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As his family splinters, worlds collide, and the police block all routes out of town, Nick Twisp must cope with economic deprivation, homelessness, the gulag of the public schools, a competitive Type-A father, murderous canines (in triplicate), and an inconvenient hair trigger on his erectile response, all while vying ardently for the affections of the beauteous Sheeni Saunders, teenage goddess and ultimate intellectual goad. He's smart, he's horny, he's resourceful, and he's on the loose.

Youth in Revolt brings us the journals of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, deal with his divorced parents, and lose his virginity result in his transformation from an unassuming 14-year-old to a modern youth in open revolt. As his family splinters, worlds collide, and the police block all routes out of town, Nick must cope with economic deprivation, homelessness, and the gulag of the public schools.

Nick and Me is the tale of two brothers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Nick is the overbearing, controlling older brother. His younger brother lives a non-eventful life working in the local pizza parlor and looking after his elderly mother in their small apartment. Everything is going as planned for Nick, until his brother fatefully meets a beautiful girl named Sionna. Sionna is the complete opposite of Nick and soon becomes the catalyst for an explosion of personal growth and friction.

Nicks Traum vom goldenen Zitronenfaltermädchen und seine abenteuerliche Wanderung aus dem unterirdischen Reich der Gnomen hinauf zur Sonnenwelt. Und Nick erzählte: „Es sind heute drei Jahre her, da schlief ich fest ein an der heißen Quelle und hatte einen wunderschönen Traum. Mir träumte, ich lag auf einer weichen, grünen Wiese unter einem hohen, blauen Himmel. Bunte und süß duftende Blumen blühten ringsumher. Die Luft war von Liedern erfüllt, war warm und lind.

Nick O'Hara is a veritable womanizer. The only qualifications that he looks for in a romantic connection is that the person is hot and breathing. Mainly hot. He has no desire for an emotional connection with another person, and that's the way he lives his life. He has his fabulous wealth and his reputation as a premiere architect, and that's enough for him. Until Scotty James.