Critic

Evan is a shy teen moving into his new foster home with his sister Maria where he meets his new family including Mr. Davis and Elle. He also ends up meeting a quiet girl named Thea and as the saying goes, the rest is history.

A theatre company unravels when its director casts his two lead actors, both working to save their broken marriage, in a self-indulgent play that makes them recreate the director's own recently-failed relationship.

An elegant lady on the outside, but in truth a cunning jewel thief: for Claire Vanderboldt, bourgeois: Klara Waldleitner, no coup is too complicated. The higher the security measures, the greater Claire's ambition to get to the object of her desire. After her recent series of burglaries in a luxury hotel in Lichtenstein, however, an old acquaintance thwarts her plans. Vinzenz Kröger, a former master thief who is now trying his hand at manufacturing industrial robots, steals from the thief and returns all the valuables to their owners. But although he saves Claire from being arrested by the police, she doesn't trust him and his declarations of love. He's cheated her too many times in the past. When Claire carries out a spectacular jewel robbery in Hamburg shortly afterwards, she has no idea that Vinzenz is once again on her heels. He involves her in a breakneck escape over the rooftops of the city - at the end of which the loot naturally becomes Vinzenz's possession. However, the elegant charmer is less successful in his middle-class profession. His company is on the brink of bankruptcy, the new robots don't work, and the deal that saved him with a large Chinese company is also in danger of collapsing. Thanks to his equally inconspicuous and witty assistant Martina Ahlers, however, Kröger discovers that his competitor Axel Tiedtke is behind the sabotage of his new industrial robots. Together with Claire and Martina, Vinzenz hatches a crazy plan to trick the unscrupulous Tiedtke.

After several years of run-ins with all levels of law enforcement in the state of Mississippi, Jeremiah James decided to call it quits and head to New York City with his guitar in search of fame and fortune. A charming but complicated personality, Jeremiah's efforts to forge a successful music career and find a suitable lifestyle are met with opposition from his past, and himself.

Teen book reading with dramatized elements.