A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income. In I’m Glad My Mom Died , Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly , she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!”), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants. Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I’m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance.Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek’s father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed his father was a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy.Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys.Provocative and fast-paced, S.A. Cosby's Razorblade Tears is a story of bloody retribution, heartfelt change - and maybe even redemption.

"Und wenn ich nicht wenigstens eine von Ihnen gut verheiratet habe, bevor ich Sie wieder abreisen lasse, soll es meine Schuld nicht sein." Zwei grundverschiedene Schwestern, die rationale Elinor und die impulsive Marianne bereiten Mutter Dashwood erhebliche Sorgen. Nach dem Tod des Vaters sind sie alles andere als eine gute Partie, aber unverhofft mangelt es weder an Bewerbern noch an überraschenden Turbulenzen.

Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.   Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence – a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?

Das Buch von Jostein Gaarder ist ein Juwel in der Masse der Neuerscheinungen. Ganz unscheinbar kommt es als Jugendbuch daher -- natürlich nicht irgendeines. Nimmt man es zunächst einmal abschätzend in die Hand, um darin zu blättern, erstaunt die Dicke des Wälzers. Welcher Jugendliche hat schon die Geduld und die Lust, sich durch 614 Seiten durchzukämpfen? Kaum ein Erwachsener will sich das zumuten. Noch dazu, wenn es sich um ein so trockenes Gebiet wie die Philosophie handelt. Und doch. Viele Leser werden den fetten Schmöker erst dann aus der Hand legen, wenn sie Sofies Welt erkundet haben. Geht es doch dabei um nichts geringeres als die großen Fragen der Menschheit. Sofie ist ein junges Mädchen, das im Sommer seinen 15. Geburtstag feiert und aus heiterem Himmel merkwürdige Briefe erhält, mit so komischen Fragen wie zum Beispiel: "Wer bist du?", "Woher kommt die Welt?" oder "Gibt es ein Leben nach dem Leben?". Aber es kommen auch Briefe an ein anderes Mädchen namens Hilde, das bei Sofie wohnen soll. Sofie macht sich auf, Hilde zu suchen und begegnet dabei Alberto Knox, der ihr einen Philosophiekurs anbietet. Dabei lernt Sofie in kürzester Zeit mehr, als in einem Jahr an der Schule. Noch dazu ist es hochinteressant, was Alberto über die Zeit der Mythen zu berichten weiß. Er erzählt von den Griechen, legt einen rasanten Streifzug durchs Mittelalter ein, beschreibt Renaissance, Barock und die wichtigsten Denker der Aufklärung und arbeitet sich an exemplarischen Beispielen wie Freud und Sartre bis zur Gegenwart durch. Sofies Welt ist kein trockenes Lehrbuch, das einen seitenlang langweilt und nur mit dem Fremdwörterbuch genießbar ist. Nein, die Philosophie wird vom Autor in eine pfiffige Geschichte verpackt, wobei er sowohl mit seinen Figuren als auch mit dem Leser während der Lektüre spielt. Ganz nebenbei erfährt man eine ganze Menge Fakten über die Anfänge des Denkens. Jostein Gaarder stellt die zentralen philosophischen Fragen einer Epoche immer in ihren historischen Kontext. So gelingt es ihm, daß der Leser am Ende des Buches nicht nur eine vergnügliche Geschichte gelesen hat, sondern auch einen roten Faden in der Hand hält, mit dem er selbst die Entwicklung der Philosophie betrachten kann, ohne von einem Wust an Fakten erschlagen zu werden, die nicht mehr zuordenbar sind. Wer Lust bekommt, das eine oder andere Kapitel nach einiger Zeit noch einmal zu lesen, dem hat es der Autor leicht gemacht, da ein umfangreiches Stichwortregister am Ende des Buches das gezielte Nachschlagen ermöglicht. Jostein Gaarder, geboren 1952, lebt in Norwegen und, wie kann es anders sein, lehrt Philosophie. Er zeigt in seinem Buch überzeugend, daß es Spaß macht, Fragen zu stellen, Antworten auszuprobieren, denn gerade die komischen Antworten in der Geschichte und die falschen Lösungsansätze in der Philosophie führen oft zu den interessanteren, neuen Fragen. Kurz gesagt: Denken macht Spaß -- man sollte es mal wieder ausprobieren. --Manuela Haselberger

Sometimes you find love in the most unexpected of places... This is not one of those times. Everyone expects Billie Bridgerton to marry one of the Rokesby brothers. The two families have been neighbors for centuries, and as a child the tomboyish Billie ran wild with Edward and Andrew. Either one would make a perfect husband... someday. Sometimes you fall in love with exactly the person you think you should... Or not. There is only one Rokesby Billie absolutely cannot tolerate, and that is George. He may be the eldest and heir to the earldom, but he's arrogant, annoying, and she's absolutely certain he detests her. Which is perfectly convenient, as she can't stand the sight of him, either. But sometimes fate has a wicked sense of humor... Because when Billie and George are quite literally thrown together, a whole new sort of sparks begins to fly. And when these lifelong adversaries finally kiss, they just might discover that the one person they can't abide is the one person they can't live without...

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace—and will touch lives in a ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao's drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future.  Full of Ozeki's signature humour and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.