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Un recién nacido aparece abandonado en el último asiento del tranvía número catorce. Es Nochebuena y el vehículo surca cual cometa las vías hacia la periferia de una ciudad sin nombre. ¿Cómo ha llegado hasta allí? ¿Qué va a ser de él? Tal vez por caridad, por improvisación o por locura, alguien ha decidido confiar al niño a los brazos del mundo. Y el "mundo" que lo acompaña en ese primer viaje de su vida es esa parte de la existencia...
62) Fluencer
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In the heart of Dubai's kaleidoscopic streets, Rayan shines as a charismatic TikTok influencer, captivating his audience with a life as vibrant as the city itself but when a fateful accident shatters his world he finds himself propelled onto a journey of reinvention in the bustling heart of New York City. Here he collaborates with Naomi, an ambitious filmmaker with dreams as towering as the skyscrapers that frame her world. Together they navigate...
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Alexandra lives for her successful business. She knows what she wants in life and, more importantly, what she doesn't want. Four-legged best friend Max is the only man she is willing to commit to.On a winter morning, she stops to help at the scene of a car accident, and her well-laid plans take a collision course with a man who will challenge her limits.Truck driver Mike is straight-laced and down to earth with strong family values--everything Alex...
64) Employee 6 Is 54
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Ageism in hiring is real, Jillian Johnson discovered, as door after door closed in her face. So she was elated when Desmond Hensley, a charming startup founder, offered her a dream job. How could Jillian know then, that she would be the one to lead the company of twenty-somethings to uncover his secret? When Jillian Johnson resigns from her job, she is momentarily proud-her resignation is in protest of unfair labor practices. Then reality hits. At...
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In the tranquil landscapes of Mississippi, a young boy's life is woven with tales of tight-knit communities, family traditions, and the allure of the great outdoors. But as he nears his twenties, the bright lights of New York City beckon, promising a world of possibilities far from his Southern roots.Relocating to Manhattan, he quickly ascends the social ladder. From a coveted job at a prestigious firm to mingling with the city's elite at lavish parties,...
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Colección de treinta microrrelatos del autor conocido como PERICOYPICO. Hay algunos relatos temáticos que han sido presentados a diversos concursos y otros que fueron escritos ad hoc para servir como banda sonora original de sus guiones. El autor ha experimentado con el pequeño género, incluyendo aforismos, y jugado con las palabras y las extensiones reducidas del género "chico" que tan de moda está en la actualidad. Una incursión más en el...
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The Italian Tycoon And The Nanny
Rebecca Winters
A new dad to his orphaned nephew, Massimo needs help. Bringing the baby's beautiful aunt Julie Marchant to Italy as a nanny seems the perfect solution.
Plucked form her quiet, suburban existence, Julie is a fish out of water in Massimo's glamorous, wealthy world. But she is thrilled to be part of her nephew's life, even if it means being the hired help. More of a challenge is spending every day with...
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De Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Walter Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman...each a walker and city-dweller, each a collagist and chronicler, picking the detritus of their eras off the filthy streets and assembling it into something new, shocking, and beautiful. In To Walk Alone in the Crowd, Antonio Muñoz Molina emulates these classical inspirations, following their peregrinations as well as telling their stories, in a book that is part memoir,...
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El hombre que nos habla en este libro trata de ordenar sus recuerdos. Sin embargo, lejos de ser el suyo un acto de complacencia, intenta derribar las inercias de sus ideas, de sus juicios y de sus costumbres. La literatura le sirve de espejo en el que mirarse, y el reflejo que ésta le devuelve es unas veces alentador, y otras, deformante, pero siempre un fértil motor de pensamiento y de transformación.
Así pues, el protagonista vagabundea por...
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When terrorists sink their whaling vessel, the company Jonas works for goes out of business, and he finds himself unemployed in Tokyo during a recession.
Struggling to find a job to keep his apartment and eat, he gets a job at a transvestite hostess club.
These are his adventures.
