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Неожиданно Хеде узнает, что поместью грозит разорение, и юноша принимает решение любой ценой спасти родовое гнездо. Он оставляет мечту стать музыкантом и отправляется странствовать, продавая свой нехитрый товар в крестьянских селениях. Впереди его ждут множество испытаний, лишений и судьбоносных встреч, одна из которых поможет ему снова стать самим собой.

Fourteen-year-old Azariah Hancock must flee his home in Montgomery County, MD after avenging the rape of his sister by the son of the local sheriff. The Hancock family is hated by many in the county for being fair to their slaves, so Azariah and his family knew he would not receive a fair trial. He heads to St. Louis, where he meets mountain man Liam O'Reilly, who takes the youth under his wing, teaching him the trapping trade. Azariah finds friendship, love, and a new family, having adventures all along the way.

The story blends a bit of imagination with the true story about six-year-old Paddy and his life in New York City, to rural Kilkenny County in Ireland, in the 1960s, and back again to New York, and how he learned that Banshees are real while also managing to navigate and survive a broken home and a variety of other early-life challenges. The boy’s name may not really be Paddy, but to tell this story, a hint of Irishness and anonymity may be necessary.

In a village where fate is dictated by an unseen force called The Hum, 17-year-old Verus questions everything. While others eagerly await their life path through a sacred ritual known as The Quieting, Verus is haunted by grief, isolation, and an inner voice that refuses to be silenced. His journey begins with loss and the crushing weight of expectation—but what starts as a quest for answers soon spirals into a battle between free will and control. In a world where certainty is comfort and questioning is rebellion, how far will you go to find your truth?

Isabel Spencer's painting may be one she comes to regret forever. But, it leads to something unexpectedly magical. And dangerous. She was a normal teenage girl, just trying to make enough money to help her dad, and keep her home. Her mom was gone, she had no friends. And, she was failing high school. It couldn't get any worse. Until she decided to paint. And after painting, she made something that was more alarming than trying to hold all of her feelings inside. It was as if the painting was following her, haunting her, every second. But getting away from it isn't an option anymore.

Geneviève (Vivi) Dubois, a métisse, half-Lao/half-French, turns eighteen and leaves the French orphanage in Vientiane where she has been trapped for fourteen unhappy years. With only a distant memory of being torn from her mother’s arms at age four, she is determined to uncover what happened to her parents and locate her missing twin brother. But where to start? Orphanage and government officials refuse to reveal her origins. She leaves her strict, Catholic upbringing behind and emerges into the deeply divided world of 1931 French colonial Laos.

В 1952 году маленький Горка с родителями наконец переезжает в отдельное жилье. «Территория тюрьмы» — именно так называют этот дом сами жители — в действительности становится для ребенка, а затем молодого взрослого местом, где он учится быть по-настоящему свободным. Бугульма становится для Горки прообразом большого мира. Здесь он будет взрослеть, заводить друзей, влюбляться, делать глупости и совершать благородные поступки.

Конец нулевых, Пермь. Катя и Лариса, студентки психфака и подруги не разлей вода, встречаются после летних каникул. Девушки дружат с детства, и у них много общего, но прежде всего — любовь к рок-музыке. Лариса поглощена новой идеей — игрой в хиппи. Теперь она одевается, как хиппи, говорит, как хиппи, а главное — ведет себя, как хиппи. И еще у Ларисы появился новый приятель по прозвищу Док, намного старше ее, прошедший Афган. А у Кати — новая тайна. Она видит сны о том, чего знать в деталях никак не может, ей снится афганская война… Время идет, игра перестает быть игрой.

Абдулмаджид вырос в дагестанском ауле, где ни у кого не было точного адреса, — в паспортах жителей просто значилось «село Н». Абдулмаджид стал писателем; рассказы дебютной книги он населил персонажами — людьми, которых он когда-то встречал дома, на Кавказе. Время шло, Абдулмаджид уехал из родного села, поступил в московский вуз и там впервые столкнулся с тем, что значит быть непохожим на остальных.

Mary hears on the radio that the British warship her husband is on has sunk, leaving few survivors. Waiting for daybreak to bring news, Mary escapes into memories of her past. Sincere and engaging - a ‘hot-water bottle’ novel - Mariana by Monica Dickens is full of sharply remembered detail...

