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大手自動車メーカーのエリート社員・君嶋隼人は、横浜工場の総務部長に左遷させられ、ラグビー部アストロズのゼネラルマネージャーを兼務することに。

Após ser atacada por um urso ao pé de um vulcão na Sibéria, região onde realizava pesquisas sobre o povo even, Nastassja Martin luta por sua sobrevivência, enquanto passa por internações em hospitais da Rússia e da França. Neste livro, misto de relato etnográfico e autobiografia, a antropóloga francesa reflete sobre esse acontecimento, no qual, segundo ela própria, "um urso e uma mulher se encontram e as fronteiras entre os mundos implodem".

Un padre ha piantato due alberi davanti alla sua casa, uno per ogni figlio. Il primo, un larice, è Luigi, duro e fragile, che in trentasette anni non se n'è mai andato dalla valle. Lui e Betta si sono innamorati facendo il bagno nelle pozze del fiume, tra le betulle bianche: ora non succede piú cosí di frequente, ma aspettano una bambina e nell'aria si sente il profumo di un nuovo inizio. Lui ha appena accettato un lavoro da forestale, lei viene dalla città e legge Karen Blixen. L'altro albero è un abete: Alfredo è il figlio minore, ombroso e resistente al gelo, irrequieto e attaccabrighe.

Vírgenes y toxicómanos es una de las novelas más desconcertantes y misteriosas escritas por Mario Mendoza. Anton Echeverry, un padre ejemplar y un profesional comprometido con la defensa de los derechos humanos, sufre una crisis profunda tras la muerte de su esposa en extrañas circunstancias...

Con una energía y un dolor latentes, como si no hubieran transcurrido veinticinco años desde la muerte de su hermano, el narrador recuerda cómo fue crecer en Aranjuez, su barrio, en la turbulenta Medellín de finales de los años ochenta. Acorralados por la pobreza, el tedio y la desesperanza, los adolescentes de la cuadra no tenían otra alternativa que la violencia: para ser alguien debían empuñar un arma, sin importarles que a la vuelta los esperara, inevitablemente, la muerte.

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's 'research' becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections?

ドラマ化（TBS日曜劇場）で大人気のシリーズ第４弾！　唐木田役の俳優・谷田歩さんによる朗読版！　ついにトランスミッションの開発に乗り出した佃製作所。ライバル企業と火花を散らす中、佃社長は帝国重工・財前の仲介により、旧友・野木教授と思わぬ再会を果たす。準天頂衛星「ヤタガラス」が導く壮大な物語は、どのような結末を迎えるのか――!?

Mestervaerk fra en af Canadas store forfattere. Den store katastrofe indtraeffer, og naesten alt menneskeligt liv udryddes. To kvinder, Ren, en ung natklubdanser, og Toby, som tidligere har vaeret medlem af sekten Guds Gartnere, er blandt de få, som overlever i en verden, hvor man ikke kan stole på nogen eller noget - ikke engang dyrelivet.

Tony Webster ha alle spalle un'esistenza ordinaria, al riparo dalle emozioni e da qualsiasi stravaganza, un discreto rapporto con la ex moglie e con la figlia, e si avvia a una tranquilla vecchiaia. Ma a scompigliare la sua vita arrivano 500 sterline e il diario di Adrian, brillante compagno d'università morto suicida.

El insigne autor frances Andre Maurois en esta obra, en el estilo ameno que lo caracteriza, plantea unas reglas basicas de vida, para que uno pueda desarrollarla con serenidad, pueda pensar con acierto y logica y pueda envejecer con dignidad. Vivir es un arte, dice el autor y como todo arte hay tecnicas que permiten vivir la vida exitosamente y con acierto.

On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man with whom she was having an affair. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected and the story spirals into something utterly raw and hilarious.

Glorious short stories from international bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, in a collection written especially for World Book Day. There are times when ladies must use all their wisdom and good sense to face life's problems and mysteries. Mma Ramotswe, owner of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, keeps her wits about her as she looks into why the country's star goalkeeper isn't saving goals.

When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband.... In 1960, Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident with no memory. And then, when she returns home, she uncovers a hidden letter, and begins to remember the lover she was willing to risk everything for.

Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling-actor husband, Guy, move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and only elderly residents. Neighbours Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome them; despite Rosemary's reservations about their eccentricity and the weird noises that she keeps hearing, her husband starts spending time with them.

Als der kleine Rémi im französischen Ort Beauval verschwindet, stehen alle unter Schock. Eine groß angelegte Suchaktion wird gestartet, bei der vor allem der angrenzende Wald durchkämmt wird. Doch am dritten Tag muss die Suche wegen eines Jahrhundertsturms abgebrochen werden. Während dieser drei Tage lebt der zwölfjährige Antoine mit der unerträglichen Angst, entdeckt zu werden. Denn nur er allein weiß, was in jenen Stunden wirklich geschah.

Brought to you by Penguin. Annie's put fifteen years into safe, slightly obsessive Duncan, and now she's like her money back, please. It's time to move on. But she lives in Gooleness, the north's answer to a question nobody asked. Is she really going to find real, proper...

Cosa sta succedendo a Sasha? A trentatré anni ha un ottimo lavoro, almeno sulla carta, che però le toglie tutte le energie. Si sente terribilmente stanca, non frequenta più gli amici, di amore e sesso non vuole neanche sentir parlare, ha attacchi di panico e prova un senso di vuoto e di profondo disorientamento. In poche parole, non ce la fa più. È esaurita. Così un giorno, di punto in bianco, scappa a gambe levate dal suo ufficio determinata a non tornare indietro. Incoraggiata da sua madre e piena di buoni propositi, decide di partire per cercare di riprendersi dal burnout.

You learned a lot and self-taught in Spanish, but how did you practice writing? I understand Writing skills are harder to develop and it takes a lot of time.

Lauréat du Booker Prize 2025 On sent en refermant ce roman grandiose que quelque chose d'important est arrivé à la littérature. Elle Impressionnant.Le Figaro Grandiose. L'évènement de cet hiver. Elle Dès les premières pages, on est sûr de tenir entre ses mains un grand livre. Les Echos...

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