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

Sechs Monate hatten Louisa Clark und Will Traynor zusammen. Ein ganzes halbes Jahr. Und diese sechs Monate haben beide verändert. Lou ist nicht mehr das Mädchen aus der Kleinstadt, das Angst vor seinen eigenen Träumen hat. Aber sie führt auch nicht das unerschrockene Leben, das Will sich für sie gewünscht hat. Denn wie lebt man weiter, wenn man den Menschen verloren hat, den man am meisten liebt? Eine Welt ohne Will, das ist für Lou immer noch schwer zu ertragen.

Louis and Louise are separated by a single moment in time, a strike of chance that decided their future. The day they were born is when their story begun. In one, Louis David Alder is born a male. In the other, Louise Dawn Alder is born a female. Louis and Louise are the same in many ways - they have the same best friends, the same parents, the same dream of being a writer and leaving their hometown in Maine as soon as they can. But because of their gender, everything looks different.

A beautiful, tender yet searing debut novel about intergenerational fractures and coming of age, following a young woman who immigrates to the United States from the Philippines and finds herself adrift between familial expectations and her own burning desires Love Can't Feed You is a stunning...

Jesse Sienna doesn't believe that love can last. His parents' marriage was caring but passionless, and his own romantic history tells him that love can burn bright, but that it cannot burn for long. So when his elderly father, Mickey, moves in with him and seems unable to understand Jesse's no-strings-attached relationship with Marina, his current girlfriend, Jesse barely pays attention. It's just another example of how different they are - and more evidence that he and his father will never connect on any meaningful level.

In the early 1900s, Lena Harvey, a bright-minded farm girl, wants to graduate from high school. She hopes to attend nursing school or become a midwife. Having no interest in complicating her life with intimate relationships, she plans to focus her efforts toward her calling. But in a country where people believe they can grow up to become anything they want to be, her dream is crushed. Discover how Lena resolves to make the best of what has been thrown at her, hoping that she can make a difference in the world.

How much trouble can three small boys cause? It turns out, if their names are Joe, Matt, and Ralph, the answer is a whole lot, and guess what? Since From Gents' Pens, attorney turned author Joe Eliseon was once a boy, he has taken it upon himself to share his specialized knowledge of the subject with his burgeoning number of listeners in his latest work, The Reincarnation of Lou Gehrig. Drawing on his highly developed sense of humor, Eliseon once again creates a rollercoaster of a tale, including everything from the renowned Great Bible Smoke-Off to America's most iconic sport.

For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of fans. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the conflict between good and evil - but in this case a particularly engaging form of evil.

For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of fans. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the conflict between good and evil - but in this case a particularly engaging form of evil.