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Emily Bell has it all - or so she thinks. She's in love with a boy named Sam, and this summer is destined to be the best they've ever known. No one suspects that Sam's violent father, who blames the Bell family for his incarceration, is planning a jailbreak. Meanwhile Sam and Emily's idyllic romance is under fire from a charismatic new girl in town, and Emily begins to question the loyalty of the person she thought she could trust most.

Tweede deel in de onvergetelijke Death Cast-reeks van Adam Silvera. In deze prequel van Op het einde gaan ze allebei dood beleven twee nieuwe vreemdelingen hun laatste dag samen. Orion Pagan wacht al jaren op iemand die hem gaat vertellen dat hij dood zal gaan aan zijn hartprobleem. Maar nu hij zich bij DeathCast heeft aangemeld, voelt hij dat hij eindelijk kan beginnen met leven. Valentino Prince heeft een prachtige toekomst voor zich, en dat wil hij graag vieren bij het lanceringsfeest van Death-Cast. Als Orion en Valentino elkaar ontmoeten, springt de vonk meteen over.

Kyle Baker thought his family was happy. Happy enough, anyway. That’s why, when Kyle learns that his mother has been having an affair and his father has been living with the secret, his reality is altered. He quits baseball, ghosts his girlfriend, and generally checks out of life as he’s known it. With his older sisters out of the house and friends who don’t get it, the only person he can talk to is his cousin Emily - who is always there on the other end of his texts but still has her own life, hours away.

De wereldwijde TikTok-sensatie van Adam Silvera. Op 5 september, iets na middernacht, krijgt Mateo een telefoontje. Het is Death-Cast, de organisatie die mensen inlicht dat ze binnen 24 uur zullen sterven. Ook Rufus wordt gebeld. De twee kennen elkaar niet, maar ze besluiten de laatste dag van hun leven samen door te brengen in New York. Ze willen nog één groot avontuur beleven, om een leven lang in één dag te leven.

Arden isn’t excited about moving. Los Angeles was an easy place to fit in and find a supportive queer community. But Winifred, Michigan? That sounds like a much more difficult place to exist. Pasadena, California, is the perfect city for Gabe’s reinvention. Everyone knew everything about him in small-town S elby, Illinois. Gabe, who wants to be out and proud, can’t wait to relocate. When Arden and Gabe randomly meet in the lobby of a motel in Nebraska, it feels like fate.

From first crushes to first heartbreaks, complicated family dynamics to community relationships, this powerful collection of stories explores race, class, culture, language, and the very idea of home as both a place and a feeling.

Darkness has a way of bringing things to life. Things forgotten. Things from our past. This becomes all too apparent for Miracle Jenkins. All she wants is a normal life filled with friends, family, and the occasional red Slurpee. But a life-changing event involving the police turns her world upside-down. Miracle’s only retreat is music, which takes her soul on adventures in the past. But even music cannot hide her from the racism of her small California city. Nor can it shield her from the evils of this world. Still, she turns to the darkness.

Ever since cancer invaded his adoptive mother’s life, Brett feels like he’s losing everything, most of all control. To cope, Brett fuels all of his anxieties into epic fantasies, including his intergalactic Kid Condor comic book series, which features food constellations and characters not unlike those in his own life. But lately Brett’s grip on reality has started to lose its hold. The fictions he’s been telling himself—about his unattractive body, the feeling that he’s a burden to his best friend, that he’s too messed up to be loved—have consumed him completely.

No passado, Ana Lúcia tomou uma decisão muito difícil para viver um grande amor: deixar sua filha com o pai e perder completamente o contato com a menina. Muitos anos se passaram, e o arrependimento começou a brigar com a certeza de ter tomado uma decisão boa para si. Ao olhar para a tela do computador e ver na internet o perfil da filha, agora já com 15 anos, decide entrar em contato e, a partir daí, muita coisa precisará ser explicada. Um livro inteiramente composto por trocas de mensagens que explora diferentes pontos de vistas sobre o poder do perdão e as relações humanas que nos definem.

A week ago, Jewel Jacob’s biggest worry was making it into the high-stakes Teen Arts Fest. Now, all the winning paintings lie in tatters while she lies in a hospital bed, her arms throbbing and absolutely no recollection of trying to kill herself. When a caring therapist helps her unearth buried memories, she must maneuver between her old life as a smart, talented, "normal" freshman and her new reality of whispers, stares, and a misfit support group with other kids who attempted to end their lives.

In life, high school classmates Caroline Davison and Kenny Zhou existed in separate universes-Caroline in one of softball practices and family dinners; Kenny in one of NASA photo books and late-night shifts at his parents' Chinese restaurant. But after their deaths, they find themselves thrown together as roommates in a mysterious white room-one that seems to exist outside of time and space, shows them their loved ones' lives on a large hi-def TV, and grants their wishes with a sardonic sense of humor.

Gegensätze ziehen sich an! Fake-Date oder große Liebe – wer weiß das schon so genau? Jamie Westenberg und Bea Wilmot haben rein gar nichts gemeinsam außer den traumatischen Erinnerungen an ihre erste Begegnung. Doch als die Menschen, die ihnen am nächsten stehen, versuchen Amor zu spielen und sie zu einem Date überreden, wird den beiden klar, dass sie noch eine Gemeinsamkeit haben: ein unbestreitbares Bedürfnis nach Rache. Bald steht ihr Plan fest: Sie wollen ein falsches Date vortäuschen und ihre Freunde davon überzeugen, dass sie total verliebt sind.

Die 17-jährige Imogen sieht sich schon immer als größte Ally: Sie unterstützt ihre queeren Freunde, wo sie nur kann. Als sie ihre beste Freundin Lili - frisch geoutet und ziemlich glücklich in ihrem Leben - an der Uni besucht, weiß jedoch niemand in Lilis neuer Clique, dass Imogen selbst nicht queer ist. Denn Lili hat rumerzählt, dass sie und Imogen in der Vergangenheit ein Paar waren. Plötzlich beschäftigt sich Imogen mit Fragen, die sie bisher immer verdrängt hat. Noch dazu verbringt sie mehr und mehr Zeit mit der charmant-chaotischen Tessa, die ihr ganz schönes Bauchkribbeln beschert.

Meet Me at Blue Hour has descriptive copy which is nSeventeen-year-old Yena Bae is spending the summer in Busan, South Korea, working at her mom’s memory-erasing clinic. She feels lost and disconnected from people, something she’s felt ever since her best friend, Lucas, moved away four years ago without a word, leaving her in limbo.ot yet available from the Publisher.