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Kalifornien in den 80er-Jahren. Das bedeutet Freiheit, Sex und Rebellion. Mittendrin ein vierzehnjähriges Mädchen, das zwischen ihrer Hippie-Künstlerin-Mutter in L.A. und dem Professoren-Vater in Berkeley hin und her pendelt. Schmerzhaft wird sie sich der Lügen und Exzesse der Erwachsenen bewusst und antwortet darauf, wie es nur ein Teenager kann. Auf der Suche danach, wo sie hingehört und wer sie werden wird, probiert sie Outfits, Identitäten und Drogen und rast mit uns durch ein Leben zwischen erster Liebe und absoluter Verunsicherung.

Nach einer Jugend in der Provinz und dem Rausschmiss aus dem College stürzt sich die 19-jährige Vivian kopfüber in das wilde Leben Manhattans: Musicals, Bars, Jazz und Gangster. Um jede Ecke biegt eine neue Liebe, erst recht im Lily Playhouse, dem sympathisch heruntergekommenen Theater, für das sie Kostüme näht. Doch dann begeht sie einen skandalösen Fehler, der den Lauf ihres Lebens grundlegend verändert. Und sie Jahre später doch erkennen lässt: "Es kommt der Punkt im Leben einer Frau, an dem sie es leid ist, sich ständig nur zu schämen.

In Kalifornien beginnt das stärkste Erdbeben aller Zeiten. Die Technik, die Behörden, das Militär: alle versagen. Schnell wird klar: Zwischen der Mutter aller Erdbeben und dem Ende der Menschheit stehen ein kleines Team aus Wissenschaftlern ... und ein Junge, der in seiner eigenen Fantasy-Welt gefangen ist: Casper! Ein Autist, der sich gut mit Farben auskennt, aber nicht mit Gefühlen. Der Weltuntergang interessiert ihn wenig, denn für ihn zählt nur die Realität in seinem Kopf. Doch warum sollte jemand eine Welt retten, in der er nie zuhause war?

Finola, a popular LA morning-show host, is famously upbeat until she’s blindsided on live TV by the news that her husband is sleeping with a young pop sensation. While avoiding the tabloids and pretending she’s just fine, she’s crumbling inside. Zennie’s breakup is no big loss. Although the world insists she pair up, she’d rather be surfing. So agreeing to be the surrogate for her best friend is a no-brainer. Ali is used to being overlooked, but when her fiancé sends his disapproving brother to call off the wedding, it’s a new low.

Die Bücher zur beliebten Netflix-Serie. Die junge Shelby träumt von Freiheit, Abenteuer – und der großen Liebe. Sie hat schon eine genaue Vorstellung von Mr. Right: Ihr Traummann muss ein glattrasiertes Kinn, Hosen mit Bügelfalten und einen Hochschulabschluss haben. Luke Riordan, den sie in dem kleinen Örtchen Virgin River kennen lernt, ist das genaue Gegenteil. Doch ausgerechnet der gut aussehende Ex-Pilot weckt eine verzehrende Sehnsucht in ihr – und ein Gefühl, das sie nicht benennen kann.

Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance.

Acclaimed author, historian, and Guggenheim Fellow Kevin Starr is a professor at the University of Southern California. His extensive knowledge shines through this concise, yet comprehensive, depiction of the most fascinating aspects in California's history. From its colonial beginnings through Governor Schwarzenegger's administration, the Golden State has become a uniquely American phenomenon that has enchanted people with the possibility of a better life.

It’s the summer of ’96 and best friends (and secret girlfriends) Hannah and Sam are driving across the country from Long Beach, New York, to the fabled queer paradise of San Francisco, free from the harsh gazes of their neighbors and the stifling demands of Hannah’s devout Orthodox Jewish mother. In San Francisco, they will finally be together as a real couple, out in the open, around other queer people . . . even if the move means leaving behind Hannah’s beloved Bubbe.

Wenn es um die Liebe geht, hilft es immer, mit den besten Freundinnen zu sprechen! Der Zufall hat die drei Frauen Bree, Mikki und Ashley zusammengeführt, als sie sich um dieselbe Ladenfläche in der Nähe des kalifornischen Strands bemüht haben. Nach einem gemeinsamen Getränk wurden sich die drei schnell einig: Deshalb liegen jetzt Brees Buchhandlung, Ashleys Muffin-Café und Mikkis Geschenkladen in einem Gebäude nebeneinander. Und die Frauen verstehen sich so gut, dass sie jeden Freitag mit einem Glas Champagner am Strand ausklingen lassen.

