Ergebnis für "Perfect" in Literatur & Belletristik

Celestine North lives in a society that demands perfection. After she was branded Flawed by a morality court, Celestine's life has completely fractured—all her freedoms gone. Since Judge Crevan has declared her the number one threat to the public, she has been a ghost, on the run with Carrick—the only person she can trust. But Celestine has a secret—one that could bring the entire Flawed system crumbling to the ground. A secret that has already caused countless people to go missing.

The thrilling, shocking and romantic sequel to the bestselling YA debut FLAWED is finally here. When we embrace all our flaws, that’s when we can finally become PERFECT… Celestine North lives in a society that demands perfection. After she was branded Flawed by a morality court, Celestine's...

Kirigoe Mima is in the third year of her career as a pure and innocent pop idol. Feeling like something big needs to change, she plans to give her image a major update. When the new Mima is revealed--complete with a sexy outfit and a risque photo book--one of her most obsessive fans refuses to accept her transformation. To restore Mima to the innocent girl of her debut, he puts a terrifying plan to action that throws her life into chaos and mortal peril.

First-time novelist Natasha Friend is a writer with a talent for realistically expressing the fears and uncertainties of today’s adolescents in a good story. Perfect has received the Milkweed Prize for Children’s Literature and is a Book Sense "Winter Picks" selection. This is the moving story of a young girl who develops a dangerous eating disorder while dealing with intense grief.

The classic recording of Northern Lights, read by Philip Pullman and a full cast of narrators. 'Without this child, we shall all die.' Lyra Belacqua lives half-wild and carefree among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon, Pantalaimon, always by her side. But the arrival of her...

Theo Briggs just wants to be perfect. The perfect son. The perfect friend. The perfect boyfriend. But the harder he tries to keep up appearances, the more difficult juggling all of those expectations becomes. Where Theo usually turns to his faith for comfort, he now finds confusion and apathy.

#1 New York Times bestselling series The third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars. In Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four perfect-looking girls aren’t nearly as perfect as they seem. Aria can't resist her forbidden ex. Hanna...

"Not only is this queer rom-com audiobook PERFECT ON PAPER--it's also perfect on audio...The wonderful writing coupled with [Barrie] Kreinik's execution makes this a spectacular audiobook." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner In Sophie Gonzales' Perfect on Paper, Leah on the Offbeat...

What would you give up to be perfect? Four teens find out in the New York Times bestselling companion to Impulse. Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they’d rather be. For four high school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get...

Darcy Phillips: can give you the solution to any of your relationship woes - for a fee. Uses her power for good. Most of the time. Really cannot stand the new Australian jock at school, Alexander Brougham. Has maybe not the best judgement when it comes to her best friend, Brooke...who is in love with someone else. Does not appreciate being blackmailed. But when Brougham catches Darcy in the act of collecting letters from locker 89 - out of which she's been running her questionably legal, anonymous relationship advice service - that's exactly what happens. 

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “stunning” (America Ferrera) YA novel about a teenager coming to terms with losing her sister and finding herself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home. “Alive and crackling—a gritty tale wrapped in a...

Amelie Ayres has impeccable taste in music. Bowie. Bush. Bob. So when she finds herself backstage at The Keep’s only UK gig, she expects to hate it; after all, they are the world’s most tragic band. In fact, she feels a grudging respect - not (obviously) for their music, but for the work that goes into making them megastars. But the next morning she wakes up, rolls over, and discovers a million new mentions on social media. Overnight, a photo of her backstage has made her the subject of global speculation.

While her parents are away for the week, sixteen-year-old Ivy McIntosh plans on binge-watching her favourite TV show and hanging out with her best friend, Henry. But things quickly go downhill on the very first morning, when Ivy wakes up to find Weston, the gorgeous lead character of her favourite show, in her bedroom. And, oh yeah, he thinks that she's his soulmate. Ivy realizes that her writing has somehow brought Weston as she's imagined him to life, and now he's living out her fanfiction dreams. But those fairytale dreams soon turn into disasters.

If death is the beginning, where does it end? Anessa finds herself reborn on a new world filled with magic, gods and intrigue. Will she find out how she really died, or be doomed to repeat it?

Small-town Wisconsin high school senior Allison Smith loves her life the way it is - spending quality time with her widowed father and her tight-knit circle of friends, including best friend Marian and maybe-more-than-friends Neil. Sure she is stressed out about college applications...who wouldn’t be? In a few short months, everything’s going to change, big time. But when Ally files her applications, they send up a red flag...because she’s not Allison Smith. And Ally’s - make that Amanda’s - ordinary life is suddenly blown apart.

Life was complicated enough for Sivia before Keeley came into her life. Her parents' divorce leaves her with a self-centered Dad, resentful Mom, and a brother who overeats to try to deal with it all. But when the new student, obnoxious and legless Keeley, becomes her project partner, her life becomes even more complicated.

Senior Ariel Stone is the perfect college applicant: first chair violinist, dedicated volunteer, active synagogue congregant, and expected valedictorian. And he works hard - really hard - to make his success look effortless. A failed calculus quiz is not part of his plan. Ariel throws himself into studying. His friends will understand if he skips a few plans, and he can sleep when he graduates. But as his grade continues to slide, Ariel realizes he needs help and reluctantly enlists a tutor, his classmate Amir.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lev Grossman comes a magical-realist romance that turns the Groundhog Day premise inside-out and upside-down—coming soon to Amazon as a major motion picture. Mark is 17-years-old and trapped in a time loop, and that’s just fine with him. It’s...

XXII SECOLO. SMETTI DI CERCARE L'AMORE: QUANDO RAGGIUNGERAI LA MAGGIORE ETÀ, SARÀ LA SCIENZA A DIRTI CHI È LA TUA ANIMA GEMELLA. Obbedire alla legge... o ascoltare il cuore? 98,8%. Eliotte non riesce ancora a crederci, ma i risultati del test di compatibilità della Algorithma sono inconfutabili. Lo Stato americano ha appena decretato scientificamente che Izaak Meeka è la sua anima gemella più pura, quella con cui dovrà sposarsi e andare a vivere nelle prossime settimane, per garantire la sopravvivenza della specie.

98.8%. A Eliotte aún le cuesta creerlo, pero los resultados de su test de compatibilidad son irrefutables. La autoridad mundial acaba de decretar científicamente que Izaak Meeka es su alma gemela más pura. En las próximas semanas, tendrán que casarse e irse a vivir juntos, a pesar de que su corazón solo late por Ashton, el hermano pequeño de Izaak… Sin embargo, Eliotte sabe muy bien que en el siglo XXII es la ciencia, y no el corazón, la que determina qué parejas pueden formarse.