Títulos en Coming of age

Septiembre de 1952. El algodón está casi a punto en los campos de Arkansas. La cosecha empezará pronto. Luke Chandler es un niño de siete años que vive con su familia en una granja sin pintar. En seis semanas, los Chandler y un grupo de jornaleros llegados de la sierra y de México tendrán que recoger todo el algodón, que es su sustento y el garante de su supervivencia en el campo.

È l'estate del 1991, Daniele ha diciassette anni e questa è la sua prima vacanza da solo con gli amici. Due settimane lontano da casa, da vivere al massimo tra spiagge, discoteche, alcol e ragazze. Ma c'è qualcosa con cui non ha fatto i conti: se stesso. È sufficiente un piccolo inconveniente nella notte di Ferragosto perché Daniele decida di abbandonare il gruppo e continuare il viaggio a piedi, da solo, dalla Riviera Romagnola in direzione Roma.

Three professional narrators, Mike Vendetti, Kathy Verduin, and Stephen Jay Cohen, lend their voices to what is considered by many to be one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's greatest novels, The Great Gatsby. Travel back with them to the Jazz Age, where the wealthy and entitled collide with pretenders and common citizens.

Ana Lee, la chica talentosa y con un futuro prometedor en las artes que conocimos en Tres promesas, emprende un viaje a Nueva York con la esperanza de que su ingreso en una prestigiosa academia le ayude a encontrarse a ella misma. Tiempo después hace realidad otro de sus sueños más grandes: entrar como practicante a la Galería F-24, una de las más importantes en arte contemporáneo de todo el mundo.

Un romanzo di formazione che segue la crescita interiore del giovane Walter, un ragazzo che attraversa fuoco, terra e vento per conoscere sé stesso. Fuoco è la voce di Andrea, che per lui è ben più di un amico, è la sua voce interiore, la sua finestra sul mondo. Proprio questa amicizia dà a Walter il coraggio necessario per lasciare la piccola città dov'è nato, approdare a Roma e reinventarsi una vita. Terra è il suolo poco docile, quello della capitale, città caotica e complessa, angolo di un paradiso apparente, preludio di un vuoto dei corpi e dell'anima.

On the Sunday of his 18th birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out. There he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker napping under a tree - and that’s where it all starts. This transgressive, darkly affecting love story between men, winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, is a stunning novel of desire and domination by one of Britain’s most accomplished writers.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Meet Phoebe Berman: despite being a hopeless romantic, she’s about to be a thirty-year-old virgin. With one month before her milestone birthday, she’s determined to finally lose it . . . if her own anxiety doesn’t slow her down. The can’t-miss debut...

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Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980: Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies giving birth to twins, leaving her to pick up the pieces while holding her six siblings together and doing her best to stop her daddy from retreating into his personal darkness.   

Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets he needs to atone for. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed. As the people of Faha anticipate the endlessly procrastinated advent of the electricity, and Noel navigates his own coming-of-age and his fallings in and out of love, Christy's past gradually comes to light, casting a new glow on a small world.

Haunted by a tragic decision he made twenty years ago, veterinarian Dr. Carver Livingston has not once returned to his Vermont hometown. Now his parents’ impending divorce and his mother’s plea for support lure Carver to a reluctant homecoming. His mission: sweep into Teterbury, save a marriage, and get out before anyone else from his past knows he was even there. Fate has other plans.

Maria Carmen é a narradora deste livro. Uma menina de 11 anos, inteligente e solitária, vivendo "a pior idade do universo", decide escrever um livro para relatar o "seu ano". Entre a escola muitas vezes hostil, a casa turbulenta e a loja de produtos geriátricos de sua família (ou "loja de velhos", como ela prefere chamar), Maria Carmen se equilibra como consegue, procurando entender o mundo à sua volta, enquanto observa uma inusitada transformação na vida amorosa de seus pais.

Eine Kindheit und Jugend im Ausnahmezustand und ein Mädchen, das zur Heldin der eigenen Geschichte wird. Lale wächst in den 80ern in einer Berliner Männer-Kommune auf, in der Partys gefeiert und Revolutionen geplant werden. Sie darf wach bleiben, solange sie will, Süßigkeiten essen und ewig fernsehen. Doch sie sehnt sich nach Geborgenheit und Verlässlichkeit, während ihre eigenen Grenzen immer wieder übertreten werden. Auf dem schmalen Grat zwischen Freiheit und Vernachlässigung sucht Lale ihren Weg, taumelt an den Rändern und findet Jahre später Halt im Erzählen selbst.

"Pour la première fois depuis quinze ans, le nom de cette femme lui occupait l'esprit, et ce nom entraînerait à sa suite, certainement, le souvenir d'autres personnes qu'il avait vues autour d'elle, dans la maison de la rue du Docteur-Kurzenne. Jusque-là, sa mémoire concernant ces personnes avait traversé une longue période d'hibernation, mais voilà, c'était fini, les fantômes ne craignaient pas de réapparaître au grand jour. Qui sait ? Dans les années suivantes, ils se rappelleraient encore à son bon souvenir, à la manière des maîtres chanteurs.

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them.

Between her emotionally absent mother and her physically absent father, there is nobody to answer them. Eva is convinced that all is not as it seems. Why are there no baby pictures of her? Why do her parents avoid all questions about her early years? When her parents’ relationship crumbles, Eva begins a journey to find these answers for herself. Her desire to discover where she belongs leads Eva on a journey spanning decades and continents—and, along the way, she meets women who challenge her idea of what a mother should be and who will change her life forever....

Ein Sommer und der Zauber der ersten Liebe... Charkiw, 1986: Als der rebellische Jura im sowjetischen Pionierlager eintrifft, glaubt er einen langen, langweiligen Sommer vor sich zu haben. Doch dann tritt Wolodja in sein Leben. Der Gruppenleiter plant ein Theaterstück auf die Beine zu stellen und bittet Jura um Hilfe. Während der Vorbereitungen merken die beiden, dass sie weitaus tiefere Gefühle füreinander hegen als nur Freundschaft. Gefühle, die eine Gefängnisstrafe bedeuten könnten, sollte jemand etwas bemerken. Nach dem Sommer trennen sich die Wege der jungen Männer.

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When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr Byrne, her best friend James helps her devise a plan to seduce him. But what begins as a harmless crush soon pushes their friendship to its limits. Over the course of a year they will find their lives ever more entwined with the Byrnes' and be faced with impossible choices and a lie that can't be taken back...

La gente siempre esta en el filo de una navaja, dice un proverbio oriental y en el se baso el ingles Somerset Maugham para una de sus ultimas novelas, en donde los protagonistas son un joven intelectual y una muchacha que solo ansia ser rica. Ese conflicto entre la mente y lo material lleva a una serie de interesantes desarrollos.