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Nobody at the corporate offices of Athletius Japan knows much about the massage therapist, Jackson, but rumors abound. He used to work as a model. He likes to party. He's mixed race—half-Japanese, half-somewhere-in-Africa-n. He might be gay. Fueling the gossip is the sudden appearance of a violent pornographic video featuring a man who looks a lot like Jackson. When Jackson serendipitously meets three other queer mixed-race guys, he learns he's not the only one being targeted. Together they concoct a plan...

Autumn en Finn waren onafscheidelijk, tot er iets veranderde. Nu doen ze hun best om elkaar te negeren. Dat verandert echter niets aan hoe Autumn zich voelt elke keer dat ze Finn tegenkomt, en ook niet aan het knagende gevoel dat dingen misschien anders hadden kunnen lopen. Misschien zouden ze samen moeten zijn. Maar in augustus verandert alles voor altijd. Autumn heeft een vriendje, Jamie, en een hechte groep vrienden. En Finn is op school de populaire jongen geworden met wie iedereen wil omgaan.

Following the Year of the Five Emperors, three are left in the field. A final bloody confrontation is inevitable as the ruthless Septimius Severus advances through Cappadocia and Cilicia on the heels of the retreating legions of the Emperor in the East, Percennius Niger. As Niger retreats towards the impregnable fortress of Antioch, thus threatening to extend the conflict for years to come, it falls to two veterans to plan a series of daring raids to delay the enemy. But it is not long before they are cornered on a climactic field of blood.

Black September tells the story of the blossoming of a twelve-year-old boy, Gigio Bellandi, during a summer in Versilia, Tuscany, in 1972: his discovery of music, reading, restlessness, desire, love - and then the unthinkable, lightning-fast interruption of it all. It reconstructs with vivid precision the images, smells, colours, and sounds that animated that lost season, and the irreversible event that overturns it.

A sixteen year old boy awakens in a dark forest with no memory of how he got there. When he finally begins to come to terms that he is no longer at home, he begins to realize that he is not only in a different environment, but he's in a different time period! To make matters more trivial, all the townspeople, also known as "Locksmiths," have these "Keys" that allows them to emit different colored energies or, "HUEs," at will. It just so happens the dark HUE that emits from him is the most powerful in this futuristic world of "Aether." Is it a simulation? Is it a dream?

Elias erfährt von Polizisten, dass sie einen Koffer voller Briefe gefunden haben, alle an ihn gerichtet. Geschrieben jeden Tag seit dreißig Jahren von einer Frau, die ihn liebte. Und die gestorben ist, ohne ihn je wiedergesehen zu haben, nachdem er sie als Achtzehnjähriger nach einer kurzen Beziehung verlassen hatte. Elias begibt sich auf die Suche nach dem Leben dieser Frau, und damit auch auf die Suche nach sich selbst.

Zoe hat gelernt, sich mit dem zweiten Platz zufriedenzugeben. Besonders, wenn es um ihre jüngere Schwester geht – Cara ist schöner, mutiger, lauter. Als sie Moritz begegnen, schlägt bei Zoe das Herz höher. Doch kaum ist das Gefühl da, gehört es nicht mehr ihr allein. Denn Cara ist gewohnt, das zu bekommen, was sie will. Zoe schweigt, wie sie es immer getan hat. Aber diesmal lässt es sie nicht los. Zwischen Nähe und Eifersucht, zwischen Loyalität und Selbstschutz beginnt ein innerer Kampf, den sie längst nicht mehr gewinnen kann, indem sie einfach nachgibt.

Stacey Levine's new novel recounts a pivotal day in the fraught relationship of two orphaned sisters through the eyes of their obsessively observant housekeeper, Girtle. Will Jody be able to cope if her younger sibling Mice, subject to constant harassment in their community for her unusual appearance and habits, leaves home? How will their all-watching companion convey her fierce attachment to them both?

At seventeen, Angela returns to the place where she was raised—a stunning island town that lies at the border of Canada and Minnesota—where she finds that an eager developer is planning a hydroelectric dam that will leave sacred land flooded and abandoned. Joining up with three other concerned residents, Angela fights the project, reconnecting with her ancestral roots as she does so.

