brooklyn by colm toibin

Based in the hybrid setting of India and UK, this is a friends to lovers story. Childhood besties Neil and Alia find it difficult to give in to their feelings and cross the "safe" line of friendship in the hope of something more. Will it be a smooth sail for them? Or will they come across a crossroad - choosing between love or friendship?

J'ai gâché sept ans de ma vie pour Caspian Hale. Pour se débarrasser de moi, il s'est fiancé à son amour d'enfance. Lors d'une fête d'été dans les Hamptons, elle m'a piégée. Elle a fait un plongeon d'une terrasse. Tout ce que Caspian a vu, c'était ma main tendue vers elle. Il m'a fait enfermer dans un hôpital psychiatrique au nord de l'État. "Tu es folle," m'a-t-il dit. Pendant deux ans, ils m'ont battue avec des matraques électriques jusqu'à ce que je crache du sang. Ils ont retiré mon utérus. J'ai vécu chaque jour dans la terreur pure. Je suis sortie de là avec un diagnostic de lupus et une condamnation à mort. Et maintenant, le voilà, debout devant moi, les yeux rougis. "Aurelie, je connais maintenant la vérité."

At eighteen, Dante and I were fighting for scraps on the streets of Brooklyn. I stormed a rival gang’s hideout alone and dragged him out, beaten to within an inch of his life. We clawed our way out together, and I helped him rise to become the Don of the Falcone family. Isabella, the Moretti principessa, proposed a marriage alliance to unite our families. But he defied the entire Moretti family, telling the New York underworld that I was his one and only queen. From that day on, Dante’s war with the Moretti family began. They seized his docks; he beat Isabella's right-hand man half to death. He annexed their territory; she lured him into a trap that nearly cost him his life. Throughout their bloody feud, he kept me perfectly safe. Everyone said he loved me more than life itself, willing to make an enemy of the Morettis, one of New York's five great families. Until Isabella ran my car off the highway. I was recovering in a private clinic when I stumbled upon a scene in the next room: Dante, his eyes bloodshot, slamming Isabella against the wall. "You can mess with me all you want," he snarled, "but don't you dare touch her. You know what I'm capable of." But the woman he had pinned against the wall simply traced circles on his chest, her laughter low and seductive. "What good is a queen who's nothing but an empty shell, unable to even give you an heir?" "Only I am worthy of being your queen!" He didn't object. Instead, he kissed her savagely. Only then did I realize the bloody war waged in my name was nothing more than a twisted game of cat and mouse between them.

This story involves a teenage girl with her twin brother and her friends by her side facing their demons together. Read this book to find out whether the girl finds her Prince charming who could see here real side, the broken one, the one which is even hidden from her own brother! Plz give this book a chance..

Brooklyn never thought much of her life. She thought she was a boring seventeen-year-old girl. But when two boys show up at her school unannounced, her life is turned upside down. She and her sister, Lili, are taken on wild adventures and learn that the gods they thought were legends are actually real and hiding. Lincoln didn't expect to be abducted by a nineteen-year-old boy one morning. But when he is, he discovers a world full of gods and monsters and secrets. He discovers legends that were meant to be forgotten and learns things that he was never meant to learn. When secrets and legends unveil themselves, trouble is sure to follow. Some things are never meant to be learned, but when this group of friends uncover secrets hidden by the gods themselves, they must act quickly to save their lives.

In London in 2023, illustrator Seraphina, heartbroken after being used by her lover, fled. She reunited with Elara, the founder of a digital art studio and her Cambridge "old rival" whom she had secretly admired for six years, at a bar in Soho. From working side by side on the "Starry Mist" Norse mythology project to resolving the misunderstanding over a high school love letter, the two joined hands to confront external doubts and family resistance. They healed the identity confusion of being descendants of immigrants through art and love. Finally, after ten years together, they turned the initial heartbeat of their first meeting into a London love letter as enduring as the starlight in the eternal night.

Na cidade de Orte, conhecida pelo bairro do Pão Fofo e seu pão de broa único, vivem os gêmeos Loilet. Desde cedo, ambos sonham em se tornar “brobros”, aventureiros capazes de explorar o mundo e conquistar a lendária barba, um artefato mágico capaz de realizar qualquer desejo… mas que cobra o preço da própria fé na vida. Quando o amigo de infância dos irmãos retorna de uma jornada misteriosa com o enigmático Livro das Ideias, os gêmeos decidem seguir seus passos, apesar dos avisos e da resistência do pai. No caminho, eles encontram o filho do pescador, que busca apenas a licença para proteger os negócios da família, mas acaba envolvido na aventura. Juntos, eles enfrentam testes difíceis, descobrem os segredos da barba e do Mundo das Ideias e aprendem que ser um brobro não é apenas alcançar feitos grandiosos, mas também compreender coragem, persistência e a beleza do mundo através dos olhos uns dos outros. Entre amizade, coragem e sonhos, eles descobrem que o verdadeiro poder não está em ser protagonista, mas em moldar o próprio destino e inspirar o mundo ao redor.

Some people are invisible. Orlias learned early that being unseen hurts. But being seen? That costs more. Thrown into a world that decides who he is before he speaks, Orlias finds refuge in one place where nothing can lie…  The track. There, effort has meaning. Pain has structure. And for the first time, he is more than what they call him. But talent brings attention. Attention brings expectation. And expectation? That’s where everything starts to break. As rivalries form, bonds deepen, and pressure builds from every direction  school, family, and self  Orlias must decide: Is he running toward something… or just running away?

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[Irresistible MC + Farming & Entrepreneurship + Strong Female Lead + Cute Baby + Love Rivalry + Farming System + Male Competition] Deng Yuyuan wakes up to find she has transmigrated into a period novel about a "pampered group darling" — as the biological mother of the vicious female villain. The female villain has a biased grandmother, a mooching uncle and his family, a blindly filial father, and a spineless mother. She was a small-time thief as a child. As an adult, she committed every kind of evil — constantly framing the female lead — and ultimately met a miserable end. The female lead is the only daughter in another family, doted on by her older brothers. The villain targeted her out of pure jealousy. And now, Deng Yuyuan has become that villain's cowardly mother — and the villain herself is currently just an ugly, wrinkly-faced infant. The blindly filial father loves his wife, but gives all the good things to his own mother. He says to his starving wife and daughter: "Xiao Yuan, come drink some water. I specially heated it for you." Deng Yuyuan looks at her own bony frame and her tiny child — and decides to get a divorce. Goodbye, useless husband. She's going to raise this little cub with an abundance of money and love. No way she'll go astray this time. Lost one husband, gained a crowd of suitors. A beautiful sent-down youth coveted by many — she knows some self-defense and burns the midnight oil studying. With the reinstatement of the college entrance exams, she takes her child toward a much wider world. Riding the wave of the times, Deng Yuyuan works her way up to become a gaming tycoon and a cutting-edge scientist... Except — why are so many men fighting to be her cub's stepfather?