Ergebnis für "Jazz" in Jugendliche & Heranwachsende

CEO Eleanor Cromwell lebt für ihren Job. Für ein Immobilienprojekt muss sie ausgerechnet in ein abgelegenes Dorf im ländlichen Kanada – dorthin, wo der Name ihrer Familie verhasst ist. Also wählt sie den einzigen vernünftigen Plan: Hütte statt Hotel, falscher Name statt Firmenlogo, Fokus statt Freundlichkeiten. Dani Cooper ist Sonne auf zwei Beinen: süß, smart, herrlich goofy und so entspannt, dass sie Eleanor schon beim ersten frechen Grinsen aus dem Konzept bringt. Was als leidenschaftliche Sommeraffäre beginnt, könnte zu etwas Echtem werden … wenn da nicht Eleanors Geheimnis wäre.

More than 50 years ago, John Coltrane drew the 12 musical notes in a circle and connected them with straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane had put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander returns the favor, using jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe.

Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boomtown at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord, mob killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence and death will intersect, a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire. Klein's been hung out as bait, 'a bad cop to draw the heat', and the heat's coming from all sides.

The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution. The heartstopping follow up to These Violent Delights, an imaginative, alluring retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in 1920s Shanghai. After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has...

Jasbir, aka Jazz, has always been a stellar student and an obedient, albeit wise-cracking, daughter. Everything has gone along just fine - she has good friends in the "genius" program she's been in since kindergarten, her teachers and principal adore her, and her parents dote on her. But now, in her junior year of high school, her mother hears that Jazz was seen hugging a boy on the street and goes ballistic.

When his life in SecondHome is shattered, twelve-year-old Fralith’s desperate attempt to escape lands him on an entirely foreign planet where metal beasts roar, strange trees cast light, and people stand around staring at rectangles. In his struggle to survive, he accidentally-on-purpose stops a kidnapping and ends up captured. With no way out and no way home, Fralith struggles to puzzle out the rules of the world before he gets eaten. But not all things are out to get him, and some are even trying to save him.

Teen advocate and trailblazer Jazz Jennings—named one of “The 25 Most Influential Teens” of the year by Time—shares her very public transgender journey, as she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their own truths. “[Jazz’s] touching book serves as a...