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Chance Abbot is cocky. Sexy. Gorgeous. A player in every sense of the word. He broke my heart once, and I swore he'd never get a second chance. But when he smiles at me, flashing those irresistible dimples or looks at me like I'm the best thing he's ever seen, I forget I shouldn't fall for his charms again.

Sex. That's all Noah Foster wants when Alexa Jackson shows up at his apartment. After returning from a semester in Paris, Alexa is back in her hometown of Boston and looking for anything but the drama that surrounds Noah. He's intense, gifted, famous, and a bastard through and through. Alexa doesn't take life too seriously. Noah doesn't do calm and easygoing. Their unexpected meeting sets them both on a course toward an unlikely connection.

La búsqueda es la historia de Waldek Grodek, un niño polaco de diez años cuya apacible vida se ve interrumpida por la invasión alemana a Polonia. A partir de ese momento, sus juegos infantiles y sus excusiones como Boy Scout se transformaron en estrategias para sobrevivir.

Charlotte and Nathan were supposed to be forever. They grew up together. Their families were intertwined. Charlotte was Nathan's first love. Nathan was Charlotte's first everything. Until they weren't. How do you hold on to the person you know in your heart you are supposed to be with when everything and everyone in the universe is telling you it's over? How many times does a heart break? When is enough enough? How long is forever?

Los Angeles, California: Clem Jasper is a trust fund kid with a world famous rock musician for a father. When he dies suddenly (playing ping pong) she discovers he's left her a strange legacy: a series of letters that take her on a mysterious road trip around California. Ignoring her aunt's suggestion that she pitch the trip as a reality show, she embarks on her own to discover just what it was that her father meant her to find. What secret could be so powerful that he had to die before telling her?

Late summer near Dublin, 1920, and up at the great house there are still cucumber sandwiches for tea. Slipping away from Aunt Mary and dotty Grandfather, 18-year-old Nancy has escaped down to the shore to dream in the beach hut - longing for her life to begin.

As a favor to the beautiful actress Mary Deschenes, Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer hires her 18-year-old son Allen Winslow as an aide for his 1876 campaign against the Sioux and Cheyenne. Traveling west against his will, Allen finds himself in the company of Addie Grace Lord, sixteen, sister of one of Custer’s regimental surgeons. The two fall in love, and it is with foreboding that Addie Grace watches Allen and her brother George ride out with Custer’s Seventh Cavalry....

Timi, a boy in Uzbekistan, navigates a strange world of camel breeding, half-understood Islamic doctrine, Mexican soap operas dubbed into Uzbek, and the legacy of widespread pollution from the Soviet era, all while dreaming of doing death-defying stunts on his rickety motorcycle. Lonely and accident-prone, Timi befriends an American humanitarian worker in a struggling marriage, tries to avoid his father's frequent rages, and plans out the astonishing motorcycle jump that will give meaning to his life.

In her eagerly anticipated second novel, Isabel Ashdown explored the treacherous territory of adolescent friendships and traces the repercussions of a dangerous relationship across the decades. It's been more than 20 years since Sarah Ribbons last set foot inside her old high school, a crumbling, Victorian-built comprehensive on the south coast of England. Now, as she prepares for her school reunion, 39-year-old Sarah has to face up to the truth of what really happened back in the summer of 1986....

Depuis que Greta montre des signes de sénilité, Tom découvre chez sa mère une douceur inhabituelle : elle lui raconte son enfance en Prusse orientale, sa fuite vers l’ouest à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et son premier grand amour avec un soldat afro-américain. Mais quand elle lui pose des questions sur une sœur dont il n’a jamais entendu parler, Tom se rend compte qu’il ne connaît qu’une infime partie de la vie de celle qui l'a élevé. Avec une tension narrative haletante et une plume tout en émotion, Susanne Abel lève le voile sur le sort des bébés biraciaux nés de l’occupation américaine en Allemagne.

Che fine ha fatto Kala? A Kinlough, una cittadina irlandese che si affaccia sul mare, è l’estate del 2003. Un gruppo di amici quindicenni sta vivendo il momento più bello della vita: i primi amori, le prime sbronze, l’amicizia viscerale come può esserlo solo a quell’età. È un’estate vissuta come se dovesse durare in eterno. È l’estate che cambierà per sempre le loro vite. Kala Lanann, carismatica leader del gruppo, trasgressiva e spericolata, al culmine di quella stagione scomparirà senza lasciare traccia. Quindici anni dopo, tre dei vecchi amici si ritrovano nella cittadina.

