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The daughter of small-town social climbers, Amanda Kelly is deeply invested in her boyfriend, real estate heir Carter Shaw. He's kind, ambitious, the town golden boy - but behind Amanda's back, Carter is also dating Rosalie. Rosalie Bell is fighting to remain true to herself and her girlfriend - while concealing her identity from her Christian fundamentalist parents. After years spent in and out of conversion "therapy", maintaining a fake straight relationship is killing her from the inside. Then an anonymous texter ropes Amanda and Rosalie into a bid to take Carter down.

Demoralized, Gavin and his best friend MacKenzie turn to his estranged father, a board member of the infamous water company CrispFlow. CrispFlow is known for giving out grants to improve public facilities, but they’ve also been buying and privatizing cities’ failing water systems, often leaving those towns’ situations worse than they found them. Gavin wouldn’t trust CrispFlow to privatize their water, but with his father on the board and Gavin and Mack interning at town hall, he might just be able to walk away with the grant money instead.

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.

Since emigrating from Bangladesh, 14-year-old Nadira and her family have been living in New York City on expired visas, hoping to realize their dream of becoming legal U.S. citizens. But after 9/11, everything changes. Suddenly being Muslim means you are dangerous - a suspected terrorist. When Nadira's father is arrested and detained at the U.S.-Canadian border, Nadira and her older sister, Aisha, are told to carry on as if everything is the same. The teachers at Flushing High don't ask any questions, but Aisha falls apart....

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 ?

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.

It happened within a week. Survival was just the start of it. It has a plan.... Leon is stuck in England. Grace is on her way to New Zealand and Freya to the 'New United States' in Cuba. The virus has assimilated all of humanity except for these three communities, and now it is prepared to talk with them. How they each choose to respond to the virus will ultimately decide their fate in Plague World, the apocalyptic finale to the Remade trilogy from best-selling author of the TimeRiders series, Alex Scarrow.

The monster showed up after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming.... This monster is something different, though. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth.

Il titolo originale è: Anne of Ingleside a volte tradotto anche come La grande casa è il sesto romanzo della celebre saga di Anna dai capelli rossi, pubblicato nel 1939, dove Anna, pur non avendo perso il suo spirito sognatore, si troverà ad affrontare i piccoli e grandi problemi della vita familiare e la crescita dei suoi figli. Si preoccupa per le loro personalità in via di sviluppo, le loro piccole delusioni, i problemi a scuola, ma riuscirà ad ascoltarli e guidarli con il suo amore e la sua saggezza.

Pink Angels and best friends Holly, Raina, and Kathleen have been through a lot over the past year. The summer before their senior year promises to be busy but fun, as Holly and Raina return to their full-time volunteer jobs at the hospital and Kathleen, who needs the money, works at the hospital gift shop. Of course, Raina and Kathleen will be spending as much time as possible with their boyfriends, Hunter and Carson. Holly is happy for her friends, but she can’t help feeling a little left out when hanging out with the two couples.

Mika weiß nicht, was es bedeutet, eine richtige Familie zu haben. Seine Eltern sind gefangen in ihrer Sucht und kümmern sich kaum um ihn. Die Hoffnung, dass sich etwas ändert, stirbt endgültig, als er eines Tages selbst mit Drogen erwischt wird. Das Jugendamt schickt Mika gegen seinen Willen fort: raus aus der Stadt, auf einen Bauernhof zu einer perfekt scheinenden Pflegefamilie. Er hat so gar keinen Bock darauf, heile Welt zu spielen, aber nach und nach bringt vor allem Joanna seine harte Mauer zum Bröckeln. Und während Mika lernt, wieder zu hoffen, tut er alles, um sein Herz nicht zu verlieren.

Cosa succede quando a cinquant'anni ti ritrovi all'improvviso un moccioso tra i piedi? È quello che il professor Sacerdoti - romanziere, accademico e impenitente misantropo - sta per scoprire. Proprio lui che ha improntato i rapporti parentali a una gelida indifferenza, si vede recapitare per via di un lutto famigliare un bambino di otto anni: Noah Meisner, figlio di una sua lontana cugina ortodossa; un ragazzino silenzioso e sfuggente, precocemente attaccato alle tradizioni.

