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Thomas, a young German musician, is dying. Leo, a renowned Italian writer and Thomas's boyfriend, finds it impossible to mourn his loss and condemns himself to wandering the Earth, in the hope of finding the dividing line between the living and the dead. He travels through a Europe where past and present overlap, roads intersect, years merge and faces emerge - and tries in vain to bring into focus the blurred lines of their relationship.

This book portrays the struggle of fifteen young men and their teacher. It tries to characterize life in Brooklyn New York during the beginning of the decade of the 1990’s. The primary goal, is the implementation of Criminal Justice reform which give first-time teenage boys offenders, an opportunity to avoid jail time. Persons, names, and places are fictional solely created by the author.

After years of IVF, Kirsten White is a devoted mum to Harriet - and she can’t believe the time has come to send her little girl off to school. But Harriet has now turned five, and she can’t stay Kirsten’s baby forever. It might be hard, but it’s time to entrust her daughter’s care to her new teacher...the classroom is the one place she should be safe. Miriam Robertson has been waiting for the perfect little girl to walk into her class. She’s very picky...but when Harriet walks in, Miriam knows: this is the child she’s been waiting for.

Thomas Ransom, born to a severely dysfunctional Southern family transplanted to New York City, is left to his own devices by neglectful parents and spends his childhood shadowing his criminally inclined half brother and roaming the city with hard-drinking teenage pals. He eventually finds an outlet as the flamboyant singer of a downtown rock band, and later as the young editor of the Detroit-based magazine that invented punk, only to return to New York, at the height of the 1970s bacchanal, and crash.

In 'Sidewalk High,' Jasper Lane, a.k.a. 'Lane,' takes us on a gritty journey through the harsh realities of life in 'Shady Acres, Ontario.' This tells his story, as well as those stories of his close circle of friends, (and some enemies, too!)—who struggle to survive and thrive in this gutter of a city, that offers them little to no hope, and definitely no mercy. They face violence, addiction, betrayal, hate, and loss—but they also find love, loyalty, lessons, courage, and purpose.

Das weiß Liv sofort, als sie Nate West kennenlernt. Während sie sich völlig unvorbereitet durch ihr Meeting stottert, ist der attraktive Unternehmer eloquent, lässig und einfach unglaublich anziehend. Obwohl sie sich niemals verlieben wollte, kann sie nichts gegen ihre Gefühle ausrichten. Nate zeigt ihr eine ganz neue Welt voller Spontanität, Abenteuer und Leidenschaft. Als Liv herausfindet, was Nate ihr um jeden Preis verheimlichen wollte, erkennt sie, dass weitaus mehr gegen eine Beziehung mit ihm spricht, als nur ihre Gegensätzlichkeit.