Títulos en Coming of age

Knowledge is power. That would be the motto of Lander University, had it not been snatched up and used to death by others long before the school was founded. For while Lander offers a full range of courses to nearly all students, it also offers a small number of specialty classes to a very select few. Lander is home to the Hero Certification Program, a curriculum designed to develop students with superhuman capabilities, commonly known as Supers, into official Heroes.

Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren; he felt sure of it. They had to leave immediately. So begins a long and perilous journey of survival for a small band of rabbits. As the rabbits skirt danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band, its humorous characters, and its compelling culture, complete with its own folk history and mythos. Fiver’s vision finally leads them to Watership Down, an upland meadow. But here they face their most difficult challenges of all.

A finales de la década del cincuenta, cuando Punta del Este todavía era poco más que un balneario agreste, dos chicos traban una amistad casi instantánea y se vuelven inseparables durante años. Hasta que uno de ellos debe ser internado con un elusivo diagnóstico médico, una imprecisa...

The mind of Alessandra, the Oracle of Delphi, is under the control of the Supreme Magistrate, a brilliant politician determined to use her goddess-like powers to conquer deities and humans alike. With her thoughts and powers compromised, she begins to question her ability to stop the apocalyptic future revealed to her in cryptic visions - and who her enemy really is.

It’s the fall of 1969, and Gloria Random’s best friend John has been called up for the draft. To escape it, they decide to run away from their Midwest town and their mundane lives. Renaming themselves Witch and Roy, they head to New York City in search of Witch’s biological father. Landing in the East Village, they are pulled into a community of drug use, mystical rituals, and sexual experimentation as they try to hide deeper and deeper from the realities they left behind. James Leo Herlihy’s third novel captures the mood and grooves of late-60s New York at the height of the anti-war movement and the counterculture revolution.

Here are two stories of love, lust, happiness, and heartache from Britain's longest-running and best-loved radio serial. Pub landlord Sid Perks is led astray when his keep-fit regime at the local gym leads to a steamy affair with Jolene Rogers, a country-and-western singer....For Emma Carter, choosing a husband is not so straightforward. She finds herself torn between loyal, devoted Will Grundy and his dangerous bad-boy brother Ed.

From the bestselling author of About a Boy, A Long Way Down and Dickens and Prince, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and roll. “I've always loved Nick Hornby, and the way he writes characters and the way he thinks. It's funny and heartbreaking all at the same time...

In una Roma postbellica, tra i palazzoni delle periferie e il centro monumentale, il racconto picaresco dai risvolti comici, tragici e grotteschi, delle giornate di un gruppo di ragazzi di borgata. Un romanzo fortemente emblematico di una trasformazione epocale del nostro paese, che mette in scena con struggente tenerezza il rito crudele del passaggiodall'infanzia alla prima giovinezza.

Un collegio femminile in Svizzera, nell’Appenzell. Un’atmosfera di idillio e cattività. Arriva una "nuova": è bella, severa, perfetta, sembra che abbia già vissuto tutto. La protagonista – un’altra interna del collegio – si sente attratta da questa figura, che lascia intravedere qualcosa di quieto e terribile. E il terribile, a poco a poco, si scopre: è la terra di nessuno tra perfezione e follia. Lo stile limpido e nervoso, l’acutezza delle notazioni, l’intensità di questa storia fanno risuonare una corda segreta, quella che si nasconde nell’immaginario collegio da cui tutti siamo usciti.

Una història sobre el primer amor i la pèrdua de la innocència, per un dels escriptors més importants del segle XX.

A ple estiu dels anys trenta, la Ginia, de només setze anys, té unes ànsies desbocades de vida. De molta més vida. Acompanyada de la seva amiga Amelia, elegant i sofisticada, coneixerà un món enlluernador habitat per artistes bohemis.

