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Juillet 2007. L’été s’annonce ennuyant pour Marjorie. Pendant que sa meilleure amie Sara est partie en road trip avec l’espoir inavoué de déclarer son amour à Sébastien, Marjorie, elle, contemple le désert qu’est sa vie amoureuse et tue le temps en compagnie de son ami Jean-Philippe. À 21 ans, Marjorie est à la croisée des chemins, là où se rencontrent la vie étudiante et la vie adulte. Si ses ambitions professionnelles sont claires, une question demeure: quand vivra-t-elle un amour réciproque?

A Most Anticipated Book of Fall from: Los Angeles Times * Boston Globe * BookPage * Book Riot * The Millions * Publishers Weekly * LitHub * St. Louis Post Dispatch * Town & Country A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, about a writer’s...

Kylie Scott returns with the highly anticipated follow-up to international bestseller Lick. Mal Ericson, drummer for the world famous rock band Stage Dive, needs to clean up his image fast—at least for a little while. Having a good girl on his arm should do the job just fine. Mal doesn't plan...

Don't miss a beat with the fourth and final novel in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Stage Dive series from Kylie Scott. One by one, the members of Stage Dive are falling in love. David, Mal, and Jimmy have all taken the plunge, and now it's Ben's turn-only he refuses to fall into...

At ten years old, Ivy Schrock’s world shatters when she is forced into foster care after suffering abuse at the hands of her father. Torn from her Amish home, she is thrust into a string of foster families where every day feels like survival. But Ivy is determined to find her place, slowly learning independence and forming fragile friendships that help her heal. As she grows into adulthood, Ivy discovers a passion that fuels her spirit, even as shadows of her past resurface to test her strength. Heartbreak and painful memories threaten to pull her under, but Ivy refuses to break.

In una Roma postbellica, tra i palazzoni delle periferie e il centro monumentale, il racconto picaresco dai risvolti comici, tragici e grotteschi, delle giornate di un gruppo di ragazzi di borgata. Un romanzo fortemente emblematico di una trasformazione epocale del nostro paese, che mette in scena con struggente tenerezza il rito crudele del passaggiodall'infanzia alla prima giovinezza.

Being an adult isn’t quite what Ellie Allard dreamed it would be when she was fourteen years old. Though she’s got her beautiful daughter Lottie, life-long best friends in Magda and Nadine and her trusty cat Stella, her love life is non-existent and she feels like she’s been living on auto-pilot, just grateful to be able to afford the mortgage on her pokey little flat. But this year on her birthday, the universe seems to decide it’s time to for all that to change.

Klara ist ein Artificial Friend, eine künstliche Intelligenz, die dafür entwickelt wurde, Jugendlichen eine Gefährtin zu sein auf dem Weg ins Erwachsenwerden. Von ihrem Platz im Schaufenster eines Spielzeuggeschäfts aus beobachtet sie ganz genau, was draußen vor sich geht, studiert das Verhalten der Kundinnen und Kunden und hofft darauf, bald von einem jungen Menschen als neue Freundin ausgewählt zu werden.

Nebraska, Anfang der 1990er Jahre: Sheridan Grant lebt bei ihrer Adoptivfamilie auf einer Farm inmitten von Maisfeldern. Sie leidet unter der Eintönigkeit des Farmlebens und dem strengen Regime ihrer Adoptivmutter, die der musikalischen Sheridan sogar das Klavierspielen verbietet. Zum Glück gibt es den Farmarbeiter Brandon, den Rodeoreiter Nick und den Künstler Christopher, die Sheridan den Hof machen und sie davor bewahren, vor Langeweile zu sterben. Bis in einer Halloweennacht etwas Furchtbare spassiert.

In una notte di mezza estate si intersecano due storie di seduzione, separate da più di duecento anni e oscillanti vertiginosamente fra il sublime e l’esilarante. Ma questa è solo l’intelaiatura di una vicenda che non si lascia raccontare, perché Kundera sembra avervi miniaturizzato una quantità imponente di «temi esistenziali». Primo fra tutti quello della lentezza: una parola di cui scopriremo un senso nuovo, come se non l’avessimo mai conosciuta prima.

This quintessential coming-of-age novel describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus. It is set in Ireland during the 19th century, which was a time of emerging Irish nationalism and conservative Catholicism. Highly autobiographical in nature, the work is also notable for its being the first one in which Joyce uses innovative “stream of consciousness” writing style. A Portrait... follows Stephen Dedalus from his babyhood into early adulthood.

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Harry White grew up in blue-collar Brooklyn, but the young man's charm, smarts, and good looks have helped him earn a place as an uptown junior executive. White's gifts have also made his love life easy, and he takes special pleasure in seducing married women. But when "Harry the Lover" is ready to grow up and leave his womanizing behind, White finds that suppressing his libido has dangerous consequences. His attempts at restraint awaken something sinister, causing White to seek excitement in a new form of violence and depravity.

Death imitates Art. Digger can draw. Man! can he draw. He’d be a shoo-in to go to Design Center, the prestigious art school for rich kids, but he hasn’t any money. Design Center is notorious for being tight with scholarships and Digger’s parents are less than willing to co-sign the necessary loans. He lives with his abusive mother and his apathetic sister. His father left them years ago, leaving him with a case of PTSD. It's 1985 and Digger meets two women who will change his life. How will he change theirs?

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Quei tre ragazzi che si tuffano in piscina, nudi, di nascosto, entrano come un vento nella vita di Teresa. Sono poco più che bambini, hanno corpi e desideri incontrollati e puri, proprio come lei. I prossimi vent'anni li passeranno insieme nella masseria lì accanto, a seminare, raccogliere, distruggere, alla pazza ricerca di un fuoco che li tenga accesi. Al centro di tutto c'è sempre Bern, un magnete che attira gli altri e li spinge oltre il limite, con l'intensità di chi conosce solo passioni assolute: Dio, il sesso, la natura, un figlio.

Marianne y Connell son compañeros de instituto pero no se cruzan palabra. Él es uno de los populares y ella, una chica solitaria que ha aprendido a mantenerse alejada del resto de la gente. Todos saben que Marianne vive en una mansión y que la madre de Connell se encarga de su limpieza, pero nadie imagina que cada tarde los dos jóvenes coinciden. Uno de esos días, una conversación torpe dará comienzo a una relación que podría cambiar sus vidas.

From New York Times bestselling author Sarah McCoy—a spellbinding novel based on a true story: a beautiful young movie star of Hollywood’s Golden Age gives up her bright career to become a nun. In 1969, twenty-three-year-old starlet Lori Lovely, the apple of Hollywood’s eye, shocks the...

Twenty years ago, a summer holiday ended in tragedy for the Palmer family. No one has spoken of it since. Until a new TV series plays out the horrifying events of that night. As the family are forced to relive that fateful trip, is it possible that each person is hiding their own secrets, and is someone willing to do whatever it takes to keep their past firmly in the past…

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers...