Алка Джоши4.3 Жизнь, которую ты кропотливо выстраиваешь, может в любой момент оказаться под угрозой.
Лакшми отлично это знает. Ее выдали замуж в пятнадцать лет, а в семнадцать она сбежала от нелюбимого мужа и оказалась в Джайпуре, Розовом городе, величественном и беспощадном. Городе, где можно очень быстро разбогатеть и так же быстро все потерять.
Лакшми очень нужно разбогатеть, потому что ее мечта — ни от кого не зависеть. Ее таланты не знают границ, но главное — она целительница и художница и в этом достигла совершенства. Ее мехенди славятся на весь город, знатные дамы готовы щедро платить за ее целебные отвары и волшебные узоры хной.
Казалось бы, цель близка. Но Джайпур не прощает ошибок.
Дуглас Стюарт4.2 Агнес Бейн, когда выпьет, спит крепко. Малыш Шагги ставит на ей на тумбочку четыре кружки. Вода — утихомирить похмелье. Молоко — успокоить желудок. Остатки выдохшегося стаута — снять напряжение в костях. Отбеливатель для зубов — освежить дыхание. Его он на всякий случай подписывает: "Не пить, ОПАСНО". Шагги всего лишь лет восемь, но он уже понимает: он изо всех сил хочет помогать матери и быть как все, "нормальным мальчишкой". А жизнь как назло часто несправедлива к самым искренним детским мечтам. Эта душераздирающая история о безусловной детской любви. А еще о зависимости, о стране, которую разъедает безработица, и о том, как сложно стать своим в обществе, от которого ты хоть на крупицу отличаешься.
Сара Хогл4.1 У Наоми Вестфилд идеальный жених: Николас придерживает двери, помнит ее любимые блюда, а его семья — настоящая мечта для любой невесты.
Парочка никогда не ссорится и готовится к роскошной свадьбе, которая состоится через три месяца.
И Наоми просто тошнит от Николаса.
Она хочет уйти, но есть загвоздка: тот, кто разорвет помолвку, должен будет оплатить свадебный счет. Когда Наоми обнаруживает, что Николас тоже притворяется, они устраивают настоящую эмоциональную войну, где все средства хороши: розыгрыши, шутки и саботаж.
С приближением даты свадьбы накал растет. Николас и Наоми веселятся так, как никогда не веселились вместе, расстраивают планы и саботируют друг друга и всех родственников.
Сколько раз вы слышали: «От любви до ненависти — один шаг»? А что, если все будет наоборот?
Уморительная, горячая и невероятно романтичная история от Сары Хогл — это глоток свежего воздуха в мире ромкомов.
«Вы друг друга стоите» — роман, в котором каждый читатель сможет увидеть себя, искренне посмеяться и умилиться, ведь герои здесь настоящие, обаятельные и очень живые.
Натали Дженнер3.6 После Второй Мировой войны в маленькой английской деревне Чотон совершенно разные люди затевают на первый взгляд безрассудное, но важное для культуры страны и для них самих дело. Они решают сохранить дом писательницы и ее наследие во что бы то ни стало. Как общая любовь и увлечённость Джейн Остен поможет членам тайного сообщества справиться с личными трагедиями?
Трогательный роман Натали Дженнер — о потерях и триумфах в жизни, о человечности во всех нас и о важности и целебной силе большого общего дела.
David Heska Wanbli Weiden0.0 “Winter Counts is a marvel. It’s a thriller with a beating heart and jagged teeth. This book is a brilliant meditation on power and violence, and a testament to just how much a crime novel can achieve. Weiden is a powerful new voice. I couldn’t put it down.”
—Tommy Orange, author of There There
A Recommended Read from:
Buzzfeed * Electric Literature * Lit Hub * Shondaland * Publishers Weekly
A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx.
Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that’s hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil’s nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop.
They follow a lead to Denver and find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances. And back on the reservation, a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power. As Virgil starts to link the pieces together, he must face his own demons and reclaim his Native identity. He realizes that being a Native American in the twenty-first century comes at an incredible cost.
Winter Counts is a tour-de-force of crime fiction, a bracingly honest look at a long-ignored part of American life, and a twisting, turning story that’s as deeply rendered as it is thrilling
Elizabeth Wetmore3.9 It’s February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town’s men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow.
In the early hours of the morning after Valentine’s Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead’s ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field—an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences.
Valentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader’s heart, this fierce, unflinching, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women’s strength and vulnerability, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive.
