Resultados para "Perfect" en Coming of age

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ Best friends have one week in paradise to fix their friendship or fall apart in this heart-stopping, utterly romantic new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After and One Golden Summer. As featured in The New York Times...

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.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE HILARIOUS AND BRILLIANT BESTSELLER FROM NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR SOPHIE KINSELLA Katie Brenner has the perfect life: a flat in London, a glamorous job, and a super-cool Instagram feed. OK, so the truth is that she rents a tiny room with no space for a wardrobe, has...

Brought to you by Penguin. Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They're opposites in every way, but over secret walks home and late-night phone calls they become closer, destined to be one another's great love story. Until, one day, tragedy strikes and any possibility of them being together...

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.

Read by Chika Ikogwe, known from Netflix's Heartbreak High. Turning Thirty and Feeling Stuck Prue is about to turn thirty and feels like everyone else is living their best life. Her friends are posting online about their amazing relationships, exciting travel plans, and newborn babies. Prue, on...

Für Molly Anderson ist es nicht leicht, Mutter zu sein–vor allem seit sie ihr zweites Kind auf tragische Weise verloren hat. Trotzdem scheint der Neuanfang geglückt, den sie und ihr Ehemann Justin sich mit der kleinen Ella im idyllischen Universitätsstädtchen Ridgedale erhofft haben. Bis in einer abgelegenen Gegend am Fluss ein totes Baby entdeckt wird und Molly als freie Journalistin den Auftrag erhält, über den Fall zu berichten.

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...

“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’...

Brought to you by Penguin Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and she's in a relationship that's run its course. That's until she stumbles upon a mysterious book left by a fellow passenger on the Tokyo Subway. From...

When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chizu moves in with 71-year-old Ginko, an eccentric distant relative, taking a room in her ramshackle Tokyo home, with its two resident cats and the persistent rattle of passing trains. Living their lives in imperfect symmetry, they establish an uneasy alliance, stress tested by Chizu's flashes of youthful spite. As the four seasons pass, Chizu navigates a series of tedious part-time jobs and unsatisfying relationships, before eventually finding her feet and salvaging a fierce independence from her solitude.

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...

'Shows the ways in which we are all, always, having to reimagine the story of our lives' Refinery29 'Really smart and exceptionally good' Curtis Sittenfeld 'A moving investigation of love, loss and parenthood' Esquire 'Mind-blowing . . . brilliant and fearless' Elif Batuman The perfect song. The...

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.

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.

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.

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.