Títulos en Coming of age

One week. No future. No past. No more. Alexandria Collins has one week to live carefree - no ghosts of her past or pressures of her future haunting her. Reinventing herself as "Charli", she is knocked off her feet by a sexy, mysterious man who brings her pleasure like she never imagined. With her heart at stake, she forgets that decisions made in the dark of night reappear in the bright light of day.

Jack, Matt, Cassie, and Lisa are four friends growing up on “The Edge”, a cul-de-sac in the 80s. The alpha male, the lucky one, the goody-two shoes, and the glamorous hottie that all the boys want. On the outside, they seem to have it all. Yet inside, the teens are shattered in pieces. It is their unbreakable friendship with each other that prevents them from falling apart. Until the one night when tragedy is set forth into motion by their actions, leaving one of the four dead and missing. 

Quand Roy est né, il s'appelait Raymond. C'était à Clermont. Il y a quarante-deux ans. Il avait une sale tronche. Bâti comme un Minotaure, il s'est taillé son chemin dans sa chienne de vie à coups de poing : une vie de boxeur ratée et d'homme de main à peine plus glorieuse. Jusqu'au jour où il rencontre Guillemette, une luciole fêlée qui succombe à son charme, malgré son visage de "tomate écrasée"... Et jusqu'au soir où il croise Xavier, l'ex jaloux et arrogant de la belle - lequel ne s'en relèvera pas.

We live in trying times. Anti-demon sentiment is at an all time high. Gone are the days when devils could get together on a Sunday night to sacrifice some virgins and crack open a few cold ones. While we have been shunned and despised since our first ancestors arrived here from Hell, today it’s impossible to walk even a single city block without running into a self-proclaimed “hunter.” Living under this threat of constant danger, it has never been more pertinent to hold on to our sense of identity. And more importantly, to pass that along to our spawn. 

Martine découvre la France en 1962, elle a 13 ans et fait la connaissance à Arles de ses cousins de Tlemcen, de retour d'Algérie. Elle vit une adolescence heureuse à Casablanca, au Maroc. En 1965 c'est le départ vers la France et plus précisément à Poitiers. Elle découvre un autre monde et un autre mode de pensée. L'intégration, au préalable difficile, se fera rapidement en changeant de lycée. En 1968, elle connaît alors "son année des Lumières" et la passion amoureuse.

Brooke is a divorced single mom, financially strapped, living with her mother, and holding tight to the one thing that matters most: her two-year-old daughter, Etta. Then, in a matter of seconds, Brooke’s life is shattered when she’s carjacked. Helpless and terrified, all Brooke can do is watch as Etta, still strapped in her seat, disappears into the Los Angeles night. Miles away, Etta is found by Molly, a homeless teen who is all too used to darkness. Thrown away by her parents, and with a future as stable as the wooden crate she calls home, Molly survives day to day by her wits.

"The 120 Days of Sodom" is "the most impure tale that has ever been told since our world began". It was written by the Marquis de Sade, a french noble man, in the space of 37 days, while imprisoned in the famous parisian Bastille. Fearing confiscation, the Marquis de Sade, Donatien-Alphonse-François, had to write it on a continuous roll of paper, made up of small pieces glued together. The original manuscript is now on display in Paris, and is the third most expensive kept in France, insured for 12 million euros.

In a post-apocalyptic future where survivors scavenge in the harsh Australian Outback for spoils from a buried civilization, a girl races across the desert, holding her treasures close, pursued by the Reckoner. Riding her sand ship, living rough in the blasted landscape whose taint she carries in her blood, she scouts the broken infrastructure and trades her scraps at the only known settlement, a ramshackle fortress of greed, corruption, and disease known as the System.

A small-town waitress, awestruck by dreams of a bigger world, looks forward to the biggest break of a budding career in this darkly comic short tale of what happens when innocence collides with cynicism. Eighteen-year-old Keridee is done with high school, her cheating boyfriend, her jealous friends, and Nowhere, Florida. She’s determined to do something with her life, and her small-time modeling agent has already scored her a gig. She’s working an event for a real estate mogul who happens to own a huge modeling agency. What if he’s dazzled by her smile and makes her a star?

