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Celestine has a certain... reputation. She's the worst fortune teller the Carnival has ever seen. She never gets a future right. It's a reputation she's worked hard to create.Truth is, Celestine's a liar. She's actually a powerful fortune teller who hasn't gotten a future wrong since she was a kid - and that one time was because she had chicken pox. But her survival depends on keeping her secret, and she's not about to break it now.Except... what if she sees a future where someone she knows dies? What if she sees a future where the Carnival is destroyed and everyone she loves ends up destitute and homeless?What then?Even worse, if she decides to break her vow of silence, how's she going to convince the people of the carnival that instead of being the world's most incompetent oracle, she's actually the one person who could save them all?

Excellence. Fixer. Closer. Winner.Sixteen-year-old Anayah Kapur already has a reputation for domination. With a love for science and medicine, she goes after anything she puts her mind to with passion and determination. Anayah is burning things up. Until she's with her family, who pours a huge bucket of ice water over her. As the youngest member, Anayah feels she's treated as a baby, fighting to be seen, heard, and taken seriously. She feels especially eclipsed by her older sister, Priya, and is tired of the family's preoccupation with her upcoming wedding. Anayah has decided this will be her year - she wants to be seen and heard, to matter and be important. Key to those ambitions will be her research and prestigious science competition project under her father's good friend, Dr. Reed, at the local university. Win her science competition, get first chair flute, come out of Priya's shadow, and no boys because they're immature distractions. When things turn out too well, she's in danger of losing the one thing she's desperate to have. Winning may be more than Anayah can handle, and she's about to learn the hardest lesson she's ever faced. What does it take to be heard in a world that doesn't always listen?This will be instrumental.Sweet and clean contemporary YA full of ambition and heart

"For dock lovers and daydreamers"One wealthy family.One beautiful cottage.Many summers of secrets.More than a decade after tragedy strikes, Colin Montgomery returns to the Wynward's Muskoka cottage to spend one last summer with the marvelous Miss Elizabeth. As a child, he was saved by the Wynward family. Ultimately it's Colin who saves the Wynwards.Shy, orphaned Colin Montgomery appears to finally have it all: an ivy-league education, a century-old, lakeside cottage in Muskoka, and a benefactor in the marvelous "Miss Elizabeth" Wynward, the shrewd, champagne-swilling mistress of Pittsburgh's Wynward Steel. Colin spends idyllic summers of the 1970s alongside the spirited yet troubled Wynward grandchildren. They swim, they sail, they fall in love, they ride in glossy wooden launches. But when tragedy strikes, the Wynwards are ripped away from the lake, away from each other. Fifteen years later, with the grand lady's health failing, it's up to Colin to bring them together. With help from old family photographs, he must take on the charming force that is Miss Elizabeth to unravel family secrets and uncover what really happened.By welcoming him into the family as a child, the Wynwards rescued Colin. Ultimately it's Colin who rescues the Wynwards.loriknowles.comPRAISE FOR SUMMERS WITH MISS ELIZABETH!"For dock lovers and daydreamers."-Wendie Donabie, Muskoka Author & Artist "This novel is a must-read, powerful tour de force. Knowles skillfully explores the strength and fragility of the human condition, effortlessly weaving themes of love & loss, family, class, and the destructive power of secrets. The writing is rich and lush, taking you on a compelling whirlwind journey of discovery that will leave you breathless."-Cindy Watson, award-winning and best-selling author of The Art of Feminine Negotiation and Out of Darkness"With unforgettable characters, Summers With Miss Elizabeth is an emotionally charged saga in which to lose yourself.-Beverley Brewer, author of Dance Into The Light: a memoir

"Every day-no matter how bleak it seems-find one good thing for which to be thankful." Through a series of unsent letters to the sweetheart he left behind, Jack Calhoun unpacks his rage and grief and wrestles with questions of the soul like, "Who am I?" Rachael Burns, the girl he left, uses her journal to make sense of his abandonment. Jack escapes the guilt-filled confines of judgmental Bellum, Georgia, and embarks on a rocky path toward purpose. When that mission gets shattered on a dark street in Fallujah, he's left empty-handed. Rachael clings to thrills and busyness that never heal her heart. She faces her deepest fears and misbeliefs and must cast pride aside for something greater than her emotions. As their parallel journeys lead toward mountaintops miles apart, Jack and Rachael receive the gift of a truth powerful enough to change their lives forever. In a world where tomorrow isn't promised and tragedies rend lives, who a person is at the core is the only thing that can be unchanging ... if that identity rests in an absolute source. Fans of Where the Crawdads Sing, hope-filled coming-of-age dramas and post-9/11 fiction will enjoy this dual-POV epistolary novel, which embodies Southern fiction with Christian roots.

