Resultados para "Max" en Coming of age

I want to let her know that choosing something is the entire problem. How do you choose something without feeling the undeniable loss of everything you rejected? Max is about to finish high school. On the surface it appears he has everything, but underneath he is floundering. Grappling with...

Max kämpft. Max flieht. Max sucht. Er kämpft gegen die Verrücktheit einer Welt, die aus den Fugen gerät. Er flieht vor den Menschen, die ihn nicht verstehen. Er sucht die eine Frau, die er wirklich lieben kann. Dies ist die Geschichte eines großen Künstlers des vergangenen Jahrhunderts: Max Ernst. Im Spiegel von sechs Frauenleben erzählt dieser Roman vom 20. Jahrhundert und entwirft das Panorama einer wahnwitzigen Zeit.

Le temps d'un automne, quatre personnages – Maxime, Tania, Clémence, Gabriel - évoluent avec leurs doutes, leurs questionnements, leurs espoirs. Ils se rencontrent, se croisent, se cherchent, explorent leur passé pour construire leur avenir. Par petites touches, ils reviennent sur des blessures, des erreurs, des souvenirs, pour mettre au jour ce qui les unit et leur permettre de tisser les fils de leur vie future. Chacun d'eux suit sa trajectoire et cherche à donner un sens à sa vie, à se réconcilier avec son passé ou à éclaircir des secrets oubliés.

Hero of Jutland in World War I, Kelly Maguire progresses rapidly through navy ranks during the dangerous post-war years. Amid the Russian Civil War, British forces must rescue thousands of terrified White army men from rampaging Communist militias. Maguire gets stuck in, risking everything. From Russia, he moves on to China and a gunboat incident on the Yangtze. His resolve is tested when he must choose between his childhood sweetheart to a wealthy aristocrat.

A sensitive boy growing up in a bad neighborhood, Harry Riddle doesn’t fit in with the kids who hold up gas stations, steal purses, and drop safes on policemen. He prefers to contemplate the American dream and his father’s advice for achieving it: “Get rich, boy. Then sleep till noon and screw ’em all.” But when Harry gets his first job as a cafeteria busboy, a customer warns him that money leads to corruption. The idea disturbs him so much that he accidentally sticks his hand into a meat grinder.

Insoddisfazione, apatia, frustrazione. Sono sensazioni che proviamo ogni giorno, bloccati nelle nostre vite vissute a metà. Fortunatamente però, la forza di reagire insita nell'essere umano è l'impulso che ci consente di andare avanti, ed è lo stesso che permette a Max, il protagonista di questa storia, di affrontare il suo malessere. Il destino però, è cosa nota, riserva sempre delle sorprese ed una semplice passeggiata in montagna può trasformarsi in un'avventura inaspettata.

It's the middle of the Great Depression, and Morris Katz and his cousin, Albert, are broke. But that's all about to change when they head off to college on a mission from Morris' mother to find rich, unattractive Jewish girls to marry. The boys arrive on campus armed with a secret weapon: the poetry of Morris' cousin, Crip. Within a day Morris is courting Celeste Zimmerman, the frumpy heir to a movie theater franchise.

On his first day of college, farm boy Asa Hearthrug enthusiastically jumps out of bed - and discovers that his pajama pants are caught in the bedsprings. He learns that his dog has died, and his father, in an effort to soften the blow, tells an absurd story about a female bullfighter. Next, the freshman pays a visit to his high school sweetheart to say a heartfelt good-bye, but Lodestone La Toole is more interested in hamburgers than vows of devotion.

Ansel Bray, an artist known around the world for his tragic hiatus from the canvas. Ansel Bray, a broody, handsome man not known by me, at all. Long dark hair, blue eyes, and dimpled cheeks. I've never met her, but her image is imprinted in my mind. An angel muse who inspires me to paint again.

