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From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Housemaid, The Boyfriend and The Tenant comes a twisty psychological thriller like no other a story of sinister secrets that will keep you enraptured through to the shocking finale.Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime.To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family. She grabs her passport and heads for the northern border before the police can discover what shes done.But when an unexpected snowstorm forces her off the road, Quinn must take refuge at the broken-down, isolated Baxter Motel. The handsome and kindly owner, Nick Baxter, is only too happy to offer her a cheap room for the night.Unfortunately, the Baxter Motel isnt the quiet, safe haven it seemed to be. The motel has a dark and disturbing past. And in the dilapidated house across the way, the silhouette of Nick's ailing wife is always at the window. Always watching.In the morning, Quinn must leave the motel. She'll pack up her belongings and get back on the road to freedom.But first, she must survive the night.

Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite choices, what is the best way to live?

''Such a beacon of pleasure'' KATE ATKINSON''So smart and funny. Deplorably good'' IAN RANKIN''A gripping read'' SUNDAY TIMESTHE FIRST BOOK IN THE #1 BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY TV PRESENTER RICHARD OSMANIn a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case.Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it''s too late?

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WITH A NEW CHAPTER ON TURNING THIRTY.READ AND LOVED IT? GIFT IT TO A FRIEND!'There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it' Lisa Taddeo, author Three Women'The book we will thrust into our friends' hands. Alderton feels like a best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap around you like a warm hug'Evening StandardAward-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survived her twenties (just about) and in Everything I Know About Love, she gives an unflinching account of the bad dates and squalid flat-shares, the heartaches and humiliations, and most importantly, the unbreakable female friendships that helped her to hold it all together. Glittering with wit, heart and humour, this is a book to press into the hands of every woman who has ever been there or is about to find themselves taking that first step towards the rest of their lives.

C’est une chance inespérée pour Millie d’avoir décroché un nouveau travail. Chez les Garrick, un couple fortuné qui possède un somptueux appartement avec vue sur New York, elle fait le ménage et prép

THE GLOBAL #1 BESTSELLERAN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYA BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN THE GUARDIAN, TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, IRISH TIMES, LONDON STANDARD, INDEPENDENT, OBSERVER, NEW STATESMAN, iNEWS, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, THE SKINNY, CITY AM, DAILY MAIL, AND THE CONVERSATION'I read it in a state of rapture.' SUNDAY TIMES'A tender, funny pageturner.' OBSERVER'Come for the romance, stay for the meaning of life.' IRISH TIMES'A breathtakingly intimate look at love and desire in its many different forms.' REDFrom the author of the multimillioncopy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family.Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.Ivan is a twentytwoyearold competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

The smash-hit international bestsellerA Read With Jenna book club pickWinner of the Goodreads Choice Award for FictionBest read of the year THE TIMESBooks as fun as this one are few and far between GUARDIANSharp, funny and a joy to read OBSERVERPhoebe Stone arrives at a grand beachside hotel in Rhode Island wearing her best dress and least comfortable shoes. Immediately she is mistaken for one of the wedding people but shes actually the only guest at the Cornwall Inn who isnt here for the big event. When the bride discovers her elaborate destination wedding could be ruined by a divorced and depressed stranger, she is furious. Lila has spent months accounting for every detail and every possible disaster except for, well, Phoebe . . . Soon, both women find their best-laid plans derailed and an unlikely confidante in one another. Hilarious and moving, The Wedding People is an irresistible novel about love, friendship, dysfunctional families, and the unexpected paths that lead to happiness.My book of the summer. As soon as Id finished it, I wanted to read it all over again RED Laugh-out-loud funny and surprisingly moving INDEPENDENTSo funny and romantic . . . A perfect novel CATHERINE NEWMANGlorious . . . made me wish I had written it JOJO MOYESUtterly charming . . . I loved it PANDORA SYKESOne of the few weddings Ive attended that I didnt want to end SAMUEL BURR

Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College . . .Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general - also known as her tough-as-talons mother - has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.But when you''''''''re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away . . . because dragons don''''''''t bond to ''''''''fragile'''''''' humans. They incinerate them.With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother''''''''s daughter - like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.She''''''''ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom''''''''s protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.Everyone at Basgiath has an agenda, and every night could be your last. So, sleep with one eye open because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.

