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Brando è nato per la danza. Corpo perfetto, movimenti che incantano. Sua madre ha cucito su di lui un sogno preciso, che forse gli va troppo stretto. Ma quando il mondo tace, Brando disegna. Disegna per sentirsi libero, per correre incontro alla sua vera essenza. Ettore è l'opposto. La danza non lo ha scelto, lui l'ha strappata al suo corpo con ostinazione e fatica. Ogni passo è una sfida, ogni errore un colpo incassato. Suo padre non capisce, ma Ettore continua a danzare. Perché lottare è tutto ciò che conosce. Ettore però ha anche un talento naturale.

Nesta's life is thrown into upheaval when she gets involved in charity work thinking that it might be a cool way to meet people (mainly boys.) But as her eyes are opened to the plight of the world, she begins to genuinely want to get involved and help others. On top of this, Nesta meets William, a boy who questions her motives. At times, she's convinced he hates her and the feeling is mutual. But Izzie, Lucy and TJ think it is something more like love.

For 17-year-old Mia Ahlstrom, a world ruled by order is the only world she allows. A lifetime of chore charts, to-do lists, and study schedules have helped earn her a spot at Redwood State University's engineering program. And while her five-year plan includes finding her very own happily-evah-aftah, years at an all-girls boarding school left her feeling woefully unprepared for keg parties and co-ed extracurricular activities.

Life in paradise isn't exactly what Kris thought it would be. Treated like a prisoner and forced to keep her romance with Nathan hidden, she struggles to adapt to island life with the Kala. Worse, her specialties are coming in faster than she can control, and she fears the Skotadi within her will soon win the battle for her soul. Her only hope is to embrace her Incantation lineage, master the skills she's supposed to have, and free herself of her destiny...if only she could figure out how to do it.

Straight out of the psych ward, Cora just wants her life to be normal. She doesn't want to see souls or the reapers collecting them. The guy she's loved from a distance for years moves away without saying good-bye. So yes, she's nursing a serious heartbreak. It's no wonder love is the last thing on her mind when Echo storms into her life. The chemistry between them is mind blowing. The connection defies logic. Even better, the souls leave her alone when he is around.

Like most teenagers, Rouge is trying to figure out who she is and what she wants to be. With little knowledge about her past, she has questions but has never tried to find the answers. Everything changes when she befriends a strangely intoxicating family. Siblings Grace and Michael, appear to have secrets which seem connected to Rouge. Her hunch is confirmed when a horrible incident occurs at an outdoor party. Rouge may be the only one who can find the answer.

Narben, die Geschichten erzählen, und eine Liebe, die Leben rettet! Scharif erzählt die Geschichte von Sami, die Geschichte ihres Lebens in Syrien und die Geschichte von Samis Narben, die alle ihre eigene Geschichte haben. Scharif flicht sie ineinander, Geschichte um Geschichte: von Freunden und Feinden, von Samis großer Liebe Josephine und dem weisen Postboten Elias, dem Beschützer der Freunde.

Six months into her stay with her foster parents, Katie Parker is finally adjusting to her new family. But when a tornado rips through the town of In Between, nothing is ever the same. When her foster mom, Millie, is diagnosed with cancer, Katie begins to doubt if God really does care. What will happen to Katie? Could she possibly have to leave In Between and the family she's come to depend on?

The end of the world is not coming; it's here. An impossible decision...A massive war...A Guardian silenced forever...

Julie ist fast 14 und seit Kurzem wohnt der Däne Jesper bei ihr zu Hause. Jesper sieht aus wie ein Gott und flirtet wie ein Profi. Davon ist Julies Freund Ben alles andere als begeistert, vor allem weil er bald zu einem Schüleraustausch nach Amerika fliegt. Als Julie in Bens Reisegepäck dann eine unfassbare Entdeckung macht, beginnt sie an ihrer Beziehung zu zweifeln... und das Chaos ist wieder einmal perfekt.

