Resultados para "Alice" en Coming of age

When Teresa was a little girl, she dreamed of dark-eyed, fearless heroes on white horses who would sweep her away. But now, as the grown-up Teresa negotiates life and love, she begins to understand that fairytales don't always come true.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children's literature by the English mathematician and author, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, written under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm populated by grotesque figures like talking playing cards and anthropomorphic creatures. The Wonderland described in the tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children.

In this haunting short story of loyalty and betrayal, a young woman in early 1900s Massachusetts discovers that in navigating her treacherous coming-of-age, she must find her voice first. For fatefully observant Adeline, growing up carries an ominous warning from her adulterous mother: don’t say a word. Adeline vows to never speak again. But that’s not her only secret. After her mother takes a housekeeping job at a lighthouse off the tip of Cape Ann, a local woman vanishes. The key to the mystery lies with Adeline, the silent witness.

Milena Cervi ha quindici anni quando sua madre Angelica entra nella Chiesa della Verità e ne diventa vittima incapace di riconoscerne le ambiguità. Così a vent’anni Milena decide di trasferirsi a Roma. Qui incontra Emanuele, un uomo più grande di lei nel quale crede di vedere la cifra del suo riscatto. Presto la relazione assume i contorni di un rapporto manipolatorio, di un legame tanto più doloroso quanto più difficile da spezzare. Alice Urciuolo racconta le infinite distorsioni dell’amore.

Molly Black has disappeared. She's been a bit flighty since her parents died (sure, hadn't she run off with a tree surgeon that time?) but this time, or so says her hastily written leaving note, she's gone for good. That's why the whole Black clan—from Granny perched on the printer all the way through to Killian on Zoom from Sydney—is huddled together in the back room of Uncle John's semi-D in the Dublin suburbs, arguing over what to do.

A Pontinia, piccolo centro di fondazione fascista nel mezzo dell'Agro Pontino, la giovane Elena è stata uccisa dal fidanzato. A distanza di un anno, i suoi amici sono ancora divisi tra il dolore di quel trauma e il bisogno di un'adolescenza normale. Nell'arco di un'estate afosa, vissuta fra le architetture metafisiche di Pontinia e di Latina e le sensuali dune di Sabaudia, e con Roma, la grande città, sullo sfondo, si intrecciano i loro destini. C'è Diana, con la sua voglia sulla gamba che la rende tanto insicura, e c'è la sua migliore amica Vera, che sembra invece non aver paura di niente.

Esistono passioni così potenti da cambiarti la vita. Da rovesciarti la testa, i pensieri, lo sguardo. Per Cecilia la musica è esattamente questo: un modo di vivere, il solo che conosce. "Fai finta di dover parlare di tutto quello che è finito in un abisso, - le dice il suo maestro. - Della gioia e del pianto, della vita e della morte. Fai finta di dovermi raccontare qualcosa che non ha mai avuto parole per essere descritto. Rimane Bach. Tolto tutto rimane solo lui: la lisca del tempo". Ma il tempo che cos'è?

Property Of is the book that launched a major literary career. In it, New York Times best-selling author Alice Hoffman introduces a lonely outsider who wants desperately to belong. She deeply envies the tough, sultry girls who wear mascara and black leather and hang with the local gang known as the Orphans. As the unnamed narrator determinedly tries to become the property of the gang's brooding leader, McKay, she will discover what can and cannot be possessed.

Elena se pasa la juventud imaginando formas poco dolorosas de matarse, pero no quiere que su historia sea triste. Por eso se entrega, mientras tanto, a melancólicos enredos sexuales, a la vez que bosqueja libros muy distintos a los que se escriben y celebran en su asfixiante país-provincia.Esta novela constituye una indagación sobre el dolor, sobre la legitimidad del dolor.

Frances Janvier è sempre stata una "macchina da studio" con un unico obiettivo: entrare in una università d'élite. E nulla la può fermare: né gli amici, né il segreto che nasconde, neppure la sua stessa personalità. Aled Last frequenta l'ultimo anno del liceo ma ricorda a tutti un bambino piccolo che ha perso la mamma al supermercato. È timido e prende sempre voti altissimi. Quando incontra Aled, Frances scopre una nuova libertà.

On the night of her eighteenth birthday, Alice should be celebrating. She can finally vote, she’s almost finished high school in Tecumseh, Oklahoma, and her family and twin brother, Alistair, have thrown a party to remember. But beneath her smile, Alice hides a growing fear—she might be pregnant. As a young witch, she knows there are ways to handle such things. She vows to stay away from Johnny Ackersly, her charming but reckless boyfriend, and plans to brew a tea that will bring her body back into balance. Then Johnny gives her a gift—a necklace strung with ruby-red beads.

This is a book about phobias and obsessions, isolation and dark corners. It's about families, friendships, and carefully preserved secrets. But above everything else it's about love. Finding love - in any of its forms - and nurturing it. Miss Hayes has a new theory. She thinks my condition's...

Flowers, fire and fairy tales are the elements that will forever shape nine-year-old Alice Hart's life, in The Lost Flower's of Alice Hart, the international bestseller by Holly Ringland. Alice Hart lives in isolation by the sea, where her mother’s enchanting flowers and their hidden messages...

Approaching the end of her life, Alice Mayes, notorious caretaker of the anomaly known as The Garden of Sunray, is eager to tie up one last loose end before moving on. The last loose end. For decades, she’s been dreaming of finding someone to share her secret with, someone worthy of her truth, and in 20-year-old Emily Newell, she thinks she finally has. On a momentous stroll through her massive garden with her young friend, Alice delves back into the past, back to those five horrific, mind-bending days in the summer of 1944, when she was 16.

Alice und Barbara waren beste Freundinnen aus der Kindheit. Sie haben alles gemeinsam gemacht - Großes und Kleines und haben jedes Geheimnis miteinander geteilt. Als sie nach der Schule getrennte Wege gehen, verlieren sie den Kontakt. Vierzig Jahre später treffen sie sich zufällig wieder und beginnen sich gegenseitig Briefe zu schreiben. Sie stellen sich gegenseitig unbeantwortete Fragen aus der Vergangenheit und noch mehr Geheimnisse kommen nun auf den Tisch!

Brought to you by Penguin. Six hundred years. Five interlocking lives. An immersive, open-hearted exploration of the many paths that can lead us home. It’s 1983 and Becks can’t wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. But for now she has work to do: her programmer uncle, the only person who...

'Sometimes, Max, I imagine that I see you in her. Not in the sense of any physical inheritance, but a fleeting essence. Something wary and remote. Haunted, you might say. Though her ghosts are not yours.'Set between India and England, Faithless is the story of Cressida, a writer and translator...

How to be a reader - how to be a writer. All you need to know. Alice is an 18-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence of letters reminiscent of Jane Austen's to her own niece, 'aunt' Fay examines the rewards of such study. Not only is her correspondence a revealing tribute to a great writer - it is also an original and rewarding exploration of the craft of fiction itself.

'Wise and playful and tender and beautiful' Bobby Palmer 'So brilliant, so original and lovely and funny, that it reminds you of the point of reading' Rebecca Wait 'Climb up here, Little Alien. Sit next to me. I will tell you about life on this planet. I will tell you how it goes' From her first...

“A powerhouse story, a powerhouse voice, that wrestles with intragenerational fractures and complicated entanglements. At the center of the book is an obsessive kind of love, a love that gives but also takes, but a love that only forms from bonds forged in fire.”—Weike Wang, award-winning...