Boy Meets Boy is a young adult novel by David Levithan, published in 2003. It is set in a gay-friendly small town in America, and describes a few weeks in the lives of a group of high school students. As the title suggests, the central story follows the standard romantic plotline usually known as "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl" except that the main characters are both boys, the narrator Paul and newcomer Noah. The novel won a Lambda Literary Award.

In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty — the opposite of the life she’s left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman.A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she’d become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy’s daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. Among them, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold.Dazzlingly inventive and powerfully moving, Boy, Snow, Bird is an astonishing and enchanting novel. With breathtaking feats of imagination, Helen Oyeyemi confirms her place as one of the most original and dynamic literary voices of our time.

W pożarze, który wybucha w słynnej katedrze turyńskiej, ginie mężczyzna pozbawiony języka i linii papilarnych, prawdopodobnie rabuś. Podobne próby włamania, a nawet pożary, miały wielokrotnie miejsce w przeszłości, na przestrzeni wieków. Sprawcy pozostawali zawsze anonimowi, nie dawało się ustalić ich tożsamości. Sprawą zajmuje się policyjny wydział do spraw dzieł sztuki. Okazuje się, że rozwiązania zagadki należy szukać w historii. Śledztwo, które prowadzi komisarz Marco Valoni, historyk sztuki Sofia Galloni oraz dociekliwa dziennikarka Ana Jimenez ujawnia, że włamywacze pochodzą z tego samego środowiska, wspólnoty chrześcijańskiej z miasta Urfa, antycznej Eddessy.Obiektem ich zainteresowania jest najcenniejsza relikwia chrześcijaństwa: Syndon, pośmiertna szata Chrystusa.

Это – роман?! Автор что, шутит? Какой же это роман, если в нем нет ни героев, ни сюжета? А есть 26 самых известных брендов, в лабиринтах которых блуждает наш герой, герой нашего времени…«Я теряю себя. Я уже это сделал. Я абсолютно поверхностный человек, и я копирую поверхности. Я постоянно копирую чей-то стиль, чью-то манеру разговаривать или писать, чью-то манеру одеваться, чью-то мимику и чьи-то жесты, у меня почти не осталось ничего своего. Я даже не попытался ничего своего создать, я просто переработал что-то уже имеющееся».Мы все стали такими. Но лишь Олегу Сивуну хватило сил рассказать об этом. The End.

"A short but intense novel. Big, believe me." — Joan Josep Isern, Avui"A little masterpiece." — Giancarlo Montalbini, Lettera"A refined book. One of those books one should add to one's book collection, that one should re-read when looking for emotions in the silent world of writing." — Matteo Chiavarone, GhigliottinaBrandes, a painter living in the Nazi-occupied Paris, will have to make a tough decision: Goering has taken away all his work and asked him to hand him over his Lucas Cranach painting, a family relic. If he does so, he will retrieve them, if he refuses to do it, he will never get them back.

A fierce debut novel about mothers and daughters, haves and have-nots, and the stark realities behind the American Dream.

A waitress at the Betsy Ross Diner, Elsie hopes her nickel-and-dime tips will add up to a new life. Then she meets Bashkim, who is at once both worldly and naïve, a married man who left Albania to chase his dreams—and wound up working as a line cook in Waterbury, Connecticut. Back when the brass mills were still open, this bustling factory town drew one wave of immigrants after another. Now it’s the place they can’t seem to leave. Elsie, herself the granddaughter of Lithuanian immigrants, falls in love quickly, but when she learns that she’s pregnant, Elsie can’t help wondering where Bashkim’s heart really lies, and what he’ll do about the wife he left behind.

Seventeen years later, headstrong and independent Luljeta receives a rejection letter from NYU and her first-ever suspension from school on the same day. Instead of striking out on her own in Manhattan, she’s stuck in Connecticut with her mother, Elsie—a fate she refuses to accept. Wondering if the key to her future is unlocking the secrets of the past, Lulu decides to find out what exactly her mother has been hiding about the father she never knew. As she soon discovers, the truth is closer than she ever imagined.

