Résultats pour "August" dans Psychologie

Ten years after abruptly moving out of state, independent Autumn Harper is returning home. While excited to reunite with her family and best friend Kory, her excitement is tainted by the unspoken reason she left in the first place. Jimmy and Becca Taylor live a comfortable life. They have everything Becca ever wanted, all before her upcoming ten-year high school reunion. But everything changes when the three lives collide and they find themselves tangled in a mess of memories, secrets, and heartbreak.

Brought to you by Penguin. The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home 'If she was my double and I was hers, was it true that she was knowing, I was unknowing, she was sane, I was crazy, she was wise, I was foolish? That summer, the air was...

Eingeladen zu einer Lesung aus seinem unfertigen Manuskript, fährt der Erzähler im Juni 2025 nach Mecklenburg, in jene seenreiche Landschaft, die er im Sommer 1979, von dem sein Lesungstext handelt, den »Norden« genannt hat. Eine unerwartete Begegnung scheint seine Novelle lebendig werden zu lassen, und wirft damit die Frage auf, was war und was wirklich ist. War er damals zu jung und zu unbeschwert für die große Liebe, und ist sie heute zu alt?

On the night he dies, August Sweeney is just pulling himself out of the weeds in the restaurant that was supposed to be his comeback. An immense man of immense appetites, August worked his way up from the bowels of a greasy spoon in Queens to international culinary stardom, and his fall, when it came, left a crater visible from space. When Dr. Maya Zhu, a guarded, intense autopsist, is summoned to investigate, she discovers she must operate under strict conditions Sweeney himself dictated before he died. 

In the heat of August, Jake Terri Savage ("JT"), his little sister Danielle, and his bone-headed best friend, Nokey (nicknamed after "gnocchi"), try to steal JT’s father’s beloved 1965 Shelby Cobra. Their reasons are noble; the consequences,devastating. JT’s abusive dad’s idea of a 12th birthday gift is getting his son involved in a barroom brawl. Nokey’s dad thinks he has potatoes for brains. Both sons live out their fathers’ stunted visions in a way that brings down a terrible judgment on them all - leaving JT hauling rocks for punishment while he staves off panic attacks and nightmares about his sister and her terrible half-known secret.

“Dark August is a tightly-paced cauldron of a thriller about small town corruption, murder and mayhem, in the vein of Sharp Objects and All The Missing Girls. A macabre and confidently twisty debut.” — Lisa Gabriele, internationally bestselling author of The Winters An electrifying...

Eine Geschichte über die Liebe, wie nur Gabriel García Márquez sie schreiben konnte. Jedes Jahr fährt Ana Magdalena Bach im August mit der Fähre zu einer Karibikinsel, um dort auf das Grab ihrer Mutter einen Gladiolenstrauß zu legen. Jedes Jahr geht sie danach in ein Touristenhotel und isst abends allein an der Bar ein Käse-Schinken-Toast. Dieses Mal jedoch wird sie von einem Mann zu einem Drink eingeladen. Es entspricht weder ihrer Herkunft oder Erziehung noch ihrer Vorstellung von ehelicher Treue, doch geht sie dennoch auf seine Avancen ein und nimmt den Unbekannten mit auf ihr Zimmer.