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1990: In a hot, humid Hong Kong summer, three young singers are loving life, performing to packed crowds every night in a swanky hotel bar. Twenty-three-year-old Scottish songbird, Moira Chiles is living the dream alongside Carina Lloyd and Lisa Dixon. They work hard, play hard, and always stick together… until one day Moira has to make a choice that changes everything.

Winter, 1976, Columbia University. Hearing voices and seeing hateful writing on walls, early admission Sam Kovner walks the New York streets, sleepless thirty-six hours. Through the radiant specificity of memory, he reckons with a hard-driving father, a caring, sometimes careless mother, a generous, self-involved uncle who’s just become a movie star, and star-struck grandparents. Sam fears the undertow of feelings: he’s not quite spent the night with someone he’s fallen for.

Armand Bernal is breaking apart. The trials of youth become a torrential odyssey of dislocation and disorientation. In this bildungsroman for our modern age—an age of collapse—Ben Faulkner has created an unforgettable character wary of work, college, relationships, and the world at large, becoming an unstable young man moving toward an act of terrifying violence. Will he survive the gothic America of The Agonies?

Phillip I. Elkins, a.k.a. Señor Felipe, is a storyteller, salsa maker, father, son, educator, author, musician, and radio host of "LA Sounds" on KZFR, Chico, California. Running from the Fire is a coming-of-age story that begins with a skinny, nearsighted Jewish kid trying to find a home and identity among white and Latino peers in East Los Angeles, an emotional voyage that takes him through love affairs and fistfights and ends with him drafted by the Army and en route to Vietnam. The book is intense, frequently funny, and deeply poignant as he describes his youth and adolescence.

സോക്രട്ടീസിന്റെ കഥകള്‍ പലപ്പോഴും ഫാന്റസിയും മാലിക്കും കലര്‍ന്നഒരു കുഴമഞ്ഞാണ്. വേറോണിക്ക @ 15 ഒരു പ്രായത്തിന്റെ കഥ മാത്രമല്ല. മുറിവേറ്റ സ്ത്രീത്വത്തിന്റെ ഏകാംഗ കലാപം കൂടിയാണ്.

In his third novel, France explores the world from a new angle, delving into the emotional entanglement and self-discovery of a character with an addictive personality, searching for a way to fulfill the impulses that govern his life. When his best friend moves away the summer before his junior year, he loses the one person who keeps him grounded, and he spirals onto a dark path. As time passes, he realizes he's not only been hiding his inner demons from those he loves but also from himself.

Michael Woodbine was seven years old when a near-fatal fireworks accident scarred him and led to his placement in foster care. Now a college freshman, he is still trying to hide the effects of his trauma from his classmates, his adoptive family, and himself. When Michael signs up for a film class, he meets Robert Dunning, a teacher who wears his own scars unapologetically. Robert encourages Michael to make a documentary that explores body image and self-perception.

Fire in the Head addresses a deep taboo in Australian society—the legacy of child sexual abuse and what victims must endure to bring perpetrators to justice.

In the early 1970s, Poe is living a nomadic life, hopping trains, sleeping rough, and juggling to feed himself. He eventually settles in Philadelphia and masters his street act before ever-growing crowds. When one of his fellow buskers presents him with an opportunity—a bank heist—he should have refused, an innocent bystander is killed, and he splits town a felon.

In Hudson River Bracketed, Edith Wharton illuminates the creative process of writing. Vance Weston, a young Midwesterner yearning to be a writer, travels to New York in pursuit of his dreams. On the Hudson River, in an old house called The Willows, he meets a kindred spirit. Halo Spear is the privileged daughter of an old New York family, a lover of poetry and literature who educates and inspires him as he hones his craft.

Our protagonist always believed herself to be the smartest person in the room. But a couple of years on from earning a fancy PhD, she’s still broke, single and stuck in a job going nowhere. One option remains: marry rich. Her summer becomes a whirlwind of dating: martinis with a lazy heir, board games with a butch producer and a Venmo request from a ‘socialist’ trust-fund babe. However, when some unexpected and tragic news takes her – and her project – to Tehran she is forced to ask and answer some overdue questions about family, connection and, terrifyingly, her own purpose.

"הרבה פעמים בחיי קראו לי בוגד. הפעם הראשונה הייתה כשהייתי בן שתים עשרה ורבע וגרתי בשכונה בסוף ירושלים. זה היה בחופש הקיץ, פחות משנה לפני שהשלטון הבריטי הסתלק מהארץ ומדינת ישראל נולדה מתוך המלחמה".

