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Honey Santana is determined to set up her own tour business, paddling tourists around the Florida Everglades in ocean kayaks. The result is a kayaking trip from hell, and an unplanned overnight stay on Dismal Key, one of the Everglades' islands.

Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world. One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back, which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain. At the same time a wide hole appears outside his living room window, threatening the foundations of his house.

Enveloped in the dark inner kingdom of her schizophrenia, 16-year-old Deborah is haunted by private tormentors that isolate her from the outside world. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a mental hospital where she will spend the next three years battling to regain her sanity with the help of a gifted psychiatrist. As Deborah struggles to regain her sanity, the listener is inexorably drawn into her private suffering.

Brian has arrived at university with a stronger desire than the acquisition of knowledge: he's going to be a star of TV's hottest quiz, University Challenge. But his progress on 'The Challenge' is somewhat stymied by his growing desire for the beguiling Alice Harbison, struggling to make her mark as an actress. And as obstacles impede their affair, Brian becomes more and more convinced that only overwhelming success on the quiz show will win her.

Until Darren Booth moves in at number 1, Lowland Way, the neighbourhood is a suburban paradise. But soon after his arrival, disputes over issues like loud music and parking rights escalate all too quickly to public rows and threats of violence. Then, early one Saturday, a horrific crime shocks the street. As the police go house to house, the residents close ranks and everyone’s story is the same: Booth did it. But there’s a problem. The police don't agree with them.

Com seu humor ágil e cortante, Madalosso construiu um retrato afado das ambições, sonhos e relacionamentos nos dias de hoje. A protagonista de Tudo pode ser roubado trabalha como garçonete em um conhecido restaurante na região da Avenida Paulista. É nas horas vagas que ela acumula boa parte das suas economias,aproveitando encontros fortuitos nas casas de homens e mulheres aleatórios para roubar roupas de grife e objetos de valor. Até que um desconhecido a aborda no restaurante lhe oferecendo uma bolada para roubar um livro.

After more than 20 years of marriage, Fay and Steve are happy enough, though life's become routine and lacks excitement. Fay believes an open relationship could reignite the spark they've lost. But can sex ever just be sex? Steve eventually agrees to the idea of sleeping with other people, but first they must set some ground rules: no sex with friends, no telling the kids and a limit on how many times they can see the same person. Can their marriage survive non-monogamy—even if they have permission?

Tess ankommer til storbyen i sin søgen efter et liv, hun endnu ikke kan definere, men hun har et brændende ønske om at blive til nogen og høre til et sted. Hun får et eftertragtet job som tjener på en eksklusiv restaurant på Union Square og opdager, at hun træder ind i en verden med et stærkt opdelt hierarki. Hun er så grøn, at hun aldrig har smagt en østers og må nu lære de forskellige arter, de rigtige betegnelser for Bourgognevine og at værdsætte at spise terrine af svinehoved.

« Le 9 janvier 1993, Jean-Claude Romand a tué sa femme, ses enfants, ses parents, puis tenté, mais en vain, de se tuer lui-même. L'enquête a révélé qu'il n'était pas médecin comme il le prétendait et, chose plus difficile encore à croire, qu'il n'était rien d'autre. Il mentait depuis dix-huit ans, et ce mensonge ne recouvrait rien. Près d'être découvert, il a préféré supprimer ceux dont il ne pouvait supporter le regard. Il a été condamné à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité.

Nell’anno fatidico in cui il mondo intero sta cambiando, il 1989, due ragazzi della provincia italiana si incontrano su una pista da ballo: nasce un gemellaggio di carne, sudore e fasci di nervi. Un’amicizia fatta di meraviglia, di inevitabili miserie, di viaggi di non formazione alla volta di Amsterdam, Londra, Berlino, Thailandia. Non cercano identità, hanno solo bisogno di andare. A guidarli le onde della musica – di una musica nuova, artificiale, prepotentemente fisica. La storia di due ragazzi e di una generazione alla ricerca di un rito definitivo. Il club, la festa perfetta, il dj.

From the best-selling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother comes a superb book about family and secrets. Angela and her brother, Richard, have spent 20 years avoiding each other. Now, after the death of their mother, they bring their families together for a holiday in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games, and wet walks. But in the quiet and stillness of the valley, ghosts begin to rise up. The parents Richard thought he had. The parents Angela thought she had. Past and present lovers. Friends, enemies, victims, saviours.

Brida, a young Irish girl, has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom. She meets a wise man who dwells in a forest, who teaches her to trust in the goodness of the world, and a woman who teaches her how...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Anne Rice, this sensuously written spellbinding classic remains 'the most successful vampire story since Bram Stoker's Dracula' (The Times) In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life - the story of a vampire...

Now a major motion picture starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling, and directed by Lenny Abrahamson. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 'Sarah Waters's masterly novel is . . . gripping, confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining' Hilary Mantel After...

Zadie Smith's deeply funny, subversive and splendidly entertaining The Autograph Man is a whirlwind tour of celebrity and our fame-obsessed times. Following one Alex-Li Tandem - a twenty-something, Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion - it takes in...

Pothivelu Pandaram is known as a successful and God-fearing man about town–he has a loyal wife, three daughters, and ample money to pay for their dowries. However, it is an open secret that his success is fueled by a tawdry yet deeply profitable trade–for he owns a group of physically deformed beggars and places them outside various temples to make money for him. The beggars are mere "items" to Pandaram, hardly human, to be bought and sold like cattle.

Acostumbrada a evaluar las vidas de los demás en sus encrucijadas más complejas, Fiona Maye se encuentra de golpe con que su propia existencia no arroja el saldo que desearía: su irreprochable trayectoria como jueza del Tribunal Superior especializada en derecho de familia ha ido arrinconando la idea de formar una propia, y su marido, Jack, acaba de pedirle educadamente que le permita tener, al borde de la sesentena, una primera y última aventura: una de nombre Melanie.

“Beautiful, devastating and complex.” —Chicago Tribune The award-winning debut novel from Jennifer Haigh, author of BakerTowers, The Condition, and Faith, tells the story of Birdie, Joan,and Dinah, three women who marry the same charismatic, predatory, and enigmaticopportunist: Ken Kimble...

Da Tobias Horvath er 26 år, har han levet et årti som Sandor Lester, på flugt fra sin barndom og sin skæbne. Ingen kender hans historie, og når folk spørger ind til den, lyver han. Hans nye liv består af den samme endeløse rutine: Stå op, tage tøj på, tage bussen hen til den fabrik, han arbejder på, tage hjem til sit kærlighedsløse forhold til Yolande. Men han drømmer. Han drømmer om Line, den idealiserede version af den pige, han kendte som barn. Og en dag dukker Line op i hans nye land og konfronterer ham med både hans fortid og hans nutid.

Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie – the first step towards social acceptance by high school colleagues. But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night as she is forced to exercise her terrible gift on the town that mocks and loathes her...