Ergebnis für "Hades" in Coming of Age

There is a place in modern-day America with no electricity, no plumbing, and no modern conveniences. In this place there is no room for dreams, no space for self-expression, and no tolerance for ambition. In this place there is a boy with the body of a god and the heart of a warrior. He is strong and faithful and serves his family honorably. But he dares to dream of more.

A new bestseller from the immensely popular Lindsey Kelk Being arrested in your own bedroom is never a good start to the day. Tess Brookes really needs to sort out her back-stabbing flatmate – and her life. Should she gamble all on the new photography job she’s landed, or snap up the offer...

Finn heeft altijd van Autumn gehouden. Ze is niet gewoon zijn buurmeisje of de dochter van zijn moeders beste vriendin, ze is zijn alles. Maar ze is niet zijn vriendin. Dat is Sylvie, en Finn zou haar nooit pijn kunnen doen, dus Autumn weet niets over zijn gevoelens. Al is zijn beste vriend Jack daar niet zo zeker van. Hij heeft Finn en Autumn samen gezien. Hoe kan ze het niet weten? En hoe kan hij Finn steunen en beschermen als een gebroken hart onvermijdelijk lijkt?

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Aleksy still remembers the last summer he spent with his mother in Northern France. At eighteen, eager to fly the nest and escape a family still grief-stricken by the death of his sister years earlier, these lazy months in the countryside are akin to torture. And then, his mother tells him she’s dying.

When Darren Bennett meets Eric Lederer, there's an instant connection. They share a love of drawing and the bottom rung on the high-school social ladder. These things (combined with absentee parents, Darren's evil older brother, and a pathological fear of girls) drive them toward an ambitious project: a comic book that evolves into a series of graphic novels that become a movie trilogy, all before they even put pen to paper. Then Eric reveals a secret: He doesn't sleep. Ever.

When the world as you know it has ended, when all that you love has been washed away, where do you find strength? When the new world you've stepped into is as isolating as the last, when your heart is broken and your future is unclear, where do you find hope?

Una maestra llega a la escuelita y varias vidas cambian. La de esa decena de chicos siempre con ganas de galletitas y gaseosa, que van del garabato a la letra, de los botones de colores a las cuentas matemáticas, de los piedrazos a la poesía. La de Dylan, que un día se asoma desafiante desde el techo. Y la de ella misma, que apenas recibida ha migrado desde un pueblo del interior y completa su salario como moza.