Títulos en Coming of age

Ruby Lee Becker can't breathe. It's 1935 in the heart of the Dust Bowl, and the Becker family has clung to its Texas Panhandle farm through six years of drought, dying crops, and dust storms. On Black Sunday, the biggest blackest storm of them all threatens ten-year-old Ruby with deadly dust pneumonia and requires a drastic choice —one her mother, Willa Mae, will forever regret.

Saeric, apprentice to Heremund Iron Fist and acolyte to Earl Eadwald of Sceaptesburh, is fast realising how ill-equipped he is to wear the mantle of a crown prince. His progress is blighted by the lingering shadow of his former Saxon owner, Eanswith, who is determined to reclaim her runaway slave at any cost.

In a sun-soaked coastal town, two kids from different worlds find solace in each other. She’s the new girl from Tennessee, longing for connection. He’s the boy from down the beach, her unexpected best friend who becomes her everything. As they share dreams, secrets, and the sweet thrill of first love, the bond between them deepens, promising a future filled with endless possibilities. But when fate intervenes, their idyllic world shatters, leaving them both broken and searching for answers.

Concealed in his jacket are ingots of gold; he just doesn't remember why. A young girl running from an abusive foster home kidnaps an older biker with a mystery for a past. Leaving the mining town in Colorado and crossing state lines, anything can happen. What neither is looking for or expecting is friendship. But in the cold of the desert night, life lessons can go both ways—even if they are not about a million dollars in gold. Growing up is hard enough, even without the shooting. "

From summer vacations soaked in blood to cursed castles buried deep in Europe, Allen DeShawn’s life has been anything but ordinary. This pulse-pounding omnibus collects all five terrifying, action-packed books in the I Kill Cursed Creatures series—a coming-of-age saga drenched in horror, heartbreak, and tooth-and-claw survival.

In the summer of America’s Bicentennial, thirteen-year-old Mary climbs into the back seat of her father’s beat-up, baby-blue Peugeot, ready for the adventure of a lifetime. With her little twin sisters in tow, the family sets out across the country chasing promise and possibility—but the farther they travel, the more Mary begins to see her father, and the world around her, in a new light.

Set in post- World War I America, Fitzgerald’s dazzling debut novel follows the life of Amory Blaine, a charming but self-absorbed Princeton student. As Amory drifts in and out of love affairs, experiences intellectual awakenings and navigates heartbreak, he becomes increasingly desperate to uncover a sense of identity and meaning. Fitzgerald captivatingly reproduces the restless spirit of the Jazz Age with lyrical prose and a profound existential yearning.

Pennello, Lollo, Puddu e Grifo, compagni di classe, sono quattro ragazzi come tanti, senza aspirazioni o interessi particolari, alla ricerca del minimo sforzo scolastico, del divertimento e, sia pure con risultati estremamente modesti, delle ragazze. Le vicende convergono, sul finire dell'anno scolastico, verso una spiaggia del litorale romano, dove i quattro ragazzi si ritrovano dopo l'esame di maturità.

Gioele viene ricoverato in un istituto che cura il disagio mentale, e lì resta fino a quando sul suo cammino irrompe Maria, una donna anziana, ricca di cuore e saggezza contadina. I due intraprendono un viaggio visionario, zigzagando per le strade della Lombardia a bordo di un curioso Maggiolone giallo.

Mickey Bloom: five-foot tall, dyslexic, and bullied at school. With a mostly absent and hostile father, Mickey feels she's no good at anything. Until she discovers running. Mickey's newfound talent makes her realize she's everything she thought she wasn't—powerful, strong, and special. But her success comes at a cost, and the relentless training and pressure to win leaves Mickey broken; her dream in tatters. Years later, when Mickey is working in a dead-end job, her mother becomes ill. While nursing her, Mickey realizes the only way she can overcome her grief—and find herself—is to run again.

It's in the water where she first sees him: a local man almost twenty years her senior. Adrift in the summer after finishing college, a young woman is on holiday with her mother in an isolated Australian coastal town. Finding herself pulled to Jude, the man in the water, she begins losing herself in the simple, seductive rhythms of his everyday life. As their relationship deepens, life at Sailors Beach offers her the stability she has been craving as the daughter of two drifters. But the arrival of Maeve, a friend from Jude's past, threatens to rock their fragile newfound intimacy.