Кейт Элизабет Расселл4.2 Ванессе было пятнадцать, когда у неё случился роман с сорокадвухлетним учителем литературы мистером Стрейном. Сейчас ей тридцать два и их связывают тёплые дружеские отношения. Когда одна из бывших учениц обвиняет Стрейна в домогательствах и призывает открыться всех, кто знал преподавателя с этой стороны, Ванесса оказывается перед мучительным выбором: молчать, отказываясь считать себя жертвой и продолжая верить в добровольность и чистоту тех отношений, или переосмыслить события прошлого и столкнуться с безжалостной правдой. Но если не любовь, то что же это было?
It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact. Cora Sabino is doing everything she can to avoid the whole mess, since the force driving the controversy is her whistleblower father. Even though Cora hasn’t spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the Internet, the paparazzi, and the government—and with him in hiding, that attention is on her. She neither knows nor cares whether her father’s leaks are a hoax, and wants nothing to do with him—until she learns just how deeply entrenched her family is in the cover-up, and that an extraterrestrial presence has been on Earth for decades.
Realizing the extent to which both she and the public have been lied to, she sets out to gather as much information as she can, and finds that the best way for her to uncover the truth is not as a whistleblower, but as an intermediary. The alien presence has been completely uncommunicative until she convinces one of them that she can act as their interpreter, becoming the first and only human vessel of communication. Their otherworldly connection will change everything she thought she knew about being human—and could unleash a force more sinister than she ever imagined.
Рэйвен Лейлани3.0 Эди работает в издательстве. И это не то чтобы работа мечты. Ведь Эди мечтает стать художницей. Как Артемизия Джентилески, как Караваджо, как Ван Гог. Писать шедевры, залитые артериальной кровью. Эди молода, в меру цинична, в меру безжалостна. В меру несчастна.
По вечерам она пишет маслом, пытаясь переложить жизнь на холст. Но по утрам краски блекнут, и ей ничего не остается, кроме как обороняться от одолевающего ее разочарования.
Неожиданно для самой себя она с головой уходит в отношения с мужчиной старше себя — Эриком. Он женат, но это брак без обязательств. Его жена Ребекка абсолютно не против их романа.
И это должно напоминать любовный треугольник, но в мире больше нет места для простых геометрических фигур.
Теперь все гораздо сложнее. И кажется, что сегодня все барьеры взяты, предрассудки отброшены, табу сняты. Но свобода сковывает сердце так же, как и принуждение, и именно из этого ощущения и рождается едкая и провокационная «Жажда».
Мегха Маджумдар4.0 Захватывающий дебютный роман о трех героях, живущих в современной Индии, которые преследуют разные цели: подняться до среднего класса, примкнуть к политической власти, добиться славы в кино — и обнаруживают, что их жизни напрямую зависят от недавнего происшествия.
Дживан, мусульманская школьница из трущоб, из-за неосторожного комментария в социальной сети обвиняется в совершении теракта в поезде. Физрук из ее школы может выступить свидетелем на суде и спасти девочку от гибели, но перед ним встает сложный выбор: собственная карьера на политическом поприще или оправдание невиновного. Хиджра Лавли, представительница касты неприкасаемых, обучалась у Дживан английскому языку, и у нее есть для нее алиби, которое поставит точку в этом деле. Но тогда Лавли должна поставить на кон все, чего успела добиться.
Линден Льюис0.0 First Sister has no name and no voice. As a priestess of the Sisterhood, she travels the stars alongside the soldiers of Earth and Mars—the same ones who own the rights to her body and soul. When her former captain abandons her, First Sister’s hopes for freedom are dashed when she is forced to stay on her ship with no friends, no power, and a new captain—Saito Ren—whom she knows nothing about. She is commanded to spy on Captain Ren by the Sisterhood, but soon discovers that working for the war effort is so much harder to do when you’re falling in love.
Lito val Lucius climbed his way out of the slums to become an elite soldier of Venus, but was defeated in combat by none other than Saito Ren, resulting in the disappearance of his partner, Hiro. When Lito learns that Hiro is both alive and a traitor to the cause, he now has a shot at redemption: track down and kill his former partner. But when he discovers recordings that Hiro secretly made, Lito’s own allegiances are put to the test. Ultimately, he must decide between following orders and following his heart.
C Pam Zhang3.4 An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape--trying not just to survive but to find a home.
Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and glimpses of a different kind of future.
Both epic and intimate, blending Chinese symbolism and re-imagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story, an unforgettable sibling story, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page, it's about the memories that bind and divide families, and the yearning for home.
Джордан Ифуэко4.3 «Одно из самых выдающихся молодежных фэнтези всех времен». — Buzzfeed
Тарисай выросла в абсолютной изоляции. Ее воспитала загадочная женщина по имени Леди.
И именно она отправляет Тарисай на опасное задание в столицу Аритсара. Девушке нужно внедриться в ближайшее окружение принца — Совет Одиннадцати.
