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Pour surmonter l’adversité, il s’était persuadé qu’il vivait dans deux mondes : celui, opposed, des toucheurs d’enfants, des envieux, de l. a. honte d’être un gros garçon et des pluies de coups. Et l’autre : magique, peuplé de druides et de caches de granit ; empli de livres et de savoir ; de classes éperdues dans l. a. lande bretonne et d’exils à mille lieux des salauds.
Erwann Landerneau, grand customer de los angeles distribution, n’en finit pas de régler ses comptes avec le passé. Malgré des blessures d’enfance lancinantes, le « petit plouc » est parvenu à prendre los angeles revanche sociale tant convoitée par sa mère. los angeles perte d’un fils l’empêche pourtant de savourer pleinement sa réussite. De liaisons sans lendemain en amitiés décevantes, l. a. misanthropie l’envahit peu à peu. Il perd pied lorsque sa fille adoptive, pour laquelle il nourrit un sentiment fortress, commet l’irréparable.
Qu’adviendra-t-il du destin d’Erwann Landerneau ?

Un giorno del 1987, tra le mura di Urbino, succede una disgrazia. Due ragazze, due sorelle, Ester e Bianca, vengono trovate morte su una panchina di un parco pubblico, con l’ago in vena. Dieci anni dopo, venti anni dopo, oggi, Ester e Bianca vivono ancora nelle storie di tante persone comuni. Una studentessa universitaria vorrebbe portare conforto alla loro anziana madre malandata. Alcuni giovani musicisti sembrano ispirarsi alla loro collezione di dischi. Uno scrittore fallito come to a decision di metterle in un romanzo. E poi sopravvivono gli oggetti che lasciano riaffiorare scampoli dai torbidi anni Ottanta fino ai Novanta e al primo decennio del nuovo secolo, tra froga, gloria e intransigenza – una foto sulla mensola di una cucina, un pezzo rock, un ritaglio della cronaca nera del Resto del Carlino, l’anello barattato dalle due sorelle consistent with l’ultima dose di eroina. Composto da quattro brani legati dal filo rosso della storia di Ester e Bianca, il nuovo romanzo di Alessio Torino racconta un luogo fisico, Urbino, che diventa, a poco a poco, luogo universale del cuore.

Saleem, Trey, Bruce and Shymire are 4 childrens which are bored to death with residing a penniless way of life. jointly they come to a decision their basically solution to break out poverty and get lots of cash is to go into the profitable drug alternate within the urban of Pittsburgh.
In their quest to take over the total urban, the 4 knew they'll need to set examples out of individuals to allow the streets recognize they’re to not be performed with no matter if it intended beginning a conflict with the main ruthless drug lord within the city.
Will this be a mistake which can price them their lives and likewise the lives in their relations as well?

Auf demütigende artwork von ihrem Freund Oliver verlassen, quält sich Lara mit Schuldgefühlen. Um die Gedanken an ihn zu verdrängen, stürzt sie sich ins verlockende Nachtleben von Wien. Sie will etwas erleben, der harten Realität der Trennung nicht mehr ins Auge blicken. Dort lernt sie einen faszinierenden, humorvollen Mann kennen. Als sie sich in der Diskothek davonstehlen, ahnt sie nicht, dass die Ereignisse dieser erregenden Nacht ihr Leben für immer verändern werden. Wird sie die gravierenden Hindernisse, welche sich ihrer Liebe entgegenstellen, überwinden können?

Diamond consistently felt she needed to have a guy in her mattress, it did not topic whose guy, so long as they stored her sexually chuffed. Diamond had a child at a tender age and her mom did not let her to do something yet look after her daughter, Nikki. as soon as Diamond moved out she went buck-wild and used to be napping with whatever that gave the look of a stick and was once given greater than she bargained for. She used to be given numerous probabilities, she even moved to Ohio for a greater lifestyles, yet will she learn?

even though trained as a painter, fifty-three-year-old Lee MacPhearson has lived her existence coloring within the strains. The vital operating mom of 4, Lee has been the right kind college wife—an ill-fitting function at best—while in some way coping with to nurture her ardour undertaking, Mad puppy Gallery, into one of many Pacific Northwest’s such a lot extraordinary galleries.

