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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.

Kash owes a lot of money. His restaurant, specialising in exotic meats and catering to New York’s elite, was doing well. Then business dried up, and now Boris the loan shark wants his investment back. But Kash has a plan. There’s a rumour of a dinner club, hosted in turns by billionaires. Lots of ego, and lots of money. If Kash can get the gig, it would pay off Boris and then some. He will need to offer something new, something that five of the richest men on the planet will have never tasted before. Something entirely unprecedented …

Isa, a Gulf War sergeant, silenced a snitch to save his platoon from a murder rap. He now lives namelessly on the streets of New York, shielded by police formerly of his old platoon. His orders are clear: “If the authorities get close, take me out.” For now, in limbo, Isa writes books. He spots his daughter, who has no idea who he is, on the bus. Full of emotion, he accidentally forgets a manuscript. Bob Herman finds a woman who plagues his dreams and a manuscript he can’t put down on a bus ride home. His boss scans the composition, shocked that Herman had it in him.

Sister Europe tells the story of one wild night in Berlin, as a ragtag group meet at the Hotel Interconti to celebrate an elderly author’s venerable career (all under the resolute assurance that their wealthy host will provide a free and fancy dinner). Inevitably, boredom, hunger and horniness set in, and the gang—a young trans teen and her father; an ageing publisher and his flakey date; a dog, a troubled heiress and an Arabic prince—are flung out on an exhilarating odyssey through the city’s shadow and light.

A teacher and his wife get caught up in the drama of election politics and a Channel 8 soap opera. An invalid house-sits for his sister and has to care for his nephew's pampered pet pig. A daughter travels overseas to convince her elderly father to move home with her. An academic must navigate an opaque bureaucracy to renew his Re-Entry Permit. A young Lee Kuan Yew finds camaraderie with a future Canadian Prime Minister in England, and relentless tenacity from a British student in Canada desperate for an interview.

It's 1973 and Mona Glass is a 24-year-old amateur tennis star in a long-running affair with Saul Plotz, her former college professor. Her parents like Saul and desperately want the free-spirited Mona to marry. But 34-year-old Saul already has a wife and two children. One day, Saul happens on an idea: stage a fake wedding for the benefit of her old world parents, invite a few friends in on the joke, and go about their lives. The ruse works. Except Saul realizes he actually wants to marry Mona, who vows never to permanently tie herself to a man.

My new husband is everything I shouldn't want: dark soul, wicked smile, and a growl that makes me forget my own name. A walking sin in a tailored suit, he's determined to make me pay for my father's betrayal. But the way he claims me like I'm his only redemption tells a different story. Turns out New York's most feared crime lord has a weakness. And apparently, it's me.

माया भले ही गांव की गलियों से निकल शहर आई थी, लेकिन उसके सपने बहुच ऊंचे थे. अपने सपनों को पूरा करने के लिए उसे न देह व्यापार से गुरेज था.

Some would say the Market is the last authentic part of the city centre. This northern city has reinvented itself as a business and financial centre, bristling with designer shops and bars. A cosmopolitan, twenty-four hour city. Yet slap bang in the centre the Victorian City Market remains what it has always been; a place where you can get anything and see anything - a place teeming with life. The market is the real face of the city - mucky, multicultural and magnificent. Listen to this immersive collection of full-cast BBC radio dramas exploring the high and lows of this unique place.

Cybersecurity expert Ted McCord has been fired. He risked everything in a game far beyond his control. It's the last straw for Charlotte McCord, who's never understood her husband's addiction to the trappings of corporate life-the titles, the money, and the promise of visible success that he prefers over his family's ranch. Six months earlier, Ted did something unthinkable to gain a promotion and hid his actions from his wife.

تتناول الرواية أحداث ثلاثة أيام يعيشها الكاتب في مدينة وصفها بالمتوحشة ليصادف فيها أحداث غريبة وشخصيات أغرب خارجة عن المألوف. وتعج الرواية بالعشيقات والحانات والشقق الصاخبة بالجرائم والمصائر المأساوية، ينسج حكاياتها الكاتب.

