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כשהייתי קצת יותר גדול, אבא שלי לימד אותי לרכוב על אופניים בלי גלגלי עזר. זה היה בפאתי אמסטרדם, במגרש החניה של פארק שעשועים ענק, ניסיתי לסובב את הדוושות, והוא רץ מאחורי והחזיק את הברזלים שמאחורי המושב. על הפעם הראשונה שהוא עזב אותם ושיחרר אותי לרכוב לבד, איבדתי את שיווי המשקל ונפלתי. הולנדים הצביעו עלינו וצחקו. הזענו בטירוף, אני ממש זוכר את כתם הזיעה בחזה של אבא שלי. אחרי כמה נפילות הוא נעמד מולי ואמר בקול רך "אם תמשיך לנסוע ככה זה לא ילך, בן." "איך ככה?" שאלתי אותו, ושפשתי את הברך שכאבה מהנפילה האחרונה.

UNA STORIA COMMOVENTE SUL DIFFICILE PASSAGGIO DALL'ADOLESCENZA ALL'ETÀ ADULTA E SULLA FORZA INSPIEGABILE DELL'AMORE. Nato qualche mese dopo il felice naufragio del matrimonio dei genitori, Teo Luci cresce in una grande e originale famiglia, educato da due poli opposti: sua madre, del Sud, allevata a balie, collegi e bugie; suo padre, del Nord, cresciuto tra i boschi e il cattolicesimo. Oltre al figlio, l'unica somiglianza nelle vite slegate dei suoi è la passione per il cinema: il motivo per cui si sono trasferiti a Roma, il mestiere che stanno imparando, la febbre che hanno tutte le persone di cui si circondano.

Sull’isola non tutti vanno e vengono allo stesso modo. Ci sono quelli che arrivano con il sole di maggio e ripartono con le prime piogge di settembre. C’è chi fa avanti e indietro ogni giorno, senza più chiedersi a quale riva appartenga davvero. E poi ci sono quelli che, messi dalla vita davanti a un bivio, hanno dovuto scegliere se restare o imbarcarsi per una partenza che può valere un addio. Entrambe le scelte lasciano un segno invisibile e profondo.

Twenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou and never read about “Chinese-y” things again. But after years of grueling research, all she has to show for her efforts are a junk food addiction and stomach pain. When she accidentally stumbles upon a curious note in the Chou archives one afternoon, it looks like her ticket out of academic hell.

Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson - a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake - and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible, haunting vision of death. As Cory struggles to understand his father's pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that surround him.

Ava Thompson left her one true love, Jasper White, to unearth her destiny. It was the only way for Ava to grow into the woman she’s always wanted to become. Sadly, that destiny has led her back to the place that broke her…Singapore. And more importantly, it has led her back to the man who broke her…Harper. Ava is no longer the scared, lost girl she once was. She is stronger and determined to accomplish her dreams in order to find happiness. Hopefully, at the end of it all, she will return into the loving arms of Jasper White.

In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was 15, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere, she paints a vivid portrait of a particular time and place....

One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward is the sole survivor.

נונו הוא בנו של איש משטרה בכיר. אמו מתה כשהיה תינוק, והנפש הקרובה אליו ביותר היא גַבִּי, מזכירתו וחברתו של אביו. בתחילת הסיפור הוא עולה על הרכבת בירושלים ונוסע לביקור משפחתי בחיפה. הוא לא יגיע לשם. בדרכו הוא יקלע ל"חטיפה" ולמסע של פשעים קטנים וגדולים, מטורפים ואביריים, בעוד הוא נמלט מן המשטרה המחפשת אחריו. במהלך המאורעות המתעתעים ייחשף בפניו הסיפור האמיתי של הוריו ושלו, והסיפור הזה ישלח אותו הלאה, אל תוך ההרפתקה המסעירה של גילוי עצמו וגורלו.

In the farm fields surrounding Sault Ste. Marie, a border town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, time seems to stand still. Summer, the sun scalds the local boys’ necks as they bale hay for cash. Winter, the girls bundle up against the cold and jostle through the high school halls like trailered sheep. Most kids dream of leaving, but Everett Lindt plans to stay on his family's sheep farm, develop his own herd, and eventually rebuild the crumbling homestead that looks over the land he loves.

