When Ben De Backer
comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their
house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah,
and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an
anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out
only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low
profile in a new school.
But Ben's attempts to survive the last
half of senior year unnoticed are thwarted when Nathan Allan, a funny
and charismatic student, decides to take Ben under his wing. As Ben and
Nathan's friendship grows, their feelings for each other begin to
change, and what started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it
might just be a chance to start a happier new life.
At turns heartbreaking and joyous, I Wish You All the Best is both a celebration of life, friendship, and love, and a shining example of hope in the face of adversity.
At the dawn of the next
world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of
schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is
something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do
anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society,
failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order
collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its
reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of
being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a
parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of
the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of
innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.”
Watson and Holmes: A match made in disaster.
Jamie
Watson and Charlotte Holmes are looking for a winter-break reprieve
after a fall semester that almost got them killed. But Charlotte isn’t
the only Holmes with secrets, and the mood at her family’s Sussex estate
is palpably tense. On top of everything else, Holmes and Watson could
be becoming more than friends—but still, the darkness in Charlotte’s past is a wall between them.
A
distraction arises soon enough, because Charlotte’s beloved uncle
Leander goes missing from the estate—after being oddly private about his
latest assignment in a German art forgery ring. The game is afoot once
again, and Charlotte is single-minded in her pursuit.
Their first
stop? Berlin. Their first contact? August Moriarty (formerly
Charlotte’s obsession, currently believed by most to be dead), whose
powerful family has been ripping off famous paintings for the last
hundred years. But as they follow the gritty underground scene in Berlin
to glittering art houses in Prague, Holmes and Watson begin to realize
that this is a much more complicated case than a disappearance. Much
more dangerous, too.
What they learn might change everything they know about their families, themselves, and each other.
A heartwarming and
refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in
the world to predict what will make your heart tick.
Stella
Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes
up with algorithms to predict customer purchases — a job that has given
her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience
in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.
It
doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her
of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she
needs lots of practice — with a professional. Which is why she hires
escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can't afford to
turn down Stella's offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes
on her lesson plan — from foreplay to more-than-missionary position...
Before
long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but to crave all
the other things he's making her feel. Soon, their no-nonsense
partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that
emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic...