أخذ الكاتب السوري زياد عبد الله على عاتقه أن يحمل عبء رواية تجري أحداثها في مدينة دبي الحديثة، حيث التجارة والمال والأعمال والأبراج الشاهقة، وسوق المال والبورصة وكل ما يتعلق بالحياة في تلك المدينة الشديدة الحداثة والسريعة التطور، وعن شخصيات تعيش وتسرد الأحداث في تلك المدينة الغنية بعدد كبير من الناس والجنسيات المتعددة التي تضم أفراداً من مختلف أنحاء العالم بكل ثقافاتهم وأهوائهم وأعمالهم في تلك المدينة الهائلة.

جاءت الرواية معالجةً للتحولات التي طرأت على المدينة التونسية في عهد ما وصفه الكاتب بـ"دولة التغيير الكاذب". والتجوال في روائح المدينة المختلفة من الفل والياسمين إلى النفايات والمزابل، والأطعمة والتوابل، وتحولاتها عبر الزمن.

تتابع رواية "حدائقهنّ المعلقة" مجموعة من الأشخاص اختاروا لندن مغترَبًا أو مَهْجرًا، فتبعتهم الجذورُ، وقرَّبتهم المصالحُ، وأنضجتهم الصداقاتُ، وأغنتهم التجارب...

When Luca drops out of his prestigious PhD programme and moves back home to Manchester, he thinks he'll take some time to consider his life choices: the failed love affair that ended in a disastrous holiday and embarrassing exit, the pursuit of an academic life that gave him nothing but a strong sense of failure. In need of money, and still convinced the literary life might be for him, Luca takes on a job as a ghost writer: Andy, who has progressive MS, wants Luca to write his life story.

Years after escaping her unbearable artworld friends in New York for a new life in London, an unnamed writer finds herself back on the Lower East Side attending a dinner party hosted by Eugene and Nicole – an artist-curator couple – and attended by their pretentious circle. It’s the evening after the funeral of their mutual friend, a failed actress, and if the narrator once loved and admired Eugene and Nicole and their important friends, she now despises them all.

Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the thorniest problems of modern life: sex, relationships, identity and the internet. We see a young man’s passionate allyship turn to a furious and debilitating nihilism as he realizes, over thirty lonely years, that his feminism isn’t getting him laid; a young woman’s unrequited crush spirals into borderline obsession and the systematic destruction of both her sense of self and her group chat; and witness a shy late bloomer’s flailing efforts at a first relationship lead to a life-upending mistake.

It is 2003 – ten years since Spud Milton’s class of 93 matriculated and the boys went their separate ways. Despite their seemingly unbreakable bond, the Crazy Eight – Rambo, Mad Dog, Vern, Fatty, Garth Garlic, Boggo, Simon and Spud – have not kept in touch. Or at least, not as far as Spud knows. When he receives an invitation from the school to attend the ten-year reunion weekend, Spud is determined to avoid the event at all costs, but he hasn’t reckoned with the bombardment of intrusive messages and threatening phone calls from his former dorm mates.

"مع وقف التنفيذ" حكايةٌ تدور أحداثها في أحد أحياء مدينة القاهرة المزدحمة بالطبقة الوسطى وما تحتها حيث نرى سلاسل البنايات المتراصّة دون تناسق ملتحمةً ببعضها البعض وكأنّها قطعةٌ واحدة وهذا حال أهل المدينة هناك فهم متشابهون جدًا..لديهم نفس الطباع، نفس حدّة المزاج ونفس الضحكات التي تنبع صادقةً من القلب.

The Magpie Wing is set on football fields, in sharehouses, at punk gigs and in dilapidated and gentrifying pubs. Max Easton’s debut novel moves from the nineties to the present, and between the suburbs and the inner city, exploring how communities that appear worlds apart—underground music scenes, rugby league clubs, communist splinter groups—often share unexpected roots.