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Adela is sixteen years old. When she tells her parents she's pregnant, they send her from their home in Indiana to her grandmother’s in Padua Beach, Florida, "a town built on y’all bein' good now? and babies havin' babies, said in the rasp of a loud whisper and one polite little shake of the head." There, Adela meets Emory, who has a baby of her own she brings to high school, strapped to her chest; and Simone, ringleader of “the Girls,” young moms who hang out with their growing brood in the back of her red truck.

As the Sequel to the novel Colorblind, we find Decker Davis searching his way through life as the once awkward and shy kid from the little town of Webb Mississippi. Decker faced the challenges of bullying in Colorblind with dignity and resolve, but he is now forced into a life and death struggle that no one should ever have to face.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

Los peinados de los malditos es la historia de Brian, un inadaptado estudiante de escuela católica, y Gretchen, una dura chica punk aficionada tanto a las peleas como a grabar casets para su amigo, a quien considera un tonto. Los sucesos ocurren a principios de los años noventa, cuando el movimiento punk creció en el sur de Chicago.

Teenie-Star Grace Turner war auf der Höhe ihrer Karriere. Aber ausgerechnet am Vorabend ihrer ersten Golden Globe-Nominierung verschwand sie. Jetzt, ein Jahr später, ist sie wieder da. Und sie will ihr Leben zurück. Doch dann bittet man sie, dem Mann, der acht Jahre lang jeden ihrer Schritte kontrollierte, den Preis für sein Lebenswerk zu überreichen. Sie begreift, dass sie nicht länger vor dem Geheimnis, das sie damals zerstörte, davonlaufen kann.

Einfühlsame, ehrliche und warmherzige RomCom und Coming-of-Age-Story mit Witz, Charme und Herz aus der Feder einer OwnVoice-Autorin Zoe Kelly fängt endlich ihr neues Leben an: die Highschool liegt hinter ihr. Zum Glück! Als Autistin hatte sie es nicht immer leicht und die Erinnerungen an Mobbing und Ausgrenzung begleiten sie immer noch. Doch das Journalismus-Praktikum bei Bubble soll ihr Leben ändern, sie ist bereit, sich selbst neu zu erfinden. Das ist leichter gesagt als getan, auch wenn ihre Schwester sich alle Mühe gibt, Zoe in die Welt der Dating-Apps einzuführen.

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At ten years old, she catches more than her parents and older sister suspect. Over their summer break, her mother plans to finish her novel, her father wants to grill and watch cricket, and her fifteen-year-old sister hopes to catch the eye of a local lifeguard. With everyone around her distracted, she teams up with a new friend to solve a mystery that haunts this vacation community: they'll close the case of what happened to Charlotte, a child who was presumed drowned two years earlier.

Blessed are the meek, Sophie was taught; blessed are the pure of heart. Blessed is the good Catholic girl who honours her father and mother, who renounces the sins of pride, greed, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth, for she will inherit the earth. But nothing in her strict religious upbringing could have prepared Sophie for the arrival of the scorching winds that sweep through the Midwest - not the righteous breath of God, but an evil gust that delivers an ungodly, fevered lust unto the virtuous and the wicked alike.

After the death of their abusive patriarch, sixteen-year-old Desiree "Dez" Sarpe and her family moved to the high plains of Wyoming for a fresh start. Life is quieter now, but peace doesn't put food on the table. Unable to get a job, Dez reluctantly stays home—before following a track in the long grass and finding Granny Iyaga. Granny hires Dez for housecleaning, and also begins teaching her peculiar things. School starts, winter approaches, and for the first time, Dez begins to relax.

His family farm and the surrounding community now emptied by war, young Hani embarks on an epic quest–assisted by a brooding yet brilliant donkey–to find his lost sister in the ruins of Troy. Some war stories transcend time and circumstance, and so it is with the resourceful and heartbroken Hani, who must employ every bit of intelligence, every scrap of ingenuity, and ultimately every ounce of his spirit and humor to withstand the forces of civilization’s collapse.

