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My name is Adelaide Edington, and my life was mapped out for me before I even entered the world: who I'd date, where I’d attend college, what I'd be when I grew up. But there comes a time in everyone's life when they face a fork in the road. Should I go left, or should I go right? It didn't matter as long as I didn't remain stagnant any longer. Jett Stone opened me up to a whole new world, reminding me that it was okay to find my own way. I could have roots in Willow Springs and still spread my wings and fly. What I didn't expect was to fall in love with the broody football player.

Marley is one of the only gay kids in his North Carolina town -- and he feels like he might as well be one of the only gay kids in the universe. Or at least that's true until Christopher shows up in the halls of his high school. Christopher's great to talk to, great to look at, great to be with-and he seems to feel the same way about Marley. It's almost too good to be true.

A filha mexicana perfeita não faz faculdade longe de casa. A filha mexicana perfeita não questiona nem evita os parentes. E, acima de tudo, nunca abandona a família. Mas Julia Reyes não é essa garota. Na verdade, tudo que ela quer é se formar no ensino médio, ir estudar em Nova York e viajar o mundo quando se tornar uma escritora de sucesso. Julia deixa o papel de filha exemplar para Olga, sua irmã mais velha. Até que um trágico acidente muda tudo. Olga agora está morta, e Julia se vê sozinha em meio aos cacos de sua família. O pai parece mais distante do que nunca.

Moi : T’as bu ?! Colin (en se redressant et en faisant un pas vers l’arrière) : Ouais, et alors ? Moi : Mais tu disais que tu pouvais pas, à cause de ta tête. Colin : Ma tête va mieux. Et je bois si je veux. Pis j’ai juste pris une bière, de toute façon, pas de quoi capoter.

Je pense qu’il voudrait qu’on soit officiellement un couple, mais… je ne suis pas prête pour sa. Je viens à peine de sortir d’une relation super longue avec Colin.

Comment se sent-on quand on a presque quinze ans, qu’on n’a pas de famille et que par-dessus le marché, on est balancée dans une maison habitée par la vieille folle du quartier ? En faisant taire les rumeurs, en surmontant ses peurs et surtout, en suivant sa petite voix curieuse, Amandine apprendra que la vérité se cache parfois aux endroits où l’on s’y attend le moins. Que peut faire une adolescente devant les avances incessantes et sournoises d’un beau-père qu’elle déteste, une mère qui est absente plus souvent qu’autrement et une vie qui va à la dérive ?

Wie laut kann Stille sein? Und wieviel Wahrheit passt in ein Schweigen? Durch eine saudumme Aktion hat Donnie seine Stimme verloren. Vorübergehend. Na ja, seit zwei Jahren. Worte gibt es für ihn nur noch auf Papier und in seinen Geschichten, die er schreibt, um sich nicht im Schweigen zu verlieren. Seine Eltern verstehen ihn nicht, haben sie noch nie. Die Therapeutin ist auch keine Hilfe … Und sein bester Freund interessiert sich mehr für Autos und hübsche Mädchen, als für ihn da zu sein. Donnie hat also jeden Grund, echt schlechte Laune zu haben.

A haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city, where the sky is always grey, in search of love and sisterhood - and finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles. There, she is quickly adopted into a vigilante gang of glamorous warrior femmes called the Lipstick Lacerators, whose mission is to scour the Street of violent men and avenge murdered trans women everywhere. Can our intrepid heroine find the truth within herself in order to protect her new family and heal her broken heart?

Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn’t think she’s the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She’s also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her “the Duff,” she throws her Coke in his face. But things aren’t so great at home right now, and Bianca is desperate for a distraction. She ends up kissing Wesley. Worse, she likes it.

Yami prefers to be known for her killer eyeliner, not for being one of the only Mexican kids at her new, mostly white, rich Catholic school - or for being gay. So after being outed by her ex-best friend, before transferring to Slayton Catholic, Yami decides to lie low, make her mum proud and definitely NOT fall in love. The thing is, it's hard to fake being straight when Bo, the only openly queer girl at school, is so annoyingly perfect. And smart. And cute. So cute.

Francesca is at the beginning of her second term in Year 11 at an all boy's school that has just started accepting girls. She still misses her old friends, and, to make things worse, her mother has had a breakdown and can barely move from her bed.

