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È l’estate del 1984, quattro ragazzini scappano da un orfanotrofio e dalle «Invisibili», come chiamano le suore che gestiscono l’istituto, per vivere un’ultima avventura insieme quando scoprono che uno di loro sarà adottato. Trovano prima nascondiglio in montagna e poi, ispirati dal libro di fantascienza da cui uno dei ragazzi è ossessionato, cercheranno rifugio in un loro fantastico rito di passaggio, prima di dover affrontare in modo definitivo quello che li aspetta a valle.

In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a Black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston's myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a group of young hustlers, hurricane survivors, a local drug dealer who takes a Guatemalan teen under his wing, a reluctant chupacabra.

Le bac en poche, les années lycée et leur lot de terribles souvenirs derrière elle, Violette se réjouit de pouvoir enfin tourner la page. C'est par un déménagement et l'intégration d'une école de graphisme de renom que débute sa nouvelle vie. Artiste dans l'âme, Violette espère se révéler et s'épanouir au sein de Arte-Sup. Or son bonheur a un prix : Adam, le fils de son nouveau beau-père. Car le jeune homme, aussi ombrageux qu'insaisissable, avec lequel elle va devoir désormais partager un couloir, semble la haïr par-dessous tout.

Kate, a young woman newly arrived from London, is determined to become the kind of person who is up for it and down for it - and not remotely troubled over how those two semantically opposed phrases could have come to mean the same thing. In the sweltering city, she encounters Bill, a once-lauded now booze-sodden novelist, and Inez, his teenage daughter who makes extra cash catering to the sexual fantasies of men she has met online - and falls into a complex infatuation with them both.

Set in the American Midwest and Southwest, the novel opens in 1976, when the young teenage protagonist, Erica, is in a psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt. In the present day, Erica, now in her 50s, takes a phone call at work telling her that her mother has died. From this point the story moves backwards in time, with each chapter shedding light - and dramatic irony - on those it follows. This mother-daughter relationship seesaws.

Nicolaas Storm fährt mit seinem Vater Willem durch ein vollkommen verändertes Südafrika. Nach einem Fieber, das weltweit fünfundneunzig Prozent der Menschen getötet hat, versuchen die beiden, einen sicheren Platz zum Leben zu finden. Das Land ist in einem Zustand der Gesetzlosigkeit. Gangs ziehen schwerbewaffnet umher, wilde Tiere bedrohen die Menschen. Schließlich aber finden Vater und Sohn einen Platz für eine Siedlung.

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.

Oliver Dalrymple, nicknamed Boo because of his pale complexion and staticky hair, is an outcast at his Illinois middle school - more interested in biology and chemistry than the friendship of other kids. But after a tragic accident, Boo wakes up to find himself in a very strange sort of heaven: a town populated by only 13-year-old Americans.

When Wren Irving's numbers come up in the first ever national lottery draw, she doesn't tell her husband, Rob. Instead she quietly packs her bags, kisses her six-month-old daughter, Phoebe, good-bye, and leaves. Two decades later Rob has moved on and found happiness with their oldest friend, Laura. Phoebe, now a young woman, has never known any other life. But when Rob receives a mysterious letter, the past comes back to haunt them all.

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.

Long listed for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Lemon is the story of a teenaged girl with the numbers against her: Three mothers, one deadbeat dad, one cancer-riddled protégé, two friends, one tree-hugging stepbrother, and a 60 percent average. The adults in her life are all mired in self-centeredness and the other kids are busy getting high, and she just can't be bothered to fit in.

Fille d'immigrants coréens, Casey Han a été élevée dans le Queens dans le respect des traditions et des valeurs de ses parents. Propriétaires d’un pressing, ils ont travaillé dur pour payer les meilleures études à leur fille et lui permettre une belle carrière professionnelle. Mais à 22 ans, Casey, diplômée de Princeton, a pris les goûts de luxe et les manières de ses camarades et ne rêve que d’une vie glamour à Manhattan.

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.

As the long, mysterious life of a family matriarch begins to wind down, will she take her secrets with her? Or will her past adventures lead to new ones for the next generation? From a bustling Australian city to the beauty and promise of Granada and a captivating culture, one young woman may dare to find out....

Hannah hat ihre Worte verloren. In der Nacht, als ihre Zwillingsschwester Izzy ums Leben kam. Wer soll nun ihre Gedanken weiterdenken, ihre Sätze beenden und ihr Lachen vervollständigen? Niemand kann das. Egal, was Hannahs Eltern versuchen, sie schweigt. Um Izzy nicht loslassen zu müssen, schreibt sie ihr Briefe. Schreibt und verbrennt sie. Immer wieder. Hannah kann der Stille ihrer Worte nicht entkommen. Bis sie Levi trifft, der mit aller Macht versucht herauszufinden, wer sie wirklich ist.

Dopo aver risposto a un annuncio Ange, brillante studentessa di filologia, inizia a dare ripetizioni a Pie, uno strano sedicenne, dislessico e incompreso dai genitori. Affascinato dalla matematica, Pie disprezza invece la letteratura. Sotto l’occhio vigile di Grégoire, l’autoritario padre del ragazzo, Ange si mette al lavoro incoraggiando Pie a leggere un classico dopo l’altro. Il rapporto tra i due diventa subito speciale, e anche Ange avrà qualcosa da imparare dal suo allievo.

Im Jahr 1949 stecken beide in den Kinderschuhen: die deutsche Demokratie und Rita Gawehn. Zwanzig Jahre später, 1969, stehen sie auf dem Prüfstand: Sind sie erwachsen geworden? Als Tochter einer jungen Frau mit großen Träumen und wenig Chancen erlebt Rita alles mit: die Scheidungswelle nach dem Krieg, die Wiederverheiratungswelle danach, die Großfamilie, die Kleinfamilie, die Freundschaftsfamilie und die Mutter-Kind-Familie. Sie ist ein Scheidungskind, ein Stiefkind, ein Schlüsselkind und wächst bei zwei äußerst ungewöhnlichen Frauen auf.