Andy Riggins has just begun sixth grade. He's also just witnessed a seventy-year-old World War II bomber return to battle ready condition. His father is deployed in the Middle East. Who is Andy to confide in? Neither his best friend nor his little sister, or even his mother, understands. His father's plane crashes 8,000 miles away. It takes a warbird and her crew from another time to help Andy bring his father home.

Matthew Daddona's debut novel, The Longitude of Grief, follows Henry Manero and generations of dispirited loners as they navigate inherited trauma in a kaleidoscopic study of the familial bonds that entangle and entrance us all.

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Whip-smart and compulsively readable. . . both a wildly entertaining adventure story and a meditation on what it means to love your children—fiercely and imperfectly.”—Oprah Daily “Springs alive to explore questions that stump scientists and families, problems of the head and the heart.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post“A full-hearted portrait of sisterhood, family and the ways we process grief. Charming, wry, and original.” —People TWO SISTERS, ONE MOM, AND ONE WOOLLY SECRET.Teenage sisters Eve and Vera never imagined their summer vacation would be spent in the Arctic, tagging along on their mother’s scientific expedition. But there’s a lot about their lives lately that hasn’t been going as planned, and truth be told, their single mother might not be so happy either.Now in Siberia with a bunch of serious biologists, Eve and Vera are just bored enough to cause trouble. Fooling around in the permafrost, they accidentally discover a perfectly preserved, four-thousand-year-old baby mammoth, and things finally start to get interesting. The discovery sets off a surprising chain of events, leading mother and daughters to go rogue, pinging from the slopes of Siberia to the shores of Iceland to an exotic animal farm in Italy, and resulting in the birth of a creature that could change the world—or at least this family.The Last Animal takes readers on a wild, entertaining, and refreshingly different kind of journey, one that explores the possibilities and perils of the human imagination on a changing planet, what it’s like to be a woman in a field dominated by men, and how a wondrous discovery can best be enjoyed with family. Even teenagers.

Excerpt.... The sound of the surf down all of her thoughts and memories. She came back to her apartment and flipped on the news station out of Los Angeles. "...and in neighboring Ventura, a grisly murder was discovered at Radio Station KXOL.-FM this morning; a secretary found Program Director Tom Baker in his office,and..." Lynn stared at the radio. She reached for the telephone just as it started to ring. "He-hello?"'Is this Lynn Shaw?""Yes," she whispered. "This is Detective O'Donnell, I'm with Ventura Homicide, I'd like you to come down to KXOL right away, so we can get your statement.""I'm afraid I can't tell you much.""Let me be the judge of that, I assume you know Tom Baker was killed last night?""Yes, I just heard it on the radio. I-I can't quite believe it.""Well, we tried to reach you earlier, but I guess you're an early riser."Lynn frowned, this guy sounds just like my father. "Yes detective, I am an early riser, I jog on the beach every morning.""OK, get down here as soon as possible." Detective O'Donnell hung up, and Lynn slammed her receiver on the cradle. She went into the bathroom and took another quick shower. What could I possibly tell them.Lynn drove to KXOL in a daze. She marveled at the number of cars in the parking lot, for once she couldn't find a place to park. She wore slacks and a cotton shirt and with her tawny hair tied back in a pony tail, she looked much younger than her 17 years. Everyone seemed to be congregating in the reception area. She had nothing to do with the business end of the station and some of the office staff she'd never even met.A powerfully built man about 6'5" with steel gray hair approached her. "Miss Shaw?"He appeared tired as he offered his hand. "I'm Detective O'Donnell, I'm sure we can get your statement taken care of right away."Lynn ignored his hand. "I sincerely hope so." Great, she thought, a military type. O'Donnell left her and walked over to David Porter, a lanky man in his thirties. The sales manager smiled at the detective's obvious anger. "These kids that work here need to have the back of a hairbrush applied vigorously to their posteriors, if they were mine, they'd be taking their meals standing up." Porter hid a grin and nodded. "Yes, most of them are young and very immature."The two men walked down the hall to the General Manager's office.

