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In Chinese, peng you means friend. But in any language, all Anna knows for certain is that friendship is complicated. When Anna needs company, she turns to her books. Whether traveling through A Wrinkle in Time, or peering over My Side of the Mountain, books provide what real life cannot—constant companionship and insight into her changing world. Books, however, can't tell Anna how to find a true friend. She'll have to discover that on her own.

Brought to you by Penguin. Welcome to the dizzying heights of New York's Upper East Side: where privilege, partying and scandal rules. And Anna K knows the rules by heart. Beautiful, rich and popular, she takes care to maintain her status as the perfect girlfriend, daughter and student. Then a...

You are cordially invited to the Evermore Winter Solstic Ball, a weeklong event in a castle by the sea, where the elaborate balls and matchmaking of Regency England combine with a dark and gothic fairy tale magic... Lord Evermore must be going mad - it is the only explanation his daughters...

Anna Shepherd is a straight-A student with a lot going on under the surface: She’s struggling with her mom’s death, total friend drama, and the fallout from wasting her time on a very attractive boy. She’s looking forward to skipping town after graduation - but then a zombie apocalypse majorly disrupts the holiday season. To save the day, Anna, her friends, and her frenemies will have to journey straight to the heart of one of the most dangerous places ever known, a place famous for its horror, terror, and pain...high school.

Anna and the Swallow Man is a stunning, literary, and wholly original debut novel that tells a new WW2 story. Kraków, 1939, is no place to grow up. There are a million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. And Anna Lania is just seven years old when the Germans take her father and...

A Glen St. Mary arriva il nuovo pastore, il reverendo John Meredith, un uomo buono ma molto distratto. Rimasto vedovo, si trasferisce nella vecchia Canonica con i suoi quattro figli. I bambini crescono liberi e selvaggi, stringendo un forte legame con i figli di Anna. Il loro ritrovo fisso diventa "Rainbow Valley", una splendida conca boscosa.

Narrator Jenna Ushkowitz is an award-winning actress, singer, producer, and podcast host best known for her role as Tina Cohen-Chang on Glee. The sequel to Anna K, set over the course of the next summer, as the characters come to terms with Vronsky’s tragic death How the mighty have fallen...

Un adolescente svanisce nel nulla. A indagare sulla scomparsa del quattordicenne Pietro Marcelli è l'ispettrice Veronica Sgheis. Sposata e con un figlio coetaneo di Pietro, Veronica capisce presto che le spiegazioni più semplici e immediate non portano da nessuna parte. Quando la situazione precipiterà, sarà costretta a violare tutte le regole e a mettere da parte il proprio scetticismo. Perché le leggende nascondono la verità.

Winner of the 2017 Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production A New York Times Bestseller A Booklist Editors’ Choice Audio An AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year A Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book Winner of...

Anna er glad og tilfreds i Atlanta, hvor hun ser frem til at starte på sit sidste år på high school. Hun har en trofast bedste veninde, et godt fritidsjob og et crush på en fyr, der netop er begyndt at vise interesse for hende. Anna bliver derfor ikke begejstret, da hendes far beslutter sig for at sende hende på kostskole i Paris. Selv om Anna ikke kan fransk, møder hun hurtigt en ny gruppe venner, og ikke mindst den søde og charmerende Étienne St. Clair. Desværre er han allerede taget - og det er Anna vel egentlig også? Men i lysets by kan alting ske.

Il titolo originale è: Anne of Ingleside a volte tradotto anche come La grande casa è il sesto romanzo della celebre saga di Anna dai capelli rossi, pubblicato nel 1939, dove Anna, pur non avendo perso il suo spirito sognatore, si troverà ad affrontare i piccoli e grandi problemi della vita familiare e la crescita dei suoi figli. Si preoccupa per le loro personalità in via di sviluppo, le loro piccole delusioni, i problemi a scuola, ma riuscirà ad ascoltarli e guidarli con il suo amore e la sua saggezza.

School’s out for the end of the world. Anna and the Apocalypse is a horror comedy about a teenager who faces down a zombie apocalypse with a little help from her friends. Anna Shepherd is a straight-A student with a lot going on under the surface: she’s struggling with her mom’s death...

Anna loves her peaceful world. Even so, she begins her third year at Quentin Academy with bad premonitions. Carlotta flies to Mongolia to rescue six-year-old Inara, a child with a unique and powerful gift and whose family has been killed. Anna and her family want to do everything for Inara's safety, but can they really protect her? Then disaster strikes. During a flight maneuver with the new express carpets, something happens that never happened before—a carpet crashes. Who are the unseen enemies that threaten Anna's world?

As much as Anna would like to live in harmony, a new danger looms in her second year at the Quentin Academy. Lorenzo, Anna's new classmate and friend, recently arrived from Italy with his grandmother. But, Lorenzo's older twin brothers are also studying at the academy, and something about their strange behavior puts Anna on alert. Soon, the inexplicable death of a harmless creature destroys the balance in Anna's peaceful world.

Seventeen-year-old Anna Elizabeth Owens is a typical teenage girl growing up in Morrisville, North Carolina, until the day her great-grandmother requests her presence at her bedside. In her late seventies, the older woman has a special gift for Anna and she shares a mysterious message.

Anna Wright is always on her best behavior—turning in homework assignments early, keeping her head down during disagreements, and living life vicariously through action movies. Faced with the reality of her reputation as a lame high school cliché, she decides now is the time for a change, so when hotshot basketball player Jeremy Blake interrupts her late-night plotting over a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, she convinces him to help. As they explore the summer together, Anna can’t help but wonder what else will fall into place as autumn approaches.

Ina Bruhn er en af de forfattere, de unge læsere efterspørger flere bøger af. Og selvom hun har travlt med opgaver for tv, film og teater, prioriterer hun littertaturen høj. Hendes nye roman har en hemmelighed som omdrejningspunkt for historien om gymnasieeleven Anna, der må starte alting helt forfra.

»Menschen sind die größte Hoffnung des Menschen, zu überleben.« Krakau, 1939. Anna ist noch ein Kind, als die Deutschen ihren Vater mitnehmen, einen jüdischen Intellektuellen. Sie versteht nicht, warum. Sie versteht nur, dass sie allein zurückbleibt. Und dann trifft Anna den Schwalbenmann...

Septembre 2019. Neuf mois après l'accident qui l'a plongée dans le coma, Anna s'apprête à quitter l'hôpital. Comment se remettre d'un tel drame ? À vingt ans, Mathis et Anna doivent apprendre à gérer l'absence de Nico, et leur culpabilité. L'avenir leur tend les bras, mais parviendront-ils à reprendre le cours de leur vie ? Après Demain le jour se lèvera, nous retrouvons la bande d'amis en pleine reconstruction. À la lueur de nos pas accordés aborde le thème de la résilience, de la renaissance. Une ode à la vie, à l'amour, et à l'espoir !

Narrator Jenna Ushkowitz is an award-winning actress, singer, producer, and podcast host best known for her role as Tina Cohen-Chang on Glee. Meet Anna K! Every happy teenage girl is the same, while every unhappy teenage girl is miserable in her own special way... At seventeen, Anna K is at the...