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Nobody rides for free.Not even a talented opera singer . . .My initial encounter with the diva had been on a Hollywood Blvd bus in the mid-70s. I was sitting in the middle somewhere on my way to another nothing job interview that I doubted I had a chance to land. Nam vet, you see. With a case of PTSD.She had boarded and claimed the bench seat across from the driver. Next thing we knew, she was squatting. . . . Well, let's just say the air suddenly...
22) Riley
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When Riley Cotswald, a writer at work on her second novel, finally leaves her husband, she gets way, more than she bargained for. Her characters' lives echo her own dilemmas, and she feels a kinship to them as they come alive on her desktop. Her best friend Jennifer does not understand this but loves Riley. Maybe too much.
After a particularly infuriating conversation with her husband Cameron, Riley impulsively gets involved with Edward, a socially,...
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Han pasado muchos años desde que el protagonista de este relato, que escribe desde una mazmorra en la que, sin saber cómo ni por quién, ha sido confinado, observaba desde su ventana el deprimente espectáculo de la existencia en el Barrio Viejo, e imaginaba una vida emocionante en los extramuros, alejado de sus hermanos, de su abnegada e inexpresiva madre y de una niñera sumida en la desesperanza.
La llegada intempestiva de una extraña joven...
24) Latchkey Ladies
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Latchkey Ladies opens in 1918 in the Mimosa Club, a women's hostel in central London where young women office workers and ladies on declining incomes find refuge from the tedium of war work and the chilliness of impending poverty. Anne Carey is twenty-five. She is engaged to a young lieutenant in the army, but she is bored of him and bored of the war. When she meets Dampier, a man unlike anyone she has ever met before, they begin an affair, and then,...
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From debut novelist Eugene Havens, Marble on a Table is an unexpected love story between two wounded outsiders seeking redemption in dazzling, heartless New York City.
Rasmus Smith is a shrewd New Yorker who believes lofty ideals are for other people. That is until a sudden moral dilemma makes him listen to his conscience. Rasmus tries to raise his standards but watches his life spin out of control.
It leads him to Alli. A captivating stranger,...
26) Bystander
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"I have never been faced with a moral crisis, let alone a matter of life or death."
Peter Simons doesn't spend much time at home in his bachelor apartment. Thanks to his job at a multinational company, he is often flying around the world, enjoying a life of luxurious solitude in five star hotels. So when he returns after being away for nine months and notices a strange smell coming from his neighbour's apartment, he initially tries not to get involved,...
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NAMED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF THE 10 BEST ROMANCES OF 2023: "A weird, adorable stunner of a romance."
Death needs a do-over.
Azrael—-angel of death, grim reaper, destroyer of worlds—messed up. Instead of taking Molly Molloy's soul, he patted her on the back and saved her from a chicken wing and now she can see him. Talk to him. Touch him. Say 'no' to him. And worst of all, make him question.
The Powers
...28) Vagablonde
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2020
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Vagablonde is a darkly humorous, rollercoaster ride through the Los Angeles music scene about a woman who wants two things, the first is to live without psychotropic medication, and the second is to experience success as an artist. A cautionary tale about viral fame, Vagablonde speaks directly to our time in biting detail. Prue Van Teesen is thriving. That is, her life looks good on paper. She has an easy government job, a nice girlfriend,...
29) Love lettering
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Meg Mackworth's hand-lettering skill has made her famous as the Planner of Park Slope, designing custom journals for her New York City clientele. She has another skill too: reading signs that other people miss. Knowing the upcoming marriage of Reid Sutherland and his polished fiancée was doomed to fail is one thing, but weaving a secret word of warning into their wedding program is another. Meg may have thought no one would spot it, but she hadn't...
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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.
Jane has been, appointed interim director of the Worldwide Toronto Film Festival after her boss has been removed for sexual harassment. Knives are out all around her, as factions...
