Ergebnis für "Noah" in Coming of Age

Mein Name ist Noah. Ich bin erst siebzehn, doch ich habe bereits alles verloren – mein Zuhause, meine Familie, meine Freunde. Den Glauben an eine Zukunft hat Noah längst verloren, als plötzlich zwei Fremde auftauchen. Sie suchen einen Weg nach England. Doch die Insel gilt bereits seit Jahren als durchseucht, niemand wagt sich freiwillig dorthin. Was wollen die beiden Fremden dort und weshalb brauchen sie ausgerechnet Noahs Hilfe?

Die alleinerziehende Janie ist ratlos. Ihr vierjähriger Sohn Noah hat Albträume und erzählt von grausigen Dingen. Immer wieder jammert er, dass er zu seiner Mama will. Aber ist er das nicht? Nachdem die verzweifelte Mutter verschiedene Ärzte konsultiert hat, stößt sie beim Stöbern im Internet auf die Seite von Jerome Anderson, einem Psychologieprofessor, der das Phänomen der Wiedergeburt erforscht. In ihrer Not nimmt sie Kontakt zu ihm auf. Kann er Noah helfen?

A novel set in 5500 BCE can't possibly relate to today's issues...or can it? Dysfunctional family relationships. Sexual abuse. Kidnapping. Love triangle. Religious freedom. Autism. Cultural Change. National award-winning novel Noah's Wife by T.K. Thorne touches all of these issues with wisdom and humor. Tackling one of the oldest and most famous stories on earth, Thorne's unique twists to the Biblical story - which makes only one mention of Noah's wife - tells the tale from the perspective of a young girl with what is now known as Asperger Syndrome.

Have you ever dreamed of having wings and taking to the skies? Enter a world of winged races locked in war. Most in Avian society never get a chance to mature and grow their white feathered wings and take to the skies. Most never get to master communication with their Scala, the semi sentient scales that cover their body and protect their race.

When Joe Brinson was 16, his father moved the family to Great Falls, Montana, the setting for this harrowing, transfixing novel by the acclaimed author of Rock Springs. Filled with an abiding sense of love and family, and of the forces that test them to the breaking point, Wildlife is a book whose spare poetry and expansive vision established it as an American classic.

Leah Schaeffer has come a long way since an accident took her sight. She's finally ready for independence, but convincing her wealthy parents she'll be safe on her own isn't easy. The first night in her own place at last, she encounters her neighbor with the midnight velvet voice and her world shifts again. Since finishing a military tour, J.D. Wyatt has struggled both financially and emotionally. When Leah's parents hire him to act as her bodyguard, he seizes the opportunity.

As usual Violet Laswell's lifelong friend, Allie, had gotten her into a mess. It started out with Allie following tradition by getting Violet drunk for her twenty-first birthday...and ended with illegally disposing of a dead body and racking up her very first DWI.

ASU Rio Verde's star quarterback Blake Malone has a bright future. Destined to fulfill his father's dream of playing in the NFL, Blake has the perfect girlfriend, Stacy, and what seems to be a perfect life. But beneath the surface, all is not as it seems... When Blake uses his share of the money to help bail out his friend Misha's cash-strapped dance studio, Misha is too desperate to turn it down, but he has one condition: Blake must accept free dance lessons in return. And that's when the trouble begins.

After a night-shift shooting of a drug dealer in The Coffee Cave, twelve strangers each walk out with more than $100,000 in dirty money, a pact never to meet again, and the chance to start over…Dillon Varga has always craved the spotlight. Now, with his new-found riches, he jumps at the chance to leave his troubled past behind and take a shot at his future. With his best friend Savannah Miller by his side, he hits the neon lights of Las Vegas for a chance at a spot on the hit TV show American Voice.

A struggling single mother. Rianna Cutter strips to survive. It's the best paying gig for a young woman with little education and puts a roof over her child's head and food on the table. Working toward a better life for her son, she has no time or energy for love. A tough criminal businessman. Jonah Wyatt is ready to make a big change, moving away from his successful pot growing business into a legitimate enterprise. He's all business all the time and has no interest in finding love he doubts even exists.

Gina Torrio is trying to break her addiction to bad boys with wounded spirits and dysfunctional pasts. Micah Wyatt is a flirt and a player, a little naughty but with no real harm in him. Gina thinks they might have a simple, no-strings fling without endangering her heart. But as animal attraction and flirtatious friendship blossom into sincere affection, neither Gina nor Micah knows how to deal with the depth of feeling growing between them.

Join a remarkable, young butterfly who chooses to walk rather than fly, and his friends, as they embark on a journey through Butterville...Emil Deville of Butterville touches on working through grief, forgiveness, bullying, dealing with transition/change, and the art of not giving up from a young and sweet, sort of sarcastic, but mostly sweet perspective that just happens to go by the name Emil.

As civilization comes to an end, Lewis and Karen take their last vacation to the only cold place left on Earth, the remote resort town of Cold Pools. There, they will say goodbye....