How does a child survive when the world looks away? Rae was only a little girl when her world began to fall apart. The people who were meant to love and protect her turned away, leaving her to face abuse, silence, and fear on her own. In search of comfort, she found only more pain. Drugs, shame, and loneliness became part of her childhood. Yet somewhere inside, a small light kept burning, refusing to go out. RAE: A Child’s Story is a survival story told with honesty and courage.

Neste romance finalista do prêmio Pulitzer, acompanhamos o amadurecimento de uma jovem universitária nos anos 1990 que se descobre como escritora enquanto vive as agruras e as delícias do primeiro amor. Selin, filha de imigrantes turcos, começará seu primeiro semestre em Harvard. O ano é 1995 e a internet, uma novidade. Ela se inscreve em matérias de que nunca ouviu falar, faz amizade com a carismática e cosmopolita colega sérvia, Svetlana, e começa a se corresponder por e-mail com Ivan, um estudante de matemática húngaro, mais velho.

You think you know what abusive relationships look like, until you see it for yourself. When Lucy and Meg’s mother is assaulted by her husband, stepfather Greg, his arrest seems to mark the end of a nightmare. But when their mother chooses to stay with him, the sisters are thrust into a disturbing moral dilemma. Desperate to protect her, they take a drastic step: secretly install hidden cameras to capture the truth for themselves—and the rest of the world. What unfolds isn’t what Lucy expected.

Czechoslovakia, 1944. Hilda and Sheindy's quiet lives are overturned the day the Nazis march them out of their village home and onto a train bound for the unknown. Separated from their parents and five older siblings, the girls cling to each other for survival in their new reality—between the cold, lonely walls of Auschwitz. Hilda knows that if they want to live, they will have to escape.

Editorial Assistant Clodagh “Clo” Harmon wants nothing more than to rise through the ranks at the world’s most prestigious fashion magazine. But there’s just one problem: she doesn’t have the right pedigree. Clo is a ‘workhorse’ in a world of beautiful, wealthy, impossibly well-connected ‘show horses’ and it seems that her fortunes will never change. That is until Clo meets Harry Wood, a reporter with visions of his own media empire and the person who might be Clo’s ally in gaming the system…or is he the only thing standing between Clo and her rightful place at the top?

At the turn of the millennium, Editorial Assistant Clodagh “Clo” Harmon wants nothing more than to rise through the ranks at the world’s most prestigious fashion magazine. There’s just one problem: she doesn’t have the right pedigree. Instead, Clo is a “workhorse” surrounded by beautiful, wealthy, impossibly well-connected “show horses” who get ahead without effort, including her beguiling cubicle-mate, Davis Lawrence, the daughter of a beloved but fading Broadway actress.

Een invoelend geschreven, meeslepend verhaal over vriendschap, liefde en de verstrekkende gevolgen van gebeurtenissen in iemands jeugd. Femke Martens, de zus van Jelle uit Brokers' roman Leven met een leugen , lijkt alles mee te hebben: ze is jong, mooi, heeft een fijne baan waarvoor ze door heel Europa reist, en nooit gebrek aan aandacht van mannen. Huisje, boompje, beestje is aan haar niet besteed. Maar er is ook een keerzijde. Niemand kent de echte Femke of neemt de moeite om haar te leren kennen.

Juntos desarrollan una relación secreta y apasionada, marcada por el miedo, la intimidad y el desafío de existir en un mundo que a menudo margina lo diferente. A lo largo de un viaje en tren por Europa y experiencias compartidas con Isak, Alberto explora la belleza de la identidad árabe y la fuerza de un amor que debe permanecer oculto.

Simão, the protagonist of A Spiral of a Dream, is a young university student who enrolls at the University of Évora with aspirations of becoming a writer, only to find himself plunging into an existential spiral as he transitions into adulthood. In the first part of this trilogy, The Medium, we encounter a myriad of characters who reflect and embody a generation on the brink. Their personalities are so relatable that we will find echoes from our own lives.

"Ich hatte einmal sieben Väter in sieben Jahren. Dies hier ist die Geschichte über jene Zeit. Wenn etwas davon erfunden klingt, kannst du sicher sein, dass es wahr ist." Weihnachten 1983 in Schweden: Der siebenjährige Andrev erfährt, dass sein »Papa« gar nicht sein leiblicher Vater ist. Der lebt weit entfernt und hat lange schwarze Haare. Wie ein Indianer. Andrev ist sich seitdem sicher, dass er bald kommen wird, um ihn mitzunehmen. Stattdessen kommen jedoch nur sechs weitere Väter, die nicht die seinen sind.