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Vernon Subutex sigue siendo el DJ gurú que consigue transportar al nirvana al más incrédulo de los mortales y el nexo de unión de una comunidad idealista que vive al margen de la sociedad, pero la inesperada muerte de uno de sus miembros hace peligrar la continuidad del grupo.

1962. Marlie Bloom keeps people at arm’s length. Though the aspiring fashion designer struggles to keep up with the New York City, she puts up with a stuffy fiancé who will provide for her broken family. But the world and its worries all stop spinning when she meets a rugged man over twice her age who sparks a burning primal attraction. Jack Watson has lost his sense of purpose since the death of his daughter and his subsequent divorce. So when a beautiful young woman relights the fire in his heart only to flee because of her engagement, he’s determined to win her over.

When Mariana Rivas arrives from Spain to work as an au pair in the Dublin home of the Mac Converys, Garda Inspector Fionn Mac Convery tries to seduce her. In the course of avoiding Fionn, Mariana experiences the mean streets of Dublin city and meets some of the characters who, in his ambitious rise in the police force, have been damaged by him.

It wasn't the plan to have some hot muscly cop rescue Jennifer Horowitz from her abusive husband, but it happened. Media mogul Lenny Horowitz's young fragile wife, Jennifer, is pursuing her dream of being a model. Although this is an opportunity of a lifetime, there are conditions attached. Any modeling contract Jennifer does, it must be solely for her husband's benefit. Deserted and desperate for a ride home after work, Jennifer finds herself at the mercy of a handsome, middle-aged, barrel-chested cop whose job was to watch over the recording location that evening.

A small university in Miami, Florida, is facing a rapid decline of incoming students. The social, athletic, and financial status of the school is dying. Dr. Hyatt, the school’s president, has his back against the wall. He sends his recruiter, Phillip Brown, to recruit a team of guys who have been banned from other schools to rob rival universities in Florida. Their objective is to revitalize his program and bring the other schools down.

Daddy’s girl Samantha Reynold hadn’t bargained on unexpectedly needing to step into her father’s shoes and take over the family casino business. Pampered and spoiled, Sam knows nothing about the rules of this glamorous but deadly new world. She has a lot to learn and even more to prove. But she won’t let her family down, especially when it looks like they could lose everything to their biggest rivals - the Stoker family.

Het mooiste boek over Barcelona dat ooit is geschreven - een historische klassieker. De stad der wonderen is een onvergetelijke kroniek over Barcelona tussen de twee wereldtentoonstellingen van 1888 en 1929. Een halve eeuw geschiedenis van een woelige stad, bevolkt door dagloners, gangsters en politici. Tegen deze achtergrond vertelt Eduardo Mendoza het verhaal van Onofre Bouvila, die als dertienjarige plattelandsjongen in Barcelona arriveert en door moord, verraad, chantage en list erin slaagt de rijkste en machtigste man van Spanje te worden.

Fresh out of university in Manchester and struggling to climb the career ladder in London, Flick’s devastated when her boyfriend dumps her with no warning and leaves her looking for a new place to live. Being forced into a houseshare with three complete strangers isn’t exactly how Flick saw things going. But the residents of Carlisle Avenue are quickly on hand to help her navigate the ups and downs of the life she’s currently winging. With their help, along with her big sister, Flick manages to focus her energy on ticking off items that she’s added to her ‘twenties list.’

This is the bizarre and shocking story of Marshall Daniels. The odd deaths of celebrities and public authorities have sparked widespread interest across the nation. When Marshall joins a secret blood society, he quickly ties the disappearance to his new group. Whether he's ready or not, the intelligent young man is propelled into a position of authority for which he is dreadfully unprepared. When he meets the love of his life, it forces him to make a hard decision.

Sie ist jung und erfolgreich, als Schwarze Frau hat sie es in den Olymp der Londoner Hochfinanz geschafft. Ihr Freund kommt aus dem alten Empire, aus betuchtem Hause. Doch als sie zu einer Gartenparty bei seiner Familie eingeladen wird, muss sie am eigenen Körper erfahren, dass erlittenes Unrecht tiefere Wurzeln geschlagen hat, als sie dachte. Ein außergewöhnlicher Roman, der die toxische Wirkung der Vergangenheit in unseren Worten und in unserem Besitz nachzeichnet. Natasha Brown macht das Drama der Gegenwart erfahrbar, das sich aus dem jahrhundertalten Erbe von Sexismus, Rassismus, Klassismus und Kolonialismus ergibt.

