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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom.

Elsewhere is where 15-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn 16, not 14 again. She wants to get her driver's license. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. And now that she's dead, Liz is being forced to live a life she doesn't want.

Questa non è una storia d'amore, ma parla d'amore... Una fredda mattina del 1995, Sam Masur scende dalla metropolitana e, tra la folla che si accalca sulla banchina, la vede: Sadie Green. La chiama e, per un attimo, lei finge di non sentirlo, poi il rancore si stempera nella nostalgia. Sono passati otto anni dal litigio che aveva spezzato il loro legame, strettissimo eppure fragile, come solo le amicizie dell’infanzia sanno essere. Adesso sono all’università, ed entrambi hanno deciso di trasformare la comune passione per i videogiochi in materia di studio e, un giorno, in una professione.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry comes an enchanting story about love in its many forms, and a man's timeless journey into the unknowable territory of the woman he loves. From the moment they first sleep together—piled atop seven mattresses in her dorm room—N. is drawn into a rich and enchanted relationship with Margaret Towne, a woman who will introduce him to worlds he never knew existed.

In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine. It consists of going to school, taking care of her siblings and her dying grandmother, trying to avoid falling in love with the new assistant D.A.'s son, and avoiding her loser ex-boyfriend.

Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family living in a too-red house in a Texas college town. Roger, the patriarch, has impulsively gone back to school, only to find his future ambitions at odds with the temptations of the present. His wife, Georgia, tries to keep things afloat at home, but she's been feeding the bill drawer with unopened envelopes for months and never manages to confront its swelling contents. In an attempt to climb out of the holes they've dug, Roger and Georgia make a series of choices that have catastrophic consequences for their three children

Since her release from Liberty Children's Facility, Anya Balanchine is determined to follow the straight and narrow. Unfortunately, her criminal record is making it hard for her to do that. No high school wants her with a gun possession charge on her rap sheet. Plus, all the people in her life have moved on: Natty has skipped two grades at Holy Trinity, Scarlet and Gable seem closer than ever, and even Win is in a new relationship. But when old friends return demanding that certain debts be paid, Anya is thrown right back into the criminal world that she had been determined to escape.

If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn't have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her "Chief".

All These Things I've Done, the first novel in the Birthright series, introduced us to timeless heroine Anya Balanchine, a plucky sixteen year old with the heart of a girl and the responsibilities of a grown woman. Now eighteen, life has been more bitter than sweet for Anya. She has lost her parents and her grandmother, and has spent the better part of her high school years in trouble with the law. Perhaps hardest of all, her decision to open a nightclub with her old nemesis Charles Delacroix has cost Anya her relationship with Win.

Dalla tragica morte della moglie, A.J. Fikry è diventato un uomo scontroso e irascibile, insofferente verso gli abitanti della piccola isola dove vive e stufo del suo lavoro di libraio. Disprezza i libri che vende (mentre quelli che non vende gli ricordano quanto il mondo stia cambiando in peggio) e ne ha fin sopra i capelli dei pochi clienti che gli sono rimasti, capaci solo di lamentarsi e di suggerirgli di "abbassare i prezzi".

Ostküste, Mitte der 90er: Sam hat gerade sein Harvard-Studium aufgenommen, als er Kindheitsfreundin Sadie wiedertrifft. Seine frühere Super-Mario-Gegnerin designt heute Computerspiele, und schnell zeigt sich, dass die beiden auch auf kreativer Ebene ein gutes Team sind. Doch als ihr erstes gemeinsames Spiel zum Hit wird, brechen sich Rivalitäten Bahn, die ihre Verbundenheit zu bedrohen scheinen. Über die Magie der Freundschaft, über Popkultur, Wagnis und Scheitern- und zugleich die berührendste Liebesgeschichte, die eigentlich gar keine ist.

Ostküste, Mitte der 90er: Sam hat gerade sein Harvard-Studium aufgenommen, als er Kindheitsfreundin Sadie wiedertrifft. Seine frühere Super-Mario-Gegnerin designt heute Computerspiele, und schnell zeigt sich, dass die beiden auch auf kreativer Ebene ein gutes Team sind. Doch als ihr erstes gemeinsames Spiel zum Hit wird, brechen sich Rivalitäten Bahn, die ihre Verbundenheit zu bedrohen scheinen. Über die Magie der Freundschaft, über Popkultur, Wagnis und Scheitern- und zugleich die berührendste Liebesgeschichte, die eigentlich gar keine ist.