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1998: Lilith, Sash, and Abraxa are teenagers, scattered across the country but joined by the Internet. They are making Saga of the Sorceress, a video game that will change everything, if only for the three of them. Eighteen years later, Saga of the Sorceress still exists only on the scattered drives of its creators.

Ted ‘Little Boy Blue' Taylor has replaced his estranged father Ron—a disgraced former heavyweight champion on the cusp of an unexpected comeback—as the darling of Australian boxing. But after two uninspiring losses, he is failing to live up to the expectations that have always weighed so heavily upon him. Ted's battles are not isolated to his sport: a painful history of alcoholism, domestic abuse and ties to the underworld of boxing has a firm hold on the Taylor family. Generational trauma and guilt are not Ted's only inheritance.

It’s hot, Texas, and the year 1977. Jimmy Carter is in office. Family patriarch and fanatic preacher, Victor Black, knows many things for sure, including the fact that abortion is murder and should be punishable by death—a position he defends live in a televised debate. Black’s youngest granddaughter, Stephanie Walters, sits in the front row wearing her frilly Sunday dress, listening carefully to every word. But it doesn't take long for cracks to appear in the Walters upstanding family façade.

When Lili Lowe gets photographed in a 'compromising' position with her boss, married MP Teddy Landen, in the back of a car, she suddenly finds herself thrust into the centre of a media frenzy. She turns, as most daughters would, to her mother. Yet Lydia Lowe is a former talent agent, and it's not long before the whole world knows the name Lili Lowe. As the spotlight brightens on Lili, and her three sisters Von, Dani and Abby, they are all confronted by a new reality-and it's soon clear that fame, and fortune, comes with a price...

Jim Provenzano's sixth novel, "Now I'm Here," is set in the small town of Serene, Ohio, in the 1970s and 80s. Two boys from different families Joshua, with his stable middle-class home in town, and David, raised by his alcoholic and abusive father on their isolated farm - discover, then lose, then find each other again. Thirty years later, as the town's history is slowly erased by fading memories and encroaching suburbia, their childhood friend, Eric Gottlund, tells the tale of their quiet heroism with poignancy and a sharp eye for detail.

David Copperfield war Charles Dickens der liebste Roman, es ist auch sein persönlichster. Das Buch hat Generationen von Lesenden in seinen Bann geschlagen, vielen war und ist es prägende Jugendlektüre, große Autorinnen und Autoren – Leo Tolstoi, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Elias Canetti – verehrten ihn ein Leben lang. Es ist zunächst eine Leidensgeschichte im viktorianischen England. Nach dem Tod des Vaters geboren und nach einer unseligen Neuvermählung der Mutter muss der junge David eine höllenhafte Schulzeit durchleiden, wird bereits als Zehnjähriger zur Arbeit gezwungen.

In the fourth book, Boone and Frankie take their first trip away from home, using the map Melvin had given them. From his first low country boil on a Carolina beach to a face-off with three thugs in a Georgia parking lot, from an unforgettable night in New Orleans to the Beale Street acrobats and a sunset Mississippi River cruise in Memphis, Boone is constantly in unknown territory on his first venture away from home with his dog Frankie. Sometimes he feels like Frankie’s in charge of their trip and he’s just following her lead.

An excellent student from a poor, traditional family in Seoul, the narrator has absorbed the same message her whole life: Only a boy can provide the family with dignity and wealth. Not her. Not her three sisters. Receiving approval only for uncomplaining sacrifice, she has resolved to take on her family’s troubles. She is a good girl. And she knows what good girls must do.

Папа назвал ее Виславой, в честь нобелевской лауреатки, и хочет от дочери не меньших побед. Друзья зовут ее Вишней, и Вишня больше не хочет оправдывать чужие ожидания. Тайком она переводится на другой факультет и балансирует между реальной жизнью и ложью отцу. Ей восемнадцать лет, на дворе двухтысячные годы, студенческая жизнь в Польше очень напоминает российскую, а комические ситуации порождаются в ней сами собой.

It was decreed from the moment she was born. Twenty-three-year-old Reality Kahn would embark on a quest so great, so bold. She would become the greatest girlfriend of all time. She would be a zine maker, an aspiring notary, the greatest waterslide commercial actress on the Eastern Seaboard. She would receive messages from the beyond in the form of advice from the esteemed and ancient ladies magazine, Girlfriend Weekly. When she attends a party in Gowanus at a punk venue known as “Paradise,” Reality meets Ariel, who will become her boyfriend.

