Zeigt Titel in Coming of Age

Der elfjährige Martin besitzt nichts bis auf das Hemd auf dem Leib und seinen schwarzen Hahn, Behüter und Freund zugleich. Die Dorfbewohner meiden den Jungen, der zu ungewöhnlich ist. Viel zu klug und liebenswürdig. Sie behandeln ihn lieber schlecht, als seine Begabungen anzuerkennen. Als Martin die Chance ergreift und mit dem Maler zieht, führt dieser ihn in eine schauerliche Welt, in der er dank seines Mitgefühls und Verstandes widerstehen kann und zum Retter wird für jene, die noch unschuldiger sind als er.

A little deer walks into the wolf’s den. I want answers. I know nothing of love, family, or stability, having been raised in the foster system and spat out at eighteen, pregnant, and with no memory of how that came to be. I try to find my estranged father, a man rumoured to be in the Mafia, hopeful he will use his influence to discover what really happened the night someone took my innocence. But I don’t find my father. I walk straight into the den of his associate, the Don of the Cosa Nostra.

This quintessential coming-of-age novel describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus. It is set in Ireland during the 19th century, which was a time of emerging Irish nationalism and conservative Catholicism. Highly autobiographical in nature, the work is also notable for its being the first one in which Joyce uses innovative “stream of consciousness” writing style. A Portrait... follows Stephen Dedalus from his babyhood into early adulthood.

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years A modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they...

The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national treasure' (his words); his wife, Beverley, a celebrated novelist; and their children, Nelson, Elizabeth, Achilles, various degrees of catastrophe waiting to happen. Together they will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can be destroyed in an instant.

QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une légende urbaine. Un ange déchu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. Le détenteur d'un secret. Le dernier témoin d'un monde révolu. L'ultime visage de notre comédie inhumaine. Notre fantôme à tous.

“I’m hiring you to do more than guard her, Zander,” my new boss explained. “You’re gonna be her rock. Her human Valium. Her trusted friend. And she’s gonna be your mission from God.” “So I’m her babysitter?” “Her babysitter, her bodyguard, her f--king service doggie. Whatever she needs or wants, that’s what you’ll be. Anything except her booty call.” The vein in my new boss’s neck bulged. “Touch her and I’ll do more than fire your ass, Zander. I’ll rip off your balls.” My buddies laughed when I told them about my ridiculous new job.

The spine-tingling, bone-chilling　novel of supernatural suspense from the #1　New York Times　bestselling author of　The Fireman　and　Horns—now an AMC original series starring Zachary Quinto, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Ashleigh Cummings. ""A masterwork of horror.""—　Time Victoria...

The second book in the international bestselling Maxton Hall series—now a Prime Video streaming series—in English for the first time. After all the hurt between them, will they be able to find their way back to each other? Ruby Bell thought that she and James Beaufort had something special...

Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of the best books of 2007 according to: The...

Wird ihr Vater sie überhaupt noch erkennen? Und wie sind die neuen Kollegen auf der Insel? Mit diesen Fragen im Gepäck besteigt Hanna die Fähre nach Langeoog. Sie und ihr Vater haben sich seit dem großen Familienkrach vor zehn Jahren nicht gesehen. Doch nun hatte er einen Schlaganfall und Hanna muss herausfinden, ob die Erinnerungen an die glückliche, gemeinsame Zeit in seinem Kopf überlebt haben. Sie hat Angst, einem fremden Mann gegenüberzustehen, der seine Tochter völlig vergessen hat.Außerdem tritt sie auf Langeoog einen neuen Job im Kinder- und Jugend-Wohnheim an.

Drei Freundinnen und ihre Familien erleben das Jahr vor dem Untergang des sozialistischen Regimes in der Slowakei: Opportunismus oder Rebellion, Anpassung oder Auflehnung - die Mädchen an der Schwelle zum Erwachsensein, aber auch die Eltern, begegnen dem sinkenden Stern des Sozialismus jeder auf seine Weise.

Rejected by all, he must learn to master the darkness within if he is to stop Mal’goroth from destroying humanity. Alone, he battles to control the malevolent magic that has consumed him as he searches for some way to turn his destructive new powers against the Dark Gods themselves. To win, he must somehow transform his own damnation into mankind’s salvation.

Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten. Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the...

Dein Vater ein Taugenichts, dein Pflegevater ein Nazi, dein Stiefvater ein brutaler Säufer: Alem Grabovac beschreibt ein Leben, zu krass, um es sich auszudenken. Smilja schuftet als Gastarbeiterin in der Schokoladenfabrik, ihr Mann Emir, ein feierfreudiger Kleinganove, landet später im berüchtigten Gefängnis Goli Otok in Jugoslawien. Nach der Geburt ihres Sohnes Alem trifft Smilja eine folgenschwere Entscheidung: Ihr Baby wächst bei einer strengen deutschen Pflegefamilie mit sieben eigenen Kindern auf.

With his tight leather pants and a sharp edge that makes him dangerous, Jet Keller is every girl's rock and roll fantasy. But Ayden Cross is done walking on the wild side with bad boys. She doesn't want to give in to the heat she sees in Jet's dark, haunted eyes. She's afraid of getting burned...

A 50th anniversary hardcover edition of Kerouac’s classic novel that defined a generation Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open...

New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Sometimes the wrong choice can be just right . . . Fun and fearless, Cora Lewis knows how to keep her tattooed ""bad boy"" friends at the Marked in line. But beneath all that flash and sass is a broken heart. Cora won't let herself get burned again. She's...

Musicaldarstellerin zu sein, das ist Lenis größter Traum. Doch wann immer sich eine Chance ergibt, kneift sie. Und so lässt sie sich auch dieses Jahr von ihren Eltern als Touriguide einspannen – statt auf die große Bühne geht es im umgebauten Bulli durch Deutschland. Einziger Lichtblick: die Aussicht auf das Wiedersehen mit ihren Freundinnen Ella und Charlotte nach der Tour in Berlin. Doch alles ändert sich, als ausgerechnet Edward sich für die Bulli-Tour anmeldet.

Mordecai’s growing power and success have made him a threat, not just to the gods and their minions, but also to the king of Lothion. An unholy bargain has been struck to bring him to heel and increasingly it seems that victory may not be worth the price, not if the cost is measured in the blood of his family. Wizard, lord, husband, father, and now archmage...no man can balance so many roles without sacrificing something. Will the world be worth saving if it costs him the very reasons he has for living in it?