A young novelist trapped in a bad relationship takes the first step toward true pleasure and tenderness…but does she have the courage to be swept off her feet? It doesn’t matter how many people read and like her new book, there’s only one man’s opinion that matters to Clara…or at least that’s what she thinks. But when a chance encounter at a film premiere introduces her to someone new - someone who understands her in a way the first man can’t - Clara finally discovers the validation she really wants and needs.

Cela commence comme du Balzac, avec les affaires d'une riche dame de la bourgeoisie parisienne qui voit son capital détourné par sa favorite. Mais le sujet de cette nouvelle de Musset, c'est en fait la jeune Margot, 16 ans, débarquée de sa Beauce natale et qui découvre Paris, et l'amour. Aveuglée par ses sentiments, il lui faut beaucoup de temps et des épreuves difficiles pour découvrir que celui-ci n'est pas forcément synonyme de bonheur, et que la vie peut être plus heureuse avec ceux qui s'accordent mieux avec soi.

La vida nunca ha sido fácil para Óscar Wao, un dominicano dulce, obeso y desastroso que vive con su madre y su hermana disfuncional en un gueto de Nueva Jersey. Óscar sueña con convertirse en un J. R. R. Tolkien dominicano y, por encima de todo, sueña con encontrar el amor de su vida. Pero puede que Óscar nunca alcance sus metas debido a una extraña maldición que ha estado en su familia por generaciones, enviando a los Wao a prisión, predisponiéndolos a accidentes trágicos y, ante todo, al desamor.

Argentinian Mario Satz delivers a heartwarming story about a pediatrician who finds a new, deeper meaning to life. The doctor decides to throw himself off a mountain in depression. Right before he leaps, a tear falls into his right palm - it is a mystical sign from above. It takes the man on a fantastic journey - without him ever leaving the mountaintop.

Pepi cree que sus lentes gigantescos, su exuberante cabello, su sonrisa con frenillos y su abultada cintura no le favorecen. Y por ese motivo prefiere el mundo anónimo del internet que el peligroso y expuesto mundo real. Sin embargo, de un momento a otro su tranquila vida sufre un vuelco: mientras navegaba por el chat, conoce a un español del cual se enamora completamente. Y, para su sorpresa, a él le ocurre lo mismo. Pero hay un problema, quiere viajar a Chile a conocerla.

Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child, and the star-crossed pair fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls.

Seventeen-year-old Hoshi'tiwa had a simple life. The daughter of a humble corn grower, she planned to marry a storyteller's apprentice. But her world is turned upside down when she is captured by the powerful and violent ruler of an infamous city with legends of untold wealth and unspeakable acts of violence to its name. Hoshi'tiwa is suddenly thrown into the court of the Dark Lord, and as she struggles for power, she begins an illicit affair with the one man who has the ability to destroy her.

Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family in exchange for handing over Singapore to the British. Now Agnes is seventeen and her family has fallen into genteel poverty, surviving on her grandfather’s pension and the meager income they receive from a varied cast of boarders.

In this classic Twain tale, a poor commoner and a young prince each find out how the other half lives. Tom Canty is a young man from a laboring family who bears a striking resemblance to Prince Edward, the son of King Henry VIII and heir to his throne. Tom and Edward meet by chance, and they decide to exchange places briefly, as a lark; Edward will get to live as an ordinary boy, and Tom will enjoy the perks of royalty. But the two are separated before they can let everyone in on the joke, and Tom discovers as he pretends to be Price Edward that the castle is awash in corruption.

Macy Mercer only wants a little independence. Eager to prove herself grown up, she goes to a dark, secluded park. She's supposed to meet the boy of her dreams who she met online. But the cute 15-year-old was a fantasy, his pictures fake. She finds herself face to face with Chester Woodran, a man capable of murder.

Men do not become mystics. They become warriors. But eighteen-year-old Salo has never been good at conforming to his tribe’s expectations. For as long as he can remember, he has loved books and magic in a culture where such things are considered unmanly. Despite it being sacrilege, Salo has worked on a magical device in secret that will awaken his latent magical powers. And when his village is attacked by a cruel enchantress, Salo knows that it is time to take action.