Если Тарисай пройдет испытание, Луч объединит ее с другими членами Совета: связь между ними станет сильнее кровной.
Тарисай наконец-то получит то, к чему стремилась всю жизнь, станет частью чего-то большего.
Но у Леди другие планы: убить наследного принца руками подопечной.
Тарисай не желает становиться пешкой в опасной игре.
Достаточно ли она сильна, чтобы выбрать для себя другой путь?
Первая часть дилогии о предназначении и судьбе, о выборе и призвании, о чести и долге.
Потрясающий проработанный мир, уникальные персонажи, оригинальный сюжет.
Андреа Стюарт4.0 Лин коротает свои дни во дворце, среди запертых дверей и мрачных секретов. Она дочь человека, который многие десятилетия правил древней Империей Феникса. Власть его была крепка — звероподобные слуги, создаваемые им при помощи колдовства, обеспечивали закон и порядок.
Но теперь Империи грозит гибель — многие острова Бескрайнего моря охвачены восстанием, а старый правитель бездействует. Лин страстно желает спасти свой народ, но из-за болезни она утратила память, после чего отец отказался считать ее своей наследницей и обучать ее магии осколков.
И тогда Лин решается тайно овладеть запретным искусством…
Эби Даре3.6 A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to fight for her dreams and choose her own future.
Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a “louding voice”—the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's father sells her to be the third wife of a local man who is eager for her to bear him a son and heir.
When Adunni runs away to the city, hoping to make a better life, she finds that the only other option before her is servitude to a wealthy family. As a yielding daughter, a subservient wife, and a powerless slave, Adunni is told, by words and deeds, that she is nothing.
But while misfortunes might muffle her voice for a time, they cannot mute it. And when she realizes that she must stand up not only for herself, but for other girls, for the ones who came before her and were lost, and for the next girls, who will inevitably follow; she finds the resolve to speak, however she can—in a whisper, in song, in broken English—until she is heard.
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people...
In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash.
Separated by distance - and Papi's secrets - the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered. And then, when it seems like they've lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.
Papi's death uncovers all the painful truths he kept hidden, and the love he divided across an ocean. And now, Camino and Yahaira are both left to grapple with what this new sister means to them, and what it will now take to keep their dreams alive.
In a dual narrative novel in verse that brims with both grief and love, award-winning and bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.
Рейчел Линн Соломон4.2 The Hating Game meets Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by way of Morgan Matson in this unforgettable romantic comedy about two rival overachievers whose relationship completely transforms over the course of twenty-four hours.
Today, she hates him.
It’s the last day of senior year. Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been bitter rivals for all of high school, clashing on test scores, student council elections, and even gym class pull-up contests. While Rowan, who secretly wants to write romance novels, is anxious about the future, she’d love to beat her infuriating nemesis one last time.
Tonight, she puts up with him.
When Neil is named valedictorian, Rowan has only one chance at victory: Howl, a senior class game that takes them all over Seattle, a farewell tour of the city she loves. But after learning a group of seniors is out to get them, she and Neil reluctantly decide to team up until they’re the last players left—and then they’ll destroy each other.
As Rowan spends more time with Neil, she realizes he’s much more than the awkward linguistics nerd she’s sparred with for the past four years. And, perhaps, this boy she claims to despise might actually be the boy of her dreams.
Ким Джонсон0.0 Dear Martin meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting YA novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system.
Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time--her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy's older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a "thug" on the run, accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike. But will Tracy and her family survive the uncovering of the skeletons of their Texas town's racist history that still haunt the present?
Fans of Nic Stone, Tiffany D. Jackson, and Jason Reynolds won't want to miss this provocative and gripping debut.
Морин Джонсон3.7 New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson delivers the witty and pulse-pounding conclusion to the Truly Devious series as Stevie Bell solves the mystery that has haunted Ellingham Academy for over 75 years.
Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another, dead by misadventure. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. All three in the wrong place at the wrong time. All at the exact moment of Stevie’s greatest triumph . . .
She knows who Truly Devious is. She’s solved it. The greatest case of the century.
At least, she thinks she has. With this latest tragedy, it’s hard to concentrate on the past. Not only has someone died in town, but David disappeared of his own free will and is up to something. Stevie is sure that somehow—somehow—all these things connect. The three deaths in the present. The deaths in the past. The missing Alice Ellingham and the missing David Eastman. Somewhere in this place of riddles and puzzles there must be answers.
Then another accident occurs as a massive storm heads toward Vermont. This is too much for the parents and administrators. Ellingham Academy is evacuated. Obviously, it’s time for Stevie to do something stupid. It’s time to stay on the mountain and face the storm—and a murderer.
