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There are secrets you share, and secrets you hide… A heartbreaking, funny, and deeply evocative novel about love, marriage, family, wine, and the treacherous terrain in which they meet. For everyone who loved Brothers and Sisters. My mother said it simply: ‘Be careful what you give up’...

A stunning reissue of a bestselling, classic novel from the author of The Joy Luck Club and The Hundred Secret Senses. LuLing Young is now in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can...

With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel's 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national conversation in Germany. The book is a headlong dash through every crevice and byproduct, physical...

Mordecai has discovered his heritage and must take up the mantle of a lord of the realm, while figuring out what it really means to be a mage of the line of Illeniel. He is beset on both sides by allies and enemies trying to control or destroy his future. Gods and kings both seek to manipulate him for their own ends, and no matter what he chooses his loved ones will suffer. Will he risk destroying his love with a bond that might be her death, or face the madness that comes to wizards who embrace power without restraint?

Seventeen-year-old Jean, a troubled Jewish boy caught in the countercultural swirl of 1970s London, arrives at Compton Manor, a rural alternative boarding school for boys with “problems.” Dyslexic, antisocial, and prone to violent outbursts, Jean has never made friends easily and school has never been a place of safety or enjoyment.

Saeric, apprentice to Heremund Iron Fist and acolyte to Earl Eadwald of Sceaptesburh, is fast realising how ill-equipped he is to wear the mantle of a crown prince. His progress is blighted by the lingering shadow of his former Saxon owner, Eanswith, who is determined to reclaim her runaway slave at any cost.

In this sister volume to Elphie, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Gregory Maguire shares the eagerly awaited origin story of Galinda, the pink-clad, effervescent, and popular favorite character. A deluxe limited edition hardcover featuring stenciled edges, designed endpapers, and...

Ruby Lee Becker can't breathe. It's 1935 in the heart of the Dust Bowl, and the Becker family has clung to its Texas Panhandle farm through six years of drought, dying crops, and dust storms. On Black Sunday, the biggest blackest storm of them all threatens ten-year-old Ruby with deadly dust pneumonia and requires a drastic choice —one her mother, Willa Mae, will forever regret.

A forbidden love blows open the world of a teenage girl, altering the trajectory of her life – from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Chaperone "A cancel-your-plans, hold-your-breath, call-your-best-friend kind of book." —Amy Jo Burns "Illuminates the beguiling power of first...

In a sun-soaked coastal town, two kids from different worlds find solace in each other. She’s the new girl from Tennessee, longing for connection. He’s the boy from down the beach, her unexpected best friend who becomes her everything. As they share dreams, secrets, and the sweet thrill of first love, the bond between them deepens, promising a future filled with endless possibilities. But when fate intervenes, their idyllic world shatters, leaving them both broken and searching for answers.

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Concealed in his jacket are ingots of gold; he just doesn't remember why. A young girl running from an abusive foster home kidnaps an older biker with a mystery for a past. Leaving the mining town in Colorado and crossing state lines, anything can happen. What neither is looking for or expecting is friendship. But in the cold of the desert night, life lessons can go both ways—even if they are not about a million dollars in gold. Growing up is hard enough, even without the shooting. "

From summer vacations soaked in blood to cursed castles buried deep in Europe, Allen DeShawn’s life has been anything but ordinary. This pulse-pounding omnibus collects all five terrifying, action-packed books in the I Kill Cursed Creatures series—a coming-of-age saga drenched in horror, heartbreak, and tooth-and-claw survival.

Sommer 2007: Der 15-jährige Kian, aufgewachsen bei seinem kleinkriminellen Vater, landet nach einem schweren Schicksalsschlag im Heim. Er weiß sofort, dass er dort nicht bleiben kann. Bei einem nächtlichen Fluchtversuch trifft er Marco, der ganz andere Gründe hat abzuhauen. Nach einsamen und harten Jahren im Waisenhaus hat er erfahren, dass er eine Halbschwester an der Nordsee hat. Als es den beiden ungleichen Jungen gemeinsam gelingt auszubrechen, beginnt eine abenteuerliche Reise Richtung Meer. Sie berauschen sich an der neuen Freiheit.

Mitte der Siebzigerjahre ist Johanna die erste in ihrer Familie, die an die Uni geht. Mit ihrer Freundin Luzie zieht sie in eine WG nach Freiburg und genießt neue Freiheiten. Als wenig später ihr Vater stirbt, muss sie jedoch zurück nach Hause und den Winzerbetrieb der Eltern übernehmen. Gemeinsam mit ihrer Mutter und Großmutter bewirtschaftet sie den Hof am Kaiserstuhl. In einer Welt, in der weibliche Arbeitskräfte nur die Hälfte zählen, müssen die Frauen sich behaupten. Erst recht, als Johanna ein Kind bekommt und sich entschließt, es ohne Vater großzuziehen.

Rainy March is a proud third-generation book witch, sworn to defend works of fiction from all foes real and imaginary. With her magical umbrella and feline familiar, she jumps into and out of novels to fix malicious alterations and wrangle characters that go off-script. Book witches live by a...

Tully und James, der eine bereit für das Leben, der andere offen, sich von seinem Freund mitreißen zu lassen, wachsen in den Achtzigern in einer schottischen Kleinstadt auf. Einer Stadt ohne Perspektiven und Zukunft, mit vorgezeichneten Lebensläufen und Schicksalen. Die Musik ist ihnen Zuflucht und Ausweg, Manchester im Jahr 86 ihr Mekka. Ein Wochenende lang spielen dort ihre Heroen, Bands wie The Smiths, New Order oder Joy Division. Mit ihrer Clique ziehen die beiden durch die Clubs, getragen von den Riffs der Gitarren, der Magie des Fortseins von zu Hause.

Noah ist vierzehn Jahre alt und Taubenzüchter. Eines Tages flattern seine geliebten Tiere unruhig durch die Lüfte, über der Stadt kreisen die Helikopter des Kalifats. Noah erlebt einen Sommer voller Umbrüche: Für seinen Vater muss er Frauenkörper auf Produktfotos schwärzen, sein älterer Bruder steigt zum Leiter einer Sicherheitsbehörde auf, seine Mutter und seine Schwester dürfen nicht mehr allein aus dem Haus – und bald schon steht das Leben seiner Tauben auf dem Spiel.

An out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime—sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag—to aid a professor’s psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong? In Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a...

For fans of Asako Yuzuki and Fleabag, an audacious, unhinged debut following the major humiliations and minor triumphs of an overworked, undersexed young woman in Tokyo who must save herself from the hazards of her own lust, obsession, and delusion. limerence. [li-mer-uhns] noun the state of...