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Lulu is a fascinating heroine based on the equally fascinating life of her creator. Come take the journey with Lulu as she grows from a precocious child in Charleston, SC, into a coed at a college in the North. A journey that comes with all of the heartbreak of first love, motherly rivalry, brotherly caring, and parental betrayal. With a literary voice in the grand tradition of the great Southern writers, one of America's best-selling nonfiction authors, Nancy Friday, has in Lulu created a fascinating first work of fiction.

A teenage girl meets Satan in the form of a dog. Mild acts of mayhem ensue.

Thee Champagne Earthquake follows three wine industry professionals in San Francisco — Edie, a bipolar wine rep desperately searching for love; Ernest, a depressed sommelier who attempts suicide after his mother's cancer diagnosis; and Sammy, a philosophical restaurateur seeking deep connection — as they navigate existential questions about purpose and belonging.

Erica struggles with her obsessions, to the point where her life is ruled by them. After losing her job, she seeks out a new one with the aid of her best friend Kara by her side. Change has always been tricky, but between support group and art classes, Erica finds she’s able to cope with everything. With her head held high, she’s determined to make the best of her new job.

No one needs that many hookups! Not even soon to be major league pitcher Theo Von Bremen. So, I help him by routinely thinning out his contact list - because I'm the best roommate ever. And he's optimal baby daddy material. For me - not Amanda one, two, or three. But since the man can't take a hint, I'll continue to spray his sheets with my perfume and accidentally leave my panties in his laundry. That has to be enough to break a man eventually. Right?

Ashlynn Myers, along with a few sorority sisters, is heading to Myrtle Beach for four weeks of fun in the sun. The last thing she expects is to meet a guy while on vacation who will make her fall fast and hard before she even knows what hit her. When she meets Chase the chemistry between them is undeniable. The thing about summer and summer romances is that they both come with expiration dates. After summer ends, you have to part ways and go back to your everyday lives.

In der Novelle Schwüle Tage verbringt der junge Graf Bill seine Sommerferien auf dem Familiensitz, nachdem er das Abitur nicht bestanden hat. Unter der glühenden Sonne entfalten sich emotionale Spannungen zwischen ihm, seinem distanzierten Vater und geheimnisvollen Begegnungen mit Dorfbewohnern. Eduard von Keyserling schildert in schlichter und eindringlicher Sprache die Irritationen des Erwachsenwerdens, familiäre Erwartungen und das Ende einer Liebe.

Son to a drug-dependent, single-parent, work-from-home prostitute, 11-year-old Ryan defends his mother from abusive clients and tackles ridicule from schoolyard bullies. Seeking solace in time-lost literature, he becomes a pained poet before he has learnt how to play. Kim does the best she can to raise him, but with little means to support herself, her boy, and her spiraling drug addiction, she struggles to even keep a roof over their heads and food in their bellies. Then Kim meets Byron, a similarly lost soul, seeking any kind of human connection even if he must pay for the company.

Her parents named her Calico Watts, a name she hates as much as she does the rest of her life. Growing up a child of divorce in Weldon Spring, Missouri has left Cali numb, without identity or purpose, sapped of any ambition for the future and even for the one thing all teenagers crave: freedom. Cali’s mother, Karen, is not lacking ambition, but it’s all toxic.

It is June 1983. Jim Garraty is a senior at South Miami Senior High. He's a staff writer for the school paper, a college-bound scholar who plans to become a historian and author of books on military history. He's well-liked by his peers and teachers, and his future looks bright. But as commencement draws near for the Class of 1983, Jim must deal with unfinished business.

Tough, spirited, and fiercely independent Abigail is brought as a teenager to London from Nigeria by relatives who attempt to force her into prostitution. She flees, struggling to find herself in the shadow of a strong but dead mother. In spare yet haunting and lyrical prose reminiscent of Marguerite Duras, Abani brings to life a young woman who lives with a strength and inner light that will enlighten and uplift the listener.

Rowan is visiting her aunt—Winne the hedge witch—in the Welsh countryside, to get back to nature and hone her skills, as well as taking a break from her annoying sisters and enjoying some peace and quiet. However, Rowan soon comes to realise that hedges are a serious business and this isn’t quite the opportunity to rest and escape she thought it might be. Not only that, but mysterious events around the town are causing panic in the secret magical community and cowans—non-magical folk—are starting to take notice.

In book four of the Brittany Meyer Novellas, Brittany tries to come to grips with her unusual abilities, most of which she doesn’t understand. She is mentored by Tusks, a demon who is enamored of her due to a love potion gone awry. But when Tusks is abducted and spirited away to another dimension for judgement by a demon master, Brittany knows she must put aside her self-doubt and go after him. A decision that is easier made than done. The demon realm is vast and can only be reached through astral projection - which she’s only managed once.

Living on the streets is hard enough, so when Mama drags me out in the middle of the night, I know we’re in trouble. Big trouble. Her so-called secret mission to help a “friend” is a crap-sandwich if I ever saw one and I almost talk Mama into going home.... Then we find that first dead body.

When socialite party girl Mia Abbott-Renou wakes up in a garden, she has little recall of the previous night - except that she is naked...hurt...terrified. Not only has she been raped, but she knows one of her assailants: the son of a wealthy politician, who happens to be her own father’s political ally. Mia wants and needs justice. Except, this privileged boy has an alibi, and her father forbids her from going to the police.

Brittany is a 17-year-old witch with magical powers she doesn’t want and can’t control. When she is told that her birth father is an actual angel who was banished to a different dimension for fraternizing with a human, she decides to find and hold him accountable. But when she gets there, she realizes he is more in need of saving than she is.

After a brief reprieve and quiet birthday, Mia once more becomes the center of media attention. This time, it’s because the allegations against her attackers go public - before Mia and her team are ready. Thrust into intense public scrutiny again, Mia is faced with a new difficulty from the direction of her father, who follows through with his threats and forever alters the dynamics of her world.

Mia realizes the aftermath of her rape is not over when she is rocked by another challenge, one that will put her publicly at odds with her father, a US senator who has made her the poster child for his re-election. But the public face he wants her to wear can’t be farther from who she is inside. The latest rape victim is expected to die soon, and only Mia can identify the attackers.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Library and Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade, a charming and cinematic novel following a young woman from Montana who takes a job in the American Library in Paris, where she discovers the power of storytelling and her own dreams. Paris, 1995...

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years A modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they...