Résultats pour "The Call" dans Passage à l'âge adulte

It's 2016, and Sloane Hart's senior year of college is bound to be the best one yet. Her nights consist of drinking cheap vodka and singing along to The Chainsmokers with her friends, and her days are spent writing as she prepares for the post-grad life in New York City she's always dreamed of. The last thing she needs is for a guy to get in the way of her goals. With graduation so close, she just needs to focus on landing a job and enjoying this last year with her best friends all under one roof.

It’s a game of palace intrigue, survival, and plotting as Khalil and Zikora continue to grow up under the thumb of a tyrannical family in this electrifying second book in the Birth of a Dynasty trilogy. The kingdom of Ahkelbulin is on the brink of war. Following a shocking death, the royal...

Aurora Keys has dreamed of the Vanderlind Castle ever since she was a little girl. But the fiercely private Vanderlinds keep the massive structure strictly off limits to visitors...until one night the wealthy family throws a party, and Aurora's best friend, Blossom, devises a foolproof plan for the two of them to sneak in....

New classes. New professors. New challenges. Mountainfall Academy's second-year adventurers' track isn't known for being easy, and Aidan's expected to keep up on all of his coursework while training harder than ever before. After a turbulent first year, Aidan's looking forward to learning new spells, hanging out with his friends, and bonding with his magical beast companion. His plans quickly turn to ash when an assassin strikes. With the threat of war on the horizon and the academy's security in question, it's certainly going to be a school year to remember.

This book will accentuate the need for relevance in service. In The Call up Letter, Toluwalope Olotu explores, albeit elegantly, a bio fiction’s prodding yet scintillating story that expresses a typical life escapades of a young African man as he journeys through life phases. It is a bio-fictitious potpourri of a sort with traces of verisimilitude, undulating in waves of doggedness in determination, faith, and in exploring every given opportunity that comes knocking. It is also a harvest of a deeply creative, adventurous, observant, and innovative mind.

Blood remembers. Garnet is part wolf, and her grandmother is the only one who can teach her what that means. She travels to a place she has never known, expecting guidance—but the lessons that await are darker, sharper, and more twisted than she ever imagined. Each encounter tests her instincts, her body, and what she thinks she understands about herself. The grandmother she meets is not what she expected, and every choice carries consequences that cannot be undone.

A young college misfit opens a nightclub in rural Appalachia and achieves great success. Then, loses everything except the woman he loves. Tommy is a lonely college misfit, working his way through school as a mobile DJ. The demands of his business prevent him from engaging in the college experience. His grades and relationships suffer. Alienated from school and classmates, he feels like an unworthy outsider, unable to achieve the academic, relationship, and romantic success others in his world seem to easily obtain.

Caecilia has long been torn between her birthplace of Rome and her adopted city of Veii. Yet faced with mounting danger to her husband, children, and Etruscan freedoms, will her call to destroy Rome succeed? Pinna has clawed her way from prostitute to the concubine of the Roman general Camillus. Deeply in love, can she exert her own power to survive the threat of exposure by those who know her sordid past?

In 2006, 14-year-old Kieran Northrup has just moved from Pacific Palisades, California, to the wealthy suburbs of Berks County, Pennsylvania. Immediately upon moving into their new home, Kieran's older brother and best friend, Justin, quickly begins growing distant from him as he is initiated into a group of popular jocks who terrorize Kieran. To make matters worse, a sudden and tragic accident changes Kieran's life forever, pushing him into an even deeper and lonely sadness.

Richly drawn stories about the lives of ordinary families in contemporary Botswana as they navigate relationships, tradition and caretaking in a rapidly changing world. A young widow adheres to the expectations of wearing mourning clothes for nearly a year, though she's unsure what the...

The Panthers resume their duties as Rangers upon leaving the Refuge. A new mystery of foremost importance will be revealed to them. They will have to undertake a mission as complicated as it is risky. Will they manage to survive the mission? Will they solve the mystery?

A 14-year-old boy disappears from his home without a trace - almost forever. Ninety years later, a series of chance DNA matches reveals what became of him. John had to grow up quickly - changing his identity, earning a living, and navigating love, friendship, and death during some of the toughest times in American history. With nothing more than an eighth-grade education, his journey takes us through Prohibition, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the gold mines of Colorado, and the Second World War to eventually become a success in his own right.

In 1970, pampered, naïve, Philly-born Frannie is overwhelmed by the responsibilities of nursing school and college life in Dallas. A love-hate relationship erupts when Robin, her fiery, red-headed roommate, arrives from Chicago to find Frannie's belongings covering every inch of space in their room, and Frannie nowhere in sight. Adding fuel to the fire, Frannie pursues a relationship with a sophomore hunk whom Robin insists is pond scum. She ignores her suitemates' pleas to join their study group, insisting her high school achievements will guarantee her success in college.

In Saint-Pierre—where banners rise above stone keeps and villagers toil—17-year-old Etienne learns that loyalty is everything under the stern Lord Bertrand.

Brought to you by Penguin. Sophisticated, mature and richly atmospheric, a debut novel about three young people navigating the risks and possibilities of intimacy For fans of André Aciman, Deborah Levy and the Penguin European Writers series Thora, August and Hugo come from different worlds -...

Brought to you by Penguin. At age sixteen, Fahad hopes to spend the summer with his mother in London. His father, Rafik, has other plans: hauling his son to Abad, the family's feudal estate. Rafik wants to toughen up his sensitive boy, to teach him about power, duty, family?to make him a man. He...

With his tight leather pants and a sharp edge that makes him dangerous, Jet Keller is every girl's rock and roll fantasy. But Ayden Cross is done walking on the wild side with bad boys. She doesn't want to give in to the heat she sees in Jet's dark, haunted eyes. She's afraid of getting burned from the sparks of their spontaneous combustion, even as his touch sets her on fire.

Soon-to-be a Max Original series, written and co-produced by Diablo Coby and Ryan O'Connell! "Dazzling, propulsive, and delightfully juicy, Anon Pls. is the digital age’s love letter to The Devil Wears Prada. Sexy, suspenseful, and so good you won’t want to put it down—not even to check on...