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New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War. August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes—as...

This nationally best-selling novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Jeffrey Eugenides was adapted into an acclaimed film by Academy Award-winner Sofia Coppola. A haunting yet wickedly funny tale, The Virgin Suicides has captivated countless readers with its intoxicating portrait of lost innocence. A brilliant fusion of dark humor and tragedy, it is an atmospheric, allegorical masterpiece about five oppressed, suicidal sisters and the boys who dream of rescuing them.

Courtly intrigue and rumors of invasion plunge Kingfountain into turmoil as the search for Trynne’s father begins in earnest. But Trynne’s quest to learn the truth of Owen’s sinister disappearance is sidetracked when tragedy strikes her family once again. Suddenly, the future of the kingdom rests in her hands as she struggles to learn - and control - the power that can keep the threatening Deep Fathoms at bay.

Here are two stories of love, lust, happiness, and heartache from Britain's longest-running and best-loved radio serial. Pub landlord Sid Perks is led astray when his keep-fit regime at the local gym leads to a steamy affair with Jolene Rogers, a country-and-western singer....For Emma Carter, choosing a husband is not so straightforward. She finds herself torn between loyal, devoted Will Grundy and his dangerous bad-boy brother Ed.

Miller Stratton is a survivor. After a harrowing childhood of poverty, he will do anything it takes to find security for himself and his mom. He’s putting all his hopes and dreams in the fragile frame of his guitar and the beauty he creates with its strings and his soulful voice. Until Violet. No one expects to meet the love of their life at age 13. But the spunky rich girl steals Miller’s heart and refuses to give it back.

When Ranford School is forced to close in the wake of a national lockdown, Sebastian "Spike" Kingswell faces a truth no child should ever confront: he has nowhere to go. With a father in prison, a mother who abandoned him, and grandparents unable—or unwilling—to take him in, Spike finds himself on the brink of homelessness in London.

She is perfect. She is beautiful. She has a secret. Follow Sue Anderson and the relationships she forms along the way from high school valedictorian through her thirties as she attempts to overcome a devastating discovery. Hear her story through the eyes of those who cross her path. They share in her joys and pains as she pushes and pulls them in and out of her life.

استسلمت قرية المنسية لحياة بلا حلم، فلوقت طويل آمن أهلها أن سقف خفيّا قد حاصر أحلاهم إلى الأبد، قرر الفتى علي أن يبحث عن هذا السقف ليعيد قريته إلى سالف عهدها فاكتشف مفاجأة لم تخطر لم تخطر على بال أحد.

Savannah Blue is a darkly funny, sharply observed Southern coming-of-age novel about loyalty, tradition, and the brutal rites of passage that shape young men long before they understand what they’ve inherited, brought to life in an immersive audio performance narrated by Rachel Simons. At a 120-year-old all-boys Catholic military academy in the South, Harrison and Delli enter their final year caught between fading old-guard traditions and a new culture determined to erase them.

En una ciudad tropical que se asfixia bajo su propia máscara turística, un grupo de adolescentes juega a ser adultos en un mundo donde la moral se ha diluido entre violencia, negocios torcidos y sueños truncados. Desde el crimen silencioso hasta el recuerdo trastocado por la pérdida, La noche de los aprendices se mueve entre la brutalidad y la ternura, el azar y el remordimiento, el peso de la herencia familiar y la tentación del olvido. Un joven trabajador aeroportuario enfrenta el regreso fantasma de su hermano.

When war breaks out in Israel in 1973, childhood friends Haim and Dov are called up together to serve in a tank battalion. In the chaos of battle, the friends are separated. A month later, on his first leave, Haim returns home alone. Weary and saddened, but sustained by religious faith, he struggles to come to terms with his experiences. One question remains uppermost in Haim's mind: What happened to Dov?

She wanted the American dream. What she got was a nightmare, betrayal, and the fight of her life. When Tammy Mellows leaves England to join her estranged father in California, she's hopeful for a fresh start—and desperate to find her missing sister. But dreams fade fast when Tammy's forbidden relationship leads to heartbreak and her life takes a dangerous turn.

