7 книг
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Крупная рыба Дэниел Уоллес
ISBN: 978-5-9985-0533-1 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Азбука Язык: Русский Дэниел Уоллес - современный американский классик, достойный продолжатель традиций Рэя Брэдбери и Сола Беллоу, Харпер Ли и Джона Апдайка. Его дебютный роман "Крупная рыба" послужил основой фильма Тима Бертона (2003), в котором снимались Эван Макгрегор, Джессика Ланж, Хелена Бонэм-Картер, Стив Бушеми, Денни де Вито. В романе сын умирающего Эдварда Блума собирает воедино легенды и мифы, окружающие жизнь его отца. Блум-старший рассказывает близким невероятные истории о своей невероятной жизни, а сын пытается разглядеть за фантазиями реальность, не понимая, что изъян не в рассказчике, а в нем самом…
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Wintergirls Laurie Halse Anderson
ISBN: 9780670011100 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Viking Juvenile Язык: Английский Развернуть“Dead girl walking,” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secret,” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. I am that girl. I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame. Lia and Cassie were best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies. But now Cassie is dead. Lia's mother is busy saving other people's lives. Her father is away on business. Her step-mother is clueless. And the voice inside Lia's head keeps telling her to remain in control, stay strong, lose more, weigh less. If she keeps on going this way—thin, thinner, thinnest—maybe she'll disappear…
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You Get Full Credit For Being Alive Cari Z.
Год издания: 2013 Издательство: M/M Romance Group Язык: Английский РазвернутьDear Author, First I didn’t see the body through all the rain and darkness but when I drew near I saw him. Thought he was dead with all the blood. But he wasn’t and I considered for a moment to end the job because really… it would have been a mercy kill. He wouldn’t survive those injuries and even if he did he would be a vegetable. I mean… look at that head wound! But something in the way he was dumped on the back of my property in his ripped police uniform and the word FAG scrawled on his chest made me help him. So now I’m here. His guardian angel, kind of ironic considering what I did in the past. I watch over his recovery, standing in…
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The Art of Starving Sam J. Miller
ISBN: 0062456717 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: HarperTeen Язык: Английский РазвернутьMore Happy Than Not meets Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future in this gritty, contemporary YA debut about a bullied gay teen boy with an eating disorder who believes he’s developed super powers via starvation. Matt hasn’t eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside, pleading for a meal. But Matt won’t give in. The hunger clears his mind, keeps him sharp—and he needs to be as sharp as possible if he’s going to find out just how Tariq and his band of high school bullies drove his sister, Maya, away. Matt’s hardworking mom keeps the kitchen crammed with food, but Matt can resist the siren call of casseroles and cookies…
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The Wicker King K. Ancrum
ISBN: 9781250101549 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: Imprint Язык: Английский РазвернутьThe Wicker King is a psychological young adult thriller that follows two friends struggling as one spirals into madness. When August learns that his best friend, Jack, shows signs of degenerative hallucinatory disorder, he is determined to help Jack cope. Jack’s vivid and long-term visions take the form of an elaborate fantasy world layered over our own—a world ruled by the Wicker King. As Jack leads them on a quest to fulfill a dark prophecy in this alternate world, even August begins to question what is real or not. August and Jack struggle to keep afloat as they teeter between fantasy and their own emotions. In the end, each must…
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Cam Girl Лия Редер
ISBN: 1501114999 (ISBN13: 9781501114991) Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Atria РазвернутьVada Bergen is broke, the black sheep of her family, and moving a thousand miles away from home for grad school, but she’s got the two things she loves most: her art and her best friend—and sometimes more—Ellis Carraway. Ellis and Vada have a friendship so consuming it’s hard to tell where one girl ends and the other begins. It’s intense. It’s a little codependent. And nothing can tear them apart. Until an accident on an icy winter road changes everything. Vada is left deeply scarred, both emotionally and physically. Her once-promising art career is cut short. And Ellis pulls away, unwilling to talk about that night. Everything Vada…
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A Burden Shared Jo Walton
ISBN: ASIN: B06XRGQW15 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: Tor Books What we do for one another is a mystery.
