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

This gripping coming-of-age story follows Jason Baymont, a young fisherman from Destin, Florida, as he charts his own path through the unpredictable waters of life. Though he is drawn to the adrenaline-fueled excitement and glamour of catching the world’s most powerful game fish—the mighty blue marlin—he must first confront his fear of disappointing his father, who expects him to take over the family’s commercial fishing business.

A 14-year-old black girl, trapped and alone in a dangerous city with two little brothers to feed, gets the chance of a lifetime - if her past doesn't ruin it for her.

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Twenty-five-year-old Billie Romano is struggling. She is grieving the death of her beloved dad and nothing in her life is going right. Her mother has remarried with indecent haste, so when her grandfather presents everyone in the family with a DNA testing kit for fun, Billie couldn’t be less interested in playing happy families. The test results are shocking, and Billie finds herself caught in a turmoil of emotions as she is faced with a reality she could never have imagined.

Grace had accepted that dabbling in the occult, traveling back in time, and banishing the spirit of a serial killer had more than likely led to her death. What she hadn't anticipated was what she would bring back with her when she returned to the world of the living. Armed with a battered soul, her fondness for sarcasm, and enough mental instability to keep a psychiatrist busy for a decade, Grace must navigate her new life with Beau and try to harness the supernatural abilities that death had gifted to her.

The Ninharsug Award for Science is rarely given. Adam has won it. With it he can choose his future. Rebelling against his parents, Adam follows his crib-mate, Evie, into the Fleet Academy. Once there he falls afoul of the Psychic Wing, the menacing new branch of Space Fleet, who has recruited Evie. He is determined to save her. But first he must save himself. The Psychics plan to usurp the throne of the Ancient of Days, leader of the Most High Federation of Planets, and Adam stands in their way.

You know what's best for your child. Don't you? Riley Pieterson is an adventurous girl with lots of questions. There's plenty she doesn't know yet: What a human brain looks like. All the constellations in the night sky. Why others can't see her the way she sees herself. When Riley confides in her parents - Sally and Theo - that she feels uncomfortable in her own skin, a chain of events begins that changes their lives forever. Sally wants to support her daughter by helping her be who she dreams of being. Theo resists; he thinks Riley is a seven-year-old child pushing boundaries.

Morris Bird III, who is trying to make do with the sum and total of his present until maturity arrives, has the usual teenage troubles - acne, his dumb name, a squabbling family, and, in this summer of 1948, the looming death of his grandmother. Morris Bird II was 13 years old, and the whole world was funny in his mind.

In 1960s Glasgow, anti-nuclear activists Judith and Jimmy fall in love. But their future hopes are dashed when their protestors’ squat is raided and many, including Jimmy, are sent to prison. Pregnant and with no word from Jimmy, Judith is forced to enter an unmarried mothers’ home, give up their baby and learn to live with her grief.