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

Ford: I don't have time for distractions. I have a billion-dollar company to run. A father to grieve. A legacy to fulfill. Harley DeLuca is not my type. She's snarky. She's stubborn. And she's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen-even in her ridiculous grungy tennis shoes. I can't get enough of her. Harley: I was a mistake from the moment of conception. The sins of my mother have followed me like a nightmare in a horror flick.

Lila James is my best friend’s little sister, and I’ve always looked out for her. She's five years younger than me, and when she left for college, she was just a kid. But now she’s home for the summer—and she’s definitely not a kid anymore.

A forbidden love blows open the world of a teenage girl, altering the trajectory of her life–from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Chaperone "Radiant...What begins as a teenage romance in 1950s Florida becomes an intimate, deeply moving story of separation, sacrifice, and...

Back then, all I remember was laughter and joy. I was the first-born child, and I remember so clearly my parents’ joyful faces as I held my little sister, Phoebe, for the first time. But then one devastating day, everything changed, when Phoebe died. And it tore us all apart. Then the third daughter – baby Bea – was born. It was meant to be the start of us healing. Becoming a family again. But the truth was, nothing would ever be the same again.

You’ve heard of the Afterlife. Welcome to the Beforelife. There are four of us: Samuel, Lucy, Thomas, and me – Eliza. We came into being the day Becca Valentine was born. We’ve been by her side ever since. What she doesn’t know yet, is that one day she might become our mother. Then two men come into her life. Both seeking her heart. And then we realise: everything rests on Becca’s love story. Because one of the men is Lucy and Thomas’s father. And the other is mine and Samuel’s. And there’s simply no way we can all be born.

“One of the best novelists around, period.” —Washington Post “Lippman has enriched literature as a whole. —Chicago Sun-Times One of the most acclaimed novelists in America today, Laura Lippman has greatly expanded the boundaries of mystery fiction and psychological suspense with her...

Laura Calosso, in questo suo nuovo, intenso romanzo, mette in scena con grande bravura e delicatezza una generazione di ragazzi brillanti, sensibili, che per motivi diversi si trovano a vivere momenti di profonda difficoltà. Margherita Fiore ha diciotto anni e da pochi giorni ha superato brillantemente l'esame di maturità classica. Sta preparando il test per entrare all'università. Un'amica la invita al mare per due giorni di pausa dallo studio. Il treno però ha un disguido e Margherita accetta un passaggio in auto da un ragazzo incontrato per caso.

Alle 12.40 del 10 luglio 1976 da una fabbrica dell'hinterland milanese si alza una nube carica di diossina che investe una vasta area e provoca una catastrofe ambientale che sconvolgerà la vita degli abitanti di Seveso. Laura Conti, medico e segretaria della Commissione sanità ed ecologia del Consiglio regionale lombardo, segue giorno per giorno lo sviluppo di quella crisi. Il romanzo, pubblicato nel 1978, nasce da quell'esperienza.

I ragazzi che non fanno l'ora di religione si chiamano Hossein, Amal, Safia, Michele, Meng e sono bengalesi, egiziani, italiani, cinesi. La protagonista di questa storia insegna loro una materia che si definisce a partire dal suo contrario, una materia che ai consigli di classe non conta nulla, che non ha programmi e, nel caso dell'istituto professionale in cui ci troviamo, non ha nemmeno un'aula.

No one meets their soul mate when they're 17, right? But what if the impossible happens and you do? What if they then leave you to become a famous rock star? Completely impossible.... Except for 17-year-old Indi. This is all too real; her life-long best friend, Joel, becomes her first love after years of longing for him. Everything is perfect, more than she had ever dared to hope. Then at a gig, Joel's band gets picked up by a record label, and she's left behind in her dead-end home town with no one to turn to and a secret to keep.

We used to call ourselves The Three Musketeers. I know it's cliché, but we were only kids. They usually took turns being in charge, which was fine with me. I was just happy to go along with them. After all, I thought I was the luckiest little girl in the whole world. Most of my classmates only had one best friend, but I had two: my best friend Izzy and her twin brother. Back then, I hoped things would never change, but that's the problem with more. Once I saw a glimpse of it, it was impossible to stop wanting it. Especially when it came to Shane.

From the waning flower-power ’60s in Toronto through her East Coast university years, Ari fights to discover who she is and what it means to be the child of an addicted mother and depraved father. When her friend Natasha, the perfect girl from the nicest family, suddenly vanishes, Ari sets out to find out what has happened to her — are her troubled parents to blame?

Laura Dockrill (aka Dockers MC) is a performance and spoken word artist who delivers her own written work, characters, and thoughts in such a way that her audiences just keep getting bigger and bigger. Through her sheer ability to culminate a sense of rhythms, wonderful sounds through enunciation, narrative, and comedy, Laura has the ability to draw her fans into a sense of nostalgia. This enables them to use their imagination and reminisce through her ever changing performances

Tessa O'Connell is a girl as in love as possible. For a moment she had it all: friends, family, and the promise of a forever love. But could she end up losing it all? The crippling pain of heartbreak is fresh, and as Tessa struggles to move on in the wake of tragedy, her goal becomes to protect her heart at all costs. But it's a task not made easy by the devastatingly gorgeous Cole Stone, who seems to have shattered her beyond repair.

Saturated in Southern ambiance and written in the vein of other literary bestsellers like Kathryn Stockett’s The Help and Tom Franklin’s Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Julie Cantrell’s New York Times bestselling Into the Free that will sweep you away long after the novel ends. In...

Only the most hardened survivalists can endure living in the scorched deadlands of the former state of Arizona. Among them is nineteen-year-old Georgia Reno, who lives in an isolated desert settlement with her father and younger brother. Roads don’t exist here; visitors are more dark fairy tale than reality. But when two mysterious strangers arrive on their land, Georgia begins to question her sheltered existence. Soon, her tentative curiosity blooms into a fledgling desire to leave the settlement, even if it means venturing into a world her father has only ever warned against.

Still bitter about his failed engagement and life on the family ranch, Ian MacKenzie has been cranky for nearly three years. His brother Mack's married bliss hasn't helped, and now his pregnant sister-in-law's airhead best friend is coming for a visit. Candice arrives to help with the new baby, even though it means swapping her Louboutins for snow boots and her flat irons for flannel.

In Nick, Emma finds an unexpected ally. In Daniel’s absence, he becomes a friend, a confidant, and a shrewd business partner. With his help, her new company blossoms, inspiring happiness that is only increased when it seems Emma’s father is on the road to recovery. Life is finally going well, yet she can’t seem to fully enjoy it while her heart still longs for Daniel.