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Nell Calder is the docile, plain wife of a powerful financier. She is content to live in the shadows of his elegant international life. Suddenly one night, at a lavish party, a hit man targets her husband. Nell’s face and body are deeply marred by the same violent hand. But from the ensuing surgery and rehabilitation, Nell emerges beautiful, strong, and bent on revenge. To develop the skills she needs to face her attacker, Nell must conquer her fear and face almost impossible odds.

When Hannah learns that famed chef Daniel Costello is facing accusations of sexual assault, she's thrown back to the summer she spent waitressing at his high-end Dublin restaurant when she was a young college student—the plush splendor of the dining rooms, the wild parties after service, the sizzling tension of the kitchens. But Hannah also remembers how the attention from Daniel soon morphed from kindness into something darker. Now the restaurant is shuttered and Daniel tries to understand how his life is now completely out of his control

Charlotte has everything in life that she ever could have hoped for: a doting, artistic husband, a small-but-thriving flower shop, and her sweet, smart five-year-old daughter, Daisy. Her relationship with her mother might be strained, but the distance between them helps. And her younger brother Rocco may have horrible taste in women, but when he introduces his new girlfriend to Charlotte and her family, they are cautiously optimistic that she could be The One. Daisy seems to love Ruth, and she can’t be any worse than the klepto Rocco brought home the last time.

Karen, Eleanor, and Bea have been best friends since childhood. They know everything about each other’s lives, or at least they think they do. Now in their thirties, though their lives are beginning to diverge: Eleanor is a young wife and mother who is struggling; Bea is happy being single - or so she lets people think; and Karen is a psychiatrist who, despite the secrets in her past, considers herself the anchor of the group. But when she takes on a new patient with issues she just can’t quite put her finger on, she begins to realize she may have put her dearest friends in danger.

Brooke wants. She isn’t in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her mother along the way, to spend time with friends and secure her independence. Her job assisting an octogenarian billionaire in his quest to give away a vast fortune could help her achieve many of these goals. It may inspire new desires as well: proximity to wealth turns out to be nothing less than transformative. What is money, really, but a kind of belief?

Katrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn’t a stalker. Her obsession with her co-worker, Kurt, is just one of many coping mechanisms—like her constant shape and number rituals, or the way scenes from her favorite children’s book bleed into her vision whenever she feels anxious. But when Katrina finds a cryptic message from Kurt implying he’s aware of her surveillance, her tenuous hold on a normal life crumbles. Driven by compulsion, she makes a midnight visit to the Cayatoga Bridge—just in time to witness Kurt’s suicide.

Some women, with their perfect children and pricey athleisure, make motherhood look easy. But not Nicole. She never wanted to be a stay-at-home parent—losing her job left her no choice. Now, between her toddlers’ demands, husband’s distance, and father’s deteriorating health, she’s pulled in every direction except her own. Something has to give. Katrina’s in the same dissatisfied boat. After flirting with a handsome stranger at a bar, she’s ready to choose pleasure over responsibility.

Slade Steadman's lone opus, published twenty years ago, was Trespassing, a cult classic about his travels through dozens of countries without benefit of passport. With his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend Ava in tow, Steadman sets out for Ecuador’s jungle in search of a rare hallucinogenic drug and the cure for his writer’s block. Amid a gang of thrill-seeking tourists, he finds his drug and his inspiration but is beset with an unnerving side effect—periodic blindness.

A Ezequiel Martínez Estrada se lo recuerda, en la historia de las ideas, como autor de ensayos, de los más importantes que se han escrito en este país. Algunos son ineludibles: Radiografía de la Pampa, sin duda el de mayor renombre, equivalente al Facundo de Domingo F. Sarmiento. O bien su libro sobre el peronismo, ese jeroglífico nacional: Qué es esto. Todo un título. Sin embargo, en sus inicios, Martínez Estrada tuvo fama de poeta.

Recorriendo los temas que le apasionan y que son referenciales en el resto de su obra, en Bajo una luz más clara Helena establece un diálogo con los muertos, tan real como en la Antigüedad clásica. En el tránsito de la memoria, el recuerdo, la negación del olvido, la protagonista busca recuperar el deseo de vivir y se enfrenta con los que ya no están, pero que siguen siendo parte de su vida; en un diálogo imposible reconstruirá su infancia y el pasado de una familia perdida de manera brutal.

…Busco mi imagen en el espejo, alguna sombra que me diga quién soy, de dónde vengo, qué sangre alimenta mi cuerpo. Busco un lugar seguro, lejos de la mentira, lejos del engaño, lejos del terrorismo, de las violaciones, de la tortura. Busco un culpable, un motivo, una excusa… …Salir de uno mismo para ponerse en el lugar del otro es una frase trillada. ¿Quién sale de su engaño para entender al engañador? ¿Quién sale de su lugar de vejado para entender al vejador?

