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Christian, Dana, Franz und Mitch sind halbe Amerikaner. Als vaterlose Kinder deutscher Mütter und amerikanischer Soldaten identifizieren sich die vier Freunde auf tragikomische Weise mit dem Land der Väter, das sich aus Amerikaerzählungen, Hollywoodfilmen und eigenen fantastischen Vorstellungen zusammensetzt. Als Christian zu Beginn der Semesterferien unverhofft ein Sparbuch in die Hände fällt, bricht er kurzerhand alleine in die USA auf. Um seinen Vater zu finden? Um endlich ein ganzer Amerikaner zu werden? Und was wird aus seiner kaum gelebten Liebe zu Dana?

Since his beloved wife Helen passed, Luke and six-year-old Amy are just about keeping the show on the road, but he’d do anything to have Helen near him again. Connie’s much-missed mum was everything to her daughter. A friend, a cheer-leader, a comfort, and the best housemate Connie ever had. What she wouldn’t give to speak to her one more time… Teenage twins Alex and Lucy both miss their dad desperately but neither have the words to put it right. In the heart of Dublin, a quiet community is forming, drawn together by the loved ones they have lost, but kept together by friendship and laughter.

Michael Haley, a whip-smart seventh-grader growing up in rural Mississippi in the early 1980s, has a precociously metaphysical turn of mind, a brand-new girlfriend who won’t come out of her bedroom, and plenty of neighborhood pals to distract him from both. But as he passes the long afternoon of this story roaming their streets, yards, and woods with the likes of Zeke Barry (his girlfriend’s brother and a born skeptic) and John Dixon Montgomery (a diminutive fishing genius plagued by assorted maladies), unsettling questions won’t leave Michael alone.

Danny's family live in a large house close to the school where his father is headmaster. At school, his father's importance gives Danny certain privileges, but it also sets him apart from his classmates. When a new boy Philip, for whom everything seems easy, arrives, he surprises Danny by wanting to be friends. So when he and Philip are invited to work after school with inspiring, artistic teacher Mr. Miller, Danny believes he has found somewhere he can shine.

A coming-of-age novel that is as relevant today as it was nearly ninety years ago, There’s No Turning Back centers on eight women with radically different backgrounds who attend the same college in Rome. Some are there to study, others to escape a scandal, or keep a secret, and during their time there, they experience the challenges of love, work, and emancipation.

Harley Carmichael-Roth was born into money. She has everything a girl could dream of, except the one thing she really wants—a successful career as an actor. Harley's aunt Rachael Carmichael went from silver screen legend to Hollywood recluse, and now Harley cannot get in the door. That is, until she is cast to play Rachael, a woman she looks so similar to but doesn't know. Is this her chance?

“Climb up here, Little Alien. Sit next to me. I will tell you about life on this planet. I will tell you how it goes.” Before she thinks of herself as Little Alien, our narrator is only a lonely little girl living in southeast England, who doesn’t understand the world the way other children seem to. So when a late-night TV special introduces her to the mysterious Voynich Manuscript—an ancient tome written in an indecipherable language—Little Alien experiences something she hasn’t before: hope. Could there be others like her, who also feel like they’re from another planet?

In the fall of 1959, Freda Gilroy arrives on the campus of Fisk University full of hope, carrying a suitcase and the voice of her father telling her she’s part of a family legacy of greatness. Soon, the ugliness of the Jim Crow South intrudes, and she’s thrust into a movement for social change. Freda is reluctant to get involved, torn between a soon-to-be doctor her parents approve of and an audacious young man willing to risk it all in the name of justice.

COUNTERPUNCH – Maryl Morgan Marks jumps into the gritty pounding city of Philadelphia after a chance meeting leads her to a booming high-tech startup job far from her sleepy Seattle suburb. There she is shocked into the reality of power, greed, and start-up speed in the high-stakes world of the 1980s. Grappling with an inherited friend group, dubious business ethics, and the new definition of corporate success, her journey is a tug-of-war between her higher self and wanting retribution for the misogyny and narcissism engulfing her.

