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Harry White grew up in blue-collar Brooklyn, but the young man's charm, smarts, and good looks have helped him earn a place as an uptown junior executive. White's gifts have also made his love life easy, and he takes special pleasure in seducing married women. But when "Harry the Lover" is ready to grow up and leave his womanizing behind, White finds that suppressing his libido has dangerous consequences. His attempts at restraint awaken something sinister, causing White to seek excitement in a new form of violence and depravity.

Grand Master Ursula K. LeGuin has been recognised for almost fifty years as one of the most important writers in the SF field - and is likewise feted beyond the confines of the genre. The Wind's Twelve Quarters was her first collection and it brings together some of finest short fiction, including the Hugo Award-winning 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas', the Nebula Award-winning 'The Day Before the Revolution', and the Hugo-nominated 'Winter's King', which gave listeners their first glimpse of the world later made famous in her Hugo- and Nebula-winning masterpiece The Left Hand of Darkness.

All Calvin Elkan has ever wanted to do is escape his mother and her Pentecostal church, the Lighthouse. Calvin is eternally at odds with the brutal abuses and ignorance of his upbringing in a right-wing evangelical sect in Ohio. Under the guidance of his great-grandfather, he turns to art and music to escape his mother’s blows and the grip of the Lighthouse. He spins the dark world around him into a satirical comic called The Brother Cobweb Chronicles. After high school, Calvin moves out and enrolls in art school, finally free of his oppressive childhood home.

Moving between the landscapes of fictional Runion, North Carolina, and Nashville's Music Row, Gabriel's Songbook follows a songwriter and singer through his search for fame and belonging. As he juggles ambition, love, and occasional despair, he finds that his dream of success and his love of music become increasingly at odds.

Princess Dandara discovers her true self–that she is more than a human princess, as she can, in fact, control the winds and wield her powers over the elements. But being half human and half goddess does not protect her from a broken heart.

تعيش جوفانا، الابنةُ الوحيدةُ لأستاذيْن، طفولةً سعيدةً في الأحياء الراقية من نابولي العُليا. لكنَّها تُصعق ذاتَ يوم عند سماع حديثٍ بين والديْها، وفيه يقارنها والدُها بفيتوريا، العمّةِ القبيحةِ والحقيرة.

Cette histoire évocatrice et chargée d'émotion, saluée par Publisher's Weekly et Kirkus Reviews, suit un enfant illégitime placé dans une famille puissante et excentrique d'Hollywood après une liaison scandaleuse. Ses origines sont méticuleusement dissimulées par un avocat notoire à la demande d'un célèbre compositeur. Déterminée à enterrer la vérité, sa mère adoptive tire les ficelles et fait appel à des alliés influents, dont une icône de la télévision, pour s'assurer que le garçon ne découvre jamais son passé.

“Don’t tell anyone we’re Democrats,” warned Mother when we moved to Bakersfield, CA, a town often referred to, back then, as redneck central. “And for heaven’s sake, don’t tell them you’re Jewish.”

Azul Morgan, a young Native/Indigenous woman is the next rock star to break. Trapped in M-town, Iowa during the "Next Seattle" Midwest Music Scene explosion during the aftermath of 9/11, she takes her guitar, named Mocha, & her composition notebook, The Bastard Chronicle, to write the greatest songs ever & form the perfect band.

O carte despre copilarie si inocenta ei, despre prietenie si fotbal, dar, mai ales, despre universul familiei, cu toate ritualurile, iubirile, asteptarile si dezamagirile lui. In dialogul dintre autori, afirmatiile unuia sint reformulate de celalalt, istoriile capata mize diferite in functie de unghiul din care sint privite, personajele, dupa o scurta "cariera" intr-un capitol, sint demascate ironic in urmatorul...

Beneath the Mango Trees is a beautiful coming-of-age novel that transports readers to a small coastal village in Jamaica, where young Marley James lives under the warmth of her family's heritage and the wisdom of her beloved grandmother, Nana Liz. Every day, under the sprawling branches of an ancient mango tree, Marley hears tales of her family's past, deepening her connection to the land and culture that shaped them.

The prequel to the critically-acclaimed novel, The Conjurer, has arrived. The paths of three boys intertwine at an unlikely junction in this fantastic tale of treachery, hope, and power. When opportunity knocks for Mikalla to become The Conjurer’s assistant, he is quickly rivaled by Gobi, the jealous and talented apprentice. Gobi will do anything for a chance to rid Mikalla of his position. Meanwhile, the second prince of Idaza is a pudgy royal with not much to do and even less to be proud of.