Told in equally gripping parallel narratives with biting wit and grace, Brass announces a fearless new voice with a timely, tender, and quintessentially American story.

Trigiani's sequel to Very Valentine is a sweet second act for shoemaker and designer Valentine Roncalli. Val takes over the New York family-run shoe business with feet-of-clay older brother, Alfred; falls for the dashing, older Gianluca in Italy; and takes a business risk in South America, where she unearths a dusty chapter of family history. There are plenty of picturesque globe-trotting adventures in Tuscany, Manhattan, and Buenos Aires, and, for artistic and independent Val, a grown-up commitment evolves. There is no art without love. Only love can open someone up to the possibilities of living and creating art, Val writes to the wary Gianluca. And the startling twist of family history finally challenges an old-fashioned, insular clan to join the modern world. But it's always the endearing, unnerving and rowdy Roncallis who steal the show. Look for a heartbreaking exit of one beloved character, and a cliffhanger breakup in this charming valentine to love, forgiveness, and family.

In this groundbreaking work of ecstatic criticism, Carole Maso shows why she has risen, over the past fifteen years, as one of the brightest stars in the literary firmament. Ever refusing to be marginalized or categorized by genre, Maso is an incisive, compassionate writer who deems herself daughter of William Carlos Williams, a pioneer in combining poetry and fiction with criticism, journalism, and the visual arts. She is daughter, too, of Allen Ginsberg, who also came from Paterson, New Jersey. Known for her audacity, whether exploring language and memory or the development of the artistic soul, Maso here gives us a form-challenging collection, intelligent, and persuasive.

An irreverent and deeply moving comedy about friendship, fertility, and fighting for one’s sanity in a toxic workplace.Jen has reached her early thirties and has all but abandoned a once-promising painting career when, spurred by the 2008 economic crisis, she takes a poorly defined job at a feminist nonprofit. The foundation’s ostensible aim is to empower women, but staffers spend all their time devising acronyms for imaginary programs, ruthlessly undermining one another, and stroking the ego of their boss, the larger-than-life celebrity philanthropist Leora Infinitas. Jen’s complicity in this passive-aggressive hellscape only intensifies her feelings of inferiority compared to her two best friends — one a wealthy attorney with a picture-perfect family, the other a passionately committed artist — and so does Jen’s apparent inability to have a baby, a source of existential panic that begins to affect her marriage and her already precarious status at the office. As Break in Case of Emergency unfolds, a fateful art exhibition, a surreal boondoggle adventure in Belize, and a devastating personal loss conspire to force Jen to reckon with some hard truths about herself and the people she loves most.Jessica Winter’s ferociously intelligent debut novel is a wry satire of celebrity do-goodism as well as an exploration of the difficulty of navigating friendships as they shift to accommodate marriage and family, and the unspoken tensions that can strain even the strongest bonds.

The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis’s trademarks — dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. Although the certainty of her prose suggests a world of almost clinical reason and clarity, her characters show us that life, thought, and language are full of disorder. Break It Down is Davis at her best. In the words of Jonathan Franzen, she is “a magician of self-consciousness.”

Holly Golightly is generally up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She hasn't got a past. She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone, not even to her one-eyed rag-bag pirate of a cat. One day Holly might find somewhere she belongs.

In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

A book about violence and redemption, Joy Williams' new fiction tells the story of two drifters who break into Florida vacation homes while their owners are away, live there a while, then move on.

Bruce Pike, or 'Pikelet', has lived all his short life in a tiny sawmilling town from where the thundering sea can be heard at night. He longs to be down there on the beach, amidst the pounding waves, but for some reason his parents forbid him. It's only when he befriends Loonie, the local wild boy, that he finally defies them.Intoxicated by the treacherous power of the sea and by their own youthful endurance, the two boys spurn all limits and rules, and fall into the company of adult mentors whose own addictions to risk take them to places they could never have imagined. Caught up in love and friendship and an erotic current he cannot resist, Pikelet faces challenges whose effects will far outlast his adolescence."Breath" is the story of lost youth recollected: its attractions, its compulsions, its moments of heartbreak and of madness. A young man learns what it is to be extraordinary, how to push himself, mind and body, to the limit in terrible fear and exhilaration, and how to mask the emptiness of leaving such intensity — in love and in life — behind.Told with the immediacy and grace so characteristic of Tim Winton, " Breath" is a mesmeric novel by a writer at the height of his powers.

