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As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she’d have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local junior college, even though she can’t imagine how she’ll ever make a living. She’s still figuring things out and never planned to have an affair with her English professor—and while the affair is brief, it isn’t brief enough to keep her from getting pregnant. Despite everyone’s advice, she decides to keep the baby, mostly out of naiveté and a yearning for something bigger.

Addio, amore! di Matilde Serao è un romanzo pubblicato nel 1896 che esplora le vicende sentimentali di una giovane donna, Dina. La protagonista, attraverso una serie di lettere, racconta la fine del suo amore per Alberto, un uomo che non è all'altezza dei suoi ideali romantici. Serao, con il suo stile fluido e introspezione psicologica, dipinge un quadro vivido delle emozioni e delle disillusioni amorose. Il romanzo riflette sulla fragilità dei sentimenti e sulla forza necessaria per superare la fine di un amore, offrendo uno spaccato autentico della società e delle dinamiche di genere del tempo.

Maati is a young man like most young people who graduate and find themselves unemployed. After his father's death, reality becomes more difficult, so he embarks on many adventures and jobs and reaches Dr. Maher, the apartment thief, who convinces him to work with him. So what will the world do to Moati?

Deel 1 van de Ravenhood-serie. Een liefdesverhaal vol spanning, passie en plotwendingen dat je ademloos achterlaat. De afspraak is simpel: het enige wat de negentienjarige studente Cecilia Horner hoeft te doen, is het een jaar uithouden bij haar van haar vervreemde vader in het kleine stadje Triple Falls en in zijn fabriek werken. In ruil daarvoor betaalt hij niet alleen haar collegegeld, maar ontvangt ze ook een klein fortuin waarmee Cecilia haar alleenstaande moeder kan helpen. Maar alles verandert wanneer ze Sean ontmoet op haar eerste werkdag.

Roland Keener is an aging hairstylist who’s lived and worked in Winnipeg all his life. He’s more or less content with the quiet and predictable days he shares with his partner of twenty-five years, Tony. That is, until he hears that Birdy O’Day—washed-up music icon and Roland’s childhood best friend and first love—is playing his first concert in Winnipeg since fleeing decades earlier. Holing up with a scrapbook of news clippings about Birdy, Roland recalls his childhood in the ’60s and his friendship with Birdy until the pair became estranged when Birdy left in pursuit of stardom.

Convinced of his own moral and intellectual superiority, the nameless protagonist of this debut novel is also paralyzed by self-consciousness. Yet, inspired by Stephen King’s On Writing, he decides to dedicate four hours a day to work on his own novel over the course of one summer. Only, he must also balance his creative goals with a part-time government job and looking after his girlfriend’s possibly brain-damaged Pomeranian dog.

After his daughter, Avery, was born, John gave it all up—hobbies, friends, a dream job—to be something more: a super dad. Since then, he’s spent nearly every waking second with Avery, who’s his absolute best bud. Or, at least, she was. When now eleven-year-old Avery begins transforming into an eye-rolling zombie of a preteen who dreads spending time with him, a desperate John whisks her away for a weeklong father-daughter retreat to get their relationship back on track before she starts middle school.

“Hijo de Malinche” narra la transformación vital de Martín Cortés, un periodista de Barcelona que, obligado por su jefe, viajará por negocios a México. A punto de entrar en la cuarentena, casado con una hija pequeña, no se siente del todo feliz y, por diversas circunstancias, en el país azteca comenzará a creerse que es la reencarnación del hijo de Hernán Cortés y él mismo se sentirá a la vez conquistador y conquistado por ‘las Américas’ en pleno siglo XXI.

It's 2017, and the crisis of forced disappearances has reached a tipping point after forty-three docent students disappeared and are feared dead. Aureliano Más the Second is a fledgling writer at a lucrative fellowship in Mexico City chaired by his aunt, Rose.

" Toute leur enfance les a unis, l’adolescence les sépare. " Phil, 16 ans, et Vinca, 15 ans, amis de toujours, passent leurs étés en Bretagne. Tout naturellement, l’amour s’installe entre ces deux complices inséparables, un amour qui grandit plus vite qu’eux. Cet été-là, Vinca et Phil découvrent leurs différences et leurs incompréhensions. Ces amours adolescentes révèlent à Vinca et à Phil ce qu’ils sont désormais et ne seront jamais plus. Et ces vacances s’achèvent sur un adieu à l’enfance, amer et nostalgique.

Max is about to finish high school. On the surface it appears he has everything, but underneath he is floundering. Grappling with questions about his birth parents and his sexuality, he feels that there is a seed of badness deep within him that will inevitably be exposed. After an incident at the end-of-year party sets Max's world to crumbling, he must finally figure out who he is and where he came from–and who he is allowed to love.