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In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored and utterly out of place. But her quiet existence is shattered when she stumbles across a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page reveals more impossible truths about the world, and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own. 

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY A wondrous, deeply affecting portrait of the interlocking lives at an adult day care center in Southern California, depicting an often overlooked community with extraordinary wit and grace—a...

When seven-year-old Fran first met Will they knew instantly that they were made for each other. For 11 years they were inseparable, but then, at the age of 18, Will just upped and disappeared. Twenty-five years later Will is back. Is fate trying to give them a second chance? Still nursing the heartbreak from all those years ago, Fran is reluctant to give Will the time of day. The price Will must pay is to tell the truth - the truth about why he left, the truth about why he’s back.

No interior do Rio Grande do Sul, a caçula de sete irmãos chega à adolescência e percebe que, para sobreviver, precisa escapar dali. Dezesseis anos mais tarde, ao receber a notícia da iminente morte do pai, decide voltar à cidade natal para um acerto de contas com o passado.

友達だけど、違う生き物　夏休み、俺は片想い中のサブレと夜行バスの旅に出た。彼女が口にした、ちょっと風変わりな目的のために――

Dueña de un singular temperamento desde su complicada infancia de huérfana, primero a cargo de una tía poco cariñosa y después en la escuela Lowood, Jane Eyre logra el puesto de institutriz en Thornfield Hall para educar a la hija de su atrabiliario y peculiar dueño, el señor Rochester.

Uma história de amor, medo, perda e formação de caráter, um relato da evolução de uma mulher negra caribenha escrito por uma das autoras mais habilidosas da literatura contemporânea. Poderoso, perturbador e emocionante, este romance de Jamaica Kincaid conta a história de Xuela Claudette Richardson, filha de mãe caribenha e pai meio escocês e meio africano, moradora da ilha de Dominica. Sua mãe morre no parto, e a garota precisa então encontrar seu lugar no mundo sem o auxílio materno.

A vibrant, bighearted coming-of-age story about a young woman caught between loving and leaving Oakland—the whiplash between trauma, dreams, and all the things that shape us below the surface. Anastasia Ān Xiá Huang is the third generation of her family to live in Oakland, but now, in her...

Ayad Akhtars »Homeland Elegien« ist ein intelligenter Roman über den zerrütteten Zustand des heutigen Amerikas. Es ist ein persönliches Memoir über die Erfahrungen von im Westen lebenden Muslimen, insbesondere nach 9/11, und eine Reflexion über die Möglichkeit einer westlichen muslimischen Identität. Es ist die intellektuelle Biografie eines künstlerischen Ausnahmetalents und eine manchmal komische, manchmal bewegende, manchmal konfliktreiche Einwandererfamiliengeschichte.

Billy Wheatley ist verschwunden. Mutmaßlich gestorben. Als Billy Wheatley aufs College geht, tauscht er das Leben auf einer kleinen Insel gegen das aufregende Leben auf dem Festland. Und obwohl er den Versuchungen von Alkohol, Drogen und Sex, denen die weniger begabten Studenten um ihn herum erliegen, widerstehen kann, gerät er in große Gefahr, als er die Aufmerksamkeit einer gewieften Clique auf sich zieht.

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn did not disappear into childhood legend. They grew up. Six years after losing track of one another, Tom and Huck meet again by chance aboard a Mississippi River steamboat. Their unexpected reunion sets in motion a chain of events that will test the very things they once held most dear—freedom, loyalty, friendship, and the meaning of becoming a man. Tom Sawyer is an eighteen-year-old professional con man, clever as ever and still tempted by the thrill of daring schemes.

‘To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in – who wants...

Fleabag meets Big Swiss in this bold debut about a charismatic misfit who livestreams her life for seven days and nights to raise money to save her comatose sister—a poignant and darkly funny exploration of grief, forgiveness, and redemption. Dell Danvers is barely keeping it together. She’s...

Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo’s shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.)

Brought to you by Penguin. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF BBC'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024 'Hilarious, touching and hotly sublime' JULIA ARMFIELD 'Warm, witty and utterly idiosyncratic' ALICE SLATER 'Generous and tender' NEW YORK TIMES Siblings Greta and Valdin have, perhaps, too much...

Willkommen am St. Gloria College, wo Ruhm und Reichtum auf seine angehenden Studierenden warten! Zwischen exklusiven Partys und gefährlichen Intrigen kämpfen hier die beiden Häuser Alpha und Omega um ein heiß begehrtes Stipendium, das ihnen die Tür zu einem Leben der Schönen und Reichen ermöglicht. Auch Felicia de Vries, ehrgeizig und fokussiert, hat es auf die akademische Auszeichnung abgesehen. Wenn da nur nicht Valentin Knight wäre.

It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko, in an apartment in an abandoned hotel, and lying on the floor at her grandparents': daydreaming, playing Tetris, and listening to the sounds from the street above. The heat rises; the days slip by. The plan is for Claire to visit Korea with her grandparents. They fled the civil war there over fifty years ago, along with thousands of others, and haven't been back since. 

