Títulos em Amadurecimento

Tess komt uit een welgestelde, maar weinig betrokken familie die net is verhuisd. Als ze op de eerste schooldag van het laatste jaar van de middelbare school Jay ontmoet, is er tussen hen direct een niet te negeren aantrekkingskracht. Jay kan binnen het gezin waarin hij is opgegroeid maar net het hoofd boven water houden. Tess is de eerste in zijn leven bij wie hij open durft te zijn.

In a dorm room at her safety school, surrounded by corn-fed boys and contemptuous girls, Alice is losing her mind. Her first semester is spent clinging to middling grades between drunken hookups and roommate fights. The next brings sleepless nights, extreme weight loss, and effortless, compulsive energy, paused only by an unexpected summoning from the RA for evaluation.

“Ambitious, brave, and strange.” —Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan From the NBCC-winning author, a subversive, rollicking, and feminist retelling of Moby Dick through the eyes of one inimitable woman. I must work on a ship as a man…Yes, I must seek a new life, more adventurous than that...

Can a man who loves his small hometown trust it to love him back? Jared Thomas has lived in the mountain town of Coda, Colorado his whole life. He can't imagine living anywhere else. But Jared's opportunities are limited—the only other gay man in town is twice his age, and although Jared originally planned to be a teacher, the backlash that might accompany the gig keeps him working at his family's store instead. Then Matt Richards moves to town. Matt may not be into guys, but he doesn't care that Jared is.

Some summers never leave you. In this moving debut novel, set over the course of one transformative summer in the lush, beachy enclave of Block Island, a young woman reckons with love, loss, and the choices she must make to move forward. At seventeen, Ruth lost her mother to cancer, and her...

Meet Phoebe Berman: despite being a hopeless romantic, she’s about to be a thirty-year-old virgin. With one month before her milestone birthday, she’s determined to finally lose it . . . if her own anxiety doesn’t slow her down. The can’t-miss debut novel from podcaster and comedian...

A debut family novel about four sisters growing up on the campus of the underfunded state mental hospital where their strong-willed mother serves as head of psychiatry. A richly moving story of sisterhood, loyalty, and mental health in America. The Cross sisters have lived their entire lives on...

A bighearted debut novel about queer yearning, indie musicians, and bushwacking a thorny path back to your first love Jamie is bad at endings, which is why she's stuck at a dead-end Baltimore newspaper job, continuing to have break-up sex with her first-ever hetero partner, and haunted by the...

Jimmy Winslow hat zwei Mütter. Honor, die ihn aufgezogen hat, schickt ihn als Studenten von New Hampshire nach Wien, wo er Vater werden soll. Das Wien der Sechzigerjahre ist ein Ort voller Geheimnisse und Versuchungen, und Jimmy springt kopfüber hinein und ist dabei immer auch auf der Suche nach seiner leiblichen Mutter Esther Nacht. Was er erlebt, ist eine spektakuläre Achterbahnfahrt, wie sie nur das Leben in John Irvings Büchern schreiben kann – voller großer Gefühle, unglaublicher Wendungen und Figuren, die uns nicht mehr loslassen.

Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It’s the 1950s, she’s young, and she’s in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even the natives can manage. Embarking on an educational program that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realizes he’s single and wants to marry her); nights in cabarets and jazz clubs in the company of assorted “citizens of the world”; an entanglement with a charming psychopath; and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador.

The year is 235 AD, and the Roman Empire is on the brink of a precipice. It will take a man with iron in his veins to set things right and accomplish the impossible. From a humble upbringing, a boy emerges who is destined to change history. This is the story of Lucius Domitius Aurelianus.

Life is good at Bingham's Bagel Deli. The loathed customers are dealt the poor treatment they seem to deserve, bad rap music is played loudly, and The Rat is killed often enough to stem his immortality. And the insane homeless regulars -- like drunken Little Johnny Redbeard -- keep life interesting. When a rival tricks the crew into thinking that the deli's closure is imminent, they do the only logical thing: instead of giving up, they decide to go out in a blaze of glory, handing their customers the humiliation and abuse that the pesky social contract had previously forbidden.

"A complex, beautiful coming-of-age novel...a love story unlike any I've ever read." —Ali Hazelwood "A soulful book about the politics of labor and submission." —Raven Leilani Normal People meets Fifty Shades of Grey in this sharp and provocative coming-of-age debut chronicling the turbulent...

Pennello, Lollo, Puddu e Grifo, compagni di classe, sono quattro ragazzi come tanti, senza aspirazioni o interessi particolari, alla ricerca del minimo sforzo scolastico, del divertimento e, sia pure con risultati estremamente modesti, delle ragazze. Le vicende convergono, sul finire dell'anno scolastico, verso una spiaggia del litorale romano, dove i quattro ragazzi si ritrovano dopo l'esame di maturità.

Durante l'operazione che la consacrerà definitivamente come la donna che, dentro di sé, sa di essere, Gabry fantastica con la stessa intensità di quand'era Gabriele, un bambino troppo timoroso per capacitarsi della propria diversità e per accettare lo spirito libero e anticonformista di Enrico, il suo migliore amico.

The Roommate is a fitting title for an account of my first year at Stapleton College, where she and her worrisome problems rub off on me, steal sleep and even force me to hide once or twice. Some will say I bring it all on myself by butting in, and maybe I do. But in my defense, it’s mostly necessary. In the middle of her mess, my own life takes a swerve, upending plans for a snug little future.

An almost true memory of a young man who has grown up on a small farm. The summer swelters, but the harvest is ready. A young man helps his farming father grapple with the weight of the tasks. The fields are dry and dusty, and the day-to-day struggles loom large. Yet amidst the dust and dirt, he sees Emily. She is radiant and apparently carefree while sunbathing nearby. Seeing her ignites a longing for something more than this life of hard labour. Can he break free from the chains of his reality? Will he find the courage to chase a future filled with hope?

Quittant son Sud natal, Léo, vingt ans, monte à Paris avec un rêve en tête : devenir styliste. Dans ses bagages, l'amour absolu de sa mère et son carnet de croquis dont il ne se sépare jamais. Repéré par un célèbre couturier, il est propulsé sur le devant de la scène. Un rêve éveillé, jusqu'au jour où il assiste à l'impensable. Léo doit alors faire face à un choix déchirant : sacrifier ses principes pour sauver la réputation de la maison de couture, ou rester fidèle à lui-même au risque de tout perdre.

Ein kleines Mädchen ist überzeugt, ein Alien zu sein. Warum sonst sollte es ihr so schwerfallen, sich in der Welt zurechtzufinden? Doch als sie zufällig von dem Voynich-Manuskript erfährt – einer mittelalterlichen Handschrift, deren Sprache bis heute nicht entschlüsselt wurde –, glaubt sie, nicht mehr allein zu sein. Die Mission, das Manuskript zu übersetzen, führt sie auf überraschende Wege und zu Menschen, die sie ankommen lassen in ihrem andersartigen Leben.

A powerful, singular collection of short stories depicting the evolving role of fatherhood in contemporary society—perfect for readers of Jamel Brinkley’s A Lucky Man and Phil Klay’s Redeployment. From stories about a father who shows up hungover to chaperone his daughter’s kindergarten...