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Celebrity news reporter and presenter, Tully Hart, has hit rock bottom. Kate Ryan had been her best friend for more than thirty years. They’d lived, laughed, danced and cried together. Kate had been her anchor, and now Tully was cast adrift – not knowing how she was going to survive. Kate’s daughter, Marah, was only sixteen years old when her mother died. Consumed with guilt over the fights they’d had during the last months of Kate’s life, Marah runs away and becomes a drop-out in society, maintaining no contact with her family.

The Austen Family descends upon a fashionable Georgian seaside resort in Devonshire for a six-week holiday. Jane's brother, Frank, is on leave from the Royal Navy, and dearly wishes to unite his sister with his friend Captain Peter Parker. But another holidaymaker, a handsome stranger, catches sight of Jane and is determined to make her acquaintance. This rival to Captain Parker is Samuel Rose: a lawyer, literary man and abolitionist. As the weeks pass, Jane's relationship with both men brings about unexpected surprises.

Dead Men Tell No Tales by E.W. Hornung is a gripping tale of high-seas adventure, treachery, and mystery. The novel follows a young man, Duncan, who finds himself entangled in a perilous voyage aboard a doomed ship. When disaster strikes and the vessel is wrecked, Duncan becomes the sole survivor, only to discover that escaping the sea is just the beginning of his troubles. A sinister conspiracy, hidden enemies, and a dangerous quest for truth unfold as he struggles to clear his name and uncover the dark secrets that threaten his life.

A romance about a storm that separates a family.

"Run through the jungle." The phrase means so many things. For the Morrows, it means a new sense of being. Natalia and her friends have found success as a band who rivals Elvis in popularity. Natalia's dreams are finally coming true. But fame is a jungle fraught with danger and uncertainty. But for Mark Standish, run through the jungle has a totally different meaning as he literally runs through the Vietnam jungle to get away from his decisions. His sole purpose, to destroy the one person he sees as the root of all his bad decisions. Natalia Morrow.

تدور أحداث رواية "أطياف كاميليا" للروائية نورا ناجي، في حقبة التسعينيات حيث الإيقاع البطيء، حول طفلة تسمى كاميليا تشاهد عمّتها تذوب أمامها في المرآة ذات صباح، فتشعر بدهشة وذعر من العالم يستمر معها حتى الكِبر.

Alexander, Alex to his friends, sat on a wobbly wooden chair much too large for him. At his kitchen window, he spent time alone watching the raindrops slide slowly down the uneven window panes and fall onto the window sill. His childhood wrecked by turmoil and deprivation, was not unlike all of the other children in the coal camps that filled the hollers. The houses, nothing more than lap siding and rusting nails, held many dark secrets, many untold stories, and many hateful words.

זוכה פרס ספיר לספרות לשנת 2001. 'מישהו לרוץ אתו' הוא סיפור מתח, וחיפוש, ואהבה. אסף, נער ביישן וגמלוני בן שש-עשרה, נעקר משגרת-יומו כשהוא נשלח למשימה חסרת-סיכוי: לאתר את הבעלים של כלב גדול ופרוע שנמצא משוטט ברחובות ירושלים – והוא זה שיריץ כבסחרחורת את העלילה של אסף בספר. כך מגיע אסף לאנשים ולמקומות שבאמצעותם נגלה לו, כמו בפאזל, סיפור מופלא השואב אותו לתוכו – סיפורה של תמר, נערה בודדה וסוערת, שנלכדה בסבך של עולם אפל ומסוכן, ונאבקת בו באומץ. לתמר תוכנית-הצלה נועזת, כמעט מטורפת, ולאסף הנדהם והמוקסם אין ברירה אלא להילכד איתה בסיפור שלה, לרוץ איתה עוד לפני שהוא פוגש אותה ממש.

