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Faced with the prospect of having to repeat a year in school, twelve-year-old Milan tells his mother the first lie he can think of: his bad grades are due to the genocide in Rwanda, his mother's homeland. In reality, he knows little about Rwanda or his mother's past, which she has kept secret from Milan. Soon after, Claude arrives, a boy from Rwanda the same age as Milan with a mysterious wound and shadowy backstory. Thrilled to have a new playmate, Milan treats Claude as a brother until one day, he is gone, back to Rwanda as quickly as he came.

Shannon Bell is a nobody. But she can act. So when she's accepted into one of London's most elite drama schools, it feels like her chance at a life that's far from her drab home town. There, Shannon meets Victoria: dazzling, wealthy, beautiful Victoria. The two become inseparable, Victoria the shining centre of Shannon's new world. And suddenly, Shannon is no longer a nobody. Instead, she's on the inside, part of Victoria's exclusive set of promising young somethings. They spend their days competing for roles, and their nights vying for each other's affections.

It's unprecedented, even in the 21st century, for a young Sicilian woman to incur infamy and defy the centuries old mandate, “Family is everything!” Twenty-two-year old Mariella Russo is desperate to flee Sicily, that, while her lifelong home, has become a claustrophobic island. She’s being relentlessly coerced into an engagement with her wealthy college sweetheart from a prominent, powerful, family, and her envious and erratic mother hopes the match will increase her own ignominious social status. To fight for independence and escape entrapment, Mariella flees to San Francisco.

Simão, the protagonist of A Spiral of a Dream, is a young university student who enrolls at the University of Évora with aspirations of becoming a writer, only to find himself plunging into an existential spiral as he transitions into adulthood. In the first part of this trilogy, The Medium, we encounter a myriad of characters who reflect and embody a generation on the brink. Their personalities are so relatable that we will find echoes from our own lives.

When six-year-old Dolores Hummingbird arrives at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, she has a difficult time adjusting. She has never before spent one night away from her parents. Renamed “Cries in her Sleep” by the girls in her dorm, Dolores eventually finds companionship and love in the person of an orphaned Irish girl called “Sky Eyes.” Both girls are exemplary artist. After graduation, they live and paint in Greenwich Village and receive instruction from Robert Henri of the Ashcan School. But Paris is calling them from across the ocean.

Elodie Martin isn't exactly known for her Christmas cheer, but nothing gets her more fired up than outshining her frosty nemesis, Callum Ashley, the annoyingly handsome owner of the town's swanky department store. For one month a year, her little toy shop shines, thanks to her secret weapon: Grandad Jim, the town's most beloved Santa Claus. But when Jim is suddenly out of commission, Elodie's Christmas (and her business) teeters on the brink. Enter Nick Winter: out-of-work actor, last-minute Santa, and possibly Elodie's only hope.

In the silent dark of night, she leaves everything behind—her name, her home, and the man who destroyed her childhood. Now living as Eve Lake, an unassuming roadie, she learns to survive in the shadows, never staying in one place long enough to be found. Until West. The magnetic lead singer of a rising band whose quiet kindness and soulful voice cut straight through her defenses. With every song, every look, he pulls her closer—and threatens the fragile walls she’s built around her heart.

Lorsqu'un étranger, prétendant être un artiste, arrive sur l'île, les rêves d'Emma de devenir peintre reprennent vie, compliquant encore plus les choix qu'elle a à faire. Et alors qu'Emma passe le plus clair de son temps avec ce visiteur énigmatique, sa famille est de plus en plus inquiète quant aux véritables intentions de l'inconnu. Pour Emma Vik, la vie dans la ferme familiale sur l'île d'Averøya est plutôt simple. Mais des événements mystérieux la plongent dans les eaux inexplorées de l'amour, de la loyauté et de l'âge adulte.

Als die beiden dank dieser Eigenschaft gezwungen sind, ihre Heimat Hals über Kopf zu verlassen, landen sie unplanmäßig auf einer windgepeitschten Insel vor der Küste Neufundlands. Lita freundet sich schnell mit der gehörlosen Tochter der Gastgeber an, der einzigartigen Oona McGregor. Als sie den auf der Insel lang herbeigesehnten Mr. Saito das erste Mal begegnet, der mit seinem Wanderkino Nachrichten aus aller Welt zu ihnen bringt, ahnt Lita nicht, dass er ihr Leben für immer verändern wird.

Twenty-three-year-old Lucy Easting has at last broken free from her grim home life and is ready to truly live. But her long-awaited new beginning at Rollins University isn’t what she expected. After attending the first campus party of the year, Lucy awakens the next day with a memory block…and two puncture marks on her neck.

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.

Los Angeles, 1981–17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends, even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's obsession with Mallory is equalled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with The Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence.

Carlota Moreau: A young woman, growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula, the only daughter of a genius—or a madman. Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol, an outcast who assists Dr Moreau with his scientific experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas with plentiful coffers. The hybrids: The fruits of the Doctor's labour are a motley group of part-human, part-animal monstrosities.

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.

Isaac stands alone on a bridge and screams into the river below. And then, an answer. A cry of despair perhaps even greater than his own. The sound draws Isaac into the woods. What he finds there changes everything. It's a tale that might seem familiar. A broken man and an unexpected guest, who can't stay forever. But real life isn't a story. It's full of truths, messy and surprising, that Isaac has been hiding from his new, improbable friend....

It’s October in Montreal, 2002, and winter is coming on fast. Past due on his first freelance gig and ensnared in lies to his family and friends, a graphic design student with a gambling addiction goes after the first job that promises a paycheck: dishwasher at the sophisticated La Trattoria. Though he feels out of place in the posh dining room, warned by the manager not to enter through the front and coolly assessed by the waitstaff in their tailored shirts, nothing could have prepared him for the tension and noise of the kitchen, or the dishpit’s clamor and steam.

Four lives. Four stories. Four sets of letters. Four brave souls in need of guidance while facing life's greatest challenges. The anonymously published Dear Life program is designed to help them step outside of their comfort zones, face their obstacles, and relinquish their demons...and prove their existence.

After an encounter with a homeless man, a high school graduate becomes obsessed with the idea of doing heroin, challenging himself to try it just once. A bleak tale of addiction, delusion, and flowers.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story of a mother and a daughter—a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment...

Ellis and Michael are 12-year-old boys when they first become friends, and for a long time, it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of overbearing fathers. And then one day, this closest of friendships grows into something more. But then, we fast-forward a decade or so to find that Ellis is married to Annie, and Michael is nowhere in sight. Which leads to the question: What happened in the years between?