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Growing up in difficult circumstances in the hood, Mikayla meets Jeremiah, who has also led a troubled life, and the pair discover that love can blossom anywhere.

Blake Karrington once again takes you on a Southern literary ride with his latest criminal romance.In Deeper Than Love, find out what happens when Ciara and Sabrina fail to realize that the answers they seek to close the biggest case of their careers are closer than it appears.Agent Ciara Valentine has been transferred to the Atlanta Bureau of the FBI. She never imagined the turn of events she would encounter in her personal and professional life as she launches her new career path. Ciara finds that her "mystery" partner is none other than her FBI Academy classmate Sabrina. Together they begin an investigation into the ongoing robberies that have yielded millions of dollars from banks all over Atlanta.With nothing but dead ends and weeks of unanswered questions in their case, Ciara and Sabrina decide to relieve some stress by having a night out on the town. Sabrina runs into her old flame, Tremaine, and sparks start to fly, reigniting flames between them. However, the same can't be said for Ciara and Dominique, the most sought-after bachelor in Atlanta. Sabrina and Tremaine try to make a love connection between their two friends but quickly nix the idea after seeing that neither one wants to connect.When Ciara and Dominique meet again under less than ordinary circumstances, they promptly discover that they have a lot more in common than they thought and begin exploring the connection they once denied.

Ty Magnum gets out of prison after 19 long years ready to explore the great state of Texas and then maybe the world. Outside the parking lot, a beautiful Mexican girl is crying. She tells Mag her story. He believes her.

'Funny, merciless, brilliant... I loved it'CURTIS SITTENFELD, bestselling author of ROMANTIC COMEDYSeamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures.In a university town in the American Midwest, this circle of lovers and friends ask themselves: what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? Is love possible without harm? And what does true connection look like in an age of precarity?The author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women trying to work out what they want, and who they are.'Taylor is a sharp chronicler'RAVEN LEILANI, author of LUSTER'Assures Taylor's position as one of the most important novelists of his generation'GUARDIAN'Remarkable'FINANCIAL TIMES'Elegant... Taylor has a Chekhovian generosity'CLAIRE MESSUD, author of THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN

Loyalty is a word that gets thrown around a lot, but is rarely put to the test. For Dez, a promising DEA agent that managed to work his way off the streets of Brooklyn, it just got real. When his best friend is murdered by an elusive cartel leader named El Cazador, it sends Dez over the edge. Consumed with revenge, Dez will stop at nothing and break any rules to find this mysterious killer. Dez's only lead is a well connected, stylish, charismatic local drug dealer named Chops. Chops is looking to strike his own deal with El Cazador and become the next King of New York. Caught in the middle, a sexy interior designer named Pia, who is an unknowing witness that has captured the heart of both men. In this deadly love triangle, will Pia help Dez catch his killer, or will she be seduced by the riches and glamour that comes with being the girl of the most powerful gangster in New York?

Linda, Bette, Gemma, and Augusta are four lifelong friends who live in Montreal. This year they're all going to turn fifty, so they decide to take a trip to New York together (courtesy of Linda's philandering husband's Visa Platinum). But at the LaGuardia airport washroom, Bette accidentally switches bags with a young mother who's actually smuggling diamonds for the mob, and things start going terribly wrong. When they kill an aggressive cab driver with pepper spray, the four friends know this is not going to be the trip of shopping and Broadway shows they'd expected.A series of miscommunications and mishaps entangles the friends even further into the criminal underworld of New York. But out of all the bad luck (Linda's husband is staying at the same hotel as the friends, with his new girlfriend) and bad people (mobsters, drug addicts, and Linda's husband) emerge four fifty-year-old avengers of truth and justice. In the style of Crewe's Shoot Me, Hit and Mrs. is a wildly entertaining comedic romp.

Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus clings to his dream of rap stardom, Kiara hunts for work to pay their rent--which has now more than doubled--and to keep the 9-year-old boy next door, abandoned by his mother, safe and fed. What begins as a drunken misunderstanding with a stranger one night soon becomes the job Kiara never wanted but now desperately needs: nightcrawling. And her world breaks open even further when her name surfaces in an investigation that exposes her as a key witness in a massive scandal within the Oakland police department.

Mila ankommer i en alder af tre år til Lissabon fra Luanda, hovedstaden i Angola. Hendes far er portugiser, hendes mor angolaner. Alt, hvad hun ved om sin oprindelse, stammer fra hendes bedsteforældre og nogle falmede fotografier. Fra første dag føler hun sig som en fremmed. Det mest tydelige tegn på hendes forskellighed er hendes krøllede hår, som stort set er uregerligt og vil følge hende hele livet. Mila bruger sine minder som en falsk biografi, hvori hun fortæller om familiebegivenheder gennem fire generationer. Hun indleder en søgen efter sin identitet, en søgen, der skal vise sig at blive kompleks og smertefuld, og som krydser tre lande og to kontinenters historie. Gennem hendes utæmmelige krøllede hårs originale linse ser vi hendes forandring og følger hende gennem kvartererne i et Lissabon, der endnu ikke tilhører middelklassen, gennem Luandas gader og blandt billederne i et familiealbum, der giver os et fragmentarisk og vildledende indblik. Ved at blande erindringer og postkolonial roman, virkelighed og fiktion reflekterer Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida over racisme, feminisme, identitet, hukommelsens mekanismer og skriveprocessen og tvinger os til at reflektere over et spørgsmål, der bekymrer flere og flere mennesker i dag: Hvad vil det sige slet ikke at høre til nogen steder og hele tiden leve i spændet mellem forskellige kulturer? ”Mit hår er en aktuel og vigtig bog om familie, som henvender sig til mange nutidige læsere, der kæmper med en blandet identitet, og til enhver, der forsøger at finde meningen med en hårtype, hudfarve og familiebaggrund, der ikke passer ind i det traditionelle mønster.” The New York Times

Tiden ved Stillehavet er en roman skrevet med glæde, som en hyldest til glæden. En stor familie ledsager den gamle 91-årige mor til Colombias Stillehavskyst for at se hvaler. Ignacio, som er læge og fortæller i denne smukke roman, er med på rejsen for at finde meningen med livet. Sammen med ham er hans mor, hans moster Antonia, hans kone, Ester, hans fire søskende, en sygeplejerske og hans nevøer. Nogle er spøgelsesagtige tilstedeværelser i hukommelsen, andre er der for at afsløre den dybere grund til, at de samles på det gådefulde sted, hvor havet, stranden, himlen og regnen går i ét med junglen. Tiden ved Stillehavet er en tumultarisk familieroman, hvori man mærker den store litteraturs mimetiske kraft; den, der gennem sine personer og sit sprog minder os om, at liv og død er to sider af samme sag. Ligesom der ikke kunne være noget hav uden en kyst, kan der heller ikke være nogen begyndelse uden en afslutning. “Tomás González har potentialet til at blive en klassiker i latinamerikansk litteratur. Da jeg læste ham, fik jeg fornemmelsen af, at han var en forfatter med en stor renhed.” Elfriede Jelinek, forfatter, Nobelprisvinder