Ergebnis für "Memory" in Coming of Age

A Most Anticipated Book of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, and Literary Hub A novel tracing a father’s disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of Trust Exercise. One night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach. He’s carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE MUST-READ RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK. Chilling, moving and unputdownable, The Memory Wood is a thriller like no other. Elijah has lived in the Memory Wood for as long as he can remember. It's the only home he's ever known. Elissa has only just arrived. And...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers...

One of Goodreads, Book Riot, and AV Club’s Most Anticipated Horror Novels of the Year “Incendiary...this one hits hard.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Intense, visceral, and not to be missed.” —Booklist (starred review) “A tour de force.” —Capes and Tights A...

A funny, heartfelt, late coming-of-age story that examines the role of memory in holding us back—and in moving us forward—for fans of The Collected Regrets of Clover and Maame. This program is read by Barrie Kreinik, winner of multiple Audie and Earphones awards. Call it inertia. Call it a...

First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped of her modest belongings, shorn, and tattooed number 26947 on arriving at Auschwitz, Czeslawa is then photographed. Three months later, she is dead. How did this happen to an ordinary Polish citizen? This is the question that Tuck grapples with in this haunting novel.

Before the dawn of this world, Almira and her siblings agree to take a “mortality test”—a rite of passage meant to shape them into worthy heirs of their parents’ kingdom. But there’s a catch: once the test begins, they’ll remember nothing—not who they are, nor why they came. When Emily Starp awakens in a bustling city with no memory, she’s told her life has just begun and there’s nothing to remember. But as she stumbles through the etiquette and culture of this new world, she discovers The Book of Panosyn—the writings of an ancient philosopher who speaks of other worlds and forgotten gods.

When an apocalyptic fire consumes Alex Mann’s hometown in New Mexico, his father and his best friend are both killed, leaving him with a harrowing secret about his role in their deaths. Scarred in mind and body, he embarks on a protean struggle to recreate himself. His journey is rife with embers of despair and guilt that reveal facets of a Mann he never knew. Memory, he discovers, can be both a mage and a sage whose sleight of hand unmoors time in the brine of imagination.

Callie Bates’s debut novel, The Waking Land, announced the arrival of a brilliant new talent in epic fantasy. Now, with The Memory of Fire, Bates expertly deepens her tale, spinning glittering threads of magic and intrigue into a vibrant tapestry of adventure, betrayal, mystery, and romance...

The author of the USA Today and New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home has once again created an unforgettable historical novel. Step into the world of Victorian London, where the wealth and poverty exist side by side. This is the story of two long-lost sisters, whose lives...

“A standout voice in women’s fiction. I was captivated from the very first line.” — Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Summer of Songbirds Perhaps the secrets of her mother’s past in this tiny French town hold the key to her own future. . . Food critic...

Memories of another life and lover guide her, but are they even hers? She is a Bearer - keeper of past lifetimes and gifted with strange talents. Ember must find her answers away from safe Longquan Village, snared instead in the sensuality and dangers of the city. Hidden among spider farmers and slaves, prostitutes and weavers, a nest of people like her are waiting.

A beloved schoolteacher chronicles the meteoric rise of his most dazzling student in this ambitious, big-hearted work of literary fiction, perfect for fans of Nathan Hill, Susan Choi, and Tess Gunty. Mr. Keating is an extraordinary teacher: brilliant, dedicated, and possibly a few pages ahead in...

Memories are by nature unreal, untrue, inaccurate. They are only mental constructs that we use to organize our experiences. Some are cherished, some frightening, some lost. But they are the only reality we know. Andrew takes a non-linear approach to assembling memory bits into a collection of experiences, real and imagined. Using a variety of forms, including short stories, poems, and a play, we get a portrait of a man lost in time.

The Memory Bouquet is a short novella featuring Risa, Ginger, and Georgia, three sisters who live in a world of missed opportunities and regret. Long ago, all three sisters were given the chance to follow their dreams. Twins Ginger and Georgia took theirs, but eldest sister Risa gave hers up to stay behind and raise a family with her childhood sweetheart. And now, twenty-five years later, Ginger's a high profile entertainment lawyer living in L.A., right around the corner from her very famous sister, Georgia Franklin - a far cry from their hometown of Cypress Falls, Louisiana.

Get ready for a leap into nostalgia and childhood dreams. Contained are four short stories from the Secondary Epoch, a time between wars, when Unicorns still frolicked in woodland glades, magical winged creatures still gracefully flew in the skies above, with Dark Lords still exiled in depths, and evil somewhere between a distant memory and a future that seemed far and remote. See the realm through hopeful hazel green eyes and experience the magic as if for the very first time.

A Richard and Judy Book Club pick, If I Let You Go is a darkly comic tale of searing loss, coercive control and the consequences of taking the wrong path. 'Simultaneously tragic and uplifting . . . Charlotte Levin is SUCH a clever writer' - Ruth Jones, author of Love Untold Every morning, Janet...

Barrette Blake has virtually no memory of the night her world changed forever. With the unwavering support of her best friend, she tries to piece together her life and her foggy memories of that night. She’s focused and resilient, but on the inside, she’s losing hope she’ll ever be whole again. Asa Lawson has it all together - on the field that is. He dominates the college football scene, but his life is messy. He’s in love with the girl who can’t love herself after everything that’s happened to her.

On Leave: A Sailor's Memory is a short story intended to touch the heart of people both young and old, civilian or military. It's a story about a sailor's homecoming, a vacation, on leave for only a short moment. During this short time at home, the sailor learns the truth about his father.