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A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere, and series editor Nicole Lamy.The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.Celeste Ng—Puschcart Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere—selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published this year.

'Compelling' Marie Claire * 'Immensely enjoyable' Observer * 'Fascinating' Red * One week into lockdown, the tenants of a Manhattan apartment building have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening and tell stories in this exciting new twist on the novel. With each passing night, more and more neighbours gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned buckets. Gradually the tenants - some of whom have barely spoken to each other before now - become real neighbours. With each character secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood to John Grisham and Celeste Ng, Fourteen Days is a heart-warming ode to the power of storytelling and human connection. 'An immensely enjoyable product of an immensely unenjoyable time, Fourteen Days is lively, freewheeling... An impressive achievement' Observer 'Fourteen Days serves as a valuable reminder that stories can teach, console, provide a place of acceptance and perhaps even change their readers (or listeners)' Financial Times Includes writing from: Margaret Atwood, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Erica Jong, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Doug Preston, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Meg Wolitzer and many more.

L'histoire bouleversante d'une famille qui lutte pour raviver l'espoir et la justice dans une société qui a cédé à la peur. États-Unis d'Amérique, dans un futur pas si lointain. L'existence de tous est rythmée par des lois liberticides. Tout citoyen de culture étrangère est considéré comme dangereux pour la société. Les livres tenus pour séditieux sont retirés des bibliothèques. À commencer par ceux de la poétesse Margaret Miu, disparue mystérieusement trois ans plus tôt. Bien décidé à la retrouver, son fils, Bird, aidé par un réseau clandestin de bibliothécaires, va peu à peu prendre conscience du sort des opprimés et de la nécessité impérieuse de porter leur voix. Celeste Ng est de retour avec un nouveau roman bouleversant d'humanité et d'actualité. Porté par une écriture lumineuse, Nos cœurs disparus raconte le destin d'une famille en lutte pour raviver l'espoir et la justice dans une société qui a cédé au pire des conservatismes.

From the fan-favorite author of Underneath the Sycamore Tree comes the first in a raw, real romance series following the lives of the Lindon U football players and the complicated girls who change their lives forever. When Ivy asked her best friend to run away with her at sixteen, she knew he'd say no. He had football, an amazing family, and a happy home to go back to every day. So the night Ivy snuck out of his bedroom window after hugging him goodbye, she accepted she'd probably never see him again. Then they both wound up at Lindon University four years later. Ivy is barely picking up the pieces of her life when the boy whose initials she used to doodle hearts around approaches her at work. Aiden Griffith. Lindon U's star tight end. Still as attractive. Still as dedicated. With rumors of him being drafted to the NFL coming to fruition, Ivy knows it's only a matter of time before they have to say goodbye again. But he can't seem to let her go, no matter what she says, and she doesn't think she wants him to.

From the fan-favorite author of Underneath the Sycamore Tree comes the next installment in a raw, real romance series following the lives of the Lindon U football players and the complicated girls who change their lives forever. When Skylar Allen decided to move across the country for college, she thought it'd be the perfect chance to reinvent herself. But then one party changed the course of her entire freshman year. Just when she thinks she's about to drown in the foggy memories of her night spent partying at the football house, Daniel Bridges walks into her life. Lindon University's wide receiver. A total flirt. And a total threat. Because he can help her take away the memories she does remember from that night. What Skylar doesn't anticipate is the friendship she forms with the witty football player as months go on. And how easy it is to fall for him as he teaches her how to trust again...and so much more.

It happened in stages.My father left.My twin sister died of an incurable autoimmune disease.My mother started breaking down.Then I was diagnosed with the very thing that took my other half from me.That was when I realized Mama's eyes turned gold when she cried.So I moved in with my father and his new family--new wife, new son, new stepbrother.Kaiden Monroe made me feel normal.Hated. Cared for. Loathed. And ... loved.Somewhere along the way, I'd found solace in the boy with brooding eyes.But everything happens in stages.And nothing good ever lasts.

After Raine Copelin turns down her long-time boyfriend Caleb Anders’s marriage proposal, the two are barely speaking, barely coping as they enter graduate school at Lindon University. Caleb doesn’t understand what happened—their relationship has been picture-perfect since high school. He always imagined starting a family together, the same happily ever after his parents had. Until the day she broke his heart, he thought Raine wanted that, too.But Raine has her reasons. Her secrets. She knows she can’t give Caleb the future he wants, so she decides to let him go, no matter the price she has to pay. But when fresh tragedy sends Caleb spiraling back into Raine’s arms, the unanswered questions between them bring old feelings and new wounds to the surface. Fighting grief, lies, and fear, the two must figure out if their love ever truly ended, or if their uncertain futures might still include each other.

„Ein eindringliches Nachsinnen über die - manchmal unbeabsichtigte - Macht der Worte.“ Stephen King Der zwölfjährige Bird lebt mit seinem Vater in Harvard. Seit einem Jahrzehnt wird ihr Leben von Gesetzen bestimmt, die nach Jahren der wirtschaftlichen Instabilität und Gewalt die »amerikanische Kultur« bewahren sollen. Vor allem asiatisch aussehende Menschen werden diskriminiert, ihre Kinder zur Adoption freigegeben. Als Bird einen Brief von seiner Mutter erhält, macht er sich auf die Suche. Er muss verstehen, warum sie ihn verlassen hat. Seine Reise führt ihn zu den Geschichten seiner Kindheit, in Büchereien, die der Hort des Widerstands sind, und zu seiner Mutter. Die Hoffnung auf ein besseres Leben scheint möglich. Eine genauso spannende wie berührende Geschichte über die Liebe in einer von Angst zerfressenen Welt.

The gripping and extraordinarily moving new novel from the internationally bestselling Celeste Ng.