Resultados para "Salt" en Coming of age

A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.

In the aftermath of their mother's death, the Tetley siblings' lives are falling apart. Left to fend for themselves as their family farm goes to ruins, Rose sets out to escape the grief and mess of home. When she meets Noongar Elders Patsy and Herbert, she finds herself drawn into a home where she has the chance to discover the strength of community, and to heal a wound her family has carried for a generation.

It's in the water where she first sees him: a local man almost twenty years her senior. Adrift in the summer after finishing college, a young woman is on holiday with her mother in an isolated Australian coastal town. Finding herself pulled to Jude, the man in the water, she begins losing herself in the simple, seductive rhythms of his everyday life. As their relationship deepens, life at Sailors Beach offers her the stability she has been craving as the daughter of two drifters. But the arrival of Maeve, a friend from Jude's past, threatens to rock their fragile newfound intimacy.

Träume sind nicht für die Warteschleife gemacht. Maria Gabriella Mancuso, kurz Gabi, ist irgendwo falsch abgebogen: Eigentlich wollte sie immer schon in die Medienbranche, doch nun hängt sie in der Gastronomie fest. Und auch ihre Beziehung zu Langzeitfreund Daniel ist eher eingefahren als aufregend.

Koba is a bushgirl, a hunter-gatherer from an ancient living culture. She’s a survivor. She escapes death from white hunters when her family is murdered and fends for herself in a hostile land. Now, she’s in the greatest danger she’s ever faced: She’s falling for a White boy in Apartheid South Africa, where love across racial divides is brutally punished.

This powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker’s apprentice—“perfectly aligns with the cultural moment” (The...

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ( The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story - part shocking reality, part feverish dream - of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a young French girl. There is the seen and the unseen - and pages that burn with a rare intensity.