Opium auf einem Dach in Istanbul und LSD in einer Kommune in Berlin, sind Heroin in einer Göttinger Mansarde und unzählige Biere in Frankfurts Kneipen - vor allem aber ist sein Rohstoff das Schreiben. Rasant, brutal ehrlich und witzig erzählt Fausers Alter Ego von einer gefährlichen wie gefährdeten Jugend und von einem Mann, der weder als Nachtwächter noch als Flughafenpacker vergisst, was er sein will: Schriftsteller.

From the author of GOSSIP GIRL comes this funny, fresh story about four messed-up families trying to hold it together - and hold on to each other - while their lives go up in flames... ----- In the eclectic Brooklyn neighbourhood of Cobble Hill, the lives of four married couples and their...

A "glorious, humane novel" (The Observer)about the Egyptian revolution, taking us inside the battle raging between those in power and those prepared to lay down their lives in the defense of freedom—this globally-acclaimed narrative from one of the foremost writers in the Arab world is still...