Resultados para "Simone" en Coming of age

Mattia vive a Milano con la madre, divorziata. Non va bene a scuola e ha smesso di impegnarsi, anche perché è entrato in un brutto giro: Jonathan, uno dei suoi compagni meno raccomandabili, lo ha preso sotto la sua ala protettiva e Mattia non è più una vittima di bullismo ma in compenso rischia di perdersi. Anche Malik vive con la madre, vedova, in Ghana. Lui a scuola ha tutti dieci e un talento per la matematica.

After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins. In this band of petty thieves, Oliver encounters the extraordinary and vibrant characters who have captured audiences' imaginations for more than 150 years.

Chiara e Save dopo uno scontro casuale e un incontro fortuito nel laboratorio di fisica iniziano a frequentarsi. Tra la dolcezza di un amore che sboccia, le prime esperienze e il turbinio delle emozioni adolescenziali, Chiara si ritrova invischiata in una situazione più grande di lei. Assieme all'amica Tilde si fa coinvolgere da Luca e i suoi amici, e in un pomeriggio tutto degenera. Si mettono in moto così una serie di eventi che cambieranno il destino di tutti i ragazzi coinvolti, legati da un unico filo che si sviluppa attraverso "nodi" del tempo.

Barcelona 1936. Theo helps the Anarchist workers defeat the army that is trying to overthrow the democratically elected government, and he is reunited with his true love, Maria. But all too soon, his joy turns to terror as the Anarchists turn on him, led by a rival for Maria’s affection. Lucky to escape with his life, Theo returns to England to study at Oxford. But his heart is in Spain, now torn apart by a bloody civil war, and he is quick to abandon his new life when his old schoolmate Esmond offers him the chance to fight the Fascists.

New York City, 1929. Young Theo Sterling’s world begins to unravel as the Great Depression exerts its icy grip. He finds it hard to relate to his parents: His father, a Jewish self-made businessman, refuses to give up on the American dream, and his mother, a refugee from religious persecution in Mexico, holds fast to her Catholic faith. When disaster strikes the family, Theo must learn who he is.

C'est quoi l'amour ? Comment on aime à 30 ans ? Est-ce qu'on a perdu toute illusion sur cette notion? Ou bien est-ce qu'elle a simplement évolué pour nous ? Ça se partage l'amour ? C'est temporaire ? C'est tout ? C'est rien ? En tout cas l'amour, quand on a 30 ans, ça se questionne. Avec l'aimable participation de : Benoît Allemane, Alfred Amourdedieu, Marie Bouvier, Françoise Cadol, Bénédicte Charton, Pascal Casanova, Elia Dabaji, Catherine Griffoni, Benjamin Jungers, Pauline de Clerck, Myriam Gilles, Stéphane Gaden, Jules Martens.

Escrita en 1954, cinco años después de la publicación de El segundo sexo, Las inseparables narra la amistad apasionada que une a Sylvie y a Andrée -alter ego de la propia Simone de Beauvoir y de Élisabeth Lacoin (Zaza)- desde que con nueve años se conocen en la escuela. Andrée es alegre, inteligente y atrevida, y Sylvie, una niña formal que se siente irremediablemente atraída por su personalidad arrolladora. Juntas aprenderán a librarse de las convenciones y las expectativas asfixiantes de su entorno, ignorantes del trágico precio que tienen la libertad y la ambición intelectual y existencial.

Two brothers in conflict. This is London, 1977. Little Bastard follows two feuding brothers over a six-month period in 1977 - from the Queen's Silver Jubilee to Christmas. Jason, the older brother, models himself on James Dean, rides a motorbike and enjoys easy success with girls. Younger brother Robin - known to Jason as "LB" Little Bastard - is sensitive, introspective, hero worships Marc Bolan, and fixates on Jason's girlfriend, Cherry. As their mother looks on in despair, tension builds between the siblings....

Kenny Silvers is on the fast track to becoming a pure-blooded punk rebel. It all seems so easy when he’s breaking every rule at school to the point of finding himself expelled. Then, it all changes. He’s becoming criminal, he’s becoming something dark and desperate, he’s fallen between the cracks, and redemption seems a far way off. It’s one thing to embrace the creed, but now he’s lost everything. He’s gone from a kid just having a lark, riding the gravy train until it all becomes sordid and sour, with no way out.

