Resultados para "Flora" en Coming of age

Like Foxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding, Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Profane, manic, and tipping into the uncanny, Stephen Florida a story of loneliness, obsession, and the drive to leave a mark.

Els bessons Klaas i Kees i el seu germà petit Gerson juguen sovint a «Negre», un joc en què la regla principal consisteix a no obrir els ulls. Un dia, en Gerson perd la visió en un accident de cotxe, i es veurà obligat a jugar a «Negre» la resta de la seva vida. Serà capaç d’adaptar-se a la seva nova vida amb l’ajuda del seu gos? La vida també ha canviat considerablement per al seu pare i els seus germans. Però el que no canvia mai és la calidesa de la família. Gerbrand Bakker ens explica aquesta commovedora història a través de tres perspectives diferents, la dels bessons, la d’en Gerson i la del gos.

Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. At three Helen lost her mother and the beloved grandmother who raised her has just died. A fiercely imaginative child, Helen is desperate to keep her house intact with all its ghosts and stories. Flora, her late mother's twenty-two-year old first cousin, who cries at the drop of a hat, is ardently determined to do her best for Helen.

Along the Intracoastal waterways of North Florida, Daniel and Aubrey navigated adolescence with the electric intensity that radiates from young people defined by otherness: Aubrey, a self-identified "Southern cracker", and Daniel, the mixed-race son of Jamaican immigrants. When the news of Aubrey's death reaches Daniel in New York, years after they'd lost contact, he is left to grapple with the legacy of his precious and imperfect love for her. At ease now in his own queerness, he is nonetheless drawn back to the muggy haze of his Palm Coast upbringing.

"Lügnerin", ging es Maivy durch den Kopf. Sie war sich sicher, dass die Inhaberin des unscheinbaren Blumenladens mehr wusste, als sie preisgeben wollte. Und schon bald würde sie das dunkle Geheimnis von "Floras Blüten" lüften.

Embark on a rollicking Florida escapade through this masterfully crafted, wickedly funny comic novel. Set in 1980s Florida, this coming-of-age adventure follows the journey of a 17-year-old aspiring horror filmmaker captivated by a B-movie scream queen. Stealing away from his family’s Palm Beach mansion, he joins forces with an aging con man and his ambitious girlfriend. Together, they race into the heart of the Everglades, where his dream girl is filming Swamp Fiend 2. However, their plans bog down in a treacherous swamp teeming with competing cons and hustles, and a whole lot of alligators!

In the heart of Los Angeles, 22 -year-old Frankie is in her senior year at UCLA. Her dreams of becoming a successful actress are overshadowed by the harsh realities of an industry and a system that often dismisses her talent due to her heritage. Frustrated, disenchanted, haunted by grief from her parents’ tragic death, and desperate for a change, with the emotional support of her loving grandma Frankie decides to spend her first summer after graduation in Venice, Italy – a city she’s longed to explore.

En su conmovedor relato en primera persona, una joven es testigo de la desgarradora ocupación de su ciudad por el Tercer Reich. A través de su testimonio personal, narra los días tumultuosos que acompañaron la llegada de los nazis, pintando un vívido retrato de la conmoción, el miedo y la desesperación que impregnaron cada rincón de su existencia.

« Dans les mots que la vieille femme déposa au creux de son oreille, Encarnación perçut le murmure d’un oracle lointain : “Éloigne de toi ceux que tu aimes, car la nuit les engloutira et tu porteras leur corps... » À l’âge de quinze ans, alors que la famine sévit dans son Andalousie natale, Juan Ortega quitte sa famille pour devenir le cuisinier d’Ignacio, un célèbre torero. Dans son sillage, à Madrid, New York et Paris, Juan se laisse happer par l’effervescence des années folles.

A young woman trapped in a deeply dysfunctional family in the seedy wilds of 1990s South Florida has to make a choice—save her family, or save herself—in this “riveting” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) novel from the acclaimed author of Lay the Favorite. “Marvelous . . . a...

Ésta es la lección o el recordatorio de Carolina y otras despedidas. Aquí no hay grandes amores tormentosos, viajes de descubrimiento a tierras exóticas, ni oscuros crímenes por resolver, sino sentimientos de los que no hablamos. Lo que el lector encontrará en cada uno de estos relatos es una ventana a un mundo privado: tan ordinario y excéntrico como es cada una de nuestras vidas.