It’s the summer before high school, and Ronny Nguyen finds herself too young for work, too old for cartoons. Her days are spent in a small backyard, dozing off to trashy magazines on a plastic lawn chair. In stark contrast stands her brother Tommy, the pride and joy of their immigrant parents: a popular honor student destined to be the first in the family to attend college. The thought of Tommy leaving for college fills Ronny with dread, as she contemplates the quiet house she will be left alone in with her parents, Me and Ba.

"The Life of Edward Karnadi Husin from Kindergarten to Junior High School" delves into the world of personal struggles. Through the eyes of a young boy who grappled with emotional turmoil and social isolation, the story unfolds with honesty and introspection. As the boy navigated the challenges of childhood and adolescence, he confronts bullying, betrayal, and unspoken trauma.

Chrissy Rollings has a mountain of troubles to overcome, one that would crush most other girls her age. She was born in a small North Carolina town in 1952, into a poor but happy and loving family that always managed to scrape by each month... until the night her father died in a car crash, plunging the family into poverty. Chrissy’s mother is forced to take low-paying jobs to supplement her meager welfare checks, leaving Chrissy to raise her five siblings. But even these sacrifices are not enough.

Primera parte de la trilogía "La lucha por la vida", escrita por Pío Baroja, notable escritor español perteneciente a la Generación del 98. Cada una de las tres novelas que componen la trilogía ("La busca", "Mala hierba" y "Aurora roja"), comprende una de las fases de la vida de Manuel Alcázar, desde que fuera un joven muchacho que convirtiéndose en adulto busca hacerse un sitio en la sociedad.

Encuentra en la narración de Leandro los colores necesarios para quitarle el tono gris a la vida y poder verla como tu propia obra en permanente creación. Leandro, el tímido e inseguro, gracias a la pasión que le puso a su talento y a la confianza que fue ganando en sí mismo con cada una de las decisiones que tomó, logró que se revelara una personalidad sin miedo a manifestarse libre y ampliamente, que se expresara a través del arte ese ser único e irrepetible que cada persona es.

It’s 2007. Bowie is alive, and Jess is at university with her boyfriend, Robert. Their future together is all planned out, and Jess will never, ever, have to be alone again. At a party, Jess meets Astrid, a fellow Bowie fan whose world brims with adventure and possibility. Amidst clinking glasses and the infectious rhythm of 'Let’s Dance', she is drawn into Astrid’s orbit. Their friendship blossoms – Astrid, the enigmatic musician, and Jess, the wordsmith. Astrid inspires Jess to explore her own creative aspirations and question the essence of her existence.

Combining the political intrigue of She Who Became the Sun with the gorgeous world-building of Children of Blood and Bone, Birth of a Dynasty is the start of a thrilling epic fantasy trilogy centered around three families’ fight for power in Ahkebulin, a land where magic is feared, giants are real, and prophecy holds sway.

La calle aborda las andanzas de un grupo de jóvenes periodistas mexicanos de finales de los años noventa que trabajan en los dos diarios con mayor prestigio (y rivalidad) en su ciudad, a la vez que enfrentan los primeros desafíos de la vida adulta: sobrevivir, relacionarse, madurar. Cuando un sonado caso de corrupción se vuelve la nota del año, los personajes descubren que su investigación choca con los intereses empresariales de sus medios, obligándolos a tomar decisiones personales y profesionales que los cambiarán para siempre.

After inexperienced seventeen-year-old Isaac loses his virginity through a dating app—a disappointing yet addictive experience—he spends his final months before university escaping into a dizzying new world of casual sex with forgettable men. This all changes when he meets twenty-eight-year-old Harrison at a party. Isaac is immediately infatuated by the handsome, charismatic artist, but while they grow closer, his sense of self becomes increasingly hazy

Money, glamour, luxury, power—Ruby Bell couldn’t be less interested in these things if she tried. After being awarded a scholarship to one of England’s most prestigious and expensive private schools, Maxton Hall, all she wants is to keep her head down, work hard, and get accepted to Oxford. She keeps her distance from everyone, especially the arrogant, rich, and extremely handsome James Beaufort, ringleader of the school’s party boys. When Ruby discovers a scandalous secret about the Beauforts, she is suddenly on James’s radar.