Ergebnis für "Mars" in Coming of Age

Fabio ha sei anni, due genitori e una decina di nonni. Sì, perché è l'unico bimbo della famiglia Mancini, e i tanti fratelli del suo vero nonno - uomini impetuosi e pericolosamente eccentrici - se lo contendono per trascinarlo nelle loro mille imprese, tra caccia, pesca e altre attività assai poco fanciullesche.

Velveteen Vargas is an 11-year-old from Brooklyn who is granted a summer vacation in the country, courtesy of the nonprofit Fresh Air Fund. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist on the fringe of Alcoholics Anonymous; and Paul, an academic who wonders what it will mean to "make a difference" in such a contrived situation.

On the Sunday of his 18th birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out. There he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker napping under a tree - and that’s where it all starts. This transgressive, darkly affecting love story between men, winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, is a stunning novel of desire and domination by one of Britain’s most accomplished writers.

En los años cincuenta, Antonio Padín abandona Galicia rumbo a Argentina en busca de una vida mejor para su familia. Treinta años antes ya lo hizo su abuelo Antonio quien nunca volvió, pero él le hace una promesa a Maruxa: “Volveré a buscarte.”Lo que no sabe es que esa aventura le descubrirá, entre otras cosas, la verdadera historia de su abuelo, un mundo de salones elegantes y un amor apasionado que hará resquebrajarse su promesa y le obligará a elegir entre el deber o la pasión.

Una guerra. Dos familias. Un océano. Una historia cautivadora de amor y familia en tiempos de guerra. En 1940 las bombas alemanas no paran de caer sobre Londres, provocando muerte y destrucción. Millie y Reginald Thompson son padres de una niña de once años, Beatrix, y han tomado la decisión más dolorosa de su vida: enviar a su hija a Estados Unidos, lejos de los horrores de la guerra. En Boston, los Gregory acogen a Bea, que no tardará en sentirse parte de la familia y adaptarse a su estilo de vida acomodado.

A lonely boy. A rare wild horse. And an extraordinary friendship at Washington's National Zoo. Jebby Andrews, a middle-school student transplanted from rural Virginia to Washington, DC, finds an unexpected friend in a lonely Mongolian wild horse at the National Zoo. The mare is a Przewalski's horse—an ancient and endangered breed that has never been domesticated. Determined to free the mare from her barren paddock—and convinced that he can ride an animal that has remained untamed since prehistoric times—Jebby ignores warnings from those around him.

“Why did Lorrie Ann look graceful in beat-up Keds and shorts a bit too small for her? Why was it charming when she snorted from laughing too hard? Yes, we were jealous of her, and yet we did not hate her. She was never so much as teased by us, we roaming and bratty girls of Corona del Mar...

From “a highest-order storyteller of Southern noir” (Electric Literature), a queer coming-of-age novel about addiction, belonging, and loving a place that doesn't always love you back. When sixteen-year-old Shae meets Cam, who is new to their small town in West Virginia, she thinks she has...

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...

After the performance of a lifetime at the sold-out Stade de France, comic Édouard Bresson decides to vanish. Très drôle. His estranged son Arthur isn’t laughing. Édouard has sent him a letter and instructions to a puzzle - a treasure hunt for the son he ignored and misses and loves. If Arthur is willing to find out everything there is to know about his father and to understand the choices he made, all he has to do is put the pieces together. As the trail of clues winds its way through the past, what unfolds is a surprising journey of forgiveness, family, and self-discovery.

When Caroline, a gifted ornithologist who wants a life of travel and adventure, gets pregnant against her wishes, her husband, Charlie, assumes she will change her mind. She doesn't—and as their daughter, Grace, grows up, she falls through the devastating schism that has grown between them. Told by all three of the characters involved and set against the backdrop of Lake Superior, Finding Grace is a piercing chronicle and a poignant comic-of-age journey for a daughter and her parents.

„Hunga, miad & koid - Ein Hoch aufs Leben, Oida!“ ist der Blog von Katharina Domiter. Es geht um Geschichten aus dem Leben und Alltag einer Frau Anfang 30! Texte und Gedanken zu allem, was da so ist: Liebe, Lust, Probleme, Peinlichkeiten und das regelmäßige Ausbrechen aus der Komfortzone ... Überspitzt, selbstironisch & ungeschönt.