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The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is a dreamy teenager, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre announces itself, Karim starts to win the sort of attention he has been craving, albeit with some rude and raucous results.

My plan was perfect. My friend needed a date, and my brother's best friend was single. Problem solved. Until I saw Jaeger for the first time in years, and sparks flew in the wrong direction. Jaeger has grown up and bulked up. But that shouldn't matter because I have the perfect life. Really.

Called “our finest black-humorist” by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be.

My name is Lily Gilmore, and I was supposed to be getting married today. That was until I found my fiancé having sex with my sister in the church moments before I was supposed to walk down the aisle. I grew up with a father who was a womanizer and cheated on my mother every moment he had the chance. He would even stoop as low as to take me and my sister with him on his trysts when we were younger. Cheating was all I grew up with, and I vowed never to live the life my mother did.

Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to "aging out" out of the foster care system. A community-service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren’t as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.

A city of living bone towers crumbles to the ground and danger abounds. Kirit Densira has lost everything she loved the most - her mother, her home, and the skies above. Nat Brokenwings - once Kirit's brother long before the rebellion tore them apart - is still trying to save his family in the face of catastrophe. They will need to band together once more to ensure not just their own survival but that of their entire community.

Hannah hat ihre Worte verloren. In der Nacht, als ihre Zwillingsschwester Izzy ums Leben kam. Wer soll nun ihre Gedanken weiterdenken, ihre Sätze beenden und ihr Lachen vervollständigen? Niemand kann das. Egal, was Hannahs Eltern versuchen, sie schweigt. Um Izzy nicht loslassen zu müssen, schreibt sie ihr Briefe. Schreibt und verbrennt sie. Immer wieder. Hannah kann der Stille ihrer Worte nicht entkommen. Bis sie Levi trifft, der mit aller Macht versucht herauszufinden, wer sie wirklich ist.

Twenty-year-old Camryn Bennett thought she knew exactly where her life was going. But after a wild night at the hottest club in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, she shocks everyone - including herself - when she decides to leave the only life she's ever known and set out on her own. Grabbing her purse and her cell phone, Camryn boards a Greyhound bus ready to find herself. Instead, she finds Andrew Parrish.

Sechs Freunde und ein Versprechen: Ihr Leben soll nicht in Ordnern mit der Aufschrift "Birth - School - Work - Death" abgeheftet werden. Deshalb ziehen sie gemeinsam ins Auerhaus. Eine Schüler-WG auf dem Dorf - unerhört. Aber sie wollen nicht nur ihr Leben retten, sondern vor allem das ihres besten Freundes Frieder. Denn der ist sich nicht so sicher, warum er überhaupt leben soll. Bov Bjerg erzählt mitreißend und einfühlsam von Liebe, Freundschaft und sechs Idealisten, deren Einfallsreichtum nichts weniger ist als Notwehr gegen das Vorgefundene. Denn ihr Ringen um das Glück ist auch ein Kampf um Leben und Tod.

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ( The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story - part shocking reality, part feverish dream - of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a young French girl. There is the seen and the unseen - and pages that burn with a rare intensity.

Myla Rose McGraw may be 20, single, and pregnant, but she's no damsel in distress. She doesn't need a man. After all, her Grams taught her a thing or two about making lemonade out of life's lemons. Then she meets Cash Carson.

Timi, a boy in Uzbekistan, navigates a strange world of camel breeding, half-understood Islamic doctrine, Mexican soap operas dubbed into Uzbek, and the legacy of widespread pollution from the Soviet era, all while dreaming of doing death-defying stunts on his rickety motorcycle. Lonely and accident-prone, Timi befriends an American humanitarian worker in a struggling marriage, tries to avoid his father's frequent rages, and plans out the astonishing motorcycle jump that will give meaning to his life.

Sawyer Beckett does everything full throttle - he's fiercely loyal to his friends, always the life of the party, and impossible for the parade of women in and out of his bedroom to forget. Surrounded by true love and happily ever afters, Sawyer's not sure if he's enhancing the what-ifs in his head or if the goddess onstage that night really is worth the search and nagging in his chest. At the most inopportune moment possible, Emmett Young comes "skipping" back into his life...and for the first time, Sawyer is the one left wanting more.

When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which leads him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak, and friendship and betrayal.

Pip is an orphan, brought up in a village on the Essex marshes by his disagreeable sister and her husband Joe Gargery, the kind-hearted village blacksmith. Life is harsh and Pip has few prospects until he receives from an anonymous benefactor the chance of escaping the forge for a more promising life in London. But his expectations are fraught with difficulties as he is haunted by figures from his past such as the escaped convict Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her proud, beautiful ward, Estella.

Nevada. Sembra il nome di un deserto, e invece è il luogo in cui vive la famiglia De Boer, in alta val Brenta. Una terra circondata da boschi aspri, dove le case si inerpicano su pendii vertiginosi. Sono gli ultimi anni dell'Ottocento e i De Boer, che lavorano nei campi di tabacco, il pregiatissimo Nostrano del Brenta, vivono consapevoli che solo nella muta e rispettosa alleanza tra uomini e natura selvaggia esiste una possibilità di sopravvivenza.

Mimì, dodici anni, occhiali, parlantina da sapientone e la fissa per i fumetti, gli astronauti e Karate Kid, abita in uno stabile del Vomero, dove suo padre lavora come portiere. Passa le giornate sul marciapiede insieme al suo migliore amico Sasà o nel bilocale che condivide con i genitori, la sorella adolescente e i nonni. Nel 1985, l'anno in cui tutto cambia, Mimì si sta esercitando nella trasmissione del pensiero, architetta piani per riuscire a comprarsi un costume da Spiderman e cerca il modo di attaccare bottone con Viola. Ma, soprattutto, conosce Giancarlo, il suo supereroe.

Marocco ha quattordici anni e vive con il padre a Soccavo, un quartiere di Napoli. La madre li ha abbandonati qualche anno prima, senza dare più notizie di sé, e lui vive quell'assenza come una ferita aperta, un dolore sordo che non dà pace. Frequenta il liceo con pessimi risultati e le sue giornate ruotano attorno agli allenamenti e alle trasferte: insieme a Gioiello, Fusco e Petrone è infatti una giovane promessa del calcio, ma nemmeno le vittorie sul campo riescono a placare la rabbia e il senso di vuoto che prova dentro.

1943: il quattordicenne Giovanni fissa sull'album da disegno gli ultimi giorni del fascismo, il bombardamento di Roma del 19 luglio, la deportazione degli ebrei il 16 ottobre. 1963: Andrea, tredici anni, attraversa col padre, su un Maggiolino decappottabile, l'Italia del boom. 1980: l'undicenne Luca registra sulle cassette del suo mangianastri l'anno terribile del terremoto in Irpinia, del terrorismo, dell'assassinio di John Lennon. 2025: l'adolescente Nina vuole costruire la sua vita preservando le esperienze uniche e irripetibili di coloro che l'hanno preceduta.

La Panzanella - ovvero Carlotta Cordelli, discendenza fieramente partenopea, un corpo in trasformazione, un magma di pensieri onirico e torrenziale - si vede brutta e sgraziata ma, implacabile, si muove a tentoni verso "bellezza e amore". Lo fa quando si mette in minigonna per farsi abbordare, lo fa quando si aggira per piazza Navona ostentando l'aria da giovane intellettuale, lo fa quando nerovestita si sente una anarchica.