come with me and let me hold your hands while we sit in our combined sorrow about what it truly is to be a girl, a woman, in your twenties, in love, in search of a purpose, a child of immigrant parents and a complicated person with big feelings. even though it is a difficult task to capture these feelings that accompany a lot of our experiences in words, and even though i know words will never be enough, i promise you i have tried my best. is it better to be cursed with yearning for a place far away or to not have a home at all and spend your life searching for it? what makes us persevere, despite the suffering and pain in this world? what is it that makes female friendships so special? what does love really mean and how does it manifest? what is so beautiful about being alive? if you are someone that feels angry or misunderstood by most, give me a chance to make you feel at least a little bit seen and a little bit less alone.

dear my loneliness, maybe i should call u by a name. what name would suit u? i think Violet is nice. maybe because violet is a cold color and u are cold too. i really wanted to say that i hate u Violet. i hate no one more than u. u are the worst thing that ever happened to me. i hate how u make me cry a few tears but never enough to burst. but still i am too familiar with u to just let u go. i hate how cold u feel but when i look deeper, there is something comforting about u. because when i have no one, i still have you. this book is for everyone who truly feels. love, hate, sadness, loneliness and confusion and in between the lines there is some hope for a better tomorrow.

Dreaming of Hiraeth is a heart-rending tale about a true testament of friendship, drawing on a deeper meaning on what it means not just to survive, but to live. Julian Hayes--the moon: loner, introvert, dreamer--is haunted with the guilt of his actions one scarring night six years ago, when he ran away against his will from his twisted home, leaving him unable to remember most of his childhood. Theo Wilson--the sun: bright, bold, realist--was dropped off on the front steps of a group home as a newborn, with a record of the group and foster homes he has run from. No two people could be more opposites than Julian and Theo--yet they have more in common than most would believe. Both orphans, living in a group home in Brooklyn's Fort Greene, they suffer from dark pasts as they try to navigate their youth in the bustle of New York City and pave a worthy future for themselves. Despite their falls, secrets, adventures, and the many obstacles stacked against them, the best friends learn that perhaps the key to their survival is in each other--and that the fight is not in the fall, but the rise. A coming-of-age story about adolescence's innocence and life's meaning, Dreaming of Hiraeth deals with the realities of the foster care system, racism, sexuality, mental illnesses, and addiction in the twenty-first century.

Hiraeth: A feeling of longing for a home that no longer exists or for one that never was. Mike and the crew fight for their right to survive, to carve out a new home, even though Mike cannot help but carry with him all the group has lost. He now wonders if he can continue to sacrifice his own for the sake of others. Terrifying new monsters are born amid the chaos, do our heroes have the will and the firepower to overcome these latest threats? Friends and foes alike will fall, and there may be no human victor. Follow along in this heart-slamming, non-stop thriller, Michael Talbot's final journal, the conclusion of the epic adventure series: Zombie Fallout.

Hiraeth ist das walisische Wort für Heimweh. Die Traurigkeit darüber, etwas Verloren zu haben, das man niemals wieder haben kann. Die erste und stärkste Liebe eines Mädchens ist der eigene Vater. Kein Band auf der Welt kann so stark wie die Bindung zwischen dem Vater und seiner liebsten Tochter sein. Doch nicht jedes Mädchen konnte diese Erfahrung in ihrem Leben machen - manchen wurde dies von Geburt an verwehrt. Und so sehnen sie sich ihr Leben lang nach dieser Liebe, die sie niemals haben werden können.

Die Leseprobe zu meinem Projekt "Hiraeth": Die ersten drei Kapitel als Einblick in die Welt von Philleus und Averett, zwei Bändiger aller sechs Elemente. "Magie kennt keine Grenzen. Die Grenzen der Magie sind die Grenzen des eigenen Verstandes." - Averett

In den Seiten von "Hiraeth" taucht der Leser ein in die fesselnde Welt von Lilith McBlair, einer aufstrebenden Schriftstellerin, die nicht nur Worte auf Papier bringt, sondern auch das Echo ihrer eigenen Seele. Die Geschichte nimmt uns mit auf eine emotionale Reise, während Lilith nach ihrer verlorenen Identität sucht. Verwebt mit einem Hauch von Nostalgie und einem Blick in die Zukunft, erforscht "Hiraeth" die Tiefe des Verlusts und die Kraft der Neubeginne. Eine Geschichte, die leise in den Herzen widerhallt und die Leidenschaft des Schreibens auf einzigartige Weise einfängt.

This mesmerizing literary novel is written with all the emotional precision and intimacy that have won Hisham Matar tremendous international recognition. In a voice that is delicately wrought and beautifully tender, he asks: When a loved one disappears, how does that absence shape the lives of those who are left? “A haunting novel, exquisitely written and psychologically rich.”—The Washington Post Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness her death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father—until they meet Mona, sitting in her yellow swimsuit by the pool of the Magda Marina hotel. As soon as Nuri sees Mona, the rest of the world vanishes. But it is Nuri’s father with whom Mona falls in love and whom she eventually marries. Their happiness consumes Nuri to the point where he wishes his father would disappear. Nuri will, however, soon regret what he’s wished for. When his father, a dissident in exile from his homeland, is abducted under mysterious circumstances, the world that Nuri and his stepmother share is shattered. And soon they begin to realize how little they knew about the man they both loved. “At once a probing mystery of a father’s disappearance and a vivid coming-of-age story . . . This novel is compulsively readable.”—The Plain Dealer “Studded with little jewels of perception, deft metaphors and details that illuminate character or set a scene.”—The New York Times “One of the most moving works based on a boy’s view of the world.”—Newsweek “Elegiac . . . [Hisham Matar] writes of a son’s longing for a lost father with heartbreaking acuity.”—Newsday Don’t miss the conversation between Hisham Matar and Hari Kunzru at the back of the book. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE Chicago Tribune • The Daily Beast • The Independent • The Guardian • The Daily Telegraph • Toronto Sun • The Irish Times Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK AMAZON EDITORS' 20 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR PICK "With its countless epiphanies and surprises, Oona proves difficult to put down." —USA Today "By turns tragic and triumphant, heartbreakingly poignant and joyful, this is ultimately an uplifting and redemptive read." —The Guardian A remarkably inventive novel that explores what it means to live a life fully in the moment, even if those moments are out of order. It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown to the New Year begins, Oona faints and awakens thirty-two years in the future in her fifty-one-year-old body. Greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she’s told is her own, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random. And so begins Oona Out of Order... Hopping through decades, pop culture fads, and much-needed stock tips, Oona is still a young woman on the inside but ever changing on the outside. Who will she be next year? Philanthropist? Club Kid? World traveler? Wife to a man she’s never met? Surprising, magical, and heart-wrenching, Margarita Montimore has crafted an unforgettable story about the burdens of time, the endurance of love, and the power of family.

Sophie Newton is determined to prove herself to her father, who insists she could never run a successful business. She throws herself into her beachside taco stand, The Sandy Tortilla, and makes it her primary goal to show him that he’s wrong, one burrito at a time. When she loses her summer help, Sophie rushes to find a warm body to help take orders. She finds that body—and what a body!—in Montgomery Winters, a struggling actor from LA. It may not be show business, but Mont figures he can write an order for fish tacos. The money’s dead useful, though he finds it’s the curvy company that really keeps him around. As Sophie and Mont work together, they discover an intense attraction between them. But when Mont's agent calls him about a career-making audition, he decides he must pursue the opportunity, even though he can't get Sophie out of his head. Now, Sophie must choose between chasing after the man she's falling for and the business she's fought so hard to build.