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After inexperienced seventeen-year-old Isaac loses his virginity through a dating app—a disappointing yet addictive experience—he spends his final months before university escaping into a dizzying new world of casual sex with forgettable men. This all changes when he meets twenty-eight-year-old Harrison at a party. Isaac is immediately infatuated by the handsome, charismatic artist, but while they grow closer, his sense of self becomes increasingly hazy

Money, glamour, luxury, power—Ruby Bell couldn’t be less interested in these things if she tried. After being awarded a scholarship to one of England’s most prestigious and expensive private schools, Maxton Hall, all she wants is to keep her head down, work hard, and get accepted to Oxford. She keeps her distance from everyone, especially the arrogant, rich, and extremely handsome James Beaufort, ringleader of the school’s party boys. When Ruby discovers a scandalous secret about the Beauforts, she is suddenly on James’s radar.

1960, Hugh and Dee sell Rothmorton Hall, near Boston, and move to a small beach community outside San Francisco to start fresh. Hugh needs to prove himself with his new business but spends too much time at the office causing tension at home. Ellen turns thirteen and unhappy she's uprooted from the only home she's ever known and worries she won't fit in at the public high school, make friends, or meet boys. Dee is bored and desperate to find her place in the community and may put her trust in the wrong person... yet again.

UNA STORIA PER RISENTIRE LA LEGGEREZZA DEI MIGLIORI ANNI DELLA NOSTRA VITA. PER IMPARARE A VOLARE E NON VIVERE SEMPRE CON I PIEDI PER TERRA. Alice e Viola sono gemelle identiche. Viola si è affacciata per prima al mondo, Alice l’ha seguita da vicino stringendole forte la caviglia. A unirle, un legame che loro soltanto sono in grado di comprendere e una promessa che si sono scambiate da piccole, intrecciando i mignoli: "Non ti mentirò mai". Per tutti, sono indistinguibili: hanno gli stessi amici, frequentano gli stessi posti, hanno le stesse abitudini e gli stessi sogni.

Walter Simmering is searching for love and purpose in a city he doesn’t realize is fading away—San Francisco in 1993, at the height of the AIDS epidemic and the dawn of the tech revolution. Out of college, out of the closet, and transplanted from the Midwest, Walter is irresistibly drawn from his shell when he meets Cary Menuhin and Sasha Stravinsky, a dynamic couple who live blithely beyond the boundaries of gender and sexuality.

Der 19-jährige Harold versucht, sich den gesellschaftlichen Zwängen seines wohlhabenden Elternhauses durch ungewöhnliche "Marotten" zu entziehen. Die 79-jährige Maude ist unkonventionell, energisch, impulsiv und lebensfroh – trotz ihrer schweren Vergangenheit. Die beiden lernen sich bei einer Beerdigung kennen, und bald verwandelt sich ihre Freundschaft in eine zarte und bewegende Liebesgeschichte. Bis zum Tag von Maudes 80. Geburtstag.

After an emergency leaves her short on rent, thirty-year-old Freya Arnalds bails on her lackluster life as bartender in Maine and returns to her suburban hometown of Somers, New York, to live in the house she inherited from her estranged parents. Despite attempts to lay low, Freya encounters childhood friends, familial enemies, and old flames—as well as her fifteen-year-old niece, Aubrey, who is secretly living in the derelict home. As they reconnect, Freya and Aubrey lean on each other, working to restore the house and come to terms with the devastating events that pulled them apart.

It’s 2009, the height of the Great Recession. Best friends Eddy and Cueball are fresh out of high school and wild at heart, but the economy is in the dumps. With jobs scarce along Florida’s Space Coast, they join a furniture moving company run by Cueball’s father, a gruff ex-con biker who’s supposedly retired from the fast life. But when a mysterious old boss arrives in town, the payload is switched out, as the young men are coerced into shipping a new designer drug up the East Coast.

Set in the underground bar and club scene of 1970s Tokyo, Set My Heart On Fire tells the story of Izumi in her turbulent twenties. Through a series of disarmingly frank vignettes, author Izumi Suzuki presents an unforgettable portrait of a young woman encountering missteps and miscommunication, good music and unreliable men, powerful drugs and disorientating meds. Izumi usually keeps her relationships short but complicated, until she meets Jun.

