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Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared world—of joy, escape and fierce competition. But all too soon that time is over, fades from view. When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate, and together they get to work on what they love—making games.

A.J. Fikry, the grumpy owner of Island Books, is going through a hard time: his bookshop is failing, he has lost his beloved wife, and his prized possession - a rare first edition book has been stolen. Over time, he has given up on people, and even the books in his store, instead of offering solace, are yet another reminder of a world that is changing too rapidly. But one day A.J. finds two-year-old Maya sitting on the bookshop floor, with a note attached to her asking the owner to look after her. His life - and Maya's - is changed forever.

Meet Rachel Grossman. She'll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything. Meet Jane Young. She's disrupting a quiet life with her daughter, Ruby, to seek political office for the first time. Meet Ruby Young. She thinks her mom has a secret. She's right. Meet Embeth Levin. She has made a career of cleaning up her congressman husband's messes. Meet Aviva Grossman. The Internet won't let her or anyone else forget her past transgressions. This is the story of five women...and the scandal that binds them together.

Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family living in a too-red house in a Texas college town. Roger, the patriarch, has impulsively gone back to school, only to find his future ambitions at odds with the temptations of the present. His wife, Georgia, tries to keep things afloat at home, but she's been feeding the bill drawer with unopened envelopes for months and never manages to confront its swelling contents. In an attempt to climb out of the holes they've dug, Roger and Georgia make a series of choices that have catastrophic consequences for their three children

Questa non è una storia d'amore, ma parla d'amore... Una fredda mattina del 1995, Sam Masur scende dalla metropolitana e, tra la folla che si accalca sulla banchina, la vede: Sadie Green. La chiama e, per un attimo, lei finge di non sentirlo, poi il rancore si stempera nella nostalgia. Sono passati otto anni dal litigio che aveva spezzato il loro legame, strettissimo eppure fragile, come solo le amicizie dell’infanzia sanno essere. Adesso sono all’università, ed entrambi hanno deciso di trasformare la comune passione per i videogiochi in materia di studio e, un giorno, in una professione.

Par un froid après-midi de décembre, Sam repère Sadie sur le quai du métro parmi la foule. Ils ne se sont pas vus depuis des années, mais jamais ils n'ont oublié leur première rencontre, à l'hôpital. Sam se remettait d'un accident, Sadie venait voir sa sœur malade, et ces deux enfants passionnés de jeux vidéo se sont mis à refaire le monde.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry comes an enchanting story about love in its many forms, and a man's timeless journey into the unknowable territory of the woman he loves. From the moment they first sleep together—piled atop seven mattresses in her dorm room—N. is drawn into a rich and enchanted relationship with Margaret Towne, a woman who will introduce him to worlds he never knew existed.

Ostküste, Mitte der 90er: Sam hat gerade sein Harvard-Studium aufgenommen, als er Kindheitsfreundin Sadie wiedertrifft. Seine frühere Super-Mario-Gegnerin designt heute Computerspiele, und schnell zeigt sich, dass die beiden auch auf kreativer Ebene ein gutes Team sind. Doch als ihr erstes gemeinsames Spiel zum Hit wird, brechen sich Rivalitäten Bahn, die ihre Verbundenheit zu bedrohen scheinen. Über die Magie der Freundschaft, über Popkultur, Wagnis und Scheitern- und zugleich die berührendste Liebesgeschichte, die eigentlich gar keine ist.

Dalla tragica morte della moglie, A.J. Fikry è diventato un uomo scontroso e irascibile, insofferente verso gli abitanti della piccola isola dove vive e stufo del suo lavoro di libraio. Disprezza i libri che vende (mentre quelli che non vende gli ricordano quanto il mondo stia cambiando in peggio) e ne ha fin sopra i capelli dei pochi clienti che gli sono rimasti, capaci solo di lamentarsi e di suggerirgli di "abbassare i prezzi".

Ostküste, Mitte der 90er: Sam hat gerade sein Harvard-Studium aufgenommen, als er Kindheitsfreundin Sadie wiedertrifft. Seine frühere Super-Mario-Gegnerin designt heute Computerspiele, und schnell zeigt sich, dass die beiden auch auf kreativer Ebene ein gutes Team sind. Doch als ihr erstes gemeinsames Spiel zum Hit wird, brechen sich Rivalitäten Bahn, die ihre Verbundenheit zu bedrohen scheinen. Über die Magie der Freundschaft, über Popkultur, Wagnis und Scheitern- und zugleich die berührendste Liebesgeschichte, die eigentlich gar keine ist.