Ergebnis für "Winter" in Coming of Age

Es liegen Welten zwischen uns. Und doch trennt uns nichts. Tagsüber arbeitet Ella als Erzieherin, nachts veranstaltet sie als DJane verbotene Untergrund-Partys in Berlin, bei denen sie unzählige Feierwütige zum Tanzen bringt. Als eine davon hochgenommen wird, trifft Ella das erste Mal seit dem Rockfestival auf Polizist Otis und liefert sich kurzerhand eine heiße Verfolgungsjagd mit ihm. Eigentlich kann sie den ungehobelten Kerl nicht ausstehen.

Mrs. Jacob Klein has a husband, children, and a warm and comfortable home in California. No one - not even her family - knows how she came to be out West 13 years ago. Jacob, a kind and patient man, has promised not to ask. But if she were to tell her story, she would recount a tale of tragedy, mishaps, and unthinkable choices - yet also sacrifice, courage, and a powerful, unexpected love.

Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take it easy.” At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull.

Globetrotting Libby Jacobs has lost her job but is looking forward to spending more time in her home village of Cranfield. She dreams of turning her chocolate-making hobby into something more permanent. There’s only one problem: Ethan Connolly. Despite being soul mates growing up, Libby hasn’t been close to Ethan since their disastrous date at the school prom. But now he’s back and he has just what Libby needs… a large kitchen! But can they even bear to be in the same room together?

Sie trennen Welten, aber der Liebe ist das egal... Nach allem, was Ben und Sasha zusammen durchgemacht haben, glaubt Sasha eines ganz sicher zu wissen: Sie sind füreinander bestimmt. Doch können sie je zusammen sein? Denn gerade, als sie gemeinsam ihr Studium in Yale beginnen wollen, passiert das Unvorstellbare: Bens Vater erkrankt schwer. Statt wie erträumt Journalismus zu studieren, muss Ben nun von einem Tag auf den anderen das Familienunternehmen übernehmen. Doch unter dem Druck der neuen Herausforderung verändert er sich zunehmend.

It’s been a year since Yuki Hirano left home - or more precisely, was booted from it—to study forestry in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. Being a woodsman is not the future he imagined, but his name means “courage,” and Yuki hopes to live up to it. He’s adapting to his job and learning constantly. In between, he records local legends—tales pulsing with life, passion, and wondrous gods. Kamusari has other charms as well. One of them is Nao.

Inspired as a boy by the multiple meanings to be found for a single word in the dictionary, Kohei Araki is devoted to the notion that a dictionary is a boat to carry us across the sea of words. But after thirty-seven years creating them at Gembu Books, it's time for him to retire and find his replacement. He discovers a kindred spirit in Mitsuya Majime - a young, disheveled square peg with a penchant for collecting antiquarian books and a background in linguistics - whom he swipes from his company's sales department.

After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Wild Swans,"" transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's...

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From New York Times best seller Pepper Winters comes one of her best tales yet... "What do you do when you meet your soul mate? No wait...that's too easy. What do you do when you meet your soul mate and have to spend a lifetime loving him in secret? I'll tell you what you do. You lie." Ren was eight when he learned that love doesn't exist - that the one person who was supposed to adore him only cared how much he was worth. His mother sold him and for two years, he lived in terror. But then...he ran.

Ren didn't know the meaning of love until he took Della for his own. To begin with, he hated her, but as the months bled into years, he learned the opposite of hate, dedicating his life to giving her everything. Every sacrifice, every gift, he gave wholeheartedly. But then love turned to lust and ruined everything.

Abandoned by his father after his mother drowns in a frozen Minnesota lake, fifteen-year-old Wes Ballot is stranded with coldhearted grandparents and holed up in his mother’s old bedroom, surrounded by her remnants and memories. As the wait for his father stretches unforgivably into months, a local girl, whose own mother died a brutal death, captures his heart and imagination, giving Wes fresh air to breathe in the suffocating small town.

Christmas is coming to the village of Rockwood. But the happiest time of the year is marred by the news that Rosalind Blanchard’s husband, Piers, is close to death after a shipwreck at sea. The fate of her beloved family home, the crumbling Rockwood Castle, is once more in her hands. She must find the strength to keep her family together.

They call me a heartless b*tch. An evil manipulator. A wicked princess who enjoys hurting people. They tell me terrible things happened; things that changed my life forever. The only problem is...I can't remember any of it.

Thirteen-year-old Carson loves training miniature horses to work as therapy animals. But her rising star, Mercy, is suffering with strange health problems. And Goodness, her tried-and-true therapy horse, seems to have developed a stubborn streak.

A woman who is raped at a young age finds strength.

An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City’s famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon’s assassination. It’s the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and...

Tangled influences compel a young girl to hide her true nature, until one weekend in her mid-20s when the truths she’s been suppressing call her to a crossroads she can’t avoid. Insulated from societal mores by her glamorous mother and humble father, six-year-old Beatrice—barefoot in ratty overalls—tunes into animals, senses the unspoken, and thrives. But when tragedy penetrates their rural Vermont bubble, Beatrice is thrust into a world that tells her she has no place unless she hides her depth, pretties up, and falls in line. She complies.

Be prepared. There are werewolves in this story, and they are not friendly. Peace has always come at a price...A line has been drawn. When Rebekah and Jamie choose friends over their family, they know things will never be the same. But what they don’t know, is that they’ll be taking their very lives into their own hands. A dark secret leads to an even greater betrayal, one that could threaten to destroy them once and for all. The hunters become the hunted, and the twins find themselves running from not one, but both sides of the law.

I first met him when he was 14 at a movie premiere of all places. A movie based on his parent's life. He was stoic, strong, suspicious, and secretive. I was only 10, but I felt something for him. A strange kind of heartbreak that made me want to hug and heal him. I was the daughter of the actor hired to play his father. We shared similarities. I recognized parts of him because they were parts of me. But no matter how many times we met. No matter how many times I tried. He stayed true to his vow to never fall.