Títulos em Amadurecimento

Akis Mutter ist seit Jahren in Tokio, abgehauen, mit ihrem Neuen. Im Nachtleben trifft bürgerliche Welt auf Wiener Untergrund, für Aki gibt es endlich Fluchtorte. Nina ist eine Ausnahme: Sie beendet Akis lähmende Einsamkeit, gleichzeitig ist sie damit seine größte emotionale Herausforderung. Akis Psychose wird stark durch den Zustand der Welt und die Gefährdung der Demokratie getriggert. Proteste am Wiener Karlsplatz und Gürtel und der Klimaaktivismus eskalieren in einem apokalyptisch anmutenden Bürgerkrieg.

The Cut N Shoot Classic follows Joe Don Buggs, owner of the toughest little golf course in Texas, as he hosts his infamous invitation-only tournament. Each year, the event draws fearless amateur golfers, wild wagers, and unpredictable chaos on and off the fairways. This time a young challenger, Kelly Dale, arrives determined to upset tradition and prove himself against the man who built the course. Pride, rivalry, and the love of the game collide in a sharp, funny Texas tale where winning means more than just the final score.

Trata la vida de cuatro niñas que, tras pasar la adolescencia con la Guerra Civil en los Estados Unidos como fondo, entre 1861 y 1865, se convierten en mujeres. Está basada en las vivencias de la autora. Mujercitas supone una auténtica revolución tanto dentro de la literatura decimonónica como dentro de la literatura norteamericana de esos tiempos.

Zachary Whitlock knows sheep. He knows farming and knows what it's like to have his best friend forced into an internment camp for Japanese Americans. What he does not know much about is goats and traveling by sea on cargo ships, yet he makes a decision to go with a group of volunteers to Japan to help deliver a herd of more than two hundred goats, many of which are pregnant, to survivors of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Goats will provide much-needed milk and nutrition, and people living in the bombed ruins are sick and hungry.

On his sixteenth birthday, Zach Neely learns a family secret. A secret that steers him on a mission of life and death, teaching him about true friendship and commitment along the way.

George de Clare thought moving to Manhattan would be an escape. Instead, it's become another performance. Between failed relationships, awkward hookups, and the exhausting work of being "too British" for Americans and "not queer enough" for anyone, George is unravelling. A disastrous trip to Los Angeles with his boyfriend Charlie ends with George fleeing back to New York—alone, broke, and wondering if his queerness is a burden he'll carry forever.

Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. Into her refuge - the York book emporium where she works - come a poet, a lover, a friend, and three mysterious deliveries, each of which stirs unsettling memories. Everything is about to change for Loveday. Someone knows about her past and she can't hide any longer. She must decide who around her she can trust. Can she find the courage to right a heartbreaking wrong? And will she ever find the words to tell her own story?

An unsuspecting couple is treated to a luxury vacation by their deceased neighbor. After begrudgingly agreeing to volunteer at a nursing home, a middle school girl gambles over games of bridge with elderly residents. A single mother struggles to understand the unique bond between her autistic son and his dying grandmother. Four friends experience decades of highs and lows as pawns in The Game of Life. A professional gynecology patient runs into a high school flame while at work, undressed, on the job.

Die zweiundsechzigjährige Addie Finch hat nach Stationen bei der Armee und der Polizei von Los Angeles jetzt einen Job als Sicherheitskraft in einem Mietlager. Als sie eines Nachts den obdachlosen Teenager Jonathan trifft, beschließt sie spontan, ihm zu helfen. Sie bietet ihm an, in ihrem Gartenschuppen zu wohnen. Aus dem Hilfsangebot wird bald eine ungewöhnliche Freundschaft: Während Jonathan den verwilderten Garten zum Leben erweckt, lernt die trockene Alkoholikerin Addie, dass wahre Stärke auch im Loslassen liegt.