Martin, a market analyst, and Lily, a corporate attorney, have a life that many would envy - they share an expensive New York apartment with their twin toddlers, sample the delicacies of Manhattan's finest restaurants, and take Caribbean vacations. But when the couple's nanny announces her imminent departure, they panic: How will they ever find a replacement capable of managing their spirited boys? Enter Maeve, a young Irish emigre.

Jede Stadt hat eine Seele. Manche so alt wie die Mythen. Andere so jung und ungestüm wie Kinder. Und New York City? Hat gleich mehr als eine. Gerade erst erwacht und so unterschiedlich, wie das Leben in New York, müssen sich die Wächter der Stadt zusammenschließen, um sie vor dem Grauen zu schützen, das unter ihr lauert. Städte sind lebendig. Sagt man so. Doch das ist mehr als nur ein Sprichwort und wenn eine Stadt erwacht, sucht sie sich einen Avatar, der sie verkörpert. Doch im Fall von New York ist etwas schief gelaufen.

Susana Hernández ens presenta "Mai més", una novel·la que ens situa en dos barris multiculturals de Barcelona, la Mina i el Besòs, i se centra en els entramats socials i els focus de delinqüència. Com la mateixa autora explica, "en aquesta segona novel·la apareix la lluita dels personatges, la realitat dels narcopisos i el rebrot de l’heroïna" i se serveix de les pàgines del llibre per retratar aquest somni europeu dels immigrants, que al final es converteix en un malson.

The “Metro” of the title of this brilliant and mordant social comedy refers to the Moscow underground - the sparkling subway system that enchants its young hero, seven-year-old Sasha, on his first visit to Moscow. The vaulted ceilings and gleaming escalators appear to his young eyes as emblems of a higher life, of beauty, harmony, and hidden strength. Years later, Sasha escapes the jaws of a provincial ammunition factory and returns to Moscow as an aspiring actor, whereupon he enters quite another “Moscow underground”.

Siegfried Lenz' unvergleichlicher Stil in Kombination mit der angenehmen Stimme von Schauspielerin Hannelore Hoger macht dieses Hörbuch zu einem Genuss. Lenz beschreibt auf feinfühlige Art und Weise die Eigenarten der Bewohner seiner Wahlheimat Hamburg und blickt dabei auch hinter die Fassade der Hamburger Originale. Wer sich besonders hineinfühlen möchte, sollte diese Erzählung unbedingt während eines Stadtspaziergangs durch Hamburg hören.

London, 1946. Struggling to cope with the idea of raising her daughter in a hostile environment, African Caribbean nurse Hope makes the difficult decision to entrust her precious baby to her best friend, Eunice, to take back home to Antigua. But their plan goes disastrously wrong. In the decades that follow, all of them will witness - and play a part in - the seismic changes rocking the British Isles, as the old establishment crumbles, immigration builds and the country adjusts to the realities of a post-war, post-colonial future.

What is honor? What is loyalty? What is homelessness? What is madness? Maddy Stevenson thought she knew something of these questions - from movies and television, growing up in sheltered Newport Beach, California. Now a new graduate from Stanford and an intern at San Francisco’s leading daily newspaper, she has a chance encounter with a homeless Black man who believes he is the Masked Avenger - the defender of those on society’s fringes, and who wrestles with demons that Maddy can only guess at.

When Sara Foster runs away from home at 16, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that clings to her. Across the city, Emilie Dubois is in a holding pattern. In her seventh year and fifth major as an undergraduate, she yearns for the beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but is unable to commit.

Queen of Angels rollicks on the colorfully profane streets of 1970s New York amid comic romance, gangland violence, psychedelic drugs, and teenage heartbreak. Mick, the wild, drug-dealing son of a wealthy Irish surgeon, has fallen hard for Terri, a guilt-ridden 14-year-old from a poor Irish Catholic family. As a ruse to evade Terri's strict parents, the lovers join a production of Romeo and Juliet at Mick's school. They recruit Mick's brooding best friend Ferdinand and Terri's repressed older sister Helen, who are unexpectedly cast as Romeo and Juliet.

When the Seoul police inform Min that his girlfriend Yu-jin has taken her own life, he’s sure it can't be true. She was successful, ambitious, happy, just on the cusp of graduating from university and claiming the future she’d always dreamed of. Devastated by Yu-jin’s death, Min throws himself into finding out why she could have secretly wanted to die. Or did she? And the more he learns about her, the more he begins to doubt he ever really knew her at all.