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It is 2003 – ten years since Spud Milton’s class of 93 matriculated and the boys went their separate ways. Despite their seemingly unbreakable bond, the Crazy Eight have not kept in touch. Or at least, not as far as Spud knows. When he receives an invitation from the school to attend the ten-year reunion weekend, Spud is determined to avoid the event at all costs, but he hasn’t reckoned with the bombardment of intrusive messages and threatening phone calls from his former dorm mates.

King Maddox Kyronan’s fire magic has earned him a ruthless reputation on the battlefield, but now his kingdom is slowly burning. Ky’s only chance to save his people is to enter a marriage alliance with the neighboring nation of Astranza, and hope that the royal family’s power to manipulate the weather will help his land flourish once more. He just needs to ensure no one finds out how the blaze began.

In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies, the world of this book flashes before their eyes. Everyone Ezra’s ever loved, every place they’ve felt queer and at home, or queer and out of place, reveals itself in an instant. Unfolding in fragments of memory, Ezra dissolves into the family, religion, desire, losses, pains, and joys that made them into the person that’s decided on this final act of protest.

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.

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.

As the next in line to be Queen of the Dryads, or tree nymphs, Na’rina knows two things for sure. Her world of fauns, nymphs, dwarves, and other mythical creatures must remain myths to the more populated human world to remain safe. And the wer-im, or werecats, who burned the dryad’s trees long ago, are never to be trusted again.

On Tigris, children develop telekinesis beginning at the age of five. By the time they're pre-teens, though, their special abilities peak, then slip away as they reach maturity. Being able to "teek" gives them power—even over most adults—until they gradually become regular teenagers, no longer special, no longer with authority and status. Some handle the Transition better than others.

April's Heart: Fifth Anniversary Edition is the controversial story of the whirlwind romance of young lovers April Schweiter and Mitch Hudgins. Witness their struggle as they come of age in the eighties, a time when sex, drugs, and rock and roll was the prevailing lifestyle.

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.

SWORD FIGHT and WAR CAR, the epic two-part adventure series set in a world where knights drive fast cars and clash in duels of honor across a medieval America.

When Julia’s first-love-turned-best-friend Gabe, a musician with a cultish following, dies unexpectedly aged 29, Julia launches herself into an intercontinental quest to recover the possessions he left with friends and acquaintances across the world. Along the way, she encounters Elizabeth, Gabe’s effortlessly perfect and endlessly cool last ex-girlfriend. Now, Julia can’t stop talking to, thinking about and googling Elizabeth. As the two women struggle to reconcile their respective claims on Gabe’s memory, can they find their way from rivalry to friendship?

Bewegend und kraftvoll erzählt Garrett Carr die Geschichte eines Jungen, der versucht, seinen Platz in der Welt zu finden, und die einer Familie und Dorfgemeinschaft, die gemeinsam den Widrigkeiten des Lebens trotzen. Eine Lektüre, die Hoffnung macht. In einer kleinen Gemeinde an der Westküste Irlands wird 1973 ein Baby am Strand gefunden. Ambrose, der Fischer, und seine Frau Christine adoptieren den Jungen, der fortan den Namen Brendan Bonner trägt.

First times, fast times, past times...Boston, 1975. Nicky DeMarco, a naïve but game 18-year-old, is navigating his first semester of college when he falls into a surprising—and life-altering—romantic triangle with Joe, a charismatic, big-hearted jock, and Lori, a warm and adventurous psych student. The three embark on a secret, joyous, and passionate journey of self-discovery as Nicky questions his sexuality—and all that entails.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Câștigătoare Women's Prize for Fiction 2022. Massachusetts Book Award. BC and Yukon Book Prize. Julia Ward Howe Prize for Fiction. După...

Die 14-jährige Waise Manuela von Meinhardis, Tochter eines Offiziers, wird nach dem Tod der Mutter von ihrer Tante auf ein Internat für Offizierstöchter nach Potsdam geschickt, in dem preußischer Drill und stupide Disziplin herrschen. Das sensible Mädchen leidet unter den strengen autoritären Erziehungsmethoden der Internatsangestellten. Verständnis erfährt sie nur von der jungen Lehrerin Fräulein von Bernburg, in die sie sich unsterblich verliebt. Nach einer Schultheater-Aufführung gesteht Manuela, angetrunken und im Feierrausch, der Lehrerin öffentlich ihre tiefe Zuneigung.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Autoare distinsă cu Premiul Pulitzer pentru Ficțiune în 2023. Bestseller New York Times. Într-un orășel din America zilelor noastre, Willa Knox și familia ei se luptă cu o precaritate dezarmantă: sărăcie, șomaj, doliu, boală și lipsa oricărei siguranțe materiale – crize personale care se profilează pe fundalul unei și mai amenințătoare crize globale. În același oraș, dar în 1874, sosește Thatcher Greenwood.

Seventeen-year-old June Scott has always dreamt of becoming a novelist. To write the greatest love story ever told. One that would fill hearts and souls with happiness and joy. However, June has never been in love and when she receives some devastating news, there doesn’t feel as if there’s much time left for her own beautiful love story. That’s until she meets Jesse Taylor who treats every day as if it could be his last. Which could be true. For them both. Together their worlds light up and a love so strong grows between them.

Seattle, 2015. Emily Reed refuses to dwell on her emotions. When the first-year attorney is assigned a church archival project, she dives into the records to hide from her own heartache. But when she discovers her parents were married in this very chapel, she is forced to confront the grief she buried a decade ago.

Daler is a coming-of-age story that follows a young man navigating life and relationships from his teenage years into early adulthood. Over the course of the nonlinear narrative, Daler experiences friendship and heartbreak, lust and love, wisdom and betrayal. He tries to make sense of a confusing world as he grows into his own. Though introspective and reserved, Daler has a kind heart and forms meaningful connections. The story provides a window into universal questions around purpose, integrity, and human nature.