Fifteen-year-old Layla Freeman likes to pretend her life is fine. After all, her mother is about to celebrate thirty days sober, and yeah, they’ve moved into a homeless shelter, but it’s only temporary, right? Her mom will get better, and in the meantime, it’s important that no one at school finds out where she’s been living for the past month. Layla has worked hard to build her reputation as a girl who doesn’t care what others think of her, but the truth is she does care—deeply—and she’s tripping over her own lies, especially to her best friend, as she tries to pretend nothing’s wrong.

" Il faut toujours avoir confiance et suivre sa route comme le font les tsiganes, sans souci des frontières. " L'histoire bouleversante d'un garçon pris dans les tumultes du Caucase. Lorsque les douaniers trouvent Blaise Fortune, douze ans, tapi au fond d'un camion espagnol à la frontière française, il est seul. Il a vécu les douze premières années de sa vie dans le Caucase, entre la mer Noire et la mer Caspienne. Jeanne Fortune, sa mère, l'a confié bébé à Gloria Bohème.

The lives of high school seniors Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales couldn’t be more different. Parisa, an earnest and privileged Iranian American, struggles to live up to her own impossible standards. Gabriela, a cynical Mexican American, has all the confidence Parisa lacks but none of the financial stability. She can’t help but envy Parisa’s posh lifestyle whenever she hears her two moms argue about money. Despite their differences, as soon as they met on the first day of freshman year, they had an “us versus the world” mentality.

A quirky and heartfelt coming-of-age story about a teen girl with bipolar II who signs her failed magician father up to perform his legendary but failed illusion on live TV in order to make enough money to pay for the medications they need—from the author of Symptoms of Being Human. Perfect...

Yadriel ha evocato uno spirito, e ora non riesce più a liberarsene. Yadriel è un ragazzo trans, ma i suoi – una famiglia latinx molto tradizionalista – faticano ad accettarlo. Lui, però, è determinato a dimostrare loro di essere un vero brujo e con l'aiuto di Maritza, sua cugina nonché migliore amica, decide di celebrare da solo il rituale dei quinces, ritrovare il fantasma di suo cugino Miguel, morto assassinato, e liberarlo nell'aldilà.

Ein Leben zwischen zwei Kulturen. Es sind Sommerferien und der fünfzehnjährige Mahmoud stellt sich auf lange Tage im Plattenbau-Viertel am Rand von Oslo ein. Norwegische Norweger verreisen in den Ferien, aber Mahmouds mittellose Familie? Keine Chance! Doch dieser Sommer wird anders. Die Familie erhält Besuch von Onkel Ji aus Pakistan. Er ist fasziniert von dem fremden Land, doch dann beginnt er sich über Mahmouds kleinen Bruder Ali zu wundern. Denn Ali spielt mit Puppen und benimmt sich in den Augen des Onkels nicht so, wie ein Pakistani-Junge sich benehmen sollte...

When Rose Campbell, a shy orphan, arrives at "The Aunt Hill" to live with her six aunts and seven boisterous male cousins, she is quite overwhelmed. How could such a delicate young lady, used to the quiet hallways of a girls' boarding school, exist in such a spirited home? It is the arrival of Uncle Alec that changes everything. Much to the horror of her aunts, Rose's forward-thinking uncle insists that the child get out of the parlor and into the sunshine. And with a little courage and lots of adventures with her mischievous but loving cousins, Rose begins to bloom.

Ricos e inteligentes, los hermanos Lively—Hades, Apolo, Hermes, Afrodita y Atenea—son los más populares de Yale: nadie se atreve a acercarse a ellos, pero todos los conocen y los observan desde lejos; cada viernes por la noche organizan lo que se han convertido en los famosos Juegos de los Dioses, en los que el adversario no es perdonado; es imposible vencerlos. Cuando Haven llega al campus como estudiante de primer año, se siente fascinada por ellos, aunque un poco asustada, hasta que Hades la nota...