Resultados para "Nevada" en Coming of age

Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of 14. But as of this morning...they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love...every memory has vanished. Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why. But the more they learn about the couple they used to be...the more they question why they were ever together to begin with. Forgetting is terrifying, but remembering may be worse.

Inspired by true events...The first day of college gives every girl a chance to reinvent herself. I go and screw mine up by meeting the most gorgeous guy I've seen in five years while talking to my cat. But Andrew Crowner is far from judgmental. By the end of our interaction, he has me smitten by his easy manner and kind smile. And from the way his eyes linger on me before he leaves, I start to think that maybe I've caught his attention, too. I let myself believe that luck may finally be on my side.

American soldiers and native Kachin troops battle Japanese forces behind enemy lines in the Burmese jungles. But during the brutal campaign to gain territory in the unforgiving tropical landscape, Captain Reynolds and his band of special operations soldiers and guerrilla fighters struggle to find self-awareness, and even love, in the midst of the trials of combat.

Charlie’s got plans for this summer: hanging out in the cemetery behind his house, doing as little assigned reading as possible, and volunteering at the old costume shop in the Victorian District. What he doesn’t anticipate is meeting William: a handsome, mysterious guy who just so happens to have been dead for about 100 years. As the weeks go by, Charlie and William discover that they have a lot to teach each other.

Winner of the Campiello Prize, The Lake’s Water Is Never Sweet is an unflinching portrait of a generation, striving to make a place for themselves in a world markedly different from the one their parents promised them. With psychological acuity and stylish prose, Caminito takes us into the volatile, searching mind of a young woman torn between her desire to connect with others and her drive for self-preservation.

כשהייתי קצת יותר גדול, אבא שלי לימד אותי לרכוב על אופניים בלי גלגלי עזר. זה היה בפאתי אמסטרדם, במגרש החניה של פארק שעשועים ענק, ניסיתי לסובב את הדוושות, והוא רץ מאחורי והחזיק את הברזלים שמאחורי המושב. על הפעם הראשונה שהוא עזב אותם ושיחרר אותי לרכוב לבד, איבדתי את שיווי המשקל ונפלתי. הולנדים הצביעו עלינו וצחקו. הזענו בטירוף, אני ממש זוכר את כתם הזיעה בחזה של אבא שלי. אחרי כמה נפילות הוא נעמד מולי ואמר בקול רך "אם תמשיך לנסוע ככה זה לא ילך, בן." "איך ככה?" שאלתי אותו, ושפשתי את הברך שכאבה מהנפילה האחרונה.

Siblings Bert, Willet, and Pansy know better than to go swimming at the old rock quarry. According to their father, it's the Devil's place, a place that's been cursed and forgotten. But Mississippi Delta summer days are scorching hot, and they can't resist cooling off in the dark, bottomless water - until the day six-year-old Pansy vanishes...not drowned, not lost, simply gone. When their father disappears as well, Bert and Willet leave their childhoods behind to try and hold their broken family together.

This program is read by the author. "Nevada is a book that changed my life: it shaped both my worldview and personhood, making me the writer I am. And it did so by the oldest of methods, by telling a wise, hilarious, and gripping story." —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby A beloved...

Laura Calosso, in questo suo nuovo, intenso romanzo, mette in scena con grande bravura e delicatezza una generazione di ragazzi brillanti, sensibili, che per motivi diversi si trovano a vivere momenti di profonda difficoltà. Margherita Fiore ha diciotto anni e da pochi giorni ha superato brillantemente l'esame di maturità classica. Sta preparando il test per entrare all'università. Un'amica la invita al mare per due giorni di pausa dallo studio. Il treno però ha un disguido e Margherita accetta un passaggio in auto da un ragazzo incontrato per caso.

Kasia Van Schaik’s debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa. Mother and daughter wait out the end of a bad year in a Mexican hotel; a friendship is tested as forest fires demolish Charlotte’s town; a childhood friend disappears while travelling through Europe; and a girl on the beach examines the memories of dying jellyfish. The stories traverse the most intimate and transforming moments of female experience in a world threatened by ecological crisis.

Twenty-year-old Camryn Bennett thought she knew exactly where her life was going. But after a wild night at the hottest club in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, she shocks everyone - including herself - when she decides to leave the only life she's ever known and set out on her own. Grabbing her purse and her cell phone, Camryn boards a Greyhound bus ready to find herself. Instead, she finds Andrew Parrish.

Past and present collide on the high seas when Clare and Allie hurtle back in time once more in a perilous attempt to retrieve Marcus Donatus - Allie’s blast-from-the-past crush - and put an end, once and for all, to the Time Monkey Shenanigans. But when Clare and Allie unexpectedly find themselves temporal stowaways on a Roman warship full of looted Celtic gold, sailing straight for the heart of a magic-fuelled maelstrom, there’s not much they can do but hang on for the ride....

American-born Catherine knows little of her Croatian mother's early life. When Marijana dies of ovarian cancer, 22-year-old Catherine finds herself cut off from the past she never really knew. As Catherine searches for clues to her mother's elusive history, she discovers that Marijana was orphaned during WWII, nearly died as a teenager, and escaped from Communist Yugoslavia to Rome, and then South America. Through travel and memory, history and imagination, Catherine resurrects the relatives she's never known.

I fancy myself a purveyor of truth, a sifter of lies, a cutter of bullshit. It's not a gift, but rather all skill, honed to a razor's edge after one too many trips down the rabbit hole. Some may dismiss my talent as misguided cynicism, but they'd be wrong. Clichés about hope and faith in mankind are an effort to keep the dreamers dreaming. Experiences don't lie - people do. While I'm not proud of the circumstances that led me to this way of thinking, I respect the journey.

Never the Same Love Twice tells the story of a woman who attempts to be all things to all people, representing the continued coming of age of the modern female. This novel will offer hope to listeners who are trying to make sense of life experiences and those who choose to turn tragedy into transformation.

A passionate and perceptive story full of the pain and the humour of growing up, from Andrea Levy, author of the Orange Prize winning SMALL ISLAND and the Man Booker shortlisted THE LONG SONG. NEVER FAR FROM NOWHERE is the story of two sisters, Olive and Vivien, born in London to Jamaican...

Losing the love of my life the summer before we were set to go off to college together destroyed me beyond repair. James committed suicide weeks before we were to start our lives together, leaving me broken and haunted by the "what ifs" of life. There just wasn’t any way I could attend the college we chose together, and I was certain there wasn’t another option at what most would call last minute. When another University agreed to take me, I packed up my car and headed to the Sunshine state.

It is 2002 when Kwamboka, a Kisii girl from Western Kenya who refused female genital mutilation as part of her tribe’s puberty rites, returns home after laboring in the fields all day. Exhausted, Kwamboka falls asleep and awakens a few hours later to the smell of smoke. She manages to escape the fire that engulfs her house, only to see her uncle waiting outside - the one who is supposed to protect her according to Kisii law. Kwamboka realizes that he has murdered her mother and now attempted to kill her.

A daughter, a sister, a friend. A girl who laughed too loud at her own clumsiness, who believed in Christmas magic a little longer than most, who dreamed of drawing pictures that would one day hang on walls. A girl who grew up in a home filled with pancakes on Sundays, shortbread in Granny’s kitchen, and the faithful bark of her dog Bruno greeting her at the door.

They say you can't go home again. Believe me, I've tried. Hell, I've done almost everything I can think of to escape Grey's controlling ways but it's no use, he's relentless.