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Mark Renton has it all: He's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s.Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control and he succumbs to the defeatism which has taken hold in Edinburgh's grimmer areas.

A warm, feel-good novel about the importance of finding a place where you belong - perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy. Local librarian Hanna Casey is wondering where it all went wrong.... Driving her mobile library van through Finfarran's farms and villages, she tries not to think of the sophisticated London life she abandoned when she left her cheating husband. Or that she's now stuck in her crotchety mum's spare bedroom.

As a young girl, Beryl Markham was brought to Kenya from Britain by parents dreaming of a new life. For her mother the dream quickly turned sour, and she returned home; Beryl was brought up by her father, who switched between indulgence and heavy-handed authority, allowing her first to run wild on their farm, then incarcerating her in the classroom. The scourge of governesses and a serial absconder from boarding school, by the age of 16 Beryl had been catapulted into a disastrous marriage.

Pietro è un ragazzino di città, solitario e un po' scontroso. La madre lavora in un consultorio di periferia, e farsi carico degli altri è il suo talento. Il padre è un chimico, un uomo ombroso e affascinante, che torna a casa ogni sera dal lavoro carico di rabbia. I genitori di Pietro sono uniti da una passione comune, fondativa: in montagna si sono conosciuti, innamorati, si sono addirittura sposati ai piedi delle Tre Cime di Lavaredo.

Eve Levine - half-demon, black witch and devoted mother - has been dead for three years. She has a great house, an interesting love life and can't be killed again - which comes in handy when you’ve made as many enemies as Eve. Yes, the afterlife isn’t too bad - all she needs to do is find a way to communicate with her daughter Savannah and she’ll be happy. But fate - or more exactly, the Fates - have other plans. Eve owes them a favour, and they’ve just called it in. An evil spirit called the Nix has escaped from hell.

Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. But Flora is not like other bees. Despite her ugliness she has talents that are not typical of her kin. While mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed, Flora is removed from sanitation duty and is allowed to feed the newborns, before becoming a forager, collecting pollen on the wing. She also finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum, where she discovers secrets both sublime and ominous.

Istanbul, 1999. Nach dreißig Jahren in Deutschland erfüllt sich Hüseyin seinen Traum: Eine eigene Wohnung in Istanbul. Doch am Tag des Einzugs stirbt er an einem Herzinfarkt. Als seine Frau und die vier erwachsenen Kinder aus Deutschland zur Beerdigung anreisen, kommen jahrzehntelang verschwiegene Geheimnisse und unverheilte Wunden ans Licht. Vielschichtig und mutig spürt "Dschinns" der Frage nach, was Familie ausmacht. Können wir die Wahrheit ertragen? Oder wird sie am Ende alles zum Einsturz bringen?

Paul has been led into a life of crime by his schoolyard protector, Daniel - but one night, what started as petty theft escalates fatally. Now, at 19, Paul must bear witness against his friend to avoid imprisonment. Louisa has her own dark secrets. Having fled from them many years ago, she now spends her days steeped in history, renovating the grounds of a crumbling Elizabethan mansion. But her fragile peace is shattered when she meets Paul....

Christmas is approaching, but the mood on Peppercorn Street is anything but jolly. Claire is convinced her stalker ex will catch up with her and her young daughter, and Luke is finding that living with his estranged teenage daughter brings its own problems. When a road accident brings them together, Luke impulsively offers them shelter in his home. Will this Christmas give them the best present of all: a new family? Or will Claire’s ex again cause trouble?

In Paris, in Washington, and in Greece in a fabulous villa, an innocent American becomes a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal. She is Catherine Douglas, a woman caught in a web of four lives intertwined by passion as her handsome husband pursues an incredibly beautiful film star...and as Constantin Demeris, a legendary Greek tycoon, tightens the strands that control them all.

本屋大賞4年連続ノミネート！今最注目の著者が踏み出す、新たなる一歩とは――。幸福度最高値の傑作小説！〈STORY〉ある3月の週末、SNS上で「人魚が逃げた」という言葉がトレンド入りした。

大ヒット『猫を処方いたします。』著者の最新書下ろし小説！どこ行くの？ボクも連れてって。

“La prima frase di un romanzo deve contenere un po’ dell’energia di un grido istintivo che provoca una valanga… Deve essere una scintilla che genera una reazione a catena… Ecco il motivo per cui la prima frase non è mai innocente. Essa contiene in sé, in germe, l’intera storia, l’intero conflitto.”
È così che inizia questo romanzo di Matei Vișniec.

Gli abitanti di Edrevia sono divisi in clan, e ognuno di loro abita in una zona ben precisa: le alture dei Gurra, la pianura dei Dorsoduro, la valle dei Cronaca, le colline dei Guizza e dei Terranegra. È una società in pace, quella degli alberi, con le sue assemblee moderate e intelligenti, i suoi tempi millenari, i suoi rituali e i suoi continui scambi d'informazioni attraverso le radici.

Sumérgete en un viaje poético a través de los altibajos del amor con Contigo, sin ti y después de ti. Este cautivador poemario explora la esencia de la primera experiencia amorosa: la magia de enamorarse, la tristeza de la pérdida y el renacer en la superación. Desde versos que evocan la dulzura del primer amor hasta la profunda melancolía de un desamor inesperado, cada poema revela la vulnerabilidad del corazón humano. La voz lírica se transforma, dejando atrás la añoranza para abrazar la promesa de un amor incondicional que, aunque no siempre está presente, perdura en el tiempo.

Reedición de este libro hilarante de Ángel Sanchidirán. Luisi es una mujer de mediana edad con una vida sexual monótona y aburrida. Hasta que un día, en clases de Zumba, su amiga Marce le dice que se lea el libro ese de los azotes que ha salido nuevo. A partir de ahí, Luisi intentará poner en práctica las fantasías de la novela con su marido Manolo. ¿Qué podría salir mal? Obviamente todo. 50 sombras de Luisi, el fenómeno literario con el que ya se han tronchado de risa más de 30.000 lectores (y dentro de poco tú también).

Giorgio, 44 anni, di mestiere fa l'agronomo ed è divorziato. L’estate che incombe su Torino gli porta una grossa preoccupazione: dovrà trascorrere due mesi con il figlio Emanuele, un adolescente affetto da una leggera forma di autismo. Un pomeriggio, quando le cose si complicano, nella mansarda sopra il loro appartamento arriva Agata, una modella con una personalità “particolare” e le certezze di Giorgio vanno a farsi un giro.

As plain-clothes men go, Dangerous Davies looks like a non-starter. The small fry of petty larceny and minor disturbances in the backwaters of north-west London are his daily round. His philosophising Welsh drinking companion Mod, his outsized and unruly dog Kitty, his quarrels with his landlady Mrs Fulljames - none of these bodes well for the efficient solving of crimes and the outwitting of villainy. But Davies is encouraged by his beautiful friend, Jemma, and every so often he stumbles upon something really big.

Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a career in New York. Now a pair of personal calamities has driven her back to the city of her youth and into the arms of her friend, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, a gardener happily ensconced with his much-younger husband. Mary Ann finds refuge in the couple's backyard cottage, where, at the unnerving age of 57, she licks her wounds and takes stock of her mistakes.

In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human experience - the need for an interior, spiritual life, for some connections to the world in which we live, and for purity of vision.