It's night time, and a young man sits writing at a table. He's afraid. Afraid of having to decide - on a woman, a group of friends, an annual holiday destination. He's afraid of becoming numb to emotion. Afraid of growing up. But all of that is about to change. When an acquaintance makes him a proposition, our unnamed protagonist is drawn into a scheme where each night at seven o'clock, he must commit one of the seven sins - a task that forces him to decide how far he is truly willing to go in his efforts to stave off habit and ennui and save his own life.

Stephen King’s classic #1 New York Times bestseller and the basis for the massively successful films It: Chapter One and It: Chapter Two as well as inspiration for HBO Max’s series It: Welcome to Derry—about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first...

For his whole life, the boy has lived underground, in a basement with his parents, grandmother, sister, and brother. Before he was born, his family was disfigured by a fire. His sister wears a white mask to cover her burns. He spends his hours with his cactus, reading his book on insects, or touching the one ray of sunlight that filters in through a crack in the ceiling. Ever since his sister had a baby, everyone's been acting very strangely.

Tyler never could have imagined where he wound up after dying and waking up in a strange new world. A certified monster trainer now, he, his dragon monster, Titan, and his friends and companions are on their way to see this amazing new world, tame new monsters, and continue their training in the Monster Trainer Academy. But there are always fresh dangers to go with the wonders this world has to offer.

"Eine dreckige Geschichte mit einem reinen Herzen." The New York Times. Raizl lebt mit ihrer jüdischen Großfamilie in Brooklyn. Sie teilt sich ein Zimmer mit ihrer kleinen Schwester, sie liebt ihren Großvater über alles und sie unterstützt ihre Mutter im Haushalt. Aber außerhalb der Familie hat Raizl einen Studienplatz, einen Nebenjob und eine Therapeutin. Und da ist noch etwas: Sie liebt Pornos! Bald erlebt sie ein sexuelles Erwachen, lange bevor der Matchmaker den richtigen Ehemann für sie finden kann.

Molly Black has disappeared. She's been a bit flighty since her parents died (sure, hadn't she run off with a tree surgeon that time?) but this time, or so says her hastily written leaving note, she's gone for good. That's why the whole Black clan—from Granny perched on the printer all the way through to Killian on Zoom from Sydney—is huddled together in the back room of Uncle John's semi-D in the Dublin suburbs, arguing over what to do.

"Questo breve e intenso primo libro di Erri De Luca porta già impressi in ogni frase - mi sembra - i segni di un vero scrittore: un tono di voce che appena si coglie diventa inconfondibile, e la integrità di uno sguardo che sa mettere nel giusto fuoco i pensieri e i sentimenti. Qui la memoria non è consolazione, ma è un dramma, e il tempo gioca un suo gioco crudele stabilendo distanze insormontabili tra chi narra e la materia del proprio racconto. Una luce bianca e densa come quella che filtra da nuvole alte bagna queste pagine.

The story is told primarily through Andre's voice, but we also see things through the voices and points of view of his mother Ruby, a hard-working medical secretary, his older sister Nina, his mostly not-there-usually-drunk-and-high father Eddie, a halfhearted reggae musician, and Reggie and Smoke, the kingpins of competing drug crews.

Charlie Matthews’ love story begins in a pebble-dashed house in suburban Bolton, at a time when most little boys want to grow up to be Michael Jackson, and girls want to be Princess Di. Remembering the Green Cross Code and getting out of football are the most important things in his life until Auntie Jan gives him a gift that will last a lifetime: a seven-inch single called "Lucky Star"....

As Pip unravels the truth behind his own "great expectations" in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to steer him toward maturity and his most important discovery of all - the truth about himself.

Best-selling author William Boyd—the novelist who has been called a “master storyteller” ( Chicago Tribune) and “a gutsy writer who is good company to keep” ( Time)—here gives us his most entertaining, sly, and compelling novel to date. The novel evokes the tumult, events, and iconic faces of our time as it tells the story of Logan Mountstuart—writer, lover, and man of the world—through his intimate journals. It is the “riotous and disorganized reality” of Mountstuart’s 85 years in all their extraordinary, tragic, and humorous aspects.