ארבע האחיות לבית מארץ' מתבגרות בארצות הברית בשנות ה-60 של המאה ה-19: מג, הבכורה, הבוגרת והאחראית; ג'ו, עזת היצרים, השואפת להיות סופרת; בת' העדינה והטובה שגופה בוגד בה, ואיימי, האחות הקטנה המפונקת והיהירה. התבגרותן מחזיקה כל מה שהתבגרות יכולה להכיל: הן חוות תקוות ואכזבות, לבטים וחרטות, אהבות נכזבות והתוודעות, כואבת לעתים, למורכבותו של עולם המבוגרים. אישיותן מתעצבת, גחמות הילדות מושלות מעליהן, וכל אחת מוצאת את מקומה בעולם.

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.

Written in the voice of a 10-year-old girl with a heart full of questions, Tangerines is a lyrical, tender story about family, friendship, and about the quiet magic of believing in what matters most.

നഗരജീവിതത്തിൽ, കോൺക്രീറ്റു ചുമരുകൾക്കിടയിൽ തളച്ചിടപ്പെട്ടു ജീവിയക്കാൻ വിധിയ്ക്കപ്പെട്ട ഒരു കുട്ടിയുടെ ജീവിതാനുഭവങ്ങളിലേയ്ക്ക് ഉള്ള ഒരു എത്തിനോട്ടമാണ് 'ഹെർബേറിയം' എന്ന കൃതി. പ്രകൃതിയുടെ മടിത്തട്ടിലേയ്ക്ക് ഇറങ്ങാൻ കുട്ടിയ്ക്ക് ഇട കിട്ടുമ്പോൾ ഉണ്ടാവുന്ന സ്വാഭാവിക പരിണാമങ്ങൾ കൃതിയെ സുന്ദരമാക്കുന്നു.

For as long as she can remember, Peppa Ryan has been guided by a benevolent voice in her head who she believes is Virginia Woolf. Though she’s an exceptionally bright twenty-year-old, she suffers from crippling low self-esteem and has barely left her parents’ ramshackle home in Queens, New York. Set at the turn of the millennium, Peppa defies her parent’s wishes and ventures out on her own to start a job at a Wall Street investment firm.

Two young Lakota boys, ages eleven and six, huddle in a boxcar hurtling through the prairie night as they run from a government agent sent to take them to an Indian boarding school. But what begins as a pursuit soon becomes a complex human drama of intersecting lives as the boys make their way across the vast Dakota plains to the pipestone quarries of western Minnesota to replace their great-grandfather’s channunpa, or sacred pipe, that was broken by the government agent.

Erica Skyberg is thirty-five years old, recently divorced—and trans. Not that she's told anyone yet. Mitchell, South Dakota, isn't exactly bursting with other trans women. Instead, she keeps to herself, teaching by day and directing community theater by night. That is, until Abigail Hawkes enters her orbit.

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.

San Francisco in 1978 is a place of urban chaos. But for Diego Contreras, it represents a dream of artistic success. As a recent college graduate from an immigrant family, he moves from Los Angeles to find something worth believing in and meets Saloma Sevilla, a wealthy Filipino-Chinese graduate student.

You could say Kyle Jr. grew up in a dysfunctional family. That'd be an understatement. His mother's wealthy family disinherited her for marrying the working-class Kyle Sr., and she's never forgiven him (or KJ) for that. When his father's suicide turns his life upside down, KJ fills his therapist-recommended grief journal with plenty of sarcasm, excerpts from sweary, punny high-school short stories, and fourth-wall-breaking asides.

Thirteen-year-old Mary Agnes Coyne, forced from her home in rural Ireland in 1886 after being accused of incest, endures a treacherous voyage across the Atlantic alone to an unknown life in America. From the tenements of New York to the rough alleys of Chicago, Mary Agnes suffers the bitter taste of prejudice for the crime of being poor and Irish.

Virgil Kitchens is a riveting tale set against the rugged backdrop of the Colorado wilderness. This coming-of-age story explores resilience, survival, and morality through the eyes of Virgil, a boy shaped by a harsh life with an abusive father and a loving, steadfast mother. When a moment of violence turns his world upside down, Virgil must navigate the complexities of justice, self-discovery, and community.