Vivien Kendall has always been different. Born with a birthmark covering much of her face, she’s been bullied, ridiculed, and mistreated as a child. But at the age of six, Vivien learns that in each of us there burns a spirit flame—a deep belief in oneself that must be nurtured and never allowed to go out. Living by that wisdom and through the enduring friendships of her nanny, her mentor, and the legend who eventually becomes her coach, she chases her dream to someday become the greatest figure skater in the world.

After a surprise proposal fractures her life into two parallel timelines, a speech pathologist must learn to trust her own inner voice in this hopeful and inspiring story about identity and belonging.

On the eve of his sixtieth birthday, mechanic Rusty Wilson takes a bullet to save the patrons of a small-town Colorado diner—and awakens to a strange realm between life and death. However, he finds that this limbo is not the end. There are still choices to be made and a lifetime to review. Paths open for a man who believes the life he did live was one of disappointments, grief, and devastating family estrangements.

Lexie und River sind in Los Angeles heimisch geworden. In der Stadt der Engel arbeiten sie an ihrer beruflichen Zukunft und perfektionieren den California Way of Life. Neben Flip-Flops und Worten liebt Lexie nach wie vor River, der in ihrem Leben überall und doch nirgends ganz ist. Und dann taucht auch noch Kate auf, die anders als Rivers vorherige Beziehungen zu einer echten Konkurrenz wird. Lexie merkt, dass ihre Liebe vielleicht nicht genug ist und der Weg zu sich selbst manchmal lang und oft einsam sein kann.

A Real Animal follows Lucy through the decade dividing college and real adulthood, as she navigates three distinct romantic relationships, reckons with the false promise of family intimacy, and seeks connection with the sublime and natural worlds. Lucy wants her life to be extraordinary. But this desire never seems to graft easily onto the smallness of her world. As a senior in college struggling to quell the destructive effects of a sexual assault, she gets a glimpse of a different plane of existence—more wild, physical, animal.

Pen und Alice aus Toronto sind seit ihrer Kindheit unzertrennlich. Jetzt beginnen sie gemeinsam ihr Studium in Edinburgh – voller Erwartungen, Sehnsucht und dem leisen Gefühl, dass dieser Sommer alles verändern wird. Pen ist überzeugt: Die Antwort liegt hier – bei Lord Lennox, dem berühmten Schriftsteller und alten Freund ihres Vaters. Als sie eingeladen wird, ein Wochenende auf seinem jahrhundertealten Anwesen in den Highlands zu verbringen, öffnet sich eine Welt voller Charisma, familiärer Verstrickungen und lange gehüteter Wahrheiten.

What does it take to rebuild a life when everything has been taken from you—your home, your safety, your purpose—even your identity? A work of literary women’s fiction about friendship, trauma, and rebuilding a life.

Brought to you by Penguin. Charles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare. Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the half-arsed overtures of his distant parents. That is, until, he meets...

A tower shall rise. It has countless times before. This must be the last, never to fall, persisting forever… The ambitions of The Goddess ascend ever higher — she has her new Heaven, but its purpose remains to take the world. The acid test of that ambition looms day by day: the dread giant of the enemy marching to extinguish her flame before it becomes a fire.

Fleur liebt das Leben in Goldberg. Doch alles gerät ins Wanken, als ihre Mutter Helene stirbt und die Zukunft des Weinorts auf dem Spiel steht. Zusammen mit ihrer besten Freundin Eleonore beschließt Fleur, für ihre Stadt zu kämpfen. Goldberg soll richtig aufblühen! In Schwung kommen ihre Pläne allerdings erst, als Jean-Claude, Koch und vielgereister Weltenbummler, in die Heimat zurückkehrt.

Everyone loves Summer Ryan. A model student and musical prodigy, she's a ray of light in the struggling small town of Grace, Alabama - especially compared to her troubled sister, Raine. Then Summer vanishes. Raine throws herself into the investigation, aided by a most unlikely ally, but the closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous her search becomes. And perhaps there was always more to Summer than met the eye . . .