Ergebnis für "Art" in Freundschaft

‘Sensational’ OBSERVER ‘Terrific’ JONATHAN FRANZEN ‘Exceptional’ GUARDIAN ‘Pure fun’ JOHN IRVING ‘Outstanding’ THE TIMES A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this widely acclaimed debut novel of love, life and baseball. Henry Skrimshander, a shy...

Some stories need to be told… before they’re lost forever… Mrs B lets out a long breath. 'Maybe I could tell you a story… one for your collection…' Janice has always collected other people's stories. Now she tells them – one small, true, extraordinary life at a time… But there is...

Grace's life is perfectly fine, thank you very much. A widow of seventy-two, she lives quietly, and although hearing a little more from her daughter and granddaughter would be nice, she has her health, her friends, her octogenarian yoga (however reluctantly attended) and most of all her weekly club where she creates exquisite miniature train sets. However, when her estranged daughter rings her in shock, about to lose her home, Grace invites Amelia and her daughter Charlotte to live with her.

Violet Strong is strong by name but not by nature, or so she thinks. She listens but never talks about herself. She’s friendly but doesn’t have many real friends. She’s become good at keeping people at a distance ever since she left home at 18 and never looked back. But when Violet is forced to return home to care for her estranged mother, Glenys, she quickly finds out that life as a carer isn’t easy. Feeling overwhelmed, she’s forced to turn to the other local carers, including childhood friend Adam, for help.

Gossip Girl meets Tell Me Lies: A tantalizing novel about a woman drawn into the orbit of her friend's wealthy family in New York City and the complications and consequences that arise when she embarks on a secret relationship with the golden-boy older brother “A delicious take on class...

"A crisp, twisting tale in the hands of a writer in the bloom of his abundant talents." — Graydon Carter A gifted yet financially disadvantaged artist falls victim to the manipulative control of his wealthy, enigmatic Harvard roommate in this incendiary novel from the author of Beautiful...

Nach ihrer Schulzeit haben sich vier ehemalige Freunde mit der Zeit aus den Augen verloren. Nun treffen sich Michael, Bernd, Wagner und Thomas auf einer Trauerfeier wieder. Daraufhin beschließen sie gemeinsam ein Wochenende in Venedig zu verbringen. Es soll ein intensiver Aufenthalt für alle Beteiligten werden. Mit tiefgehenden Gesprächen über das Leben und vor allem über das Scheitern an der Liebe, dass alle vier nur zu gut kennen.

“Drifts is a dazzling and enjoyable book. Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup. I've never read truer pages on the subject of pregnancy. No writer has come so close to achieving a total grasp of life: the entanglement of...

Jimin Kang’s stunning debut novel about grief, faith, and what it means to belong to a place and other people When Toby Burton, an Oxford-born philosophy student, goes missing on a research trip in Brazil, his friend Lua Oliveira—a Brazilian translator recently moved to England from...

A 2025 Lamda Literary Award finalist Longlisted for The Center For Fiction's 2024 First Novel Prize Named a Best Book of 2024 by Elle, Vogue, and Debutiful “This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled.” —Matt Berninger, The National...

Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction "A funny and moving debut."—Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post “A love letter to Berlin, to travel, and to saying yes to life.”—Alan Cumming It’s the new millennium and the anxiety of midlife is creeping up on Sam Singer, a...

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty and power, capital, art and those who devote their lives to creating it Once, Jay was an artist. After graduating from art school in London, he was tipped for greatness, a...

A TODAY SHOW SPRING PICK "Sweet, sexy, sad, articulate, and funny." - Vogue "As much heart, humor, and gritty realness as can fit between two covers." - People "A funny and heartfelt tale of one woman grappling with grief, love and how to move forward.” - New York Times From the New York Times...

A darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage friendship, in a queer, trans, and early-Internet twist on the Manhattan prep school novel Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no...

A warm-hearted novel about friendship, fresh starts and finding yourself from Top Ten bestselling author Sophie Green Mornington Peninsula, 1999. All Joan ever wanted was to be a painter, but after thirty-five years of marriage, she finds she is simply a wife, mother and good citizen. On a whim...

During World War II, a girl makes an unbreakable connection with a boy sheltering in her family’s Tuscan villa, where the treasures of the Uffizi Galleries are hidden. A moving coming-of-age story about the power of art in wartime, based on true events. As Allied bombs rain down on Torino in the autumn of 1942, Stella Costa’s mother sends her to safety with distant relatives in a Tuscan villa. There, Stella finds her family tasked with a great responsibility: hiding nearly 300 priceless masterpieces from Florence, including Botticelli’s famous Primavera.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 KIRKUS PRIZE From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Overstory comes an epic tale of love, friendship and humanity’s next great adventure. When two brilliant misfits bond at an elite Chicago...

“A beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class, that flags the frank truth of the life of migrant workers for whom a flight to freedom can become the most finely woven trap.”—JODI PICOULT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways From the...

Libby and Jack are the happiest they’ve ever been. Thanks to their dear friend, 80-year-old Sid, they’ve just bought their first house together, and it's the beginning of the life they've always dreamed of. But the universe has other plans for Libby and Jack, and a devastating twist of fate shatters their world. All of a sudden life is looking very different, and unlikely though it seems, might Sid be the one person who can help Libby and Jack move forward when what they loved the most has been lost?

Freunde kommen in vielen Formen und Typen. Da gibt es die abenteuerlustige Freundin, die immer auf der Suche nach dem nächsten Nervenkitzel ist und deine Ruhe auf den Kopf stellt. Der Spaßvogel bringt immer gute Laune und Witze, ob sie lustig sind oder nicht. Dann gibt es die Zuhörer, die wie persönliche Therapeuten deine Sorgen anhören und immer ein offenes Ohr haben. Der Kindheitsfreund erinnert dich an die gute alte Zeit und fühlt sich wie Familie an. Die selbsternannten Lebensberater bieten ungefragt Ratschläge und meinen es gut, auch wenn sie manchmal zu weit gehen.