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Stacey and Laney are twins—mirror images of each other—and yet they’re as different as the sun and the moon. Stacey works hard at school, determined to get out of their small town. Laney skips school and sneaks out of the house to meet her boyfriend. But when Laney disappears one night, Stacey can’t believe she’s just run off without telling her. As the days pass and Laney doesn’t return, Stacey starts dreaming of her twin. The dreams are dark and terrifying, difficult to understand and hard to shake, but at least they tell Stacey one key thing—Laney is alive.

When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But Joe Spooner brought more back with him than just good war stories. When movie-star handsome Peter Coleridge, a young ex-GI who served in Joe's company in postwar Austria, shows up, Evie is suddenly caught in a complicated web of lies that she only slowly recognizes. She finds herself falling for Peter, ignoring the secrets that surround him . . . until a tragedy occurs that shatters her family and breaks her life in two.

Rachel and her little sister, Jane, are spending the summer with two strangers who happen to be their grandparents. Up until their mom’s death a few months ago, Rachel didn’t know these people existed, and now she’s been packed off to the family ranch in the interior of British Columbia—a place with mountains, lakes, and zero cell service. But her newfound family isn’t the only secret that’s been kept from her.

When Oakley Nelson loses her older brother, Lucas, to cancer, she thinks she'll never recover. Between her parents' arguing and the battle she's fighting with depression, she feels nothing inside but a hollow emptiness. When Mom suggests they spend a few months in California with Aunt Jo, Oakley isn't sure a change of scenery will alter anything, but she's willing to give it a try.

A love story about opening your heart, by Rainbow Rowell, the New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park. Cath and Wren are identical twins, and until recently they did absolutely everything together. Now they're off to university and Wren's decided she doesn't want to be one half of a...

Viola, generazione millennial, è una biologa napoletana e una testarda certificata, che tra le altre cose è anche disabile. I suoi genitori, iperprotettivi e terrorizzati che alla loro "piccolina" possa succedere qualcosa, non si sognano minimamente che possa avere una vita indipendente, figurarsi una relazione. Ma Viola un ragazzo ce l’ha, anche se da poco. L’ha conosciuto online, e lo sta frequentando di nascosto, grazie alla complicità della sua migliore amica, Federica, che le fa da copertura e racconta un sacco di bugie per coprirla.

The Discovery of Flight is a novel in two voices about the relationship between two sisters, the older of whom is disabled by cerebral palsy and only able to communicate with assistive technology (she can control her computer by moving her eyes). It interweaves the fantasy novel 16-year-old Libby is writing for Sophie’s 13th birthday and Sophie’s diary, in which she discusses the deteriorating condition of her older sister.

Toni is grieving the loss of her roadie father and needing to figure out where her life will go from here - and she's desperate to get back to loving music. Olivia is a hopeless romantic whose heart has just taken a beating (again) and is beginning to feel like she'll always be a square peg in a round hole - but the Farmland Music and Arts Festival is a chance to find a place where she fits.

Die 18-jährige Talia kommt aus einer ungewöhnlichen Familie: Die Underwoods halten mit ihren Gaben das Gleichgewicht zwischen der Welt der Lebenden und der Welt der Toten aufrecht. Als Medium hilft Talia Verstorbenen und Angehörigen bei der Trauerbewältigung, auch wenn sie insgeheim nichts mit anderen Menschen anfangen kann.

Quando il papà di Giulia scompare, lasciando un inquietante messaggio, all'improvviso cambia tutto. Tra le difficoltà da affrontare e da risolvere c'è l'affitto da pagare e la necessità di fare i conti con la dura realtà dell'essere poveri. Giulia trova nella madre una grande alleata e, quando la ragazzina scoprirà che il papà si è cacciato in un guaio davvero grosso, potrà contare anche sull'aiuto del suo pestifero fratellino. Ma perché suo padre ha raccontato tante bugie prima di sparire? La tenacia e il coraggio sono gli elementi indispensabili.

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 ?

Flo lives an eccentric life - she travels with a popular circus in which the main acts star orphaned children with secret shape-shifting abilities. Once Flo turns 16, she must perform, but she's not ready. While practicing jumping a flaming hurdle in a clearing beside the circus, she spots a dark figure in the trees and fears he saw her shift. The news sends the circus into a panic.

The Gift Is in the Making retells previously published Anishinaabeg stories, bringing to life Anishinaabeg values and teachings to a new generation. Listeners are immersed in a world where all genders are respected, the tiniest being has influence in the world, and unconditional love binds families and communities to each other and to their homeland. Sprinkled with gentle humour and the Anishinaabe language, this collection of stories speaks to children and adults alike and reminds us of the timelessness of stories that touch the heart.

While spacing out in Chemistry class, Lily scribbles some of her favorite song lyrics onto her desk. The next day, she finds that someone has continued the lyrics on the desk, and added a message to her. Intrigue! Soon, Lily and her anonymous pen pal are exchanging full-on letters - sharing secrets, recommending bands, and opening up to each other. Lily realizes she's kind of falling for this letter writer. Only who is he?

Domenica, detta Mimì, diciassette anni, vive con la mamma Caterina e la zia Diletta a Roma. Da un giorno all'altro la sua famiglia si trasferisce in un piccolo paese, Piandiperi, dove la fabbrica presso cui Caterina lavora come operaia ha aperto un nuovo stabilimento. Per Mimì si tratta di un cataclisma che stravolge la sua esistenza tranquilla e rassicurante.

With Cayne's fate in the hands of his enemies and Julia spirited away to the covert Stained compound, the two are separated by impenetrable walls and a gulf of unanswered questions. Soon Julia learns the truth about the Stained and the plans they have for her, the compound is attacked, and a new group is running from an unwanted destiny, searching the globe in pursuit of the knowledge that just might save them all.

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A powder keg of dark secrets and mind-bending puzzles, this must-read thriller is “addictively suspenseful” (The Washington Post) and “full of atmospheric thrills” (Los Angeles Times)—from the New York Times bestselling author of Night Film. Your favorite...

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.

This scorching story tells of a father and son trying to reach out to each other over years of loss and absence. An almost unbearably moving recording.

Can a girl, armed only with stories, make her way through a land of myth, magic and monsters, to save her grandfather's shattered memories before they're forever lost? His only cure? Memory Glue. To brew it, Alexis just needs eight ingredients: stuff like nose hair from a baku (dream-eater), sweat from a duyung (sea siren) and...OK. Maybe some are tricky to find in local supermarkets. To obtain them Alexis must journey to a realm where the fabled creatures from Grandpa's folktales are alive in the flesh (and often flesh-eating).