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Casas vacías habla del dolor de las mujeres ante la desaparición de un hijo y de su propia vida. Es una novela que también cuestiona la maternidad y abre la posibilidad de un diálogo sobre cómo se enfrentan las maternidades no solicitadas y que son impuestas socialmente. Casas vacías es la primera novela de Brenda Navarro.

Maria dimostra circa sessant’anni, è innamorata e vuole andare in pensione: capita a molte. Ma il caso di Maria è un po’ particolare perché lei, come lavoro, fa la Morte. Sono miliardi di anni che programma trapassi – di qualsiasi cosa: esseri umani, piante, animali, intere specie – e che sia andata in burnout non è una gran sorpresa. Per l’INPS, però, è uno shock e l’unica risposta che riescono a inventarsi è che per sbrigare la sua pratica occorrerà un po’ di tempo. Un periodo che Maria decide di impiegare interagendo con il mondo e soprattutto con l’oggetto del suo desiderio, Antonio Panini.

Don Sando y Miguel son dos veteranos macheteros, maestros de un antiquísimo arte marcial afrocolombiano, que parten tras el rastro de los «juegos de sombra», unas técnicas de combate prácticamente olvidadas, y en particular tras el legendario arte del «Elástico de sombra», que permite a quien lo domine luchar en la más absoluta oscuridad. Esta breve novela, tejida por Juan Cárdenas a partir de los relatos orales de los propios macheteros del Cauca, se convierte en un homenaje a la invencible dignidad de los oprimidos y un llamamiento a la necesidad de oponer una orgullosa resistencia.

After a failed petition to change his career, Bill, the local pottery maker and town drunk, is coerced by his neighbors and king to join an expedition to hunt down and slay a mighty dragon that plagues their village.

The Woke Apostles of the Fourth Reich: A Comedy of Global Madness is a satirical masterpiece that takes a bold, unapologetic look at the bizarre world we live in today. In this razor-sharp critique of modern politics, social justice movements, and global elitism, the author blends biting humor with intellectual depth, exposing the absurdities of cancel culture, virtue signaling, language policing, and the overreach of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

On sait tout de Candide, sauf une chose : quel rapport l'auteur avait-il avec ses personnages ? Les a-t-il imaginés ou connus ? A-t-il partagé certaines de leurs aventures ? Est-il caché dans un coin du roman pour les observer ? Ce regard que Voltaire pouvait porter de l'intérieur sur sa création, c'est justement celui qu'au-delà des connaissances acquises, on a eu l'audace de tenter de porter sur Candide. Cette édition change l'interprétation du plus étudié, mais aussi de plus secret des contes voltairiens. Il s'y présente de façon nouvelle.

Die unübertroffene Parodie auf Der Herr der Ringe in einer neuen, modernen, politisch einigermaßen korrekten Übersetzung. Der Millionenbestseller endlich wieder auf Deutsch lieferbar! Eine fluchtartige Abreise, ein dräuender Krieg, ein verwunschener Ring – alles gute Vorwände, um eine Hochzeit zu canceln. Doch ein kleiner, pelziger Halbheld namens Froyo macht sich auf den Weg, um sein heimeliges Gauland und am Ende sogar ganz Untererde vor dem Untergang zu retten, vielleicht aber auch nicht, denn hier wird nicht gespoilert.

Evoking such classics as Elmer Gantry and The Day of the Locust, William Giraldi's About Face boldly transfers the perennial literary themes of celebrity, ambition, and obsession to twenty-first-century Boston. There we meet Val Face, a charismatic self-help guru who captivates multitudes with his uncanny ability to heal adherents using only the power of his words, the mysterious touch of his hands, and the transcendent beauty of his face.

A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car—also borrowed—onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty old house: the Godleys, descendants of the late, world-famous scientist Adam Godley, whose theory of existence threw the universe into chaos. And this mystery man, who has just completed a prison sentence, feels as if time has stopped, or was torn, or was opened in new and strange ways. He must now vie with the idiosyncratic Godley family, and with a woman from his past who comes bearing an unusual request.

