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The first part of Willa Cather’s Great Plains trilogy, O Pioneers! follows the tragedies and triumphs of Alexandra Bergson, a strong and independent young woman who inherits the family farm following the death of her father.

Old friends Renée and Flo couldn’t be more different. Flo wants to be invisible, Renée wants to be a somebody. But old friendships are magnetic. In their early twenties, and on the cusp of the rest of their lives, Renée and Flo both fly home to Guernsey: to the island where it all began. Back in the place of their youth, yet spreading their wings into adulthood, will they flail and fall? Or will growing up be the making of them?

Molly Webster has always followed the rules. After an ugly scandal tore apart her childhood and made her the focus of the media's harsh spotlight, she vowed to live an ordinary life. No fame. No impropriety. No pain. Then she meets Zachary Fox, a tattooed bad-boy rocker with a voice like whiskey and sin and a touch that could become an addiction.

Sussex, Inglaterra. Um homem de meia-idade volta à casa onde passou a infância para um funeral. A construção não é mais a mesma, e ele é atraído para a fazenda no fim da estrada, onde, aos sete anos, conheceu uma garota extraordinária, Lettie Hempstock, que morava com a mãe e a avó. Ele não pensava em Lettie há décadas, mas mesmo assim, ao se sentar à beira do lago (o mesmo a que ela se referia como um oceano) nos fundos da velha casa de fazenda, o passado esquecido volta de repente.

Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group--a secretive extremist cult - founded by a charismatic former student, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe's Korean American family.

After 10 years in London, working in a stressful City firm, Liv O’Neill returns home to Sandycove, a picturesque seaside village, just outside Dublin to care for her mother after a fall. Whilst Liv reconnects with friends and family, she is amazed by Sandycove’s thriving community spirit with its artisan shops, delis and cafes - it’s not quite the place she left behind. As village life begins to creep under her skin, Liv is forced to confront the things that drove her away. Can Liv balance her past, present and future and find her own happy place?

An old man lies alone and sleepless in London. Before dawn he is taken by an image from his childhood in the West of Ireland, and begins to remember a migrant’s life. Haunted by the faces and the land he left behind, he calls forth the bars and boxing booths of England, the potato fields and building sites, the music he played, and the woman he loved.

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.

"Em qualquer cidadezinha, enterro é evento pra ir todo mundo, cachorro, pessoas e também crianças, sem distinção nenhuma, conhecidos ou não." Nessa cidadezinha em particular, o morto é seu Jeremias, e as crianças são Dora e Esmê, duas primas inseparáveis, cuja alegria não é abalada nem pelo defunto ali diante delas. Pelo contrário, as duas se ocupam de um santinho pendendo do bolso de Jeremias, num jogo de cumplicidade e graça. O pequeno episódio, que de alguma forma irá marcar a vida de ambas, é um retrato bem-acabado dessa relação incomum.

City girl Luce May's first year out of high school has been the worst. When she escapes her turbulent life in Sydney to start over at a university in the middle of nowhere, the last thing she wants is anyone in her new life to know of her past. Especially that to escape her chaotic, alcoholic mother, Luce also had to abandon her teenage sister. As Luce slowly starts to find another version of herself in this place, she also finds a new family in her eclectic group of friends.

A vida sempre guarda inúmeras surpresas. E, sem avisar, ela muda de direção. Três jovens, de cidades distantes, com diferentes realidades, descobrindo o mundo a partir de suas próprias escolhas: complexo, difícil, libertador. Três histórias que se cruzam, no exato momento em que se...

A lost little girl with her notebook and toy monkey appears on the CCTV screens of the Green Oaks shopping centre, evoking memories of junior detective Kate Meaney, missing for 20 years.

Despertar é uma historia de poder, amor, aventura e descobertas. Paola, uma jovem de uma pequena cidade do interior, sofre de uma maldição que altera sua aparência, transformando os seus olhos nos de um tigre.Esta maldição aumenta ainda mais sua insegurança aflorada pela adolescência, tornando-a uma jovem reclusa e solitária.Durante uma crise ela conhece Arthur, um jovem que a ajudará a encontrar uma maneira de acabar com esta maldição, e nesta jornada acabam se apaixonando.

What started out as a small spark between the unlikely pair grew into a deep and intense love. After a year-long engagement, the two have finally been able to set a wedding date. It's off to Mexico for a destination ceremony on a private beach. After a heated week-long honeymoon in a tropical paradise, the two return to the real world of touring and making music together. As the newlyweds settle into married life, another twist of fate challenges their love. For once, Abby isn't able to be the rock of strength that Jake needs.

When he was in his first year of secondary school, something extraordinary happened. He stumbled, completely by accident, into a Great New World, a world of fantastic sex, opportunity, and Fetus Factories. That's what this book's about. And it's written by the man himself, Axol O'Lerpler.

At the end of a sweltering summer shaped by the tragic assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr., and Bobby Kennedy, race riots, political protests, and the birth of black power, three coeds from New York City - Zelda Livingston, Veronica Cook, and Daphne Brooks - pack into Veronica’s new Ford Fairlane convertible, bound for Atlanta and their last year at Spelman College. It is the beginning of a journey that will change their lives irrevocably.

Cosimo, Italo e Vanda sono bambini di appena dieci anni con i sogni, la voglia di scoprire il mondo e la spensieratezza dell’infanzia intrappolate dalla Seconda guerra mondiale. Mentre l’intera nazione vacilla, i tre, di fronte alla scomparsa di un amico, non hanno dubbi: devono partire per una missione di soccorso. La loro fuga darà il via a una seconda, disperata missione di soccorso, quella di una suora e di un militare in convalescenza che subito si mettono sulle loro tracce. Nel 2023 da questo libro è stato tratto un film omonimo diretto da Claudio Bisio.

In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the buildup to and fallout from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. The murderer Angel, her mother Carol, and the victim Birdy, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable. Watching over it all is the retrospective testimony of Angel’s younger sister, Marie.

Two girls, Maeve and Aelish, are at a pivotal point in their lives, leaving their childhood behind and embarking on their future, as they look forward to university. They find a discarded lottery ticket that turns out to be worth five million euro. The signed name on the ticket is easy to read, but finding the woman with the very common name of Sheila Murphy proves to be more difficult than they expect. In their quest to find the owner of the ticket, they encounter a number of Sheila Murphys, learning valuable lessons from each of the women along the way.

As Rolling Stone magazine prepares an issue on successful rock star marriages, they sit down with Brayden and Lily Vanderburg. After all, the two have been a couple since they were 16 years old. But there is more to the story than meets the eye, and their love took a slight detour before finding happily ever after. Told in flashbacks from the present to the past, Brayden and Lily share the story of their unbreakable love.