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Ania hears the explosion of gunshots before she sees the Nazi soldiers approach her beloved home. Her family don’t have time to run, but she does. Hiding nearby, she listens to her sister’s screams and – stroking the red ribbon she keeps tied around her wrist – she begins to plot her revenge… Taunted her whole life for being smarter than anyone else in the village, now living in war-torn Poland, being governed by Nazis who think Poles are subhuman and women only good for one thing… Ania now only has her wits to rely on, if she's going to survive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

『작은 공주 세라』는 『소공녀』의 새 이름이다. 원제 『A little Princess』에 일본식 표현이 아닌 저자의 의도를 살린 한글 제목을 붙였다. 부잣집 학생으로 특급 대우를 받다가 아버지의 죽음으로 어느 날 갑자기 누더기를 입고 허름한 다락방으로 쫓겨난 세라. 하지만 누구보다 강한 내면의 힘으로 역경을 이겨내는 소녀. 세라의 스펙터클한 인생 드라마는 1905년에도 지금도 수많은 독자들에게 희망이 되어준다. 연극, 영화, 애니메이션으로도 끊임없이 재창조되는 『작은 공주 세라』는 작품성과 내용 면에서 그 가치를 인정받으며 어린이와 교사는 물론 어른들에게도 반드시 읽어야 할 필독서로 꼽히는 작품이다.

"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.

It’s the summer before her Freshman year of college and Candace Thompson is off to Zone World in Florida. There she discovers a world of firsts as she navigates life away from home, discovers the ins-and-outs of sharing a dorm room with a roommate, finds herself confronted by hostile people at college orientation, preps for the resort’s summer games, and meets new personalities and challenging situations at her latest job selling rice candy. Everything and everyone she encounters will test her in ways she could never have imagined as she struggles to find her place in the World.

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.

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.

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.

1960, Hugh and Dee sell Rothmorton Hall, near Boston, and move to a small beach community outside San Francisco to start fresh. Hugh needs to prove himself with his new business but spends too much time at the office causing tension at home. Ellen turns thirteen and unhappy she's uprooted from the only home she's ever known and worries she won't fit in at the public high school, make friends, or meet boys. Dee is bored and desperate to find her place in the community and may put her trust in the wrong person... yet again.

It's 1986, and ‘beautiful, radical ideas' are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St Kilda she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a ‘deconstructed' relationship, and they become lovers. Meanwhile, her work on the Woolfmother falls into disarray.

On a winter Saturday night in post-war Bristol, sisters Moira and Evelyn, on the cusp of adulthood, go to an art students’ party in a dockside pub; there they meet two men, Paul and Sinden, whose air of worldliness and sophistication both intrigues and repels them. Sinden calls a few days later to invite them over to the grand suburban mansion Paul shares with his brother and sister, and Moira accepts despite Evelyn’s misgivings. As the night unfolds in this unfamiliar, glamorous new setting, the sisters learn things about themselves and each other that shock them.

Ox Matheson was twelve when his father taught him a lesson: Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. Ox was sixteen when the energetic Bennett family moved in next door, harbouring a secret that would change him forever. For the family are shapeshifters, who can transform into wolves at will. Drawn to their magic, loyalty and enduring friendships, Ox feels a gulf between this extraordinary new world and the quiet life he’s known. He also finds an ally in Joe, the youngest Bennett boy. Joe is charming and handsome, but haunted by scars he cannot heal.

Transgender, Cisgender, boy, girl, all words of a distant and archaic past. Enter a world where gender is suppressed before birth, only to be revealed on one's Choosing Day. But, beneath the pristine facade of structure and order lies the dark and sinister secrets that those in power will do anything to conceal. Tested, tried and true, the system works, but what if someone born sexless begins to identify with something it has never been? Can decades of scientific intervention triumph or will nature began to reassert itself?

Blessed are the meek, Sophie was taught; blessed are the pure of heart. Blessed is the good Catholic girl who honours her father and mother, who renounces the sins of pride, greed, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth, for she will inherit the earth. But nothing in her strict religious upbringing could have prepared Sophie for the arrival of the scorching winds that sweep through the Midwest - not the righteous breath of God, but an evil gust that delivers an ungodly, fevered lust unto the virtuous and the wicked alike.

"Any thoughts?" Ruth Ann asks the group. I raise my hand, noticing any timidity or prior insecurity I once felt is gone. I am free to be myself at this place. "Yes, Camille." She points at me. I feel joy at the mention of my new name. "So, let me get this straight!" I try to collect my thoughts. "If my mother, father, or guidance counselor tells me something that goes against the Bible..."

Gordo Livingstone never forgot the lessons carved into his skin. Hardened by the betrayal of a pack who left him behind, he sought solace in the garage in his tiny mountain town, vowing never again to involve himself in the affairs of wolves. It should have been enough. And it was, until the wolves came back, and with them, Mark Bennett. In the end, they faced the beast together as a pack...and won. Now, a year later, Gordo has found himself once again the witch of the Bennett pack.

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.