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From Matthew Quick, bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, comes a heartfelt, unconventional and moving novel for readers who love John Green and Annabel Pitcher. Nanette O'Hare is an unassuming teen who has played the role of dutiful daughter, hard-working student, and star athlete...

Hoje é o aniversário de Leonard Peacock. Também é o dia em que ele saiu de casa com uma arma na mochila. Porque é hoje que ele vai matar o ex-melhor amigo e depois se suicidar com a P-38 que foi do avô, a pistola do Reich. Mas antes ele quer encontrar e se despedir das quatro pessoas mais importantes de sua vida: Walt, o vizinho obcecado por filmes de Humphrey Bogart; Baback, que estuda na mesma escola que ele e é um virtuoso do violino; Lauren, a garota cristã de quem ele gosta, e Herr Silverman, o professor que está agora ensinando à turma sobre o Holocausto.

Portia Kane is having a meltdown. After escaping her cheating husband and their posh Florida life, she finds herself transported back home and back to square one. In need of saving herself, she sets out to find and resurrect a beloved high-school English teacher who has retired after a violent incident in the classroom.But she quickly learns that it's not a one-woman job. Luckily she meets a few people on her journey.

A funny and tender story about family, friendship, grief, love and...Richard Gere. Bartholomew Neil is thirty-eight and lost. He's lived his whole life, up till a few weeks ago, with his devoted mum, but now she has died Bartholomew has no idea how to be on his own. His grief counsellor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded learn how to fly?