Wenn ich mich ärgere, erzählt Helmut Zenker, laufe ich gern aufs Dach. Einmal bin ich dabei auf einem Kamin gelandet. Der Sessel, der dabei die „Räuberleiter“ war, ist hinter mir umgefallen. Die sternenklare Nacht und der Vollmond haben mich zwar den Ärger schnell vergessen lassen, aber vom Kamin bin ich (ohne Hilfe) nicht mehr heruntergekommen. Im Freien eingesperrt. Zunächst hab ich den Nachthimmel bewundert, Sternbilder gesucht und Sternschnuppen und Flugzeuge gezählt.

Es gibt keine Drachen. Oder doch? Zumindest in diesem Buch gibt es noch zwei: den vorletzten und den letzten Drachen. Sie heißen Georg und Martin. Und sie haben im Laufe der Jahrhunderte ziemlich alles verlernt, was Drachen eigentlich können müssten. Nicht einmal fliegen können sie mehr. Dabei würde es auch bestimmt bleiben, wenn sie nicht Franziska und ihren Bruder Schurli kennen lernen würden.

Nicks Traum vom goldenen Zitronenfaltermädchen und seine abenteuerliche Wanderung aus dem unterirdischen Reich der Gnomen hinauf zur Sonnenwelt. Und Nick erzählte: „Es sind heute drei Jahre her, da schlief ich fest ein an der heißen Quelle und hatte einen wunderschönen Traum. Mir träumte, ich lag auf einer weichen, grünen Wiese unter einem hohen, blauen Himmel. Bunte und süß duftende Blumen blühten ringsumher. Die Luft war von Liedern erfüllt, war warm und lind.

Alarm bei der Polizei: Erwin Spuk, das echte Gespenst, ist aus der Geisterbahn verschwunden. Haben vielleicht die Drachen Georg und Martin mit dieser Entführung zu tun? Das alles können Franziska und ihr Bruder Schurli nicht glauben.

Michaela and Eve are two bright, bold women who befriend each other their first year at a residential college at university, where they live in adjacent rooms. They could not be more different: one, assured and popular - the other, uncertain and eager to please. But something happens one night in O-week - a drunken encounter, a foggy memory that will force them to confront the realities of consent and wrestle with the dynamics of power.

In the fall of 2011, a heartbroken young man flees Australia for the USA. Landing in the excessive, uncanny-familiar glamour and plenitude of New York City, Will makes a vow to say yes to everything that comes his way. By fate or random chance, Will's journey takes him deep into the American heartland where he meets Wayne Gage, a fast-living, troubled Vietnam veteran, would-be spirit guide and collector of exotic animals. These two men in crisis form an unlikely friendship, but Will has no idea just how close to the edge Wayne truly is.

Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey. Seventeen-year-old Catherine ‘Cat’ Morland has led a sheltered existence in rural Dorset, a life entirely bereft of the romance and excitement for which she yearns. So when Cat’s...

Lawrence is a bright, caring, curious boy with a gift for painting. He lives at home with his mother and younger brother and the future is laid out before him, full of promise. But when he is 10, an experience of betrayal takes it all away, and Lawrence is left to deal with the aftermath. As he grows into a man, how will he make sense of what he has suffered? He cannot rewrite history, but must he be condemned to repeat it?

Travesti este un studiu de caz despre un copil hermafrodit, dar şi o explorare a întunecatei sexualităţi adolescentine. Mai presus de orice, însă, acest mic roman, care m-a obsedat şi m-a chinuit mai mult decât orice altă carte a mea, e anabasis-ul meu, drumul meu ascuns şi întortochiat către centrul adânc îngropat al fiinţei mele. Travesti este şi portalul către Orbitor. Trilogia mea n-ar fi putut exista fără exerciţiul de sinceritate aproape sinucigaşă de aici. Nu e uşor să afli cine eşti, nici să te priveşti în ochi după ce ai aflat.