En la tierra de los matrimonios arreglados desde la adolescencia, y en un país marcado por el racismo, Delfina consigue un hombre blanco de pareja para obtener descendencia mulata. ¿Cómo actúa el colonialismo sobre la autoestima del colonizado; más aún, de la colonizada? ¿Cómo se ve a sí misma la persona colonizada? ¿Qué es el amor para una mujer negra? ¿Qué significa, para un negro, ser negro o negra en pleno régimen colonial?

بين زمنين تتحرك رواية الهجران، زمن الأب الذي سُجن وقُتل بسبب معارضته، وزمن اللاذقية الجديدة، لاذقية جيل جديد عاش عنفاً مختلفاً يحاول أن يخرج منه عن طريق الحب.

When we meet Amy Shone, she is a young parent struggling to raise Kate, a precocious eight-year-old. Amy is an enigma—a brilliant scholar who has forgotten how to read. She is estranged from her wealthy English parents and lives a nomadic life in Scotland, dragging Kate from one school to the next, barely scraping by. And then there is Ash, a fiery Scottish actresss who cannot shake her demons—chief among them an unrequited passion for Amy that has obsessed her ever since they met as teenagers.

Con un lenguaje preciso y directo, fluido y ameno, lleno de imágenes sugerentes y desgarradoras, Jardín de moras nos introduce en una literatura de nuevo cuño en la que se aúna la desbordante capacidad imaginativa y literaria de esta increíble autora novel con el realismo más pregnante y concreto de una realidad social y política que desborda cada una de sus páginas. En ellas encontrará el lector no sólo las interesantes y multifáceticas peripecias de sus personajes, sino a la vez una profunda reflexión moral y social de la que no es posible salir indemne.

The stories in The Vanishing Point are both exotic and domestic, their settings ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England. Each focuses on life’s vanishing points—a moment when seemingly all lines running through one’s life converge, and one can see no farther, yet must deal with the implications. With the insight, subtlety, and empathy that has long characterized his work, Theroux has written deeply moving stories about memory, longing, and the passing of time, reclaiming his status, once again, as a master of the form.

هل دخلت مستشفى الطب النفسي في (الكويت) ؟! .. الكثيرون لم يفعلوا .. وربما أكون من المحظوظين الذين يدخلونه بصورة يومية بحكم مهنتي كطبيب نفسي .. فلا أنكر أن هناك متعة في الاستماع لمشاكل الناس ومحاولة إيجاد الحلول لها .. خاصة مشاكل المراهقات .. إذ لا يخفى عليكم أننا نعيش في مجتمع ذكوري صارم يمارِس فيه الرجل (وأد البنات) فكريا وعاطفيا .. وهذه التقاليد نتيجتها الطبيعية أن يكون معظم (زبائني) من فئة المراهقات بسبب تراكم الضغوطات عليهن من الجميع

Reeling from a breakup and overlooked at her job as a lighting designer, Iris Sunnegren finds herself stuck, disconnected, and lonely in crowded New York City. Her wealthy friends are married and having babies, while she’s trying to pay for freezing her eggs. And the future she longs for feels out of reach. Then, a mysterious neighbor, an older Frenchwoman, makes her a gift: a bespoke perfume. One spritz, a dab behind the ears, and Iris is a different woman. Suddenly, she is the object of every man’s desire, and she can satisfy her own hungers for sex, love, and ambition.

At a crossroads in their lives, a couple arrives in Greece to house-sit for a friend. Emma is searching for a meaningful next step beyond work or motherhood, and Julian is struggling to come to terms with the failure of his academic career. Their visions for the future seem to be pulling them in different directions, and they hope that this summer away will help them to mend their frayed connection.

تتعرضُ بطلة الرواية ""أكابر"" لتجربةٍ مُذلَّة حين يهجرها زوجها ""فيصل"" ليعيش مع امرأة أخرى. تستحضر الكاتبة هنا الصورة النمطية للمجتمع العربي الذكوري الذي يتآمر مع الرجل لقمع المرأة وتحطيمها ماديًّا ونفسيًا، واستنزاف طاقاتها إرضاءً لشهواته ونزواته، وبعد أن يحيلها خرابًا يخونها مع غيرها. تحفر هذه الرواية في صلب قضية المرأة لتضعنا أمام الحقيقة الفاجعة، وهي أن أوضاع المرأة في عصرنا لا تختلف كثيرًا عنها في عصورٍ سابقة.