Two brothers, Alexander and Seb, are well-educated but hunger for adventure. Intrigued by some ancient maps and stories of old, the boys slip off on what begins as an innocent excursion from their home along the shores of a vast lake, Sempersee, to a nearby island. After finding a mysterious stone, their outing leads to a quest to discover the rightful owner of the Flame Stone, an ancient artifact that holds the power of goodness.

Brought to you by Penguin. 1978. In the sleepy New York suburb of Tallmadge, eighteen-year-old Mira Winston is beguiling, talented, and full of youthful recklessness. She spends her summer perfecting her swing at her parents’ country club – and continuing her long-running affair with her...

A taut and powerful exploration of the complexities of female friendships and the fragile ties that hold us together. Perfect for fans of Alison Espach and Curtis Sittenfeld ***** Five friends, twenty years, one reunion trip. As undergrads, Gregg, Reba, Hillary, Bella, and Carson formed the kind...

Cuando los sueños comienzan a sentirse más reales que la vigilia… es hora de cruzar el umbral.Kamyl Kaplan nunca imaginó que una simple piedra negra pudiera cambiar el rumbo de su vida. Lo que comienza como una visita a la casa de su tía en la selva venezolana pronto se transforma en una travesía hacia lo desconocido, donde los límites entre los sueños y la realidad empiezan a desdibujarse. A medida que sus sentidos se afinan y su mundo interior se expande, Kamyl descubre que sus emociones no son solo reacciones… sino puertas.

A quiet character driven novel about coming home and a place you once ran away from

An Epiphany in Lilacs is a novel set in a displaced persons camp outside Hamburg, Germany, following the end of World War II. After liberation in May 1945, Daniel, a 14-year-old Latvian Jew, is treated in a field hospital in the British zone of partitioned Germany. A survivor of various concentration camps, Daniel fights to recover from starvation and disease. Racked by nightmares, a nearly nightly occurrence, Daniel finds sleep almost impossible. Through his love of nature and pre-war memories, Daniel struggles to find comfort.

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession based on the hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author. “As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved.... Morrison conjures up the...

Tizzy’s trying to keep her cool. It’s the 90s. She’s nineteen, fueled by caffeine, riot grrrl, and repression. She’s got a boyfriend, a job at the hip campus co-op, and a roommate who burns sage in the bathroom. But when her body starts to short-circuit, memories she’s spent years keeping at bay surge to the surface. To top it off, Tizzy finds herself drawn to TJ, her boyfriend’s best friend—all swagger, sarcasm, and unexpected tenderness in her leather jacket and combat boots.

Dans ce récit à la première personne, Tolstoï suit, depuis un matin d’août où Karl Ivanovitch, le précepteur, réveille un garçon de dix ans d’un grand coup de papier, la traversée qui mène de l’enfance à l’adolescence. Autour du foyer et des gestes du quotidien—une image d’ange gardien qui oscille, une mouche écrasée, une colère d’enfant—s’ordonnent des souvenirs nets, une éducation, des attentes et des doutes. Peu à peu se dessine la formation d’un regard: celui d’un jeune narrateur qui apprend à se connaître en observant les êtres qui l’entourent.

Jordan O'Neill hat genug von Schubladen. Als schüchterner Bibliothekar fühlt er sich ohnehin schon oft fehl am Platz. Doch als ihm klar wird, dass das Label „asexuell" vieles in seinem Leben erklärt, gerät seine sorgfältig sortierte Welt aus den Fugen. Hennessy Lang weiß längst, wer er ist. Nach einer Trennung und einigen gescheiterten Beziehungen steht er offen zu seiner Asexualität – und gründet in Surry Hills eine neue Selbsthilfegruppe. Dort begegnet er Jordan, der noch nach Antworten sucht und nicht weiß, wo er hingehört.

As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books an extraordinary novel that would change the course of his life. Now a young man in the Barcelona of the late 1950s, Daniel runs the Sempere & Sons bookshop and enjoys a seemingly fulfilling life with...

Kiara is experiencing a string of bad luck. First, she gets rear-ended at a stop. Then her internship lets her go because they don’t feel she has enough passion for the field. And then her rich neighbor’s friends burn her house down during a wild party. Yeah, Kiara isn’t having a very good time. And Teddy, her rich neighbor, is about to incur her wrath. Rich, spoiled, and essentially her exact opposite, he makes an easy target. But the truth is that Teddy isn’t quite who she thinks he is. His wealthy father didn’t even know he existed for the first five years of his life, and since he has known a life outside of privilege, he longs for something more. And part of that something more is Kiara. But like everything in life, it is complicated. She is unsure she can trust him, and he is facing the possibility of being cut off from his trust fund if he doesn’t marry the high-society Whitney. Will this Cinderella story have a fairy tale ending?

Kenny Silvers is on the fast track to becoming a pure-blooded punk rebel. It all seems so easy when he’s breaking every rule at school to the point of finding himself expelled. Then, it all changes. He’s becoming criminal, he’s becoming something dark and desperate, he’s fallen between the cracks, and redemption seems a far way off. It’s one thing to embrace the creed, but now he’s lost everything. He’s gone from a kid just having a lark, riding the gravy train until it all becomes sordid and sour, with no way out.