Résultats pour "Lifer" dans Psychologie

Hailed by Newsweek as “a superb and humane social critic” with, according to The Wall Street Journal, “all the true instincts of a major novelist,” Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far...

Zou Lei, orphan of the desert, migrates to work in America and finds herself slaving in New York's kitchens. She falls in love with a young man whose heart has been broken in another desert. A new life may be possible if together they can survive homelessness, lockup, and the young man's nightmares, which may be more prophecy than madness.

Ben wasn't brought up, he was dragged up. With absent parents and broken friends, a young Ben makes choices that are ruining his life. Before he’s even 20, Ben’s spells in prison begin, and soon he finds himself involved in serious crime. When people begin to die, Ben must choose a side.

Sie sind ein eingespieltes Team, teilen als beste Freunde alles miteinander und können sich ihr Leben ohne einander nicht vorstellen. Doch eines Morgens ist Joy verschwunden, ihr Ehemann auch. Die Polizei findet immer mehr Hinweise auf einen einzigen Verdächtigen: Benny. Dieser wirkt verzweifelt in seiner Suche nach Joy, hält aber Aufzeichnungen von Joy vor den Ermittlern geheim. Die erzählen von gefährlichen Geheimnissen und einer großen Liebe – und enden abrupt.

The classic inspirational parable from the top motivation and marketing trainer and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaire Messenger—a triumphant tale of personal growth and change that will inspire anyone who has ever wished for a second chance. What if you were handed a...

"The Life of Edward Karnadi Husin from Kindergarten to Junior High School" delves into the world of personal struggles. Through the eyes of a young boy who grappled with emotional turmoil and social isolation, the story unfolds with honesty and introspection. As the boy navigated the challenges of childhood and adolescence, he confronts bullying, betrayal, and unspoken trauma.

In a home ravaged by abuse, addiction, and apathy, young Callie fights to survive in silence. Her cries go unheard. Until a foster family steps in, willing to uncover the truths others refused to face. This Life is a powerful and unflinching journey through one girl’s broken beginnings and the hope that flickers in the darkest corners.

Augusta and Owen have moved to the country, and live a quiet, and rather solitary life, Gus as a painter, Owen as a writer. They have left behind the city, and its associations to a troubled past, devoting their days to each other and their art. But beneath the surface of this tranquil existence lies the heavy truth of Gus’s past betrayal, an affair that ended, but that quietly haunts Owen, Gus, and their marriage. When Alison Hemmings, a beautiful British divorcée, moves in next door, Gus, feeling lonely and isolated, finds herself drawn to Alison....

Spanning almost thirty years, My Other Life traces the journey of a fictional Paul Theroux—from young bachelorhood in Africa to his travels between continents, from in and out of marriage through various affairs and multiple means of employment. From his early education at the knee of a highly eccentric uncle until his years as a fledgling novelist in London under the wing of the rapacious Lady Max, this writer of different guises eventually retreats alone to his hometown, where he finds the raw material to begin again.

Billy's mother is dead. He knows-because he reads about it in magazines-that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than hers, but for nineteen-year-old Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother's death in a bungled street robbery is the most random and tragic and stupid thing that could possibly have happened to them.

“A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?” --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a Rat Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the...

Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Vanessa has always found it easy to pretend to be somebody different, somebody better. When things get tough in her real life, all she has to do is throw on some nicer clothes, adopt a new accent and she can escape. That's how it started: looking round houses she couldn't possibly afford. Harmless fun really. Until it wasn't. Because a man who lived in one of those houses is dead. And everyone thinks Vanessa killed him.

Morning rush hour on the Golden Gate Bridge. Amid the river of metal and glass, a shocking event occurs, leaving those who witnessed it desperately looking for answers, most notably one man and his son, Jake, who captured the event and uploaded it to the Internet for all the world to experience. As the media swarms over the story, Jake will face the ramifications of his actions, as he learns the perils of our modern disconnect between the real world and the world we create online.

A stranger died to save you...now it’s your turn. Meet Beth Turner. From the outside she looks like any other 33-year-old woman, with a gorgeous house and beautiful daughter. But Beth has a secret that has haunted her past for as long as she can remember. A secret that only those closest to her know. Aged seven, she almost drowned on a family holiday...and a stranger died saving her life. Survivor's guilt has been the defining characteristic of her life ever since.

Imogen Carlisle’s job at a Milwaukee bar was supposed to be temporary, a lifeline when her world was crumbling. But eight years of making drinks and offering customers a listening ear made her past as a rising actress feel like a bad dream. When Luca, a handsome, mysterious man with an uncanny interest in her, comes to the bar near last call, he begins probing into her past. As they talk, she remembers long-suppressed memories of lead roles, traveling shows, and the true nature of her relationship with the bar’s owner that ended it all.

A splendid original tale, Alfred Buber is warm, smart, romantic, but his life is as barren as an ice floe, an embarrassing collage of successes and humiliations that add up to...nothing. He lives as if he has landed in a strange country, nowhere he recognizes. Can an-oh-so respectable Boston lawyer, out of options, out of hope, lonely beyond measure, stray way outside the lines and find love? Can he step into the tawdry dark, and back into the wholesome light, and not be affected? Alfred Buber thinks he can. But the line between his two lives is a thin one.

Hailed by Newsweek as “a superb and humane social critic” with, according to The Wall Street Journal, “all the true instincts of a major novelist,” Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far...

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize “A nuanced, complex, and highly original novel.” —Charles Yu, National Book Award–winning author of Interior Chinatown A fresh, unique work of metafiction that follows a graphic novelist who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts...

Dorrie Gilbert, a potter who lives alone, is completely unprepared for motherhood when her oddball, overweight, and orphaned nephew Hugo comes to live with her, demanding to know the truth about his parents and horrified that she doesn't own a television so he can watch the soap opera he's devoted to. As Dorrie and Hugo attempt to work things out, each learns some hard and surprising, but deeply satisfying, truths about real life.

Alcoholism is a creeping, crippling tragedy that affects the lives of millions. It's irrevocably affected the life of Louis van Pletten. At 45 years old, he is still struggling to complete his third book, his great masterpiece, his magnum opus. Trouble is, at over 300 pages, it's morbid, dark as hell, and as full of utter misery and self-loathing as he is. He can barely stand to read it himself. He should burn it, but it's taken him three years to write the damn thing. And he has no spark left to start over - and just enough money left to last him three more months.