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Zach meets Samm, a seventh-generation Manhattanite whose brother has returned from Vietnam with PTSD. Together they explore protest, friendship, music, faith, and love during a time littered with hope and upheaval around the globe.

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

Eight years ago, I was supposed to marry her. Instead, I destroyed her family and then abandoned her. Broken and hurt, she delivered me a savage blow in return. Naturally, that should have been the end of us. Except that I still want her. Even after all these years, memories of her linger in a mix of pain and desire. And now the sassy girl who once set my world on fire is suddenly in my city, curating art she has no idea that she inspired. Her body still ignites under my touch, but her eyes hold a cold, hard resolve to never re-engage with her family’s arch-enemy. To prove to Sabrina that...

”Erlend Loe är Norges svar på Nick Hornby, fast galnare och roligare (sjukt rolig). Hans sätt att ta tempen på samtiden har gett honom kultstatus och det är helt rätt.” Amelia ”Hans dråpliga ironier är både bitska, träffande och varmt varsamma på samma gång.” Aftonbladet Att förlora mot sin bror i krocket får romanens huvudperson att fullständigt tappa hoppet.

Här möter vi Morris föräldrar: mamma som skickar runt Morris bland alla barnfamiljer i bekantskapskretsen för att han ska smittas av påssjuka, pappa som har en förmåga att få det lilla att kännas stort och som berättar om indianer och äventyr. Morris trivs med kompisarna på lågstadiet, tjejernas favorit Linus, grannen Henke och Ubbe med de nyaste leksakerna och alldeles speciella lekregler. Motvilligt flyttar han till det gula tegelradhuset och en ny skola och en ny tid, mellanstadiet.

Forever young är en både rolig och vemodig roman om att vara ung och fri i en föränderlig och emellanåt obegriplig värld. Det är också en betraktelse över ett Sverige då och nu.

The Possession Of Jessica Kind, Teen Cheerleader (A novella. approx 20,000 words). Tagline: LOVING hard on Jessica will KILL YOU.... Part 1 Sixteen year old Great Lake State High Cheer Captain Jessica Kind has just awakened from a coma, which was the unfortunate outcome of a snowstorm car crash one week earlier. The girl who awoke in the hospital isn’t quite the same girl she was before the accident, not even close. This is her actual eerie account of her near death experience. 10,600 words approx. Part 2 After Justine takes ‘possession’ of Jessica, those around her have been put in ...

The country collapses and a new leader emerges known only as "The Maven". Book one of a dystopian trilogy starts with a civil war dividing the country. Hundreds of thousands are killed or go missing. Mave, a young woman, flees the violence. Now a refugee in her own country, with ingenuity and the help of incredible indigenous friends, she walks over 600 miles looking for a safe haven. Soon to be the new leader of the free world, this is the beginning of her journey through what is now called The Reclamation War.

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.

It was only because of the cramps from hell that I discovered my boyfriend cheating on me. Who knew that I would find my forever later that same day? Because of You is a sweet, new adult romance short story: 4,000 words.

What would happen if schools closed due to lack of interest? Time passes and technology is forgotten.Marc runs away from the family farm at the age of thirteen determined never to turn into a man like his father. He finds himself a small building with a fireplace in an abandoned city, determined to plan his own destiny. His destiny appears in the form of a small, undernourished boy named Justin. Marc’s home is a bookstore. He eventually stops using the books for kindling and teaches himself to read.He and Justin gather a small group of rejected and orphaned children and move into an empty...

Lila Moreau always believed that friendship could survive anything—until the person she trusted most betrayed her. Caught between family pressures, heartbreak, and rising self-doubt, Lila must find the strength to defend her dreams and her voice. Amid the rain-soaked campus of the University of Victoria, she rediscovers hope through her passion for environmental science and unexpected new friendships. Broken Bonds is a deeply emotional coming-of-age story about resilience, self-worth, and finding light after loss.

La novela está basada en una historia real, que sucedió en Centroamérica, no estoy seguro si en Honduras o Nicaragua, en los ochentas. A mi me la contaron en los noventas. El real suceso es mucho más simple que el novelado. Sirve de base, de inspiración, y de referente, pero no tiene la complicación que yo he inventado.

Un asesino a sueldo cumple impecablemente sus contratos, teniendo perpleja a la policía, que imagina que jamás le podrán capturar, a no ser que cometa un error. Y, efectivamente, lo comete, pues mata a la persona equivocada, al padre de un verdadero cazador de hombres. Éste, un oficial del ejército, usará métodos nada convencionales, y, por supuesto, ilegales, para encontrar al asesino de su padre. Y cuando lo encuentre… se llevará una gran sorpresa. Aurora se desnudó, y Marino comprobó que era idéntica a su hermana. Al parecer, también comían lo mismo. Estaba bien, aunque, ...

Livet går så fort. Och så långsamt.är en roman om hur man formas som person, om de där händelserna i livet som är avgörande för vem man sedan blir.

This is a coming-of-age novel, a love story and a story about difficult life choices, all in the rich historical setting of the 1920s and beyond. Coming of age in the hedonistic 1920s, in the wake of World War I and the Spanish Flu pandemic, Nick Farraday is obsessed with the maddening, impulsive Jo. Season of Plenty begins in the 1920s, in the wake of World War I and the Spanish Flu pandemic, and then sweeps on through the 1930s and beyond to the Second World War and after. Set in England and Germany from 1925, the novel charts the life and loves of Nick Farraday, as he completes ...

Fifteen-year-old Savannah Jorja Dale is a sensitive poet searching for happiness. Savannah and her siblings, Montana and Phoenix, all named for the places their drug-addicted mom would like to visit, are being raised by their Mimi. When Mimi dies of cancer, their lives become uprooted and more chaotic. The three teens must move in with their eccentric great grandma, Granny Crackers, and pick trash to earn their keep. Granny Crackers runs a never- ending garage sale from the back lot of her house in a Midwestern, inner city neighborhood known as Paris Village. Savannah seeks answers to the ...

“It’s fine if neither of you can see her. I’m just tired of having all this bad energy around.” Beth has always been a bit different than the other children. Her parents have accepted her, but society still hasn’t. Instead of letting it get her down, Beth decides to try and solve a murder mystery that happened over a decade ago in her newly acquired home. With the aid of a new friend, Beth is determined to find out what happened to the Maydale family, and why they have yet to find peace in the afterlife. They say seeing is believing, but Beth is wondering how much she should ...

The Emperor of Gladness follows a wayward young man in New England who, out of sheer chance, becomes the caretaker for an 82-year-old widow living with dementia. Hallmarks of Vuong's writing - formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness - are on full display in this masterful story of friendship and how much we’re willing to risk to possess one of life’s most treasured mercies: a second chance.

After suffering her first big heartbreak two years earlier, Penelope Lin has built a quiet life with no romantic entanglements. She spends her days cataloging a museum's vast collection of Qing Dynasty bound-foot shoes and in the comfortable company of close friends. One day, she happens to meet Hoang, who confesses to releasing mice from the cancer research lab where he works. Hoang's openness catches Penelope off guard; from then on, she finds her carefully constructed life slowly start to unravel.