Ergebnis für "H" in Coming of Age

Sommer 1969. Während auf den Straßen gegen den Vietnamkrieg protestiert wird, fiebert der elfjährige Tobias am Stadtrand von Köln der ersten Mondlandung entgegen. Zugleich trübt sich die harmonische Ehe seiner Eltern ein. Seine Mutter fühlt sich eingeengt, und als im Nachbarhaus ein linkes, engagiertes Ehepaar einzieht, beschleunigen sich die Dinge. Tobias' eher konservative Eltern freunden sich mit den neuen Nachbarn an, und deren dreizehnjährige Tochter, Rosa, eigenwillig und klug, bringt ihm nicht nur Popmusik und Literatur bei, sondern auch Berührungen und Gefühle, die fast so spannend sind wie die Raumfahrt.

Little Pollyanna, recently orphaned and sent to live with her dour Aunt Polly, surprises everyone with her incredibly optimistic and joyful personality. While her circumstances are glum, especially for one so young, Pollyanna insists on being a bright light in the town—influencing all she comes across. Using the game her father taught her in order to find beauty and hope in everything, she slowly transforms even the hardest of hearts. However, when a seemingly insurmountable tragedy strikes, the town must come together to encourage their little light to shine again.

From the outside, I live a charmed life: hockey legend for a father, my own promising future in the league, a great family, awesome friends. It’s not untrue, but it’s not quite that simple either. My dad’s advice has always been to make hockey my number-one priority—at least until I make it to the pros. So going into my senior year of college, I have a plan. I’ll put in the effort required to pass my classes, play hockey like my life depends on it, and avoid relationships. All I have to do is stay focused on the end game. It should be easy.

As Josie Belle Gore, daughter of a Louisiana train engineer and Texas seamstress, journeys with her itinerant family through the deserts of the boom-and-bust American West and revolutionary Mexico, she learns that in her life, two things are constant: the preciousness of water and her role as the savior of her family.

Eleanor H. Porter’s most famous literary creation is Pollyanna, but she isn’t the only precocious young girl to spring from the author’s pen. Mary Marie Anderson describes herself as “a cross-current and a contradiction", the offspring of incompatible parents who couldn’t even agree about her name. When the two divorce when she is thirteen, Mary Marie is delighted since she’s always liked being different. None of the other girls have two homes and spend six months with each parent! Father will remain in their small town and mother will live in Boston with her family.

This coming-of-age novel explores themes including religious skepticism, socialism, ennui, English society, sexual relationships, and metaphysics, as George searches for an ideal to which he can devote his life. Like all Wells’s novels, Tono-Bungay abounds with social critique.

To H-1B or Not to Be is a coming-of-age story of a young ambitious Indian student and a must-listen for youth who have a dream to go to the United States for education or work. The next goal for any student is to get an H-1B visa and permanent residency to stay there forever. But the path is not easy, and it often comes with a price, and the author makes a successful attempt of telling an intriguing tale that is based on real characters and situations around the author's life in the United States.

Just as the lovely Alvina Houghton comes of age, her widowed father’s business starts to dry up. In a drastic effort to regain his fortune and secure his daughter’s standing in society, James Houghton buys, of all things, a theater. Her father’s plans and dreams go misunderstood in the town, but the theater itself does quite well...for a time. One of the traveling players employed at the theater, a sensual Italian man named Ciccio, catches Alvina’s eye, and she finds herself intensely attracted to him.

John Russell is a decorated veteran of World War II. Awarded medals of heroism for saving the lives of two men during a ferocious battle, he is home and happily running a classic golf course dedicated in his honor. John's son, Bart, a bright and fun-loving teenager with dreams of running the operation himself one day, works there too. But dreams don't always come true and some memories are worse than others.

At St. Stephen's Academy, the students are on the verge of revolt. While the younger boys plot an insurrection, the older ones are preoccupied with sneaking out of bounds, thrashing each other, tearing each other's clothes off - or some combination of the three. Morgan Wilberforce, for one, can't take it any longer. Everything Wilberforce touches turns to disaster in his desperate attempts to fight off desire, boredom, and angst.

