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Part Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, part Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Adam Silvera's extraordinary debut confronts race, class, and sexuality during one charged near-future summer in the Bronx. The Leteo Institute's revolutionary memory-relief procedure seems too good to be true to Aaron Soto -- miracle cure-alls don't tend to pop up in the Br...

There are a few things Henry Denton knows, and a few things he doesn’t. Henry knows that his mom is struggling to keep the family together, and coping by chain-smoking cigarettes. He knows that his older brother is a college dropout with a pregnant girlfriend. He knows that he is slowly losing his grandmother to Alzheimer’s. And he knows that his boyfriend committed suicide last year. What H...

OCD-afflicted Griffin has just lost his first love, Theo, in a drowning accident. In an attempt to hold onto every piece of the past, he forges a friendship with Theo's last boyfriend, Jackson. When Jackson begins to exhibit signs of guilt, Griffin suspects he's hiding something, and will stop at nothing to get to the truth about Theo's death. But as the grieving pair grows closer, ...

Love, like everything in the universe, cannot be destroyed. But over time it can change. The hot Texas nights were lonely for Ben before his heart began beating to the rhythm of two words; Tim Wyman. By all appearances, Tim had the perfect body and ideal life, but when a not-so-accidental collision brings them together, Ben discovers that the truth is rarely so simple. If winning Tim’s heart wa...

A heartbreaking yet uplifting story about a boy who has lost everything but finds new hope drawing in the shadows of a hospital. Features a thirty-two-page graphic novel. Andrew Brawley was supposed to die that night, just like the rest of his family. Now he lives in the hospital, serving food in the cafeteria, hanging out with the nurses, sleeping in a forgotten supply closet. Drew blends i...

If you asked anyone in his small Vermont town, they’d tell you the facts: James Liddell, star athlete, decent student and sort-of boyfriend to cute, peppy Theresa, is a happy, funny, carefree guy. But whenever James sits down at his desk to write, he tells a different story. As he fills his drawers with letters to the people in his world--letters he never intends to send--he spills the truth: h...

In a stunning literary debut, two boys on opposite ends of the world begin an unlikely friendship that will change their lives forever. Ollie and Moritz are best friends, but they can never meet. Ollie is allergic to electricity. Contact with it causes debilitating seizures. Moritz’s weak heart is kept pumping by an electronic pacemaker. If they ever did meet, Ollie would seize. But Moritz woul...

Знаменитый английский писатель сэр Уильям Джералд Голдинг - лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе (1983). Его романы, особенно первый - "Повелитель мух", с огромным трудом вышедший в 1954 году, принесли писателю всемирную славу. Определяя своих героев на остров, голый риф или корабль, Уильям Голдинг окружает их тьмой океана и неизвестностью, на поверку оказывающимися ничуть не страшнее той тьмы...

"Великий Гэтсби" — знаменитый роман эпохи "века джаза" и, пожалуй, самое значительное произведение Ф. С. Фицджеральда. Написанный в 20-е годы прошлого века, этот роман понятен и интересен современному читателю, который узнает в его героях себя. Ведь во все времена приходится выбирать между славой, богатством и — любовью. Сегодня "Великий Гэтсби" обязателен для чтения в средних школах и в вузовских...

Мартин Макдонах действительно один из великих драматургов нашего времени. Глубочайший, труднейший драматург. Ничем не проще Островского, Чехова, Олби, Беккета. Его "Человек-подушка" глубже, чем любые политические аллюзии. Там есть и мастерски закрученная интрига, и детективная линия - так что зрители следят просто за выяснением тайны. Но там есть еще и напряженная работа мысли. Пьеса об ответствен...