גיבור הספר פנתר במרתף הוא נער המכונה פרופסור, מפני שאינו מפסיק לבדוק מילים, להפוך אותן, להרכיבן ולסדרן מחדש. בימים של חרדה ושל עוינות הדדית הוא מתיידד עם שוטר בריטי תימהוני ומואשם על ידי חבריו בבגידה. בתוך כך הוא מגלה את עצמו מחדש, בודק, מהפך ומרכיב מחדש את עולמו, את יחסו להוריו, לאויב, ולעצמו.

יוגב מתחיל לשתות עם חבריו בבית הספר, ובמהרה מוצא עצמו בתוך מערבולת גופנית ונפשית שהולכת ויוצאת מכלל שליטה. הוריו, הדוגלים בחינוך מתירני, נמנעים מלהתערב במצב, ובסופו של דבר סבא וסבתא שלו הם העושים את הצעד ולוקחים אותו אל ביתם שבמושב בצפון. באווירה חדשה זו, של עבודת כפיים והסתפקות במועט, לומד יוגב לקחת על עצמו את האחריות למצבו, ובעזרת סביו, דודו ירון ונערה בשם זיו, הגרה בבית השכן, מתחיל לגלות מחדש את הכוחות ואת היכולות הטמונים בו.

UNA STORIA COMMOVENTE SUL DIFFICILE PASSAGGIO DALL'ADOLESCENZA ALL'ETÀ ADULTA E SULLA FORZA INSPIEGABILE DELL'AMORE. Nato qualche mese dopo il felice naufragio del matrimonio dei genitori, Teo Luci cresce in una grande e originale famiglia, educato da due poli opposti: sua madre, del Sud, allevata a balie, collegi e bugie; suo padre, del Nord, cresciuto tra i boschi e il cattolicesimo. Oltre al figlio, l'unica somiglianza nelle vite slegate dei suoi è la passione per il cinema: il motivo per cui si sono trasferiti a Roma, il mestiere che stanno imparando, la febbre che hanno tutte le persone di cui si circondano.

Sull’isola non tutti vanno e vengono allo stesso modo. Ci sono quelli che arrivano con il sole di maggio e ripartono con le prime piogge di settembre. C’è chi fa avanti e indietro ogni giorno, senza più chiedersi a quale riva appartenga davvero. E poi ci sono quelli che, messi dalla vita davanti a un bivio, hanno dovuto scegliere se restare o imbarcarsi per una partenza che può valere un addio. Entrambe le scelte lasciano un segno invisibile e profondo.

TJ Cutler's life has been anything but easy. Looking at him now, no one would guess that the successful MMA fighter and business owner was once a homeless drug addict who witnessed his father brutally murder his mother when he was just a child. But TJ knows how harsh reality can be for some, and he dedicates his life to helping those who are struggling like he once did.

報われない努力なんてない!★プレミアムカバー限定の「特別原稿 プレミアムカバーに寄せて」付き

Best friends Miranda Montana, Germaine St. Germaine-Chang, and Sicily Bell were the darlings of Hollywood who rose from teen success to in-demand idols of screaming fans and paparazzi. They rode the momentum like there was no tomorrow. But nothing lasts forever. Now Miranda, the wild-child movie star, drifts from rehab to dead-end relationships as she tries for a comeback from a very public fall from grace. Germaine, the daughter of billionaire hotel moguls, has lost her purpose.

For as long as she can remember, Peppa Ryan has been guided by a benevolent voice in her head who she believes is Virginia Woolf. Though she’s an exceptionally bright twenty-year-old, she suffers from crippling low self-esteem and has barely left her parents’ ramshackle home in Queens, New York. Set at the turn of the millennium, Peppa defies her parent’s wishes and ventures out on her own to start a job at a Wall Street investment firm.

Über die erste Liebe, unverbrüchliche Freundschaften, den Preis von Freiheit und den unendlichen Mut einer jungen Generation. Lai wächst in einem trubeligen Arbeiterviertel in Peking auf. Ihr Vater redet nicht, die Mutter interessiert sich nur für das Geschehen auf dem Hausflur, einzig die Großmutter ist wirklich präsent, kompromisslos in ihrer Liebe zu ihren Enkeln. Als Kind lernt Lai bei einem Nachbarschaftsstreich die Härte des Regimes kennen. Bald darauf auch die erste Liebe. Durch Gen bekommt sie Zugang zu Büchern und Bildung.