Karlo ima trideset tri godine, i nikad ne izlazi sâm iz ku¿e. Ne obräa se nepoznatima i sve broji: mrvice na stolu, kapi ki¿e na prozoru, zvezde na nebu... ¿Prava linija je beskrajan niz täaka", rekla mu je mnogo godina ranije njegova profesorka matematike. Ali nije ga upozorila da neke prave mogu biti prekinute, poput prave njegovog ¿ivota, koja se jednog dana prekinula da se vi¿e nikada ne nastavi. A Karlo je pöeo da se okru¿uje navikama, pouzdanim ljudima i brojevima, podi¿u¿i neprobojan zid izme¿u sebe i spoljnog sveta. Sve dok jednog jutra nije upoznao Ledu, novu konobaricu u kafeu u kojem uvek doru¿kuje sa ocem, koja je napravila neöekivanu pukotinu u tom zidu, povrativ¿i träak nade.Pri¿a o dvoje mladih koje je ¿ivot povredio, o upornosti jednog ¿oveka i o ¿eni koja bi mu mogla pomöi da pru¿i sebi novu priliku, jer su oboje u ötrim ivicama onog drugog prepoznali sopstveni bol i potrebu da se suöe s löim se¿anjima. Sklapaju¿i polako pre¿utni savez i prepu¿taju¿i se, Karlo je na putu da izäe iz ku¿e sâm - kako vi¿e nikada ne bi bio sâm.

By chance or fate - or maybe something else - two young, imaginative strangers become cross-country pen pals in the spring of 1964. Through the course of their nine-year correspondence, Fenn Rainbow Crispus-Wellsby and Zorro Anderson grow from shy middle-schoolers to adventurous young adults, sharing tales of family, friends, secrets, travels, troubles, triumphs - and a lonely pet pterodactyl. As Zorro's letters grow longer and increasingly fantastical, Fenn seems to play along with supernatural stories of her own. How much is true? Will they ever meet in person? What do Guam, sharks and Paul Simon have to do with everything?All the answers are in the mail.

Was ist mit Menschen, die außergewöhnlich gewöhnlich sind? Sie sind ausgeprägt oder ungewöhnlich gewöhnlich, halten sich manchmal allerdings für außergewöhnlich, was zu einer hohen Selbsteinschätzung führt. Diese falsche Einschätzung - oft verbunden mit fehlgeleitetem Ehrgeiz - lässt sie furchtbar scheitern, wie die Erlebnisse eines außergewöhnlich Gewöhnlichen zeigen, der kein Einzelfall ist. Denn mit schrillen Projekten, auf sich aufmerksam zu machen, um der Welt zu zeigen, was geht, wenn nur gewollt, ohne aber tatsächlich zu können, ist derzeit weit verbreitet und motiviert, über Selbstbild und Scheitern eines außergewöhnlich Gewöhnlichen zu berichten - ein "Felix Krull" der Postmoderne?

"Following one couple's tumultuous, on-and-off relationship, this brilliant novel captures the probing, passionate nature of a generation of global citizens, exploring sexuality and gender identity. Claudia enters Francesco's life on a sunny morning, in the school's entrance hall: it's a bolt of lightning, the birth of an entirely new kind of desire, which is, above all, the desire for life. Claudia is peerless and self-assured, extravagant; Francesco is introverted, burning with erotic curiosity, dominated by rustic faith, uncertain. She provokes him: "Did you know that your mother and my father were lovers?" But, in the eyes of that meek boy, she glimpses a spark of diversity, she sees herself in him. Claudia finds the countryside stifling; as soon as she can, she escapes, first to Milan and then to Berlin, the European capital of transgression. Francesco stays put and digs inside himself in an increasingly urgent effort to understand who he is. They become adults together, in a symbiotic game of escape and pursuit, in which they always end up finding each other. Mario Desiati depicts the countless complexities of an uneven, fluid, and uprooted generation: his own. The generation of those who are 40 years old today and weren't afraid to stray far from home in order to find their place in the world, of those who truly feel like citizens of Europe. With a poetic yet biting style, capable of great tenderness, Desiati depicts the myriad forms that desire can assume when given free rein to manifest itself. Without any fear of plucking the chords of romanticism, without any false modesty as he delves into the coarsest details of sensuality and instinct, Desiati interrogates sex and reveals it for what it is: one of the many postures human beings invent in their search for happiness"--