When the Chinese premier visits Harvard, international student Pei Lulu encounters a lone woman protesting who will drastically change her understanding of the People's Republic and her own place in the world. For the first time, Lulu learns of the 1989 protest movement and the government’s violent response. Determined to find out more, she seeks answers from her family, who share surprising stories of their involvement. A formative university course prompts Lulu to pursue a line of PHD research focused on the protest movement.

The Girl Who Saw Hope is an inspiring, emotionally gripping Christian coming-of-age story about learning to stand tall in a world that tells you to shrink, embracing the truth that you are fearfully and wonderfully made—just as you are.

Finn heeft altijd van Autumn gehouden. Ze is niet gewoon zijn buurmeisje of de dochter van zijn moeders beste vriendin, ze is zijn alles. Maar ze is niet zijn vriendin. Dat is Sylvie, en Finn zou haar nooit pijn kunnen doen, dus Autumn weet niets over zijn gevoelens. Al is zijn beste vriend Jack daar niet zo zeker van. Hij heeft Finn en Autumn samen gezien. Hoe kan ze het niet weten? En hoe kan hij Finn steunen en beschermen als een gebroken hart onvermijdelijk lijkt?

Belonging, the second novel in the Roslyn Trilogy, follows Latisha “Tish” Walker as she returns home after three semesters at Yale, having left her law studies behind to search for the mother she never knew. Raised by her loving grandmother, Rose, and supported by a tight-knit community, Tish had never questioned where she belonged—until a Thanksgiving visit with a classmate’s privileged family stirred feelings of rejection and identity confusion.

Aderyn’s courage and skills are put to the test when she and her friends travel to the Southlands on a quest to repel an invasion of vicious orcs—a quest that requires Aderyn to find and command an army. But in a land where politics can be deadlier than warfare, military strategy soon becomes the least of her concerns.

Auren Solven thought they had buried the past. But when dreams lead them to a forgotten bookstore and a mysterious antique mirror, they step into a world shaped by one decision they never made. In this parallel version of reality, everything seems better: a thriving career, a love that stayed, and a life that feels... almost perfect. But something isn’t right. As cracks begin to show, Auren must ask: Is this the life I was meant to live—or just a haunting echo of regret? As timelines blur and old wounds resurface, Auren must face the version of themselves they tried to forget.

Ryan Lo begins playing table tennis at age eight. His brilliant but ruthless coach sees a talent in him that might be nurtured into greatness. Through an adolescence marked by hours of practice, matches away from home, clandestine relationships and a determination to win, Ryan ascends to the highest echelons of the game, just as he was supposed to. But here he is now, dead before his twenty-fifth birthday, leaving grief and confusion in his wake.

Susan Bliss is trying to make it all work. Her growing stardom in L.A., where she's a regular on the nation's favorite TV show. And her less lauded role as wife in New England, married to a history professor and raising young twins. But the past can't stay hidden forever, and as the teenaged twins pursue the secrets their mother left behind, they spin off in different directions.

After her mother dies in childbirth, Saina's distraught father sells her into servitude and disappears on the Silk Road. Now a young woman, she has gained favor serving the head wife in a bustling roadside inn outside the ancient trade city of Samarkand. But when a mysterious weaver arrives, bringing with him the garment her father wore the day he abandoned her, clues about her family's past begin to emerge.

Un sogno di libertà. Una città in rivolta. Un ragazzo alla ricerca di sé stesso. Settembre 1919. L'eco della guerra ancora risuona in un'Europa ferita, mentre in una città assediata nasce un sogno rivoluzionario. Leo, diciassettenne inquieto e determinato, lascia la sua casa tra le montagne della Carnia per unirsi all'impresa di Fiume, guidata da Gabriele D'Annunzio. Spinto dall'irrequietezza e dal desiderio di far parte di qualcosa di grande, Leo si immerge in un mondo fatto di ideali rivoluzionari, discorsi infuocati e sogni di giustizia sociale.

Three friends, their only guide a battle-hardened old soldier, continue the search to understand and master the power they have uncovered. But first, Lieutenant Tristan Loringham must stand trial for his actions in the mountains near Doverton, leading them back to their homeland—Zondrell, the Great City by the Seacliffs. Here, the battlefield is much different, the enemy hidden behind layers of political corruption and intrigue.