HE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'This book might just change your life' Sunday Times'Wise, wonderful, moving and brilliant... will leave your heart in a much better place' StylistAfter years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. She turned to authors and experts to learn about their experiences, as well as drawing on her own, asking: How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it?

Amb estudi introductori i propostes de treball a cura d'Albert Planelles i Francesc Vernet.Antologia de textos de la literatura catalana contemporania que vol contribuir al coneixement del conte literari i la narrativa breu. La seleccio d'autors (Llorenç Villalonga, Merce Rodoreda, Jaume Cabre i Marius Serra, entre d'altres) permet estudiar les tecniques basiques de la narrativa breu i l'evolucio historica d'aquest genere. Les activitats didactiques que complementen el llibre apropen el lector a les eines d'identificacio dels models narratius i a l'analisi de les diferents tecniques de creacio.

Una mirada diferent sobre l'exili i la vida al camp de refugiats d'Argelers.«I, des d'aquell dia, aquella cabanya rudimentària la vam anomenar La Mansió. Va ser una manera d'aprendre que contra l'hor

Una família rica, una casa abandonada, un jardí desolat... Tenia ganes de fer una novel·la on hi hagues de tot aixo. Mirall trencat es la mes profusa de les novel·les de Merce Rodoreda, un retrat de familia al llarg de tres generacions, i un imponent retrat de dona amb la figura de Teresa Goday. Amb el proleg de l'autora i un epileg de Marta Nadal.

Releasing 10 is an epic and unforgettable love story in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh. The power and pain of first love has never been more deeply felt than in Chloe Walsh''''s extraordinary stories about the irresistible Boys of Tommen, which will give you the ultimate book hangover..........................A love that couldn''''t be broken, except by the truth.Lizzie Young has always felt she was too much everything. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at a young age, she''''s never fit in with her family, her friends, her community. Lizzie wants to be accepted and understood, but with few people in her corner, she''''s carried her burdens and her trauma on her own. But when she meets a kind boy on the school bus, things start to look bright for the first time in her life . . .Hugh Biggs has an old soul and the wisdom of someone far beyond his years. A young man with a sharp mind and a firm code of ethics, he sees something in Lizzie Young that he can''''t resist. He wants to be her everything and shoulder her burden. And Lizzie wants that too. Lizzie and Hugh''''s bond seems unbreakable - their chemistry is electric, their love is potent, and their connection is soul deep - but even the truest love can be shaken by forces beyond control.

Etengabe errepikatzen den naturaren eta bere sasoienágurpilean Paulo eta Daniel bi anaien istorioaákontatzen digute animaliek: txoriak, katagorriek,ásugeak eta antzarak. Urtea joan urtea etorri, betiabestelako eta aldi berean beti berdin ageri da Obabakoairudimenezko lurralde hori, baina, gizakienaarteko handinahi, irrika eta grinen agertoki krudelaada. Paulo eta, batez ere, Daniel anaia atzeratua diraagiza-krudelkeria horren biktimak. Gizakiok errenditzen gaituen naturaren legeazaharrean bildurik, Paulo eta Danielen mundukoaibilera itogarriek bat egiten dute animalien fabulenamunduarekin, eta irakurlearengan efektu zoragarriaalortzen gainera: ihesaren eta kontsolazioarenasentipen askatzailea. Zail da asmatzen nork jarri duen gehiago bereaaldetik, irudimen handiko idazleak ala dohain handikoakontalariak; izan ere, oso gutxitan bezala egokitzenabaitzaio bata besteari.aEmaitza paregabea da. Artista handi baten lana.