An awe-inspiring tale of adventure and war, The Dangerous Years is a thrilling historical audiobook, perfect for fans of David McDine, Alan Evans and Alexander Fullerton. Hero of Jutland, Kelly Maguire progresses rapidly through the ranks during the dangerous post-war years, despite the...

'The love story was gorgeous - such brilliant energy and chemistry' Kristen Bailey Tropes: 💓 Second chance romance 🔥 Forced proximity 💘 Will-they-won't-they 🛤 missed connections The best people in life are worth the wait... When Liv finds herself locked in a shed with handsome...

After four years of living with relatives in Switzerland, 17-year-old Joel Scherzenlieb finds himself in the United States for the summer, working at a Boy Scout camp. There, he meets 19-year-old Corey Cobbett, a fellow counselor and the only person Joel wants to be friends with. Soon, Joel's sarcastic, distant CIA father shows up and whisks him away to live with his mother, grandmother, and older sister on a farm in Virginia - he's not going back to Switzerland after all.

Things keep slipping up for Shy. All he wants is sex, spliffs and his own turntables, and for all the red noise in his mind to disappear. But again and again he spirals past his senses and ends up with his head in his hands and carnage around him. He's been kicked out of two schools, been cautioned, arrested, stabbed his stepdad in the finger and bottled a former Tumble Tots playmate, but it's the taunts and teasing of his new schoolmates that haunt Shy.

Bloomsbury presents Crescendo by Jane Healey, read by Celeste Dring and Joe Jameson. A piano virtuoso and his twin sister become rivals for a new spotlight—the adoration of a mysterious French patron—during the hot Parisian summer of 1957. “An enthralling literary symphony of ambition...

There’s a moment you don’t notice when it happens, a quiet shift where everything begins to slip just enough that you can still convince yourself you’re in control. It doesn’t feel like falling at first. It feels manageable. Temporary. Like something you can fix before it turns into something worse. Leto believed that. He believed he had time to figure it out, time to make it right, time to prove that he wasn’t becoming the person everyone had already decided he would be. But time has a way of running out when every choice you make pulls you further from the life you were trying to hold onto.

The Hero Versus Me & Monkey Jo chronicles the adventures of Henry Neis who arrives in Vietnam an innocent youth from Kansas, and quickly falls in with addicts and lost souls. Perry Shepard’s prose pulls the listener into the “scene” immediately, and propels us on a journey that is at times exhilarating, shocking, and moving. A rollicking listen and an eye-opening look at the experience of soldiers in Vietnam, Henry’s story describes his rescue of a baby monkey, while on a dangerous mission, who becomes his faithful companion.

Veronica Mars meets the World of Warcraft in The Unfortunate Decisions of Dahlia Moss, a mystery romp with a most unexpected heroine. If it were up to me this book would be called Hilarious Things That Happened That Were Not At All Dahlia's Fault -- or HTTHTWNAADF, for short. OK, I probably...

A powerful, singular collection of short stories depicting the evolving role of fatherhood in contemporary society—perfect for readers of Jamel Brinkley’s A Lucky Man and Phil Klay’s Redeployment. From stories about a father who shows up hungover to chaperone his daughter’s kindergarten...

Heinrich Berlingen, Baron von Satten, braucht einen Erben für seinen Titel und sein Lebenswerk, aber will sich nicht binden. So kommt Niklas von Altenmark, ein siebenjähriger preußischer Krautjunker zu dem ruhelosen älteren Herrn, und das, obwohl er doch niemals von daheim fort wollte. Unter den Fittichen des Barons reist Niklas über Berlin ins vorrevolutionäre Paris, erlebt die letzte Blüte des Rokokos, bevor der Ausbruch der Französischen Revolution sie nach London treibt, und von dort über den halben Kontinent.

Alien meets Midsommar in this chilling debut adult novel from award-winning author Andrew Joseph White about identity, survival, and transformation amidst an alien invasion in rural West Virginia. Festering masses of worms and flies have taken root in dark corners across Appalachia. In exchange...