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

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction - but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.

Antonio è un liceale solitario e risentito, suo padre un matematico dal passato brillante; i rapporti fra i due non sono mai stati facili. Un pomeriggio di giugno dei primi anni Ottanta atterrano a Marsiglia, dove una serie di circostanze inattese li costringerà a trascorrere insieme due giorni e due notti senza sonno. È così che il ragazzo e l'uomo si conoscono davvero, per la prima volta; si specchiano l'uno nell'altro e si misurano con la figura della madre ed ex moglie, donna bellissima ed elusiva.

Bloomsbury presents The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak, read by Daphne Kouma and Amira Ghazalla. A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement...

Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child, and the star-crossed pair fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls.

Ursula is part dreamer, part radical in the making. Raised in a matriarchal household by a CND-loving activist, she is impatient to begin a life of adventure. But this is Newcastle in the mid-80s where girls are getting permed and their dreams go no further than copping off down the Bigg Market. Then Ursula meets Jerry, a class warrior from the wrong side of town, intellectually hungry, erudite and ambitious. It is a meeting of bodies, souls, minds and ideals.

Dora Minor, a quirky and fiercely courageous girl, grows up in a remote Virginia mountain community in a family of outliers, thanks to their Quaker beliefs that all people are born equal. After her mother’s death, her indomitable, pipe-smoking grandmother Alma—a revolutionary in her own right—becomes her primary caregiver and protector. With a fierce moral compass, Alma helps shape Dora’s worldview and guides her to question the status quo.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE AWARD FOR FICTION 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017 'All in?' Kieran pulled me up, and the others followed. We gathered around the bigger tree. No one asked Matty - he just reached up and put his right hand on the trunk with ours. Kieran cleared...

Genevieve Charbonneau talks to ghosts and has a special relationship with rattlesnakes. In her travels, she’s wandered throughout the South, working in a Louisiana circus and as a hootchy kootch dancer in Texas. Now for the first time in a decade, she’s allowed her winding path to bring her to the site of her grandmother’s Arkansas farmhouse, a place hallowed in her memory. Disguised by years in exile and a name she found on a gravestone, Genevieve intends only to visit briefly and leave. 

Periferia di Roma, venerdì 29 novembre 1991. Andrea ha quindici anni e sua madre lo accompagna per l'ultima volta a vedere il padre, o meglio ciò che resta di quell'uomo che da tempo li ha abbandonati per andare a vivere con un'altra donna e che adesso un cancro si sta finendo di mangiare, questione di poche ore. Scenario di questo incontro totalmente asimmetrico, giacché il padre non ha più le forze per guardare il figlio né rispondere alle sue domande, è "la fattoria", come la chiama Andrea, la casa che gli uomini della sua famiglia hanno tirato su con le proprie mani, sacco di cemento dopo sacco di cemento.

“A stunning chronicle of an Indian woman’s coming-of-age... This is electrifying.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review “Is this a ghost story?” Meena asked the barber’s wife who told the tale. “I don’t want to hear scary stories one night before I marry.” “Not all ghost...

Amjad cradles his baby daughter in the middle of the night. He has no time to mourn his wife’s death. Saahil and Zahra, his two small children, are relying on him. Amjad vows to love and protect them always. Years later, Saahil and his best friend, Ehsan, have finished university and are celebrating with friends. But when the night turns dangerous, its devastating effects will ripple through the years to come. Zahra’s world is alight with politics and activism. But she is now her father’s only source of comfort, and worries she’ll never have time for her own aspirations.

This is a true life story. The story of a little girl born after the darkest of days, living in a world that still carried a few signs of the horrors of before. Tree in the Captive, by Deborah Kanda, is a novel based on a true life story. It is an autobiography of a girl, Deborah, born in Rwanda after the genocide in 1994.

In 1983, a husband and wife were in an accident on the beltway. The man subsequently died. Eight months later, a biracial child was born to a White mother in a redneck valley that was not prepared to deal with him. Children can be cruel, and growing up was a struggle. Music became his voice to the world.

Beyond Kathryn Lucas’ first memory of her father’s tree lay a dysfunctional path of violence, heartbreak, and secrets within a family severely entrenched in the vicious cycle of abuse. A lifetime of fear drives her from her home, and the teenage girl finds refuge with an aunt and uncle determined to protect their niece. Distressing flashbacks unravel in Kathryn’s fragile mind among the turmoil encircling her as she struggles through adolescence and descends into her pain-ridden past.

Tre amici, Marco, Misia e Livio. Le loro vite si intrecciano nel corso di trent'anni, mentre i loro rapporti passano dall'amicizia più entusiasmante alla passione, all'amore, alla rivalità, fino alla constatazione di non poter fare a meno uno dell'altro. Al centro di questo triangolo emotivo è Misia, che ispira e incoraggia gli altri due e li porta alla disperazione, secondo gli alti e bassi della sua bruciante interiorità.

A young woman climbs the tallest tree in Istanbul’s centuries-old Gülhane Park, determined to live out the rest of her days there. Perched in an abandoned stork’s nest in a sanctuary of branches and leaves, she tries to make sense of the rising tide of violence in the world below. Torn between the desire to forget all that has happened and the need to remember, her story, and the stories of those around her, begins to unfold.

'A profoundly moving, beautifully written and emotional story' Louise Douglas A tale as old as time. A spirit that has never rested. Present day As a love affair comes to an end, and with it her dreams for her future, artist Selena needs a retreat. The picture-postcard Sloe Cottage in the...

En el verano de 1938, tres niños procedentes de diferentes regiones de Europa comparten juegos y amistad durante sus vacaciones. Sin embargo, saben que una amenazadora tormenta se cierne sobre ellos y sus familias. Deciden entonces hacer una promesa indeleble: serán amigos para siempre, no importa lo que pase. Los años siguientes estarán marcados por acontecimientos increíbles, hechos de inmensa crueldad que jalonan una de las épocas más trágicas en la historia de la humanidad.

A man is found dead, alone in an old motel room at the start of a new year. What at first seems to be a heart attack soon turns out to be so much more, a fate rooted in several decades and spanning multiple countries. A fate that Detective James Branson now has to sort out.

Childhood betrayal casts a long shadow… From the author of The Haven and The Cliff House, this is a devastating thriller set in a Cornish boarding school. ‘A gripping page-turner’ Tammy Cohen, author of The Wedding Party At a bleak boys’ boarding school in Cornwall in the eighties when...