Gabrielle Zevin Knihy

Sam a Sadie sa priatelia už od detstva. Často sú do seba zamilovaní, no nikdy medzi nimi nič viac ako kamarátstvo nebolo. Nadviažu kreatívne partnerstvo v okúzľujúcej, ale komplikovanej oblasti videoherného dizajnu, a úspech im prinesie slávu, radosť, tragédiu, pokrytectvo a hlavne akýsi druh nesmrteľnosti. Príbeh o láske, aký ste ešte nečítali.Sam Masur, prvák na Harvardovej univerzite, jedného chladného decembrového dňa vystúpi z metra a na stanici v dave čakajúcich ľudí zbadá Sadie Greenovú. Zavolá na ňu. Sadie chvíľu predstiera, že ho nepočuje, no napokon sa otočí a začne sa hra, v ktorej ich legendárna spolupráca vystrelí do herného neba.Blízki priatelia z detstva si požičajú peniaze a za pomoci mnohých ľudí ešte pred skončením štúdia vytvoria svoj prvý kasový trhák, hru Ichigo. Zo dňa na deň im svet začne ležať pri nohách. Skôr než dovŕšia dvadsaťpäť rokov, sú Sam so Sadie geniálni, úspešní a bohatí, no to ich neochráni pred vlastnými kreatívnymi ambíciami či zradou pre vlastné záujmy.Príbeh pokrývajúci obdobie tridsiatich rokov, v ktorom sa presúvame z Cambridgeu v Massachusetts až do Venice Beach v Kalifornii, je chvíľami až za hranicami možného. Tento príbeh skúma rozmanitú podstatu identity, znevýhodnenia, zlyhania, možností vykúpenia v hrách, ale predovšetkým našu potrebu niekam patriť: milovať a byť milovaný.

A.J. Fikry owns a failing bookshop. His wife has just died in tragic circumstances. A prized, rare and valuable first edition has been stolen. His life is a wreck. Amelia is a book rep, with a big heart, and a lonely life. Maya is the baby who ends up on A.J.'s bookshop floor with a note. What happens in the bookshop that changes the lives of these seemingly normal but extraordinary characters?

After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live." An ALA Notable Children's Book. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

A man falls in love with a woman named Margaret Towne. After a brief and tumultuous courtship, he meets Maggie's family, which consists of five women named Margaret, Maggie, Marge, Mia, and May, who all live together in Margarettown.

The irascible A. J. Fikry, owner of Island Books, has already lost his wife. Now his most prized possession, a rare book, has been stolen from right under his nose. One night upon closing, he discovers a toddler in his children's section with a note from her mother saying she can no longer raise her. It doesn't take long for the locals to notice the transformation of both bookstore and owner, especially to the lovely yet eccentric sales rep, Amelia Loman

Reluctant heir of a Mafia boss. Star-crossed lover. Paparazzi darling. Hitman’s target. Anya Balanchine’s amazing story continues in the second part of the Birthright trilogy. Freed from jail, Anya hopes that things will get back to normal. But life on the outside is even more dangerous than life behind bars. Some of her gangland family want revenge for the crime for which she has done time: the shooting of her uncle. Forced to flee the country, Anya hides out in a cacao plantation in Mexico. There she learns the secrets of the chocolate trade, a trade that is illegal and deadly in her native New York. There too she discovers that seemingly random acts of violence carried out across the world have a single target: her family. As innocent bystanders get caught in the crossfire Anya must act fast and decisively to stop it, no matter what the danger to herself.

Aviva Grossman is a bright, ambitious Congressional intern with a promising future in front of her - until her Lewinsky-esque affair with a married Congressman comes to a crashing end. After unsuccessfully trying her best to bounce back and restart her life, she decides that the best way to get the ultimate fresh start is to become someone else. But there are a few obstacles: a lack of funds, a lack of privacy under the media's relentless gaze, and two tell-tale blue lines on a pregnancy test.

The first two books in this heart-stopping trilogy by Gabrielle Zevin, All These Things I've Done and Because It Is My Blood, introduced us to timeless heroine Anya Balanchine, a plucky sixteen-year-old having to deal with the problems and responsibilities of a grown woman. Losing her mafia-boss father, her mother and then her grandmother, and being responsible for her sister and brother - not to mention a prison stay for a crime she didn't commit - have taught Anya a lot about life. Now eighteen, Anya finds that against all odds the nightclub that she opened with her old nemesis, Charles Delacroix, is a huge success and she is on her way to shedding the constraints of her family's criminal past and finding a way to legalize the supplying of chocolate. But Anya has lost Win - the love of her life - as a result of her partnership with his father, Charles. In typical fashion Anya puts the loss of Win behind her, focusing instead on expanding her business. But soon a terrible misjudgement leaves her fighting for her life and for the first time Anya is forced to let people help her. In the Age of Love and Chocolate showcases the best of Gabrielle Zevin's writing. Full of all the heart of Elsewhere, this is the perfect end to a brilliant romantic dystopian trilogy.

If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn't have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her "Chief." She'd get all his inside jokes, and maybe he wouldn't be so frustrated with her for forgetting things she can't possibly remember. She'd know about her mom's new family. She'd know about her dad's fiancée. She wouldn't have to spend her junior year relearning all the French she supposedly knew already. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. She wouldn't have wanted to kiss him back. But Naomi picked heads. After her remarkable debut, Gabrielle Zevin has crafted an imaginative second novel all about love and second chances. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.