Résultats pour "Life" 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 ...

Elle croit que notre histoire est terminée. Alors que cela ne fait que commencer. Lennon Washington est la star de tous mes rêves et de tous mes cauchemars depuis que je l'ai perdue. Depuis que j'ai laissé mes démons intérieurs prendre le dessus et qu'elle m'a glissé entre les doigts. Son souvenir m'a hanté. M'a changé. M'a détruit et m'a reconstruit. J'avais presque renoncé à nous. Un drame l'a aujourd'hui ramenée dans ma vie. Mes secrets sont à sa disposition. Et les siens sont en train d'éclater au grand jour les uns après les autres.

In this poignant and funny novel, a man who is defined by his limitations sets out to fight a murder charge—and discovers unexpected truths about himself, his family, and the world at large.

From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer, a taut, elegiac novel about a man trying to uncover the truth about the father who left him behind Steven Mills has reached a crossroads. His wife and son have left, and they may not return. Which leaves him determined to find out what...

Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson - a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake - and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible, haunting vision of death. As Cory struggles to understand his father's pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that surround him.

Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered. Sam believed it was God who sent Ernie Cantwell, the only African American kid in his class, to be the friend he so desperately needed. And that it was God’s idea for Mickie Kennedy to storm into Our Lady of Mercy like a tornado, uprooting every rule Sam had been taught about boys and girls. Forty years later, Sam, a small-town eye doctor, is no longer certain anything was by design.

Soon to be a NETFLIX Original Series. A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL set in a divided Naples by ELENA FERRANTE, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. “There’s no doubt [the publication of The Lying Life of Adults] will be the literary event of the...

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK “An effervescent debut chock full of Austenian nods. Swoonworthy!” —Sarah McCoy, New York Times bestselling author of Mustique Island “All That Life Can Afford is about love, ambition, and the cost of belonging, and I cannot stop thinking about it.” —Reese...

An intoxicating debut novel of "one motherless daughter's discovery of...the strange and wonderful places we find love" —The Washington PostSue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in...

Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his mother and sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku: the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar is just its most recent victim.

Read by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony Award-winning creator and star of the musical Hamilton, and Tony Award-winning actress, Karen Olivo. This brilliant narration adds another layer of lyricism and depth to this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel. Things have never been easy for Oscar...

Pearl Flowers has been hiding away for so long that she has forgotten what real life is like. Her quiet routine in a woodland cottage in France is a sanctuary, far away from her past life running a beauty salon. But then an unexpected phone call throws her calm world into chaos. Back in the UK, her estranged father Francis is dying. She hasn’t seen him for decades since he pushed her away and destroyed their family. And on his deathbed, Francis leaves her a gift - a diary, written in a code that only Pearl can understand.

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

In this sequel to Gibbons’s beloved classic Ellen Foster, Ellen, now fifteen, is settled into a permanent home with a new mother. Strengthened by adversity and blessed with enough intelligence to design a salvation for herself, she still feels ill at ease. But while she holds fast to the...

An emotional, small-town, first-love romance between a spirited athlete and her football hero neighbor.

Eleven-year-old Akash Patil lives happily with his mother and extended family in a small, secluded community on the American East Coast—a haven for South Asian immigrants. However, an unforeseen tragedy in his town sets off a harrowing sequence of events, disrupting the peace within his family and close-knit neighborhood.

The Favor: Living A Meaningful Life, is Book #4 in the series: “Living A Meaningful Life.” In order to best understand the storylines, backstories, and full context, it is recommended that you first read Book #1, The Bench: Living A Meaningful Life, Book #2, The Farm: Living A Meaningful Life, and Book #3, The Lake: Living A Meaningful Life. “Living A Meaningful Life,” is a series for adults and teens of all ages. Each book examines the challenges involved in facing the harsh realities of life, and rising above them despite setbacks, mistakes, losses, and other negative circumstances.

The Farm is the next step in the journey of the Living A Meaningful Life series. This installment is the more juvenile coming of age installment full of fun, adventure, and life lessons. They feature the first main character as a child, and thus include some “juvenile” and “coming of age” storylines and serve as a foundation for the series. The Living A Meaningful Life book series is a “family saga” series, written as an autobiography by the narrator.

If ‘Life Begins at Forty’, then Charlotte Turner's not off to the best of starts. On top of a recent divorce, and trouble with her twelve-year-old son, the husband of her closest friend has just started to show a bit too much interest in her as a newly-single woman. But only when Charlotte has faced up to some uncomfortable truths about her past can she finally shed the unhappy skin she's been so comfortable in and open up her life – and her heart – to all the promise and possibility that her future holds.

Azul Morgan, a young Native/Indigenous woman is the next rock star to break. Trapped in M-town, Iowa during the "Next Seattle" Midwest Music Scene explosion during the aftermath of 9/11, she takes her guitar, named Mocha, & her composition notebook, The Bastard Chronicle, to write the greatest songs ever & form the perfect band.