Marta Romagosa narra la història d'un grup de dones, amigues totes, que a l'estiu es troben al mateix lloc. Tres nits fora de casa ambienta l'amistat d'aquestes amigues en èpoques diverses de la seva vida. L'autora ens parla del que és ser una dona d'uns cinquanta anys ara, del mirall deformant de l'expectativa i la il·lusió de la joventut vers la realitat de la maduresa. Ens ofereixen una mirada al passat des de l'experiència dels anys.

Elle croit que notre histoire est terminée. Alors que cela ne fait que commencer. Lennon Washington est la star de tous mes rêves et de tous mes cauchemars depuis que je l'ai perdue. Depuis que j'ai laissé mes démons intérieurs prendre le dessus et qu'elle m'a glissé entre les doigts. Son souvenir m'a hanté. M'a changé. M'a détruit et m'a reconstruit. J'avais presque renoncé à nous. Un drame l'a aujourd'hui ramenée dans ma vie. Mes secrets sont à sa disposition. Et les siens sont en train d'éclater au grand jour les uns après les autres.

You can always count on a crowd outside Heads by Harry, the Yagyuu family's taxidermy shop in Hilo, where the regulars gather every day to drink beer, eat smoked meat, and pontificate into the pau hana hours. But above the shop, where the family lives, life isn't so predictable. Toni Yagyuu, the middle child, has enough on her hands dealing with her budding diva of a little sister. But it is the men in her life that really have her running in circles

Una història sobre el primer amor i la pèrdua de la innocència, per un dels escriptors més importants del segle XX.

A ple estiu dels anys trenta, la Ginia, de només setze anys, té unes ànsies desbocades de vida. De molta més vida. Acompanyada de la seva amiga Amelia, elegant i sofisticada, coneixerà un món enlluernador habitat per artistes bohemis.

Nel 1871, quando il sedicenne Arthur Rimbaud, da Charleville, invia i propri versi a Paul Verlaine, che di anni ne ha ventisette ed è già uno stimato poeta, non può immaginare che quella lettera cambierà per sempre il loro destino. Verlaine, entusiasta, invita subito Arthur a Parigi, dove i due si amano, si ubriacano, litigano, scrivono versi. Suscitando ovviamente le furie della moglie di Verlaine che da pochi mesi gli ha dato anche un figlio. Paul e Arthur fuggono a Londra dove sopravvivono tra baruffe e sbronze, passione e poesia.

Secretly, a man welds steel to a bulldozer. Later, another watches a ghost walk along his dry-walled hallways. A woman raises her teenage son in a homeless encampment where the boy has to fight to survive with the help of a strange, lonely cop. In Mililani Mauka, the lives of two families, the Motts and the Krills, come together as they try to keep afloat in a changing Honolulu, a city with growing suburbs and homeless camps.

Giulia, maestra di sostegno nella scuola elementare di Guggiano, si è molto affezionata a Fabio, un ragazzino con gravi problemi di integrazione, che in classe viene spesso preso di mira dal bullo Ascanio Lombardi - detto il Maiale - invidioso della sua timida amicizia con la compagna Valeria. Fabio vive con la sorella Valentina, la giovane madre gravemente malata e il padre Giuseppe, un uomo violento che ama i propri figli ma non riesce a essere un genitore affidabile.

In life Lucien Taylor has made several mistakes, but the two most grievous are as follows: leaving his wife and son to take up with his old flame, Emily; and putting up Emily's bail when she is arrested for murder. The upshot is that Lucien is left stranded in Montana, with a malodorous hot spring and a squandered sense of purpose.

A Barkley Cove, un tranquillo villaggio di pescatori, circolano strane voci sulla Ragazza della Palude. Dall'età di sei anni Kya si aggira completamente sola tra canali e canneti, con qualche straccio addosso e a piedi nudi. Ha al suo attivo un solo giorno di scuola, ma la palude e le sue creature per lei non hanno segreti: la nutrono, la cullano, la proteggono, sono maestre e compagne di giochi. Kya impara a decifrare i segni della natura prima ancora di saper leggere un libro: nella sua assoluta solitudine sembra bastare a se stessa.