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San Francisco in 1978 is a place of urban chaos. But for Diego Contreras, it represents a dream of artistic success. As a recent college graduate from an immigrant family, he moves from Los Angeles to find something worth believing in and meets Saloma Sevilla, a wealthy Filipino-Chinese graduate student.

Agneta är fyrtionio år och har bleknat in i tapeten. De utflugna barnen hör bara av sig när de vill att hon ska swisha pengar, och arbetskamraterna har absolut noll intresse för henne. Agnetas man Magnus, fågelskådare och frisksportare, anser att ”din kropp är ditt tempel” och att templet inte ska besudlas med till exempel rödvin eller aprikosmarmelad. Lyckligtvis finns ett utrymme bakom frysen i källaren där Agneta kan ha sin marmelad. Att ligga i sängen, dricka vin i smyg och se på tv-serier där folk renoverar franska gårdar är hennes enda, hemliga njutning.

Äntligen har Agnetas liv fallit på plats. Nu vet hon precis var och hur hon vill leva sitt det: i Saint Carelle, tillsammans med Einar, Bonnibelle, Fabien, katterna, ostarna, kindpussandet, vinet, baguetterna och klostret. Men hur stadigt ett medeltida kloster än står, kan det faktiskt falla i bitar av en enkel knackning på porten. I alla fall om det är ett oväntat myndighetsbesök som tränger sig på. Med en enda knackning slås den magiska världen Agneta gjort till sin sönder.

Back in her troubled school days, kind-hearted Violet always dreamed of a life where she was happy. Now it feels like she’s just about getting there. She has her dream job working with books, and she’s living with her handsome boyfriend, Lenny. But when her relationship with Lenny falls to pieces and he moves out, Violet, hurt and alone, decides it’s time to really take her happiness in hand. With help from her new flatmate, Bella, she changes her image and takes control at work, ready to show the world that she doesn’t need Lenny in her life.

Virgil Kitchens is a riveting tale set against the rugged backdrop of the Colorado wilderness. This coming-of-age story explores resilience, survival, and morality through the eyes of Virgil, a boy shaped by a harsh life with an abusive father and a loving, steadfast mother. When a moment of violence turns his world upside down, Virgil must navigate the complexities of justice, self-discovery, and community.

It’s been several years since Kitty Cavanagh’s life was turned upside down when her family made the perilous journey across the Irish Sea to Blackburn and she became a widow. After facing near destitution she’s finally making enough to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads. Until, that is, the day she is out rag collecting and finds a bag of coins – coins that turn out to be counterfeit – and Kitty soon finds herself caught up in a police investigation. If found guilty, Kitty could end up losing everything she’s worked so hard to protect.

Caught between his well-meaning yet misapprehending family, his boisterous friends, and his self-assured partner Ben, Elom struggles to fit in. All he ever wants is to feel understood – but what does it mean to live authentically when the only thing changing faster than the world around you is the world within? Moving between Accra, Glasgow, London, and the islands of the outer Hebrides, Selali Fiamanya’s extraordinary debut asks what it means to love and be loved in return. Before We Hit the Ground is an intimate portrait of a family, and one man’s struggle to find his place.

When quiet, shy Elinor ‘Mouse’ Haywood receives a proposal of marriage from the very eligible Frederick, she thinks it’s a love match. But little does she know that she has actually been the subject of a business translation between her aristocratic in-laws, who need money, and her father, a wealthy, self-made man. Unhappily married, but the mother of a son she adores, she decides she’s made her bed and is going to lie in it. But when, she finds herself aboard the Titanic, with her husband, son and maid Molly, bound for America, she is presented with an opportunity she cannot pass up.

열아홉 수지는 소리를 듣지 못해도 불행하다고 느낀 적은 없다. 어렸을 때부터 엄마와 수지만 아는 수화로 완벽한 대화가 가능했고, 상상 속에서 모든 소리를 만들어 낼 수 있었으니까. 그런데 어느 날 인공 와우 수술을 받게 되면서 모든 게 달라진다. 완벽했던 침묵의 세계에서 불완전한 소음의 세계로 옮겨진 수지는 낯선 세상에 적응해 나가기 위해 새로운 발걸음을 준비한다. 눈이나 귀가 아닌 마음으로 세상을 바라보는 수지를 통해 독자들은 있는 그대로의 나 자신과 마주하는 법을 배우게 된다.