Luna Levi is an ordinary 19 year old with extraordinary problems. Her mother's acting career is more important to her than the stage of real life. Her father struggles with PTSD as an ex-combat soldier and is equally MIA when it comes to his daughter. The Levis jump from financial crisis to financial crisis until in one-split second someone enters their lives and throws them into the biggest disaster of all.

The only thing Amphorn has experienced more than anything else in his life is death. He is someone who learns the most profound truths about human nature, and he discovered all that the hard way. All he wants is a peaceful life, but can he have that?

Welcome to the Broken & Betrayed series! This is a trilogy series, starting off with Broken & Betrayed I: A Shocking Heartbreak. Listeners will be introduced to Julissa Elrod, the daughter of the honorable Reverend Kenneth Elrod. Julissa lives in a perfect Christian family and is proud of it. That's until she starts discovering some very odd things that are happening. And she begins to dig deeper to find answers, she wishes she could turn back time and erase what her eyes see and what her ears hear. It's a shocking heartbreak for a religious Christian girl like her.

El día que el hombre llega a la Luna, D empieza a trabajar como vendedor viajero de productos de Kramp: clavos, serruchos, martillos, picaportes y mirillas. Comienza también entonces la educación paralela de su hija, M. Convertida en ayudante y cómplice, se salta las clases a espaldas de su madre para acompañar a D en sus viajes, descubriendo un precoz sentido comercial y un talento inesperado para la picaresca mientras recorren los pequeños pueblos del sur chileno, un territorio plagado de fantasmas.

Tras un tiempo sin verse, cuatro amigas se reencuentran en una casa de campo en Chosica para la despedida de soltera de una de ellas. El entusiasmo inicial viene acompañado de recuerdos y confidencias que pronto tensan el ambiente. Al intercambiar las dudas sobre su rol de parejas, madres e hijas, la reunión se transforma en un reflejo de sí mismas, de sus vínculos agrietados; se preguntan entonces qué las mantiene unidas

Die Traumstudentin Nemesis von Winther versucht verzweifelt das Leben ihres einstigen Rivalen Mercury "Mercy" Sterling zu retten. Denn Mercy hat eine tragische Entscheidung getroffen, die ihre aufflammende Liebe unter den Trümmern ihrer Träume begrub und ihn in den Schlund seines Unterbewusstseins verdammte. In den düsteren Hallen der Academy of Dream Analysis im hohen Norden Finnlands muss Nemesis an die Grenzen ihrer Fähigkeiten gehen, um für Mercy zu kämpfen. Doch auch ihre wahren Feinde schlafen nicht, und die Wahrheit über den Tod von Nemesis' Bruder öffnet die Tore zu ihren schlimmsten Albträumen.

Que viva la música! es una novela de iniciación. Es la invitación a una fiesta sin sosiego, donde su protagonista dejará que el mundo baje hasta el pozo sin fondo de sus propios excesos. Pero con felicidad. Con absoluta dicha. Hay un pacto secreto con la muerte en esta danza de María del Carmen Huerta, la rubia protagonista de estas páginas.

Todo empieza con un mensaje publicado en Facebook donde la escuela Belgrano anuncia que organiza una gran fiesta de despedida. Quien escribe esas líneas invita a los alumnos, ex alumnos, docentes, padres y amigos a la reunión. Así, la comunidad escolar de ayer y de hoy, se entera de que alguien se va, tal vez, para siempre. Entonces, Paula, Graciela, Miriam, Fede, Fabián y alguien más que aparece en medio de un encuentro sorpresivo se movilizan. La escuela vuelve a ser el escenario que despierta recuerdos y emociones.

Téhéran, 1953. Pour leur fille, les parents de Roya veulent le meilleur : ils l'inscrivent dans le meilleur lycée de la capitale, espérant bien faire d'elle la future Marie Curie de ce monde. Une savante, une intellectuelle, une femme capable de changer le cours de l'histoire. Après ses cours, la jeune fille fréquente régulièrement la librairie de M. Fakhri, où elle trouve de quoi étancher sa soif de poésie persane et de littérature étrangère. C'est là qu'elle va faire connaissance de Bahman, jeune activiste politique, bien décidé à changer le monde.