Coming of Age

My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila, who represent the story of a nation and the nature of friendship....

The Story of a New Name follows Elena Ferrante's critically acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their 20s, and marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila....

In fifth grade my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student Ryen....

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction - but assassins are getting closer to her door....

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened....

Oliver Marks has just served 10 years in jail - for a murder he may or may not have committed....

Great Expectations follows Pip's life from a plucky but poor and put-upon child in the Kent marshes, to a young man with "great expectations" in London and the choices he must make as a result of his winding journey....

This audiobook collection includes Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, and Rilla of Ingleside....

An Iranian girl escapes to America as a child, but her father stays behind....

A band of savage 13-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'....

Rusty, a 16-year-old Anglo-Indian boy, is orphaned, and has to live with his English guardian in the claustrophobic European part in Dehra Dun. Unhappy with the strict ways of his guardian, Rusty runs away from home to live with his Indian friends....

Luc O'Donnell is tangentially - and reluctantly - famous. His rock-star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next 20 years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye....

An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America....

He's addicted to booze. She's addicted to sex... staying sober is only half the battle. No. More. Sex. Those are the three words Lily Calloway fears the most....

A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man finding strength in his familial identity, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle....

Hawken Trent. So polite. So sweet. Such an upstanding young man. A virgin, too, I hear. He never gets naughty with a girl. Probably because Jesus told him not to. And now here he is, trying to be the hero by protecting another girl from me....

He wants things from me. Dirty things, nasty things, forbidden things. And I have to give in. His attention is completely inappropriate, but I can't say no....

The first time Cassio meets his fiancée, she calls him “sir.” After losing his wife, Cassio is left to take care of two small children while trying to establish his rule over Philadelphia. Now he needs a mother for his children and someone who can warm his bed at night....

From Shion Miura, the award-winning author of The Great Passage, comes a rapturous novel where the contemporary and the traditional meet amid the splendor of Japan’s mountain way of life....

A modern literary classic, now available in a 20th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author....

Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures....

The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War....

Lucca was made the underboss, being what nightmares are made of. Chloe was scarred by her past, learning too young that nightmares are real....

Evie and Leo met in foster care as children and formed a bond of friendship. As they grew, their bond turned to love, and they vowed to make a life together when they turned 18....

Mage Errant: Publisher's Pack contains books one and two of the Mage Errant series....

Emily rents a room in a boarding house in London where she makes a modest living as an assistant to aristocratic ladies. One summer, Lady Maria Bayne asks Emily to her country estate and it’s there that Emily receives a very surprising offer of marriage from a wealthy widower in need of a wife. But Emily’s new life is not without its own obstacles and challenges.

An unexpected tragedy leaves Professor Nathaniel Hunt a widower alone with a newborn baby. He hires a nanny. She’s young but well-qualified, with a simple life, a crazy name obsession, and a boyfriend she met at the grocery store.

After a horrific incident, Swayze finds herself trapped between two lives. Patchy memories and fear for her own safety thrust her into a gut-wrenching journey to uncover the truth. Will she let her dreams slip away to seek retribution and find the missing pieces to a puzzle that existed a lifetime ago?

Odile, wise beyond her years, will surely pass the Conseil's vetting. But when she happens upon a mourning tour she wasn't supposed to see, she realizes her dear friend Edme's parents have crossed the border from the east, from twenty years in the future, to view their son still alive in Odile's present. Edme, who's so funny and light. Edme, who's a violin virtuoso at just sixteen. Edme, who's the first boy to even see Odile, to really like her.... And it's Edme who's going to die.

Isa Epley ist einundzwanzig Jahre alt und weise genug, um zu wissen, dass der Sinn des Lebens im Vergnügen liegt. Tagsüber verkauft sie mit ihrer besten Freundin Gala Klamotten an einem Straßenstand, um ihre Zwischenmiete in Brooklyn zu finanzieren.

It’s the tabloid sensation of the year: two well-known footballers standing in the dock, charged with sexual assault, a series of vile text messages pointing towards their guilt. As the trial unfolds, Evan Keogh reflects on the events that have led him to this moment. Since leaving his island home, his life has been a lie on many levels. He’s a talented footballer who wanted to be an artist. A gay man in a sport that rejects diversity. A defendant whose knowledge of what took place on that fateful night threatens more than just his freedom or career.

Sie will ein ganz normales Leben führen. Er will in die Elite Oslos aufsteigen. Früher war Ellinor Skogen ein Geist. Falscher Name, keine Social-Media-Accounts, abgeschottetes Eliteinternat. Einzig ihr bester Freund Lucas gab ihr ein Gefühl von Normalität - und dieses Kribbeln im Bauch. Bis er herausfindet, dass sie die Erbin des führenden Osloer Keksunternehmens KOSGEN ist und den Kontakt abbricht. Heute, fast sechs Jahre später, trifft sie an ihrem ersten Arbeitstag dort unter verdeckter Identität ausgerechnet auf Lucas. Doch statt sie zu verraten, schlägt er ihr einen Deal vor.

Un collegio femminile in Svizzera, nell’Appenzell. Un’atmosfera di idillio e cattività. Arriva una "nuova": è bella, severa, perfetta, sembra che abbia già vissuto tutto. La protagonista – un’altra interna del collegio – si sente attratta da questa figura, che lascia intravedere qualcosa di quieto e terribile. E il terribile, a poco a poco, si scopre: è la terra di nessuno tra perfezione e follia. Lo stile limpido e nervoso, l’acutezza delle notazioni, l’intensità di questa storia fanno risuonare una corda segreta, quella che si nasconde nell’immaginario collegio da cui tutti siamo usciti.

The daughter of Irish immigrants and the son of an African slave forge their own destiny in Boston, in this compelling sequel to Shanty Gold.

A magical imagining of the fate of a fictional boy whose life is shaped forever when he loses out on the role of Harry Potter.

Il libro ha come protagonista un giovane avvocato di successo, Luca Pertinelli, e il coro di amici (e colleghi di lavoro) che l'accompagnano "in scena". Fino a quando non arriva dall'Inghilterra la giovane Sabine, di cui Luca si innamora entrando in conflitto con il proprio ambiente, la moglie e le regole di un mondo in cui egli stesso è irrimediabilmente prigioniero. Nella seconda parte del romanzo, la scena si sposta su un'isola vacanziera dove la presenza di Sabine farà esplodere in modo drammatico le contraddizioni che dominano il circuito di sciagurati gaudenti attorno ai quali Bulgaro traccia un disegno collettivo di grande respiro.

Was ist Heimat und wie lässt man die Provinz hinter sich, davon erzählt Sabine Rennefanz voller Ironie und Melancholie. Kathleen hat es geschafft. Sie ist erfolgreich, redegewandt, attraktiv. Seit Jahren lebt sie als Grafikerin in London. Woher sie kommt, hat sie hinter sich gelassen. Zumindest glaubt sie das. Doch die Besuche bei ihrer Mutter im brandenburgischen Kosakenberg konfrontieren sie mit einer Welt, der sie in den neunziger Jahren zu entkommen versuchte und die nun eine ungeahnte Kraft entfaltet.

Rafael è un ragazzino tutto pepe, pieno di vita, di dubbi e di pensieri strani. Richi è un irresistibile sbruffoncello, segnato ma non piegato dalla malattia. Nella casba dei vicoli di una Palermo in trasformazione, si buttano nel mondo. Sperimentano l'alfabeto mafioso e il suo contrario, incarnato nella figura di una piccola professoressa dagli occhi verdi. Crescono a scossoni, tra cani randagi, mirabolanti imprese calcistiche ispirate al capitano rosanero Miccoli, e gli ormoni impazziti dell'adolescenza.

Accettare il male come se niente fosse. Questo avviene nel paesino di terra e vicoli dove vive Lello, ragazzino inquieto e timido alle prese con la prima adolescenza. Proprio lì, in quella landa di mezzo che ora molti conoscono come ‘La terra dei fuochi’ o ‘Il triangolo della morte’, c’è il Fosso, un po’ discarica e un po’ campo giochi, e nel Fosso c’è tutto: i drogati e gli innamorati, i ragazzini che fumano Marlboro di contrabbando e bevono gassosa Arnone, gli adulti che si vengono a fare o vengono ad ammazzare.

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The story takes place in the fictional village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls, and Donwell Abbey and involves the relationships among individuals in those locations consisting of "3 or 4 families in a country village". The novel was first published in December 1815 while the author was alive, with its title page listing a publication date of 1816.