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As WWI ends, trauma and tragedy give way to a chance for new life and rekindled love in the third novel of the acclaimed Parade's End tetralogy.
Armistice Day, 1918. As fireworks proclaim the end of the Great War, Valentine Wannop learns that the man she loves, Christopher Tietjens, is back in London. He has survived the frontlines, but it has affected him profoundly. He is willing to give up everything to be with Valentine, but they are not yet free...
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"Those who have what it takes can make it right where God put them; going away is trying to hide your ineptitude among the strangers."
With his brother's words permanently etched in his brain, Kostas, a headstrong Greek merchant seaman, jumps ship in America, determined to prove his brother and all others like him wrong. Though one among the thousands of illegal immigrants pouring into the country, striving to make it while dodging the long tenacles...
33) Employee 6 Is 54
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Ageism in hiring is real, Jillian Johnson discovered, as door after door closed in her face. So she was elated when Desmond Hensley, a charming startup founder, offered her a dream job. How could Jillian know then, that she would be the one to lead the company of twenty-somethings to uncover his secret? When Jillian Johnson resigns from her job, she is momentarily proud-her resignation is in protest of unfair labor practices. Then reality hits. At...
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El libro muestra una lectura personal, vertida como narración y comentario de las voces de Santiago hechas eco en la poesía. Experiencia urbana vivida para recordar o conocer.
Los cambios de la ciudad, hoy segmentada, se van siguiendo aquí como huellas en el campo que ofrecen los textos. En esa tarea, aparecen como guías los testimonios de los expertos.
Creemos que la tesis central del ensayo se caracteriza también en su concepto de desarraigo,...
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Oriol Nolis dibuja en las páginas de La frafilidad de todo esto un emocinante relato sobre el dolor y el duelo, que es también una historia de salvación y reconocimiento. Óscar tiene cuarenta años, un matromonio roto y una madre que se muere. Periodista de éxito, ha construido su vida sobre la seguridad y las certezas. Cuando todo su presente se derrumba, regresa el pasado para darle palabras a lo que nunca se dijo. Las complicadas relaciones...
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When terrorists sink their whaling vessel, the company Jonas works for goes out of business, and he finds himself unemployed in Tokyo during a recession.
Struggling to find a job to keep his apartment and eat, he gets a job at a transvestite hostess club.
These are his adventures.
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Accomplished New York book editor Rebecca Winters, on the threshold of forty and recently yet amiably divorced, looks into herself one day as never before and finds-nothing. Her contented life has gone empty.
Bewildered and fraught, she vacantly buries herself in work, trying to hide her distress from others. A few weeks later, as a favor to a colleague, she grudgingly meets an author with a book to propose. Although author Alex Rodgers unsettles...
38) Yesterday
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In spare, elegant prose, this modern novella recounts a troubled young man's flight from a judgmental village. Tobias, the illegitimate son of a prostitute and the local schoolmaster, finds peace with a factory job in the comfortable anonymity of a city. But his fragile respite is shattered by the appearance of Caroline, his boyhood love, who materializes with a husband and child in tow.
This Dover edition marks Yesterday's first U.S. publication....
39) The Longcut
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The narrator of The Longcut is an artist who doesn't know what her art is. As she gets lost on her way to a meeting in an art gallery, walking around in circles in a city she knows perfectly well, she finds herself endlessly sidetracked and distracted by the question of what her work is and how she'll know it when she sees it.
Her mental peregrinations take her through the elements that make up her life: her dull office job where she spends the...
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Un recién nacido aparece abandonado en el último asiento del tranvía número catorce. Es Nochebuena y el vehículo surca cual cometa las vías hacia la periferia de una ciudad sin nombre. ¿Cómo ha llegado hasta allí? ¿Qué va a ser de él? Tal vez por caridad, por improvisación o por locura, alguien ha decidido confiar al niño a los brazos del mundo. Y el "mundo" que lo acompaña en ese primer viaje de su vida es esa parte de la existencia...
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