When a strange and wild boy walks into her life, Tess is forced to confront a past she had long ago forgotten Fourteen-year-old Tess can't remember the first ten years of her life-and if they were anything like her life now, she'd prefer that they stay forgotten. Since her mother's death, she and her disabled stepfather have lived without a phone, electricity, or even much food on the table. At school, her classmates think she's weird, but she's bigger...

What provokes one child down a dangerous path, while her cousin takes a less tortuous direction in life? A mere six months apart in age, the girls were born near the end of World War Two, when a war tragedy set the stage for Ginger Drake's calamitous life. Ginger's 'sister at heart', cousin Glory Clayborne, has all she can do to protect the incorrigible Ginger from herself, to say nothing of the many evils lying in wait.

Ana Paucha, que se llamaba a sí misma Ana no, era una mujer de mar, de sol, de dicha, prendada de su marido, pescador, y de sus tres hijos. El marido y los dos hijos mayores murieron en la guerra, el pequeño está preso. Ana no, a sus setenta y cinco años, cierra la puerta de su casa en un pueblecito almeriense y decide ir andando hasta la cárcel de su hijo para abrazarlo y darle el pan de aceite que ha amasado con sus propias manos. Inquietante...

Mark only has one emotion: anger Fourteen-year-old Mark feels betrayed by his father, who has recently remarried. He spends his time feeling resentful and angry, especially after a humiliating experience with a girl. Mark's mood only worsens until even his best friends have had enough. When he recklessly decides to take his stepmother's car for a spin, he meets with near-tragic consequences. Can he learn to let go of his anger before things get out...

Why is Elvin such a lightning rod for people trying to improve him?For as long as Elvin can remember, it's been just him and his mom, the only blood relative he knows. But out of the blue, his supposedly dead uncle, Alex, shows up. Elvin learns that years ago, Alex stole the money his dad had left to him and his mom-but now Alex wants to make amends with Elvin. He wants to improve all sorts of things, offering to fix Elvin's hair and get him a gym...

Rosalind is mourning the deaths of both her moms, and Sean is working on his own issues-the only thing they have in common is a little DNA When both of Rosalind's mothers die, she moves in with the donor father she never knew. Fifteen, angry, and feeling completely alone, Ros refuses to speak to her biological father, Sean, sharing her feelings only with her journal. But through a series of emails and text messages, Ros and Sean slowly get to know...

Based on the true story of the Fortune sisters, three young women each at a crossroads when they boarded the RMS Titanic in the spring of 1912 –and how that maiden voyage would transform their lives in profound and unexpected ways. Fans of The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abé and Patricia Falvey's The Titanic Sisters will be captivated as USA Today bestselling author Anna Lee Huber expertly weaves real historical figures and events into this...

THE DAWN OF SHADOW is an emotional ride through the life of a girl, whose brain is in the hands of depression. Ashley Inkwell is a complex personality, living in a complex world. After the death of her father, she is left to continue her life just with her mother, who was trying her best to keep Ashley alive. She suffered from severe depression and massive mood swings that showed in her lyrics. She began writing songs as a way to deal with her...

Beatrice and Henry-the parents of the protagonist of Dale Peck's debut novel, Martin and John-are first drawn together when the teenage Henry is battling a brain tumor he believes will soon claim his life. But forty years later they're still a couple, in a story that moves from Long Island to the Finger Lakes of upstate New York, and from love to hate and back again. Peck bisects the story of Henry and Beatrice's marriage with a stunning fifty-page...

An innocent child. A perfect life. Until she discovers that evil exists, with all its dark sides.Living in the mountains of Sicily, Maria has the perfect childhood until the tragic accident that changes her life forever. The events that follow will take her away from her home town to the streets of Milan, in an ever-increasing spiral of abuse and deception. Will she ever be able to trust anyone again?Set in turbulent 1960s Italy, Walls of Silence...