Als er vierzehn ist, verliebt sich Hannes Prager in das Mädchen Polina. Um ihr seine Liebe zu zeigen, komponiert der wundersam begabte Junge eine Melodie, die Polinas ganzes Wesen und Wünschen umfasst. Kurz danach stirbt Hannes’ Mutter bei einem Unfall, mit ihr stirbt seine Musik, und Polina verschwindet aus seinem Leben. Nach Jahren, in denen er nichts als Leere fühlt, erkennt Hannes: Er muss Polina wiederfinden. Doch das Einzige, womit er sie erreichen kann, ist ihre Melodie.

Der 19-jährige Harold versucht, sich den gesellschaftlichen Zwängen seines wohlhabenden Elternhauses durch ungewöhnliche "Marotten" zu entziehen. Die 79-jährige Maude ist unkonventionell, energisch, impulsiv und lebensfroh – trotz ihrer schweren Vergangenheit. Die beiden lernen sich bei einer Beerdigung kennen, und bald verwandelt sich ihre Freundschaft in eine zarte und bewegende Liebesgeschichte. Bis zum Tag von Maudes 80. Geburtstag.

I'm from a place where you eat or get eaten. Two gangs are at war, and I'm hungry for survival. Growing up in a broken town doesn't make you a good man. In fact, the North Shore of the Falls has made me merciless. I survive because I'm a good soldier for the North Shore Crew. I'm cool-headed, I never lose sight of my goals, and my only obsession is to wrench our town from the clutches of our sworn enemies, the Kings. Alexandra Delacroix is just a job. The plan is straightforward: charm her, uncover incriminating information about her senator father, and tip the balance of power in our favor.

Just days after the close of World War II, Bess Myerson, the daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants living in the Bronx, is competing in the Miss America pageant. At stake: a $5,000 scholarship. The tension and excitement in Atlantic City's Warner Theatre are palpable, especially for traumatized Jews rooting for one of their own. So begins Bessie. Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson, who, in 1945 at age twenty-one, remarkably rises to become one of the most famous women in America.

When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought. Still, Jay’s father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of these hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, the local son of the farm’s manager, different from him in every way except for one.

In the shadow of an ancient abbey nestled between rivers, Daniel is growing up. He is highly intelligent but little understood by his parents, and a secret passion burns inside him for love and recognition. When his father loses his job as the headmaster of the local school, his family stumbles into a rural life for which they are ill-prepared. Daniel’s sole solace is the arrival of Philip, a new boy at school, whom he worships with a confused intensity.

Long before Oliver Twist stumbled onto the scene, Jacob Fagin was scratching out a life for himself in the dark alleys of nineteenth-century London. Born in the Jewish enclave of Stepney shortly after his father was executed as a thief, Jacob's whole world is his open-minded mother, Leah. But Jacob’s prospects are forever altered when a light-fingered pickpocket takes Jacob under his wing and teaches him a trade that pays far better than the neighborhood boys could possibly dream.

On the eve of her first solo show, Ava is feeling defiant. The art gallery acolytes have insisted on writing “explanations” of her paintings for an accompanying catalog, but what do they know of her work? What do they know of her brother, Demetri, whose face echoes across every canvas? After all, Ava and Demetri have only ever had each other. Abandoned first by their mother, who drowned in the Long Island Sound, and then again by their father, who couldn’t see beyond his grief, each sibling has always been the other’s most ardent supporter.

Clare is supposed to be the grown-up one. Married to the love of her life, with a major deal for her first novel, she has everything she thought she wanted. So then why does it all feel so wrong? When she agrees to a weeklong vacation in Hawai'i with five of her oldest friends as they each approach thirty, she is hoping for an escape with the people who know her best. But when a terrifying news alert shatters their peace, it becomes harder to ignore how much the world has changed since they were teenagers.

There’s coming of age, and then there’s coming of age. Eirene has been there, done that, and now wants nothing more than to live a reclusive life with books as companions. The only person she hasn’t left behind is her cousin and best friend, Zoe. When she meets Hoyt, however, a man who knows how to listen quietly, Eirene finds herself questioning her decision. But will the truth about her renowned, but callow, rite of passage give Hoyt misgivings about getting further involved in Eirene’s life?

Headlights probe the fabric of evening as the V8’s purr and the tires grind upon the pavement. The signal clicks and flashes in rhythm to the beat on the radio. Spin the wheel, and slip through the parking lot. Wave at friends sprawled across their chariots, arms draped around other equally lonely misfits. Emptiness lures them to sit under neon lights, staring into faces profiled in shadow, touching lips and caressing with light fingertips.