Like many teenagers, there's a lot about Daniel Meadows' life that's out of his control. For example, having to start in a new school district for his freshman year of high school thanks to his dad's new job. Inside the realm of his control, however, is the decision to try a brand-new sport purely to impress a girl. But the day of tennis tryouts proves far more fateful than Dan ever could have imagined, when a failed attempt by Truck-kun and the powers that be to kill him and transport his consciousness to a fantasy realm leaves him on Earth with miraculous abilities instead.

A legendary dragon, a sorceress queen who plays by her own rules, and a blood feud spanning generations. Havenglade's borders have been breached, and foreign enemies march for Gradur Castle. The sorceress queen Loli will stop at nothing to destroy Havenglade, unifying a realm torn apart for millennia. The young enchantress Laurena Blackwood is on a secret quest - one that could turn the tides of battle.

After defeating the mysterious wizard, Lesmarglor, and saving Gradur Castle, Laurena had hoped for a better future. One where she could learn the secrets of her magical crystal and live in peace. But after a failed mission, paranoia spreads through the castle and alliances begin to shatter. Mysterious assassins threaten the Crown Prince, and images of black dragons surface in impossible places. Rumors of a dangerous cult hint that the recent problems are only the beginning of an ancient, unthinkable evil.

As a small child, Josiah believed his father's absence could be explained by the simple fact he was a high-ranking alien official on the planet Parnuckle. It explained so much else, too, like why Josiah should eat nothing but chocolate (Parnucklians eat nothing but chocolate), and why he should be proud of and idolize his father, the keymaster of Gozer, even though they'd never met. But as time goes on and the gaps in this mythology widen, Josiah is faced with two possibilities: Either it's all very real, or it's all very pretend.

A Southern family saga emerges as Nettie begins a quest to discover who she is. 21 years old, Annette Roberta Randall is searching, looking for herself. The perception and sensitivity she relied on to bolster her through an isolated childhood have disappeared, and with them, her sense of self. Nettie also seeks the truth, information about her dysfunctional family and the mysteries that whisper to her in their eccentric family home.

Before Mark's senior year at a prestigious private high school, his family moves to a small town in rural South Carolina. Haunted by a history of sporadic "behavior disorder," Mark's future hangs by a thread. In Jonesville, Mark must choose between trying to fit into a culture he despises or befriending another outsider- an Indian teacher who left Connecticut to remedy his wife's chronic illness. What unfolds is a series of discussions, reflections, and romances that force him to forsake sarcasm for sincerity.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Quiet Boy comes a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs...

Follow Oak, a young man on a journey to find himself amid the echoes of his past. Set against the backdrop of a world where nature holds secrets and mysteries unfold, Oak's adventure is one of discovery, identity, and the search for a place to call home. Along the way, he encounters unexpected friends and challenges, each bringing him closer to the truths about his family and himself.

Before his 19th birthday, the youth of mixed Celtic and Viking blood, had endured electrifying escapades whilst sailing the seven seas. More worldwide exploits enlivened Magnus’s journeys with some chilling encounters until he was cast ashore in Australia where he wholeheartedly embraced the New World’s "av-a-go-yer-mug" lifestyle. A brief encounter with the secretive and unregulated world of fine arts and the unexpected arrival in the Beyond, where everything is new, transcendental, and inexplicably, propelled Magnus into an eternal state of expecting the unexpected.

I was a city girl with humble dreams. Then Dylan O’Dea broke into my flat, held me against the wall, and told me to stay quiet. It was like in the movies, where the universe zeros in on a single scene. I looked into his eyes and knew he was going to change me. For Dylan, the sky was always falling. He showed me how our world is a contradiction of beauty and ugliness. How we choose to ignore the awful and gloss over it with the palatable. How you need just a tiny drop of something unsavoury to create every great scent.