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When Dougy's sister, Gracey, is picked for the state athletics championships, not everybody in their small bush town in pleased. 'Aborigines get special treatment', some of the angry white people say. The championships change everything for Gracey and trigger dramatic events in the town too: Black and white relations reach explosion point. The time is ripe for the mysterious Moodagudda to seek a victim. In the end, it's up to Dougy to save his family - and to prove himself.

For Xavier McLachlan, rugby is life. Winning his first XV jersey means everything - Until he meets Nuala Magee. Has there ever been a girl like her? She's feisty, she's troubled, she's dangerous. What will his mates think? Does he even care? Everything looks different now. Xavier McLachlan is in love.

Bis in seine Träume hinein wird Joseph vom Running Man verfolgt, der durch die Stadt läuft wie ein Getriebener. Der unheimliche Mann ist Josephs persönliche Albtraum-Figur. Noch nie hat er mit jemandem über ihn gesprochen. Doch die Bekanntschaft mit seinem menschenscheuen Nachbarn Tom verändert alles: Tom ist noch verschlossener als Joseph. Seit Jahren hat er sich von der Außenwelt zurückgezogen. Josephs Interesse begegnet er zunächst mit Abwehr. Erst als Joseph von seinen Ängsten und dem Running Man erzählt, scheint sich auch für Tom wieder eine Tür ins Leben zu öffnen.

Dúas vidas que se cruzan de madrugada a través das redes. Un rapaz e unha rapaza que se entregan a un xogo misterioso: compartir os seus soños, as súas ilusións e os seus temores, pero non a súa identidade. Axiña darán o seguinte paso: unha cita ás cegas. Con todo, atoparse cun descoñecido sempre ten os seus riscos. Porque todos ocultamos segredos... Un cadáver. O corpo dun rapaz, desfigurado pola violencia da caída. Unha vida nova arruinada para sempre, unha morte que suscita máis preguntas ca respostas.

The story of a young teen's struggle to rebuild his life while helping to rebuild a local prairie.

Black hole or exploding star? Julia's been wondering how it all ends up. In the meantime, she's making fractals and hiding in plain sight in Washington, D.C. As she helps Kal find a lost diary from the Secret War in Laos and Tomoka shows her a series of found paintings from Heian Japan, she learns that each of us has the power to write history.

Adelaide has lived her whole life in rural Ethiopia as the white American daughter of an anthropologist. Then, her family moves to South Carolina in 1964. Adelaide vows to find her way back to Ethiopia, marry Maicaah, and become part of the village for real. But until she turns 18, Adelaide must adjust to this strange, white place that everyone tells her is home. Then, Adelaide becomes friends with the five African American students who sued for admission into the white high school.

Sanam xolaning oshnasi kitoblar. U kutubxonachi bo‘lib ishlaydi. Kutubxona bilan yonma-yon joylashgan qassobxona, do‘kon, somsaxonadagi erkaklarning o‘tgan ketgan ayollarni hayolan yechintirib, hayolan haqoratlashlariga Sanam xola chidolmaydi. O‘zini To‘marisdek dovyurak ayol bo‘lishini istaydi. Lekin u xokisor, munis ayol. Shunga qaramay, ayol sha’ni uchun sharmsiz, behayo, nomard erkaklardan o‘chini olishga muvaffaq bo‘ladi.

England. 1960s. A cold, harsh autumn.On an isolated island, an abusive man forces his wife to run for her life. Their son Tristan, young and afraid, also flees the island and sets out into the world to escape his demons and find his mother. Hitchhiking beneath the backdrop of a wild and loveless November, Tristan encounters every possible character, from the genuinely kind to the inherently wicked.

He was supposed to be my escape for the weekend. I wasn’t supposed to fall for him. I want to be a good daughter, but I’m tired of being looked over. So when I run into Jet Miller, the bad boy with a motorcycle, I pay him to take me away for the weekend. Two days of freedom quickly change into something more, and I find myself falling for Jet. Only, he doesn’t know that once our 48 hour escape is over, I’m gone. And I don’t know how to tell him. Some rules are meant to be broken.

For 16 years, Nate was the perfect son - the product of a no-nonsense upbringing and deep spiritual faith. Then he met Cam, who pushed him to break rules, dream, and accept himself. Conflicted, Nate began to push back. With each push, the boys became more entangled in each others' worlds...but they also spiraled closer to their breaking points. And now all of it has fallen apart after a fistfight-turned-near-fatal-incident - one that's left Nate with a stab wound and Cam in jail.

Der Abschluss. So viele Dinge, die zu tun sind. Und danach? Ein Studium? Eine Ausbildung? Reisen? Leni ist ein normales und glückliches Mädchen voller Träume. Bis ein Moment alles verändert und etwas in ihr aus dem Gleichgewicht gerät. Es beginnt mit zu vielen Gedanken und wächst zu Übelkeit, Panikattacken, Angst vor der Angst. All das ist plötzlich da und führt zu einer Diagnose, die Leni zu zerbrechen droht. Sie weiß, sie muss Hilfe annehmen, aber sie verliert Tag um Tag mehr Hoffnung. Nichts scheint zu funktionieren, keine Therapie, keine Medikation.

Tosh Livingston, superstar student-athlete from small-town USA, thinks he's made it big as a rising freshman at Harvard University. Not so fast! Once on campus, he's ensnared in a frenzied competition to win a spot on Harvard's legendary humor magazine, the Harpoon. Tosh soon finds that joining the Harpoon is a weird and surprisingly dangerous pursuit. He faces off against a secret society of super-rich kids, gets schooled by a philosophy professor who loves flunking everyone, and teams up with a genius student-cartoonist with an agenda of her own.

Five strangers, thrust into a crisis situation that transforms them and forever solidifies their destiny. Mythical battles, legendary universal forces, and constant journeying further into chaos is a price you must pay to become a half dragon. Though with great danger and suffering come hope, motivation, and even love.

There was a time during Donald Davis's college freshman year when he wasn't really sure he wanted to claim his hometown of Sulpher Springs, North Carolina. But a boy by the name of Stanley Easter changed Davis's mind.

From the critically acclaimed author of The Gospel of Winter and the coauthor of All American Boys comes a cool, contemplative spin on hot summer nights and the classic teen love story as two teens embark on a cross-country journey of the heart and soul.

When my dad dropped us off at the front gate, the first things I saw were the rose garden spreading out on either side of the main driveway and the enormous sign in iron cursive letters spelling out Laurinda. No "Ladies College" after it, of course; the name was meant to speak for itself. Laurinda is an exclusive school for girls. At its secret core is the Cabinet, a trio of girls who wield power over their classmates - and some of their teachers.

This program is read by the author "As narrator, Bonnie Pipkin's flat affect and deliberate pacing are wholly appropriate to Gen's struggles with loss and her search for stability and love...Pipkin's sincere connection to the story brings additional depth to her reading of this journey from...

*A 2019 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book* ""Listeners will fall under the spell of the prose and narration and won't wake up until the last word is spoken—and maybe not even then. Highly recommended.""—Erin Entrada Kelly, 2018 Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author A dark...

'A beautifully realized setting, action and romance played out across a couple of generations, a high-class voyage to the long ago and far away – Lian Hearn has written a saga that will continue to give pleasure to many.' – Ursula K. Le Guin The Middle Country, home of the Otori clan is...