Curl up with a good book and some homemade pumpkin bread. Rachel Bloom is the creator of the TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and this book is a collection of writings on what normal is. Or rather, the fact that everyone thinks that they or their life is weird, and that out there somewhere is Normal. …
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When Natsuki is a child, she believes that her toy hedgehog is an alien and wants her to save the planet using magic. When she tells her beloved cousin, he is a life line who understands her and tells her his secret, he's also an alien. We come to understand that this story helps them …
From the author of My Brilliant Friend, comes her latest book, set once again in Naples. Giovanna is beloved by her parents, and believes herself to be worthy and beautiful, until one day after a parent-teacher meeting, she overhears her father comparing her to Vittoria, his estranged and despised sister. Because Vittoria is practically a …
Romilly grows up with her father, an artist, in a ramshackle house surrounded by a wild garden. She vaguely remembers a life before, when she was 4 and they lived in London with her mother, and also a different time when they lived an itinerant life. But her father won't answer questions about where her …
Everything is about to change for four girls who live on Pinder Street, in Nassau. They have grown up together on the beach which now has been claimed by it's private owners who are proposing to build a hotel. Eve is a repsonsible oldest child of the preacher, who helps out so much with her …
Stella lives almost alone at the edge of Winterspell forest, since the death of her mother from a plague and her fathers devastating grief which turned him into an unrecognizable shadow. Raised by her grandmothers ghost and an imp called Peg, her loneliness leads her to go to school in the human world, desperate for …
Ines is running from her past and her bad decisions when a kind hearted teacher helps her get into the prestigious and mysterious Catherine House. It's a university that's highly selective, where students enter and have no contact with the outside world (no phone calls, no tv, no movies, no music, no personal effects, no …
It's the early 60's and two girls meet and become best friends at an elite girls school. Eve comes from old money in Atlanta, while Daniella has been raised Methodist but has a Jewish father. When they befriend one of the maids at the school who is black and plan to join a sorority together, …
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It's the Summer of 1969, and Evie Boyd is 14. As her mother is caught up in her own drama and Evie's best friend ditches her to hang out with another girl from school, she is at a loss for how to spend her long, endless Summer. She is also desperate to be included and …
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