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When Dougy's sister, Gracey, is picked for the state athletics championships, not everybody in their small bush town in pleased. 'Aborigines get special treatment', some of the angry white people say. The championships change everything for Gracey and trigger dramatic events in the town too: Black and white relations reach explosion point. The time is ripe for the mysterious Moodagudda to seek a victim. In the end, it's up to Dougy to save his family - and to prove himself.

Teenage burn survivor Wilder Tate begins high school ashamed of his disfigurement. He finds an outlet tapping into his one-dimensional basketball talent as a shutdown defender and courts his cheerleader dream girl, only to endure heartbreak and setbacks that drive him to have a tissue-expander operation to rid himself of his scar tissue for good, but at what price?

Wenn Sophie es sich aussuchen könnte, wäre ihr Leben simpel. Aber das ist es nicht. Und das war es auch nie. Das fängt damit an, dass ihre Mutter sie direkt nach der Geburt im Stich gelassen hat. Und endet damit, dass Sophies Vater plötzlich beschließt, mit seiner Tochter zu seiner Freundin nach München zu ziehen. Alle sind glücklich. Bis auf Sophie. Was hat es bloß mit dieser verdammten Liebe auf sich? Sophie selbst war noch nie verliebt. Klar gab es Jungs, einsam ist sie trotzdem. Bis sie in der neuen Stadt auf Alex trifft.

Laila Piedra doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, and definitely doesn’t sneak into the 21-and-over clubs on the Lower East Side. The only sort of risk Laila enjoys is the peril she writes for the characters in her stories: epic sci-fi worlds full of quests, forbidden love, and robots. Her creative writing teacher has always told her she has a special talent. But three months before graduation, Laila’s number one fan is replaced by Nadiya Nazarenko, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who sees nothing at all special about Laila’s writing, leading to a series of unexpected adventures.

Florine Orphelin prête sa voix douce à ce conte onirique coréen. Il paraît que le Magasin La Mousson, situé dans la ville d'Arc-en-ciel, n'ouvre que les jours de pluie. Que pour s'y faire inviter, il faut raconter ses malheurs sur papier, et les envoyer par courrier aux gobelins qui gèrent les lieux. Que si ces derniers vous choisissent, en échange de votre visite ils vous offriront un grand bonheur... Serine n'aurait jamais cru recevoir son invitation pour le magasin des gobelins... accompagnée d'un mystérieux carton d'or !

My name’s Cameron Wolfe. I have a little bit of sense. I don’t have much sense. My older brother Ruben gets me into plenty of trouble. I get Rube into as much trouble as he gets me into. I have a family, yes, that doesn’t really function without tomato sauce. That’s me. Cameron and Ruben Wolfe are brothers. They spend most of their time throwing one-handed boxing matches (they only have the one pair of gloves) and plotting to rob the local dentists.

Ricordati sempre la luce che sei. Gioia ha sempre pensato che ci fosse una parola per dare un senso a tutto. Dove quelle che conosceva non potevano arrivare, c'erano quelle delle altre lingue: intraducibili, ma piene di magia. Ora, il quaderno su cui appuntava quelle parole giace dimenticato in un cassonetto. Gioia è diventata la notte del luminoso giorno che era: ha lasciato la scuola e non fa più le sue chiacchierate, belle come viaggi, con il professore di filosofia, Bove. Neanche lui ha le risposte che cerca. Anzi, proprio lui l'ha delusa più di tutti.

Dúas vidas que se cruzan de madrugada a través das redes. Un rapaz e unha rapaza que se entregan a un xogo misterioso: compartir os seus soños, as súas ilusións e os seus temores, pero non a súa identidade. Axiña darán o seguinte paso: unha cita ás cegas. Con todo, atoparse cun descoñecido sempre ten os seus riscos. Porque todos ocultamos segredos... Un cadáver. O corpo dun rapaz, desfigurado pola violencia da caída. Unha vida nova arruinada para sempre, unha morte que suscita máis preguntas ca respostas.

Ellory returns to Pine Brook to navigate senior year after a two-month suspension and summer away - no boyfriend, no friends. No going back. Tormented by some and sought out by others, troubled by a mysterious note-writer who won’t let Ellory forget, and consumed by guilt over her not entirely innocent role in everything and everyone she’s lost, Ellory finds that even in the present, the past is everywhere. The path forward isn’t a straight line. And moving on will mean sorting the truth from the lies - the lies Ellory has been telling herself.

The young and beautiful daughter of a wealthy family, Ginevra longs to share her poetry and participate in the artistic ferment of Renaissance Florence but is trapped in an arranged marriage in a society dictated by men. The arrival of the charismatic Venetian ambassador, Bernardo Bembo, introduces Ginevra to a dazzling circle of patrons, artists, and philosophers.