I''''m saving you, six.With his world unravelling around him, and pressure rising at home, Joey Lynch''''s life has never been in more turmoil. Desperate to prove himself worthy of the only person he''''s ever put his trust in, Joey fights to stay away from a world that threatens to destroy everything. But with the odds stacking against him by the day, can he keep his head above water?Unwilling to give up on the boy she loves, Aoife Molloy fights to save her best friend from the edge of self-destruction. Drowning in a world she doesn''''t understand, with only her heart to guide her, Aoife refuses to turn her back on Joey, no matter how badly the odds are stacked against them.Through heartbreak and horror, Aoife and Joey have had each other''''s backs, and this time is no different. Come what may.

Les destins croisés de trois femmes, sur trois continents. En Inde, Smita, intouchable, rêve de voir sa fille apprendre à lire. Giulia est ouvrière à Palerme. Quand son père a un grave accident, elle

Amb aquest obra Oller obre la literatura catalana del segle XIX envers la novel·la.Narcís Oller ( 1846-1930 ) va donar unes quantes obres mestres a la literatura catalana, després de segles que no passava. Es l'escriptor que posa al dia la nostra novel·la, empeltant-la dels corrents narratius mes avançats del moment, sota el mestratge del realisme i el naturalisme francesos. La Papallona ( 1882 ) va ser un exit internacional, i amb L'Escanyapobres ( 1884 ) va reixir a treure's de sobre el llast del romanticisme. A La febre d'or ( 1890-2 ) va descriure la burgesia barcelonina, a La bogeria ( 1898 ) va tocar el tema naturalista del determinisme hereditari i a Pilar Prim ( 1906 ) fa un pas cap a la novel·la psicologica. Oller tambe va escriure diversos reculls de contes i unes Memories literaries ( 1962, postumes ).

This one-of-a-kind bestseller from J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst captures the excitement of solving a mystery like no other book: "Both as literature and as a physical object, S. is a profound and tremendous work of art" (Miami Herald).One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.The chronicle of two readers finding each other, and their deadly struggle with forces beyond their understanding -- all within the margins of a book conceived by Star Wars director J.J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst.The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey.

A sharp and scintillating summer novel that will make readers laugh out loud and cry happy tears from the New York Times bestselling author of Yours Truly.Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it''s now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They''ll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other''s out, and they''ll both go on to f

From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Housemaid, The Boyfriend and The Tenant comes a twisty psychological thriller like no other a story of sinister secrets that will keep you enraptured through to the shocking finale.Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime.To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family. She grabs her passport and heads for the northern border before the police can discover what shes done.But when an unexpected snowstorm forces her off the road, Quinn must take refuge at the broken-down, isolated Baxter Motel. The handsome and kindly owner, Nick Baxter, is only too happy to offer her a cheap room for the night.Unfortunately, the Baxter Motel isnt the quiet, safe haven it seemed to be. The motel has a dark and disturbing past. And in the dilapidated house across the way, the silhouette of Nick's ailing wife is always at the window. Always watching.In the morning, Quinn must leave the motel. She'll pack up her belongings and get back on the road to freedom.But first, she must survive the night.

Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite choices, what is the best way to live?

''Such a beacon of pleasure'' KATE ATKINSON''So smart and funny. Deplorably good'' IAN RANKIN''A gripping read'' SUNDAY TIMESTHE FIRST BOOK IN THE #1 BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY TV PRESENTER RICHARD OSMANIn a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case.Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it''s too late?

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WITH A NEW CHAPTER ON TURNING THIRTY.READ AND LOVED IT? GIFT IT TO A FRIEND!'There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it' Lisa Taddeo, author Three Women'The book we will thrust into our friends' hands. Alderton feels like a best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap around you like a warm hug'Evening StandardAward-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survived her twenties (just about) and in Everything I Know About Love, she gives an unflinching account of the bad dates and squalid flat-shares, the heartaches and humiliations, and most importantly, the unbreakable female friendships that helped her to hold it all together. Glittering with wit, heart and humour, this is a book to press into the hands of every woman who has ever been there or is about to find themselves taking that first step towards the rest of their lives.

