Títulos en Coming of age

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.

Everything feels temporary when you've experienced tragedy - until Henna Lane meets Bodhi at a music festival. Young and spontaneous, they have a lust for seizing the moment, falling hard and fast. When Bodhi is forced to leave without a goodbye, Henna thinks she'll never get over him. But then she meets Mr. Malone, her sexy, new guidance counselor.

Podemos ser héroes es la amarga y voraz supervivencia del día a día, en la decadencia e incluso en la derrota. Los personajes de estos trece cuentos, jóvenes, marginales y rebeldes, deambulan por la convulsiva Lima de los años 80 con el rock subte a viva voz. Protagonizan historias...

Es handelt sich um eines seiner bekanntesten Werke aus dem frühen 20. Jahrhundert, das – wie viele seiner Geschichten – tief in psychologischen Themen, menschlichen Beziehungen und der Suche nach Identität verwurzelt ist. Der nie geküsste Mund ist eine Erzählung des berühmten deutsch-jüdischen Schriftstellers Jakob Wassermann (1873–1934).

It is the end of the decade and the end of a dream. Natalia has bounced back from her ordeal to become a member of a very famous band. But what goes up must come down and she finds herself nearing the end of a dream. Mark Standish is determined to destroy Natalia. He blames her for his going to Vietnam and wants to get payback. But what a person wants is rarely what they get. When He finally collides with her world, not everyone will make it out alive to see the sixties. But who will make the grade? Who will die? And how will it all end?

When Aria and her friends wake up after the deadly explosion, they realize the nightmare they thought was over has only just begun. The cards have finally been laid upon the table, and the evil they thought they'd been chasing, has been in front of them the entire time. Trapped in an underground bunker with no way out, the gang is locked in an epic struggle against their former mentor—a man whose plans for them are just getting off the ground. Can they figure out his terrible secret? Can they find a way back home? When the dust settles, will there even be a home to go back to…?

In the sweltering heat of small-town Florida, a ragtag high school football team becomes the unlikely battleground for grit, growth, and redemption. Down, Set, Win! is a heartfelt, humorous, and brutally honest coming-of-age tale inspired by true events. Redcrest, Florida, was known more for its mosquitoes than for football—until a hard-nosed new coach pushed a mismatched group of teenagers past their limits. What followed wasn’t just a season. It was a transformation.

After a disastrous summer spent at her family summer home on Cape Cod, 17-year-old Ann Gordon was left with a secret that changed her life forever and created a rift between her sister, Poppy, and their adopted brother, Michael. Now, 15 years later, her parents have died, leaving Ann and Poppy to decide the fate of the Wellfleet home that's been in the Gordon family for generations. For Ann, the once-beloved house is tainted with bad memories. Poppy loves the old saltbox, but after years spent chasing waves around the world, she isn't sure she knows how to stay in one place.

Henry “Digger” Diller has never been anyone’s MVP - he’s the guy who gets called up from jayvee soccer when the star player gets hurt and who volunteers to take his crush’s best friend to the prom. But Digger is pretty happy with life in the middle of Warfield High’s pecking order. Then, he strikes up a friendship with Carlos, a new student from Honduras, who faces his own set of difficulties beyond the drama of adolescent life.

Maddy and Reid have seen their fair share of trials and tribulations, of love and loss. Facing down the biggest challenges of their young lives, they managed to survive and endure. With the future stretching out before them, they must learn to navigate new and unfamiliar paths.

Cada cinco años, los habitantes de Kathalea buscan un voluntario que se sacrifique por el bien del pueblo durante las festividades del eclipse. Noa de Kathalea debe decidir cómo acabar con esta tradición sangrienta y devolver la cordura a su país, dividido entre las ansias de violencia y los deseos de paz. Pero alguien está haciendo todo lo posible para que este año el pueblo exija una víctima muy especial. Entre el miedo y la aventura, el odio y el amor, perseguir o ser perseguida, debe descubrir la verdad. En esta vida o en la siguiente.

Parigi, 1959. Sono anni vertiginosi: la Seconda guerra mondiale è finita da troppo poco tempo per essere Storia, la guerra d'Algeria segna le vite dei francesi d'oltremare. Michel Marini, undici anni, figlio di immigrati italiani, esce dall'infanzia e si affaccia a un'adolescenza inquieta e piena di emozioni.Vagabonda per il quartiere, si ritrova con gli amici a giocare a calcio balilla; un giorno entra in un bistrò, il Balto.

A Huffington Post “2017 Hottest Reads of The Summer” Pick “Taylor Larsen creates a powerful and moving story about the fracturing of a family and its descent into chaos. A brilliant debut of self-delusion, and a perfectly flawed male character spiraling downward.” —Huffington Post An...

Ana, una joven inmigrante, llega a una ciudad anónima de los Estados Unidos, donde se ha autoexiliado para encontrar una vida propia, un lugar en el mundo. Hasta allí la persiguen los ecos insospechados del ataque a las Torres Gemelas, que la obligan a deambular entre los rigores de una vida en un país ajeno y las nostalgias de quien sabe lo que ha perdido porque le cuesta recordarlo.

When Liv, Ellen and Håkon, along with their partners and children, arrive in Rome to celebrate their father’s 70th birthday, a quiet earthquake occurs: their parents have decided to divorce. Shocked and disbelieving, the siblings try to come to terms with their parents’ decision as it echoes through the homes they have built for themselves and forces them to reconstruct the shared narrative of their childhood and family history.

La guerra ha lasciato la piccola città sulla collina, il frastuono è passato e anche se le notizie dal fronte ormai lontano ne portano ancora l'eco, l'insopprimibile soffio della vita riemerge dalla terra, torna a percorrere con le sue antiche superstizioni e leggende i borghi, le chiese, le grandi stanze in penombra delle vecchie ville. Nascono nuovi amori, tornano rancori mai dimenticati.

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.

Una violinista acabada de graduar rep una proposta inesperada. Mentre passeja de nit per Barcelona, fa cerveses amb els amics i esquiva turistes, defuig la pregunta que la remou: Ets prou bona per viure d'allò que estimes? Ho estimes prou per malviure'n?

It’s hot, Texas, and the year 1977. Jimmy Carter is in office. Family patriarch and fanatic preacher, Victor Black, knows many things for sure, including the fact that abortion is murder and should be punishable by death—a position he defends live in a televised debate. Black’s youngest granddaughter, Stephanie Walters, sits in the front row wearing her frilly Sunday dress, listening carefully to every word. But it doesn't take long for cracks to appear in the Walters upstanding family façade.

This story is about grand facades with shallow realities, where big names often come with small minds. The narrative explores the contrast between the high ambitions of college life and the harsh realities that greet the characters upon returning to their rural roots. The characters are a mix of practicality and ambition, some so ruthless that they would strip a poor man of his last possession, while others carry the earthy scent of their village in their pockets, despite having been nurtured in affluent cities.