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Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß ist der erste Roman von Robert Musil und gilt als eines der frühen Hauptwerke der literarischen Moderne. Mit Hilfe der psychologischen Darstellung der Pubertät von vier Schülern spiegelt der Roman modellhaft autoritäre Gesellschaftsstrukturen wider, indem er einen Zusammenhang zwischen psychischer Disposition und diktatorischer Institution herstellt. Die Handlung spielt vor dem Hintergrund der Ichfindung...
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Helen wanted to break the cycle.Raised in the deserts of Southern California by a family plagued with addiction, poverty, and trauma, Helen's life was fraught with heartache and turmoil. Nevertheless, this fueled her desire to make it out. That was until one day, she broke.When Helen wakes up in a mental hospital, her mind is shattered, her memories are gone, and she clings to the comfort of not remembering. But, when a memory of her daughter emerges,...
4) Lost on Me
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A bestseller and award-winner in Veronica Raimo's native Italy, Lost on Me is an irreverent and hilariously inverted bildungsroman from one of the most celebrated young writers working today.
Born into a family with an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious genius brother at the center of their attention, our heroine Vero languishes in boredom in her childhood...
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Dance Moms meets Little Fires Everywhere in award winning author Tammy Greenwood's addictive new novel set in the hyper cutthroat world of ballet girls and their mothers as they compete for a prestigious prize…
"The Still Point is a must-read full of love, hope, desire and jealousy – a vivid, compelling and deeply nuanced look at a place where lives are forever shaped and changed." –Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of Just...
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Cynthia Thayer's acclaimed debut novel, Strong for Potatoes, is the resonant story of the difficult youth of Blue Willoughby, a remarkable girl growing up in eastern Maine. In a life beset by tragedy, beginning with the death of her twin sister Berry only days after their birth, Blue must discover on her own strength she needs to survive.
Blue's true ally is her grandfather, a full-blooded Passamoquoddy Indian who teaches Blue life's most vital lessons:...
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"Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist Jennifer Bartlett, and a charismatic father, European actor Mathieu Carrière. From an early age, Alice is forced to navigate her mother's recovered memories of ritualized sexual abuse, which she turns into art, and her father's confusing attentions. Her days are a mixture of privilege, neglect, loneliness,...
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Fliss is a slave to the king. She has no freedom- until her dragons come looking for her.The first dragon makes a pact. Release him from his curse, and he will set her free. But he's not alone. He has two brothers, and all of them want Fliss.Yet Fliss has ignited the wrath of the gods, and they're coming for her.Her quest guides her across medieval Poland, to lands of fae kings and queens. Fliss and her dragons battle monsters and giants, make deals...
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The candid story of a young man abandoned by his family and religion and left searching for identity in an unfamiliar world
When Michael Dawouk is disowned by his Muslim family for being gay, he turns his back on the religion and culture he grew up with. He is forced out onto the street, only to be taken in by a former high school teacher who offers him room and board in exchange for sex.
Michael is soon left with nothing to believe in, until...
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After the death of her father, Isabel Archer, a young American woman, travels to England to stay with her aunt, where she finds herself an object of affection for several men. When she is left a large legacy by her ailing uncle, she also attracts the attention of those with an interest in her substantial fortune. Faced with decisions about her future, Isabel must live with the consequences of the choices she makes, as her life is forever altered.
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11) Hurt You
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With echoes of Marieke Nijkamp and Jason Reynolds, acclaimed author Marie Myung-Ok Lee's stunning YA homage to Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men tells the tragic story of a Korean American teen who fights to protect herself and her neurodivergent older brother from a hostile community.
Moving beyond the quasi-fraternal bond of the unforgettable George and Lenny from Of Mice and Men, Hurt You explores the actual sibling bond of Georgia and Leonardo da Vinci...
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Award-winning author Eric Schlich's Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife isan accessible and big-hearted novel that explores belief and forgiveness as a boy grapples with his faith and sexuality on a rollicking family road trip to Bible World.
When Eli Harpo was four, he underwent emergency open-heart surgery, flatlined on the operating table, and for a brief time, went to heaven and met Jesus. Or at least that's what his father, a loving but...
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The good girl makes a bet with the bad boy. Will she win the bet or lose her heart? A steamy enemies to lovers fake dating romance. "She's my girlfriend," Dylan explained.Andrew laughed derisively. "Since when do you have girlfriends?""Since you were stupid enough to lose Celeste," Dylan told him.Andrew glared at him. "I can't believe that you would sink this low," he said to Celeste."Excuse us. We have to get to class." Dylan maneuvered Celeste past...
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The Year of Jubilee is a lyrical coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the turbulent South in the early 1960s.
Stifled by tragedy, thirteen-year-old Grace Mockingbird yearns to escape her mother's controlling, grieving hand and find her voice in a small Kentucky coal mining town. A tragic family loss has driven a wedge between Grace and her mother, who seems to be silently punishing Grace by withholding her love. Grace does penance in every...
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"When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition ... Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is [their center of gravity] Jude, ... by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body...
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Senior year is set up to be everything he ever wanted. But Colt begins to suspect that there has to be more to life than Friday night lights and chasing the next high.
He soon crosses paths with Lucas Oliver, a college-aged vagabond who has traveled all over the world and been outcast by his hometown because of his unorthodox ideas about God, life, and death. Lucas's past remains a mystery, and Colt is warned by others in his community that his new...
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A warm-hearted and gripping story of community, secrets and the family we choose that will captivate fans of Lucy Diamond, Cathy Bramley and Jessica Redland.
As young women, Lise and Emma had the kind of friendship people dream about. While Lise's own family was distant and disengaged, Emma's was welcoming and warm, and for the first twenty-six years of their life, growing up together in a close-knit community, the duo were inseparable. But when...
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At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf is the story of a twelve-year-old Parisian Jewish girl in World War II France, living "in hiding" as a Catholic orphan with a family in a small village.
When Danielle Marton's father is killed during the early days of the German Occupation, her mother sends her to live in a quiet farming town near Limoges in Vichy France. Now called Marie-Jeanne Chantier, Danielle struggles to balance the truth of what's happened...
19) Eat and Get Gas
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Thirteen-year-old Evan Hanson is always the last in her family to know what's going on-at least, that's how it feels. Her father, Gene, who's been meaner since he began serving in Vietnam, isn't around much, and she likes it better that way. But then her brother, Adam, gets drafted and her anti-war mother, Endura, takes him across the border to Canada, leaving Evan alone with Gene and her younger, special needs brother, Teddy.
When he realizes...
20) Saint Wally
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Walter Matthews kills himself and arrives in Heaven's Waiting Room, where he witnesses a misdeed that quickly culminates in the abduction of the Almighty. Getting God back is a responsibility charged to Creation's Vice President, Jesus H. Christ, who isn't quite sure he's up to the job. So begins an inter-Dimensional adventure with a cast of trillions, in which Jesus and Walter have to restore the Good Lord to His throne before All Existence is destroyed....
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