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Les Farel forment un couple de pouvoir. Jean est un célèbre journaliste politique français ; son épouse Claire est connue pour ses engagements féministes. Ensemble, ils ont un fils, étudiant dans une prestigieuse université américaine. Tout semble leur réussir. Mais une accusation de viol va faire vaciller cette parfaite construction sociale.

第57回日本推理作家協会賞第4回本格ミステリ大賞　究極の驚愕、ミステリーの奇蹟がここにある。素人探偵のもとに持ち込まれた霊感商法事件の意外な顛末、そして…。

Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster, telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but there she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible and sardonic Patrica, aged five; greedy, cross-patch Gillian, who refused to be ignored; and Ruby...

Angelo Galassi aveva approfittato al volo di un errore burocratico che lo dichiarava deceduto, facendo perdere le sue tracce così bene che ormai tutti lo consideravano morto: i suoi genitori, il suo agente, il suo pubblico adorante. Il grande cantautore, l'idolo delle folle, era in realtà un uomo tormentato e depresso, che aveva sperato di riuscire a sfuggire a sé stesso e ai suoi problemi nascondendosi tra i grattacieli di New York.

Jonathan Kepler wants to climb Spoon Mountain with his grown son and daughter on his sixty-fifth birthday in three weeks. The kids, Ben and Miranda, think he’s crazy. For starters, Spoon Mountain is almost the tallest alpine peak in New Mexico. Jonathan’s health is terrible. Still reeling from his third, nearly fatal, divorce, he has a rotten heart, serious asthma, and a fed-up girlfriend who is about to drop him like a bad habit.

The last few years have been punishingly dry, especially for the farmers, but otherwise, it's all Neralie Mackintosh's fault. If she'd never left town then her ex, the hapless but extremely eligible Mitchell Bishop, would never have fallen into the clutches of the truly awful Mandy, who now lords it over everyone as if she owns the place. So, now that Neralie has returned to run the local pub, the whole town is determined to reinstate her to her rightful position in the social order. 

Adapted For The Film Slumdog Millionaire. Eighteen-year-old Ram Mohammad Thomas has been arrested after answering twelve questions correctly on a TV quiz show to win one billion rupees. The producers have accused him of cheating his way to victory. Twelve extraordinary events in street-kid Ram's life - how he was adopted as a foundling orphan by a priest; came to have three names; fooled a professional hit man; even fell in love - give him the crucial answers.

A murder has taken place in a tony Mumbai neighbourhood. A prime suspect, Prashanth, keeps his silence in the interrogation room as Inspector Khan plays the tapes of his therapy sessions. The explosive tapes, surreptitiously recorded by therapist Shaily Gupta, slowly reveal shocking information about Prashanth, about his relationship with his girlfriend Sonya, about the therapist and about the gruesome murder in question.

La tímida June Jones vive en Chalcot, una pequeña población de Reino Unido, y es bibliotecaria de corazón. Sus mejores amigos son las personas que conoce cada día en el trabajo: el viejo Stanley, a quien ayuda con el ordenador; Chantal, una joven que busca un lugar tranquilo para estudiar; Leila, una refugiada que aprende inglés con ayuda de los libros de cocina que June elige para ella, o la activista Mrs. Bransworth, que critica todas las obras que encuentra en la biblioteca.

I have a plan, and it doesn’t include falling for the older, hot single dad who convinced me to be his short-term nanny. So, I will leave my small town and my broken heart behind and go back to college. Or so I told myself. But now I’m starting to wonder if my plan has room for an unexpected happily ever after....

Eher zufällig wird Andreas Durrer zum gefeierten Künstler – als "Dürrst" jedoch droht er bald an sich selbst unterzugehen. Sein Weg vom Jugendlichen, der seiner Oberschichtsherkunft den Rücken zukehrt, über besetzte Häuser, unzählige Partys, Vernissagen und Betten meist fremder Männer bis in die psychiatrische Klinik und wieder hinaus ist kein linearer. Das Leben ist eine wilde Tour, auf der Dürrst ab und an das Ziel aus den Augen, doch fast nie die Hoffnung verliert.

"I'll see you in twenty-five years." Laura Palmer. "Also, ich musste wieder auf ein paar Tage nach Zürich. Es war ganz schrecklich. Aus Nervosität darüber hatte ich mich das gesamte verlängerte Wochenende über so unwohl gefühlt, dass ich unter starker Verstopfung litt. Dazu muss ich sagen, dass ich vor einem Vierteljahrhundert eine Geschichte geschrieben hatte, die ich aus irgendeinem Grund, der mir nun nicht mehr einfällt, 'Faserland' genannt hatte. Es endet in Zürich, sozusagen auf dem Zürichsee, relativ traumatisch."

Dr Martin Homer is a GP with a naturally sunny disposition. Honourable, attentive and trusted by all of his patients, Martin has only ever loved one woman - his wife, Sarah. When his mother dies suddenly, Martin's comfortable life is thrown into complete disarray. After sinking into the black dog of grief and depression, he ascends to new heights in a frenzied, manic high.

Es sind harte Zeiten für eine oberbayerische Bauernfamilie wie jene, in der Oskar Maria Graf aufwächst...

Returning home to Hullsport, Tennessee, to visit her dying mother, Ginny Babcock reviews the Kinflicks of her life--the home movies her mother used to make--from adolescence to middle-aged limbo, in an effort to discover herself.

Все боятся Элизабет Зотт. Кто-то — ее ума, кто-то — остро заточенного карандаша, который она носит в прическе, а кто-то — четырнадцатидюймового ножа из ее сумочки (ведь каждый уважающий себя кулинар пользуется только своими собственными ножами). Причудливый зигзаг судьбы привел ее из Научно-исследовательского института Гастингса, где она мечтала заниматься абиогенезом (теорией возникновения жизни из неорганических веществ), на телевидение, где она ведет самую популярную в стране кулинарную передачу «Ужин в шесть». «Кулинария — это химия, — говорит она. — А химия — это жизнь.

Sadie McQueen has leased a double-fronted space in a small cul de sac in a culturally diverse corner of central London. The cobbles muffle the noise of double-deckers roaring past the arched gates. Turn right and you are in a futuristic maze of corporate glass monoliths. Turn left and you see a wide street with many different houses. Towering above the mews are the degenerating tower blocks of an infamous estate.

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Mulheres abandonadas. Desde sempre, a literatura é permeada de histórias trágicas de figuras fascinantes, como Medeia e Dido, que se desfazem diante do abandono masculino. Emma Bovary e Anna Kariênina, personagens inesquecíveis, também sucumbem. A mesma Simone de Beauvoir de O segundo sexo escreveu A mulher desiludida, antologia de contos sobre personagens despedaçadas, uma delas por essa mesma via. No século xxi, Elena Ferrante atualiza a tradição, criando personagens que definham ou enlouquecem depois de dispensadas — é o caso de Olga, em Dias de abandono, que se vê confrontada com novas questões: Como pode uma mulher padecer "de amor" nos anos 2000?

A tragic accident. It all happened so quickly. She couldn't have prevented it. Could she? In a split second, Jenna Gray's world descends into a nightmare. Her only hope of moving on is to walk away from everything she knows to start afresh. Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but she is haunted by her fears, her grief, and her memories of a cruel November night that changed her life forever. Slowly Jenna begins to glimpse the potential for happiness in her future.