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In the summer of 1998, Zia and Treyton Dreyfuss moved into the Marquil Mansion. Running from their sketchy past, Treyton takes a job as the house’s new caretaker and renovator. Many things had happened inside those walls, things the people of Willow Village talked about in hushed whispers and heated debates. That didn’t bother the Dreyfuss’s, though; they were used to the side eyes and gossip. They thought they could walk onto the property unscathed… that was until the doors opened, and they looked inside.

When Ingram is forced by overwhelming poverty and spiritual exhaustion to walk away from his home, he leaves behind a neglectful childhood on a dirt farm on a dead-end road. With no family, no resources, and no practical understanding of the world, Ingram’s only compass is the daily fight to survive and the narrow dream of one day owning a truck.

Seventeen-year-old Phoebe was never interested in her birth family. But on the cusp of her high school graduation, her adoptive mother, Greta, insists on a visit to meet her biological parents and siblings. The encounter is a jolt, a revelation that derails Phoebe. With the help of her best friend Luna, Phoebe runs away—as far as their friend Patrick O’Connor’s chaotic home, where she hopes to go unnoticed among his thirteen siblings.

Wishful Thinking is a screenplay of adventure and fantasy, bringing up the idyllic question, what would happen if you went back in time to save the ones you love? Joey Ricci faces this question as he discovers the death of his father at the hands of his beloved mentor and friend, Aberforth. Now orphaned and seeking justice, Joey takes up his family's heirloom and learns the craft of his fathers before losing everything to the man he once called "uncle". Now in a battle of wills and wit, our hero must risk it all for a chance to save the ones he loves before time runs out for both of them.

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.

Liam Campbell is radeloos als zijn vrouw Mikaela door een ongeluk in coma raakt. Thuis probeert Liam zijn twee wanhopige kinderen zo goed mogelijk op te vangen. Dan ontdekt hij foto's uit haar eerste huwelijk, waar ze nooit over heeft willen praten. Haar ex-man blijkt niet alleen de beroemde filmster Julian True te zijn, maar ook de liefde van haar leven. Liam is ervan overtuigd dat Julian de enige is die Mikaela uit haar coma kan halen. Maar is hij bereid zijn huwelijk op het spel zetten voor het leven van zijn vrouw?

Tom flieht aus der Enge seines Heimatdorfes. Er will in der Großstadt ein offen schwules Leben führen. Doch sein Leben entwickelt sich anders als erwartet – und die neue große Freiheit birgt einige Enttäuschungen. Nach einer ersten großen Enttäuschung bekämpft er seine Einsamkeit damit, dass er sich tief in die queere Szene und in prickelnde Abenteuer stürzt.

He sits on a park bench talking to trees, listening carefully for their replies. He digs deeper inside himself, knowing that peace lies beyond the depths. Meanwhile, a woman watches him from afar, enjoying his every step towards realization.

In the bustling streets of Queens, New York, Jamar Ward’s life is defined by loss, love, and the unrelenting pull of music. Raised by his steadfast grandmother Martha after the tragic loss of his mother, Jamar finds solace at the piano, where his raw talent transforms unspoken emotions into hauntingly beautiful melodies. Yet, his journey is far from solitary. Watching over him is the spirit of Melba Bowie, a jazz singer caught between realms, whose purpose is to guide Jamar in unlocking his potential and freeing him from the weight of his past.

מה חושב ילד החי בימי המלחמה בורשה הפולנית על היהודים הסגורים בצד השני של חומת הגטו? מה מבין מריאן ומה הוא מרגיש כשעליו לעזור לאביו החורג להבריח מזון דרך נקבות...

A story of secrets, shame, and the life-changing power of love, Loving Lavender Finch is a coming-of-age tale that explores the complexities of self-acceptance and the courage it takes to share the deepest parts of our soul with another. It isn’t the trauma that almost ruins Lavender, it is the shame she swallows when she keeps it a secret that threatens to choke the life out of her. LAVENDER FINCH NEVER THOUGHT OF HERSELF AS A LIAR. To her former fifth grade teacher, Mrs.

Und auch Evas Leben fängt gerade erst richtig an – da stirbt ihr Vater unter mysteriösen Umständen, und sie muss seinen ungeliebten Pfandleihladen übernehmen. Dabei hat sie ganz andere Träume: Sie möchte die Welt sehen, sich verlieben, zu all den neuen Liedern tanzen gehen. Nur eins weiß sie noch nicht: Die Musik wird der Schlüssel sein für sie. Denn Eva ist mutig genug, um auf alle Konventionen zu pfeifen ...

Als seine Mutter Carolina — ein einst ikonisches Fotomodell — nach langer Krankheit verstirbt, richtet Marian eine alternative Trauerfeier für ausgewählte Gäste aus. Marian glaubt, dass mit diesem Ereignis die freudlosere Hälfte des Lebens beginnt. Doch es folgt ein Jahr der Verwandlung.

In 1924, Korea is an occupied country. In Seoul’s secret, underground networks and throughout the countryside, rebellion against the Japanese Empire simmers, threatening to boil over. Kim Na-Young lives a simple life in the rural village of Daegeori, where she watches the moon rise and set over the pine-wooded mountains, tends to her household alongside her best friend, Yeon-Soo, and cares for her sick mother.

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?

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?