Resultados para "Perfect" en Coming of age

En esta novela, Manuela Martínez consigue dibujar, con trazos seguros y desenfadados, el drama y la farsa de salir al mundo de los adultos, la desilusión espinosa de crecer, y consigue con destreza un verdadero retrato de familia, con su cuota de amargura y también de gracia.

Dr. Charlie Knight fears life is passing him by. He's in his late thirties, and treading water as a family doctor in the same small town he grew up in. Just as he's planning his escape, something changes. He develops a gift, an extraordinary insight for any doctor: a sense of exactly how many days his patients have left to live. But in a country town like Marwick, his patients are his friends. His own family. The people he grew up with, and the girl he still loves. And Charlie discovers this gift may not be a gift at all.

Laura Hamley has everything: a loving and successful husband, two children and an expensive home. But then she receives a phone call from the mother of a girl Laura bullied at school. As Laura is drawn into the past, she is forced to face the consequences of her cruelty. But, as her secrets are revealed, so too is an even more devastating truth....

Thirteen-year-old Abby Hubble lives in an unhappy home in the Sierra Nevada foothills where her father makes life miserable for her and her mother, Mary. One day Abby witnesses a man dump a litter of puppies into the nearby river. Diving in to rescue all seven, she knows she won’t be able to bring them home. Afraid for their fate at the pound, she takes them to an abandoned cabin, where all she can offer is a promise that she’ll be back the next day.

Een heerlijke komedie voor de fans van Rood, wit en koningsblauw en Sex Education. Hallo daar! Mijn naam is Elliot McHugh. Ik ben achttien jaar oud, kom uit Cincinnati, ben een leeuw, een (meestal) chaotischgoede extravert, een eerstejaars aan Emerson College Boston – en ik heb geen idee wat ik in godsnaam aan het doen ben. Sommige mensen weten aan het begin van hun studie precieswat ze met hun leven willen doen. Elliot McHugh is niet een van diemensen. Een studierichting kiezen is wel het laatste waar ze aandenkt.

1 Million für die Liebe. Das perfekte Paar gewinnt. Oder doch der perfekte Fake? Kristie Kavanaugh hat hart für ihren Traum gearbeitet und einen erfolgreichen Cateringservice aufgebaut. Doch nun bedrohen die horrenden Arztrechnungen ihrer todkranken Mutter ihre Existenz. In ihrer Verzweiflung meldet sie sich zu einer TV-Dating-Show an, bei der das Siegerpaar 1 Million Dollar gewinnt. Anstelle eines netten Kerls trifft sie dort allerdings nur Asher Tomlinson. Einen versnobten Serienstar, der ihr bereits auf einer Party negativ aufgefallen ist und nun ihr perfekter Match sein soll.

Caroline Jacobs has lost herself. She's a wife, mother (to a tattooed teenage daughter she avoids), Sears Portrait Studio photographer, and wimp. Asserting herself, taking the reins, or facing life head-on are not in her repertoire. So when Caroline suddenly cracks and screams "Fuck you!" at the...

Charlie Fightmaster is on the verge of achieving his lifelong dream—playing Major League Baseball. But when his younger sister needs him, he walks away from fame and returns home. There, a reclusive legend teaches him three secrets to finding harmony at the plate... and in life. As Charlie faces heartbreak and guilt, those lessons become his lifeline—not just to baseball, but to becoming the man he was meant to be.

“An intoxicating blend of music, love, and family from one of the essential writers of the internet generation” (Stephanie Danler). Have you ever wondered what your mother was like before she became your mother, and what she gave up in order to have you? It’s the early days of the new...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller All the Missing Girls—the gripping story of a journalist who sets out to find her missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all. “Think: Luckiest Girl Alive, The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl” (TheSkimm). When Leah Stevens’...

Sometimes when perfect falls apart, a little trouble fixes everything . . . Twenty-one-year-old Kayla Turner has lost everything. After spending most of her life taking care of her ailing mother, she just wants to spot a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. So when her late father-a man...

Numb. Addict. Liar. Anya DeSotto’s dreams of becoming a professional ballerina are circling the drain, along with the last of her pills. Forced to discover "healthy" ways to cope with her crippling lack of self-worth, Anya’s last chance at success comes in the form of Revend Marcus, a man nearly two decades her senior. The owner of a prestigious international ballet company, Revend has no problem breaking Anya down to suit his own, twisted idea of perfection. But when a shadow from Revend’s past looms over their futures, the resulting chaos threatens to destroy them both.

Take a trip back in time to the 80s when it was a great time to be alive. When Tommy and his 2 friends got drunk for the first time, playing air guitar to AC/DC, they knew their life would never be the same.

Er ist der Typ Mann, der mich fasziniert. Es gibt nur einen Haken - er ist mein neuer BOSS. Um ihrer finanziellen Notlage endgültig zu entkommen, tritt die lebensfrohe Ava Parker einen neuen Job als Assistentin bei einem New Yorker Investmentunternehmen an. An ihrem ersten Arbeitstag begegnet sie ihm - unfassbar sexy, aber mit eiskaltem Blick. Noch ahnt sie nicht, dass es sich bei dem unverschämt attraktiven Fremden um den milliardenschweren CEO der börsennotierten Holding handelt und sie sich von nun an täglich über den Weg laufen.

Two brothers brave a whirlwind summer in this taut and luminous coming-of-age novel A twelve-year-old boy lives with his family in a small, poverty-stricken town in Vermont. His father works at a manufacturing plant, his mother is a homemaker, and his fifteen-year-old brother is about to enter...

Pinned follows Ivan and Bobby's season-long efforts toward overcoming forces within and beyond their control toward a title that only one of them can capture! In Perfected by Girls, navigating high school isn't easy for Melinda Radford. She's the lone girl on the Ashton High wrestling team, grappling with opponents who refuse to compete against her, a few who want to crush her, and a coach who's less-than-pleased having a female in his practice room.

In this “inventive, moving, and funny” (Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author) coming-of-age novel, two human-like teen robots navigate high school, basketball, and potentially life-threatening consequences if their true origins are discovered by the inhabitants of their...

Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Regretting You, It Starts with Us, It Ends with Us, and Maybe Someday brilliantly brings to life the story of the hilarious and charismatic Warren in this novella. When Warren has the opportunity to live with a female roommate, he...

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Regretting You, It Starts with Us, and It Ends with Us held readers spellbound with her novel Hopeless, the story of what happened when a troubled girl named Sky encountered a long-lost childhood friend, Dean. Now, in Losing Hope, we finally learn the...