Serious Girls

Author	Slavenka Drakulić
ISBN	0140266224

She is a Polish graduate student, finishing her doctorate in New York. He is a Brazilian anthropologist, in the city on a three-month research grant. They meet by chance in the New York Public Library, fall in love, and move into a tiny apartment together. Tereza has a lover waiting for her in Poland, Jose...

Author	Sara Lewis Holmes
ISBN	0060780738

Once upon a time, there was a girl. Let's call her Rapunzel. A modern-day version. Abandoned. Alone. Waiting for her hair to grow and dreaming of a way to escape from her tower. She was trapped, you see. Not in the conventional fairy-tale way--this was the dreaded after-school Homework Club. A desolate...

Author	Pia Pera
ISBN	0964374013

Now, in Pia Pera's controversial new book, Lolita speaks for herself in her own naked voice. Listening to her tale, readers enter a universe in which events, apparently the same as in Nabokov's novel, are radically different. Truths clash, collide, and ultimately diverge. Nabokov's Lolita is not...

Author	Frank Deford
ISBN	1402200595

I think this is a really subtle book. It starts off with that "aw shucks" its the fifities kind of feel, but it really is much more layered and complex than that. It was sort of a coming to knowledge story as the main character moved from a somewhat sheltered childhood into a more complex adolescent both internally...

Author	Colleen Curran
ISBN	1400079950

The girls of Sacred Heart Holy Angels eye the good dancers at the all-ages club Metropolis. They waste afternoons at the mall, check out parties on the lake, burn through candid, casual sex.

Everybody calls them the Whores on the Hill, but they don't care.

It is the mid-'80s and they...

Author

Ursula DeYoung

Spending the summer of 1928 in a big house on the Maine coast with his 10 older cousins and a gaggle of aunts and uncles seems like a dream come true to lonely 13-year-old Richard.

But as he wanders through the bustling house, Richard witnesses scenes and conversations not meant for him and watches...

Author	Lisa Levchuk
ISBN	0374322384

Lately I feel like an astronaut out on a space walk – constantly praying the tube attaching me to the ship doesn’t snap and send me flying into outer darkness.
 
The only good thing about having a mother with cancer is that people are willing to let you get away with pretty much anything. Like...

Author	Blake Nelson
ISBN	0765314231

Seventeen-year-old Emily and her best friend Reese can't wait for summer vacation on Cape Cod. Every year, it's the same thing: high hopes that they may finally hook up with some cool guys...and it never happens. But this year, they're sure it's going to be different. So it's totally amazing when out...

Author	Mary Beth Lundgren
ISBN	0805067973

"From the computer files of Sara J. Reichert:
My life, from the last day of summer vacation,
to almost spring of my Junior year.
No matter what you might have heard,
this is the real story."

Love, Sara is the story of two teenage best friends, Sara and Dulcie. Sara, the narrator,...

Author	Michael Hornburg
ISBN	0802137938

Downers Grove is the haunting and tender story of Chrissie Swanson, a paranoid high school senior for whom graduating has become a matter of life or death. She's an unusual girl in an ordinary town. Her mother's sex life is overshadowing her own; her brother is aboard his own private Enterprise, slipping...

Author	Amy Kim Kibuishi
ISBN	1598164104

Josh and Nicole make amends when Josh accidentally reads Nicole's diary--and is amazed by the incredible worlds that she's created inside her head! When he convinces her to submit the story to a fantasy magazine--and manages to get her to let him be her editor--sparks begin to fly between them. But Nicole...

Author	Ruth Doan MacDougall
ISBN	0966335201

First published in 1973 and 1974 by Putnam and Bantam, The
Cheerleader was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, optioned by Twentieth Century-Fox, made into an NBC sitcom pilot, and became a best-seller beloved by generations of readers.
p/pThe reprint of this classic coming-of-age novel...

Author	Youme Landowne
ISBN	1933693061

On the subway, do ever notice that people are always looking, but they only see what they want to? Things can be sitting right in front of them and still they can’t see it.

That’s your guide Anthony speaking. He’ll show you how he lives in the tunnels underneath the New York City subway system—that...

Author	Melissa Lion
ISBN	0375839542

Marty’s small town in Alaska is the most beautiful place in the world. There she and her beloved boyfriend, Steven, can walk through fields of fireweed, explore the wild, and tie pink floozy fishing lures to catch the salmon that swim upstream. But when she starts her senior year, Marty must return...

Author	Marjorie Reynolds
ISBN	0425172643

This small, unobtrusive 1997 paperback is easy to overlook. At first glance it appears to be one of those "fluff" romance novels that are used primarily as a means of escape. Had I myself come across The Starlite Drive-In most likely, I would have dismissed it without bothering to read the back cover....

Author	Maeve Binchy
ISBN	1898801681

Maeve Binchy was born on 28 May 1940 in Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland, the eldest child of four. Her parents were very positive and provided her with a happy childhood. Although she described herself as an overweight child, her parents' attitude gave her the confidence to accept herself for who she...

Author	Lilian Nattel
ISBN	0743249674

With vivid prose and magical realism, Lilian Nattel brings another remarkable novel set in a historic Jewish community--the bustling alleys of London's East End in the late nineteenth century--to life.

Nehama, a young Jewish woman, leaves her family and comes to London to fulfill dreams...

Author	Narinder Dhami
ISBN	0385902158

The far-out comedy in Bollywood Babes had me giggling through to the end. Like a good Bollywood filmi, I longed for a happy ending... and got it. Though I hadn't read the first book in the series, I was able to figure out the family dynamic and enjoy the story. The writing was not gripping, but thanks to my...

Author	Hideyuki Kurata
ISBN	1421505096

See alternate cover edition here.

At the Manshu Academy, the secret Underground Library continues its feeding frenzy, while Yomiko struggles to make peace between the warring A and B level students. More chaos ensures when the Joker arrives with his squad of deadly commandos, hot on the trail...

Author	T.D. Griggs
ISBN	1481236008

CHRISTMAS, and it’s the end of the road for Matt and Lauren Silver’s tempestuous marriage. Rock star Silver has been touring abroad just once too often, neglecting Lauren and their twin daughters, Gudrun and Freya. In a desperate attempt to put things right, Silver cancels his tour and comes home...

Author	Majgull Axelsson
ISBN	9170012849

En berättelse om sökandet efter identitet och om de olika livsval vi tvingas göra. Mary är minister, Marie sitter i fängelse. Vem är då MaryMarie som ser sig själv i båda personerna?

En morgon hittas en halvnaken man på en gata i en östeuropeisk stad. Han har brutit nacken. Högt...

Author	Amber Kizer
ISBN	0385734301

GERT GARIBALDI ISN'T ONE OF those people who believe high school is the best part of life. She has a whole notebook full of rants about high school, and she's fully aware of how ridiculous the experience is, thank you very much. Gert just wants to survive the next three years, one butt cheek at a time, with...

Author

Heleen van Royen

Victoria is een 27-jarige femme fatale met een uniek beroep. Ze is mannentester. Ze laat zich inhuren door vrouwen om hun geliefde op de proef te stellen. De ongenaakbare Victoria kent geen scrupules, werkt professioneel en doelgericht. Ze reist van Sevilla naar Londen, van Milaan naar New York, waar...