Scotty is no stranger to being bullied, but after a chance encounter in an online chatroom, finds hope in Rebecca. Scotty is about to find out that people on the internet can be worse than people in real life. Facebook. Twitter. These are the places the modern troll thrives. How far would you be willing to go to bring a troll to justice?

The sassiest Latina beauty queen, Arie Casiano, comes at you with unexpectedly hilarious and absurd antics. Only 20 years old, she is crowned as a state pageant beauty queen. Having been a socially awkward high school valedictorian prior to this, she struggles to fit into her new world. Follow her twists and turns as she navigates her college classes while grappling with newfound attention from young men.

Mike Bittini ist ein Spieler und Streuner, er war es schon immer. Nach siebzehn Jahren on the road kehrt er in seinem alten Ford Escort und den weißen Lederboots zurück nach Wien. Sein Bruder, der erfolgreiche Immobilienanwalt, ist ins Koma gefallen. Nun schleicht sich Mike in Sandros Villa wie der Habicht in den Hühnerstall. Sandros Frau Gloria ist alles andere als erfreut, Mike wiederzusehen. Sie kennt ihn nur zu gut.

Ein hochkomisches Hörbuch von Twitter-Star Lorenz Meyer – in vielen Stimmen interpretiert von Stefan Kaminski. Auf Twitter entwirft Lorenz Meyer (@shengfui) entwirft auf Zuruf Texte und Statements diverser Personen des Zeitgeschehens: von Christian Lindner über Harald Martenstein und Heidi Klum bis hin zu Richard David Precht. Seine Beiträge werden von Hunderttausenden geliket und geteilt und legen offen, wie stanzenhaft moderne Kommunikation in Zeiten von Social Media funktioniert.

Satan, fallen angel, chief devil, and ruler of Hell seems to have everything: immortality, a kingdom, cool superpowers, and lots of minions to grovel at his feet. So why isn’t he happy? Simple. Satan wants more. He’s just not sure, though, what “more” even means in his case.

When the sleepy Scottish village of Cuddyford is colonised by well-heeled retirees and big-city commuters, Jigger McCloud, a Jack-the-lad local with an eye for the ladies, isn’t slow to make a quick buck at their expense. Life seems rosy for Jigger and his odd-but-loveable family, until he tries to scam a mysterious foreign millionaire, who arrives on the scene with plans to develop the area in unappealing ways. The folk of Cuddyford, native and otherwise, promptly close ranks.

A struggling actress' life gets turned upside down when she witnesses the burial of an urn in her yard. She gets entangled with the "dead girl", a Latina health guru, and her criminal antics from Miami to New York to LA.

David William Vancil is a 44-year-old itinerant degenerate from Chicago with a constant juxtaposed repine and appreciation for life. With barely a grade-schooler’s command over the English language, he has somehow traveled to China, Japan, Mexico, Korea, and all over the continental United States. He attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa, International Christian University in Mitaka, Japan, and countless other colleges while mixing concoctions for everyone from yakuza to celebrities.

Three unlikely American civilians, assigned to a US base in the Middle East, stumble on America's Most Wanted terrorist, hiding in a Pakistani palace. Through accident and happenstance, they capture what's left of the culprit, survive a shootout, and escape with this bounty of all bounties. Joined by a local merchant and amateur filmmaker who records their adventure crossing oceans of sand and deserts of seas following their nose to America, the CIA and the promise of a million-dollar bounty.

We live in a world where Netflix makes lavish dramas about the current royal family, whilst Prince Harry and Meghan continue to indulge us with tell-all interviews, articles, upcoming biographies and documentaries. So what if Oprah gave Kate and William the opportunity to tell their sides of the story and - against all the odds - they agreed?

In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it's the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of their friends and neighbours have worked for decades. Mary will go on to live through the Coronation and the World Cup final, royal weddings and royal funerals, Brexit and Covid-19. She'll have children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.