Ergebnis für "Mars" in Coming of Age

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.

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.

Katarina Shaw siempre ha sabido que estaba destinada a llegar a lo más alto. Cuando conoce a Heath Rocha, un chico solitario, su conexión instantánea los convierte en un dúo formidable sobre el hielo... Hasta que un impactante incidente en los Juegos Olímpicos los separa definitivamente.

“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...

DE MUST-READ VOOR TIJDENS DE KERSTDAGEN! Hannah en Finn hebben sinds hun studietijd elke Kerstmis samen doorgebracht. Ze kunnen toch nergens anders heen – Hannahs ouders zijn overleden en Finn is thuis niet meer welkom sinds hij uit de kast kwam. De groep verdubbelt zich wanneer ook Hannahs huisgenoot Priya en de Britse Theo aansluiten. Elk jaar worden hun kersttradities gekker en uitbundiger. Tien jaar na het begin van hun traditie, kondigt Finn aan dat hij naar Los Angeles gaat verhuizen.

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.

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...

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.

„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.