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Celeste Ng

    July 30, 1980

    Celeste Ng crafts narratives that delve into the complexities of family dynamics and the secrets lurking beneath the surface of seemingly perfect lives. Her writing is characterized by its keen psychological insight and skillful development of suspense. Ng explores themes of identity, belonging, and the pressures of societal expectations, creating stories that are both intimate and universal. Her prose is precise and evocative, capturing the subtle nuances of human emotion.

    Celeste Ng
    Everything I Never Told You
    Underneath the Sycamore Tree
    Little fires everywhere
    Dare You to Hate Me
    Little Fires Everywhere (Movie Tie-In)
    Beg You to Trust Me
    • Beg You to Trust Me

      • 448 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      From the fan-favorite author of Underneath the Sycamore Tree comes the next installment in a raw, real romance series following the lives of the Lindon U football players and the complicated girls who change their lives forever. When Skylar Allen decided to move across the country for college, she thought it'd be the perfect chance to reinvent herself. But then one party changed the course of her entire freshman year. Just when she thinks she's about to drown in the foggy memories of her night spent partying at the football house, Daniel Bridges walks into her life. Lindon University's wide receiver. A total flirt. And a total threat. Because he can help her take away the memories she does remember from that night. What Skylar doesn't anticipate is the friendship she forms with the witty football player as months go on. And how easy it is to fall for him as he teaches her how to trust again...and so much more.

      Beg You to Trust Me
      3.0
    • Little Fires Everywhere (Movie Tie-In)

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      "In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned -- from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren -- an enigmatic artist and single mother -- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town -- and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides."--Provided by Publisher

      Little Fires Everywhere (Movie Tie-In)
      4.1
    • Dare You to Hate Me

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      From the fan-favorite author of Underneath the Sycamore Tree comes the first in a raw, real romance series following the lives of the Lindon U football players and the complicated girls who change their lives forever. When Ivy asked her best friend to run away with her at sixteen, she knew he'd say no. He had football, an amazing family, and a happy home to go back to every day. So the night Ivy snuck out of his bedroom window after hugging him goodbye, she accepted she'd probably never see him again. Then they both wound up at Lindon University four years later. Ivy is barely picking up the pieces of her life when the boy whose initials she used to doodle hearts around approaches her at work. Aiden Griffith. Lindon U's star tight end. Still as attractive. Still as dedicated. With rumors of him being drafted to the NFL coming to fruition, Ivy knows it's only a matter of time before they have to say goodbye again. But he can't seem to let her go, no matter what she says, and she doesn't think she wants him to.

      Dare You to Hate Me
      3.0
    • "In the placid, progressive suburb of Shaker Heights everything is meticulously planned, from the colours of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson. Mia Warren, an enigmatic artist and single mother, arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants : all four Richardson children are drawn to the alluring mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries on with her disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When the Richardsons' friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town and puts Mia and Mrs Richardson on opposing sides. Mrs Richardson becomes determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs to her own family - and Mia's."--Page 4 of cover.

      Little fires everywhere
      4.1
    • Underneath the Sycamore Tree

      • 412 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      It happened in stages.My father left.My twin sister died of an incurable autoimmune disease.My mother started breaking down.Then I was diagnosed with the very thing that took my other half from me.That was when I realized Mama's eyes turned gold when she cried.So I moved in with my father and his new family--new wife, new son, new stepbrother.Kaiden Monroe made me feel normal.Hated. Cared for. Loathed. And ... loved.Somewhere along the way, I'd found solace in the boy with brooding eyes.But everything happens in stages.And nothing good ever lasts.

