Resultados para "Sex" en Coming of age

When you listen to what I got up to you’re going to say I got what I deserved. You’re right—I totally agree. Many of you won't like me no doubt and that’s ok—I understand, I really do. I’m not all bad though. I left the Isle of Skye in the early eighties to begin my nursing course in Edinburgh and it's fair to say I embraced the Capital's temptations with arms wide open. When I moved into a shared flat I met Bill, a musician, and got involved with his band Low Down, you know, helping them out, doing a bit of driving and humping gear about - it was great fun.

A small-town waitress, awestruck by dreams of a bigger world, looks forward to the biggest break of a budding career in this darkly comic short tale of what happens when innocence collides with cynicism. Eighteen-year-old Keridee is done with high school, her cheating boyfriend, her jealous friends, and Nowhere, Florida. She’s determined to do something with her life, and her small-time modeling agent has already scored her a gig. She’s working an event for a real estate mogul who happens to own a huge modeling agency. What if he’s dazzled by her smile and makes her a star?

A young novelist trapped in a bad relationship takes the first step toward true pleasure and tenderness…but does she have the courage to be swept off her feet? It doesn’t matter how many people read and like her new book, there’s only one man’s opinion that matters to Clara…or at least that’s what she thinks. But when a chance encounter at a film premiere introduces her to someone new - someone who understands her in a way the first man can’t - Clara finally discovers the validation she really wants and needs.

From syndicated humor columnist Marc Acito comes a wildly inventive and hysterically funny novel that is equal parts Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fame, Risky Business, Dead Poets Society, and The Catcher in the Rye.

Blake Sheridan was an ordinary kid. He grew up in the suburbs, played sports, and did all of the things you’d expect a teenaged boy to do. But one day, he discovered the rave scene and his life was forever changed. A story of love, loss, of success, and excess, the life of Blake Sheridan is a compelling reminder that fortune favors the bold. Life gave Blake a chance and he took it. What would you give for that one chance at fame?

2015 kam er kurz vor der großen Flüchtlingswelle nach Österreich. Inzwischen lebt Omar Khir Alanam gut integriert mit seiner österreichischen Frau und einem kleinen Kind in Graz. In den vergangenen fünf Jahren hörte er sich von den Österreichern an, wie Araber sind und wie sie nicht sind. In diesem Buch vertauscht er die Rollen und erzählt den Österreichern, wie er selbst sie erlebt hat und was er über sie und die österreichische Seele herausgefunden hat.

From the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Young Writer Award and the Crossword Book Award for Fiction Shortlisted for The Hindu Prize for Literature 2015 ‘Explores with sharp beauty the mystery at the centre of loving anyone’ Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure How does the world see...

Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences, and the secrets that hold them together into their 30s. Four boys becoming men: Juice Terry, the work-shy fanny-merchant, with corkscrew curls and sticky fingers; Billy the boxer, driven, controlled, playing to his strengths; Carl, the Milky Bar Kid, drifting along to his own soundtrack; and the doomed Gally, who seems to find catastrophe at every corner.

Andy Bino looks like your usual psychotherapist. He works long hours, goes to the gym, and hangs out at the local pub. However, for the past five years he’s had another, discreet occupation: Andy is a professional sex surrogate, helping women overcome their sexual and intimate inhibitions. He’s also 44-years-old, charming, single, and more recently - looking for love.

A New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick “A novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence. It has restored my faith in pretty much everything.” —Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth “[An] electric debut novel…Reader, beware: Spending time with Lucy is...

From New York Times bestselling author Sara Fawkes, Breathe Into Me is an edgy New Adult novel that follows a young woman who finds redemption in love. How did my life get so broken? It's a question Lacey St. James asks herself every day. Stuck raising her little brother in a trailer park while...