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Pat Peoples se vrací z léčebny pro duševně choré a svět kolem mu nedává příliš smysl. Oblíbený fotbalový tým hraje na stadionu, který před několika měsíci ještě nestál, přátelé mají manželky a děti, ačkoli nedávno byli ještě svobodní. Nikdo mu nechce vysvětlit, jak je to možné, ani s ním mluvit o jeho ženě Nikki, s níž se jistě brzy zase shledá, i když právě teď žijí odloučeně. Pat ale věří ve šťastné konce. Stačí na sobě pracovat, nenechat se odradit, být laskavý k lidem, a život vás odmění. Tak je to ve všech dobrých filmech. Co si o tom myslí váš terapeut, mrzoutský táta nebo divná kamarádka, nehraje roli. Protože je jen otázkou času, kdy odluka skončí, on se s Nikki opět shledá a budou žít šťastně až do smrti. Nebo ne?

Právě dnes má Leonard Peacock narozeniny. Dnes si do batohu k učebnicím přibalí P-38, pistoli nacistického důstojníka, kterou zdědil po svém otci, a zastřelí svého bývalého nejlepšího kamaráda a potom i sebe. Už se nemůže dočkat. Ještě předtím se však musí rozloučit se čtyřmi lidmi, na nichž mu záleží: sousedem Waltem, posedlém Humphreym Bogartem, houslovým virtuózem a spolužákem Babakem, Lauren, jež miluje Ježíše (a do níž byl trochu zamilovaný zase Leonard), a herr Silvermanem, který ho na střední učí o holokaustu...

Amber Appleton has a lot to be thankful for. OR Amber Appleton has never had it easy. Both are true. On the one hand, she's got the best friends a seventeen year old could ask for and a loyal dog, Bobby Big Boy. On the other, her mum frequently has too much to drink, Amber's never quite sure where her next meal will come from and ever since her mum's latest boyfriend kicked them out, Amber and her mum have been living in the back of a school bus. Amber has always found it easy to be upbeat, to find the light in the darkest of situations. Until, that is, an unimaginable tragedy occurs. Forced to rethink her way of life, can Amber remain a rock star of hope? This is the story of a very special teenager, whose faith and hope is tested to the limit.

The author of The Silver Linings Playbook delivers another engaging and screen-ready dramedy about an irascible misfit on a mission for closure. Atlanta Journal-Constitution

You can lose yourself in repetition--quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age. Basketball has always been an escape for Finley. He lives in broken-down Bellmont, a town ruled by the Irish mob, drugs, violence, and racially charged rivalries. At home, his dad works nights, and Finley is left to take care of his disabled grandfather alone. He's always dreamed of getting out someday, but until he can, putting on that number 21 jersey makes everything seem okay. Russ has just moved to the neighborhood, and the life of this teen basketball phenom has been turned upside down by tragedy. Cut off from everyone he knows, he won't pick up a basketball, but answers only to the name Boy21--taken from his former jersey number. As their final year of high school brings these two boys together, a unique friendship may turn out to be the answer they both need.

Amber Appleton has a lot to be thankful for. OR Amber Appleton has never had it easy. Both are true. On the one hand, she's got the best friends a seventeen year old could ask for and a loyal dog, Bobby Big Boy. On the other, her mum frequently has too much to drink, Amber's never quite sure where her next meal will come from and ever since her mum's latest boyfriend kicked them out, Amber and her mum have been living in the back of a school bus. Amber has always found it easy to be upbeat, to find the light in the darkest of situations. Until, that is, an unimaginable tragedy occurs. Forced to rethink her way of life, can Amber remain a rock star of hope? This is the story of a very special teenager, whose faith and hope is tested to the limit.

Basketball has always been an escape for Finley. He lives in grey, broken Bellmont, a town ruled by the Irish Mob, drugs, violence, and racially charged rivalries. At home, he takes care of his disabled grandfather, and at school he's called White Rabbit, the only white kid on the varsity basketball team. He's always dreamed of getting out somehow with his girlfriend, Erin. But until then, when he puts on his number 21, everything seems to make sense. Russ has just moved to the neighbourhood. A former teen basketball phenom from a privileged home, his life has been turned upside down by tragedy. Cut off from everyone he knows, he now answers only to the name Boy21 - his former jersey number. As their final year of high school brings these two boys together, Boy21 may turn out to be the answer they both need.

Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression

The latest masterpiece from Matthew Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook.

"Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb that has been torn apart by a recent tragedy. Everyone in Majestic sees Lucas as a hero--everyone, that is, except Lucas himself. Insisting that his deceased wife, Darcy, visits him every night in the form of an angel, Lucas spends his time writing letters to his former Jungian analyst, Karl. It is only when Eli, an eighteen-year-old young man whom the community has ostracized, begins camping out in Lucas's backyard that an unlikely alliance takes shape and the two embark on a journey to heal their neighbors and, most importantly, themselves"--