Resultados para "August" en Coming of age

A captivating, multigenerational debut novel of a young woman navigating the personal trauma that ties herself, her nomadic mother, and her alcoholic grandmother together, perfect for fans of Ask Again, Yes and What the Fireflies Knew. 1979. Fifteen-year-old Aurora Taylors single mother prefers...

Fifteen-year old Morganna runs away from an abusive home to search for her blood father, a man she’s never met. Fearful she’ll be recognized by locals, she disguises herself as a boy. Hitching a ride from a fisherman, Morganna crosses the Bristol Channel to Goldcliff, Wales, where she hopes to find her father. She is astounded when the fisherman divulges her father is a famous Welsh privateer, the fearsome Captain Henry Blackwell.

August Barton could never have mentally prepared himself for his freshman year of college: not only has his anxiety increased, but his parents are divorcing, his new roommate thinks Augie is the biggest nerd in existence, and his grandma, a retired prostitute named Gertie, has taken to running away from her nursing home. Augie just wants to hole up in his dorm room with his Star Wars collectables and textbooks, but Gertie is not about to let that happen.

Eine Chocolaterie als Zuflucht in dunklen Zeiten. Berlin, 5. August 1936: Die Schwermut ist Elfies steter Begleiter, Zuversicht findet sie in ihrer Arbeit in der Chocolaterie Sawade, einem Hort zarter Zaubereien aus Nougat und Schokolade, feinstem Marzipan und edlen Aromen. Hier gelingt es Elfie und ihren Nachbarn, sich ihre Menschlichkeit in unmenschlichen Zeiten zu erhalten. Dann kommt Elfie dem Geheimnis einer besonderen Praline und der Geschichte einer verbotenen Liebe auf die Spur. Doch wird sie es wagen, auch ihrer eigenen Sehnsucht zu folgen.

When fourteen-year old Sally Carter decides to share the secret she has discovered on Slipper Point with her new friend Doris Craig, she couldn't possibly imagine where the solution to this intriguing mystery will lead them!

A boy coming of age in a part of the country that’s being left behind is at the heart of this dazzling novel—the first by an award-winning author of short stories that evoke the American West. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE “August reads like early Hemingway...

Eingeladen zu einer Lesung aus seinem unfertigen Manuskript, fährt der Erzähler im Juni 2025 nach Mecklenburg, in jene seenreiche Landschaft, die er im Sommer 1979, von dem sein Lesungstext handelt, den »Norden« genannt hat. Eine unerwartete Begegnung scheint seine Novelle lebendig werden zu lassen, und wirft damit die Frage auf, was war und was wirklich ist. War er damals zu jung und zu unbeschwert für die große Liebe, und ist sie heute zu alt?

A year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an imposter who...

Shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award ‘A therapeutic dose of high-strength emotion’ GUARDIAN *JOANNA GLEN'S LATEST NOVEL MAYBE, PERHAPS, POSSIBLY IS OUT NOW* Augusta Hope has never felt like she fits in. At six, she’s memorising the dictionary. At seven, she’s...

In this enchanting first novel, an irrepressibly optimistic oddball orphan is thrust into the wilds of postwar New York City after an extraordinary childhood in a theater—Candide by way of John Irving, with a hint of Charles Dickens Abandoned as an infant by his actress mother in her theater...

Patrick Gale's KANSAS IN AUGUST is a witty, warm novel of childhood and abandonment for readers of Armistead Maupin and Edmund White 'Modern, excellent and sympathetic' Stephen Fry Musical-obsessed Hilary Metcalfe, abandoned by his lover Rufus on his birthday, gets drunk, discovers a baby and...

The gorgeous, devastating must-read queer love story of the summer. 'It should be placed alongside modern love stories such as Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow'– Crack IT TOOK THREE CAR CRASHES TO KILL JAKE The first crash. New Hampshire. Teenagers Theron and Jake meet...

A 2025 Lamda Literary Award finalist Longlisted for The Center For Fiction's 2024 First Novel Prize Named a Best Book of 2024 by Elle, Vogue, and Debutiful “This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled.” —Matt Berninger, The National...

Rico, 23 Jahre, 147 kg schwer, hochintelligent, soziophob, hat mit 15 Jahren die Schule abgebrochen und wohnt seitdem komplett zurückgezogen bei seiner Großmutter in tendenziell prekären Umständen. Parallel lebt er digital in einem aufregenden Computerspiel. Er verachtet die Menschen und was sie aus ihrer Welt gemacht haben. Zaire, 23 Jahre, lebensbejahend, sehr sozial, die neue Pflegerin seiner Oma, reißt Rico ins reale Leben hinein. Sie liebt die Menschen und glaubt an eine lebenswerte Zukunft.

Following in the bestselling tradition of Molly McAdams and J. Lynn, this final chapter in the fun and steamy New Adult trilogy by Noelle August (authors Veronica Rossi and Lorin Oberweger) features two aspiring musicians who must choose between their careers…and their sizzling attraction for...

The first book in a sensational New Adult trilogy from Noelle August. Welcome to Boomerang.com, the dating site for the millennial gen with its no-fuss, no-commitments matchups, and where work is steamier than any random hook-up. Mia Galliano is an aspiring filmmaker. Ethan Vance has just played...

Hooking up is only the beginning of the fun in this sexy and irresistible second installment of the thrilling New Adult series, Boomerang. At Boomerang, one night can change everything… Adam Blackwood has it all. At twenty-two, he’s fabulously wealthy, Ryan Gosling-hot and at the top of his...

Drei Freunde in ihren Zwanzigern: Thora, Hugo und August. Sie stammen aus verschiedenen Welten. Aber in zwei magischen Sommern erleben sie eine Liebe fürs Leben. Thora und August wachsen in gehobenen Verhältnissen in Stockholm auf, sie sind beste Freunde und gelegentlich auch Liebende. Ihre...

Wie ein flüchtiger Moment des Glücks Ewigkeit werden kann. Es war einmal ein junger Psychiater namens Hector. Er fragte nach den Möglichkeiten des Glücks, fragte nach dem Wesen der Liebe, und schließlich verbrachte er viel Zeit damit, über die Zeit nachzudenken. Und es gelang ihm, das äußerst Flüchtige der Zeit einzufangen, die uns Tag für Tag davoneilt.

Es war einmal ein junger Psychiater, der Hector hieß. Er trug eine kleine, intellektuelle Brille und verstand es, den Leuten mit nachdenklicher Miene und echtem Interesse zuzuhören...