Esta es la historia de Santiago a quien, como a todos nosotros nos duele crecer. Su camino entre la infancia y la adolecencia está enmarcado por moretones y cotusiones que le han dejado no solo sus rivales de pelea, también los dilemas con su propia familia y los estrellones con el sexo opuesto. Está novela, la primera del autor Andrés Burgos, está ambientada en la ciudad de Medellín de los años noventa, convulsionada por el terrorismo y el narcotrafico. Más que un manual de pelea es un diario de viaje en el periplo de crecer.

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. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. 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.

Verano de 1969. Mientras las protestas contra la guerra de Vietnam toman las calles, Tobias, un niño de once años que vive en la periferia de Colonia, espera con ansia el primer alunizaje tripulado. Entretanto, el armonioso matrimonio de sus padres empieza a experimentar ciertos roces, y los acontecimientos se precipitan cuando una pareja comprometida políticamente se instala en la casa de al lado. A pesar de las diferencias, los padres de Tobias, más bien conservadores, entablan amistad con los nuevos vecinos.

Tatiana Schepkina-Kupernik was born in 1874. In her literary career she was a poet, playwright, and short story writer. She died in 1952.

"Any thoughts?" Ruth Ann asks the group. I raise my hand, noticing any timidity or prior insecurity I once felt is gone. I am free to be myself at this place. "Yes, Camille." She points at me. I feel joy at the mention of my new name. "So, let me get this straight!" I try to collect my thoughts. "If my mother, father, or guidance counselor tells me something that goes against the Bible..."

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette more usually known as simply ‘Colette’, was born in 1873. Her most famous work is ‘Gigi’. An author, a woman of letters, a mime, an actress, and journalist and a celebrity example the wide range of her many talents. She died in 1954.

Ein flirrender Roman, der davon erzählt, dass nichts jemals verloren ist. Livia hat liebevolle Eltern, eine beste Freundin, und sie rennt schneller als der Wind: Sie ist die Schnellste. Eines Tages erfährt sie, dass ihr Leben bald von Dunkelheit umgeben sein wird. Bei Livia wird eine Augenkrankheit diagnostiziert, die zum Verlust des Sehvermögens führt. Sie erfährt davon in einem Alter, in dem sie nur so sein will wie die anderen, Sportwettkämpfe gewinnen, auf Partys gehen, gesehen werden. Wenn Erwachsenwerden heißt, Schwächen zu akzeptieren, dann ist das Spiel für Livia ein wenig härter als für die anderen.

Manuela Espinal Solano tenía cuatro años cuando escribió su primera canción. En su casa la música crecía como las plantas: Espinal veía a sus abuelos cantar, a su mamá cantar, a su tía cantar e iba grabando melodías que se le ocurrían de repente. Quería ser cantante, sospecharon todos. Pero la misión de los hijos es defraudar a los padres, y a los dieciocho años la autora publicó su primera novela, Quisiera que oyeran la canción que escucho cuando escribo esto, que tiene mucho de autobiográfico pero es ficción y que trata, sobre todo, del rechazo a un don.

Juliana, Valeria y Lucia son primas: tiene casi la misma edad y suelen encontrarse en la casa de su abuela. Sin embargo, son muy distintas entre sí. Y atraviesan la adolescencia, esos "años terribles", cada una a su manera.

Belleville, dans les années 90 : chez Grand-Maman dans la cité HLM de la rue Piat, Naëlle porte des robes à col Claudine, apprend qu'il faut dire "les intempéries" et non "un temps de merde", s'arrête tous les jours devant chez Mme Ah, qui expose des canards sans tête dans son restaurant chinois.

Zoe, Al, Rachel, Rob, Yas and Indie. Six friends who were inseparable at university, who have all had their secret or not so secret passions for each other, their own hopes and fears. Set over one year and told from multiple perspectives, BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES is an era-spanning, globe-trotting novel about love, friendship, and how to stay at least relatively sane in an ever crazier world. It’s about a group of friends growing older, a pair of sometime lovers finding their way back to each other, about kindness and joy. It’s about births, deaths, marriages, and everything in between.