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Una novela inolvidable ambientada en el Berlín de la primavera de 1939, la Cuba pre- y postrevolucionaria y el Nueva York después del 11 de septiembre. Antes de que todo se desmoronara, Hannah Rosenthal y sus padres tenían una vida encantadora. Su familia, una de las más distinguidas en los...

Barry Dávila, un cuarentón que viste como metalero de los años ochenta, tiene un plan: reunir a La Armada Invencible, el grupo de heavy y thrash con el que pudo haber triunfado si las peleas internas y una sociedad sorda ante la crudeza de su música no le hubieran cerrado el camino. Más de veinte años después de la disolución de la banda, Barry busca a sus viejos amigos, achacosos y frustrados, para tocar juntos otra vez y reivindicar ese pasado inconcluso.

This cruel king won’t stop until he breaks me. Dutch Cross, lead singer of The Kings, is a monster. Don’t let his amber eyes, chiseled jaw line, and crooning voice fool you. He prowls the hallways of Redwood Prep like he owns every inch. Brutal. Untouchable. Beast. And when his golden eyes meet mine, I know I’m his next prey. The monster wants me out of Redwood. But the fancy private school is my last chance at a better life for my sister. No one has ever dared to go against Dutch and his equally gorgeous brothers. I’m honored to be the first.

Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Fiction From the uthor of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age...

Glasgow, 1981. A cidade está morrendo. A pobreza, aumentando. A esperança, desaparecendo. Agnes Bain sempre esperou por mais. Ela sonhava com coisas grandiosas: uma casa com entrada particular, uma vida confortável. Quando seu segundo marido, um taxista mulherengo, sai de casa, ela e os três filhos se veem presos em uma cidade mineradora dizimada pela política da então primeira-ministra Margaret Thatcher. Enquanto Agnes se entrega cada vez mais ao álcool em busca de conforto, seus filhos tentam salvá-la. Porém, um a um, vão desistindo porque precisam salvar a si mesmos.

Maud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on the South Side of 1940s Chicago. Amidst the crumbling taverns and overgrown yards, she dreams: of New York, romance, her future. She admires dandelions, learns to drink coffee, falls in love, decorates her kitchenette, visits the Jungly Hovel, guts a chicken, buys hats, gives birth. But her lighter-skinned husband has dreams, too: of the Foxy Cats Club, other women, war. And the 'scraps of baffled hate'—a certain word from a saleswoman, that visit to the cinema, the cruelty of a department store Santa Claus—are always there.

Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men.

Ana Canción, de quince años, nunca soñó con mudarse a Estados Unidos, como lo hicieron las niñas con las que creció en el campo dominicano. Pero cuando Juan Ruiz propone y promete llevarla a la ciudad de Nueva York, ella tiene que decir que sí. No importa que tenga el doble de su edad, que no haya amor entre ellos. Su matrimonio es una oportunidad para que toda su familia unida pueda eventualmente emigrar.

Two decades before Zimbabwe would win independence and ended white minority rule, 13-year-old Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her education. On her shoulders rest the economic hopes of her parents, siblings and extended family, and within her burns the desire for independence. A timeless coming-of-age tale and a powerful exploration of cultural imperialism, Nervous Conditions charts Tambu's journey to personhood in a nation that is also emerging.

Utopia Avenue was hot en happening in 1967-1968. Het was de eigenzinnigste band ever, al heb je er nog nooit van gehoord. In de psychedelische dampen van Londen spinnen folkzangeres Elf Holloway, gitaarvirtuoos Jasper de Zoet, bluesbassist Dean en jazzdrummer Griff, een op vele vlakken onwaarschijnlijk viertal, goud uit hun muzikale samenwerking. Ruige tochten langs achterafzaaltjes, seks, drugs en roem in Soho, nieuwe drank en oude demonen, ups en downs: alles levert stof voor de songs op hun enige twee elpees.

A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses. Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job “a million girls would die for.” Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful...

A young Egyptian woman recounts her personal and political coming of age in this brilliant debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother’s phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom...

A hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin...

Dein Vater ein Taugenichts, dein Pflegevater ein Nazi, dein Stiefvater ein brutaler Säufer: Alem Grabovac beschreibt ein Leben, zu krass, um es sich auszudenken. Smilja schuftet als Gastarbeiterin in der Schokoladenfabrik, ihr Mann Emir, ein feierfreudiger Kleinganove, landet später im berüchtigten Gefängnis Goli Otok in Jugoslawien. Nach der Geburt ihres Sohnes Alem trifft Smilja eine folgenschwere Entscheidung: Ihr Baby wächst bei einer strengen deutschen Pflegefamilie mit sieben eigenen Kindern auf.

This is a classic.

When Gus Shepard’s quiet artistic life is upended by his mother’s death in 2003, he’s sent to the rural town of Livingston, Montana, to live with his estranged woodworking father. For Gus, it’s a place filled only with grief, painful childhood memories, and too much sawdust—until he meets Bridger Owens, a local skateboarder with a rebellious streak.

God and the Illusion of Time is the captivating journey of Abel, a young scientist seeking proof of the teachings of Christianity. His curiosity Transends blind faith, pushing him into a relentless pursuit to understand the relationship between science and the Bible. His story, an intriguing blend of faith, science, and the human spirit's unparalleled quest for truth, challenges the listener to question, seek, and understand, potentially bringing them closer to "Knowing the Mind of God".

Med ett nytt coolt jobb på Linköpings trendigaste PR-byrå, och en ny bästis som bjuder på solsemester när man är lite ledsen, kommer nog Mia att klara sig ganska bra när dottern ger sig ut i världen efter studenten. När Mia dessutom blir inbjuden på klassåterträff känner hon att det äntligen är dags att visa att hon inte är så misslyckad som alla tror. Visst att hon blev gravid som 16-åring, inte har en gymnasieexamen, aldrig har haft en egen bostad, är evighetssingel och jobbar som receptionist. Vem bryr sig om detaljerna, de är till för att förskönas.

When nine-year-old Oli’s brother Brooks takes his own life, she assumes she’ll never see him again. She assumes she’ll now be forced to rely on photographs and memories and little more. But then, deep in the woods on Halloween night, Brooks returns for one day. For twenty-four hours. For one thousand four hundred forty minutes. Against all odds, Oli is being given the gift of more time, and over the next fleeting hours, she must decide whether to create new memories, revel in cherished moments, or face a painful past and the fear of a future without Brooks.

An ancient song composed by King David’s chief musician Asaph, discovered by the Teutonic Crusaders to the Holy Land, returned to Germany, then divided into four fragments and hidden to prevent the fearsome powers of God unleashed if the Song is ever played … This is the legend pursued by the 15-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach and his schoolmate Georg Erdmann in 1700 as they walk the 250 miles from their small town of Ohrdruf to the northern city of Lüneburg to join the St. Michael’s School choir.