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Esperanza tem um nome mexicano, origens mexicanas, aparência mexicana, mas nasceu nos Estados Unidos e mora num decadente bairro de Chicago. Nesse contraste cultural, ela observa a vida dos vizinhos e das amigas para aprender a construir sua própria identidade. Em fragmentos do cotidiano, a autora de A casa na Rua Mango nos apresenta um panorama do universo de Esperanza e costura uma linha que vai da infância envergonhada da menina à tomada de consciência e início do amadurecimento.

I Victorias år vender Victoria hjem til Martin efter et år i USA. Mens hun fortsætter i gymnasiet, forlader han skolen og tager arbejde på en fabrik. Martin og Victoria opsluges igen af hinanden, men langsomt begynder forskellen i deres sociale baggrund at slå igennem. Martin føler sig presset af de forventninger, Victoria og hendes familie stiller til ham, og søger tilflugt i rockmusikken. Og da forholdet kæntrer, står Martin alene midt i de deprimerende 70'ere.

Prom night is supposed to be unforgettable—but for Tyler and Alex, it’s a night that’s bound to be legendary. Tyler’s a dreamer who wants everything about prom to be perfect—especially if it means convincing his best friend Alex to dress up and join in the fun. But Alex isn’t your typical prom queen. A no-nonsense soccer star who’d rather be anywhere else, she’s more likely to show up in jeans than a gown. That is until she reveals her secret: she’s a witch. When Alex proposes the ultimate twist—swapping bodies for the big night—Tyler’s life takes a sharp turn into magical chaos.

Quinn Draper has always made me nervous. He’s the walking, talking opposite of my comfort zone, and he senses my insecurities so effortlessly that every inch of my body feels vulnerable when he’s around. Which is ridiculous. He might be my older brother’s best friend, but he doesn’t even know me. Never says more than two words to me. It’s almost like he knows it drives me crazy. And I hate him for it. Always have. Always will.

Newcastle, Australia, 1972. On a sticky summer night, a choice must be made: To give in to queer desire or suppress it? To venture into the unknown or stay the course? In alternating chapters, we trace the two versions of a life that follow. In one, a teenage girl is caught kissing her neighbor and is kicked out from her home. She lands at a queer communal home in Sydney called Uranian House, where she meets the people who will forever become her family.

Lia Juma thought she’d buried the dreams of her heart long ago. But when she’s forced to return to her family’s summer cottage on Pike Bay, the life she’s carefully crafted begins to unravel. The perfect immigrant daughter, Lia has carved out a successful career as a corporate lawyer and has just started dating a man who fulfills all her mother's criteria for the ideal son-in-law. But underneath her polished life lies a secret she’s never spoken of—one she fears could have destroyed her family a decade ago.

Have you ever stood next to a fire and felt the heat of it on your skin? Stared into the flames and thought how amazing it would be to be that free? It changes direction with the wind, destroying everything in its wake. That's what she felt like. Alexa was a wildfire that torched everything she touched, and I couldn't wait to be consumed by her.

I'm anything but sweet, despite what people think, so when he tells me I'm too good for him and I'm better off without him, I don't listen. My life was simple before Grave stepped through that door, but who wants simple?

From the very first moment, EMMA had wanted him to want her, but never really thought it was possible. Now he was saying little cryptic things that made her think maybe there was a chance for them. But now Emma felt feelings that she had never expected to feel for a sweet blue-eyed boy that she was going to have to turn her back on.

Versalles, 1994. Aunque crece en un entorno feliz, el pequeño Milan sufre con el obstinado silencio de su madre ruandesa sobre sus orígenes y su familia. Ese desconocimiento sólo se irá diluyendo poco a poco, primero con las imágenes del genocidio y luego con la llegada del joven y malherido Claude, al que acogerán durante unos días. Cuatro años más tarde, cuando Milan visite Ruanda por primera vez junto a su madre, su estancia allí supondrá para él una experiencia tan honda que acabará cambiando su vida para siempre.

Katarina Shaw siempre ha sabido que estaba destinada a llegar a lo más alto. Cuando conoce a Heath Rocha, un chico solitario, su conexión instantánea los convierte en un dúo formidable sobre el hielo... Hasta que un impactante incidente en los Juegos Olímpicos los separa definitivamente.