C’est une chance inespérée pour Millie d’avoir décroché un nouveau travail. Chez les Garrick, un couple fortuné qui possède un somptueux appartement avec vue sur New York, elle fait le ménage et prép

Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College . . .Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general - also known as her tough-as-talons mother - has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.But when you''''''''re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away . . . because dragons don''''''''t bond to ''''''''fragile'''''''' humans. They incinerate them.With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother''''''''s daughter - like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.She''''''''ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom''''''''s protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.Everyone at Basgiath has an agenda, and every night could be your last. So, sleep with one eye open because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.

THE GLOBAL #1 BESTSELLERAN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYA BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN THE GUARDIAN, TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, IRISH TIMES, LONDON STANDARD, INDEPENDENT, OBSERVER, NEW STATESMAN, iNEWS, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, THE SKINNY, CITY AM, DAILY MAIL, AND THE CONVERSATION'I read it in a state of rapture.' SUNDAY TIMES'A tender, funny pageturner.' OBSERVER'Come for the romance, stay for the meaning of life.' IRISH TIMES'A breathtakingly intimate look at love and desire in its many different forms.' REDFrom the author of the multimillioncopy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family.Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.Ivan is a twentytwoyearold competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

The smash-hit international bestsellerA Read With Jenna book club pickWinner of the Goodreads Choice Award for FictionBest read of the year THE TIMESBooks as fun as this one are few and far between GUARDIANSharp, funny and a joy to read OBSERVERPhoebe Stone arrives at a grand beachside hotel in Rhode Island wearing her best dress and least comfortable shoes. Immediately she is mistaken for one of the wedding people but shes actually the only guest at the Cornwall Inn who isnt here for the big event. When the bride discovers her elaborate destination wedding could be ruined by a divorced and depressed stranger, she is furious. Lila has spent months accounting for every detail and every possible disaster except for, well, Phoebe . . . Soon, both women find their best-laid plans derailed and an unlikely confidante in one another. Hilarious and moving, The Wedding People is an irresistible novel about love, friendship, dysfunctional families, and the unexpected paths that lead to happiness.My book of the summer. As soon as Id finished it, I wanted to read it all over again RED Laugh-out-loud funny and surprisingly moving INDEPENDENTSo funny and romantic . . . A perfect novel CATHERINE NEWMANGlorious . . . made me wish I had written it JOJO MOYESUtterly charming . . . I loved it PANDORA SYKESOne of the few weddings Ive attended that I didnt want to end SAMUEL BURR

HE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'This book might just change your life' Sunday Times'Wise, wonderful, moving and brilliant... will leave your heart in a much better place' StylistAfter years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. She turned to authors and experts to learn about their experiences, as well as drawing on her own, asking: How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it?

Amb estudi introductori i propostes de treball a cura d'Albert Planelles i Francesc Vernet.Antologia de textos de la literatura catalana contemporania que vol contribuir al coneixement del conte literari i la narrativa breu. La seleccio d'autors (Llorenç Villalonga, Merce Rodoreda, Jaume Cabre i Marius Serra, entre d'altres) permet estudiar les tecniques basiques de la narrativa breu i l'evolucio historica d'aquest genere. Les activitats didactiques que complementen el llibre apropen el lector a les eines d'identificacio dels models narratius i a l'analisi de les diferents tecniques de creacio.

Una mirada diferent sobre l'exili i la vida al camp de refugiats d'Argelers.«I, des d'aquell dia, aquella cabanya rudimentària la vam anomenar La Mansió. Va ser una manera d'aprendre que contra l'hor

Una família rica, una casa abandonada, un jardí desolat... Tenia ganes de fer una novel·la on hi hagues de tot aixo. Mirall trencat es la mes profusa de les novel·les de Merce Rodoreda, un retrat de familia al llarg de tres generacions, i un imponent retrat de dona amb la figura de Teresa Goday. Amb el proleg de l'autora i un epileg de Marta Nadal.

