Chloe Hughes non vede l’ora di dare una svolta alla sua vita. Sogna di diventare una scrittrice di successo e di vivere in una grande città, così, quando viene ammessa all’antica e prestigiosa Dern University, è certa che il destino sia finalmente dalla sua parte. Ma l’arrivo al campus è un brusco risveglio. Se da un lato l’università la conquista con i soffitti a volta, i salici che sfiorano il fiume e quell’atmosfera che profuma di tweed e camicie inamidate, dall’altro il suo appartamento è decrepito e le coinquiline tutt’altro che accoglienti. Tutto cambia quando incontra Clara Holland: capelli biondi perfetti, sorriso da copertina, una vita da sogno e mezzo milione di follower sui social. Clara la prende sotto la sua ala e la introduce nel suo esclusivo circolo di amiche: le Golden. Un mondo di lusso, privilegi e regole non dette, dove tutto sembra possibile. Ma dietro la facciata dorata, qualcosa non torna. Chloe comincia a notare dinamiche strane, tensioni sottili, sguardi che si fanno inquietanti. Poi, dopo una festa indimenticabile, una ragazza scompare nel nulla. Ora Chloe sa che dietro l’apparenza scintillante si cela qualcosa di oscuro. Ma quanto è disposta a rischiare per non rinunciare al posto che ha tanto faticato a conquistare?

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes." With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."

Before there was Dragon Ball Z, there was Akira Toriyama's action epic Dragon Ball, starring the younger version of Son Goku and all the other Dragon Ball Z heroes! Meet a naive young monkey-tailed boy named Goku, whose quiet life changes when he meets Bulma, a girl who is on a quest to collect seven "Dragon Balls." If she gathers them all, an incredibly powerful dragon will appear and grant her one wish. But the precious orbs are scattered all over the world, and Bulma needs Goku's help (and his super-strength)! With a magic staff for a weapon and a flying cloud for a ride, Goku sets out on the adventure of a lifetime...

The battle ends here!

The battle ends here!