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Perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia, Thanhha Lai, and Rebecca Stead, internationally bestselling author Nadia Hashimi s first novel for young readers is a coming-of-age journey set in modern-day Afghanistan that explores life as a bacha posh a preteen girl dressed as a boy. Obayda s...

Saints and Misfits is an unforgettable debut novel that feels like a modern day My So-Called Life…starring a Muslim teen. There are three kinds of people in my world: 1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. Sometimes you glaze over them. Or, at least, I do. They’re in...

Charlie n'est pas rêveuse, mais déterminée, ça, oui. Issue des mauvais quartiers de Chicago et d'une famille tout aussi peu reluisante, elle compte bien s'offrir un avenir meilleur. Les hommes sont accessoires, son expérience l'a convaincue de ne pas compter sur eux. Elle ne connait que les bad boys et a fini par se convaincre que le romantisme et l'amour ce n'est pas pour elle. Mais voilà, il y a ce type qui vient chanter un soir dans le bar où elle travaille, et qui ne la traite pas comme les autres. Difficile de ne pas craquer.

Cities have been replaced by technates. It is a world of soaring apartments, hundreds of stories high, where technology measures, monitors, and rations to meet the needs of the greater populace. It is a world of drones, in the air and on the ground, and advanced robotic beings who carry out much of the harder labor, security, and even pleasure assignments. Those discontent, or who resist, are taken to rehabilitation centers, established after the embrace of the greater good doctrine.

With advice and suggestions for everything from emotional coping mechanisms (such as how to deal with the loss of socializing) to recipes with specific uses (like a pain-reducing turmeric ginger tea to sip throughout the day) and mental exercises, this book will help get listeners in touch with their bodies in new and valuable ways.

Life is a puzzle just waiting to be solved - that's how Reya, a young woman with a penchant for solving complex puzzles, sees it. Reya's life is governed by routine; a roadmap of rules from what foods she eats to what clothes she wears. Most of her time is spent working on her online challenge forum, "The Puzzler". An agoraphobe with obsessive compulsive disorder who hasn’t had sight of the outside world in over six years, Reya views her own symptoms as just another puzzle to be solved.

"Hassib, herself an Egyptian immigrant living in West Virginia, articulates the full-bodied chorus of Egypt's voices." --The New York Times Book Review "Exquisite. . . . Anchoring the story is a pair of Cairo-born sisters whose fates spin in radically different directions in the wake of the...

Perfect for fans of Sonali Dev and Soniah Kamal. A young woman must find herself a husband in three months...otherwise, her parents will matchmake one for her! To Leila Abid’s traditional Indian parents, finding a husband is as easy as match, meet, marry. Yes, she wants to marry, but after 26...

A woman’s search to find her son uncovers the shocking truth about one of Britain’s darkest periods. Struggling with the demons of her past, Emily is a children’s author, with a dark secret, and a guilt that threatens to consume her. For 20 years she has lived in Brighton, England, trying to forget the day they took her baby from her, just hours after he was born. But now, in the summer of 1987, she decides to begin the search for her son.

Le grand retour de l'auteur de "D.I.M.I.L.Y.", la trilogie phénomène ! Est-il possible de se retrouver après un an de silence ? MacKenzie Rivers avait tout pour elle : des amis formidables, de bonnes notes et, cerise sur le gâteau, le beau Jaden Hunter qui craquait pour elle. Mais tout s'est écroulé lorsqu'une tragédie a frappé la famille Hunter. Désarmée face à la souffrance de ceux qu'elle aime, MacKenzie ne voit qu'une solution : fuir. Cependant ses sentiments pour Jaden ne tardent pas à la rattraper.

Le destin tragique de la "Femme de trente ans" est aussi affreusement banal : Julie d'Aiglemont est mariée à un homme qu'elle n'aime pas. Malheureuse et délaissée, la seule façon pour elle de ne pas subir son mariage est de tomber amoureuse d'un autre. Mais de morts malencontreuses en amours contrariées, ses amants et enfants illégitimes ne lui permettront pas d'échapper réellement au contrat auquel elle n'a eu d'autre choix que de se soumettre. Cette sombre histoire, résolument moderne, est sans doute le roman le plus engagé de Balzac, qui dénonce avec force et justesse l'oppression qui pèse sur les femmes.