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"Those who have what it takes can make it right where God put them; going away is trying to hide your ineptitude among the strangers."
With his brother's words permanently etched in his brain, Kostas, a headstrong Greek merchant seaman, jumps ship in America, determined to prove his brother and all others like him wrong. Though one among the thousands of illegal immigrants pouring into the country, striving to make it while dodging the long tenacles...
72) All Over the Map
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More Amusing Ways and Woes of Morgan McFinn - the World's Most Committed Leisure Activist.A year after the publication of his 'paradise journal' Out of the Loop, slacker extraordinaire Morgan McFinn finally relinquishes his hammock on the glorious shores of Koh Samui in the Gulf of Siam. In an attempt to widen his orbit of earthly experiences, McFinn sets off to other exotic locales around Southeast Asia and even further afield. Taking up residence...
73) A Precarious Man
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Nick Moran is one of that hapless tribe you hear about on occasion: an English PhD who can't find a job. Even when he does, years later and after a second career as a hack Hollywood screenwriter falls apart, the department at a university in Auckland, New Zealand, turns out to be a hornet's nest of paranoia, arbitrary power, and guilt by association. When his consensual relationship with a student leads not just to scandal and public disgrace but...
74) The Art of Zen
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Fresh off another sold-out gallery show, New York City artist Tia Zen is on top of the world. Her work catches the eye of successful restaurateur Spencer Chadwick and his socialite girlfriend Ainsley Davenport. He wants her to paint a mural for his newest hot spot and she reluctantly accepts even though she feels they are polar opposites. Worlds collide immediately as the work progresses and tensions begin to mount. Tia and Spencer begin to feel that...
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Scenes of Bohemian Life (1851) is a novel by Henri Murger. Written at the beginning of his career as a popular French poet and novelist, Scenes of Bohemian Life is composed of vignettes inspired by the author's experience as a starving artist in Paris' Latin Quarter. Adapted countless times for theater and film, Murger's novel served as inspiration for Puccini's opera La bohème (1896) and for the hit musical Rent (1996). "The Bohemians know everything...
76) Behind the Bid
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Behind the Bid opens a door to the secretive world, where class identity determines the rules. Outsider protagonist Enid is desperate to gain a foothold in this world of glitz and glamour as a graduate intern in an international auction house. Influenced by social media and suffering from It girl envy, Enid believes she will do anything it takes, from dating clients to using friendships. Along the way, she learns about the kind of person she really...
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1999. Winter. Bondi. Harry's been on the streets so long he could easily forget what time is. So Harry keeps an eye on it. Every morning. Then he heads to the beach to chat with the gulls. Or he wanders through the streets in search of food, clothes, Jules. When the girl on the bus sees him, lonely and cold in the bus shelter that he calls home, she thinks about how she can help. She decides to write a symphony for him. So begins a poignant and gritty...
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After the politics of his prestigious law firm send Ben out on the street, he finds himself playing piano at a waterfront brothel. In his new life, Ben explores the underbelly of peoples' desires, fears, compulsions, and dreams. As Ben moves throughout this new life, he realizes that the women around him are trying to survive and thrive in a world that hasn't handed them anything. A story of failure, redemption, and human understanding, and featuring...
79) Mickey Collins
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Mickey Collins, son of a drug-dealer, relates his amazing tale from childhood to something approaching being an adult. The streets of Cork, Ireland, is where Mickey learns fine skills such as pre-teen drinking, shoplifting and breaking & entering. However, after Mickey disobeys his mother once too often, a lifetime of pain (or 'adventure' as Mickey would see it) descends upon him, as he bounces from one State service to another.
A kaleidoscopic tour...
80) The Ride to Work
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An entire life compressed into a single hour.
For seven years, public servant Anthony Speed has commuted by bicycle to his inner-city office dreading the monotony and drudgery of his job. On an otherwise routine Monday morning, he sets out to do this one last time.
The ride forward to his destination coincides with a journey back through his past, as the people and places he crosses paths with draw him into recollections of the great traumas of his...
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