Resultados para "Red" en Coming of age

Fueled by tomato sandwiches and green milkshakes, and obsessed with cars, Philbet struggles with life and love as a gay boy in rural Georgia. He’s happiest when helping Grandaddy dig potatoes from the vegetable garden that connects their houses. But Philbet’s world is shattered and his resilience shaken by events that crush his innocence and sense of security; expose his misshapen chest skillfully hidden behind shirts Mama makes at home; and convince him that he’s not fit to be loved by Knox, the older boy he idolizes to distraction.

Ania hears the explosion of gunshots before she sees the Nazi soldiers approach her beloved home. Her family don’t have time to run, but she does. Hiding nearby, she listens to her sister’s screams and – stroking the red ribbon she keeps tied around her wrist – she begins to plot her revenge… Taunted her whole life for being smarter than anyone else in the village, now living in war-torn Poland, being governed by Nazis who think Poles are subhuman and women only good for one thing… Ania now only has her wits to rely on, if she's going to survive.

Autumn, 1864. Rebel bushwhackers have seized and looted a small town in Missouri. Wounded and left for dead by his half-brother, 17-year-old Owen Wainwright is captured and conscripted by the Confederate Army. As the troops' blacksmith, he witnesses the horrors of war firsthand: the savagery of General Selby's Iron Brigade, the massacres of Union troops, the bloody battles at Lexington, Westport, and Mine Creek. Against all odds, Owen survives with the help of an unlikely ally-a new friend in arms and the only person he trusts. But if fate is cruel, war can be crueler.

Two teenagers become best friends at boarding school, growing ever closer as one falls under the spell of the poetry, personality, and physical beauty of the other: Michael, whose red-silk dressing gown worn for their intimate reads entrances the other boy in ways he is not aware of until after they are expelled. Suddenly Michael confronts him.

Den lille spurveunge Peter Pjusk er meget energisk, madglad... og måske en smule klodset. I hvert fald lander han ret tungt den dag, han ryger ud af sin rede. Nu er gode råd dyre, for Peter kan ikke flyve endnu, og pludselig står han ansigt til ansigt med en hel ny verden. Der venter både sjov og spænding, når Peter Pjusk både møder nye venner og andre dyr, der er knap så venligtsindede over for den lille gråspurv.

An atmospheric coming-of-age story about a young man's transformative year on his family’s struggling Icelandic cattle farm as he falls in love, discovers the purpose he’s been missing, and seeks to connect with his stoic father, who remains haunted by a tragic past. Growing up on his...

It's 1984 and Samantha Ryan Blake - "unruly" foster child - sees things: murder, crime...and sometimes...otherworldly "beings". She doesn't have a family. Not since her mother was institutionalized and her father went missing ten years ago in Vietnam. What she does have is a secret. Now she's been made an offer - to receive "special tutoring" by a British couple - on the grounds of a heavily guarded American nuclear reactor testing facility.

Niki Lauda (1949 - 2019) stammte aus einer wohlhabenden Wiener Industriellenfamilie. Zum ersten Mal sprach der Selfmade-Millionär mit einem Privatvermögen im dreistelligen Millionenbereich in diesem, seinem letzten Buch über das große Tabuthema Geld. Seine Schlüsselsätze über den Erfolg und das Leben sind nun eine Art Vermächtnis. Etwa die Regel, dass nur jene reich werden, deren Bedürfnis, Geld zu behalten, größer ist als ihr Wunsch, es auszugeben. Oder die Erkenntnis, seinen eigenen Weg zu gehen, auch gegen Widerstände.

Laura Lee and Terrence were best buds in high school. They had grown up together as kids in a gritty tough inner-city neighborhood on the Southside of Chicago.

Olivia Montag is a professor who doesn’t have all the answers. The devastating loss of a child ended her marriage, and she’s been overlooked for a job promotion one time too many. Not sure what comes next, she leaves it all behind and volunteers to teach English to schoolchildren in India. Ten thousand miles away, she connects with fellow volunteers and finds purpose in teaching. Until one by one, the girls in her classes stop showing up. Then she meets Mukesh, an Indian man with a heart for invention, who may be the only one who can help her students.

John Steinbeck's masterpiece celebrates the spirit and courage of adolescence. Steinbeck draws on his memories of childhood in these stories about a boy who embodies both the rebellious spirit and the contradictory desire for acceptance of early adolescence. Unlike most coming-of-age stories...

I was trying to avoid any werewolves in my life, and now I have to live with one? I want to worry about human things like how to dress for the first day of a new job or how to sneak a silver dagger past the metal detectors when I get there. But when you’re working in a company run by vampires, human concerns become trivial. What’s not is figuring out why my undead bosses are trapping and killing werewolves. But that might not be the only secret hiding in the walls of the WWL Corporation, and what I soon discover could turn the supernatural world on its head.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, Kirkus, Harper's Bazaar ""A novel set in a small prairie community. . . that somehow also captures the world...

"The Pen is Red" is an enthralling short story that delves into the extraordinary journey of Ben, a young black soon-to-be freshman college student who stumbles upon the enigmatic world of Freedman University. As he crosses the threshold into this secretive institution, Ben becomes part of a legacy and tradition hidden from the world for generations. Nestled deep within the woods of West Virginia, Freedman University is a hallowed ground for those who understand its significance.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A thrilling, raucous, and gloriously queer debut about a scrappy orphan bent on making her own luck in the American West—and finding friendship, romance, and her true calling along the way, now in paperback. “A powerful feminist battle cry . . . [and] rollicking good...

Sky of Red Poppies begins with a casual friendship between two schoolgirls coming of age in a politically divided 1960's Iran under rule of the Shah. Roya, the daughter of a prominent family, is envious of the fierce independence of her religious classmate Shireen. But Shireen has secrets of her own. Together, Roya and Shireen contend with becoming the women they want to be, and in doing so, make decisions that will cause their tragic undoing.

A riveting novel about two women--one Serbian, one Bosnian--whose deep friendship spans decades and continents, war and peace, love and estrangement, in the vein of Elena Ferrante and Julia Alvarez. From the moment Marija walks into Lara's classroom, freshly moved to Serbia from Sarajevo, Lara...

In Under a Red Delta Sun, three teenagers fight for survival under the least likely circumstances in a world ruled by evil men. There is 15-year-old Asabi Ajayi, who is so close to getting away from her abusive stepfather; her best friend, and ally, Temly Cole, who suddenly goes missing without a trace; and Fela Peter, whose Christian family treats like an outsider. Alone and afraid, the three must make a daring journey to freedom.

A sixteen year old boy awakens in a dark forest with no memory of how he got there. When he finally begins to come to terms that he is no longer at home, he begins to realize that he is not only in a different environment, but he's in a different time period! To make matters more trivial, all the townspeople, also known as "Locksmiths," have these "Keys" that allows them to emit different colored energies or, "HUEs," at will. It just so happens the dark HUE that emits from him is the most powerful in this futuristic world of "Aether." Is it a simulation? Is it a dream?

Impoverished high school junior Hazel Smalls and affluent senior Sterling Lovell would never ordinarily meet. But when both are punished with in-school suspension, Sterling finds himself drawn to the gorgeous, studious girl seated nearby, and an unlikely relationship begins. Set in 2012 South Carolina, the novel interlaces the stories of Hazel, living with her homeless family in the rundown Red Rose Motel; Sterling, yearning to break free from the expectations of his wealthy parents; and recently widowed Angela Wilmore, their stern but compassionate English teacher.