In the tantalizing finale to the Truly Devious trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson expertly tangles her dual narrative threads and ignites an explosive end for all who’ve walked through Ellingham Academy.
Бекки Альберталли, Аиша Саид4.0 YES
Jamie Goldberg is cool with volunteering for his local state senate candidate—as long as he’s behind the scenes. When it comes to speaking to strangers (or, let’s face it, speaking at all to almost anyone), Jamie’s a choke artist. There’s no way he’d ever knock on doors to ask people for their votes…until he meets Maya.
NO
Maya Rehman’s having the worst Ramadan ever. Her best friend is too busy to hang out, her summer trip is canceled, and now her parents are separating. Why her mother thinks the solution to her problems is political canvassing—with some awkward dude she hardly knows—is beyond her.
MAYBE SO
Going door to door isn’t exactly glamorous, but maybe it’s not the worst thing in the world. After all, the polls are getting closer—and so are Maya and Jamie. Mastering local activism is one thing. Navigating the cross-cultural romance of the century is another thing entirely
Эмма Лорд4.1 Их любовь — рецепт настоящей катастрофы.
Знакомьтесь с Пеппер. Она — капитан команды по плаванию, любитель выполнить и перевыполнить любое задание, а также настоящий перфекционист. В ее семье все не так, как раньше, но, по крайней мере, их огромная сеть ресторанов быстрого питания мегапопулярна благодаря Пеппер, ведь она умудряется не только успевать в школе, но и вести аккаунт их бургерной в "Твиттере".
А теперь позвольте представить вам Джека. Когда он не пытается выбраться из тени более успешного брата-близнеца, то работает в гастрономии своей семьи. Однажды известная бургерная крадет их фамильный рецепт сырных тостов, и Джек понимает, что сделает все что угодно, чтобы отомстить. И сделает он это твит за твитом.
Дело касается любви и сыра, а тут все средства хороши. Со временем перепалка "Высшей лиги бургеров" и "Маминых тостов" превращается в настоящую виртуальную войну. Но Пеппер и Джек даже не догадываются, что, ссорясь в сети, влюбляются друг в друга в реальной жизни. А пока интернет шипперит эту необычную парочку, они общаются в анонимном приложении, готовые погрузиться в неожиданный, неловкий и самый лучший роман в своей жизни.
Леа Джонсон3.9 Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay -- Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever: attend the uber-elite Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor.
But when the financial aid she was counting on unexpectedly falls through, Liz's plans come crashing down . . . until she's reminded of her school's scholarship for prom king and queen. There's nothing Liz wants to do less than endure a gauntlet of social media trolls, catty competitors, and humiliating public events, but despite her devastating fear of the spotlight she's willing to do whatever it takes to get to Pennington.
The only thing that makes it halfway bearable is the new girl in school, Mack. She's smart, funny, and just as much of an outsider as Liz. But Mack is also in the running for queen. Will falling for the competition keep Liz from her dreams . . . or make them come true?
Ямиле Саид Мендес4.0 A powerful, #ownvoices contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line—even her blooming love story—to follow her dreams.
In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life.
At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother’s narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother’s shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father.
On the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest dreams, she’d get an athletic scholarship to a North American university.
But the path ahead isn’t easy. Her parents don’t know about her passion. They wouldn’t allow a girl to play fútbol—and she needs their permission to go any farther. And the boy she once loved is back in town. Since he left, Diego has become an international star, playing in Italy for the renowned team Juventus. Camila doesn’t have time to be distracted by her feelings for him. Things aren’t the same as when he left: she has her own passions and ambitions now, and La Furia cannot be denied. As her life becomes more complicated, Camila is forced to face her secrets and make her way in a world with no place for the dreams and ambition of a girl like her.
Filled with authentic details and the textures of day-to-day life in Argentina, heart-soaring romance, and breathless action on the pitch, Furia is the story of a girl’s journey to make her life her own.
Адиба Джайгирдар3.9 When Dimple Met Rishi meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this rom com about two teen girls with rival henna businesses.
When Nishat comes out to her parents, they say she can be anyone she wants—as long as she isn’t herself. Because Muslim girls aren’t lesbians. Nishat doesn’t want to hide who she is, but she also doesn’t want to lose her relationship with her family. And her life only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life.
Flávia is beautiful and charismatic and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Flávia and Nishat choose to do henna, even though Flávia is appropriating Nishat’s culture. Amidst sabotage and school stress, their lives get more tangled—but Nishat can’t quite get rid of her crush on Flávia, and realizes there might be more to her than she realized.
Дженнифер Линн Барнс4.2 Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why--or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch--and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes.
Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a con-woman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.
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