Resultados para "The Fall" en Coming of age

Brynn honors her passion for horses by studying at the toughest veterinary program in the country. Months from graduating, tragedy strikes - tragedy for which she can't help but feel responsible. Brynn feels suffocated by the weight of her father's legacy and his dusty hopes for horse show jumping success. When Brynn's frenetic efforts to dig the family business out of debt fail, she's down to one desperate hope.

In the rugged wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, twelve-year-old Leif's world is shattered when his father dies in a tragic logging accident. But as Leif struggles to bring his father's body out of the dense forest, he is burdened with a devastating truth that will change everything.

When Rolling Stone journalist Kayla McCray is assigned a cover story on pop icon Lexi Mayhem, Kayla stumbles across a startling new angle to the exposé. Years ago, another rising star from Lexi’s past mysteriously leaped to her death. Some things are better off forgotten, Lexi says. Kayla disagrees. It’s 2005 and Ava Petrova moves to New York with a notebook full of songs and a dream. Then she meets Lexi, an up-and-coming singer who brands Ava with an enigmatic new stage name and introduces her to an intoxicating city alive with possibilities.

Most people in town think 16-year-old Clinton Williams’ family is strange. Wishing he could contact his wayward brother, Clinton yearns for a day when he, too, can escape the neighborhood and travel the country. After following a clue to Berry-berry’s whereabouts, Clinton ventures to Coastal Florida hoping to find him, but instead gets a firsthand view of his brother’s callous destructiveness that will leave permanent marks on the young man.

It’s the late 1980s, and Matthew Carnap is awake most nights, afflicted by a potent combination of insomnia and undiagnosed ADHD. Sometimes he gazes out his bedroom window into the dark; sometimes he wanders the streets of his small Southern Minnesota town. But more often than not, he crosses the hall into his stepfather Russ’ roller rink to spend the sleepless hours lost in music. Russ’s record collection is as eclectic as it is extensive, and he and Matthew bond over discovering new tunes and spinning perfect skate mixes. Then Matthew’s mother divorces Russ.

Keeka: Alone in the world after her mother's death, she tries to find the life she dreamed of as a child. Trucker: Alone in the world, the family he felt part of begins to fall apart as his dreams of being an NFL quarterback become his reality. What happens when everything you had is gone, everything you wished for seems to be in arm's reach, and your world begins to spin in circles? You fall.

Dies ist kein Kriminalroman. Hier geht es nicht um Verbrechen. Nein, hier wird warm und stimmungsvoll beschrieben, wie zwei Menschen einander helfen. Kommissar Waporetzki hat es einsam. Seine Wache ist abgelegen, fern aller Menschen und jeder Kriminalität. Er hat es so gewählt. Nichts hat er zu tun und sein Arbeitsort ist wunderschön. Er liebt es, allein zu sein. Aber es wird ein Einbruch gemeldet, der keiner ist. Der Kommissar ist mit einer Teenagerin konfrontiert, ganz zart, ganz harmlos. Sie schwimmt in Hilflosigkeit und er sieht sie. Er sieht sie und die Gewalt.

With Princess Selfia suddenly missing, it is now up to Jack to plan and organize his team for the academy mid-term. The next task, a low altitude airdrop into the Frelia Mountain range where Almus cadets will put their landnav, survival, and teamwork skills to the test. The criteria for passing? Survival, simple enough. However what was supposed to be a simple test of preparedness becomes far more as Jack and his squad become victims to events that forever change the trajectory of their lives and the world as they know it.

Todo empieza con un mensaje publicado en Facebook donde la escuela Belgrano anuncia que organiza una gran fiesta de despedida. Quien escribe esas líneas invita a los alumnos, ex alumnos, docentes, padres y amigos a la reunión. Así, la comunidad escolar de ayer y de hoy, se entera de que...

