In this book, we follow three students at a ballet school in Manhattan. The three girls Gigi, June and Bette are completely different from each other. In the ballet world, there is only one way to distinguish yourself from other ballerinas and that is to be the best of the best. The three girls do everything they can to reach the top and they’re also prepared to play nasty tricks.
Category: Fiction
Oliver is an American student who decides to work in the summer of 1983 with a professor in Italy. In the house where he is staying at, he meets Elio, the professor’s 17-year-old son. Oliver and Elio spend the entire summer getting to know each other very well. They cycle through the beautiful city of Crema, talk about life and are often to be found at the pool reading a book. Their friendship flourishes into a beautiful summer love.
This book describes the story of the rise and downfall of The Six, a band that got popular near the end of the sixties. But besides that, this is also the story of Daisy Jones, the daughter of two pretty well-known people that didn’t really seem to notice she was around. With all the money and all the free time she had while growing up, she often ended up on the Strip, where she’d drink and party with the bands playing there. While the Dunne brothers Billy and Graham started to get a band together, Daisy was probably passed out in someone’s bed …
Our main character, Tom Hazard, suffers from a rare condition, making him able to live for centuries. As someone who has travelled all over the world and met the most extraordinary people for years and years, Tom decides it is time to retreat. All Tom ever wants is ordinary life, so he moves back to London, his hometown and settles down as a plain forty-one years old history teacher. But trouble soon finds him in the form of a captivating French teacher who shows a fascination for Tom that scares him.
According to Wink, every story contains the same characters. You have a hero, a villain and a liar. These rules also apply to the real world. Wink sees her recently moved boy-next-door as the hero of the story. His ex Poppy …
Victoria, your typical valedictorian high-school girl has it all: nice friends, a good-looking and popular boyfriend and a scholarship in the pocket. But finding out she’s pregnant has messed everything up …
When Cath and her twinsister Wren go to the University of Nebraska to study, Cath has a lot of things to process. Because they used to do everything together, it comes as a big surprise to hear that Gwen doesn’t want Cath to be her roommate …
Shirin is used to moving and having to start a new life at school. The 9/11 attacks had a major impact on her life. Nasty words and slurs are constantly being fired at her. Nobody wants to have anything to do with her, just because of her reliion, origins and the hijab she wears. At school, she meets Ocean James, a handsome boy who is genuinely interested in her.