Ophelia Blue Rivers is the specificity of her circumstance. She’s not just mixed in the American binary sense of being a racial amalgamation of two races; she’s a mix of two of the distinct racial identities that make up the politics of this continent. She’s Black and she is Native American, raised by her grandmother who is a Black descendent of Cherokee freedmen.

Travesti este un studiu de caz despre un copil hermafrodit, dar şi o explorare a întunecatei sexualităţi adolescentine. Mai presus de orice, însă, acest mic roman, care m-a obsedat şi m-a chinuit mai mult decât orice altă carte a mea, e anabasis-ul meu, drumul meu ascuns şi întortochiat către centrul adânc îngropat al fiinţei mele. Travesti este şi portalul către Orbitor. Trilogia mea n-ar fi putut exista fără exerciţiul de sinceritate aproape sinucigaşă de aici. Nu e uşor să afli cine eşti, nici să te priveşti în ochi după ce ai aflat.

It's the early 1990s and Ruby 'Red' McCoy dreams about one day leaving her weatherboard house on the Central Coast of New South Wales, where her best friend, Stevie, is loose with the truth, and her dad, Sid, is always on the wrong side of the law. But wild, whip-smart Red can't stay out of trouble to save her life, and Sid's latest hustle is more harebrained than usual. Meanwhile, Sergeant Trevor Healy seems to have a vendetta against every generation of the McCoys.

Hasta el momento en que su padre decide suicidarse, la vida de Marcos parece normal. Va al colegio, lee novelas de aventuras, tiene su grupo de amigos, de vez en cuando le ayuda a su viejo en la tienda de barrio que les da de comer. Sin embargo, a partir de ese día, Marcos debe convertirse en hombre y valerse por sí mismo. Una apasionante historia se desata cuando descubre que, en un oscuro y alejado centro para enfermos mentales, vive un hermano suyo del que no tenía noticia, un personaje luminoso que le cambiará la vida para siempre.

Luigi Bellandi, professeur et traducteur, se remémore l'été 1972. Il a alors « douze ans et quatre mois » lorsqu'il retrouve la maison de vacances que sa famille loue chaque année dans une station balnéaire de la côte toscane. Pour celui que l'on surnomme Gigio, c'est la saison des découvertes – la musique, la littérature et la naissance du désir. Les Jeux olympiques de Munich débutent et l'éclosion des premières amours pourrait être joyeuse si l'on ne pressentait pas l'avènement d'un drame intime, familial et politique. La « férocité du monde » frappera immanquablement le jeune garçon.

Home for the summer in Silicon Valley after his first year at Berkeley, Colin drifts through fading family ties, old friendships, and the bittersweet pull of first love—only to find that nothing feels quite the way it used to. But by the novel’s end, he knows he can’t go back. Packed with road trips, keggers, and the kind of nights that felt like they’d last forever, Mountain View captures the blur of a summer where everything changes.

C'est l'histoire d'une fille qui n'est pas d'accord avec l'ordre social. De l'enfance à l'écriture, en passant par un bar mystérieux, une maison abandonnée, un immeuble rempli de sectes, ou le sommet d'une montagne, la narratrice nous entraîne dans une odyssée parsemée de miroirs homériques, de chants d'aèdes qui nous montrent le livre en train de se faire. Les Forces reprend et détourne les motifs du roman d'apprentissage. Alternant le prosaïque et le théorique en un éclair, le livre se déploie dans une narration allant du tragique au comique.

Vanessa, vent'anni, decide di scappare di casa per intraprendere un viaggio sulle tracce del tragitto migratorio di una farfalla che porta il suo stesso nome, la Vanessa del Cardo: è una farfalla speciale che attraversa l'Europa partendo dalla Norvegia per arrivare, infine, in Marocco. Vanessa ha il cuore colmo di dolore e la convinzione di non meritare un posto nel mondo. L'impossibilità di accettare quel lutto la spinge a partire, a fuggire da coloro che ama per evitare di contagiarli con la sua "sfortuna", alla ricerca di un senso nella propria esistenza.