Ergebnis für "Ma" in Coming of Age

Marietta Stelle longs to be a ballerina but, as Christmas draws nearer, her dancing days are numbered - she must marry and take up her place in society in the New Year. But, when a mysterious toymaker, Dr Drosselmeier, purchases a neighbouring townhouse, it heralds the arrival of magic and wonder in Marietta’s life. After Drosselmeier constructs an elaborate theatrical set for her final ballet performance on Christmas Eve, Marietta discovers it carries a magic all of its own - a magic darker than anyone could imagine. 

Uma história de amor, medo, perda e formação de caráter, um relato da evolução de uma mulher negra caribenha escrito por uma das autoras mais habilidosas da literatura contemporânea. Poderoso, perturbador e emocionante, este romance de Jamaica Kincaid conta a história de Xuela Claudette Richardson, filha de mãe caribenha e pai meio escocês e meio africano, moradora da ilha de Dominica. Sua mãe morre no parto, e a garota precisa então encontrar seu lugar no mundo sem o auxílio materno.

Summertime 1929. Hattie Mae Sizemore lives with her family in a Kentucky holler. Her father is a coal miner and a moonshiner. Determined to shield his oldest from the influence of outsiders, he declares Hattie won’t return to school. She is distraught, not even having a single book of her own.

Maja, wrażliwa i spontaniczna, ale nieco zagubiona w życiu i własnych uczuciach studentka wydziału rzeźby przenosi się do stolicy na jeden semestr, by stać się częścią współczesnej artystycznej bohemy. Powieść opowiada o dwóch szalonych tygodniach z jej życia. Bezdomna modelka, fascynujący profesor rzeźby oraz młodzi ludzie, którzy przesiąkają nastrojami i klimatem Warszawy, zachłystują się nią i... tworzą. Ta książka to wyjątkowy obraz Warszawy oraz artystycznych studiów.

Princess Melody spent a happy childhood tucked away in the north. Her world is upended with the arrival of Allia, a hostage in a gilded cage. As Melody reaches womanhood, she finds life very different than what she had pictured, full of dangers, death, and disappointments.

This is a story of boyhood friendship and irrepressible vitality told with the speed of trains and the understanding of the awkwardness, significance, and fragility of that time. This is a day in the life of two boys as told by one of them.

Asta Fung is sixteen and sulky. Her parents have moved the whole family to take over the Yau Sum takeaway in another town so Grandpa Charlie can be closer to the big hospital. She's had to give up her dog, her friends, her familiar teenage life. All too soon, she has to give up Grandpa Charlie too. What was the point? When the builder's son, Josh, hands her a bundle of love letters he found under the floorboards, Asta realises they were hidden there by Grandpa Charlie as a young man.

Brought to you by Penguin. I used to have this line I saved and brought out for grant applications and writers festivals - that having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the reader to have to be me. Irreverent, witty and wise, But...

Set during the 1970s glam rock scene in Hollywood, Wham Glam Thank You Ma'am follows best friends Jemmie and Dara, who will do anything to get into Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco after they hear a rumor that their favorite rock star is going to be making the scene. No tickets, no ride, no I.D. - no problem! Nothing will deter them from meeting their idol.

Martha Flyvholm Todes debut "På Bornholm må man græde overalt" er en intens og fortættet kortroman om en ung pige i sorg. Maria går på gymnasiet og har lige været udsat for det værst tænkelige, nemlig, at hendes stedfar Tore dør. Det værst tænkelige er en abstrakt størrelse at forholde sig til, især for Maria, der har svært ved at mærke noget som helst. I et forsøg på at få styr på sig selv, stykker hun verdenskort, minder og oplevelser sammen, så både hendes mor, hendes papbrødre, Tore, hendes kæreste i England og hun selv, kan rykke tættere sammen og skabe mening på ny.

Chuck Hicks was three years old when a social media headset glitch caused five billion people to believe they were God and jump off the nearest roof. Chuck has some hilarious vid-books of the event if you’re interested. Pure-comedy-gold. Now seventeen, Chuck is stuck in an isolated, fundamentalist Christian compound. The girls wear flower dresses that double as burial shrouds, and the boys learn stone-age woodworking.

Just when Annisa and her friends were starting to think maybe the Counsel would leave them alone, two new students arrive at school. In any other town, new students wouldn’t be a sign that something big was about to happen to Annisa, Chase, Landon, and Penelope; but this wasn’t a normal town and they weren’t normal teenagers. They had come into their powers and defeated the most feared assassin in their world, so the appearance of new witches in their small town could only mean one thing…the Counsel was ready to make another attempt to destroy them.

An indie musician reeling from tragedy and a public breakdown reconnects with her father on a weeklong cruise in “a pitch-perfect story about the ways we recover love in the strangest places” (Rebecca Serle, bestselling author of In Five Years) “The characters are drawn with a generosity...

It has been many lifetimes since the cycle began. The cycle that still haunts Annisa Lawson. A spell cast in desperation to help, which only caused heartache. Now, Annisa has found her way out of the varying repeats of her past, only to bring more danger to herself and those around her.