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

En el «calor sofocante de la Newark ecuatorial» una espantosa epidemia causa estragos y amenaza con dejar a los niños de la ciudad de Nueva Jersey mutilados, paralizados o minusválidos, e incluso con matarlos. Este es el sorprendente tema de la nueva y desgarradora obra de Roth: una epidemia de polio que tiene lugar en un tiempo de guerra, el verano de 1944, y sus efectos sobre la comunidad de Newark, regida por la cohesión y los valores de la familia, y sobre sus niños.

"Une fantaisie truculente, picaresque et touchante au cœur du bocage breton. Mieux vaut lire ce livre que celui d'à côté, il est plus drôle !" Erik Fitoussi, libraire. 1970, Le Camboudin, petit village breton. Alfréd, neuf ans, a un prénom dont l'accent aigu lui déplaît, une mère qui picole trop et un grand-père qui tient à lui comme à la prunelle de ses yeux. Il adore traîner au bistrot avec ses copains, une joyeuse bande de vieux qui lui apprennent la vie. Avec l'aide de son Vénérable Papi, il va décider de passer le cap de ses dix ans en établissant une liste de vœux à réaliser avant le grand jour.

It’s a New Jersey summer in 1967, and thirteen-year-old Ravi Ramanathan has the makings of a tennis prodigy. His surgeon father encourages his ambition, while his mother dreams of their only child following his father’s path. Surrounded by his parents’ love, Ravi chafes a bit at their daily routines and little traditions. Then one unexpected day, everything changes. Realizing how much he took for granted, Ravi must grow up overnight and find a new role in the life of his family.

Christian, Dana, Franz und Mitch sind halbe Amerikaner. Als vaterlose Kinder deutscher Mütter und amerikanischer Soldaten identifizieren sich die vier Freunde auf tragikomische Weise mit dem Land der Väter, das sich aus Amerikaerzählungen, Hollywoodfilmen und eigenen fantastischen Vorstellungen zusammensetzt. Als Christian zu Beginn der Semesterferien unverhofft ein Sparbuch in die Hände fällt, bricht er kurzerhand alleine in die USA auf. Um seinen Vater zu finden? Um endlich ein ganzer Amerikaner zu werden? Und was wird aus seiner kaum gelebten Liebe zu Dana?

A passionate and page-turning saga with an unsolved murder that consumes three lives over several decades in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Told through these three voices The Orphans of Race Point is a novel of suspense, betrayal, and the different ways we find transcendence and meaning in our lives. But most of all, it is a gorgeous and unforgettable love story.

Hvad nu, hvis det, du troede var slutningen på historien, i virkeligheden blot var begyndelsen på det næste kapitel? Indtil videre har det uundgåelige ikke virket særlig godt for Aaron Stein.

Let the games begin… When Jamie Hunt left his cushy life in California to become a supernatural fugitive, he thought he was running away from his problems. The last thing he wanted was to go barreling straight towards them. But as always, life has other plans.

Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men.

The human “oddities” in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies, Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the road as the museum’s golden ticket. Until she’s rescued by two compassionate strangers. Franklin and Loretta Fairchild see in Alida a gifted and uncannily well-read girl in need of a loving touch and a family. With the openhearted couple and their three precociously imaginative children, Alida finds it.

In the bustling streets of Queens, New York, Jamar Ward’s life is defined by loss, love, and the unrelenting pull of music. Raised by his steadfast grandmother Martha after the tragic loss of his mother, Jamar finds solace at the piano, where his raw talent transforms unspoken emotions into hauntingly beautiful melodies. Yet, his journey is far from solitary. Watching over him is the spirit of Melba Bowie, a jazz singer caught between realms, whose purpose is to guide Jamar in unlocking his potential and freeing him from the weight of his past.

