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Avery James has her life planned out: This summer she'll work with a humanitarian program in Costa Rica, next year she'll graduate at the top of her class, and after that, college and medical school. Perfect, planned, total order. The only problem: Getting the rest of the money she needs for the trip before the deadline. Hannah Cohen, her biggest competition for the valedictorian title, makes an unexpected offer: If Avery can win over Zac Greeley and make him break up with Hannah before the end of the school year, a check for five hundred dollars is all hers.

A Barkley Cove, un tranquillo villaggio di pescatori, circolano strane voci sulla Ragazza della Palude. Dall'età di sei anni Kya si aggira completamente sola tra canali e canneti, con qualche straccio addosso e a piedi nudi. Ha al suo attivo un solo giorno di scuola, ma la palude e le sue creature per lei non hanno segreti: la nutrono, la cullano, la proteggono, sono maestre e compagne di giochi. Kya impara a decifrare i segni della natura prima ancora di saper leggere un libro: nella sua assoluta solitudine sembra bastare a se stessa.

Thirty-two-year-old Catherine Hope has a great memory. But she can't remember everything. She can't remember her ninth year, or when her insomnia started. And she can't remember why everyone stopped calling her Catherine-Maria. With a promiscuous past, and licking her wounds after a breakup, Catherine wonders why she resists anything approaching real love. But when she loses her home to the devastating deluge of 2007 and volunteers at Flood Crisis, a devastating memory emerges.

From the start of Elizabeth McKenzie’s beguiling fiction debut, we are drawn into the offbeat worldview of sharp-eyed, intrepid Ann Ransom. Stop That Girl chronicles Ann’s colorful coming-of-age travails, from her childhood in a disjointed family through her tender adolescence and beyond. Along the way, she discovers the absurdities that lurk around every corner of a young woman’s life, by way of oafish neighbors, overzealous boyfriends, prurient vegetable salesmen, sour landlords, and an iconoclast grandmother, known even to her family as Dr. Frost.

From acclaimed thriller writer Jack Higgins - the story of a young man, just out of the army, embarking on his next great adventure as a writer, teacher, and legendary lothario. Oliver Shaw leaves the army as a young man eager to embrace the possibilities that life on a British military base in Germany have denied him. He intends to be a writer, a man with a passionate existence, whose triumphs - and failures - will make his life and work great. And he plans to meet women - lots of women.

Secretly, a man welds steel to a bulldozer. Later, another watches a ghost walk along his dry-walled hallways. A woman raises her teenage son in a homeless encampment where the boy has to fight to survive with the help of a strange, lonely cop. In Mililani Mauka, the lives of two families, the Motts and the Krills, come together as they try to keep afloat in a changing Honolulu, a city with growing suburbs and homeless camps.

It's 1992, and the world is caught up in the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the Balkan Wars, but for Julie Winter, 15, the news is noise. In Portland, Oregon, Julie moves through her days in a series of negatives: the skaters she doesn't think are cute, the Guatemalan backpack she doesn't buy at the craft fair, the umbrella she refuses to carry despite the incessant rain.

Succede ogni estate, a fine giugno. Inizia il tempo dei bottafichi, i fioroni. Il momento più bello dell'anno: un'esplosione di sapori, profumi, calore. I bottafichi sono una passione quasi ossessiva per Carminù, che tutte le mattine, finita la scuola, lotta contro quelle 'strunze' delle 'grisce' ― le ghiandaie ― per aggiudicarsi i frutti migliori. Insieme a lui Mario e Vittorio, i suoi inseparabili amici d'infanzia. Li unisce un legame purissimo, fatto di corse in giro per la campagna a rubare frutta e uova, di partite a calcio, di segreti condivisi.

Ellis is obsessed with the spiders that inhabit the crumbling house where he lives with his dad, his older sister and Great-Aunt Mafi - and by a need to find out more about his mother, whose death overshadows the family's otherwise happy existence. He is a sensitive soul - awkward and out of place most of the time but funny, too, and with an embarrassing habit of speaking his thoughts aloud, whatever the company.

Naomi thought she'd met someone wonderful when Elliot came into her life, but he simply wasn't into her. It's the story of her life. While everyone around her is settling down, she gives up on trying to find her Mr. Right, and turns back to the one thing she has always loved - music. Enter Marcus - he was a year above Naomi at school, and she always had a killer crush on him. He now fronts a band with his older brother Theo. Marcus has the reputation of a playboy, and Theo, well...he's just bad news.

