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Most people in town think 16-year-old Clinton Williams’ family is strange. Wishing he could contact his wayward brother, Clinton yearns for a day when he, too, can escape the neighborhood and travel the country. After following a clue to Berry-berry’s whereabouts, Clinton ventures to Coastal Florida hoping to find him, but instead gets a firsthand view of his brother’s callous destructiveness that will leave permanent marks on the young man.

From James Leo Herlihy (author of Midnight Cowboy) comes a series of grim yet insightful short stories in his first collection, The Sleep of Baby Filbertson. Both an examination of the darker themes of alienation and isolation and an elevation of the oddities and quirks that make up human nature, Herlihy’s seven tales tackle the anxieties of fragile people and get to the heart of a world inhabited by perennial outsiders.

In einer milden Sommernacht kommt Lauren mit ihrer Familie und ihren Freunden am Seeufer zusammen, um das Leben mit all seinen Höhen und Tiefen zu feiern. Um all die besonderen Momente im flackernden Licht des Lagerfeuers noch einmal zu erwecken. Um die Liebe zu spüren und gemeinsam stark zu sein, wenn der neue Morgen anbricht und der Abschied naht... In dieser gefühlvollen Geschichte lädt Emily Bold ihre Leser ein, eine lichtblaue Sommernacht mit Lauren, ihrem Mann Tim, ihrer Familie und Freunden zu erleben.

La guerra ha lasciato la piccola città sulla collina, il frastuono è passato e anche se le notizie dal fronte ormai lontano ne portano ancora l'eco, l'insopprimibile soffio della vita riemerge dalla terra, torna a percorrere con le sue antiche superstizioni e leggende i borghi, le chiese, le grandi stanze in penombra delle vecchie ville. Nascono nuovi amori, tornano rancori mai dimenticati.

Everything in Libby's life was falling into place...or she thought it was. After a night of sin in New Orleans, she thought she might just be sick from exhaustion, but a trip to the doctor proved otherwise. Now, instead of moving forward, her and commit-a-phobic boyfriend Blaine Crabtree have to go in a completely new direction. Every road block has gotten in their way. Everything has tried to tear them apart. Now they have to figure out if they are strong enough to move forward or if this is the end of their paper trail.

After a summer spent with her aunt Dee in tiny Elsbury, Louisiana, former Chicago princess Libby Gentry traded in her old life for a new one with the Southern Casanova Blaine Crabtree. But just when she thinks things are changing for the better, old girlfriends of Blaine's start coming back into the picture, and not a single one of them are friendly or bad on the eyes. Combine the worry of passing her first semester at St. Joseph Community College and sponsoring her tomboy cousin in cotillion and Libby can barely keep up.

Nevada. Sembra il nome di un deserto, e invece è il luogo in cui vive la famiglia De Boer, in alta val Brenta. Una terra circondata da boschi aspri, dove le case si inerpicano su pendii vertiginosi. Sono gli ultimi anni dell'Ottocento e i De Boer, che lavorano nei campi di tabacco, il pregiatissimo Nostrano del Brenta, vivono consapevoli che solo nella muta e rispettosa alleanza tra uomini e natura selvaggia esiste una possibilità di sopravvivenza.

Mimì, dodici anni, occhiali, parlantina da sapientone e la fissa per i fumetti, gli astronauti e Karate Kid, abita in uno stabile del Vomero, dove suo padre lavora come portiere. Passa le giornate sul marciapiede insieme al suo migliore amico Sasà o nel bilocale che condivide con i genitori, la sorella adolescente e i nonni. Nel 1985, l'anno in cui tutto cambia, Mimì si sta esercitando nella trasmissione del pensiero, architetta piani per riuscire a comprarsi un costume da Spiderman e cerca il modo di attaccare bottone con Viola. Ma, soprattutto, conosce Giancarlo, il suo supereroe.

Le jeune prince Marcus est encore un enfant lorsqu'il assiste impuissant au massacre de toute sa famille. Seul rescapé de cette boucherie fomentée par Ojsternig, ennemi héréditaire de la famille de Marcus qui va s'asseoir sur le trône, Marcus ne doit son salut qu'à la jeune Héloïse, fille d'Agnès, la lavandière du village qui l'accueillera sous son toit pour l'élever comme s'il était son fils. Luca Di Fulvio retrace l'ascension paradoxale d'un petit prince, un demi-dieu qui va devoir apprendre dans la douleur comment devenir un homme.

Il était une fois une famille heureuse et unie. Des jumelles de six ans qui se ressemblaient comme deux gouttes d'eau. Des enfants fusionnelles qui grandissaient ensemble et s'adoraient. Avant de se jalouser et s'empoisonner. Il était une fois deux fillettes inséparables. Pour le meilleur, ou pour le pire ? Il était une fois une histoire qui n'a rien d'un conte de fées. "Avec elle", de Solène Bakowski, et "Sans elle", d'Amélie Antoine, deux romans pour un projet commun. Un point de départ identique pour deux histoires distinctes qui peuvent se lire indépendamment l'une de l'autre.