Zoe hat gelernt, sich mit dem zweiten Platz zufriedenzugeben. Besonders, wenn es um ihre jüngere Schwester geht – Cara ist schöner, mutiger, lauter. Als sie Moritz begegnen, schlägt bei Zoe das Herz höher. Doch kaum ist das Gefühl da, gehört es nicht mehr ihr allein. Denn Cara ist gewohnt, das zu bekommen, was sie will. Zoe schweigt, wie sie es immer getan hat. Aber diesmal lässt es sie nicht los. Zwischen Nähe und Eifersucht, zwischen Loyalität und Selbstschutz beginnt ein innerer Kampf, den sie längst nicht mehr gewinnen kann, indem sie einfach nachgibt.

Ted ‘Little Boy Blue' Taylor has replaced his estranged father Ron—a disgraced former heavyweight champion on the cusp of an unexpected comeback—as the darling of Australian boxing. But after two uninspiring losses, he is failing to live up to the expectations that have always weighed so heavily upon him. Ted's battles are not isolated to his sport: a painful history of alcoholism, domestic abuse and ties to the underworld of boxing has a firm hold on the Taylor family. Generational trauma and guilt are not Ted's only inheritance.

The story is told primarily through Andre's voice, but we also see things through the voices and points of view of his mother Ruby, a hard-working medical secretary, his older sister Nina, his mostly not-there-usually-drunk-and-high father Eddie, a halfhearted reggae musician, and Reggie and Smoke, the kingpins of competing drug crews.

In Origins, dive into Alexandra Heale's witchy whirlwind of a childhood, marked by her mom's firm rule to keep her magic under wraps. Growing up, Alexandra faced the daunting task of concealing her burgeoning powers, leading to a series of enchantingly awkward moments and magical missteps. Amidst learning to tame her unpredictable abilities, she navigated the perils of keeping her true self hidden, all while dealing with the everyday challenges of adolescence. In Origins, dive into Alexandra Heale's witchy whirlwind of a childhood, marked by her mom's firm rule to keep her magic under wraps.

In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and share a bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island’s most diverse and underserved neighborhoods. The three boys are an inseparable trio but conspicuous: Dayo is of Nigerian origin, Iseul is Korean, and Youssef indeterminately Middle Eastern. Youssef shares everything with his brothers except for one secret: He sees a hallucinatory double, an imaginary friend who seems absolutely real, a shape-shifting familiar he calls Brother.

Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X. Several days later, Alison’s body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men - employees at the resort - are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. The story turns into national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved. For Claire and her parents, there is only the return home to broken lives.

Natalia Morrow is 15. Her relationship with Tobias isn't all what it seems. As Thanksgiving nears, America officially goes to Vietnam, Toby plots his revenge, and Toffer realizes his life is almost over. J. Edgar (Eddie) Hoover and Clyde Tolson hide their relationship while running the FBI. But in Washington, secrets never remain secrets...

Goldschmidt verweeft een aangrijpend familieverhaal met de geschiedenis van moedige vrouwelijke pioniers in de vliegkunst. Noa erft bij het overlijden van haar vader een kist met papieren. Het zijn verhalen over vliegeniersters die in de begintijd van de luchtvaart wereldwijd in wankele vliegtuigjes stapten om records te breken. Rosy Rose bijvoorbeeld, de eerste Amerikaanse zwarte pilote, en de jonge vrouwen in het Sovjetleger die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Kukuruzniks in het donker leerden vliegen. En er zijn brieven van een jonge moeder aan haar verongelukte echtgenoot.

Orphaned cousins Jane and Lucilla, both 19, receive the exciting news that their guardian is at last allowing them to leave boarding school. But their rosy future is thwarted when they find he has made some bad investments and fled, leaving them with a cottage in the English countryside and a modest bank account.

A heartbroken and humiliated Ricky Graves took the life of a classmate and himself. Five months later, the sleepy community is still in shock and mourning. Ricky's sister, Alyssa, returns to confront her shattered, withdrawn mother and her guilt over the brother she left adrift. Mark McVitry, the lone survivor of the deadly outburst sparked by his own cruelty, is tormented by visions of Ricky's vengeful spirit. Ricky's surrogate older brother, Corky Meeks, grapples with doubts about the fragile boy he tried to protect but may have doomed instead.