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Alice ha scritto due romanzi di enorme successo, ma per trovare compagnia deve andare su Tinder. Eileen lavora per una rivista letteraria, però non ci paga l’affitto. Simon ama da sempre la stessa donna, ma da sempre ne frequenta altre. Felix passa in birreria il tempo libero dal lavoro di magazziniere, ma la sua è una fuga. Alice, Eileen, Simon e Felix si parlano, si fraintendono, si deludono e si amano e, mentre attraversano il cerchio di fuoco dei trent’anni, si chiedono se esista davvero, al di là, ancora, un mondo bello in cui sperare.

Frances è troppo intelligente per innamorarsi di un uomo sposato. O almeno cosí pensava prima di incontrare Nick. Bobbi, la sua ex amante, e Melissa, la moglie di Nick, sono troppo moderne e consapevoli per essere gelose. O almeno così pensavano. "Parlarne tra amici" si può leggere come una commedia romantica o un manifesto femminista. Si può leggere come un libro sul tradimento ai tempi di WhatsApp o su ciò che nei rapporti di coppia non cambia mai. Ma in qualsiasi modo si decida di leggerlo, "Parlarne tra amici" è un romanzo universale sui complicati capricci dell'amore.

Connell e Marianne frequentano la stessa scuola di Carricklea, un piccolo centro dell'Irlanda rurale appena fuori Sligo. A parte questo, non hanno niente in comune. Lei appartiene a una famiglia agiata e guasta che non le fa mancare nulla tranne i fondamenti dell'amore e del rispetto. Lui è il figlio di una donna pratica e premurosa che per mantenerlo fa la domestica in casa d'altri (quella della madre di Marianne). Nell'inventario di vantaggi e svantaggi, l'inferiorità economica di Connell è bilanciata sul piano sociale.

A parte il fatto di essere fratelli, Peter e Ivan Koubek sembrano avere poco in comune. Peter è un avvocato di Dublino sui trent'anni - affermato, abile e apparentemente irreprensibile. Ma, ora che gli è morto il padre, prende farmaci per dormire e si barcamena con fatica fra due relazioni con donne molto diverse: il primo, imperituro amore, Sylvia, e Naomi, una studentessa universitaria per cui la vita è un'unica lunga barzelletta. Ivan è un campione di scacchi ventiduenne. Si è sempre considerato uno sfigato, un paria, l'antitesi del suo disinvolto fratello maggiore.

IL LIBRO DEL FILM DI SUCCESSO DISPONIBILE SU PRIME VIDEO. Odio e amore si assomigliano in modo inquietante. Lucy Hutton ambisce all'ufficio migliore (e relativa promozione). Per questo è servizievole e accomodante, lavoratrice indefessa ma carina e gentile con chiunque. E per questo tutti la amano. Tutti tranne il freddo, efficiente, impeccabile e fastidiosamente attraente Joshua Templeman. E il sentimento è reciproco.

Tutti hanno una storia da raccontare... Janice di mestiere fa le pulizie nelle case della gente: ha un posto in prima fila per osservare, discreta, i loro amori, le preoccupazioni, le gioie e persino i segreti più inconfessabili. È come se, nel consegnarle le chiavi di casa per consentirle di entrare a pulire, le persone le affidassero anche i loro lati più privati e nascosti. E così Janice ha cominciato a collezionare storie. Vicende piccole e grandi di vita vissuta, che custodisce con cura. Sa guardare, ascoltare, cogliere ogni dettaglio.

From Sally Hepworth, the New York Times bestselling author of The Soulmate and The Good Sister, comes a twist-filled, darkly funny mystery about the two kinds of people no one ever expects to be murderers: little girls and old ladies. Meet Mad Mabel. Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is eighty-one years...

Billie B Brown is brave, brilliant and bold, and the star of her very own super-dooper series. This audio collection brings together five favourite Billie B Brown stories in one volume.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother.

Dawn Cross sits motionless in her recliner, her eyes staring sightlessly at the television screen. Death is no stranger to Silver Fern House…but when Detective Lauren Pengelly arrives at the scene, it’s clear she’s got a cold-blooded murder on her hands.

I've been waiting years for this moment. When Vivienne Campbell needs a housesitter, I make sure I'm the perfect candidate. Warm, friendly, highly recommended. Everything she's looking for. She has no idea who I really am. While she's away for the weekend, I have free rein of her perfect home, her perfect life. The life she doesn't deserve. Not after what she did. When she returns, I watch her confusion grow. Small incidents that make her question her own sanity. I'm there to comfort her, to be the friend she desperately needs.

If you suffer from unwanted, intrusive, frightening, or even disturbing thoughts, you might worry about what these thoughts mean about you. Thoughts can seem like messages - are they trying to tell you something? But the truth is that they are just thoughts, and don’t necessarily mean anything. Sane and good people have them. If you are someone who is plagued by thoughts you don’t want - thoughts that scare you, or thoughts you can’t tell anyone about - this book may change your life.

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life-changing begins. Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can't.

Motive. Means. Opportunity. Without proof of all three, the guilty can walk free. But even with an alibi, the innocent can still be condemned. For six award-winning, bestselling authors of psychological suspense, truth and lies weave together in a tangle of conflicting loyalties, hidden crimes, and dark secrets. Pull one thread, and there’s no telling what will unravel.

When an attempted murder is linked to a string of unsolved sexual attacks, Detective Chief Inspector Whitney Walker is incensed. All those women who still have sleepless nights because the man who terrorizes their dreams is still on the loose. Calling on forensic psychologist Dr Georgina Cavendish to help, they follow the clues and are alarmed to discover the victims all had one thing in common. Their birthdays were on the 29th February. The same date as a female officer on Whitney’s team.

In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the firm nonetheless saw its share price escalate from $35 to $89 in the first few minutes of trading. Coming at a time of economic recession and declining technological competitiveness in the United States, the event ignited a period of speculative frenzy over biotechnology.

Do you find yourself repeatedly checking your email for no reason, asking others for their opinions about something again and again, or lying awake at night overanalyzing and planning ahead? If so, you probably have a problem with compulsive reassurance seeking. The good news is that you can break free from this "reassurance trap" - this book will show you how. In this unique guide, you'll find proven-effective tips and tools using CBT to help you tolerate uncertainty, face specific worrying scenarios, and gradually reduce the compulsion to incessantly seek reassurance.

When the bodies of two teenage girls are discovered on a building site, DCI Whitney Walker knows she's on the hunt for a killer. The problem is the murders happened in 1980 and this is her first case with the new team. What makes it even tougher is that with budgetary restrictions in place, she only has two weeks to solve it. Once again, she enlists the help of forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish, but as she digs deeper into the past, she uncovers hidden truths that hurtle through the decades and into the present.

Cutting-edge research reveals that parents can play a huge role in helping toddlers and preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) connect with others and live up to their potential. This encouraging guide from the developers of a groundbreaking early intervention program provides doable, practical strategies you can use every day. Nearly all young kids - including those with ASD - have an amazing capacity to learn. Drs. Sally Rogers, Geraldine Dawson, and Laurie Vismara make it surprisingly simple to turn daily routines like breakfast or bath time into fun learning experiences.

Police officer Sebastian Clifford never planned on becoming a private investigator. But when a scandal leads to the disbandment of his London based special squad, he finds himself out of a job. That is, until his cousin calls on him to investigate her husband’s high-profile death, and prove that it wasn’t a suicide. Clifford’s reluctant to get involved, but the more he digs, the more evidence he finds. With his ability to remember everything he's ever seen, he's the perfect person to untangle the layers of deceit.