La Judit té gairebé dotze anys i un do per dibuixar. Viu amb la seva mare i el seu avi a Ginebra. El seu pare, un famós pintor, va marxar a Hongria quan era petita. La Judit està preparant-se per a un concurs de dibuix quan, inesperadament, els escacs es creuen en el seu camí i comença a aficionar-s’hi. La Judit jugarà moltes partides, però una d’elles li canviarà la vida: la que jugarà contra Mr. Aliyat, un estrany mestre dels escacs, nascut a l’Iran, que es comunica a través de notes enigmàtiques.

Set in New Orleans at the close of the 19th century, The Awakening follows Edna Pontellier, who, while vacationing with her husband and their two sons, finds liberation from her prudish behavior and repressed emotions and desires. At the coastal resort of Madame Lebrun, Edna struggles to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South.

I’m the guy you call when you need to impress your overbearing family, your boss, or your ex. Yeah, I’m a male escort, but not just any escort, I’m the escort. The one with a mile-long waiting list and a pristine reputation that’s very well-deserved. I’m the guy who’ll make you feel beautiful, desired, and worshipped...all for a steep price. I’m hired to make you shine, and I always deliver. I’ll be whatever you want me to be for one night - except my true self. This is just a job, a role I play to earn a paycheck. But I’m not the guy who falls for a client.

El Arca y el Aparecido - Los principales temas de su producción literaria fueron su marcadísima sensibilidad romántica y un poderoso sentido crítico, que dieron vida a su filosofía epicúrea y al egotismo típico de todos sus personajes. El análisis de las pasiones, de los comportamientos sociales, el amor por el arte y por la música, además de la búsqueda del placer, se expresaban con un modo de escribir personalísimo....

She was my foster sister, her luxurious house the only home I'd ever known. I fell in love with Evie before her doctor parents signed my adoption papers. They threw me out the day they caught us. Now I'm Dr. Jones, so far removed from who I used to be, it seems like a bad dream. I tell myself nothing can touch me. Until I see the residency roster at Alpine University Hospital. There's only two incoming neurosurgery residents each year. This year it's Landon Jones - and Evie Rutherford.

She expected to start Harkness College as a varsity ice hockey player. But a serious accident means that Corey Callahan will start school in a wheelchair instead. Across the hall, in the other handicapped-accessible dorm room, lives the too-delicious-to-be-real Adam Hartley, another would-be hockey star with his leg broken in two places. He's way out of Corey's league. Also, he's taken. Nevertheless, an unlikely alliance blooms between Corey and Hartley in the "gimp ghetto" of McHerrin Hall.

La búsqueda es la historia de Waldek Grodek, un niño polaco de diez años cuya apacible vida se ve interrumpida por la invasión alemana a Polonia. A partir de ese momento, sus juegos infantiles y sus excusiones como Boy Scout se transformaron en estrategias para sobrevivir.

El viaje, el exilio, la familia y el peso del pasado son los temas que aborda Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa en esta trama familiar que bebe directamente de su experiencia como niño perteneciente a una familia que se vio obligada a huir en su día de la guerra civil. En la novela seguimos el periplo de la familia Rios Bonfante, desde una España en la que ya no se sienten seguros hasta una Venezuela en la que los esperan peligros mucho mayores, y que acabarán obligándolos a regresar. Una trama a caballo entre dos continentes, entre dos aguas y dos tierras condensadas en una única palabra: familia.

"Aprovéchate de mí" de Xóchitl Lagunes es la novela ganadora del Premio Nacional de Novela Joven José Revueltas 2020. La novela, narrada en primera persona por el protagonista, Santi, cuenta con doce capítulos, todos titulados como canciones de Café Tacuba. Se trata de una novela gay de aprendizaje sobre una primera relación con alguien veinte años mayor. La voz del narrador es verosímil y da cuenta de un mundo, el del extrarradio de la Ciudad de México, con sus propias reglas.

Se puede sobrevivir a la infancia, pero deberás pasar toda la vida intentando convivir con el dolor de esas heridas. Y, si no, que se lo pregunten a Tomás Yagüe, un hombre gay de cincuenta y dos años que no ha podido evitar construir su biografía a partir del rechazo, el silencio y la falta de comprensión de su entorno frente al acoso escolar y el maltrato que sufrió de niño.