Growing up in Soviet Russia, Kat Knopman worships her parents, temperamental Anechka and soft-hearted, absent-minded Misha. Young Jewish intellectuals, they teach literature at a Moscow school, run a drama club, and dabble in political radicalism. Kat sees herself as their heir and ally. But when she's diagnosed with rapidly-progressing scoliosis, the trajectory of her life changes, and she finds herself at a different institution - a school-sanatorium for children with spinal ailments. Confined to a brace, surrounded by unsympathetic peers, Kat embarks on a quest to prove that she can be as exceptional as her parents.

Returning home to New York from Europe on his twenty-first birthday, draft-dodging narrator Bunty Bronstein is frustrated with his increasingly pompous businessman father and his disaffected mother, who no longer shows the flame she once possessed. Equipped with an incisive view of bourgeois lifestyles in New York, Bunty observes the shifting sensibilities of his family members, and yet has difficulty apprehending his own place in the world.

何歳になっても短いスカートが似合うママは、今日も娘をそっちのけで、恋に仕事に忙しい。「幸せになりたいんやったら、誰かのせいにしたらあかん」。自由奔放なママに翻弄されるわたしは、反発しながら、それでも愛しながら、次第に大人になっていく――。

Vigga, Ende 20, lebt in ihrem eigenen kleinen Kosmos. Einzig ihre lebenslustige, aufgeschlossene Freundin Maiken schafft es immer wieder, sie aus ihrer Komfortzone zu locken. Als diese schwanger wird, fürchtet Vigga, dass nun alles anders wird, und zieht sich zurück. Zur selben Zeit begegnet sie in einem Aquarium in Kopenhagen dem Oktopus Rosa. Fasziniert von dem intelligenten, einzelgängerischen Wesen hinter Glas, beginnt sie, Rosa täglich zu besuchen, und ein zartes Band zwischen Mensch und Tier entsteht. Durch Rosa erkennt Vigga: Ohne Strömung und Bewegung ist es unmöglich zu leben.

Uma menina enfrenta a partida do pai e jamais se conformará com essa separação. Enquanto sua mãe transforma a ausência do marido em tabu, durante anos ela tentará esclarecer os mistérios que envolvem o desaparecimento daquele homem. Ao longo das décadas de 1970, 1980 e 1990 no Brasil, três gerações de mulheres precisarão conquistar seu espaço sem pedir licença. No entanto, nem mesmo as diferenças entre elas serão capazes de superar certos impasses da alma, diante dos quais a menina, agora mulher, ainda será surpreendida.

Before A Beautiful Struggle, Katrina and David's friendship was a bond that couldn't be broken. Starting with that fated moment when David carried Katrina to the emergency room, we travel back through David's memories as he waits to hear if his best friend and the one woman he truly cares for are going to survive.... "I can't lose her. You don't understand how important she is to me," I ramble. I guess I'm in shock because all I can think about is the sight of all that blood over Katrina's beautiful face.

Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years - good years - but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. But when Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives in Texas for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the world to say goodbye.

In ihrem Debütroman erzählt Elina Penner von Nelli, die als kleines Mädchen als Russlanddeutsche mit ihrer mennonitischen Familie nach Minden kommt. Sie spricht Plautdietsch und isst Tweeback und versucht, in der Provinz und dem neuen deutschen Leben anzukommen. Aber die Geschichten über ihr früheres Leben lassen sie nicht los, und als ihre geliebte Oma stirbt, gerät in Nelli etwas durcheinander. Ihr Mann Kornelius eröffnet ihr, sie für eine andere zu verlassen. Und Nelli ist sich am nächsten Morgen nicht sicher, ob sie ihn nicht aus Versehen umgebracht hat.

Mia acaba de romper con Álex y se enfrenta al verano barcelonés con el corazón roto. Una situación a la que se suma la pérdida de su empleo, lo que la sumerge en una gran tristeza. Poco a poco, Mia emprende un viaje que le permite descubrir un mundo nuevo ante ella. Durante la travesía, se adentra en su propia soledad para vivir la apasionante aventura de descubrirse, atravesar el dolor y mirarse con valentía. Mientras recorre distintos estados emocionales, vive momentos mágicos con personas entrañables y divertidas, personajes muy reales con algo en común.

It is the height of summer. After she is expelled from boarding school, Anna Severell returns to the strict, orderly house of her father, a celebrated novelist. The family is soon joined by Oliver Canning, a talented young academic who urges her to take control of her future. As autumn begins and Anna enters university, the pair grow closer. A single mistake, however, could put her newfound independence at risk....