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On the night he celebrates a big win, defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a former client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is immediately charged with murder but can’t post the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge. Mickey elects to represent himself and is forced to mount his defense from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles.

It’s time for more confessions... As heartfelt and hilarious as the bestselling first novel, Nell discovers that there’s no such thing as having it all figured out.

This is the 1927 book that years later inspired the movie of the same name. It is a book about criminal violence, corrupt politics and police, and illicit sex. The City of New York, from the late colonial period up to the early twentieth century, was a bustling hub of commerce, industry, and immigration. For many the city was the gateway to a new life in America, and for many others it was a place to steal a buck from their fellow New Yorkers and visitors to the city with thievery, fraud, and vice—in neighborhoods such as the Five Points, the Bowery, Hells Kitchen, and the Water Front.

In Tokyo, there is a neighbourhood with the highest number of bookstores in the world. It is called Jinbocho where book lovers can browse to their heart's delight and where hunters of first editions or autographed copies prowl the bookcases. The Morisaki bookshop, a small family-run shop, is so packed with books that barely five people can fit inside. Books crowd the shelves and invade every corner of the floor; when a customer arrives, the owner, Satoru, immediately pops out from behind the counter.

Regarded as one of the most important works in American literature and among the greatest American novels of the twentieth century, The Great Gatsby is the quintessential portrait of Jazz Age America, depicting not only the wild parties, romance, love, and the intense and often unfulfilled desire for wealth and status, but also the immorality, loneliness, disappointment and corruption of The Roaring Twenties.

When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit.

Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down. Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period.

It's 1999, and Eira Hart and Ru Tattersall are set up to co-host The Lonely Harts Club, a new late-night radio show to help New Yorkers find love. It's a last chance attempt for both Eira, expert in Celtic mythology and amateur Welsh matchmaker, and Ru, once-hot-shot Aussie DJ, to achieve their New York dreams. The thing is, you either click with a co-host, or you don’t. It’s a bit like falling in love. There’s co-host chemistry, or there isn’t. With the countdown to a new millennium, it feels like the world as they know it is about to end.

The neon lights of New York City flickered like stars in a velvet sky, casting a vibrant glow over the streets below. In the heart of the bustling metropolis, amidst the cacophony of honking horns and the distant hum of sirens, lay the emblem of Ethan Scott and Marcus Turner’s success—a nightclub called "Inferno." Its dazzling facade, ablaze with crimson and gold, promised nights of untamed revelry and escape from the ordinary.

Like most people, Bud Palmer felt this was just another day. Though the era was drawing to a close, he assumed his life as a sports columnist in the subtropics, in keeping with the benign fifties itself, would go on as predictable as ever. But that particular autumn morning he was thrust into a caper that was totally beyond him, forced him to leave Miami and take the train to Manhattan, and suddenly found everything in this restless "Big Apple" was up for grabs, on the brink, at a dicey turning point.

A seventeen-year-old killer named Hope is haunted by the love of his dead mama and the loyalty he has to his older dead brother. Hope is plagued by thoughts of how his brother covered him from being shot in the head. His loyalty is now to his granny whose inevitable fate is being watched by the local police and the Feds. Hope was born in the streets and gambling, selling drugs is how he eats. This young boy has had it hard and that’s how this story is going to give it to you.

After a decade of waiting for the call that would change everything, Lucy's dreams are shattered when her agent drops her. But returning to the life she's spent ten years running from isn't an option. Determined to keep her acting career alive, Lucy and her best friend Jack launch an Impersonation Agency, stepping into the lives of strangers and playing everything from supportive partners at family gatherings to charming plus-ones at corporate events.

Inmate Riley Price A.K.A., “Lil Riley” is a full-time hustler and part time pimp. He was recently indicted by the Federal Government on conspiracy and money laundering charges, and he is currently awaiting trial in the detainment center at LaSalle Correctional Facility. Before Lil Riley was arrested, his stable of women were willing to do any and everything he asked. Since his arrest, not only has there been a series of action, but also some disturbing rumors in the streets.

كان كلَّما دخل منزلًا هجره أهله تسلَّل إليه الشعور ذاته، مزيجٌ من الرَّهبة والحزن تختلط بروائح مختلفة من العفونة والحليب الفاسد والطعام الذي تُركَ في المطبخ لأسابيع، لم يكن يملك أمام هذا الشعور سوى التجاهل فقد كانت تلك وظيفته التي يعتاش بها؛ إصلاح ما فسد من المنازل بعد أن هجرها أهلها على عجل حتّى يتسنّى للبنك المصرفي بيعها في أقرب وقت، لم يجرؤ يومًا على أخذ شيءٍ من المقتنيات كما أصدقاؤه لكنّه مارس هوايته بالتقاط الصور الفوتوغرافية للأشياء المهملة لا يعرف لماذا وكأنّه أخذ على عاتقه أن يوثّقَ آخر رمقٍ من حياةٍ كانت هنا أو ربّما كي.

Una vieja factoría de la calle del Planeta, en el corazón de Gràcia, alberga un coworking con una singular fauna: Uwe es el hijo único de un industrial alemán que le ha dado "un año de gracia" para vivir la bohemia antes de hacerse cargo del negocio familiar. Maurici no para de diseñar nuevos e inverosímiles negocios que siempre están «a punto» de procurarle éxito. Vilma es una fotógrafa de misteriosos hábitos, como dormir dentro del coworking o desaparecer en una playa secreta. Gus es nómada digital y trabaja como lanzador de cursos online, acompañado de un ejército de figuras de Star Wars.

Exacting yet unpredictable, pithy yet complex, J. M. Coetzee’s The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, extravagantly white-haired pianist and interpreter of Chopin who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish Spanish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his concert in Barcelona. Although Beatriz, a married woman, is initially unimpressed by Wittold and his “gleaming dentures,” she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept into his world.

When overachiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, she escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some overdue rest. Eileen is newly single and about to turn 80. She'd like a second chance at love, but her tiny Yorkshire village doesn't offer many eligible gentlemen. Once Leena learns of Eileen's romantic predicament, she proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can live in London and look for love. Meanwhile Leena will look after everything in rural Yorkshire....

بالفعل كانت لى حكايات مريعة فى .... وسط البلد "

In alten Kellerhallen, in denen der Techno die noch von der Gewalt des letzten Jahrhunderts gezeichneten Wände zum Beben bringt, trifft die 19-jährige Nila auf Gleichgesinnte. Man legt die Lines, während man den Sozialismus predigt, und für Nila ist dieser dunkle Massenkörper der Ausweg aus dem Berliner Plattenbau, in dem wie sie nur Geflüchtete leben, wo die Toiletten von Silberfischen befallen und die Wände mit Hakenkreuzen beschmiert sind.

Lucas will nichts als seine Ruhe in einer Welt, die ihn einfach nicht in Ruhe lässt. Eine Kurzgeschichte vom internationalen Bestsellerautor Fredrik Backman Videospiele, Wein und Pad Thai – das ist der perfekte Abend für Lucas. Andere Menschen? Muss nicht sein. Warum denn, wenn er auch alleine glücklich sein kann? Als der dreiköpfige Vorstand der Bewohnervertretung überraschend an seiner Tür klingelt und eine Inspektion seiner Bratpfanne verlangt, ist Lucas alles andere als begeistert. Doch Abwimmeln ist nicht.