Titoli in Vita in città

In a city teeming with stories, how do lost souls find one another? It’s a question Meg Rhys doesn’t think she’s asking. Meg is a self-identified spinster librarian, satisfied with living with her cat, stacks of books, and her dead sister’s ghost in her New York City apartment. Then she becomes obsessed with an intriguing library patron and the haunted house he’s trying to research. The house has its own story to tell too, of love and war, of racism’s fallout and the ghost story that is gentrification, and of Brooklyn before it was Brooklyn.

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Priyanka Champaneri’s transcendent debut novel brings us inside India’s holy city of Banaras, where the manager of a death hostel shepherds the dying who seek the release of a good death, while his own past refuses to let him go.

Garrett Adams, an uptight behavioral psychology professor who refuses to embrace the 1960s, is in a slump. As he sits at a New York City bar watching the Yanks strike out, he knows he needs a change. At a Columbus Circle bookstore he meets a mysterious young woman, Daphne, who draws him into the turbulent and exciting world of Vietnam War protest politics and the music of Bob Dylan and the Beatles. He starts to emerge from the numbness and grief over his father’s death in World War II.

In Hysteria, we meet a young woman an hour into yet another alcohol-fueled, masochistic, sexual bender at her local bar. There is a new bartender working this time, one she hasn't seen before, but who can properly make a drink. He looks familiar, and as she is consumed by shame from her behavior the previous week - hooking up with her parents' colleague and her roommate's brother - she also becomes convinced that her Brooklyn bartender is actually Sigmund Freud. They embark on a relationship, and she is forced to confront her past.

Cornelius Sky is a doorman in a posh Fifth Avenue apartment building that houses New York City’s elite, including a former first lady whose husband was assassinated while in office. It is 1974, and New York City is heading toward a financial crisis. At work, Connie prides himself on his ability to buff a marble floor better than anyone, a talent that so far has kept him from being fired for his drinking.

In the middle of a water crisis, Money, a popular young boy throughout his neighborhood, has gotten himself into a deadly game of cat and mouse as he struggles to survive through the night when the city’s most notorious crime lord orders a hit on him. This story follows Money as he is on the run for his life desperately trying to find help in a lawless town.

In the hood, a snitch is the worst thing a person can possibly be. Rolling over on your best friend, who has been with you through thick and thin, hungry and full, freedom and state bids - that’s “the cruelest lie told in silence”. While Jovan experiences the fruits of the hustle during his partner’s first stint, Bilal humbly does his time like a true soldier, taking a manslaughter charge for his one true friend. When these two are finally reunited on the streets, a chain of events lands them both behind bars facing multiple charges.

Dinner is served - with a little something on the side. A Brooklyn wife is too sharp to allow her husband’s wandering eye to get the best of her in this witty short story of a dinner party with a delicious comeuppance. Eleanor and Jonathan have joined a few of their most irritating best friends for an intimate catered gathering. Through all the intellectual chatter, Eleanor’s on watch. Jonathan has already confessed to wanting an open marriage, and tonight, Eleanor has decided to accommodate him. Just not quite the way he expects.

La tua storia è narrata QUI... Tu sei il protagonista! Viaggerai insieme a ROMEO nei tondi della vita e nel Colosseo per vivere un'emozione unica, irripetibile. Troverai e perderai le zampe, conoscerai passanti e fermanti, parlerai con il Padre e incontrerai Armonia. Una storia mozzafiato che, traccia dopo traccia, ti coinvolgerà sempre di più. La storia di Romeo è la tua storia: vita, percorsi, amore, passione, tentazione, ricerca, avventura, sogni e realtà... scritta appositamente per te!

Twenty-five years after his high school graduation, David Halpert returns to a place that most people flee. But David is making his own escape - from his divorce and the death of his son. In Detroit David learns about the double shooting of his high school girlfriend, Natalie, and her black half-brother, Dirk. As David becomes involved with Natalie’s sister, he will discover that both he and his hometown have reason to hope.

Op kerstavond strandt Nina's trein tijdens een sneeuwstorm in Amsterdam. Ze kan geen kant op want ze kent niemand in de stad en alle hotels zijn volgeboekt. Maar dan komt er hulp uit onverwachte hoek. In de volle treincoupé biedt een oudere vrouw haar en een arrogante medereiziger onderdak aan. Tot haar eigen verbazing zitten ze niet veel later in de Rosse Buurt bij deze onbekende weldoenster aan tafel. Kunnen ze de vooroordelen over elkaar loslaten en de avond een positieve wending geven? Terwijl het buiten gestaag blijft sneeuwen, ontdekt Nina dat de wonderen de wereld nog niet uit zijn.

Nat, a middle-aged queer mother of two, feigns normalcy as she worries about her taciturn, loner son locked in his room. Her friend Maddy, a failed actress and fellow parent, frets over her missed opportunities and considers leaving her marriage. Next door, Ilya, a young construction worker, struggles to renovate a fixer-upper, but a buried stream threatens to flood the basement. An old woman eyes the street through the gap in her curtains. A lonely man wanders.

A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old ‘dog’ ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their transformed world, as they become divided, as each struggles with their new existence.

Sergio Corselli è un ventisettenne col pallino del gioco delle carte. Da quel mondo però è uscito e si porta dietro solo un soprannome, si è laureato, ha avviato una piccola azienda di consulenza editoriale e cerca di farsi strada nella metropoli che conta, nei salotti frequentati dalle teste pensanti dell'editoria. Scopre anche un inedito di Shakespeare, ma le cose vanno come vanno e allora ecco che ritornano gli amici del passato a provare a dare una mano a un tavolo e in una partita decisiva.

It's been eight months since Sandra lost her beloved husband, and she knows something has to change. Her son wants her to sell up her home and move into a retirement apartment, close to him. But she doesn't feel ready for that yet. Then she bumps into her old friend Patti, heading off to get her first tattoo. Patti explains she's beaten cancer and now she's ready to make every second count… And – sitting down for a cuppa and a slice of cake – the women land on the perfect idea – a bucket list!

Pushing Lucy Remington's buttons is my favorite pastime and has been since we were kids. Watching as her brilliant blue eyes darken in anger when I mockingly call her Princess—even though she is one—fills me with immense satisfaction. She's the last woman on Earth I would want to take as my wife, yet that's exactly what her grandfather—my King—asks of me.

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Milano, settembre 2018. L'eroina torna in città come non accadeva da decenni e invade le principali piazze di spaccio. Marta, una quarantenne disoccupata che vive alle case Aler del quartiere Corvetto, trova il cinquantenne Luciano morto di overdose, la sera in cui avrebbe dovuto dichiaragli il suo amore. La donna, testarda e coraggiosa, non crede all'evidenza dei fatti, indaga sulla morte dell'amico e ne scopre una vita nascosta.