As he attempts to fulfil a list left behind by his deceased best friend, nineteen-year-old Case meets eighteen-year-old Winnie, a hardworking ranch hand with aspirations of her own, and together they embark on an unexpected journey as they chase down their rodeo dreams.

"A tragicomic novel about death and devotion"-- A teacher visiting his dying brother in the Bronx. A mysterious journal from the nineteenth century stolen from a boarding house. A therapy clown and an assassin, both presumed dead, but perhaps not dead at all . . . With her distinctive, irresistible wordplay and singular wry humor and wisdom, Lorrie Moore has given us a magic box of longing and surprise as she writes about love and rebirth and the...

"New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts. In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots--fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family,...

Even at a camp for supernatural teens, Kylie Galen has never been normal. Not only can she see ghosts but she doesn't seem to belong to any one species, instead she exhibits traits from them all. Her boyfriend Lucas, seems to be having problems accepting her for what she is and what she isn't. With his werewolf pack standing in the way, Kylie finds herself turning to Derek who seems willing to accept the impossible. As if life isn't hard enough, she...

Warum muss das Leben mit vierzehn bloß so kompliziert sein? In letzter Zeit hat Julie zunehmend das Gefühl, dass alle um sie herum verrückt geworden sind. Was ist zum Beispiel mit ihrer Hippie-Oma los, die plötzlich eine Traumhochzeit von intergalaktischen Ausmaßen plant, und das ausgerechnet mit dem Vater ihres Klassenkameraden? Und was soll sie auf Bens Frage erwidern, ob sie bei ihm übernachten will? Um Ben nicht zu verletzen, flüchtet sie...

""Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks." In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. "Love just won't...

Released from prison with terminal cancer, Max tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter and the grandson he₂s never known. When his daughter's abusive, drug-addicted ex-husband reappears, Max's violent past comes back to haunt them all.

"Miss Venus Merriwell has been waiting for her prince to come since the tender age of fourteen. She wants a man who is a selfless academic like her, and free from all the wretched vices her gambler father enjoyed far too much before he left the Merriwell sisters practically destitute. Unfortunately, after a slew of romantic disappointments, there is still no sign of that prince at twenty-three and the only one true love of her life is the bursting-at-the-seams...

To help pull off an epic end-of-year-prank before boarding school graduation, model student Lily Hopper must work closely with her ex-boyfriend, for whom she still has feelings, especially when they are caught red-handed and must face the consequences together. Two more weeks, and Lily Hopper is officially finished with boarding school! When she receives a mysterious note inviting her to join the anonymous senior class Jester in executing the end-of-year...

"Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that she'd reunite her with the woman she fell in love with nearly eighty years ago, she didn't expect that would mean traveling to Key West with three tablespoons of Mrs. Nash's remains in her backpack. But Millie's determined to give her friend a symbolic happily ever after, before it's (really) too late-and hopefully reassure herself of love's lasting power in the...