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

Joost (29) is bandagist. Hij ontfermt zich over de zieke benen van ouderen in Amsterdam, de stad die hem en zijn vrienden geen woning kan bieden. Het contrast tussen zijn zwervende bestaan en dat van zijn patiënten, die zijn gebonden aan hun grote en volgestouwde huizen, wordt steeds groter. De bandagist is een roman over eenzaamheid en geborgenheid, over herinneren en vergeten.

God and the Illusion of Time is the captivating journey of Abel, a young scientist seeking proof of the teachings of Christianity. His curiosity Transends blind faith, pushing him into a relentless pursuit to understand the relationship between science and the Bible. His story, an intriguing blend of faith, science, and the human spirit's unparalleled quest for truth, challenges the listener to question, seek, and understand, potentially bringing them closer to "Knowing the Mind of God".

The Hawthorne family has it all. Great jobs, a beautiful house in one of the most affluent areas of Northern California, and three charming kids with perfectly straight teeth. And then comes their eldest daughter's senior year of high school....

Qualities of Light explores the budding of unexpected romance in the face of family tragedy, the forging of a new relationship between a daughter and her gifted, difficult parents, and an adolescent girl's confrontation with her own qualities of light and darkness.

As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, 20-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer - his "Keltjin potatoes" are justifiably famous - has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir. Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny. The family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although Tassie had once found children boring, she comes to care for, and to protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own.

Meet the Garnett Girls... Three sisters living in the shadow of their parents' glorious failed marriage. Rachel, desperate to return to London, but tied to the beautiful crumbling house they grew up in on the Isle of Wight. Imogen, with a devoted fiancé and a fledgling writing career, feeling a powerful connection to a beautiful stranger. And wild, passionate Sasha, trapped between her sisters and her husband, hiding a secret that could shake their family to the core...

"Don't miss this heartfelt story about paths not taken."--People magazine For fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Emma Straub comes an emotionally gripping novel about a woman who returns to her hometown in coastal Maine and finds herself pondering the age-old question of what could have been Growing...

Kendall Jordan knows she doesn’t need an elaborate wedding with a Vera Wang dress and a three-tiered cake. All she needs is the love of her life, the hot and romantic Cruise Elton. But she’s been dreaming of a picture-perfect wedding since childhood, and so with her finances in peril and a rock band squatting in the Elton B and B Kendall must take extreme measures. She decides to pen a book about the kinky sexcapades of one Penny Whoredon and one Cruz Belton, but in order to do the writing justice she’ll need to conduct some sexy research with the love of her life.

Niemand hätte gedacht, dass sie hierbleiben würde nachdem ihr Mann tot war. Nachdem passiert war, was alle nur das Unglück nannten: Der Schuss im Chicorée-Treibhaus. Sie blieb auf dem Land, aber sie wollte auch in der Provinz nicht wie eine Nonne leben. Deshalb gab sie eine Anzeige auf. Die Begegnungen mit den unbekannten Männern verliefen stets nach demselben Muster: kennenlernen, erzählen, eine gemeinsame Nacht. Dabei ließ die Erinnerung an ihren toten Mann sie jahrelang nicht los. Bis zu jenem eiskalten Tag und jener schlaflosen Nacht, von der diese Novelle erzählt und in der vielleicht alles anders wird.

Nine-year-old Susan has the whole glorious, carefree summer ahead of her. Sometimes she worries that her mother and father aren't happy together, but from her vantage point under the dogbushes, the world is safe and wonderful. Her life begins to change when her friends introduce her to the creepy new city kid, Eugene, who's come to spend the summer. Eugene holds a strange power over the group, a power that Susan feels most profoundly on the night she is forced to play "doctor".

He has autism and she has never felt good enough. Together they set out on a daring adventure where they discover unconditional love in the most surprising of places.