"Il me reste quelques rêves à réaliser et le moment est venu de m'y atteler. Je vous aime très fort. À très bientôt ! Maman." Léna n'en revient pas. Comment sa mère, qui l'a convoquée pour passer Noël dans la maison de son enfance, a-t-elle pu disparaître en ne lui laissant que ce message sibyllin ? La voilà donc coincée dans le petit village de Vallenot au cœur des Alpes de Haute-Provence et condamnée à passer la fête qu'elle hait plus que tout, entourée de sa famille pour le moins... haute en couleur ! Mais les fêtes de famille ont le don de faire rejaillir les secrets enfouis.

The Seven Years War is over but trouble in the American colonies is brewing. Maintaining her disguise as a young man, Patricia is finding success as Patrick MacPherson. Formerly a surgeon’s mate in His Majesty’s Navy, Patrick has lately been employed aboard the colonial merchant schooner Andromeda, smuggling foreign molasses into Rhode Island. Late October, amidst riots against the newly imposed Stamp Act, she leaves Newport bound for the West Indies on her first run as Andromeda’s master. In Havana a chance meeting with a former enemy presents unexpected opportunities.

Thirteen-year-old Silver Batal calls the desert home, but her heart belongs to the waters. Although she’s expected to become a jeweler like her father, Silver harbors a secret and forbidden wish to race water dragons. Destiny comes calling when her friendship with a mysterious old woman leads her to Hiyyan, a baby dragon that can swim and fly. Risking everything, Silver, Hiyyan, and her resourceful cousin, Brajon, set off across the desert to join the legendary races in the royal city.

Thirteen-year-old Silver Batal calls the desert home, but her heart belongs to the waters. Although she’s expected to become a jeweler like her father, Silver harbors a secret and forbidden wish to race water dragons. Destiny comes calling when her friendship with a mysterious old woman leads her to Hiyyan, a baby dragon that can swim and fly. Risking everything, Silver, Hiyyan, and her resourceful cousin Brajon set off across the desert to join the legendary races in the royal city.

It's late October, 1762. After surviving the deadly siege of Havana, Patrick MacPherson and the rest of the ship’s company are looking forward to a well-deserved liberty in New York. But what happens in that colonial town will change the surgeon's mate's life in ways she could never have imagined. Using a dead man’s identity, young Patricia Kelley MacPherson is making her way as Patrick MacPherson, surgeon’s mate aboard His Majesty’s frigate Richmond. She's become adept at bleeding, blistering, and amputating limbs; but if her cover is blown, she’ll lose both her livelihood and her berth aboard the frigate.

Her parents were killed when the Germans invaded France, leaving her all alone to care for a sickly aristocrat. As she grew into young womanhood, she found purpose in helping the French Resistance. He was a young cowboy from Montana, trained by the Airborne to deploy by parachute and fight behind enemy lines. But a series of mishaps on the eve of the biggest invasion in world history causes him to be dropped farther behind enemy lines than anybody planned.

True stories inspired by one of the most iconic, beloved, best-selling books of our time. In the 10 years since its electrifying debut, Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love has become a worldwide phenomenon, empowering millions of people to set out on paths they never thought possible, in search of their own best selves. Here, in this candid and captivating collection, nearly 50 of those people, as diverse in their experiences as they are in age and background, share their stories.

Autobiografisch stellt die Autorin die Arbeit mit Rückführungen in ungeklärte Situationen aus der Vergangenheit und deren Lösung vor.

Ein Mord in Roms Oberschicht: Giulia, Jurastudentin aus bester Familie, wird tot aufgefunden. Wer war der Liebhaber, den sie vor ihrem Tod empfangen hat...