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En este "encantador debut" (People) y bestseller del New York Times -que próximamente será una gran producción cinematográfica protagonizada por Tom Hanks- de uno de los autores suecos más exitosos, un hombre gruñón pero adorable encuentra su solitario mundo patas arriba cuando una joven y escandalosa pareja se mudan a la casa de al lado.
Conoce a Ove. Es un cascarrabias: el tipo de persona que señala a la gente que le desagrada como si...
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En este "encantador debut" (People) y bestseller del New York Times-que próximamente será una gran producción cinematográfica protagonizada por Tom Hanks-de uno de los autores suecos más exitosos, un hombre gruñón pero adorable encuentra su solitario mundo patas arriba cuando una joven y escandalosa pareja se mudan a la casa de al lado.
Conoce a Ove. Es un cascarrabias: el tipo de persona que señala a la gente que le desagrada como si fueran...
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Summary of Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove is a novel titled after its cranky but quietly heroic protagonist. A heart condition has forced Ove, a 59-year-old widower, into early retirement. Now lacking purpose and overwhelmed by grief for his late wife, Ove finds himself contemplating suicide.
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"Mabel Beaumont's husband Arthur loved lists. He'd leave them for her everywhere. 'Remember: eggs, butter, sugar'. 'I love you: today, tomorrow, always'. But now Arthur is gone. He died: softly, gently, not making a fuss. But he's still left her a list. This one has just one item on it though: 'Find D'. Mabel feels sure she knows what it means. She must track down her best friend Dot, who she hasn't seen since the fateful day she left more than sixty...
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Rock bottom meets redemption in this hilarious and heartbreaking story about two unforgettable misfits on a bumpy voyage of transformation. Adulting is hard for twenty-eight-year-old Kate Denai. She's single, alone in a new city, and having the Worst. Day. Ever. Her chaotic life spirals even more out of control when she accidentally kidnaps five-year-old Sadie Beck, a pint-sized stowaway with super-sized problems. When Kate realizes Sadie may be in...
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"Thora, August and Hugo come from different worlds - one an art school dreamer, one a wealthy scion of the old elite, and one an ordinary boy from out of town. But over the course of two sky-blue summers in Stockholm, they are drawn together magnetically. The novel opens years later, when Hugo, long estranged from Thora and August, is visited by their daughter - who has questions about her parents which she believes Hugo can answer - and the memories...
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In the sequel to internationally-bestselling Swedish author Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg's The Little Old Lady Who Broke All The Rules, the League of Pensioners are up to their old tricks, this time swindling the biggest Vegas casinos, outsmarting a gang of young robbers, and evading the Swedish police in the name of elderly pensioners everywhere-perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
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Eugene is turning 70; his son Jim is turning 40. They've been living together in good-natured bachelor harmony all this time, but something has got to give. The perfect balance of wry humour and pathos, Duffy and Son by Damien Owens is a funny and heartwarming mid-lit novel about family ties and finding romance. Eugene Duffy spent his life running a little hardware shop in a small town. It was a quiet existence, even before he retired. The only drama...
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He's dead. But he really wishes they had forgotten him.2018 Winner - Kindle Storyteller Award and IPPY Awards Gold Medalist When he was alive, Walter Augustus dreamed of lasting fame. But now that he's passed away, he's stuck in limbo until the last living soul who remembers him dies. Except just as his 200 years of perdition look like they're at an end, a stranger opens his dusty book of poems and adds another eternal verse to purgatory.Letty Ferguson...
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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERThe list he left had just one item on it. Or, at least, it did at first...
Mabel Beaumont's husband Arthur loved lists. He'd leave them for her everywhere. 'Remember: eggs, butter, sugar'. 'I love you: today, tomorrow, always'.
But now Arthur is gone. He died: softly, gently, not making a fuss. But he's still left her a list. This one has just one item on it though: 'Find D'.
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