After her first ex abandoned her and her second ex let her down, Eve has worked hard to rebuild her family’s life and now, she’s doing just fine, or so she thinks. She definitely doesn’t have the time or the energy to trust anyone else with her fragile heart. But then eldest son Tom drops a bombshell and precocious daughter Anna is determined to make Eve see that there is a man in her life who could be absolutely perfect for her.

Hiram Ruvalcaba aborda en este audiolibro uno de los temas eternos de la naturaleza humana: la relación de los padres e hijos, y lo hace con el pulso firme, el instinto y la precisión de un cuentista consumado. El desarrollo de sus historias, los estudios psicológicos de los personajes, lo remates contundentes, sus estrategias narrativas resultan extraordinarias.

At age eighteen, in Edwardian England, Molly fears she has grown dull. Now, what feels like a perilous decision weighs heavily on her shoulders. With only a small window of time to sort out her future, Molly turns to her past. Coming to terms with the fact that she grew up too fast for her own good, she decides its time to become the person her younger self had always dreamt of being.

1973. In a close-knit community on Ireland’s west coast, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Named Brendan Bonnar by Ambrose, the fisherman who adopts him, Brendan will become a source of fascination and hope for a town caught in the storm of a rapidly changing world. Bookended by the arrival and departure of a single mesmerizing boy, Garrett Carr's The Boy From the Sea is an exploration of the ties that make us and bind us, as a family and community move irresistibly towards the future.

Many readers of the Book of Mormon consider Captain Moroni one of their favorite heroes due to his strength of character and devotion to liberty and freedom. This story is not just a story of war. It is a love story, a story of family and devotion. A story of dissentions and treachery. It is a story of learning.

A quickie on Hampstead Heath. An invitation to play chamber music in the Dordogne. These two pole-star events will between them set the course of young theatre manager Robbie’s future life. More than one grand passion lies in store for him during his next twenty-five years. Chris, Jeremy and Luke will all spend time with him in the countryside and elegant houses of southern France. But with whom will he find himself lying out under the stars when the beautiful music stops? Contains several scenes of frankly described gay sex.

सूर्या बांगुर के साथ कोच रैना से मिलने जाता है, वो उनसे ट्रेनिंग लेना चाहता है, लेकिन रैना उसकी insult करते हैं और फीस के लिए एक मोटी रकम मांगते हैं. सूर्या की मुलाकात वहाँ पर अपने हमउम्र, अर्णव से होती है जो एक बिजनेस टाइकून का बेटा है और रैना से आर्चरी सीखने आया है.

A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.

Brother witches Josh and Chris have sacrificed a great deal for their magical responsibilities. Their Aunt Kathy is the only family they have left, and together they must face their enemies to keep them from targeting any more victims. But when Kathy is put in the hospital after an attack, the boys are a witch short. With the brothers at their weakest, they uncover a growing new power trying to organize the demonic hierarchy. Josh and Chris are left alone to battle an evil stronger than anything they’ve ever faced. An evil so strong it might cost them their lives.

Suddenly Maddy is right there… in her very own future. And it’s all wrong, yet again. It happens to her every time. When the kisses lead to the bedroom, just when she thinks she might have found the one… Just for a split second, Maddy disappears, and she finds that she’s living her own life. But ten years into the future. She’s only there for a little while. But each time, it’s long enough to know that she doesn’t want to be any of those future versions of Maddy. Because every man she falls for seems to lead her to a future that is just… wrong. Until she meets Oliver.

Diana has thrown her life in the garbage disposal and flipped the switch. Everything is a mess. After years of watching her safe, steady marriage grow strained, she and her husband, Oliver, decided to separate. Now he’s embarked on a new career and what seems to be a satisfying dating life, while she’s eating cereal for dinner in an empty kitchen.