"A beautiful, tender yet searing debut novel about intergenerational fractures and coming of age, following a young woman who immigrates to the United States from the Philippines and finds herself adrift between familial expectations and her own burning desires Love Can't Feed You is a stunning, heartbreaking, and compressed look at coming of age, shifting notions of home, and the disintegration of the American dream. It asks us: What does it mean to be of multiple cultures without a road map for how to belong? After a harrowing flight, Queenie, her younger brother, and their elderly Chinese father arrive in the United States from the Philippines. They're here to finally reunite with Queenie's Filipina mother, who has been working as a nurse in Brooklyn for the past few years-building a life that everyone hopes will set them up for better prospects. But her mother is not the same woman she was in the Philippines: Something in her face is different, almost hardened, and she seems so American already. Queenie, on the cusp of adulthood, has big dreams of attending college, of spending her days immersed in the pages of books. But there is not enough money for her and her brother to both be in school, so first she must work. Queenie rotates through jobs and settles, tentatively, into her new life, but her brother begins to withdraw and act out, and her father's anger swells. As the pressures of assimilation compound, and the fissures within her family deepen into fractures, Queenie is left suspended between two countries, two identities, and two parents"--

Published in Australia in 2009, Barley Patch was Murnane's first book in fourteen years, written after a period in which he had thought he would never write fiction again. The book begins with the question, "Must I write?" What follows is both a chronicle of the images that have endured in the author's mind and an exploration of their nature. The clarity of the images is extraordinary, as is their range, from Mandrake the Magician to the bachelor uncle kicked in the "stones" as a child, from a cousin's doll's house to the mysterious woman who lets her hair down, from the soldier beetle who winks messages from God to the racehorses that run forever in the author's mind.The narrator lays bare the acts of writing and imagining, finally giving us a glimpse of the mythical place where the characters of fiction dwell before they come into existence in books. With something of the spirit of Italo Calvino and Georges Perec, this is a cornerstone of Murnane's unclassifiable project, for which he is a deserving Nobel Prize candidate.

“Halperin’s radiant second novel walks the fine line between the longing for couplehood and the torture of codependency. . . . Let the rapturous intimacy and gut-churning ups and downs begin!” —Leigh Haber, The New York Times Book Review By the award-winning author of Something Wild, a gripping portrait of a tumultuous, consuming relationship between a young woman and a recovering addictWhen Leah Kempler meets Charlie Nelson in line at the grocery store, their attraction is immediate and intense. Charlie, with his big feelings and grand proclamations of love, captivates her completely. But there are peculiarities of his life—he’s older than her but lives with his parents; he meets up with a friend at odd hours of the night; he sleeps a lot and always seems to be coming down with something. He confesses that he’s a recovering heroin addict, but he promises Leah that he’s never going to use again.Leah's friends and family are concerned. As she finds herself getting deeper into an isolated relationship, one of manipulation and denial, the truth about Charlie feels as blurry as their time together. Even when Charlie’s behavior becomes increasingly erratic, when he starts to make Leah feel unsafe, she can’t help but feel that what exists between them is destined. Charlie is wide open, boyish, and unbearably handsome. The bounds of Leah’s own pain—and love—are so deep that she can’t see him spiraling into self-destruction.Hanna Halperin writes with aching vulnerability and intimacy, sharply attuned to Leah’s desire for an all-consuming, compulsive connection. I Could Live Here Forever exposes the chasm between perception and truth to tell an intoxicating story of one woman’s relationship with an addict, the accompanying swirl of compassion and codependence, and her enduring search for love and wholeness.

"Twins Calla and Briar have spent their entire lives hiding from the powerful sorceress who destroyed their kingdom... and from the humans, who don't know they're wolves. Each twin has their purpose in life: Briar's is to marry the prince of an ally pack and save the Golden Court. Calla's is to remain a secret, her twin's shadow...the backup plan."--

A girl and her mother have been on the run for sixteen years, from the monster they left in their kitchen with a knife in his throat and the police who want to make them pay. Home is now a van with four flat tires in a junkyard by the edge of a river. The girl has no name, because names are dangerous when you're on the run. But she has a vision of a life as an artist. A life outside the grip of the Brisbane underworld. A life of love with the boy who's waiting for her on the bridge above the deadly river. And once her mother can no longer protect her, there's only one person who can help her realize her dreams. That person is Lola. But she has to find her first.

