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Both geopolitical exploration and domestic coming-of-age novel, Mobility is a propulsive and challenging story about class, power, politics, and desire told through the life of one woman—her social milieu, her romances, her unarticulated wants. Mobility deftly explores American forms of complicity and inertia, moving between the local and the global, the personal and the political, and using fiction’s power to illuminate the way a life is shaped by its context.

Впервые на русском — роман современного ирландского классика Пола Линча, лауреата Букеровской премии 2023 года за роман «Песнь пророка», который уже называют «ирландским "1984"» и «новым "Рассказом служанки"». От «одного из величайших писателей современности» (Marianne) — «эпическая фреска, плутовской роман и захватывающая история взросления одновременно» (La Vie). Итак, познакомьтесь с четырнадцатилетней Грейс.

On New Year’s Eve of 1961, while visiting family in England, sisters Sophie and Olivia’s lives are forever changed with the ill-fated discovery of a sapphire and diamond bracelet gifted to their mother, Elizabeth Grace Bennett Bannister. Their mother, a Baron’s daughter within the English aristocracy, grew up roaming the vast and beautiful estate of Harrington Hall. After the events of that fateful evening, Elizabeth Grace all but disappears from their lives, and the sisters are left to discover why their mother never returned home to Toronto, Canada.

Kaidyn answers her friend’s plea for help and returns to Evirness. Struggling with the guilt and anger over how she left, battling her feelings for Reid that threaten her resolve, Kaidyn throws herself into closing gateways and chasing Keystone, the fabled realm of the Keepers, where she hopes to gain answers to all the unresolved questions about Keepers and her magic. A portal hitchhiker sends everything into chaos and delays her mission, raising more questions about her magic and future.

The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love each other deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds.

Als Maddie nach den traumatischen Ereignissen im Herbst an die Silveroaks Park zurückkehrt, trifft sie Aiden. Und Maddie wird schnell klar: Ihr neuer Kommilitone macht nicht nur auf dem Footballfeld, sondern auch in ihrem Theaterkurs eine gute Figur. Von Anfang an fühlt sie sich zu ihm hingezogen und obwohl sie spürt, dass es ihm ähnlich geht, hält Aiden sie konsequent auf Abstand. Dennoch ist er immer da, wenn sie in Schwierigkeiten steckt oder Hilfe braucht und die Funken zwischen ihnen lassen sich nicht ewig ignorieren.

Thirty years ago, Alex, Bonnie and Kevin went on a road trip to the Grand Canyon with their parents. But something happened on that trip that cut it short. And their mother was never the same again. Now, Alex, Bonnie and Kevin might be siblings, but they've grown apart, each holding heavy secrets close to their chests. When their mother takes a turn for the worse, asking them to relive that old road trip to see her, they're forced into close quarters once more.

When Catalina, a witty, vulnerable and beautiful Ecuadorian student, arrives at Harvard, she feels like one of the chosen. She is a miracle child who has escaped death in Latin America to be raised by undocumented grandparents and now studies at the most prestigious university in the world. She knows she has to play the part, but she also wants to have a good time in the process. And so begins her era of opulent parties, secret societies, desirable internships, flings with rich men and plenty of vodka sodas.

Maggie Cassidy (escrita en 1953 y publicada en 1959) es el tercer volumen del magno ciclo La leyenda de Duluoz. En ella, el joven Jack Duluoz, de dieciséis años, conoce a una chica en el baile de Nochevieja de 1939, coquetean, vuelven a verse, se dan celos, son víctimas de murmuraciones, se pelean, se reconcilian y se enfrentan a las primeras decisiones de la vida adulta. Es la historia del primer amor del protagonista, un amor adolescente que engloba otros despertares: al mundo exterior, la sexualidad, la espiritualidad, los estudios, el trabajo, la vocación.

In June 2000, Mimi Truang is on her way home to Vietnam when her toddler daughter vanishes in the Philadelphia airport. Seventeen years later, two best friends graduate from high school in the WASP-y town of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. Kit is half Japanese, half American, and interracially adopted by white well-to-do parents. Sabrina is the daughter of a Chinese immigrant single mother who brandishes strict household rules to hide her own secrets. During that last summer before college, Kit travels to Tokyo, determined to uncover her Japanese identity.

Jetzt, wo eine Freundin gekidnappt wurde, müssen er und der Rest seiner Gruppe einen Weg finden, Cordellia zu retten, bevor ihr etwas zustößt. Erschwerend kommt hinzu, dass Bob, seine schwarze Fertigkeit, verschwunden und irgendwo verschlossen ist, seit sie die Regeln des Turms gebrochen und Rakonath eingeschleust haben.

Detransition Baby meets Fleishman is in Trouble in this remarkable debut novel from an incisive contemporary voice. A story about the awkwardness of growing up and the greatest love story of all, that between us and our friends, Woodworking is a tonic for the moment and a celebration of womanhood in all its multifaceted joy.

Ethan never asked to see beyond the veil. Haunted by visions, plagued by nightmares, and scarred by a past he doesn’t fully understand, he’s thrust into a spiritual battlefield that rages unseen around him. When demonic forces target his city of Fairbridge, Ethan discovers his gift as a Seer—a rare calling to discern the unseen and confront the enemy head-on. As strongholds crumble and allies reveal themselves on both sides of the veil, Ethan must rise—not as a victim, but as a warrior.

Young Elphie is destined to be a witch, she bears the markings from childhood. Elphie is a girl like any other and no other. The road ahead is full of lessons and heartbreak, the first bruising attempts at friendship - and tantalizing whispers of magic. It will lead Elphie to the doors of Shiz University, and to the girl who will change her life forever.

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.

London, July 1944. After nearly five years of war, the readers of Woman’s Friend magazine are relying on the support of Emmy Lake and her team more than ever. With the city under attack, the magazine staff decamps to the countryside for the summer. Determined to help the women of Britain carry on, Emmy and friends are hard at work finding new ways to inspire resilience.

Birdie Rhodes was only thirteen when legendary modeling agent Harriet Goldman discovered her in a department store and transformed her into one of Harriet’s Girls. What followed felt like the start of something incredible, a chance for shy Birdie to express herself in front of the camera. But two years later, she meets a thirty-one-year-old rock star, and her teenage heart falls hard as he leads her into a new life, despite Harriet's warnings. Then, as abruptly as it began, it’s over, like a lipstick-smeared fever dream.

Alison is mired in loneliness and grief. Freshly twenty-three and mourning the loss of her younger sister, who has drowned at sea, she’s moved out of her hometown and into a cramped apartment on New York’s Lower East Side. Now she’s living the cliché, barely making rent as a restaurant hostess and avoiding her roommates, while watching the bright, busy passersby from her bubble of grief. She doesn’t need originality; she just needs to be alive.

Amy Webb is a chef. Or rather, she was a chef. Somewhere along the way she also became a wife and a stepmother and an emergency contact, and the part of her that was a chef disappeared entirely–along with her sense of self. Which is why she is currently in the republic of Georgia, on a mission to find a lost dog named Angel, and, more importantly, the life’s purpose she once took for granted. For months, Amy has escaped by watching Youtube videos of Angel walking the children of Tbilisi to school. When Angel goes missing, Amy volunteers to go find him.

Sixteen and living in a small Michigan town, Gertie is harboring a secret heavy enough to fracture her closest friendship. She and Cindy have been bonded since birth by the fact their fathers are addicts, and their unsteady home lives are a little easier when they’re together, sprawled on a trampoline with pilfered vodka and dreams of moving to New York.