Losing her son in a lorry accident, a woman abandons her lover and her life on the Mexican border and becomes a domestic servant in Madrid; following an awkward ménage-à-trois, a timber agent is blackmailed into introducing his lover's boyfriend to his best client; a depressed, misfit French teacher rejects the overtures of students and would-be lovers; all the while sharp-eyed young Araceli watches over everything from her decrepit apartment.Nesting stories within stories, setting Bret Easton Ellis among his fellow mutts and enigmatic, love-hungry, dying Alba Cambó among her several lovers, Lina Wolff can really throw her readers a sucker punch.Upstairs/downstairs distinctions blur as Wolff's adroit and subtle novel turns the tables, allowing servants and subordinates to dominate their masters. With a Bolaño-esque humor Wolff asks, what chance does love have in this dog-eat-dog world?

Los McDurney y McFersson están enfrentados desde hace décadas. Desde que sus bisabuelos provocaron un choque que acabó con la vida de uno de ellos.Al regresar de una aldea en la que ha estado ayudando a sanar a los enfermos, la patrulla de Josleen hace prisionero a un hombre, creyéndole culpable de un robo de caballos perpetrado a su clan. Atraída por él, averigua asombrada que se trata de un McFersson y, temiendo las represalias, le deja escapar para evitar posteriores complicaciones o incluso una guerra.Meses más tarde, Josleen parte de Durney Tower hacia la fortaleza de Ian McCallister, con quien su madre se ha casado en segundas nupcias. Pero jamás llegará allí.La patrulla dispuesta a robar el ganado de su hermano Wain, está liderada por el mismo guerrero al que ella dejó escapar. Y ese hombre, aunque ella lo ignora, no es otro que el laird Kyle McFersson, jefe del clan enemigo. Un guerrero sobre el que corren las historias más terroríficas.La primera intención de Kyle es pedir rescate por la joven, pero luego la idea de dejarla marchar se le hace imposible.Sin embargo, Wain McDurney no está dispuesto a dejar a su hermana en manos del rival al que desea matar hace mucho tiempo.Josleen tendrá que tomar una penosa decisión: regresar con los suyos o permanecer al lado de las personas a las que acaba queriendo y del hombre que, aún enemigo de su clan, consigue ganar poco a poco su corazón.Y para angustia de la joven, Stone Tower se verá rodeada por huestes enemigas, al mando de su hermano, decidido a no dejar piedra sobre piedra.

These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant. In Briar Rose a sleeping beauty is trapped in an enchantment for a hundred years, dreaming of stories in which someone like her wakes up disappointed, or becomes a mother, or is stripped and defiled. And, as she dreams, outside, failed princes die and hang their remains on the thorns of a briar hedge. In Spanking the Maid a maid and her master are each committed to their own hard service: she, attempting to perform her simple duties without error; he, supplying punishment by rod, belt, hairbrush, whip, cane and slipper when she inevitably fails. These tales of desire are Coover at his most darkly playful.

Paulo Coelho, con más de 35 millones de libros vendidos, no es sólo uno de los autores más leídos del mundo, sino también uno de los escritores con mayor influencia ideológica de hoy en día. Lectores de más de 150 países, sin distinción de credos ni culturas, le han convertido en uno de los autores de referencia de nuestro tiempo. Brida es una novela basada en una historia real de cautivadora belleza, la de la joven irlandesa Brida O` Fern. A la edad de veintiún años, Brida conoce a un mago al que le pide que le ayude a convertirse en bruja. Para ello, la muchacha deberá superar una serie de obstáculos que harán que cambie su concepción de la vida y descubrirá, junto al lector, que el amor es el único medio de alcanzar el mundo espiritual y que nos transfigura, porque cuando amamos queremos ser mejores de lo que somos.