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Richly complex, darkly comical, and irresistibly charming. Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist is one of the greatest novels of the 19th century, from one of literature's most esteemed craftsmen. Published serially between 1837 and 1839, it secured Dickens' reputation as a writer of exceptional skill and talent.

Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men.

The adolescent Christopher and his soul mate, Toni, had sneered at the stifling ennui of Metroland, their cosy patch of suburbia on the Metropolitan line. They had longed for Life to begin - meaning Sex and Freedom - to travel and choose their own clothes. Then Chris, at 30, starts to settle comfortably into bourgeois contentment himself. Luckily, Toni is still around to challenge such backsliding.

Asta Fung is sixteen and sulky. Her parents have moved the whole family to take over the Yau Sum takeaway in another town so Grandpa Charlie can be closer to the big hospital. She's had to give up her dog, her friends, her familiar teenage life. All too soon, she has to give up Grandpa Charlie too. What was the point? When the builder's son, Josh, hands her a bundle of love letters he found under the floorboards, Asta realises they were hidden there by Grandpa Charlie as a young man.

A National Book Award Finalist for Fiction The debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Kushner, called “shimmering” (The New Yorker), “multilayered and absorbing” (The New York Times Book Review), and “gorgeously written” (Kirkus Reviews). Young Everly Lederer and K.C...

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In the first book of a visionary fantasy trilogy with its roots in the mythology of Africa and Arabia that “sings of rebellion, love, and the courage it takes to stand up to tyranny” (Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree), three women band together against a cruel...

Köln, 1941. Anna wächst bei ihrer Tante Marie und ihrem Onkel Matthias auf, einem Bäckerehepaar. Das Mädchen liebt die Backstube über alles. Der Duft von frischgebackenem Brot, die mehlgeschwängerte Luft, der große Ofen aus Vulkanstein - für Anna der schönste Ort der Welt. Doch mit dem Krieg kommt das Unglück: Matthias wird eingezogen, die Bäckerei bei Luftangriffen zerstört, und Anna und Marie sind obdachlos.

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In den sechziger und siebziger Jahren wurde von Frauen am Land wenig erwartet, außer: stillhalten, sich fügen, bleiben. Nicht so Anna. Sie will hinaus – aus der Enge, der Armut, der Gewalt. In Wien stellt sie sich einem Verlag vor und wird mehr als nur Mitarbeiterin: Sie wird Teil der Literaturszene, Geliebte des Verlagsleiters und bald selbst Autorin. Ein Roman über Außenseitertum, Selbstermächtigung und die zärtliche Rebellion einer Frau, die über sich hinauswächst.

Ende der fünfziger Jahre zieht der sechsjährige Josef mit den Eltern von Köln nach Wuppertal in ein Haus voller Eisenbahnerfamilien. Als er Mücke, die Tochter des Gemüsehändlers von gegenüber, kennenlernt, entwickelt sich zwischen den beiden Kindern eine enge Freundschaft, die ihm hilft, seine Hemmungen zu überwinden. Allmählich öffnet er sich auch anderen Menschen, wie etwa den Patres des Kreuzherrenordens, die ihm lautes Vorlesen und Singen beibringen, oder einem Jugendtrainer, der ihn im Langlauf trainiert.

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For Moon Boy, adulthood is coming no matter what. Even if he spends most nights drinking forties in the cemetery with his band, even if he drops out of community college to pursue multiple women for different reasons, and even if he can still see the ghost house rise from the quarry at midnight, he can’t stop the inevitable. When his sister goes missing on opening night at Kip Creeker’s Trail of Terror, Moon Boy’s already overcomplicated life takes a frightening turn, and his grasp on reality starts to slip.

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Young Betty Cantrel is just 14-years-old when she reluctantly leaves her troubled family home to take up a position as companion to Frances Crawley, the ailing daughter of Eben and Mary Crawley. As her friendship grows with Frances, Betty accompanies her to London, where she glimpses another world – a world full of art, music, and freedom, and she begins to dream of a different kind of life.

Sean is being held for questioning at the police station while Scarlet and Janice fear for their lives. Ryan is their sole protector because Cortland is kept in the dark about the situation. Scarlet doesn't want him to know the truth so she can spare him. When they travel to New York, things go from bad to worse. It becomes clear that Sean doesn't have a good chance of evading prosecution, Sean's mom seems to dislike Scarlet more than she did before, and Scarlet has to fearfully look over her shoulder every moment.

Violetta tiene quince años cuando cruza la frontera con más de cien mil dólares robados a sus padres, asimismo excelentes amigos de lo ajeno. Azarosamente desembarcada en Nueva York, sobrevive durante cuatro años a todo tren, gastando varios kilogramos de dinero malhabido.

Addie Baum is "The Boston Girl", born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can’t imagine - a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture and new opportunities for women.

What happens when a girl who always calls the shots meets a guy who's too wild for even her? A born flirt and good-time party girl, Emerson has never had a problem finding a willing guy. She's always chosen her hookups carefully, and she's never broken her three cardinal rules. Then Shaw comes along. A hottie from the wrong side of the tracks, he's immune to her flirtatious banter and come-hither smile. After rescuing her from a disastrous night at a biker bar, he doesn't even try to take her to bed...he calls her a tease and sends her home instead.