As the end of summer approaches and a long, hot Labor Day weekend looms, the life of lonely thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler is irrevocably changed when he and his emotionally fragile mother show kindness to a stranger with a terrible secret. Now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin, Labor Day is a poignant story of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery.
Based on the characters Simon and Baz who featured in Rainbow Rowell's bestselling Fangirl, Carry On is a ghost story, a love story, a mystery and a melodrama. It has just as much kissing and talking as you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell story - but far, far more monsters. Simon Snow just wants to relax and savour his last year at the Watford School of Magicks, but no one will let him. His girlfriend broke up with him, his best friend is a pest and his mentor keeps trying to hide him away in the mountains where maybe he'll be safe. Simon can't even enjoy the fact that his room-mate and longtime nemesis is missing, because he can't stop worrying about the evil git. Plus there are ghosts. And vampires. And actual evil things trying to shut Simon down. When you're the most powerful magician the world has ever known, you never get to relax and savour anything. 'Come for the make-outs and stay for the magic' - The Atlantic
"-Bono conoció a la que sería su mujer en el instituto -dijo Park. -Sí, y también Jerry Lee Lewis -contestó Eleanor. -No estoy bromeando. -Pues deberías. Tenemos 16 años -dijo Eleanor. -¿Y qué pasa con Romeo y Julieta? -Superficiales, confundidos y, posteriormente, muertos. -Te quiero, y no estoy bromeando -le dijo Park. -Pues deberías". Eleanor es nueva en el instituto: su vida familiar es un desastre; con su intenso pelo rojo y su extraña y poco conjuntada forma de vestir no podría llamar más la atención aunque lo intentase. Park es un chico mitad coreano: su vida familiar es tranquila; no es exactamente popular, pero con sus camisetas negras, sus cascos y sus libros ha conseguido ser invisible. Todo empieza cuando Park accede a que Eleanor se siente a su lado en el autobús del instituto el primer día de clase. Al principio ni siquiera se hablan, pero poco a poco comparten sus hobbies y empiezan una relación de amistad... para terminar enamorándose de la forma en que te enamoras la primera vez, cuando eres joven, y sientes que no tienes nada y todo que perder.
“Funny, bewitching, observant.”— The Oregonian“Hits all the frets of a powerful sharp-witted dialogue, vivid characters, insight into medical challenges and prose that snaps like well-placed plucks of guitar strings. . . . I hold up my lighter and turn it full-flame for [Garth] Stein’s latest work. Encore!”— The Seattle Times“Compelling.”— Seattle Post-Intelligencer“Stein handles the many narrative elements deftly.”— Seattle Weekly“An engrossing family drama.”— Publishers WeeklyEvan had a hit single, but that was ten years ago. Thirty-one now, he’s drifting, playing in a local band and teaching middle-aged men to coax music from an electric guitar.Beset at a young age with a life-threatening form of epilepsy, he’s kept his condition a secret. But his deepest secret is that he got his high school sweetheart pregnant. Then her conservative parents whisked her out of Seattle and out of Evan’s life.Now, fourteen years later, he experiences unplanned parenthood when he undertakes to raise the resentful teenage son he’s never known.Off beat and disarming, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets portrays a contemporary American family with unfailing honesty.
Mi chiamo Enzo. Amo il mio nome, lo stesso del grande Ferrari, e come lui adoro le macchine. So tutto: i modelli, le scuderie, i piloti, le stagioni... Me lo ha insegnato Denny. Per sbarcare il lunario lavora in un'autofficina, ma in realtà è un pilota automobilistico, un asso, anceh se per ora siamo in pochi a saperlo. Perché Denny ha delle responsabilità, una famiglia di cui prendersi cura, perciò non può dedicarsi interamente alle gare. Eppure è un vero campione, l'unico che sappia davvero correre sotto la pioggia. Lui è come un fratello per me e in questi anni ne abbiamo passate tante insieme. Ah, ho dimenticato di dirvi una cosa importante: sono il cane di Denny, e questa è la mia storia.
Twenty-nine-year-old Lindsey Rose has, for as long as she can remember, lived in the shadow of her ravishingly beautiful fraternal twin sister, Alex. Determined to get noticed, Lindsey is finally on the cusp of being named VP creative director of an elite New York advertising agency, after years of eighty-plus-hour weeks, migraines, and profound loneliness. But during the course of one devastating night, Lindsey’s carefully constructed life implodes. Humiliated, she flees the glitter of Manhattan and retreats to the time warp of her parents’ Maryland home. As her sister plans her lavish wedding to her Prince Charming, Lindsey struggles to maintain her identity as the smart, responsible twin while she furtively tries to piece her career back together. But things get more complicated when a long-held family secret is unleashed that forces both sisters to reconsider who they are and who they are meant to be.
Enzo, the dog of professional race car driver Denny Swift, recalls the memories of his life and shares his insight into the human condition that he learned from observing his owner.