The casualty in all of this has been Lee’s marriage—and her feel of self. Having simply brought her final baby to school, Lee is crushed via her empty nest, and she’s left thinking about what occurred to the girl she as soon as used to be. yet she’s additionally giddy: eventually, the chance to make your mind up what she on my own wants.

Her estranged husband Brian, besides the fact that, is aware precisely what he desires: Lee and the existence they as soon as shared. He launches his crusade to reconcile sooner than Lee even units foot into her newly empty farmhouse, his apologies well-rehearsed.

Ultimately, although, Barb Yakamura, Lee’s ally and the bright and irreverent inventive Director of the Oregon Shakespeare pageant, is the person who really overflows with rules approximately what Lee should still do—including one who leads Lee, Brian, and the full MacPhearson relatives to an finishing they by no means expected.

Jeffery Darnell Thomas desired to be wealthy and robust. It was once his dream for so long as he may perhaps take into account. turning out to be up in a single of the hardest neighborhoods in the US on the time is a try although. yet his hatred of poverty, in addition to a robust wish to make it higher for his humans, is the gas at the back of his ardour. All he wishes is that one giant holiday. He devises a plan that can make or holiday every little thing. within the strategy he learns much approximately himself and lifestyles. it is a tale approximately exertions and backbone that would circulation your soul.

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The Coil of Carne
by way of John Oxenham

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In der Welt der Modesalons und der motor vehicle, unter Angestellten und den Vertretern des 'neuen' und 'alten Geldes' spielt der unterhaltsame, glänzend geschriebene Großstadtroman aus dem Berlin der zwanziger Jahre des vergangenen Jahrhunderts: eine Mischung aus Liebesgeschichte, spannendem Kriminalfall und modernem Märchen. Im Mittelpunkt der Geschichte steht Gaby, erfolgreiches und selbstbewusstes 'Model' und Beraterin wohlhabender Kundinnen in einem renommierten Modesalon und liiert mit dem Fahrlehrer Georg. Als sich plötzlich nicht nur die Damen, sondern auch bestens situierte Herren für die attraktive junge Frau interessieren, löst das eine ganze Kette kompliziertester Verwicklungen aus.
Die Hintergründe, unter anderem zur Zusammenarbeit Speyers mit Walter Benjamin bei der Konzeption dieses Romans, beleuchtet Sophia Ebert in ihrem nachwort 'Gaby, weshalb denn nicht? Wilhelm Speyer, Walter Benjamin und das Bild der neuen Frau.'

È un fatto piuttosto frequente che un camminatore desideri accorciare il percorso. Non fatelo. Da questo viaggio ho imparato che ogni decisione presa in keeping with arrivare prima vi a long wayà solo arrivare più tardi.

Mi sono messo in testa di percorrere l. a. through Francigena a piedi con un gruppo di amici:quarantacinque giorni tra boschi secolari, valli disabitate e borghi suggestivi.Nella repentina decisione di attraversare l'Italia lungo le strade che vanno dal Gran San Bernardo a Roma e da Roma alla Puglianon ho fatto che richiamarmi al principio secondo il quale «camminando ci penserò». A cosa?A tutto più o meno: lavoro, costumi, pochissima politica e piaceri. Mentre mi chiedo se davvero camminare apra l. a. mente e vivifichi lo spirito,non mancano appuntamenti pianificati e incontri accidentali are available in ogni at the highway che si rispetti: contadini centenari e giovani che hanno scelto di vivere da eremiti, rockstar e artisti, ecclesiasti intransigenti e loschi malavitosi. Lungo los angeles strada germogliano storie antichissime e struggenti che ci parlano da vicino, troppo conosciute da ognuno di noi in line with essere declinate al singolare.