Il était une fois une famille heureuse et unie. Des jumelles de six ans qui se ressemblaient comme deux gouttes d'eau. Des enfants fusionnelles qui grandissaient ensemble et s'adoraient. Jusqu'à un soir de feu d'artifice où l'une d'elles se volatilise brutalement. Il était une fois deux fillettes inséparables. Jusqu'à ce qu'il n'en reste plus qu'une. Il était une fois une histoire qui n'a rien d'un conte de fées. "Avec elle", de Solène Bakowski, et "Sans elle", d'Amélie Antoine, deux romans pour un projet commun.

Lulu is a fascinating heroine based on the equally fascinating life of her creator. Come take the journey with Lulu as she grows from a precocious child in Charleston, SC, into a coed at a college in the North. A journey that comes with all of the heartbreak of first love, motherly rivalry, brotherly caring, and parental betrayal. With a literary voice in the grand tradition of the great Southern writers, one of America's best-selling nonfiction authors, Nancy Friday, has in Lulu created a fascinating first work of fiction.

Newly transplanted to the big city of Chicago, she is one of the rare few to leave her small working-class town in Iowa, let alone for a prestigious university. She is not driven by academic ambition, nor is she a social butterfly. Her true gift is an ability to understand the needs of others and to reflect back the version of themselves they wish to see, rendering herself invisible. Deftly, she conceals her deeply troubled past - especially from her charismatic yuppie-in-the-making best friend and roommate.

Hannah hat ihre Worte verloren. In der Nacht, als ihre Zwillingsschwester Izzy ums Leben kam. Wer soll nun ihre Gedanken weiterdenken, ihre Sätze beenden und ihr Lachen vervollständigen? Niemand kann das. Egal, was Hannahs Eltern versuchen, sie schweigt. Um Izzy nicht loslassen zu müssen, schreibt sie ihr Briefe. Schreibt und verbrennt sie. Immer wieder. Hannah kann der Stille ihrer Worte nicht entkommen. Bis sie Levi trifft, der mit aller Macht versucht herauszufinden, wer sie wirklich ist.

When Sophia first meets Hollywood actor and Ivy College teacher, Marc Blackwell, she never dreams they'll share a forbidden, obsessive relationship. Now, dawn is breaking and they've decided to tell the world of their affair. But as paparazzi hound Sophia's every move, Marc steps up his control - dominating Sophia in every way possible, and drawing her into his dark world of intensity and passion.

Il y a des vies qui sont si étonnantes qu'on n'aurait pu les inventer. C'est le cas de celle de Julian Gruda, alias Jules Kryda, alias Roger Binet. Comment, à quatorze ans, un garçon peut-il déjà avoir emprunté autant d'identités? Avoir vécu avec autant de familles différentes sans se faire démasquer? Avoir servi d'agent secret de la Résistance? Comment peut-il avoir grandi à l'orphelinat même s'il a deux mères, au moins?

The year is 1964. The Hillsingers and the Quicks have shared the small Maine island of Seven for generations. But though technically family - Jim Hillsinger and Billy Quick married Park Avenue sisters Lila and Hannah Blackwell - they do not mix. Now, on the anniversary of Hannah's death, Lila feels grief pulling her toward Billy. And Jim, a spy recently ousted from the CIA on suspicion of treason, decides to carry out the threat his wife has explicitly forbidden: to banish their youngest son, the 12-year-old Catta, to the neighboring island of Baffin for 24 hours.

Die Welt des 18-jährigen Milan gerät aus den Fugen, als seine Sandkastenfreundin Jo bei einem Kletterunfall ums Leben kommt. Doch dann fliegt ihm plötzlich ein weißer Wellensittich zu, der ihn ganz bewusst zum Zirkus Salto lockt. Dort lernt Milan die schöne, aber womöglich verrückte Trapezkünstlerin Julie kennen. Angezogen von ihrer sonderbaren Theorie über magische Menschen und Seelentiere reist Milan mit dem Zirkus.

A city of living bone towers crumbles to the ground and danger abounds. Kirit Densira has lost everything she loved the most - her mother, her home, and the skies above. Nat Brokenwings - once Kirit's brother long before the rebellion tore them apart - is still trying to save his family in the face of catastrophe. They will need to band together once more to ensure not just their own survival but that of their entire community.

Nicolaas Storm fährt mit seinem Vater Willem durch ein vollkommen verändertes Südafrika. Nach einem Fieber, das weltweit fünfundneunzig Prozent der Menschen getötet hat, versuchen die beiden, einen sicheren Platz zum Leben zu finden. Das Land ist in einem Zustand der Gesetzlosigkeit. Gangs ziehen schwerbewaffnet umher, wilde Tiere bedrohen die Menschen. Schließlich aber finden Vater und Sohn einen Platz für eine Siedlung.