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You think you know how the world works? Think again. From best-selling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller that questions the very foundations of the modern world. Magic has faded from the minds of mankind, until an encounter between Melisande Stokes, linguistics expert at Harvard, and Tristan Lyons, shadowy agent of government, leads to the uncovering of a distant past.

Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, and his widow gives Bosch a murder book, one that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD twenty years before—the unsolved killing of a troubled young man.

The painter Mario Minniti has travelled to Naples to seek out his old friend and former mentor Caravaggio. But on arrival, the great painter is nowhere to be found. In a bid to find him, Mario retraces Caravaggio's last known movements. His search reveals a life lived dangerously. Starring David Tennant as Mario Minniti, with Anton Lesser, Peter Hamilton, Joe Dempsie, Tracy Wiles and Harry Livingstone.

Nell Stevens’ life is a mess. When her business goes bust and her fiancé with it, Nell’s happy ever after in California falls apart and she moves back to London to start over. But a lot has changed since she’s been gone. All her single friends are now married with children, sky-high rents force her to rent a room in a stranger’s house and in a world of perfect Instagram lives, she feels like a f--k up.

June Hayward et Athena Liu ont étudié ensemble à Yale, ont déménagé à Washington après avoir obtenu leur diplôme et sont toutes les deux écrivaines, mais les similitudes s'arrêtent là. Athena est une étoile montante de la littérature, et June n'est personne. Après tout, qui s'intéresse de nos jours aux histoires d'une fille blanche aussi banale qu'elle ?

Life for Winona Dalloway is not as it should be. Her husband is no longer her husband, her children are not at home with her, and the city in which she lives is besieged by fires. Black ash falls like snow, songbirds screech like dinosaurs, and the doctors are calling her mad....

Dans une petite rue de l’élégant quartier de Ginza à Tokyo se dresse la célèbre papeterie Shihodo, où ceux qui entrent sont sûrs de trouver ce qu’ils sont venus chercher, des papiers washi les plus fins aux encres les plus colorées. Loin de la frénésie urbaine, Ken Takarada, le propriétaire, a aménagé un espace où les clients peuvent coucher sur le papier leurs émotions les plus intimes. Le contact de la plume sur la feuille, le tracé délicat des lettres et des idéogrammes, l’odeur du papier… Dans ce havre de paix, chacun redécouvre le pouvoir de l’écriture.

Set again in the beloved Japanese bookshop and nearby coffee shop in the Jimbochi neighborhood of Toyko, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop deepens the relationship between Takako, her uncle Satoru , and the people in their lives. A new cast of heartwarming regulars have appeared in the shop, including an old man who wears the same ragged mouse-colored sweater and another who collects books solely for the official stamps with the author’s personal seal.

La novela, que tiene su origen en un relato inédito escrito hace algunos años, narra una historia de amistad truncada entre dos personajes de distinta condición social – un pijo universitario e irresponsable y un chico de barrio, simpático y manipulador, que trabaja como guardia de seguridad – y sus andanzas a lo largo de un fin de semana límite para saldar una deuda por drogas con un personaje peligroso. Se trata de una fábula urbana con un fondo pesimista y duro, surcada por destellos de comicidad que iluminan la historia.

My reputation with women stinks. I'll admit I haven't always treated them with the respect they deserve. That's not to say I'm a bad guy or anything. What my sisters and cousin would call toxic, I prefer to think of as selfish. But I'm ready to change everything if it means I'll have a chance with the lovely, sweet, wounded Sofia Diaz—and her adorable son Mateo. They've been through a lot with her ex—and she's still dealing with him far more often than I'd like—but I'm prepared to be there for both of them, to do whatever it takes to make them happy.

Powerful and charismatic, Raphael is a Vampire Lord, one of the few who hold the power of life and death over every vampire in existence. Thousands call him Master and have pledged absolute loyalty on their very lives. But when, in a brazen and deadly daylight attack, a gang of human killers kidnaps the one female vampire he'd give his life for, Raphael turns to a human investigator to find his enemies before it's too late.

An unexpected love story from Marc Levy, international bestselling author of The Last of the Stanfields, and the most widely read French author in the world.

Kailyn Flowers was always calm, rational, and controlled—until she ended up sprawled all over Daxton Hughes, the former actor she totally crushed on as a teenager. Then she did the unthinkable: She became a mortifying fangirl in five seconds flat, which may or may not have included professing her undying love. And oddly, he didn't run away. In fact, their meet cute led to a friendship she never saw coming. Of course, she never saw his betrayal coming, either....

In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power. In the Bronx, a Lenape gallery director discovers strange graffiti scattered throughout the city, so beautiful and powerful it's as if the paint is literally calling to her. In Brooklyn, a politician and mother finds she can hear the songs of her city, pulsing to the beat of her Louboutin heels.

Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day, his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late 30s a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These surprises, and the ways they throw Micah's meticulously organized life off-kilter, risk changing him forever.

The Rift was like nothing Pax and the others had experienced before. The scenario demanded they think outside the box and deal with a whole new level of threats. But with new dangers came new opportunities, and Pax and the others are more than ready to rise to the challenge.

Ein Roman, so schnell erzählt wie "Kill Bill" von Tarantino! Ein spektakulärer Kunstraub. Verschollene Gemälde. Eine kurdische Hochzeit. Ein Scharfschütze, der einen Schuss abfeuert. Eine Familie zwischen den Niederlanden und Kurdistan, für die nichts mehr ist, wie es war. Im Stil eines Actionfilms mit schnellen Cuts erzählt Cemile Sahin die Geschichte eines Verrats, von Liebe, Freundschaft und Leben im Exil, so auf der Höhe der Zeit, wie nur sie es kann.

Laura è una studentessa dell'Università Orientale di Napoli, al primo anno di corso di Lingua cinese. Viene dalla Romagna e ha la passione delle arti marziali; da poco giunta nella grande città del Sud si sente un po' spaesata, ma un gruppo di colleghi (che diventeranno poi suoi amici) l'aiuterà a ritrovarsi, o forse a perdersi? Laura ha scoperto infatti, nel frattempo, l'antica storia di un giovane cinese, che come la sua è sospesa tra Oriente e Occidente, libertà e dottrina.

Sable has always been like the sand-shifting—ungraspable, shaped by experience, yet never bound by it. Where others build certainty, she has trusted the quiet pull of intuition, choosing solitude over settling, truth over comfort, freedom over convention. But as time passes, the world's voices grow louder, questioning her choices, labeling her path as avoidance rather than wisdom.

In der pulsierenden Metropole Kuroiwa City, wo Neonlichter den Himmel zerschneiden und Träume zum Leben erwachen, fiebert Sue einem unvergesslichen Abend entgegen: Sie wird Neeon Dream live erleben – die größte Band ihrer Zeit. Doch was als schillerndes Abenteuer beginnt, entpuppt sich als düstere Reise hinter die glitzernde Fassade der Stadt und ihrer Idole. Während sich Sue und ihre Freundin Raku auf das Konzert vorbereiten, kämpft Miyu Kaze, der gefeierte Star von Neeon Dream, mit einer unheilvollen Wahrheit.