Etengabe errepikatzen den naturaren eta bere sasoienágurpilean Paulo eta Daniel bi anaien istorioaákontatzen digute animaliek: txoriak, katagorriek,ásugeak eta antzarak. Urtea joan urtea etorri, betiabestelako eta aldi berean beti berdin ageri da Obabakoairudimenezko lurralde hori, baina, gizakienaarteko handinahi, irrika eta grinen agertoki krudelaada. Paulo eta, batez ere, Daniel anaia atzeratua diraagiza-krudelkeria horren biktimak. Gizakiok errenditzen gaituen naturaren legeazaharrean bildurik, Paulo eta Danielen mundukoaibilera itogarriek bat egiten dute animalien fabulenamunduarekin, eta irakurlearengan efektu zoragarriaalortzen gainera: ihesaren eta kontsolazioarenasentipen askatzailea. Zail da asmatzen nork jarri duen gehiago bereaaldetik, irudimen handiko idazleak ala dohain handikoakontalariak; izan ere, oso gutxitan bezala egokitzenabaitzaio bata besteari.aEmaitza paregabea da. Artista handi baten lana.

Releasing 10 is an epic and unforgettable love story in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh. The power and pain of first love has never been more deeply felt than in Chloe Walsh''''s extraordinary stories about the irresistible Boys of Tommen, which will give you the ultimate book hangover..........................A love that couldn''''t be broken, except by the truth.Lizzie Young has always felt she was too much everything. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at a young age, she''''s never fit in with her family, her friends, her community. Lizzie wants to be accepted and understood, but with few people in her corner, she''''s carried her burdens and her trauma on her own. But when she meets a kind boy on the school bus, things start to look bright for the first time in her life . . .Hugh Biggs has an old soul and the wisdom of someone far beyond his years. A young man with a sharp mind and a firm code of ethics, he sees something in Lizzie Young that he can''''t resist. He wants to be her everything and shoulder her burden. And Lizzie wants that too. Lizzie and Hugh''''s bond seems unbreakable - their chemistry is electric, their love is potent, and their connection is soul deep - but even the truest love can be shaken by forces beyond control.

I''''m saving you, six.With his world unravelling around him, and pressure rising at home, Joey Lynch''''s life has never been in more turmoil. Desperate to prove himself worthy of the only person he''''s ever put his trust in, Joey fights to stay away from a world that threatens to destroy everything. But with the odds stacking against him by the day, can he keep his head above water?Unwilling to give up on the boy she loves, Aoife Molloy fights to save her best friend from the edge of self-destruction. Drowning in a world she doesn''''t understand, with only her heart to guide her, Aoife refuses to turn her back on Joey, no matter how badly the odds are stacked against them.Through heartbreak and horror, Aoife and Joey have had each other''''s backs, and this time is no different. Come what may.

This one-of-a-kind bestseller from J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst captures the excitement of solving a mystery like no other book: "Both as literature and as a physical object, S. is a profound and tremendous work of art" (Miami Herald).One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.The chronicle of two readers finding each other, and their deadly struggle with forces beyond their understanding -- all within the margins of a book conceived by Star Wars director J.J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst.The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey.

Les destins croisés de trois femmes, sur trois continents. En Inde, Smita, intouchable, rêve de voir sa fille apprendre à lire. Giulia est ouvrière à Palerme. Quand son père a un grave accident, elle

Amb aquest obra Oller obre la literatura catalana del segle XIX envers la novel·la.Narcís Oller ( 1846-1930 ) va donar unes quantes obres mestres a la literatura catalana, després de segles que no passava. Es l'escriptor que posa al dia la nostra novel·la, empeltant-la dels corrents narratius mes avançats del moment, sota el mestratge del realisme i el naturalisme francesos. La Papallona ( 1882 ) va ser un exit internacional, i amb L'Escanyapobres ( 1884 ) va reixir a treure's de sobre el llast del romanticisme. A La febre d'or ( 1890-2 ) va descriure la burgesia barcelonina, a La bogeria ( 1898 ) va tocar el tema naturalista del determinisme hereditari i a Pilar Prim ( 1906 ) fa un pas cap a la novel·la psicologica. Oller tambe va escriure diversos reculls de contes i unes Memories literaries ( 1962, postumes ).

A sharp and scintillating summer novel that will make readers laugh out loud and cry happy tears from the New York Times bestselling author of Yours Truly.Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it''s now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They''ll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other''s out, and they''ll both go on to f