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Sara has never been out of the tiny town of Hope, Ontario, where she has been in an orphanage all her life. After a fire destroys the orphanage, clues about her parentage—a medical certificate and a Star of David—lead her to Germany. Despite her fears—she doesn’t speak the language, she knows no one in Germany, and she’s never been on an airplane—Sara arrives in Germany determined to explore her newly discovered Jewish heritage and solve the mystery of her parentage. What she encounters is a country still dealing with the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Sleep climbers Jayden, Connor, and Max meet in a strange, moonlit dream land where the only way to ‘fall’ asleep is to climb. The climbing is not so simple, though.

Four accomplished teenagers are on the verge of explosion. The anxieties they face at every turn have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender: senseless high-stakes testing, the lingering damage of trauma, the buried grief and guilt of tragic loss. They are desperate to cope—but no one is listening. So they will lie. They will split in two. They will turn inside out. They will build an invisible helicopter to fly themselves far away from the pressure…but nothing releases the pressure. Because, as they discover, the only way to truly escape their world is to fly right into it.

Em Xeque-mate, as peças da vida se movem para colocar dois rivais do xadrez frente a frente, pondo em jogo o coração deles.

Raz has been offered the chance of a lifetime— a trip to Hollywood, to prove his acting skills to the world and shoot his shot at stardom. This vacation is one he’s never going to forget. He’s in California to land a lead role, but chasing his dreams won’t be as easy as he wants to believe, and his friends aren’t as supportive as they once were.

Darkness has a way of bringing things to life. Things forgotten. Things from our past. This becomes all too apparent for Miracle Jenkins. All she wants is a normal life filled with friends, family, and the occasional red Slurpee. But a life-changing event involving the police turns her world upside-down. Miracle’s only retreat is music, which takes her soul on adventures in the past. But even music cannot hide her from the racism of her small California city. Nor can it shield her from the evils of this world. Still, she turns to the darkness.

Textos curtos, diretos, com a cara de um singelo post numa rede social... Mas a carga de emoção e poesia que o escritor Tiago de Melo Andrade consegue imprimir nesse livro não são nada efêmeras nem passageiras. Um diálogo profundo com a alma humana acontece quando nos deparamos com a literatura em seu estado mais simples. É exatamente essa a sensação que as crônicas desse belíssimo livro transmitem, uma leitura necessária e acolhedora para os leitores de todas as idades e de todos os tempos.

Ever since cancer invaded his adoptive mother’s life, Brett feels like he’s losing everything, most of all control. To cope, Brett fuels all of his anxieties into epic fantasies, including his intergalactic Kid Condor comic book series, which features food constellations and characters not unlike those in his own life. But lately Brett’s grip on reality has started to lose its hold. The fictions he’s been telling himself—about his unattractive body, the feeling that he’s a burden to his best friend, that he’s too messed up to be loved—have consumed him completely.

No passado, Ana Lúcia tomou uma decisão muito difícil para viver um grande amor: deixar sua filha com o pai e perder completamente o contato com a menina. Muitos anos se passaram, e o arrependimento começou a brigar com a certeza de ter tomado uma decisão boa para si. Ao olhar para a tela do computador e ver na internet o perfil da filha, agora já com 15 anos, decide entrar em contato e, a partir daí, muita coisa precisará ser explicada. Um livro inteiramente composto por trocas de mensagens que explora diferentes pontos de vistas sobre o poder do perdão e as relações humanas que nos definem.

A year after losing their best friend, JD and Danny are still brokenhearted. JD’s decision to join the Air Force only makes him yearn for “before” more than ever. Danny, who’d rather paint murals than open a book and certainly never thought of himself as college material, makes the equally impulsive choice to do what Juan will never be able to and enrolls in a community college. Danny’s father, The Sarge, is proud of him for the first time ever for living out Sarge’s own dream of being a first-generation college student, but Danny can’t shake the thought that it should be Juan, not him

Als Louisa eines der seltenen Stipendien für die Highclare Academy erhält, erhofft sie sich einen Neuanfang. Nicht nur, weil sie als Studentin automatisch zum elitären Kreis des Ruby Circles zählt und ihr jeder Wunsch von den Augen abgelesen wird. Sondern auch, weil sie glaubt, dort endlich sicher vor den Lügen zu sein, die ihr Leben in einen Albtraum verwandelt haben. Doch all der Luxus trügt, denn hinter den Mauern der Academy brodelt es und jeder hat ein Geheimnis. Bald weiß Louisa nicht mehr, wem sie vertrauen kann.

Zwischen düsterer Vergangenheit und tiefen Gefühlen. Eine einzige Nacht zerstört Nevahs Leben. Nachdem sie und ihr Bruder Miller Zeugen eines Verbrechens wurden, muss Nevah mit ihrer Familie untertauchen. Niemand darf erfahren, wer sie sind – und was sie wissen. Während ihr Bruder sich scheinbar mühelos mit der Situation arrangiert, kämpft Nevah mit Panikattacken und Heimweh. Und dann ist da noch ihr gut aussehender Nachbar Jackson, der sie mit seiner unverwechselbaren Art in den Wahnsinn treibt, aber auch zurück ins Leben. Schon bald ist sie machtlos gegen ihre Gefühle. Doch kann sie ihm näherkommen, ohne ihre Familie in Gefahr zu bringen?

Scegliere tra un bravo ragazzo e un cattivo ragazzo è facile. Ma se la scelta fosse tra due cattivi ragazzi? Chiara, diciannove anni, vivace e sincera. Cesare, stessa età e un passato da teppista. Ma da quando stanno insieme l'amore l'ha guarito, e tra i rovi del tatuaggio sul suo petto è nata una rosa per ogni mese trascorso con lei. Un giorno, Chiara vede tra le rose dei lividi e chiede spiegazioni che non ottiene.

Chiara e Cesare hanno sempre avuto dei problemi. Lui è sempre stato misterioso riguardo i suoi pensieri più profondi, e lei si è sempre sentita esclusa. A un certo punto della loro tormentata storia, però, arrivano Denise e Massimo a mettere davvero tutto in discussione. Sarà Massimo che metterà alla prova il cuore di Chiara, e Denise è senza dubbio la ragazza sfrontata che Cesare ha sempre desiderato. Riuscirà il loro amore a superare questa ennesima prova, oppure Chiara si renderà finalmente conto che Cesare in fondo non è la persona giusta per lei, per quanto appassionatamente lo ami?

Zwischen tödlicher Bedrohung und der ganz großen Liebe. Miller liebt es sich mit Partys und Alkohol abzulenken – dann kann er die schreckliche Nacht in New York für kurze Zeit vergessen. Die junge Farmerin Blake dagegen ist tough und arbeitet gern und hart. Die beiden könnten unterschiedlicher kaum sein. Dennoch: Wann immer Miller Blake begegnet, bringt sie sein Gefühlsleben völlig durcheinander. Auch Blake fühlt sich gegen ihren Willen zu dem streitlustigen Miller hingezogen. Aber jeder, der ihm zu nahe kommt, schwebt in Gefahr.

Jonas não sabe muito bem o que fazer da vida. Entre suas leituras e ideias para livros anotadas em um caderninho de bolso, ele precisa dar conta de seus turnos no Rocket Café e ainda lidar com o conservadorismo de seus pais. Sua mãe alimenta a esperança de que ele volte a frequentar a igreja, e seu pai não faz muito por ele além de trazer problemas.