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Ben Carver is back to normal. He’s getting all As in his classes at the Natick School. He was just elected captain of the baseball team. He’s even won a big scholarship for college, if he can keep up his grades. All that foolishness with Rafe Goldberg last semester is over now, and he just needs to be a Carver, work hard, and stay focused. Except… There’s Hannah, a gorgeous girl who attracts him and distracts him. There’s his mother, whose quiet unhappiness he’s noticing for the first time. School is harder, the pressure higher, the scholarship almost slipping away. And there’s Rafe, funny, kind, dating someone else…and maybe the  real  normal that Ben needs. "Honestly Ben" by Bill Konigsberg is the sequel to the acclaimed young adult novel "Openly Straight." It follows the story of Ben Carver, a high school student grappling with his sexuality, relationships, and the pressures of adolescence. After spending a semester at an all-boys boarding school where he pretend...

Encuéntrame... Herida y desesperada, Amaris se ve obligada a navegar por su nuevo entorno con la ayuda del enigmático general de Raascot si espera seguir con vida. Al mismo tiempo, al otro lado del país y sin más opciones, Nox se asocia con la liga de asesinos pacificadores del continente, rogándoles ayuda para encontrar a Amaris y forjar cierta estabilidad entre los reinos. A medida que las heridas sanan y nuevas relaciones florecen, Nox y Amaris deben afrontar obstáculos imposibles y llevar su magia al límite si alguna vez quieren crear un mundo que finalmente pueda reunirlas para siempre. Pero ¿es el destino, el amor o algo completamente diferente lo que las une? El sol y su sombra es el segundo libro de la serie La noche y la luna de Piper CJ. Es una secuela cautivadora y apasionante de la adictiva fantasía queer, La noche y su luna. Piper CJ lleva a los lectores a otra aventura épica llena de romance, magia y traición. La construcción del mundo es impresionante y los personajes co...

I love you... Nox's tear-filled words echo across the sand as she and Amaris are torn apart. They've battled fiercely to find each other again, and have barely reunited when Amaris is taken away by the queen's dragon. Injured and desperate, Amaris is forced to navigate her new surroundings with the help of Raascot's enigmatic general if she hopes to stay alive. At the same time, across the land and running out of options, Nox forms a partnership with the continent's league of peacekeeping assassins, begging their help to find Amaris and forge some stability between the kingdoms. As wounds heal and new relationships blossom, Nox and Amaris must confront impossible obstacles and stretch their magic to its limits if they are ever to create a world that might finally reunite them for good. The odds are narrow, the stakes are high, and one question remains: Is it fate, love, or something else entirely that binds these two women together? In the enthralling follow-up to  ...

What would you do if everyone you love disappeared? What if it was your fault? For July Fielding, nothing has been the same since that summer before senior year. Once, she had Alex, her loyal best friend, the one who always had her back. She had Sydney, who pushed her during every cross-country run, and who sometimes seemed to know July better than she knew herself. And she had Sam. Sam, who told her she was everything and left her breathless with his touch. Now, July is alone. Every single person in her small town of Lithia has disappeared. No family. No Alex or Sydney. No Sam. July’s only chance at unraveling the mystery of their disappearance is a series of objects, each a reminder of the people she loved most. And a mysterious message: GET TH3M BACK. Readers are plunged into the unsettling world of July Fielding, a high school senior who finds herself utterly alone after every single person in her town inexplicably vanishes. As July grapples with the sudden emptiness that surrounds...

Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory’s focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead-end job that keeps the lights on. That is, until she begrudgingly agrees to play in one last charity tournament and inadvertently wipes the board with notorious “Kingkiller” Nolan Sawyer: current world champion and reigning Bad Boy of chess. Nolan’s loss to an unknown rook-ie shocks everyone. What’s even more confusing? His desire to cross pawns again. What kind of gambit is Nolan playing? The smart move would be to walk away. Resign. Game over. But Mallory’s victory opens the door to sorely needed cash-prizes and despite everything, she can’t help feeling drawn to the enigmatic strategist.... As she rockets up the ranks, Mallory struggles to keep her family safely separated from the game that wrecked it in the first place. And as her love for the sport she so desperately wanted to hate begins...

At 40, journalist and Brit(ish) author Afua Hirsch had an encounter that kickstarted a year-long journey to decolonise her body and mind. Interspersed with striking photography and epigraphs quoting Grace Nichols, Audre Lorde, and more, this book is a beautiful, thoughtful, well-researched, and intimate exploration of beauty, selfhood, identity, and ritual. In «Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon», Michael Lewis, the renowned author of financial exposés like «Liar's Poker» and «The Big Short», delves into the meteoric rise and dramatic fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, the enigmatic founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Bankman-Fried, a math prodigy turned Wall Street trader, quickly ascended to the pinnacle of the cryptocurrency world, amassing a staggering fortune and becoming the poster child for the crypto revolution. Lewis paints a vivid portrait of this unconventional figure, capturing his eccentricities, his unwavering belief in the transformative power of crypt...

  In this chilling historical horror novel from Rebecca Netley, Annie has just married widower Edward Stonehouse and arrived at his 17th Century Yorkshire estate, where she receives a warning from his sister, a taxidermist and medium: watch out for black feathers. The question arises: what really happened to Edward’s first wife? Having thoroughly enjoyed Netley's debut Gothic thriller, 'The Whistling', I eagerly anticipated her second offering. Set amidst the remote Yorkshire Moors, 'The Black Feathers' unfolds within the confines of Guardbridge, an isolated manor house where Edward Stonehouse, a widower and artist, brings his second wife, Annie, and their newborn son, John. Annie, our troubled protagonist, finds herself haunted by the lingering presence of Edward's late wife, Evie, whose portraits adorn the mansion's walls. Netley masterfully weaves a spiderweb of words, crafting a captivating world within Guardbridge and its secluded community. I found mys...