Resultados para "De ware" en Coming of age

In the spring of 1957, Jacob Versteeg is graduating from high school at the top of his class. Quite an accomplishment for a guy who spent his young childhood in a German concentration camp. When the war ended, he was adopted by Huub Versteeg, a kind fellow POW at Bergen-Belsen who had taken him under his wing. For ten years Jacob grew up in Chicago surrounded by the love of his new family, including Danny and Anya McClain and their two young children. In fact, he has thrived.

A debut historical novel destined to become a classic like Little Women, this coming-of-age story records an upstate New York family’s suffering and growth through World War I and its aftermath through the eyes of a young woman. Eleanor Foerster, a bright and irreverent fourteen-year-old...

The war has had a devastating effect on the Sweet family, with young Charlie Sweet, lost at sea, presumed dead and bombs falling on nearby Bristol. Still there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon in the form of Mary Sweet’s upcoming wedding to her Canadian beau. But even that has failed to rouse their father from his grief. But in London a baby has been found in a bombed out house, sheltered in the arms of his dead mother. A child to make life worth living again...

In this gripping coming-of-age novel, a group of young people's lives and passions collide in unexpected ways as World War II transforms Italy and England. Central Italy, on the eve of the Second World War. A group of young Italians find themselves in the midst of what will soon become a civil...

When 16-year-old Gabriel Lazris, an American in Santiago, Chile, meets Caro Ravest, something clicks. Caro, who is Chilean, is charming, curious, and deeply herself. Gabriel dreams of their future together. But everybody’s saying there’s going to be a coup—and no one says it louder than Gabriel’s dad, a Nixon-loving newspaper editor who Gabriel suspects is working with the C.I.A. Gabriel’s father is adamant that the moment political unrest erupts, their family is going home. To Gabriel, though, Chile is home.

The rivalry between two of the dominant city states of Ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta, erupted into a war lasting nearly 30 years and was to have a dramatic effect on the balance of power in the area. Between 431 and 404 BCE, the two cities battled it out on land and sea, aided by their alliances with neighbouring states: Athens’ Delian League vigorously opposed Sparta’s Peloponnesian League in a conflict which effectively involved the whole region. 

Seven years have passed since Mordecai’s battle with the Shining God, Celior. Since that time, his control of his abilities has vastly improved. He has, at last, envisioned a use for the ‘God-Stone’, but the gods want vengeance and now seek to destroy everything he has built. The secrets of the past threaten the future of his kingdom, his family, and perhaps humanity itself, unless Mordecai can discover the meaning of ‘Illeniel’s Doom’.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Strixhaven University welcomes you. Begin your magical studies on a faraway plane, encountering new friends, mysteries, and dangers, in this fantastical dark academia. Eula Blue was supposed to be a mage. That was before the war came—before the fight for the...

Life-long friends Louisa, Jeannie and Kate are following in the footsteps of their families, working at the Clarks shoe factory. But when Britain declares war on Germany, the Somerset village of Street is shaken to its core. The Clarks factory is at the heart of life in the village, but the Clark family are Quakers and pacifists. Before long, there are fierce debates amongst the workers and tensions between those who oppose the war and those who believe the village men should go to fight.

Auf die Freundschaft?! Drei Freunde Ende zwanzig: Insa, Hannes und Nico sind gemeinsam in einem friesischen Kaff aufgewachsen und auch nach ihrer Flucht aus der Provinz beste Freunde geblieben. Sie sind unzertrennlich und erzählen sich alles - eigentlich. Doch plötzlich häufen sich die Geheimnisse voreinander. Ihre Zukunftspläne scheinen nicht mehr zusammenzupassen: Hannes will zurück ins Dorf und die Werkstatt seines Opas übernehmen, Nico hat sich in eine Frau verliebt, die ein Kind erwartet, und Insa treibt weiter orientierungslos vor sich hin.

Born in a quiet English village shortly before the onset of the Second World War, Simon Brand’s life is quickly and inextricably interwoven with the Clare-Thompson family and their country Estate which borders the village. His mother moves them away from the village after the war, and an honors degree in economics at Cambridge sees him opting for what proves to be a brilliant career as a business/financial consultant in the City. At the end of a day of goodbyes, in Cambridge, his eyes meet those of an extraordinarily beautiful young woman through the window of a bus.

New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War. August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes—as...

In a violent world, peace always comes at a cost. And to pay for this expansive commodity, to give those he cares about a chance, Jack has to step up... Even if it means doing things he would have never imagined.

Eight-year-old Benjamin Franklin “B .F.” Windes decides to abandon home and trail his father’s path. Thus begins a trip of constant struggle with disease, severe weather, hardship, Indian attack, and death on his lone journey across much of what is now the United States. B. F. spends the next 11 years in gold rush towns in California - first as a barber, then as a physician’s assistant - before departing for the Caribbean at age 19, where he becomes a blockade runner during the American Civil War.

All that fourteen-year-old Princess Amethyst wanted was to be taken seriously and not to be treated like a child. One day, war came knocking on the doorstep of Gishlan, bringing bloodshed, malice, hate, and fear. Suddenly Princess Amethyst is expected to stop acting like a child and take on grown-up responsibilities to protect her country and her family from the onslaught of violence.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR This “deeply immersive novel” (The Washington Post) from the author of the award–winning Preparation for the Next Life is an “epic coming-of-age tale filled with pain, heartache, fear, and undying love” (The Associated Press), as a young...

‘That time is upon us. I can feel it coming. That evil barbarian will not be satisfied until he has engulfed the whole world in war and death. I fear for us all.’ In a triumphant return to his much-loved Courtney series, Wilbur Smith introduces us to the bravest new member of the famed...

Captive to Selene and the five-year Truce, Nath itches to know that his friends are well. Yet he can't seem to change into dragon form again. Maybe if he jumps from this balcony... Brenwar, Pilpin, Shum, and Hoven see the signs that the Dragon King is rallying his dragon army. Gorlee feels drawn to The Deep, certain he will regain his memories down there.

Twenty-year-old Kate is ready to leave behind her small London suburb and chase her dream of becoming a singer. But when Britain declares war on Germany, Kate’s future is suddenly uncertain. Her ambitions are put on hold as she faces the threats of bombing raids and the possibility of invasion. Living in a time of fear and uncertainty, Kate struggles to find balance in her life—particularly as a speech disability hinders her singing career and a failed romance adds to her emotional burden.

During Tony Toscotti’s first year of college in the mid-1960s, his passion for scholarly pursuits—and for his first love Margaret—are completely and utterly squashed. The circumstances point to one responsible party: God, driving Toscotti to declare his own personal war on the Almighty.