A boy on the edge of adolescence fears his mother might be a robot; a psychotically depressed woman is entrusted with taking her niece and nephew trick-or-treating; a reluctant dad brings his baby to a debaucherous party; a teenage boy tries to prevent his mother from putting his estranged father’s dogs to sleep. Ranging from a youth arts camp to an aging punk band’s reunion tour, from a dystopian future where parents no longer exist to a ferociously independent bookstore, Last Day on Earth revolves around the endlessly complex, frequently surreal system that is family.

All Ellie Robertson has wanted to be since childhood is a painter: after all, that’s the easiest way to speak without actually having to say anything. But now she’s turning thirty, has had a major career win, and is only just realising that she might have let some minor things slide. Like, for instance, working out how to love another human being. So Ellie decides to do what any normal person would do: paint a portrait of each of her exes, from the childhood crush to the woman she may or may not still be madly in love with.

Else lebt auf den ersten Blick ein normales Familienleben der Sechzigerjahre. Doch sie ist die erste Frau Hessens, die einen Taxischein macht – und das ist nicht ihr einziges Geheimnis! Jasna Fritzi Bauer und Katharina Zorn erzählen in ihrem fulminanten Debütroman auf berührend-unterhaltsame Weise von einer stillen Emanzipation und einem Ausbruch aus einer gesellschaftlich vorgezeichneten Rolle. Else lebt mit ihrem Mann Willy und den zwei Töchtern in Frankfurt, hat sich vom schüchternen Kriegskind zur perfekten Gattin und Mutter entwickelt.

Following her recent marriage to Lucas, Louisa is delighted to discover she is expecting. But after everything she’s lost since the war began, dare she believe that this is a sign of brighter days ahead? Meanwhile, Louisa’s friends Kate and Jeannie struggle to balance factory work alongside their responsibilities at home, with shortages, illness and bad news from the front putting them under ever more pressure. Then unexpected news means that Jeannie can finally get her heart's desire but can she accept her happiness at someone else's expense?

On a university campus in rural Qixian, Lin and Liz make an improbable pair: Lin, a Chinese student closer to her menagerie of pets than to her peers, and Liz, a Chinese American teacher grieving her mother’s sudden death. They’re each met with hostility—Lin by her classmates, who mock her for dating a white foreigner; Liz by her fellow English teachers, who exploit their privilege—and forge an unlikely friendship. After a startling betrayal that results in Lin’s expulsion, they swap places. Lin becomes convinced to pursue her degree at a community college near Liz’s Ohio hometown.

The Griffin Sisters had the world at their feet, catapulted to stardom in the early 00’s before they become one of rock music’s greatest mysteries: Zoe, effortlessly gorgeous, who loved the fans and the fame, dancing under the lights while her sister’s voice rang out across stadiums. Cassie, never comfortable with the crowds or the attention, but with the voice of a generation, rich, haunting, touched with heartbreak.

Slag. Noun. A promiscuous woman, of cheap or questionable character. Mostly derogatory. Sometimes affectionate. Takes one to know one… Sisters Sarah and Juliette are going on a whisky-fuelled campervan road-trip across Scotland to celebrate Juliette’s birthday – and they’re going to dig up some demons from the past.

Curtis Wilson is a cello prodigy, growing up in the Southeast D.C. projects with a drug dealer for a father. But through determination and talent, and the loving support of his father’s girlfriend, Larissa, Curtis claws his way out of his challenging circumstances and rises to unimagined heights in the classical music world—even soloing with the New York Philharmonic. And then, suddenly, his life disintegrates. His father, Zippy, turns state’s evidence, implicating his old bosses. Now the family—Curtis included—must enter the witness protection program if they want to survive.

On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to start over in the American Midwest, unleashing a fleet of disappointments. In the 1980s, against the backdrop of her mother’s isolation in St. Louis, Missouri, Rafaela’s daughter, Ruth, wants only to belong. Eager to fit in, Ruth lets go of her language, habits, and childhood memories of Puerto Rico. I