Ergebnis für "das ende" in Coming of Age

Von all den guten Gründen zu sterben, und von all den viel besseren, am Leben zu bleiben. Hella, 69, will sterben. In der Schweiz, in einem Krankenhaus. Diese letzte Fahrt wird ihr alter Passat schon noch schaffen. Doch kaum auf der Autobahn, fällt etwas Schweres auf die Motorhaube ihres Wagens: Juli, 15, wollte sich von der Brücke in den Tod stürzen. Jetzt ist sie nur leicht verletzt - und steigt zu Hella ins Auto. Zwei Frauen mit dem Wunsch zu sterben - doch wollen sie das zusammen auch noch?

I've known Death a long time but now Death knows me. When their idyllic childhood is shattered by the sudden death of their parents, siblings Marty, Liz and Jules are sent to a bleak state boarding school. Once there, the orphans' lives change tracks: Marty throws himself into academic life; Liz is drawn to dark forms of escapism; and Jules transforms from a vivacious child to a withdrawn teenager.

Samirs Eltern sind kurz vor seiner Geburt aus dem Libanon nach Deutschland geflohen. Als sein geliebter Vater spurlos verschwindet, ist Samir acht. Zwanzig Jahre später macht er sich auf in das Land der Zedern, um das Rätsel dieses Verschwindens zu lösen. Seine Suche führt ihn durch ein noch immer gespaltenes Land, und schon bald scheint Samir nicht mehr nur den Spuren des Vaters zu folgen. Vielmehr ist es, als seien die Figuren aus dessen Geschichten real geworden.

Shortly before Bel's marriage to Ellis Brownlee, her friend, Louise Armstrong, goes house hunting for them and discovers a charming but neglected old stone cottage in the Cotswolds. Bel adores the house, called Fletchers End. Ellis buys the place from the absentee-owner, Lieutenant Commander Lestrange, and, after a picture-book wedding, the happy couple move in. As she embarks on her new life as a devoted wife, Bel loyally guides Louise through her own romantic tribulations.

A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman’s first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys. This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory...

Cat St. Clair is ready for her messy love triangle era now that she’s in an open relationship. But she didn’t foresee a forbidden love triangle with the only two people who are off-limits: her boyfriend’s best friend and his girlfriend. Being a twenty-something writer who lives for plot...

Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back. Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho world. Leaving behind her life in Mexico to search for her brother, she is smuggled into the USA carrying a pair of secret messages - one from her mother and one from the Mexican underworld.

Ist denn keiner mehr normal? Sylt − verlassen und menschenleer. Susanne Matthiessen ist überwältigt, als sie ihre Heimatinsel im Lockdown zum ersten Mal ohne Touristen erlebt. Auf einmal ist es wieder die Natur, die den Rhythmus des Insellebens bestimmt, das vertraute, dörfliche Miteinander vergangener Zeiten lebt noch einmal auf. Susanne fühlt sich in ihre Kindheit zurückversetzt. Während sie zusammen mit ihrer Freundin die einsame Insel erkundet, bleibt "ihr Sehnsuchtsort" für Hunderttausende andere Deutsche Sperrgebiet.

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Reminders of Him, It Ends with Us, and It Starts with Us held readers spellbound with her novel Hopeless, the story of what happened when a troubled girl named Sky encountered a long-lost childhood friend, Dean. Now, in Losing Hope, we finally learn the...

An idealistic young student and a banished warrior become allies in a battle to save their realm in this first book of a mesmerizing epic fantasy series, filled with political intrigue, violent magic, malevolent spirits, and thrilling adventure. Everything has a spirit: the willow tree with...

Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Regretting You, It Starts with Us, It Ends with Us, and Maybe Someday brilliantly brings to life the story of the hilarious and charismatic Warren in this novella. When Warren has the opportunity to live with a female roommate, he...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reminders of Him and It Ends with Us. Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize just how much they belong together. As Layken and Will’s emotion-packed story continues, a stunning and unforeseen revelation about Will’s past leaves...

A Texas high school football star with a tragic past discovers the terrifying secret hidden since his family’s death in this propulsive coming-of-age paranormal horror novel packed with monsters, shifters, and game-day stakes. Joshua's had to learn to take the good with the bad. Orphaned at...

Tanner thought church camp would be boring. That this summer would be forgettable, uneventful, and lifeless. Then, he was surprised to make two friends, both of whom share his interests and anxieties. Together, maybe the three of them have a chance of surviving this long, hot summer. But all is not what it seems at Creston Camps.

Also published as Where Rainbows End – now a major film as Love, Rosie. A story about love. And how life can get in the way… Previously published as WHERE RAINBOWS END. Sometimes fate just can’t stop meddling… Best friends since forever, Rosie and Alex have shared their hopes, dreams...

Die herzerwärmende Geschichte zweier Frauen, die unterschiedlicher nicht leben könnten. Elli hat schon lange keine feste Bleibe mehr und muss täglich aufs Neue um ein würdevolles Leben auf der Straße kämpfen. Lisa ist eine gut situierte, aber dauergestresste Ehefrau, Mutter dreier Kinder und Teilzeitredakteurin bei einem Lifestyle-Magazin. In einem Park lernt Elli zufällig Lisas Kinder kennen und freundet sich mit ihnen an. Sie hat Zeit und immer ein offenes Ohr. Wie eine Art Ersatzoma hilft sie den dreien heimlich immer wieder in schwierigen Situationen.

Laut repräsentativen Umfragen, die das Autorenduo exklusiv für dieses Buch durchgeführt hat, genießt der Papst weniger Vertrauen als manches Möbelhaus. Die Banken und Konzerne haben ihres spätestens in der Wirtschaftskrise eingebüßt und Politikern und Medien glaubt schon lange niemand mehr. Doch ohne Vertrauen verliert die Gesellschaft ihren Zusammenhalt.

At twenty-one, Ason ‘Ace’ Williams Jr. knows all about inevitable endings. He’s formerly famous, a popular rapper’s muse, the son of a three-time NBA champ, and a little… complicated. After a disturbing scandal and loss rocks his world, he’s left to deal with both in a city that doesn’t quite feel like home. It’s a place filled with old family friends he’s never met, reminders of all the endings he’s had to endure, and even worse—he’s stuck there after his dad takes a job no one ever imagined him taking.

Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of 30 years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children.

Thomas Brussig's slim novel, The Short End of the Sonnenallee, is a satire set, literally, on the Sonnenallee, the famed "boulevard of the sun" in East Berlin. Within this boulevard lives Michael, an adolescent who faces daily ridicule whenever he steps out of his apartment building and comes into view of the observation platform on the West side.