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When nineteen-year-old Jill Moss goes missing near the Utah-Arizona border, everyone has an opinion. Only Norma Gallagher, a search and rescue volunteer, knows the real story. Norma’s already found Jill, huddled in a cave and terrified that her abusive boyfriend, Jake, will kill her. If he ever sees her again. To protect Jill from a dangerous man, Norma quietly delivers the girl to her grateful parents in California, even though she’s conflicted. Keeping Jill safe and hidden from Jake, the press, and the public will be their secret. But secrets can’t last forever.

Fourteen-year-old Angie and her mom are poised at the edge of homelessness...again. The problem is her little sister, Sophie. Sophie has an autism-like disorder and a tendency to shriek. No matter where they live, home never seems to last long. Until they move in with Aunt Vi, across the fence from a huge, black Great Dane who changes everything.

An immediate bestseller when first published, Pay It Forward captured hearts all over the world, became a wildly popular film, and spawned a generation of increased altruism. This anniversary edition includes a new introduction by the author. It takes an inspiring and moving tale of a young boy...

Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Richard and Judy Best Read, 2007.
A Richard and Judy Book Club Selection.
Leonard is an eerily wise five-year-old boy with the ability to captivate everyone he meets. Pearl is Leonard's devoted teenage mother, desperately trying to hide a violent secret from her past. Mitch is Leonard's 25-year-old next-door neighbour.

Amelia Booker, a journalist and expert in American literature, receives a photograph leading to the possible whereabouts of E. L. Swann, an author who vanished forty years ago after the success of her first and only novel. It’s too intriguing a literary mystery for Amelia not to follow.

Als Nathan McCann ein halbvergrabenes Baby im Wald findet, geht er davon aus, dass es tot ist. Doch dann bewegt es sich, und in einem einzigen kurzen Moment ändert sich Nathans Leben für immer. Der kleine Junge wird zu seiner Großmutter geschickt, um bei ihr aufzuwachsen, aber Nathan kann ihn nicht vergessen, und er stattet der alten Frau einen Besuch ab. Er bittet um ein einfaches Versprechen: dass sie Nathan irgendwann dem Jungen vorstellen und ihm erzählen wird, dass er der Mann ist, der ihn im Wald gefunden hat.

Russell Ammiano works on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center. On the morning of September 11, 2001, the phone rings while Rusty is rushing to work. The news is devastating: his mother has died of a stroke, leaving his brain-damaged older brother, Ben, alone. This news also saves Rusty's life. He's still at home when two planes hit the World Trade Center--and only one of his friends and colleagues survives.

New to a small town, Jackie and Paula envision a quiet life for their kids: a young adopted son and two teenage foster children, including the troubled Star. However, they quickly butt heads with their neighbor, Clementine, who disapproves of their lifestyle and is incensed when Star befriends her spirited horse, Comet. Haunted by past tragedy and unable to properly care for Comet, Clem nevertheless resents the bond Star soon shares with the horse.

Ruth and her little brother, Aubrey, are just teenagers when their older brother ships off to Iraq. When Joseph returns, uninjured, only three and a half months later, Ruth is happy he is safe but also deeply worried. How can it be that her courageous big brother has been dishonorably discharged for refusing to go out on duty? Aubrey can't believe that his hero doesn't have very good reasons.

Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe River National Wilderness. Not only is he small, scrawny, and skittish but he's barely speaking to the man after a traumatic betrayal. Yet when his father vanishes from their remote cabin and rangers abandon the rescue mission, suddenly it's up to Ethan to keep looking. Angry or not, he's his father's only hope.

Der ehemalige Broadway-Tänzer Billy Shine leidet an Agoraphobie und hat seit fast einem Jahrzehnt keinen Fuß mehr vor die Tür seines Appartements gesetzt. Seine Nachbarn sind die attraktive Nagelpflegerin Rayleen, die einsame alte Mrs Hinman, der engstirnige und übellaunige Mr Lafferty, der gutherzige Felipe und die neunjährige Grace - und ihre mit der Drogensucht kämpfende Mutter Eileen. Billy hat nur kurze Blicke auf sie erhascht - aber die meisten von ihnen haben ihn nie gesehen.