Das war es: Liana hat den Bogen überspannt und findet sich plötzlich im Internat »Sternenmeer« wieder. Lianas einziger Wunsch ist es, so schnell wie möglich vom Internat zu fliehen, um mit Jule zu rebellieren. Daher beginnt sie, ihre Wut gegen sich selbst und ihr Umfeld zu richten. Trotz ihres Verhaltens sucht ihre neue Mitbewohnerin Malin ihre Nähe und versucht, ihre harte Schale zu knacken. Eine dumme Aktion nach der nächsten.

I start my story with the day I first saw Jesse Pegler. That was when my whole life first started changing. Sixteen-year-old Opal Ringer is the daughter of Royal Ringer, the Pentecostal leader of a motley flock of down-on-their-luck believers. Jesse Pegler is the son of Brother Pegler. An "evangelist for Jesus", the elder Pegler is a flashy minister who appears regularly on television in his blue robes and gold tassels. Opal and Jesse meet at a faith healing at the Helping Hand Tabernacle church, where Opal's daddy preaches.

Elias and his friends have made their way to Hepton. Having survived the System's demands so far, they are about to start on the next stage of their adventure. With new powers, tougher quests, and enemies that refuse to stay dead, Elias is pushed to his limits as both a fighter and a leader. The System itself is watching. Testing them, and happy to remind Elias who's really in control. Aside from the quests, the group enters their first instanced-dungeon, and while the rewards might be greater, the tasks in front of them are much tougher.

Семнадцатилетняя Лия Грэм привыкла к постоянным переездам из-за работы отца. В меняющемся мире Лии была только одна константа—Бек, ее лучший друг и первая любовь. Они верили, что всегда будут вместе, и расписали будущее наперед. Но жизнь Бека внезапно обрывается, а Лия не представляет, как существовать без него. Замкнувшись в своем горе, она избегает общения со всеми, кого знала. Новая школа в Теннесси кажется Лии очередным испытанием. Но в первый же день она находит подруг, а случайная встреча с загадочным черноволосым парнем заканчивается поцелуем.

¿Cómo encuentras a tu alma gemela cuando no tienes alma? En Providence, un mundo gobernado por La Orden, los Inspectores vigilan cada alma, juzgándolas al mínimo defecto. Iris tiene un secreto mortal que podría llevarla al encarcelamiento: es una chica sin alma, una "hollow", y debe esconderse de La Orden a toda costa. Pero su vida da un vuelco cuando una misión de robo la reencuentra con su Chispa, una de las cinco partes perdidas de su alma.

Um seinen karrierebewussten Vater zu schockieren, entscheidet sich der vierzehnjährige Louis für ein Schülerpraktikum bei der Friseurin seiner Oma: sieben Tage Haare zusammenfegen im Salon Marielou. Lust dazu hat er eigentlich nicht, aber als er anfängt, ist ihm auf einmal gar nichts mehr egal. Er will sein eigenes Leben leben. Auch gegen den Willen seines Vaters. Mit ihrem umwerfenden Humor, mit viel Sympathie und Herzenswärme erzählt Marie-Aude Murail von den skurrilen Figuren und dem prallen Leben in einem französischen Friseursalon, in dessen Mitte Louis seine Begabung entdeckt.

Jack is finally finding his rhythm in New Earth. Between crafting sessions, run-ins with dinosaurs, and bonding with his quirky companions, things seem to be turning around. His ground sloth, Snowy, and his buzzing team of bees make leveling up a little sweeter, and his parents are starting to accept his unconventional path.

Getting kidnapped by the System and dumped into a fantasy world wasn't on Elias Critchley's to-do list. Still, he's managed to stay alive, level up, and keep most of his insides on the inside. Now the System's sent him and his party to a crumbling estate with a haunted past, a grieving lord, and a boy only Elias can see—one who isn't quite alive, but may not be dead either. The task? Fix it all. Quietly. Preferably without being eaten by anything with too many teeth.

Getting dragged into an alien world was not high on Elias Critchley's to-do list. One moment, he's trying to avoid eye contact with people on the school bus. The next, he's suspended mid-air in a bizarre tutorial and dumped—naked—into a dangerous, System-bound world where survival is far from guaranteed. With nothing but his sarcasm, stubborn streak, dry wit and a few skills from his old life, Elias must navigate a world that feels like the games he used to play… only now, dying doesn't come with a respawn.