There are angels and demons at war inside my head. I had it all figured out: finish high school, attend seminary, and finally answer my calling of becoming a priest. What I hadn't counted in the equation was her. Grace Miller. The girl who was always out of my reach. The girl who still makes me lose my breath with just a look. Little did I know she would become my temptation and vice, and quite possibly, my ruin. Now I'm standing at a crossroads, and my head is a battlefield. How do I choose sides when it means losing a part of who I am?

Ein Mann muss Unterhalt für die Schildkröte zahlen, die er gemeinsam mit seiner Ex angeschafft hatte: Manfred Ainedter, Österreichs prominentester Scheidungsanwalt, kennt sie alle, die Abgründe der Rosenkriege. Es werden immer wieder die gleichen Fehler gemacht, dabei sind die allermeisten völlig überflüssig , sagt der Starjurist. Deshalb nützt er jetzt seine Erfahrungen anders herum und gibt Ehe- statt Scheidungstipps.

After fate cruelly takes her parents in a chilling train accident, 14-year-old Jobeth is whisked away to a sinister foster home overshadowed by a nefarious couple with darkness of their own. Thrust into a world where secrets whisper through the walls, an ominous flower marks Jobeth, birthed from violence. Forever tethered together, it refuses to let go, lurking in the darkness, gaining strength with each step she takes. Fleeing, the tendrils of abuse and shattering revelations seek to entangle her. Trying to hold her down. Yet this time, she is not alone.

Told from the point of view of two dauntless orphaned children, Alta Mae and Cedric, the narrative provides a fresh and at times innocently humorous perspective on the grim realities for homeless children of the period and the hardships of western migration. Raised on the streets and resorting to petty crime to get by, they are filled with the bigotries their older brother, a nativist Bowery Boy gang member, gave them.

USA Today Bestseller Jennifer L. Armentrout (also known as J. Lynn), New York Times bestselling author of the Wait for You saga, delivers a new novel of first love, second chances, and scorching chemistry. Eleven months ago, bartender and weird-shirt-wearing extraordinaire Roxy and Officer Reece...

Raegan Kent-Walters is living the high life. Thanks to her husband’s salary, she enjoys the elite Surrey housewife existence of luxury holidays, exclusive gym memberships and skinny lattes. But then the high life comes crashing down, and, whilst reeling from the discovery that her husband wasn’t the man she thought he was, Raegan is also confronted with the reality that she and her daughter, Sabrine, will have to make some major life changes.

In this third and final installment of the much loved When I Break series, Knox and McKenna's relationship has reached a critical impasse. The mistakes and secrets of their pasts have caught up to them and threaten their future happiness. Can McKenna trust that Knox's sexual addiction is behind him and make a life with this beautifully troubled man? And when Knox reveals the full truth about his past, will McKenna be able to put her own fears aside and accept him?

Mercy's story continues here. Find out what she's up to with her men! Full blurb coming soon.

Lexington "Lexi" Hart is a senior at the University of Alabama. Surrounded by her best friends, her loving family, and having fulfilled her life-long dream of making the Crimson Tide cheer squad, everything is going exactly as she always dreamed it would. But beneath her happy exterior, demons lurk, threatening to jeopardize everything Lexi has worked to achieve. When events in her life become too much to cope with, Lexi finds herself spiraling down into the realm of her biggest fear.

Dan's life has fallen apart at the seams. He's lost his house and his job, and now he's going to lose his family, too. All he's ever wanted is to keep them together, but is everything beyond repair? Maria is drowning in grief. She spends her days writing letters that will never be answered. Nights are spent trying to hold terrible memories at bay, to escape the pain that threatens to engulf her. Jack wakes up confused and alone. He doesn't know who he is, how he got there, or why he finds himself on a deserted clifftop, but will piecing together the past leave him a broken man?

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR The Seattle Times The Globe and Mail Kirkus Reviews Daily Mail The Vancouver Sun From the author of The Italian Teacher and The Imperfectionists comes a brilliant, intricately woven novel about a young woman who travels the...