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

Alison Hayes is set to fly or flee. When she follows her friend, Cici, to California she hopes it will be the beginning of a new, perfect life. She has spent her days trying to do something better, trying not to repeat the mistakes made by her alcoholic and broken mother. Yet, she is haunted by the only "right thing" she has ever done being the one thing she couldn't keep.

A seemingly ordinary 14-year-old boy discovers he has the ability to talk with animals and they with him. It is not at all like Dr. Doolittle. Hamish learns he is a Speaker, one in a centuries-long tradition of rare individuals who have the ability to talk with animals, and who emerge when the world is confronted by extraordinary crises. But Hamish doesn’t know what crisis he has been called to address, and not even the animals he speaks to have the answers for him. Speaker is a coming-of-age story about overcoming grief and letting go.

Davy Wallace is a talented, troubled artist struggling to overcome a traumatic childhood as he steps into the void of life after college. Eventually, he finds compassion in the form of a local high school teacher Rob Walsh, who is grieving his own deep loss. Together, Davy and Rob find their way toward healing, in this coming-of-age novel set in North Carolina.

Martha is lost. She’s been lost since she was a baby, abandoned in a suitcase on the train from Paris. Ever since, she’s waited in the station's lost property for someone to claim her. It’s been 16 years, but she’s still hopeful. In the meantime, there are mysteries to solve: secret tunnels under the station, a suitcase that may have belonged to the Beatles, the Roman soldier who appears at the same time every day with his packed lunch. Not to mention the stuffed monkey that someone keeps misplacing.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

A Pepi ha vivido grandes aventuras: viajó a España y se arriesgó por amor, conoció a una serie de amigos y se enteró de varios secretos. Sin embargo, todavía le queda mucho por vivir. En esta segunda parte, Pepi nos cuenta el verdadero secreto del Español, y toma una decisión en el amor que seguro que nos sorprenderá.

Es liegen Welten zwischen uns. Und doch trennt uns nichts. Tagsüber arbeitet Ella als Erzieherin, nachts veranstaltet sie als DJane verbotene Untergrund-Partys in Berlin, bei denen sie unzählige Feierwütige zum Tanzen bringt. Als eine davon hochgenommen wird, trifft Ella das erste Mal seit dem Rockfestival auf Polizist Otis und liefert sich kurzerhand eine heiße Verfolgungsjagd mit ihm. Eigentlich kann sie den ungehobelten Kerl nicht ausstehen.

What do you do when your once charmed life falls to pieces? Karsen Woods's life seems charmed, from her hunkalicious boyfriend to her picture-perfect Midwestern roots. Away at college, even the necklace she wears serves as a constant connection home - a family tradition created when her grandfather handmade each immediate relative an interlinking charm. Each piece crafted in the shape of a puzzle piece, each one interlinking perfectly together.