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In a nation ruled by fear, surveillance, and the cross, four teens find themselves running for more than just freedom — they’re running for truth. Under President Thorne’s third term and the iron grip of Christian Nationalism, dissent is blasphemy, and silence is survival. Carlos never wanted to be a hero. Sofia just wanted to disappear. Daniel believed in the system—until it turned on him. And Isabel? She sees things the others can’t yet explain. As their lives collide across the wreckage of what once was America, they must make an impossible choice: submit, escape, or resist.

Can a man who loves his small hometown trust it to love him back? Jared Thomas has lived in the mountain town of Coda, Colorado his whole life. He can't imagine living anywhere else. But Jared's opportunities are limited—the only other gay man in town is twice his age, and although Jared originally planned to be a teacher, the backlash that might accompany the gig keeps him working at his family's store instead. Then Matt Richards moves to town. Matt may not be into guys, but he doesn't care that Jared is.

Unwilling to leave her dying father, fifteen-year-old Ella makes the decision to stay behind while her best friend Anton takes Ella’s little brother and flees to the freedom of the West at the last possible chance. But when her father’s death finally leaves her orphaned and alone, Ella’s hope of a reunion burns strong. Yearning for a future with Anton, she bides her time in East Berlin, meeting with shadowy resistance groups who are her only chance for freedom. But time goes by slowly, and with no word from Anton, Ella begins to wonder whether she will ever see him and her brother again.

Helen Hicks may not have any friends, but she does have a plan: prove her doubting, elitist parents wrong and become a literary sensation before she turns thirty. When she’s finally accepted into the esteemed Hayward Writing Intensive at twenty-four, Helen believes she’s right on schedule. At Hayward, Helen meets Cherry Stewart, a free-spirited, ambitious kid whose eclectic tastes skew far more pedestrian than Helen’s, but as Cherry’s champion and mentor, Helen decides they’ll set the publishing world on fire and go down as one of the literary world’s most iconic duos.

Lasse er efter mange års kamp endelig ankommet til et liv i den øvre middelklasse. Sagen er bare, at Lasses begær er formet af en opvækst med mandemænd og mobning, og han bliver ikke just tændt af den omsorg og rummelighed, som er Emils naturlige kærlighedssprog. Når Lasse midt i den dresserede og disciplinerede middelklassetilværelse savner impulsivitet, vildskab og risiko, og når den livsstrategi, der har bragt ham så vidt, den lille stemme i hans hoved, der siger: "kæmp kun for dig selv!", støder sammen med selve præmissen for at være i et parforhold?

Cam and Naomi have been swept into the past when humanity ruled the world. In an ancient city they must past the first trial that Alana has set into motion. What more, they will learn of the Helltide, an event that brought about the cataclysmic end to the ancient race. One trial will not be enough to prepare Cam for the future however. He and Naomi must explore what it means to be mates with the powers of the World Phoenix. Not to mention the warfront is progressing into the beastkin empire. Brazzen is seeking aid and turns to Cam and Brycen, hoping that he won't lose everything.

Tess komt uit een welgestelde, maar weinig betrokken familie die net is verhuisd. Als ze op de eerste schooldag van het laatste jaar van de middelbare school Jay ontmoet, is er tussen hen direct een niet te negeren aantrekkingskracht. Jay kan binnen het gezin waarin hij is opgegroeid maar net het hoofd boven water houden. Tess is de eerste in zijn leven bij wie hij open durft te zijn.

Il quindicenne romano Fausto trascorre l'estate a Marina di Cecina. Tra dubbi e insicurezze, Fausto si confronta con gli altri. Fa la scoperta dell'amore, prima incerto tra Gabriella e Anna, poi pago soltanto del suo magico stato di grazia; e scopre anche la vocazione letteraria. Una duplice epifania, alla quale in Tempi memorabili (1966) - che riprende e dilata un precedente racconto - Cassola dà forma rappresentando l'attesa della vita nel tempo sospeso della vacanza e fissando come indimenticabile il passaggio dall'infanzia all'adolescenza.

