Résultats pour "Benjamin" dans Vie de famille

Montréal, 13 février 1940. Jeanne Vinais rend l'âme à la suite de son dur accouchement. Le gros poupon a eu raison de la chétive maman. Se retrouvant seul avec ses quatre filles, Marcelle, Régine, Estelle et la petite dernière prénommée Benjamine, le père, éploré, n'a d'autrechoix que de retirer sa plus vieille de l'école pour qu'elle s'occupe de la maison et du bébé. Au seuil de l'adolescence, Marcelle s'incline devant cette décision et Benjamine devient à ses yeux l'autre, celle qui a tué leur mère. Un surnom qui lui restera.

Longlisted for the Booker Prize, this “cinematically plotted...radiant” (The New York Times) novel follows shanker Thomas Flett as his quiet life in a small English coastal town is forever changed over the course of one fateful day. Twenty-year-old Thomas Flett lives a slow, deliberate life...

Den humoristisk fortælling om en familie i det københavnske borgerskab i slutningen af det 19. århundrede. Benjamin Jacobsen udgav både romaner, noveller og digte.

No dia em que o pai se envolve numa briga com um casal gay, a mãe descobre que o filho Gabriel, de 5 anos, se apresentou na casa dos amiguinhos como uma menina. Esse é o ponto de partida de Ninguém Com Esse Nome, série de ficção que acompanha uma família já marcada por um trauma passado e que precisa lidar com a busca do filho caçula por descobrir quem é. Toda criada em cima de ligações telefônicas, a série atravessa 12 anos de transformação de uma família liderada por Karen, vivida por Cláudia Abreu.

Forse non sarebbe successo niente se non fossero stati nel cuore dell'estate, con un mese e mezzo di noia umida alle spalle e un altro mese e mezzo davanti. In casa non c'è aria condizionata e quest'anno - l'estate del 1969 - sembra che stia succedendo qualcosa a tutti tranne che a loro, i fratelli Gold. Mentre gli altri si sballano a Woodstock, New York non offre loro altro che un incontro con una veggente che, si dice nel quartiere, sarebbe in grado di predire la data di morte. I quattro ragazzi ci vanno, per gioco, per vestirsi di paura, per fare la rivoluzione a modo loro.

Ve el mundo de otra manera. Te presentamos a Ginny Moon. Es la típica adolescente, toca la flauta en la banda de la escuela, practica baloncesto semanalmente, y lee poemas de Robert Frost en la clase de inglés. Pero Ginny es autista. Y lo que es importante para ella puede parecer un poco…...

Smart, sublime, and wickedly clever, The Smash-Up captures—then transcends—our current polarized moment “An exhilarating ride . . . hilarious . . . a modern and energetic story about a marriage on the skids.”—The New York Times Ethan has always been one of the good guys, and for...

Ex-con Bob has done his time. After five years at Her Majesty's pleasure, he's been released on licence with an ankle tag registered to his estranged son's address. Uptight Gruff isn't too happy about it - he's just become a father himself and the last thing he needs is his delinquent dad back in his life. But Bob turns on the charm, persuading sympathetic daughter-in-law Alice that his heart's in the right place and manages to inveigle his way into moving in.

As Aurelia begins her internships, she learns more details about her chosen profession while the cliffhanger question at the end of book six is resolved in short order.

What's fascinating about Dani Shapiro's story "Supernova" is "its focus on the minor catastrophe that is Shenkman, a relatively prosperous man whose minor shortcomings feel, to him alone, monumental and impossible to overlook," writes Benjamin Samuel, co-editor of Electric Literature, in his introduction to this issue of Recommended Reading. "Despite rowing every day, obsessively racing against an old rival in a computerized simulation, nobody even knows Shenkman is still competing."

En el reducido universo familiar de Amalia y sus tres hijos, Silvia, Emma y Fer, el engranaje se mueve al ritmo desacompasado de las emociones. Es una familia típica, y sobre todo, muy real. Un cosmos cocido al fuego lento de varias entregas que han atado a miles de lectores. Pero llega un día cumbre en sus vidas. Emma se va a casar y todos se sumergen en las tareas y los remolinos de organizar la mejor boda. La noche previa a la ceremonia, una llamada rompe la armonía familiar.

For Gloria Hytner, the only good thing about tiring of motherhood is that it stings less to think of herself as a total failure. She has managed to raise a son just intelligent and sensitive enough to become an easy target for the neighborhood bully. David seeks solace from her, but Gloria finds her reserves of empathy running low. Having been bullied her entire life - first by her mother and later by other neighborhood moms who seem to mercilessly flaunt the joy they take in raising their own children - Gloria's acerbic wit is all she has to offer him in the way of a defense.

The characters and events in this novel are fictional. They are about reality, trials of life, lessons learned, aches and pains, love, faith, hope, unity, tragedy, addiction, and God–given free will, just to name a few.

When an overzealous child protective service worker with an attitude and a Gulf War veteran meet, the outcome can be devastating. Considering that this single father isn't planning on backing down and relinquishing his children who adore him to CPS or the police, you have a recipe for an explosive confrontation.