Ergebnis für "Ein Kind" in Coming of Age

Eine Frau kämpft für die Rechte der Kinder. 1830: Nicht nur in Preußen herrscht die Überzeugung, dass man von Kindern nichts hören und sehen sollte. Um sie vom Weg der Sünde abzubringen, ist körperliche Züchtigung notwendig. Entsetzt verfolgt die junge Luise Levin, wie ihre Neffen geschlagen werden und wie man die Kinder von Arbeiterinnen in Verwahranstalten diszipliniert. Als sie von einer neuartigen Erziehungsanstalt erfährt, die Friedrich Fröbel in Thüringen gegründet hat, bewirbt sie sich dort gegen den Willen ihrer Familie als Haushälterin.

Alexander Gorkows autobiografischer Roman ist ein Wunderwerk der Poesie, das glänzende Portrait einer versunkenen Zeit, zugleich eine Hommage auf unsere Kindheit und die rätselhafte Kraft der Musik in einer Welt voller Risse – zwischen Gesunden und Kranken, Behinderten und angeblich Normalen, zwischen Armen und Reichen, zwischen Ordnung und Chaos. Die 70er Jahre. Eine Vorstadt. Das Westdeutschland der letzten Baulücken, der verstockten Altnazis, der "ZDF Hitparade".

Dein Vater ein Taugenichts, dein Pflegevater ein Nazi, dein Stiefvater ein brutaler Säufer: Alem Grabovac beschreibt ein Leben, zu krass, um es sich auszudenken. Smilja schuftet als Gastarbeiterin in der Schokoladenfabrik, ihr Mann Emir, ein feierfreudiger Kleinganove, landet später im berüchtigten Gefängnis Goli Otok in Jugoslawien. Nach der Geburt ihres Sohnes Alem trifft Smilja eine folgenschwere Entscheidung: Ihr Baby wächst bei einer strengen deutschen Pflegefamilie mit sieben eigenen Kindern auf.

Seit zwanzig Jahren ermittelt Alexander Geyrhofer im Internet, sieben Jahre davon für das Landeskriminalamt Oberösterreich. Fast ebenso lange erklärt er an Schulen den richtigen Umgang damit. Jetzt wendet er sich an Eltern und zeigt, wie sie ihre Kinder trotz Gefahren wie Cyber-Mobbing, sexuelle Ausbeutung oder Abzocke mit gutem Gefühl surfen lassen können. Ein Ratgeber mit vielen leicht umsetzbaren Tipps.

Maddie Pace has a gift—an ability to glimpse a person’s past just by meeting their eyes. It’s a blessing that isolates her… and a curse that others would do anything to control. Her mother, Cynthia, will stop at nothing to keep Maddie safe. But when they’re torn apart, each is thrust into a world beyond comprehension—one imprisoned, one awakening in a realm between life and death. As years pass and powers grow, their bond becomes the only hope of reunion across worlds.

Sometimes when perfect falls apart, a little trouble fixes everything . . . Twenty-one-year-old Kayla Turner has lost everything. After spending most of her life taking care of her ailing mother, she just wants to spot a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. So when her late father-a man...

For Clementine Haas, finding herself is more than a nice idea. Ever since she woke up in an Irish hospital with complete amnesia, self-discovery has become her mission. They tell her she's the lone survivor of a plane crash. They tell her she's lucky to be alive. But she doesn't feel lucky. She feels...lost. With the relentless Irish press bearing down on her, and a father she may not even recognize on his way from America to take her home, Clementine assumes a new identity and enlists a blue-eyed Irish stranger, Kieran O'Connell, to help her escape.

Praise for Best Kind of Broken: "By turns humorous and heartbreaking, Best Kind Of Broken has become one of my favorites!" -- Cora Carmack, New York Times bestselling author "You'll fall for Pixie and Levi, just like I did!" -- Jennifer L. Armentrout (J. Lynn), #1 New York Times bestselling...

New York Times bestselling author and “the reigning champ of nostalgia noir” (The New York Times Book Review) James Lee Burke returns with a powerful novel in the Holland Family series set in 1950s Texas, as the specter of the Korean War looms. On its surface, life in 1950s Houston is as...

For twelve-year-old Martha "Sonny" Creech, there is no place more beautiful than her family's cotton farm. She, her two brothers, and her parents work hard on their land - hoeing, planting, picking - but only Sonny loves the rich, dark earth the way her father does. When a tragic accident claims his life, her stricken family struggles to fend off ruin - until their rich, reclusive neighbor offers to help finance that year's cotton crop.

"By turns humorous and heartbreaking, Best Kind Of Broken has become one of my favorites!" -- Cora Carmack, New York Times bestselling author SOMETIMES MOVING ON MEANS MOVING IN Pixie Marshall wishes every day she could turn back time and fix the past. But she can't. And the damage is done...

“A glorious debut filled with characters grasping to find a place to belong in a world on the edge of change.” —Carol Rifka Brunt, New York Times bestselling author of Tell the Wolves I’m Home “McCraw Crow deftly navigates the campus and national politics of the ’70s in a way that...

**One of Time’s 32 Books You Need to Read This Summer** An NPR Best Book of 2019 An “electrifying” (Publishers Weekly) debut novel from Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their uneasy assimilation to American life...

Addie ha 11 anni, è autistica e ha una missione: convincere i suoi concittadini a costruire un memoriale per le streghe condannate ingiustamente. Perché quando la storia viene dimenticata, è destinata a ripetersi.

How do you survive when your best friend takes his own life? Khloe has no idea how she'll live without her best friend by her side. Carter was not the suicidal type, and Khloe can’t understand his leaving her so abruptly. When she finds Carter's journal, it's a secret portal holding all his deepest secrets. As Khloe unravels the hidden darkness of her best friend’s life - hoping to find what drove him to suicide - she struggles without him as she stumbles back into the treacherous world she'd left behind. Prescription drugs, sex, and the tip of a needle to feel her pain for her.

Danny "Madman" Maddox isn’t supposed to make Skylar Haze's heart beat out of rhythm. At least not anymore. She hasn't seen that boyish face since the day he left to go on tour with her brother Joey's band. Now, with a major record label backing them, the band is in need of a bit of help, and when Joey asks Skylar to be the band's photographer, she can't help but say yes. Of course, Joey doesn’t know about that forbidden kiss. The one Skylar hopes Danny’s forgotten. But can she?

Night was beginning to fall in the tranquil mountain valley, and the long workday at the Topp family farm had come to an end. Fall weather had once again returned, along with the exploding colors of the tree's leaves. The unmistakable sound of the elks' trumpeting calls had also returned to the valley - announcing the beginning of their mating season. It was truly a wondrous time for the elk, but it could also be a very dangerous time.

After 12-year-old Mar's father unfortunately dies in a car crash during the Christmas holiday, she not only has to recuperate, but also live with her mentally ill mother without the calming presence of her beloved dad. Fast forward three years...Because Mar had blocked out her dad's death, she's never really admitted to herself that he's gone forever, let alone acknowledged or visited his gravesite. She suddenly decides to take a 14-hour journey on a Greyhound bus to finally visit her dad's grave and to face the truth that he's really gone.