Títulos em Amadurecimento

In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm—and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow’s disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors.

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared world—of joy, escape and fierce competition. But all too soon that time is over, fades from view. When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate, and together they get to work on what they love—making games.

Blue Echohawk não sabe quem ela é. A garota, que desconhece seu nome verdadeiro e sua data de nascimento, foi criada por um estranho e não frequentou a escola até os dez anos. Aos dezenove, quando a maioria dos jovens vai à faculdade ou segue em frente com a vida, ela é apenas uma veterana no ensino médio. Sem mãe, sem pai, sem fé e sem futuro, Blue é uma estudante difícil, para dizer o mínimo. Durona e sexy, ela é o oposto do jovem professor britânico que decide que está pronto para o desafio de levar a encrenqueira para debaixo de suas asas.

Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake is the runaway TikTok must-listen fantasy novel of the year, read by a full cast of narrators. If you loved Ninth House and A Deadly Education, you’ll love this. Secrets. Betrayal. Seduction. Welcome to the Alexandrian Society. When the world’s best magicians...

The story blends a bit of imagination with the true story about six-year-old Paddy and his life in New York City, to rural Kilkenny County in Ireland, in the 1960s, and back again to New York, and how he learned that Banshees are real while also managing to navigate and survive a broken home and a variety of other early-life challenges. The boy’s name may not really be Paddy, but to tell this story, a hint of Irishness and anonymity may be necessary.

Fourteen-year-old Azariah Hancock must flee his home in Montgomery County, MD after avenging the rape of his sister by the son of the local sheriff. The Hancock family is hated by many in the county for being fair to their slaves, so Azariah and his family knew he would not receive a fair trial. He heads to St. Louis, where he meets mountain man Liam O'Reilly, who takes the youth under his wing, teaching him the trapping trade. Azariah finds friendship, love, and a new family, having adventures all along the way.

In a village where fate is dictated by an unseen force called The Hum, 17-year-old Verus questions everything. While others eagerly await their life path through a sacred ritual known as The Quieting, Verus is haunted by grief, isolation, and an inner voice that refuses to be silenced. His journey begins with loss and the crushing weight of expectation—but what starts as a quest for answers soon spirals into a battle between free will and control. In a world where certainty is comfort and questioning is rebellion, how far will you go to find your truth?

Isabel Spencer's painting may be one she comes to regret forever. But, it leads to something unexpectedly magical. And dangerous. She was a normal teenage girl, just trying to make enough money to help her dad, and keep her home. Her mom was gone, she had no friends. And, she was failing high school. It couldn't get any worse. Until she decided to paint. And after painting, she made something that was more alarming than trying to hold all of her feelings inside. It was as if the painting was following her, haunting her, every second. But getting away from it isn't an option anymore.

Geneviève (Vivi) Dubois, a métisse, half-Lao/half-French, turns eighteen and leaves the French orphanage in Vientiane where she has been trapped for fourteen unhappy years. With only a distant memory of being torn from her mother’s arms at age four, she is determined to uncover what happened to her parents and locate her missing twin brother. But where to start? Orphanage and government officials refuse to reveal her origins. She leaves her strict, Catholic upbringing behind and emerges into the deeply divided world of 1931 French colonial Laos.

В 1952 году маленький Горка с родителями наконец переезжает в отдельное жилье. «Территория тюрьмы» — именно так называют этот дом сами жители — в действительности становится для ребенка, а затем молодого взрослого местом, где он учится быть по-настоящему свободным. Бугульма становится для Горки прообразом большого мира. Здесь он будет взрослеть, заводить друзей, влюбляться, делать глупости и совершать благородные поступки.

Конец нулевых, Пермь. Катя и Лариса, студентки психфака и подруги не разлей вода, встречаются после летних каникул. Девушки дружат с детства, и у них много общего, но прежде всего — любовь к рок-музыке. Лариса поглощена новой идеей — игрой в хиппи. Теперь она одевается, как хиппи, говорит, как хиппи, а главное — ведет себя, как хиппи. И еще у Ларисы появился новый приятель по прозвищу Док, намного старше ее, прошедший Афган. А у Кати — новая тайна. Она видит сны о том, чего знать в деталях никак не может, ей снится афганская война… Время идет, игра перестает быть игрой.

Абдулмаджид вырос в дагестанском ауле, где ни у кого не было точного адреса, — в паспортах жителей просто значилось «село Н». Абдулмаджид стал писателем; рассказы дебютной книги он населил персонажами — людьми, которых он когда-то встречал дома, на Кавказе. Время шло, Абдулмаджид уехал из родного села, поступил в московский вуз и там впервые столкнулся с тем, что значит быть непохожим на остальных.

How does a child survive when the world looks away? Rae was only a little girl when her world began to fall apart. The people who were meant to love and protect her turned away, leaving her to face abuse, silence, and fear on her own. In search of comfort, she found only more pain. Drugs, shame, and loneliness became part of her childhood. Yet somewhere inside, a small light kept burning, refusing to go out. RAE: A Child’s Story is a survival story told with honesty and courage.

Yank is an ordinary enough teenager, except that he lives in a thermal wonderland (frequented by tourists eager to view the geysers and boiling mud) and except for the fact that one of those tourists (an American soldier visiting during the Second World War) was his father. The locals gave the boy the nickname of Yank, a name that makes him different and ensures his mother's husband will never accept him as his own. So who was Yank's real father? Yank has only his dreams to fill the void, until the day a letter arrives ...

Neste romance finalista do prêmio Pulitzer, acompanhamos o amadurecimento de uma jovem universitária nos anos 1990 que se descobre como escritora enquanto vive as agruras e as delícias do primeiro amor. Selin, filha de imigrantes turcos, começará seu primeiro semestre em Harvard. O ano é 1995 e a internet, uma novidade. Ela se inscreve em matérias de que nunca ouviu falar, faz amizade com a carismática e cosmopolita colega sérvia, Svetlana, e começa a se corresponder por e-mail com Ivan, um estudante de matemática húngaro, mais velho.

You think you know what abusive relationships look like, until you see it for yourself. When Lucy and Meg’s mother is assaulted by her husband, stepfather Greg, his arrest seems to mark the end of a nightmare. But when their mother chooses to stay with him, the sisters are thrust into a disturbing moral dilemma. Desperate to protect her, they take a drastic step: secretly install hidden cameras to capture the truth for themselves—and the rest of the world. What unfolds isn’t what Lucy expected.

For as far back as she can remember, Vicky has been fascinated and obsessed with death as the only inevitable thing in life. From living above a Chinatown funeral parlour to working at a celebrity start-up for bespoke urns, she has surrounded herself with death - in her home, in her work, and in her ever-growing collection of zhizha, paper creations meant to be burned for the dead, adorning the walls of her apartment. Yet, though living in Manhattan and working her dream job is all she ever wanted, she still struggles to have meaningful connections-or find any meaning at all-in her life.

Nell has accepted, at age twelve, that hers will likely be a friendless existence. But then, a new girl arrives at school. Eve has short hair like a boy's, a wicked sense of humor and an unshakable confidence that she will one day find her place in the world. From their childhood to their twenties and thirties, Eve and Nell will love each other and hurt each other - through teenage feuds and the chlorine-scented savagery of all-girls' schools; through long, drunken nights in scruffy share houses; through the highs and lows of coparenting a child together without being romantically involved.