Ein kleines Mädchen ist überzeugt, ein Alien zu sein. Warum sonst sollte es ihr so schwerfallen, sich in der Welt zurechtzufinden? Doch als sie zufällig von dem Voynich-Manuskript erfährt – einer mittelalterlichen Handschrift, deren Sprache bis heute nicht entschlüsselt wurde –, glaubt sie, nicht mehr allein zu sein. Die Mission, das Manuskript zu übersetzen, führt sie auf überraschende Wege und zu Menschen, die sie ankommen lassen in ihrem andersartigen Leben.

When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi schoolboys, pick up their family’s television set at a repair shop with their friend Mansoor Ahmed one day in 1996, disaster strikes without warning. A bomb—one of the many “small” bombs that go off seemingly unheralded across the world—detonates in the Delhi marketplace, instantly claiming the lives of the Khurana boys, to the devastation of their parents. Mansoor survives, bearing the physical and psychological effects of the bomb.

Orphaned overnight as a teenager, she drops out of school and drifts into the bad company of two criminals her brother brings home. As the four of them plot a fantastical crime, Bianca learns she can drift even lower... Electric and tense with foreboding, A Little Lumpen Novelita - one of the last novellas Roberto Bolaño published – delivers a fractured fairy tale of taking control of one's fate.

Festering masses of worms and flies have taken root in dark corners across Appalachia. In exchange for unwavering loyalty and fresh corpses, these hives offer a few struggling humans salvation. Crane is grateful. Among his hive's followers, Crane has found a chance to transition, to never speak again, to live a life that won't destroy him.

In sixteen sparkling stories, Jan Carson introduces us to worlds and characters that feel real enough to touch. All of life is here: the thrill of growing up, the grief when youth is over; first love, mature love, parenthood and loss - all shot through with profound compassion, warm wit, and boundless imagination. In 'A Certain Degree of Ownership', a distracted couple on a beach fail to notice their baby crawl perilously towards the sea. In 'Troubling the Water', a rumor spreads at a public swimming pool and chaos ensues.

In 1924, Korea is an occupied country. In Seoul’s secret, underground networks and throughout the countryside, rebellion against the Japanese Empire simmers, threatening to boil over. Kim Na-Young lives a simple life in the rural village of Daegeori, where she watches the moon rise and set over the pine-wooded mountains, tends to her household alongside her best friend, Yeon-Soo, and cares for her sick mother.

A deeply funny novel about chasing your dreams and losing your ambition, Very Impressive for Your Age explores the mid-twenties crisis that occurs when you learn that who you always wanted to be when you grew up isn't quite what you imagined.

Yorkshire teacher Ellen Fenwick has never been abroad. But when her mother dies, this young woman finds herself taking a position as governess to an English girl in Florence in the summer of 1933. Little does Ellen realise how this girl, Juliet, and her family will claim her. For as the summer passes, Ellen falls so in love with Italy and her new home that she cannot bear to leave – even when her own hopes of love are cruelly thwarted.

Meet Orlando: a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, poet, lover, adventurer—and, after a transformational sleep, a woman. Spanning over 300 years of British history, Orlando bends the rules of time, gender, and narrative as its protagonist navigates shifting societies, identities, and expectations, all while seeking something elusive: the truth of the self. Playful, profound, and radically ahead of its time, Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel is part love letter, part satire, and part meditation on the fluid nature of existence.

It has been centuries since the Draconic Army took wing, almost extinguishing humankind. Marosa Vetalda is a prisoner in her own home, controlled by her cold father, King Sigoso. Over the mountains, her betrothed, Aubrecht Lievelyn, rules Mentendon in all but name. Together, they intend to usher in a better world. A better world seems impossibly distant to Estina Melaugo, who hunts the Draconic beasts that have slept across the world for centuries.

A young, unmarried Amish woman, attended by the country veterinarian, delivers an enormous baby, and no one in Lakota, Wisconsin knows what to make of the boy. Raised by his brother on a struggling farm, Gabriel Fisher walks at eight months, communicates with animals and possesses extraordinary athletic abilities. When his brother dies, Gabriel is taken in by his devout Amish grandparents and, for a time, he disappears into the anonymity of Amish life.

Chronically confused, terminally middle class, hopelessly romantic, Agnes Day lives with her two best friends in the London suburbs and works at an obscure trade magazine. Life and love seem to go on without her. But she gives a convincing performance that everything is alright—that is, until she learns that her roommates and her boyfriend are keeping secrets from her, and that her boss is quitting and leaving her in charge. In great despair, she decides to make it her business to set things straight.