"If you ever wanted a novel that mapped Stranger Things favorite Eddie Munson's inner life, this is it. Die posers!" -Justin Norton, Decibel magazine"A story of everyday heavy metal folk, and how their everyday pain is real." -Joel McIver, author of To Live is to Die: The Life & Death of Metallica's Cliff BurtonEvery generation faces inevitable trials in the great proving ground of high school. The polarizing definition of cool from a teenager's world sets its own parameters, often hotly contested amongst a school body's diverse subdivisions. Revolution Calling, from veteran music and film journalist Ray Van Horn, Jr. is a retrospective look at high school as he knew it from the alienating stance of heavy metal subculture in the late 1980s. As a semi autobiography, Revolution Calling is an Outsiders tale for Generation X, an examination of the will to belong on one's own terms, even when the stakes turn violent. This is a story of inner and outer turmoil where persecution leads to comeuppance. The path to acceptance in one's life often takes turbulent paths. For Jason Hamlin and Rob Martino, this is a call-to-arms for their own self-worth and moreover, their self-preservation.

18 Texte aus über 10 Jahren BühnenpoesieNicht selten hatten Menschen den Wunsch, ihre Ideen, Gefühle und Gedanken einfach mal an die Wand zu nageln, sodass sie andere besser sehen können. Emm Weyrauch hat diesen Wunsch öfter und versucht, ihn mit diesem Buch zu verwirklichen: einer Gedankengalerie. In ihr befinden sich Werke aus über zehn Jahren Bühnenpoesie, in Hinterhöfen, vor Schmiedeöfen, bei starkem Regen, mit Kirchensegen, mal wenig versöhnlich, auch viel zu persönlich und am Ende immer volle Kanne irgendwie sichtbar gemacht. All das und mehr wurde hier mittels zweier Buchdeckel gebändigt und für alle zur Verfügung gestellt.Bei diesem Buch handelt es sich nicht nur um eine einfache Textsammlung. Dieses Werk lässt niemanden allein durch sein Destillat aus Worten wanken. Zwischen einzelnen Texten wartet eine Führung durch Emm Weyrauchs höchst eigenen Gedankengang. Geprägt ist diese persönliche Tour von Erlebnissen bei Kulturveranstaltungen, von Neurodiversität, von Queerness, von Liebe, von Wut und all den Momenten, die dazwischen liegen ¿ es wird sichtbar, wie aus Worten Wunder werden.

"Sturgeon, Nebula, and Ignyte Awards finalist R.S.A. Garcia's fantasy debut novel--the first in a duology--in which Caribbean mythology meets The Witcher, introduces a world where women warrior-magicians rule, and a child princess and her bodyguard must flee an attempted coup and evade the wave of darkness sent to kill her-fans of Rebecca Roanhorse, John Gwynne, and Ava Reid's The Wolf and the Woodsman will find much to love in The Nightward"--

A bestseller in Japan--a beautiful story about shared self-discovery and friendship involving an unlikely group of students who decide to defy the odds and pursue a seemingly impossible goal together. After shoplifting some bread one chilly March night, just before the start of a new academic year at Kansei University in western Tokyo, former high school track and field star Kakeru Kurahara runs through the city streets. Though he has grown disillusioned with the sport, he feels as if he could keep running forever . . . but to where, and for what? His revery is broken by a mysterious boy on a bike who has been following him, a fellow student at Kansei University named Haiji Kiyose, who also happens to be a runner.Impressed by Kakeru's agility, Haiji Kiyose persuades Kakeru to move into Chikusei-so, a run-down dormitory where he lives with eight other boys, including identical twins Jota and Joji, honor student Shindo, detail-oriented Yuki, trivia junkie King, Tanzanian international student Musa, nicotine-loving Nico, and manga otaku Prince. None of the students know that Chikusei-so is the historic home of the Kansei University Track and Field team.At Kakeru's welcoming party, Kiyose reveals his grand plan: assembling a 10-man team of runners to compete in the Hakone Ekiden, a legendary college marathon relay race. Except for Kakeru and Kiyose, the Chikusei-so gang aren't athletic--or interested in competing. But Kiyose's enthusiasm wins them over and they agree to this crazy plan. Over the course of ten months, this ragtag team will put aside their differences to pursue an elusive dream . . . and gain so much more than they ever expected.Heartfelt and inspiring, Run with the Wind is a thrilling celebration of what it means to run--for yourself, for others, and with the wind.Translated from the Japanese by Yui Kajita

"Enfilez mes bas.""Dépoussiérez mes bibelots.""Shampouinez-moi.""Passez-moi mon déambulateur.""Comment ça vous n'avez plus assez de temps pour ma vaisselle ?"Bérangère débute un travail d'aide à domicile. Avec Huguette, Mauricette, Jocelyne et Josette, elle mange des tonnes de madeleines en écoutant des tas d'histoires. Jusqu'au drame.