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At once a self-styled social scientist, a spy in the baffling adult world, and a budding, hormone-driven emotional explorer, Oliver Tate is stealthily nosing his way forward through the murky and uniquely perilous waters of adolescence. His objectives? Uncovering the secrets behind his...

When ten-year-old Enaiatollah Akbari’s small village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule in early 2000, his mother shepherds the boy across the border into Pakistan but has to leave him there all alone to fend for himself. Thus begins Enaiat’s remarkable and often punish­ing five-year...

The new novel from the best-selling author of I Don’t Know How She Does It takes us on an unforgettable journey into first love, and—with the emotional intensity and penetrating wit that have made her beloved among readers all over the world—reminds us of how the ardor of our youth can...

Rescued from a poverty-stricken mountain life, Charity Royall lives as ward to Lawyer Royall in the small New England town of North Dormer. However, Charity is bored by her job at the local library and feels thwarted by the order that governs her society–until a young man named Lucius Harney plucks her from the drabness of North Dormer life.

Nu er hun der, 43 år og rustet til tænderne med oplevelsestrang og gåpåmod, klar til at »gøre« New York alene, til fods, for – som hun siger – »at se det hele selv«. Hun går, gade op og gade ned; først på tværs og så på langs af Manhattan. Men først besøger hun Museum of Modern Art – kaldet MOMA og er rundt og hilse på hos venner og kolleger på små alternative bogforlag. Rundtursbilletten muliggør en afstikker til Lincoln, Nebraska og – i anledning af en forestående udgivelse af Vinterbørn i USA, et besøg på byens fødeafdeling.

A propulsive, heartfelt, and utterly original debut about a young chef trying to find her way in a world that’s not built for her to succeed—and the pro wrestler she idolizes who derails everything Zarina, a prep cook at a fancy New Haven restaurant, is underpaid, overworked, and might as...

The Hike Not Taken, a heartfelt, fictional tale of six young men navigating a summer at a national park lodge. It’s a coming-of-age journey filled with camaraderie and a celebration of the great outdoors. The setting is NorthStar Lodge nestled in beautiful Triple Divide National Park. It's 1978. Six college guys convene on Triple Divide National Park to work for the summer. They thought they were in for a summer of working at NorthStar Lodge right in the middle of the park. Little did they realize that the summer would alter their lives in a way that was totally unbelievable.

A female-centred collection of four dramatisations celebrating Jane Austen’s classic novels - plus bonus series When I Met Jane Austen On 16 December 1775, a literary icon was born. Jane Austen’s groundbreaking novels pioneered the romantic comedy genre and put women front and centre...

"I absolutely loved it . . . So realistic about the complexity of loving people who will break our hearts."—Marian Keyes, internationally bestselling author of My Favorite Mistake The #1 internationally bestselling, award-winning author of Snowflake returns with a luminous portrait of two...

In a yellow house perched on the crumbling edge of Massachusetts Bay, eleven-year-old Penelope Willows is living in the shadow of loss. Her father is gone, leaving behind only whispers and shadows, while her mother drifts further away each day, lost in her own grief. Left alone in a home that...

She can bend the weather to her will... but will that help her forge her destiny? Glorya, fresh from weatherworking school and armed only with determination, is ready to make her mark. But when her dreams land her on a ship battling the treacherous coastal storms, she faces a tempest unlike any she's ever known. Navigating fierce weather and uncharted cultures, Glorya must prove her worth amidst deadly foes and nature's raw power. Will her ingenuity be enough to rise above the crashing waves, or will she be swept away before she can claim her place in the world?

Swamp Jesus is a story about a young man coming of age. Dillon is raised in a single parents household in rural Louisiana surrounded by social economic inequality and the dark side of substance abuse. He dreams of breaking free and moves to Nashville, when invited by a friend. In this new city, he uses his love for music to establish new roots, find, love and maybe success in the home of country music. It isn’t as easy as it sounds.

In this unforgettable and raw collection, It Ended By Beginning unearths the buried emotions we try to forget and confronts the truths we often run from. Across 32 hauntingly honest stories, readers are invited into intimate, visceral worlds shaped by grief, betrayal, envy, pride, justice, and silence. Told through the voice of a lone journalist, a man who prints not just the news but the souls of the people he meets, this collection becomes more than fiction. It becomes memory. A printed hell. A closing door. A mirror.

Death imitates Art. Digger can draw. Man! can he draw. He’d be a shoo-in to go to Design Center, the prestigious art school for rich kids, but he hasn’t any money. Design Center is notorious for being tight with scholarships and Digger’s parents are less than willing to co-sign the necessary loans. He lives with his abusive mother and his apathetic sister. His father left them years ago, leaving him with a case of PTSD. It's 1985 and Digger meets two women who will change his life. How will he change theirs?

Como un mismo tema musical (el del erotismo, los recuerdos y el cuerpo) tocado en sus diversas variaciones, así son los vínculos de Paul con las diferentes personas que han ido dando forma a lo que él entiende por amor. Hombres y mujeres con los que se ha encontrado desde su adolescencia en Italia hasta su madurez en Estados Unidos.

Das Buch der verborgenen Magie ist ein fesselnder Fantasy-Roman, der die Reise einer jungen Frau erzählt, die sich zwischen Licht und Dunkelheit entscheiden muss. Als Livia nach dem Tod ihrer Großmutter ein geheimnisvolles, magisches Buch findet, wird sie in eine Welt hineingezogen, von der sie nie geahnt hat, dass sie Teil davon ist. Sie entdeckt, dass sie aus einer alten Hexenlinie stammt, deren Geheimnisse tief mit der Geschichte ihrer Familie verwoben sind. Doch je mehr sie über ihre Kräfte erfährt, desto mehr wird sie mit den dunklen Seiten ihrer Magie konfrontiert.

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For readers of David Nicholls and Sally Rooney comes a new love story that's at once tender and electrifying, told by everyone but the main characters. When Clara and Seb first cross paths in a London square, it’s the start of something exciting. Clara, an aspiring director stuck in an...

Childhood’s Eternal Light follows a quiet soul returning to a hometown that no longer fits its old map. In the attic’s dust and a river that remembers every skipped stone, the narrator pieces together a mosaic of first friendships, small betrayals, and the one luminous summer that seemed to last forever. As past and present braid together, ordinary objects—an enamel cup, a scratched vinyl, a kite snagged in a tree—turn into lanterns that guide the way through grief, love, and the long echo of choices we didn’t know we were making.

Brandon Marks just moved into the Driver household. Fitting into a place like Foxtail Falls when you’re a seventeen-year-old foster kid is harder than it seems. Fixated on a local urban legend, Brandon and his newfound friend, Stone, hatch a plan to uncover the mystery of the baby on Strawberry Hill. Their obsession with the property only gets more intense when Stone’s father purchases it for resale. Stone’s reluctance to break the rules quickly turns into fascination when another foster kid enters the mix. His name is Carter Phillips, and he has a story to tell.