      Underneath the Sycamore Tree
      4.0
    • Everything I Never Told You

      • 297 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Amazon.com's #1 Book of the Year 2014 Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue - in Marilyn's case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James's case that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the centre of every party. But Lydia is under pressures that have nothing to do with growing up in 1970s small town Ohio. Her father is an American born of first-generation Chinese immigrants, and his ethnicity, and hers, make them conspicuous in any setting. When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, James is consumed by guilt and sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage. Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to make someone accountable, no matter what the cost. Lydia's older brother, Nathan, is convinced that local bad boy Jack is somehow involved. But it's the youngest in the family - Hannah - who observes far more than anyone realises and who may be the only one who knows what really happened. Everything I Never Told You is a gripping page-turner, about secrets, love, longing, lies and race.

      Everything I Never Told You
      3.8
    • Lose You to Find Me

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      After Raine Copelin turns down her long-time boyfriend Caleb Anders’s marriage proposal, the two are barely speaking, barely coping as they enter graduate school at Lindon University. Caleb doesn’t understand what happened—their relationship has been picture-perfect since high school. He always imagined starting a family together, the same happily ever after his parents had. Until the day she broke his heart, he thought Raine wanted that, too.But Raine has her reasons. Her secrets. She knows she can’t give Caleb the future he wants, so she decides to let him go, no matter the price she has to pay. But when fresh tragedy sends Caleb spiraling back into Raine’s arms, the unanswered questions between them bring old feelings and new wounds to the surface. Fighting grief, lies, and fear, the two must figure out if their love ever truly ended, or if their uncertain futures might still include each other.

      Lose You to Find Me
      3.8
    • The gripping and extraordinarily moving new novel from the internationally bestselling Celeste Ng.

      Our missing hearts
      3.8
    • Fourteen Days

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      'Compelling' Marie Claire * 'Immensely enjoyable' Observer * 'Fascinating' Red * One week into lockdown, the tenants of a Manhattan apartment building have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening and tell stories in this exciting new twist on the novel. With each passing night, more and more neighbours gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned buckets. Gradually the tenants - some of whom have barely spoken to each other before now - become real neighbours. With each character secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood to John Grisham and Celeste Ng, Fourteen Days is a heart-warming ode to the power of storytelling and human connection. 'An immensely enjoyable product of an immensely unenjoyable time, Fourteen Days is lively, freewheeling... An impressive achievement' Observer 'Fourteen Days serves as a valuable reminder that stories can teach, console, provide a place of acceptance and perhaps even change their readers (or listeners)' Financial Times Includes writing from: Margaret Atwood, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Erica Jong, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Doug Preston, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Meg Wolitzer and many more.

      Fourteen Days
      3.2
    • Serial na podstawie książki można oglądać na platformie Prime Video. To bezkonkurencyjny bestseller New York Timesa, uznawany za najlepszą książkę roku przez wiele prestiżowych publikacji. W 2019 roku powstał serial z Reese Witherspoon i Kerry Washington. Książka oferuje głęboki psychologiczny wgląd w potęgę macierzyństwa, siłę nastoletniej miłości oraz pułapki związane z dążeniem do perfekcji. Akcja rozgrywa się w Shaker Heights, spokojnym miasteczku na obrzeżach Cleveland, gdzie wszystko jest starannie zaplanowane. Elena Richardson, reprezentująca ducha tego miejsca, stara się przestrzegać zasad. Wkrótce w jej życiu pojawia się Mia Warren, enigmatyczna artystka i samotna matka, która wynajmuje od Richardsonów dom. Mia i jej nastoletnia córka Pearl stają się bliskie dzieciom Richardsonów, ale Mia skrywa tajemnice, które mogą zburzyć spokój społeczności. Konflikt wybucha, gdy przyjaciele Richardsonów chcą zaadoptować dziecko o chińskich korzeniach, co dzieli miasteczko i stawia Mię oraz Elenę po przeciwnych stronach. Elena, nieufna wobec Mii, jest zdeterminowana odkryć jej sekrety, co prowadzi do nieoczekiwanych konsekwencji. Książka bada tajemnice, naturę sztuki i matczyną miłość, ukazując niebezpieczeństwa związane z przekonaniem, że przestrzeganie zasad może nas ochronić przed katastrofą.

      Małe ogniska (wydanie serialowe)
      3.8