Resultados para "Victoria" en Coming of age

Nacida fuera del matrimonio y rechazada por la sociedad, Alma ha aprendido a vivir en soledad y es feliz así, siempre que tenga a su madre a su lado. Pero, cuando esta enferma gravemente, descubre una pista sobre su padre, del que hasta ese momento no sabe nada, y le escribe pidiéndole ayuda. No sospecha entonces que es una bastarda de la Casa de Avera, una de las cuatro familias nobles que, imbuidas de poder divino, sirven a los dioses, y que su padre es un recipiente de la Bestia Pavorosa, el dios más aterrador de todos, el heraldo de la muerte.

Manuela Penarrocha té tretze anys. Asseguda en una cadireta baixa al portal de casa seva, cus les espardenyes com ningú. La nena d’ulls grisos i cabells d’or recorda el seu pare. Ell, per fer la guerra, n’ha portat unes com aquestes, com la resta de carlistes, homes d’espardenya, garrot, trabuc i navalla a la faixa. Vol abraçar-lo, sentir l’escalfor del seu petó al front. Enyora la mirada dura i alhora plena de tendresa, el seu riure estrident.

Only the most hardened survivalists can endure living in the scorched deadlands of the former state of Arizona. Among them is nineteen-year-old Georgia Reno, who lives in an isolated desert settlement with her father and younger brother. Roads don’t exist here; visitors are more dark fairy tale than reality. But when two mysterious strangers arrive on their land, Georgia begins to question her sheltered existence. Soon, her tentative curiosity blooms into a fledgling desire to leave the settlement, even if it means venturing into a world her father has only ever warned against.

I Victorias år vender Victoria hjem til Martin efter et år i USA. Mens hun fortsætter i gymnasiet, forlader han skolen og tager arbejde på en fabrik. Martin og Victoria opsluges igen af hinanden, men langsomt begynder forskellen i deres sociale baggrund at slå igennem. Martin føler sig presset af de forventninger, Victoria og hendes familie stiller til ham, og søger tilflugt i rockmusikken. Og da forholdet kæntrer, står Martin alene midt i de deprimerende 70'ere.

Minding Ben invites listeners into the private world of one of the anonymous West Indian babysitters who have peopled the lives of so many young urban families for decades. Grace left Trinidad for New York with hopes for a better life and education. As she struggles to adjust to her new life - and to determine just what shape her American Dream will take - Grace finds work as a nanny for the unconscionable Bruckners, a job that pays meager wages for its demanding and humiliating responsibilities.

Edmundo de Amicis nació en Oneglia, Italia, el 21 de octubre de 1846. Ingresó a los 16 años en la Academia Militar de Módena, donde se graduó de oficial. Incansable viajero y autor de muchas obras. Su obra se caracteriza por una intrincada mezcla de romanticismo y realismo con un propósito altamente ético en el sentido de orientar al lector siempre hacia el bien.

Victor Hugos stora mästerverk som ljudbok. Högt upp i Notre Dame-katedralen bor den godhjärtade klockringaren Quasimodo. På grund av sitt annorlunda utseende har Quasimodo drivits till ett ensamt liv i samhällets utkanter, men när han träffar den unga skönheten Esmeralda börjar han för första gången att drömma om något mer. Quasimodo är dock inte den enda mannen som dras till Esmeraldas charm. Hans förmyndare, ärkediakonen Frollo, är i hemlighet besatt av den unga kvinnan.

«Conviértete en quien eres» dice un verso de Píndaro. Nietzsche se apropió de la sentencia como lema personal. Pero: ¿y si quienes somos es Don Nadie o Don Fracaso Reiterado o Doña Nostalgia Eterna? Los que no narra la saga rota de una generación de personajes que no llegaron a la meta de sí mismos. Por el contrario, con el paso del tiempo se fueron alejando.

In the fall of 1969, Dorsey O'Connor proudly follows in his father's footsteps by enlisting in the military. He always knew that he was destined to serve his country and had looked forward to being sent to Vietnam during a time when most would not. Charlie was the enemy, and needs to not just be stopped, but destroyed as well. Dorsey had prepared his whole life for this moment, but what he finds in this war-torn, exotic land is something that he had not originally planned...a forbidden love.

In Saint-Pierre—where banners rise above stone keeps and villagers toil—17-year-old Etienne learns that loyalty is everything under the stern Lord Bertrand.

Eight-year-old Edgar Fini remembers nothing of the accident people still whisper about. He only knows that his father is gone, his mother has a limp, and his grandmother believes in ghosts. When Edgar meets a man with his own tragic story, the boy begins a journey into a secret wilderness where nothing is clear—not even the line between the living and the dead. In order to save her son, Lucy has no choice but to confront the demons of her past.

A mesmerizing, “fiery page-turner” (Entertainment Weekly) about a teenage boy on summer vacation who makes an irrevocable mistake and becomes trapped in a spiral of guilt and desire—in the tradition of Alice McDermott’s That Night and E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars. Oscar is dead because...

That summer, there were four of them, all on the cusp of adulthood: Andy, her boyfriend Marcus, her best friend Peter, and Em, whiling away the hours in a deserted manor house with a rich, sordid history. Sorely without the ambition and opportunities that her friends have always counted on, Andy finds herself terrified of a future that will take them all down very different paths. Her newfound fears make her reckless, resulting in increasingly destructive behavior. Then David shows up.

Victor Standish: Urban legend, abandoned child, mocker of monsters: “I learned to walk on cat-feet by living on the streets of too many hard cities for six years...since I was seven. I know why dogs howl at the dark and why cats prick up their ears after midnight. All too often I hear the beating of black wings and the scratching of half-seen shapes on the pavement hidden by shadow. I have always known I am an outsider, a stranger no matter where I roam among those who are still men".

It's a destiny thrown upon her too soon, and one she's not even sure she wants. After killing her uncle, Hyde, and capturing his rebels, Trinity must repair relations between Humans and Angorians. She must find a way to ease their fears and assure them that Angorians will not cause them harm.

“Unpredictable, fantastic. . . . It takes a charged narrative, like Dickens achieves, and as Dalton does too, to reach the heart and the brain. . . . To tell you more would spoil this complicated and surprising story. You should read it.”—Sydney Morning Herald Bighearted, gritty, magical...

Eliza Moss's intoxicating debut novel is a dark, intense, and compelling account of what happens when a young woman falls in love with the wrong kind of man. Enola is approaching 30 and everything feels like a lot. The boxes aren’t ticked and she feels adrift in a way she thought she would...

Seventeen-year-old Morgan Daniel has been in the witness protection program most of her life. But The Panteras have caught up with her and her younger brother. Her car is totaled, she's hurt, and the street gang is closing in when wolves with glowing eyes appear out of nowhere and chase away the killers. Then a very cute guy who handles a bow like Robin Hood emerges from the woods and takes them to safety at his fortress-like home. And that's just the first sign that Morgan and her brother have entered a hidden world filled with secrets....

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Chloe Seager creates a fun yet thought-provoking novel about two very different women, Holly and Fliss, who are grappling with drastic changes in their relationships after Holly’s boyfriend wants to “open” their relationship and Fliss’s boyfriend wants to “close” theirs. After nine...