Ergebnis für "Max" in Coming of Age

Max kämpft. Max flieht. Max sucht. Er kämpft gegen die Verrücktheit einer Welt, die aus den Fugen gerät. Er flieht vor den Menschen, die ihn nicht verstehen. Er sucht die eine Frau, die er wirklich lieben kann. Dies ist die Geschichte eines großen Künstlers des vergangenen Jahrhunderts: Max Ernst. Im Spiegel von sechs Frauenleben erzählt dieser Roman vom 20. Jahrhundert und entwirft das Panorama einer wahnwitzigen Zeit.

Chicago, 1985: Yale ist ein junger Kunstexperte, der mit Feuereifer nach Neuerwerbungen für seine Galerie sucht. Gerade ist er einer Gemäldesammlung auf der Spur, die seiner Karriere den entscheidenden Schub verleihen könnte. Er ahnt nicht, dass ein Virus, das gerade in Chicagos Boystown zu wüten begonnen hat, einen nach dem anderen seiner Freunde in den Abgrund reißen wird. Paris, 2015: Fiona spürt ihrer Tochter nach, die sich offenbar nicht finden lassen will.

Things keep slipping up for Shy. All he wants is sex, spliffs and his own turntables, and for all the red noise in his mind to disappear. But again and again he spirals past his senses and ends up with his head in his hands and carnage around him. He's been kicked out of two schools, been cautioned, arrested, stabbed his stepdad in the finger and bottled a former Tumble Tots playmate, but it's the taunts and teasing of his new schoolmates that haunt Shy.

Clara ist mit ihrer Kraft so gut wie am Ende. Seitdem beim gemeinsamen Sohn eine schwere Atemwegserkrankung festgestellt wurde, stehen sie und ihr Mann Paul unter Druck. Da tritt von einem auf den anderen Tag ihr alter Jugendfreund, ihre erste große Liebe Max wieder in ihr Leben. Er bietet der erschöpften Familie völlig überraschend sein Ferienhaus auf Sylt an, um dort wieder zu Kräften zu kommen. Doch kaum auf Sylt angekommen, bemerkt sie, dass ihre Gefühle für Max immer noch stark sind.

Hero of Jutland in World War I, Kelly Maguire progresses rapidly through navy ranks during the dangerous post-war years. Amid the Russian Civil War, British forces must rescue thousands of terrified White army men from rampaging Communist militias. Maguire gets stuck in, risking everything. From Russia, he moves on to China and a gunboat incident on the Yangtze. His resolve is tested when he must choose between his childhood sweetheart to a wealthy aristocrat.

Max is about to finish high school. On the surface it appears he has everything, but underneath he is floundering. Grappling with questions about his birth parents and his sexuality, he feels that there is a seed of badness deep within him that will inevitably be exposed. After an incident at the end-of-year party sets Max's world to crumbling, he must finally figure out who he is and where he came from–and who he is allowed to love.

Alexander Goudeveyl blickt als Pianist auf eine ansehnliche Karriere zurück. Eines Abends wird der verheiratete Musiker nach einem Konzert von einer jungen Frau angesprochen. Sie interessiert sich für eines seiner Konzerte. Schon wenig später besucht sie ihn zu Hause, um diese Aufnahme persönlich abzuholen. Unüberlegt und voller Leidenschaft stürzt sich Alexander in eine Affäre mit ihr. Doch während seine Liebe wächst, immer intensiver und unbedingter wird, kühlt die seiner Geliebten nur allzu rasch ab. Verzweifelt versucht er, die Kluft zwischen ihnen zu schließen.

Insoddisfazione, apatia, frustrazione. Sono sensazioni che proviamo ogni giorno, bloccati nelle nostre vite vissute a metà. Fortunatamente però, la forza di reagire insita nell'essere umano è l'impulso che ci consente di andare avanti, ed è lo stesso che permette a Max, il protagonista di questa storia, di affrontare il suo malessere. Il destino però, è cosa nota, riserva sempre delle sorprese ed una semplice passeggiata in montagna può trasformarsi in un'avventura inaspettata.

Tim ist 16, als er die gleichaltrige Lena unter Drogen auf einer Party vergewaltigt. Vier Jahre später wird er aus der Haft entlassen und soll ein neues Leben beginnen. Doch die Auswirkungen seiner Tat dauern an - und lassen weder ihn noch Lena los.

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Festering masses of worms and flies have taken root in dark corners across Appalachia. In exchange for unwavering loyalty and fresh corpses, these hives offer a few struggling humans salvation. Crane is grateful. Among his hive's followers, Crane has found a chance to transition, to never speak again, to live a life that won't destroy him.

Ansel Bray, an artist known around the world for his tragic hiatus from the canvas. Ansel Bray, a broody, handsome man not known by me, at all. Long dark hair, blue eyes, and dimpled cheeks. I've never met her, but her image is imprinted in my mind. An angel muse who inspires me to paint again.

Le temps d'un automne, quatre personnages – Maxime, Tania, Clémence, Gabriel - évoluent avec leurs doutes, leurs questionnements, leurs espoirs. Ils se rencontrent, se croisent, se cherchent, explorent leur passé pour construire leur avenir. Par petites touches, ils reviennent sur des blessures, des erreurs, des souvenirs, pour mettre au jour ce qui les unit et leur permettre de tisser les fils de leur vie future. Chacun d'eux suit sa trajectoire et cherche à donner un sens à sa vie, à se réconcilier avec son passé ou à éclaircir des secrets oubliés.

Meg's always thought that love and ghosts are fantasies for gullible people, but her skepticism is about to be tested. As her roommates Sol and Alexei move on with their lives, Meg remains stuck in her rut, unsure what to do about her future or about her best friend Athos. He wants more than friendship from her, but she isn't sure whether she's straight or gay, let alone in love with him. Not helping are the strange trances that show her the lives of two other young girls - one who wants to be a voodoo priestess, and the other who wants to escape a Christian cult.

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The Hero Versus Me & Monkey Jo chronicles the adventures of Henry Neis who arrives in Vietnam an innocent youth from Kansas, and quickly falls in with addicts and lost souls. Perry Shepard’s prose pulls the listener into the “scene” immediately, and propels us on a journey that is at times exhilarating, shocking, and moving. A rollicking listen and an eye-opening look at the experience of soldiers in Vietnam, Henry’s story describes his rescue of a baby monkey, while on a dangerous mission, who becomes his faithful companion.

A sensitive boy growing up in a bad neighborhood, Harry Riddle doesn’t fit in with the kids who hold up gas stations, steal purses, and drop safes on policemen. He prefers to contemplate the American dream and his father’s advice for achieving it: “Get rich, boy. Then sleep till noon and screw ’em all.” But when Harry gets his first job as a cafeteria busboy, a customer warns him that money leads to corruption. The idea disturbs him so much that he accidentally sticks his hand into a meat grinder.

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