Julies Leben besteht aus Höhepunkten. Und Tiefpunkten. Mehr Tiefpunkten, wenn sie ehrlich sein soll. Die beinhalten ein uraltes Ponynachthemd (zur unpassenden Zeit getragen), einen süßen Jungen (der ungerne in Kellern eingesperrt ist) und eine Person, die dringend Hilfe braucht, sich aber nicht helfen lassen will!! Als einzige Ratgeberin muss Sharon von der Sexhotline aus dem Nachtprogramm herhalten. Und Julies Tagebuch. Noch Fragen? Dann Julie hören!

Matt Groening is a cartoonist, animator, and producer best known for creating The Simpsons, television's longest-running primetime animated series. Although it debuted as a series of cartoon shorts for another television show in 1987, The Simpsons launched on its own in 1989, making the dysfunctional family of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie famous almost overnight.

The last thing Kaylee wants to do is participate in a childish scavenger hunt - especially inside the abandoned retirement home on the edge of town. When she finds a bruised, deaf boy hiding inside one of the rooms, she vows to lead him to safety - only to discover the front doors are now padlocked, and her friends are nowhere to be found. Kaylee is about to learn that not everything that goes "bump in the night" is imaginary, and sometimes there are worse things to fear than ghosts.

Hayao Miyazaki is one of the world's most respected Japanese animation filmmakers. He is known for creating compelling characters, engaging stories, and breathtaking animation, all of which have earned him international acclaim while setting box-office records. Miyazaki, who began his career in 1963 as an in-betweener for Toei Doga studio, soon found his true calling as an anime and manga artist, working on classic Japanese features and television series and writing the best-selling manga, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

Nora Colburn was perfectly content in life. A junior in high school, she had good friends, a great family, and did well in school. Nothing particularly exciting ever happened where she lived, and everything was stable. But that all drastically changes when a new student arrives at Nora's school. Wild rumors swirl about his past, and Nora becomes determined to find out the truth. As she gets to know the mysterious student, he shares with her an ancient secret - one that may yet put both of them in grave danger.

You may think you know everything about multiplatform entertainer Matthew Espinosa - but he's here to tell you so much more in his debut book. You know Matthew is burning up the Internet with more than 18 million fans across YouTube, Vine, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. You know about his starring role in the hit movie Be Somebody. And you know he makes you laugh every time. More Than Me tells you what you don't know, with Q&As and more that offer an inside look at Matthew's life and a new side of him that's hilarious and heartfelt.

Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is remembered for her autobiographical series of paintings, Life? or Theater?, which consists of 769 individual works painted between 1940 and 1942 while she was in hiding from the Nazis in the south of France, and which has been called a painted parallel to Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl and an early graphic novel. In 1943, she entrusted her collection of paintings to a friend.

Primera biografía de Blackpink, la banda femenina de K-pop más exitosa del mundo. Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé y Lisa son las cuatro componentes de Blackpink, el grupo femenino de K-pop que arrasa en el mundo entero. Belleza, juventud, canciones pegadizas... Blackpink lo tiene todo y por ello se ha convertido en el grupo de referencia del K-pop femenino. Millones de adolescentes en todo el mundo cantan en coreano los éxitos de esta banda.

Seguramente guardás recuerdos imborrables de tu infancia, viendo tus series animadas favoritas o de las películas y series que marcaron tu adolescencia. Tal vez, te preguntaste miles de veces, cómo se crearon, qué hacían los actores detrás de escena, cómo los eligieron... Bueno, ¡llegó el momento de descubrirlo! Lucas Baini te cuenta todos los secretos y las curiosidades más insólitas del backstage.

Lord Kitchener, Neneh Cherry, Smiley Culture, Stormzy.... Groundbreaking musicians whose songs have changed the world. But how? This exhilarating playlist tracks some of the key shifts in modern British history, and explores the emotional impact of 28 songs and the artists who performed them. This audiobook redefines British history, the Empire and post-colonialism and will invite you to think again about the narratives and key moments in history that you have been taught up to now.