Since her grandmother became her caretaker when she was four years old, Bisou Martel has lived a quiet life in a little house in Seattle. She’s kept mostly to herself. She’s been good. But then comes the night of homecoming, when she finds herself running for her life over roots and between trees, a fury of claws and teeth behind her. A wolf attacks. Bisou fights back. A new moon rises. And with it, questions. About the blood in Bisou’s past, and on her hands as she stumbles home. About broken boys and vicious wolves. About girls lost in the woods - frightened, but not alone.

Sixteen-year-old Leo has a way with words, but he doesn’t know it yet. He spends his time texting, polishing soccer maneuvers, and killing time with Niko and Silvia. Until a new teacher arrives and challenges him to give voice to his dreams. And so Leo is inspired to win over the red-haired beauty, Beatrice. She doesn’t know Leo exists, but he’s convinced that his dream to win her over will come true. When Leo lands in the hospital and learns that Beatrice has been admitted too, his mission to be there for her will send him on a thrilling but heartbreaking journey.

The minute the school bus carrying Nate Chance and his little sister, Junie, pulls up in front of his family's farmhouse, Nate can tell something's terribly wrong: Somehow his father has been wounded by a gunshot. Nate sees him stagger across the yard, then watches as the police take him away.

Tens of thousands of crows invading Auburn, Pennsylvania, is a problem for everyone in town except 17-year-old Leighton Barnes. For Leighton, it’s no stranger than her house, which inexplicably repairs itself every time her father loses his temper and breaks things. Leighton doesn’t have time for the crows - it’s her senior year, and acceptance to her dream college is finally within reach. But grabbing that lifeline means abandoning her sisters, a choice she’s not ready to face.

Fa poc vaig salvar la vida a un paio. Dit així, ja sé que sona una mica fort. Però és la veritat. De vegades la veritat és forta. El paio a qui vaig salvar la vida té dos anys més que jo i em cau molt malament. Ben mirat, potser des que li va passar allò em cau una mica millor, però només una mica. De fet no ho sé. No seria el seu amic per res del món. Segur que us esteu preguntant què va passar, què vaig fer. Potser m'imagineu com un heroi. Algú que va pel món salvant vides o salvant mons. Que du una capa i una "S" llampant a la samarreta. No us ratlleu.

Hace poco le salvé la vida a un tío. Dicho así, ya sé que suena un poco fuerte. Pero es verdad. A veces la verdad es fuerte. El tío al que le salvé la vida tiene dos años más que yo y me cae fatal. Bueno, puede que desde lo que pasó me caiga un poco mejor, pero solo un poco. En realidad no lo sé. No sería su amigo por nada del mundo. Seguro que os estáis preguntando qué pasó, qué hice. Igual me imagináis como un héroe. Alguien que va por ahí salvando vidas o salvando mundos. O que lleva capa y una "S" muy grande en la camiseta. No os rayéis. Soy un tío como todos, pero más raro.

Gamuza es un muchacho que vive en el barrio de Las Flores, dentro de la ciudad argentina de Rosario (la misma donde nacieron glorias futbolísticas de la talla de Lionel Messi, Marcelo Bielsa y el "Trinche" Carlovich). Como tantos otros de su edad, él mismo sueña con ser futbolista. Pero un acontecimiento tuerce su vida y lo precipita en otra senda, haciendo que esta narración se vuelva un policial.

Dani comes from the richest, most famous Black family in Texas and seems to have everything a girl could want. So why does she keep using and engaging in other self-destructive behavior? Camila's Colombian-American family doesn't have much, but she knows exactly what she wants out of life and works her ass off to get it. So why does she keep failing, and why does she self-harm every time she does? Dani and Camila find themselves rooming together at Peach Tree Hills, a treatment facility in beautiful rural Georgia. They think they'll never get along—and never get better.

Nikolai Lantsov, sovrano di Ravka, corsaro, soldato, secondogenito di un re disonorato, ha sempre avuto un'innata propensione alle situazioni difficili, ma questa volta sembra dover fare i conti con qualcosa di impossibile, qualcosa che nessuno, tra la popolazione di Ravka, potrebbe mai immaginare. Come se non bastasse, per arrestare l'avanzata dei nemici che si assiepano lungo i confini del regno, il giovane re deve trovare un modo per riempire le casse dello Stato, stipulare nuove alleanze e fermare il nuovo pericolo che minaccia quello che un tempo è stato il glorioso esercito Grisha.

For Xavier McLachlan, rugby is life. Winning his first XV jersey means everything - Until he meets Nuala Magee. Has there ever been a girl like her? She's feisty, she's troubled, she's dangerous. What will his mates think? Does he even care? Everything looks different now. Xavier McLachlan is in love.