Vida is only 19, but she knows a lot about dying. Her weak heart has kept her on the edge of death her whole life. It hasn't been much of a life. Thanks to her overprotective mother, Vida's only friend is Esther, an elderly Holocaust survivor who lives upstairs. Vida's heart is finally about to give out unless she can get a donor heart in time. Richard is 36 and blissfully married until he gets the call that his beloved wife has died in a car accident. His world falls to pieces.

Ella Ginsberg's brother, Simon, has disappeared. His clothing, shoes, and watch were found abandoned near a freight line track in Central California. His jockey shorts and wallet were never found. The police have no clue, and Simon's wife had no warning that anything was wrong. Ella takes off on foot across much of California and Arizona, thinking she can find Simon using nothing but her knowledge of the way he might think.

Hayden Reese has a bad habit of breaking people's jaws. Granted, he only breaks jaws that deserved some breaking, but he's starting a whole new feud, with the husband of his lover—and this time, it may cost him his life. Hayden's life has never been easy. His father tormented him, his kid brother got all the approval, and he made a fatal mistake that he's never been able to forgive himself for making. But when Hayden's future is shattered by his bad choices, he has to redeem himself in the eyes of his long-estranged daughter Allegra.

By Catherine Ryan Hyde, the best-selling author of Don't Let Me Go and Pay It Forward, this entertaining and life-affirming collection of autobiographical stories explores the rewards and challenges of building a happy life of self-knowledge and creative inspiration, from a writer who has been through it all.

Carly und ihre kleine Schwester Jen sind unterwegs - allein und zu Fuß. Etwas Furchtbares ist passiert. Etwas, das Carlys Glauben an die Menschheit zerstört hat und sie zwingt, die Verantwortung für sie beide zu übernehmen. Sie weiß, sie brauchen Hilfe. Aber sie hat Angst, dass sie und ihre Schwester getrennt werden. Sie haben nur einander. Carly will mit Jen zu der einzigen Person zurück, der sie vertrauen konnte - ihrem Stiefvater.

Die zweiundsechzigjährige Addie Finch hat nach Stationen bei der Armee und der Polizei von Los Angeles jetzt einen Job als Sicherheitskraft in einem Mietlager. Als sie eines Nachts den obdachlosen Teenager Jonathan trifft, beschließt sie spontan, ihm zu helfen. Sie bietet ihm an, in ihrem Gartenschuppen zu wohnen. Aus dem Hilfsangebot wird bald eine ungewöhnliche Freundschaft: Während Jonathan den verwilderten Garten zum Leben erweckt, lernt die trockene Alkoholikerin Addie, dass wahre Stärke auch im Loslassen liegt.

Die vierzehnjährige Angie kümmert sich rührend um ihre kleine autistische Schwester Sophie. Deren stundenlange laute Schreie machen es jedoch fast unmöglich, längerfristig eine Wohnung zu behalten. Erst als sie als ungeliebte Untermieter bei ihrer Tante Vi die Deutsche Dogge Rigby als Nachbarin bekommen, findet Sophie etwas Ruhe. Der Kontakt zu der großen schwarzen Hündin beendet die ewigen Schreiattacken und macht so auch Angies Leben einfacher.

Der junge Ethan ist gezwungen, die Sommerferien bei seinem ungeliebten Vater Noah in der Nähe des Blythe-River-Naturschutzgebietes zu verbringen. Ethan teilt weder die sportlichen Ambitionen seines Vaters noch dessen Vorliebe für die ungezähmte Natur; ihr Verhältnis ist angespannt. Doch als Noah eines Tages von einem langen Lauf nicht nach Hause zurückkehrt, macht sich Ethan auf die Suche nach seinem Vater.

Sebastian, a lonely seventeen-year-old, is suffocating under his dominant father’s control. In the ten years since his mother passed away, his father has kept him “safe” by barely allowing him out of their apartment. Sebastian’s secret late-night subway rides are rare acts of rebellion...