Suzanna Klein spends every Saturday at Hillcrest prison, where her mother is serving a life sentence. Many leave Hillcrest and do not return—women who are released or transferred, family members who stop visiting. Suzanna’s grandmother has never visited and is entirely unforgiving of her daughter’s decision to aid in a politically motivated robbery that led to a man’s death. At an early age Suzanna vows to return to the prison forever—to stay by choice, not by curse—and the book traces her quest to remain in a place everyone else wants to leave.

Freshman Minnie is adrift at college in Austin, Texas, when she discovers a boy band called HOURglass and the online forums that worship them. She especially loves Halo, whose sharp edges feel somehow familiar. After a brief romance goes painfully awry, Minnie pours everything into her new fandom, clinging to each livestream and bonding with other fans online. But when a scandal threatens to expose Halo to harm, Minnie decides that she is the only one who can save him.

It’s 1972, and eighteen-year-old tomboy Maeve O’Connor must win a photography contest to escape her suffocating, conservative family and attend her dream school in Manhattan. But where will she find arresting subjects? Why, a washed up old seaside resort called Asbury Park, New Jersey—a place where sideshow entertainers, strippers, carnies, artists, and alternative lifestyles coexist on the boardwalk in plain sight.

Diamonds from Darkness, a boy with a big heart and even bigger challenges! Born on a warm October day in 1968, Thomas's early life is filled with love but also struggles. After his mother’s battle with postpartum depression, he finds comfort with his grandmother. As he grows, he experiences the joy of family, the thrill of his first birthday, and the excitement of a new brother, Joseph. But with joy comes jealousy, and sharing attention isn’t easy!

Paris was born and raised a slave on a South Carolina rice plantation. As a young boy, he used to look up at the birds, flying freely above him. He longed to be free like the birds, but in 18th century, pre-Revolutionary times, it seemed impossible. However, when the British came seeking slaves willing to desert their masters to fight their cause, a 15-year-old Paris saw his chance, and took it.

In the early 1970s, Poe is living a nomadic life, hopping trains, sleeping rough, and juggling to feed himself. He eventually settles in Philadelphia and masters his street act before ever-growing crowds. When one of his fellow buskers presents him with an opportunity—a bank heist—he should have refused, an innocent bystander is killed, and he splits town a felon.

The Tiny Things Are Heavier follows Sommy, a Nigerian woman who comes to the United States for graduate school two weeks after her brother, Mezie, attempts suicide. Plagued by the guilt of leaving Mezie behind, Sommy struggles to fit into her new life as a student and an immigrant. Lonely and homesick, Sommy soon enters a complicated relationship with her boisterous Nigerian roommate, Bayo, a relationship that plummets into deceit when Sommy falls for Bryan, a biracial American, whose estranged Nigerian father left the States immediately after his birth.

The Last Summer is a poignant and heartfelt coming-of-age novel that captures the bittersweet transition between youth and adulthood.

Een hartverwarmende roman met een vleugje Japanse mystiek over verschillende vormen van liefde en omgaan met verlies. In een steegje in Tokio zit al meer dan honderd jaar een café dat zorgvuldig gezette koffie schenkt. Dit cafeetje biedt de klanten een unieke ervaring: de kans om door de tijd te reizen. In Voordat de waarheid uitkomt brengen vier nieuwe gasten een bezoekje aan het verleden of de toekomst.

Terrestre bien podría ser definido como un libro de crónicas especulativas o relatos de viaje, en todo caso, de palabras en completa libertad. Imaginativo, con estructuras narrativas audaces, Cristina Rivera Garza escribe aquí sobre trayectos terrestres que nos llevan a distintos lugares de México y el mundo, y a distintos destinos del cuerpo. A pie, en bus o en tren, tintos las jóvenes protagonistas de estas historias avanzan acompasadas por rutas ignotas, inventando para sí nuevos modos de ocupar los espacios negados y en disputa.