In Given's debut novel, we follow Eartha on a wild, weird and seductive modern-day exploration as she commences life as an openly bisexual woman whilst also becoming a viral sensation on Wonder Land, a social media app where people project their dream selves online. But as her online self and her offline self become more and more distanced, trauma from her past comes back to haunt and destroy her present. Eartha must make a choice: which version of herself should she kill off?

What happened to feminism in the twenty-first century? This question feels increasingly urgent after a period of cultural and legislative backlash, when widespread uncertainty about the movement’s power, focus, and currency threatens decades of progress. Sophie Gilbert identifies an inflection point in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the energy of third-wave and “riot grrrl” feminism collapsed into a regressive period of hyper-objectification, sexualization, and infantilization.

This program is read by an all-queer cast: the author, Hayley Kiyoko; Natalie Naudus; Malia Pyles; Katie Gavin; and Brandon Flynn. "This quaint performance by a five-narrator ensemble will tug at the heartstrings."- AudioFile Trailblazing pop star, actor and director, Hayley Kiyoko debuts her...

Birdie is the ultimate summer girl. She’s the daughter of a wealthy real estate developer dad and a social media influencer mom, and this summer Birdie happens to be in big trouble for accidentally crashing her boyfriend’s very expensive car. Birdie’s punishment is to spend the summer with her father at the beach—but it won’t be a vacation. He’s enlisted the help of Cass, whose dad works for him, to keep Birdie on the straight and narrow, including getting her a job at the public beach where Cass lifeguards.

Quando noi italiani pensiamo alla nazione che vorremmo diventare, cosa ci viene in mente? Probabilmente vorremmo avere un'economia in grande crescita e la piena occupazione: un paese in cui chiunque voglia lavorare possa farlo. Vorremmo avere le migliori università del pianeta e bellezze naturali adeguatamente valorizzate, prodotti culturali dall'influenza globale e la possibilità di definire «made in Italy» non solo un paio di scarpe ma anche un'app capace di costruire il futuro e un'idea che sappia cambiare il mondo.

When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.

Charity Steane has nothing in the world but hope. Escaping a miserable life under her tyrannical aunt, she decides to take her chances with her estranged grandfather in London. Now it's just a matter of finding him.... And as a 'charity girl' with no dowry and no options, hope can only get her so far. But with the help of the dashing and kind-hearted Desford and his dearest friend Hetta, it seems like Charity's fortunes might be about to change. That is, until the surprise appearance of a long-lost relative throws things into chaos.

She is all blond, beautiful motion; tanned and lithe, she represents freedom, youth, and a playful sexuality that is at once seductive and dangerous to a man's soul. The California girl became a national fantasy in the Sixties, a myth that embodied every daydream, set to the rhythm of a Beach Boys anthem. The story is told in the first person by David Levine, a Jewish New Yorker. In 1965, at the beginning of his senior year in high school, he moves with his family to the San Fernando Valley in Southern California.

Eartha befindet sich auf einer verrückten und verführerischen Erkundungstour durch das heutige London, nachdem sie ihren toxischen Boyfriend endlich verlassen hat. Sie beginnt ihr Leben als offen bisexuelle Frau und wird gleichzeitig zu einer viralen Sensation auf Wonderland, einer Social-Media-App, auf der Menschen ihr Traum-Selbst online projizieren. Nur: Die Distanz zwischen ihrem Online- und ihrem Offline-Ich wird immer größer, bis etwas passiert, das sie in die totale Selbstzerstörung führt und Eartha vor die Wahl stellt.

For Addison Fairchild, success is a guarantee. Groomed since childhood to run a division of Fairchild Enterprises, she takes her birthright seriously. Maybe a little too seriously, if you ask her friends. But work is so much easier than the rest of her life. For Katie Cooper, money has never been important. That is, until her father gets dementia and needs full-time care. As the bills start to pile up, Katie takes a second job as a temporary personal assistant. Two minutes and one spilled cup of coffee later, she's sure she's not ready for Addison Fairchild.

Max Jennings is in a bad mood. The secrets from her past make it her natural state of being. Max’s bad mood means that very few people actually truly understand her or know that her dream is to be a pastry chef. When a rare opportunity to work for world-famous Avis Phillips presents itself, Max jumps at the chance. Avis and her staff aren’t stingy with the tough love, so Max spends every spare minute practicing her craft.