Résultats pour "A" dans Passage à l'âge adulte

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ...

Abu Dhabi, 2008. In a glittering desert city on the brink of financial crisis, three expats are marooned. When Lily, a young Australian botanical artist, suffers a devastating medical emergency, her marriage fractures, driving her into the orbit of a charismatic neighbour. Hugo is an older...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Alex Hale has spent years watching his dreams slip further out of reach. In Brimvale, life follows the same exhausting routine: work, bills, and another day wondering whether he will ever become more than the person he has always been. His passion for...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Marisol Tran has been a delivery courier for four years, and at 6:40 on a Tuesday morning an app she has never met decides she is not efficient enough to keep. Her rent is two months behind, her box van has two hundred thousand miles and a mind of its...

A story of the seasons of life, marriage and motherhood—and if revisiting your past can bring you closure, or just more heartache. On the night before her 40th birthday, Lark is struggling with the fact she's reached the age her mother was when she died unexpectedly. With mortality on her...

Angela ed Aldo sono due adolescenti travolti da una passione bruciante. Quando lei resta incinta, la paura prende il sopravvento: incapaci di affrontare una responsabilità più grande di loro, compiono il gesto più estremo, abbandonando il neonato in un cassonetto nei pressi della stazione. È proprio lì, tra la solitudine della strada, che la vita del piccolo incrocia quella di Charlie, un vecchio clochard.

A Oslo, una scrittrice sessantenne assiste come tutti gli anni a un concerto di Natale; siede accanto a una coppia accompagnata dalla figlia adolescente, che si mostra palesemente infastidita e viene rimproverata di continuo dalla madre. La scena fa scattare nella donna il ricordo dei suoi sedici anni, e il lettore viene catapultato nel racconto del suo passato: un’adolescenza su cui grava una figura materna opprimente, che controlla la figlia in maniera ossessiva, terrorizzata al pensiero che possa bere, fare sesso, assumere droghe.

Keeping secrets is a dangerous game. No one knows that better than Lily Matthews. Desperate to escape an obsessive ex-boyfriend and a dark past that continues to haunt her, Lily agrees to a girls' trip at a secluded lake house deep in the Adirondack Mountains. It seems like the perfect place to...

The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.

From idyllic childhood summers to a fight for the soul of a town, Andy Romano's life is about to take a detour he never saw coming.Andy Romano, a business-minded college student on the fast track to corporate success, is just steps away from a career-defining summer internship, when a mysterious...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Pavel Vorobyev thought he had already lost everything worth living for. After years of hiding a failing heart and the truth about his illness, his life collapses alongside his relationship with the woman he loves. Then death gives him something he never...

Emil Sinclair es un joven que crece dividido entre dos mundos: el luminoso y seguro de su hogar familiar, donde reinan la bondad, la obediencia y las buenas costumbres, y otro oscuro y misterioso, lleno de tentaciones, contradicciones y experiencias desconocidas. A medida que comienza a...

In a steam-filled diner in a college town, Flannery Jansen catches sight of something more beautiful than she's ever seen: a graduate student, reading. The 17-year-old, new to everything around her - college, the East Coast, bodies of literature, and the sexual flurries of student life - is shocked by her desire to follow this wherever it will take her.

For Christian Clark, Tingston was an idyllic place to grow up, seemingly frozen in a mid-century suburban innocence. His big brother Dan was the star high school quarterback and prince of the town. Life revolved around football games, drive-in movies, long nights in the booths of Crommel's Diner...

A young cultivator's experiments with spiritual gardens summon an unexpected inner power in the first installment of this slice-of-life cultivation fantasy. Yan Venix is one of hundreds of the emperor's offspring who will never be heir. Despite this, he and his siblings are expected to be...

I didnt realize how protected I was until the one thing that centered me most is taken. Now Im adrift with only my horsemen to keep me safe. Secrets from all of our pasts are working to tear us apart. But were stronger now. Stronger together. And ready to face whatever they decide to throw at us...

Lugu 21-aastase Toomas Sven Andreseni kohati mõrust, kuid seiklusrikkast teekonnast läbi Vietnami, kaaslasteks ilus tüdruk Mari ja endine Vietkongi sõdur Dong, kes on hakanud reisijuhiks. Poiss üritab leida Vietnami ja ennast, vana sõdur uut elu. Tüdrukust pole aga üldse võimalik aru saada.

For readers of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler, a powerful, heartrending novel about a man on the run from himself, by Governor General's Award-winning author Kate Pullinger. On a rain-soaked Vancouver sidewalk in 1995, a homeless man fights for breath. Forest Green is the story of how he ended...

An electrifying debut novel that unfolds in the course of a single day inside one genteel New York City apartment building, as tensions between the building's super and his grown-up daughter spark a crisis that will, by day's end, change everything. Ruby has a strange relationship to privilege...

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