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A rap mogul with the world at his fingertips… His dynamic personality and powerful presence command the attention of millions. What Pharrow wants he gets… Except one thing… The woman he unwittingly falls in love with to the shock of his soon to be wife! Pharrow King is a man in search of himself when he finds himself tied to the wrong woman for what he believes are all the right reasons. Sasha is wealthy, like him, and so he believes they are evenly yoked. He sees a future with the woman who is determined to marry her crush and help him conquer the world! Sasha’s pockets run deep as...

Emily can't remember the last time she left the house. Or spoke to anyone besides her grandmother, beloved children's author Catriona Robinson. After Catriona's death, Emily is at a complete loss...until she gets an unexpected letter from the woman she loved most. Catriona has revealed there might be one last, lost unpublished manuscript in her wildly popular book series. And she's left a secret diary and trail of clues that only Emily can follow.

In Tokyo, there is a neighbourhood with the highest number of bookstores in the world. It is called Jinbocho where book lovers can browse to their heart's delight and where hunters of first editions or autographed copies prowl the bookcases. The Morisaki bookshop, a small family-run shop, is so packed with books that barely five people can fit inside. Books crowd the shelves and invade every corner of the floor; when a customer arrives, the owner, Satoru, immediately pops out from behind the counter.

Anna Karenina fu pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1877. Era già stato pubblicato a puntate dal 1875, ma non fu mai pubblicata l'ottava parte perché la rivista non tollerò le prese d posizione antinazionaliste di Tolstoj, che fu quindi costretto a pubblicare l'opera completa a sue spese.Tolstoj vedeva in questo libro, considerato un capolavoro del realismo, il suo primo vero romanzo.

Tyler Walker: Billionaire CEO. Control freak. My brother's best friend. Now my fake fiancé. He wants me to play his loving partner to land a major deal. One week in paradise, then we go our separate ways. But the lines blur with every touch, every staged kiss. Tyler gets under my skin, and suddenly, I'm drowning in him. Craving a man who doesn't do relationships. The ring on my finger is just for show. But my feelings? Dangerously real. We shouldn't work, but it feels too right to resist. Then the trip ends, and reality crashes down. We have to end this charade before it burns us both. I...

From the keenly observant author of The Fairer Sex comes a collection of sexy, razor-sharp short stories that swing a wrecking ball at our assumptions about women - what they desire, what they’re working toward, and what they’re willing to wait for. In these witty, bracing, and poignant stories, Michelle Miller follows six women on the often-surprising path to satisfaction.

What's more important—revenge . . . or the child you never knew you had? Jolie Chapman was my first love. Now she's my most bitter enemy. Screw me once, shame on you. Screw me twice . . . who am I kidding—I don't believe in second chances anymore. Tripp Montgomery was my first love. I gave him my innocence. Then he broke my heart. And I committed the ultimate betrayal. These Manhattan royals are out for revenge. Sweet, sweet revenge. But there's something they want more. Their daughter.

Natasha has screwed up royally. Her mistake isn’t just embarrassing, it's a breach of journalistic ethics that makes headlines and costs her a plum job reporting from London. Back in New York at thirty-five and single, divorced from a kind man she loved, she finds herself at the bottom of the media food chain—a junior reporter at a clickbait factory, rewriting sensational tabloid stories to make them just different enough to avoid lawsuits.

I never pictured ending my wedding day heartbroken, certainly not in my ex-fiancé’s brother’s bed. This jerk cheated on me with my best friend—a bride’s worst nightmare. Alone in my white dress, I drown myself at the bar next to a stranger in a gray suit. But Alexander Grant isn’t any ordinary stranger, he’s my ex’s brother. Sharing my revenge scheme with him isn’t on the agenda. He offered his help, and our wild night made me forget the betrayal. After that night, my world takes a surprising turn. Alexander is now my new boss and working together isn’t easy. Yet he ...

Tom is a photographer and dreamer, capturing snapshots of the city around him, talking to the people on the fringes of his world, always searching for something he knows is missing but can never quite grasp. He speaks to a beggar. He saves a woman from a gang on a darkened alley. He takes his photos...but only as he develops the negatives does he see the magical, hidden world he has brushed up against in all its beauty, and menace, and danger. And deep in those negatives is the clue he needs to continue his search.

One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbours gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants—some of whom have barely spoken to each other—become real neighbours.

Loner Cole North has always been the odd guy out. His IQ is sky-high, but he’s not so bright when it comes to people or relationships. Years ago, he spurned expectations, shunned his family’s business, and embraced a career in construction, instead. Now, he values his job above everything, in part because of his secret feelings for his boss Sierra.

De Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman...walkers and city dwellers all, collagists and chroniclers, picking the detritus of their eras off the filthy streets and assembling it into something new, shocking, and beautiful. In To Walk Alone in the Crowd, Antonio Muñoz Molina emulates these classic inspirations, following their peregrinations and telling their stories in a book that is part memoir, part novel, part chronicle of urban wandering.

East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble, pancaking the cars parked in front and coating the street with a thick layer of ash. As the city’s rescue services and media outlets respond, the surrounding neighborhood descends into chaos. At day’s end, six bodies are recovered, but many of the other tenants are missing. In Lazarus Man, Richard Price, one of the greatest chroniclers of life in urban America, creates intertwining portraits of a group of compelling and singular characters whose lives are permanently impacted by the disaster.

Rudy Sharpe is the irrepressible owner of a tiny, ramshackle record store, stacked from floor to ceiling with piles of vinyl. It’s a place with real soul, where the slogan is ‘If we don't have it – them don't mek it’. Helping out behind the counter is Tasha, Handsworth’s only Black goth girl, while Rudy’s best friend Clifton regularly drops in to talk music, women and rum.

Валер'ян Підмогильний створив модерний роман, в якому, на відміну від традиційної селянської і соціальної тематики, акцент перенесений на урбаністичну проблематику, порушені філософські питання буття й аналізована психіка героїв, а конфлікт розгортається між людьми з різними світоглядами. Місто — перший урбаністичний роман в українській літературі, з новими героями, проблематикою та манерою оповіді.

Calvino è stato uno degli scrittori italiani degli ultimi decenni più amati e conosciuti nel mondo. Nato a Cuba e cresciuto a San Remo, Italia, cominciò la sua carriera come scrittore di opere realistiche e impegnate politicamente nel clima degli sconvolgimenti del dopoguerra italiano.

I just found out the one-night stand from last week is half my age and my best friend's daughter... She's been working here two days and walks around like she owns the place, a straight pain in my a$$. Nola's drop-dead gorgeous but gets on my. Every. Last. Nerve. I just can't get the night out of my head when I tossed back my bourbon, gave her a side eye, and told her to get her act together. Before I could blink, she was on my lap, her thick thighs straddling mine. Being with her means I risk losing everything her father and I built. He's the one person responsible for my success. She's ...

Isa Epley is 21 years old and wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. In her diary she chronicles her New York City adventure during the sweltering summer of 2013. By day, Isa and her best friend, Gala, sell clothes in a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. By night, they weave from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, and bad-mannered grifters.

Maggie Jacobsen has a bright future ahead of her, with a handsome boyfriend and a promising career, until an accident on what should be one of the happiest days of her life takes it all away. Lying in hospital and forced to face the possibility that nothing will ever be the same again, Maggie must figure out how to move forward on her own terms while facing family secrets, heartbreak, and the possibility that love might find her in the last place she would ever expect.