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After the tragic unsolved murder of his beloved wife, Detective Ronald King never thought there’d be more to his life than work. But from the second he meets his city's captivating new mayor, Tabitha Knight, he’s drawn in by her lively political savvy, her warm, generous nature—and her determination to make the city work for everyone. Once he finishes investigating the toughest narcotics case he's ever faced, he’ll marry the woman he's grown to love—and support her as she makes a bound-to-be successful bid for governor . . .

Lies. Speculation. Deceit. Trust Ashley James went from being on top of the world to under it in less than eighteen minutes. With his back against the ropes, he had no choice but to isolate until further notice. When he returns to the ring, he’s a new man. A better man. A man that one woman had been praying for all along.

Empress reigns as 1930’s Chicago’s cunning Queen Pin, yet sultry Dulce Ella Monroe still longs for freedom from oppression her criminal empire provides. But when rivals threaten all that the influential and glamorous Empress built, her last hope of defense walks through the door in sharp-shooting ex-lover Snipes Creed, now a foe for hire bound to the enemy.

No one should have a grudge against a meditation-loving yoga teacher, but my bank-robbing father’s associates seem to believe that I know where he hid his missing fortune... and they’ll do anything to get their hands on it. Gruff giant Kade Campbell is determined to protect me, but I don’t want him in the firing line. The rugged former special forces soldier may be a badass—and able to give me butterflies like nobody’s business—but he isn’t immune to bullets.

Celebrated stage actress Mona Zahid wakes up on Thanksgiving morning to the clamor of guests packed into her Manhattan apartment and to a wave of dread: her in-laws are lurking on the other side of the bedroom door; she’s still fighting with her husband; and in just a few weeks she will begin rehearsals as Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, the hardest role in theater. In an impulsive burst, Mona bounds out the door with the family dog in tow to find her estranged mentor, Milton Katz, who was recently forced out of the legendary theater company he founded amid accusations of sexual misconduct.

In the finale, everything comes to a boil. Will Zeek’s luck finally run out? Did Priest murder Zoe, or has Zoe escaped death to live another day? With everything going on, Priest hasn’t had a moment to check in with his nieces. When he finds out that his niece has a baby with the enemy, will he turn a blind eye, or will he push Kiss out there with the wolves? Kiss witnessed her uncle shooting her baby’s father and doesn’t know how to get past everything. Does Kiss decide to cut her uncle, or does she choose family over everything?

Some might say that Khalil Patterson is living his best life. Kendrick Nance and Jack Dandridge are both dead, and he is now the boss. But he still has what’s left of Kojo's operation, which is being run by Shanice Hardaway, to worry about. Now that he is running things, it’s time to turn his attention and firepower to shutting her down and taking over her market.

When Crispin Daventry fled London’s most notorious gaming hell, the Underworld, with a broken heart and empty pockets, he wasn’t sure he would ever return. But after a spell of debauchery in Italy with his new friend Count Este, he believes he has finally cast aside all thoughts of romance and is ready to pay back his debts, seeking his own unique revenge on the venue that bankrupted him.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

Julio Perla Díaz nació en la Barceloneta a finales de los 70, y padece narcolepsia. Desde joven, su vida transcurre en las calles, jugando mientras es testigo de cómo se trapichea con la droga en cada esquina. Hasta que en 1989, un incidente en una manifestación contra el desalojo de los vecinos y chabolistas para adaptar el barrio a la "nueva Barcelona" previa a los JJOO, le cambia la vida convirtiéndolo en Julio el Perla, al tiempo que el entorno que conoció durante la infancia se trasforma.

Francis, Mr. Frankie, decide regresar al lugar donde vivió las primeras cosas, su barrio. Se marchó de allí persiguiendo su particular sueño de rock'n'roll, que le llevó a acariciar con la punta de sus dedos una fama tóxica y efímera. Ahora Francis vuelve para dejar atrás la miseria y la drogadicción. Pero su viejo barrio son ruinas por donde aún deambulan su padre, su medio hermana, su primera novia y algún que otro amigo. Francis quiere empezar de nuevo y hacer las cosas bien.

En esta novela, el escritor colombiano mantiene su imaginario personal de personajes incrustados en el lado oscuro de las calles y del cariño. Los parques, el asfalto, la violencia, el alcohol, el humo de los bares y los desolados páramos interiores son los escenarios donde los protagonistas buscan una redención que no están seguros de desear del todo. Mediante febriles monólogos interiores consigue que su literatura trascienda la mera descripción para convertirse en una experiencia orgánica.

"El verano en que cumplió quince años, Melanie descubrió que era de carne y hueso". Con este arranque empieza La juguetería mágica, una de las mejores y más célebres obras de Angela Carter: una novela iniciática sobre el despertar a los misterios del cuerpo y del alma y sobre el siempre violento descubrimiento de ese reino del caos y lo inesperado que es la vida. Una noche, Melanie camina por el jardín con el vestido de boda de su madre y, a la mañana siguiente, todo su mundo se ha hecho añicos. Así de simple, así de inconcebible.

Soy Madrid:frontera (y me dirijo a ti, lector): Sabes que hay gente a la que le han quitado la voz y ya solo les queda el llanto o el silencio. Tú mismo, en algún momento, has apretado los puños ante la injusticia y cargas sobre la espalda más peso del que se puede soportar. Seguro que has contemplado la desesperación ante ti, pero te niegan lo que has visto con tus propios ojos y te dicen que eso de lo que hablas no ha existido nunca.

"Süßes, sonst gibt's Saures!" Manchmal schätzen wir unsere eigene kleine Welt erst, wenn sie uns abhandenzukommen droht. Halloween 1996. In der Ära der Garagenbands und Skateboards weiß die Filmnärrin Bailey Wood nach dem Schulabschluss nicht wohin mit sich. Als plötzlich ein mysteriöser Junge in der Videothek auftaucht, geraten Zukunftssorgen in Vergessenheit.

"Ho trentacinque anni, un buon lavoro, un bello stipendio, un appartamento al quarantesimo piano e vivo nella città più desiderata del mondo. Eppure sento che dentro questo quadro di luci e movimento non riesco più a trovare la mia dimensione. In realtà non so neanche bene quale sia stato il momento esatto in cui ho smesso di provare fiducia in New York, e in me stesso. Ma questa città è così: quando inizi a credere che tutto scorra senza motivo, lei ti sorprende e ti spiazza ancora una volta." Il protagonista di questa storia ha perso quell'indefinitezza ed entusiasmo adolescenziale.

It’s October in Montreal, 2002, and winter is coming on fast. Past due on his first freelance gig and ensnared in lies to his family and friends, a graphic design student with a gambling addiction goes after the first job that promises a paycheck: dishwasher at the sophisticated La Trattoria. Though he feels out of place in the posh dining room, warned by the manager not to enter through the front and coolly assessed by the waitstaff in their tailored shirts, nothing could have prepared him for the tension and noise of the kitchen, or the dishpit’s clamor and steam.

A national best seller in both hardcover and paperback, the first book of the masterful Cairo Trilogy introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s.

Banned in America for almost 30 years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual expolits, Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature.

A compelling thriller introducing a driven young detective trying to prove herself in the LAPD. Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor.