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I was a city girl with humble dreams. Then Dylan O’Dea broke into my flat, held me against the wall, and told me to stay quiet. It was like in the movies, where the universe zeros in on a single scene. I looked into his eyes and knew he was going to change me. For Dylan, the sky was always falling. He showed me how our world is a contradiction of beauty and ugliness. How we choose to ignore the awful and gloss over it with the palatable. How you need just a tiny drop of something unsavoury to create every great scent.

Little Pollyanna, recently orphaned and sent to live with her dour Aunt Polly, surprises everyone with her incredibly optimistic and joyful personality. While her circumstances are glum, especially for one so young, Pollyanna insists on being a bright light in the town—influencing all she comes across. Using the game her father taught her in order to find beauty and hope in everything, she slowly transforms even the hardest of hearts. However, when a seemingly insurmountable tragedy strikes, the town must come together to encourage their little light to shine again.

DG is five the first time her mother goes away. She’ll go away again and again before DG finally understands why: mental illness and a manipulating husband. DG’s family aren’t like other families. Her father moves them constantly. Moving, along with the stigma of mental illness, isolates the family. In public, they seem the perfect American dream. In private they grow increasingly unstable. Darling Girl unfolds in a series of vignettes spanning 10 years and four continents.

This coming-of-age novel explores themes including religious skepticism, socialism, ennui, English society, sexual relationships, and metaphysics, as George searches for an ideal to which he can devote his life. Like all Wells’s novels, Tono-Bungay abounds with social critique.

Just as the lovely Alvina Houghton comes of age, her widowed father’s business starts to dry up. In a drastic effort to regain his fortune and secure his daughter’s standing in society, James Houghton buys, of all things, a theater. Her father’s plans and dreams go misunderstood in the town, but the theater itself does quite well...for a time. One of the traveling players employed at the theater, a sensual Italian man named Ciccio, catches Alvina’s eye, and she finds herself intensely attracted to him.

Strax norr om Hallavik ligger det lilla området Hallvetet. Här bor Klarne Karlsson, en äldre ungkarl som kör flakmoped och har massor av åsikter om allt här i världen som han dock inte vågar uttrycka högt. När grannen och bäste vännen Verner råkar ut för en olycka och dör vänds Klarnes liv upp och ner. Verners hus säljs och Klarne är orolig för vad de nya ägarna ska göra med byggnaden. Nina och Johanna köper det gamla huset i Hallvetet för att förverkliga Johannas dröm om att driva ett hotell. För att luska ut vad som försiggår tar Klarne hjälp av den sjuttonårige raggaren och EPA-ägaren...

Eleanor H. Porter’s most famous literary creation is Pollyanna, but she isn’t the only precocious young girl to spring from the author’s pen. Mary Marie Anderson describes herself as “a cross-current and a contradiction", the offspring of incompatible parents who couldn’t even agree about her name. When the two divorce when she is thirteen, Mary Marie is delighted since she’s always liked being different. None of the other girls have two homes and spend six months with each parent! Father will remain in their small town and mother will live in Boston with her family.

On Tigris, children develop telekinesis beginning at the age of five. By the time they're pre-teens, though, their special abilities peak, then slip away as they reach maturity. Being able to "teek" gives them power—even over most adults—until they gradually become regular teenagers, no longer special, no longer with authority and status. Some handle the Transition better than others.

Sommer 1969. Während auf den Straßen gegen den Vietnamkrieg protestiert wird, fiebert der elfjährige Tobias am Stadtrand von Köln der ersten Mondlandung entgegen. Zugleich trübt sich die harmonische Ehe seiner Eltern ein. Seine Mutter fühlt sich eingeengt, und als im Nachbarhaus ein linkes, engagiertes Ehepaar einzieht, beschleunigen sich die Dinge. Tobias' eher konservative Eltern freunden sich mit den neuen Nachbarn an, und deren dreizehnjährige Tochter, Rosa, eigenwillig und klug, bringt ihm nicht nur Popmusik und Literatur bei, sondern auch Berührungen und Gefühle, die fast so spannend sind wie die Raumfahrt.

From the outside, I live a charmed life: hockey legend for a father, my own promising future in the league, a great family, awesome friends. It’s not untrue, but it’s not quite that simple either. My dad’s advice has always been to make hockey my number-one priority—at least until I make it to the pros. So going into my senior year of college, I have a plan. I’ll put in the effort required to pass my classes, play hockey like my life depends on it, and avoid relationships. All I have to do is stay focused on the end game. It should be easy.

Daring, transgressive and controversial, D.H. Lawrence scandalized the literary world with his frank descriptions of sex and desire. He was censored by his own publisher for being too explicit, and several of his most famous works were banned under the Obscene Publications Act. But for Lawrence, a self-described 'priest of love', passion was the stuff of life - and these two dynamic reimaginings celebrate him at his most bold, pushing the boundaries of sexuality and the fulfilment of furious need.