Titoli in Urbana

Una inolvidable historia de corte costumbrista en uno de los momentos más duros de la historia reciente de España. En Las Hurdes, a finales de los años cincuenta, campan el hambre, la tristeza y la desolación que ha engendrado la dictadura franquista. Nuestros personajes intentarán llevar la vida adelante a pesar del peso de los recuerdos y la esperanzas rotas.

Renata, uma ex-prostituta, abandona o marido rico que a traiu no Rio de Janeiro e se muda para um hotel barato no centro de São Paulo. Nesse hotel sua história se cruza com as de vários personagens. Um livro em que, segundo Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, "a ironia, o sarcasmo e o humor cortante saltam desde a primeira página".

When Jane’s partner goes missing she needs to find out if he’s in danger while also contending with the politics of a large international film festival: Hollywood power brokers, Russian oil speculators, Chinese propagandists, and a board chair who seemingly has it out for her.

Mouse and Sammy grew up as close as sisters in the notorious Edenwald Projects in the Bronx. Fighting to protect their territory and their reputation is a way of life, but the two loyal friends have goals. The girls have a passion for music and yearn to become famous someday. They perform as the rap group Vixen Chaos in local clubs providing the only relief from their violent inner city lives. When Mouse starts dating Rico, an up-and-coming drug dealer from the hood, he promises to finance their music career. Sammy is doubtful....

A whole decade has passed since Baldwin, Brenden, Bria, and Christopher last saw each other. In college, they were a close-knit circle of friends who called themselves The Group - until an unfortunate set of circumstances placed their friendship in jeopardy. They went their separate ways after graduation, never looking back and never expecting to see each other again. Now they are reunited in a small North Carolina town to attend the funeral of one of their own.

¿Cómo sería una larga serenata, mitad punk mitad free jazz, dedicada a Cartagena de Indias? La respuesta viene con estos cuentos de Pedro Badrán, que narra con estilo coloquial e hipnótico. Los personajes autóctonos como el Mágico Joe Domínguez, Maribel Delgado y los Valverde se alternan con recuerdos de las figuras del cine (Pontecorvo, Brando) que alguna vez visitaron la ciudad por su festival. De a poco se nos va formando una imagen perdurable del Hotel Bellavista y sus habitantes, y vamos accediendo a zonas en decadencia que extrañamente resplandecen.

"Fantasmas de la ciudad" es una colección de cuentos enmarañados y armoniosos, laberínticos y lógicos, tensos y a la vez reflexivos. Una reflexión permutada sobre la vida humana, sobre las vidas humanas, y sobre la geografía interior de las personas. Obsesiones, reencuentros, familias, no-lugares y hasta nuevas sociedades emergentes se dan cita en esta elegante antología.

Sammy and Mouse were once best friends with an up-and-coming career as the rap duo Vixen Chaos. When both of them got pregnant by the same man, however, things fell apart. Now Rico, their babies’ father, is in jail, and both women are new mothers with great responsibilities and plenty of problems.

Lauren, Jayda, Danielle, and Brenda are finishing their senior year of high school. They seem to have perfect lives, but these girls have more to worry about than finals and college applications.

With their wretched life in Liverpool behind them, Julie and Ralph Gold head to London for their next big break. Julie’s had enough of slumming it; she's ready to quit their life of crime and go legit. But it seems their reputation has beaten them to it, and the underworld is already bubbling with news of the their arrival. And as much as Julie tries to go straight, the more people underestimate them and treat them like fools. And there is only so much Julie can take.

Following one of the biggest busts in Atlanta’s history, DEA Agent Orlando “Trip” Spencer is called back to his hometown to help manage the fallout. The investigation becomes complicated when drug kingpins start turning up dead and weapons are being funneled into the county jail. It’s up to Trip to figure out the “who, what, and why” and put a stop to the slaughters taking place on the streets of the Dirty South. Unfortunately, what he uncovers hits a little too close to home.

En los años 90 Jordi Sierra i Fabra escribió una trilogía formada por tres novelas independientes para hablar de las relaciones humanas. Cada una de ellas presentaba el mismo esquema: seis personajes interactuando entre ellos, pero con voz y pensamientos propios intercalados en primera persona. De las tres solo se editó (con gran éxito) la primera: "Los espejos de la noche" (Amigos). El cierre de la editorial impidió la aparición de "Los vacíos de la soledad" (Desconocidos) y "Aguas azules para una batalla" (Familia), que ahora recuperamos 25 años después.

Down on her luck, former Wall Street dynamo Gabrielle Clayton agreed to move into Paul Reed’s ramshackle but affordable apartment on the condition that they keep strict personal boundaries. Then Gabrielle discovered she and Paul shared a good deal more than the rent - like one outrageous claw-foot bathtub located smack in the middle of the kitchen - and things started heating up!

What Pretty Girls Are Made Of breaks the lipstick seal of silence in this thinly veiled tell-all about what it’s like working in the cosmetic trenches. Roth’s roman-a-clef centers around the indefatigable Alison Kraft, who lands a new career in the cutthroat world of high-end makeup, ensnared under a new boss who could give even Miranda Priestly a run for her money.

In New York City, Joanna Marshall is an aspiring singer obsessed with success, determined to overcome the racism and sexism that stand in her way. Her childhood friends Maggie Ellersley and Peter Bye confront similar barriers but with different goals in mind: Maggie is focused on finding love; Peter, on becoming a surgeon. But as their interests overlap and their ambitions collide, the course of Joanna and Maggie’s lives seems destined to change forever. Written in response to the dominant stereotypes of the time, There Is Confusion paints a revelatory portrait....

In this eye-opening short story, a tech reporter’s mistake unites two women eight thousand miles apart. One in New Jersey, one in the Philippines. Same name: Sandra Guzman. Same job: content moderators for a mega social media website. What transpires between them is a friendship that changes their perceptions of each other’s privilege and challenges the power of the very industry they work for.

"I’m being followed,” she said. “I think he wants to kill me.” When a panicked young woman slips her hand into his in 1960s Chinatown, just before a knife-wielding stalker attacks, private eye Alex Novalis finds his cherished hard-boiled persona threatened by a romantic streak that has a habit of getting him into trouble. Sandy Smollett is triple trouble - a stripper who comes on like the girl next door and has a way of bending the truth to suit any occasion. Novalis finds her irresistible.

It's 1968, New York City is in a state of mayhem, and private eye Alex Novalis is flat broke. So he accepts a mundane missing persons gig from wealthy construction mogul Gabriel Kravitz, whose 18-year-old daughter, Lydia, has disappeared. The only lead is that Lydia had been sleeping with Jerry Pedrosian, a radical artist and known womanizer. But there are few clues, and everyone in Lydia's life seems to be hiding something... including her miniskirted best friend, Andrea Marshall, who Novalis is inconveniently attracted to.

For the first time in years, things are going well for Long Beach homicide detective Danny Beckett. He's closing cases with his partner, Jennifer Tanaka, and keeping a spare suit at the condo of his girlfriend, Julia Rice. But Danny's peace is shattered when he's called to investigate an apparent suicide - one that quickly reveals itself to be murder.

Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesn’t belong. Not with his mother’s new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his father’s wife. Not at school, where he’s an outcast. After his best friend moves away, Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat he’s tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building who’s introduced herself with a curious question: Have you seen Luis Velez?