Títulos em Amadurecimento

Fifteen-year-old Thea Carter lives in a small garage apartment—Thea’s seventh “home” in four years—provided by her alcoholic mother’s employer, the morose and enigmatic Dr. Hallam. School is Thea’s refuge and she’s an excellent student, but the parasitic Mrs. Carter’s instability continually threatens her dream of getting a high school diploma. In an effort to keep her mother employed and the two of them housed, Thea secretly takes on much of her mother’s work while at the same time navigating adolescence, friendships, and first love.

Set more than 6,000 years ago, She Who Rides Horses: A Saga of the Ancient Steppe (Book One) begins the story of Naya, the first person to ride a horse. Daughter of a Clan Chief, bolder than the other girls but shunned by the boys because of her unusual appearance, Naya wanders along through the vast grasslands where her people herd cattle and hunt wild horses for their meat. But Naya dreams of creating a different kind of relationship with the magnificent creatures. One day, she discovers a filly with a chestnut coat as uncommon as her own head of red hair.

An unnamed narrator grows up overshadowed by her unconventional mother, an ex-Jehovah's Witness and former television star with an inferiority complex. Her father is the head of a psychiatric institution, whose only form of parenting is to offer his daughter the same life advice he dispenses to his patients. Reserved and somewhat aloof, he chooses not to intervene when his wife obsesses about charisma, calorie counting, and turning their daughter into a child prodigy.

The Prisoner is the much-anticipated sequel to Persephone Books’ bestselling title, Crooked Cross by Sally Carson. It is now August 1933, and the deadly fervour of Hitler’s Nazi regime continues to spread across Germany. Michael Reader, a young Englishman, decides to visit his friends the...

A poetic and fiercely moving Russian novel of tradition, change, and thwarted desire by an internationally celebrated writer from the Indigenous Nenets community of northern Siberia. Perfect for readers of Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, the work of Louise Erdrich, and other emotionally...

Rosie Ginger is the last writer anyone would expect to cause trouble: She’s modest, dutiful, and enrolled at a strict Christian college to please her religious mother. But when she secretly submits a scandalous story to a local dirty magazine, she unexpectedly becomes its newest star—an anonymous author captivating the nation with provocative, female-driven fantasies. Because obviously America’s leading expert in desire is an eighteen-year-old who’s never even been kissed.

Matthew Edwards, 25 Jahre, erfolgreich im Business, glücklos in der Liebe. Darren Walker, 36 Jahre, knallharter CEO, überzeugter Single. Doch kann es gut gehen, wenn der dominante Part nicht immer das Sagen hat? Und wie verändern sich die Regeln, wenn auf einmal Gefühle mit ins Spiel kommen?

Batter Gray is worried about his future. Even when he was eleven, his classmates seemed to have settled on a goal: doctor, lawyer, broker, engineer. Good jobs that automatically command respect and security. Now Batter is in his early 20s, living in New York City, and he wants something different; something that alienates some people and bores most. Poetry. And yet to him - and exactly thirty-nine editors at a company called Peck & Peck - poetry not only represents the power of humanity but holds the key to its survival.

Gemma heeft een van de ergste dagen van haar leven. Dan ontmoet ze Boreas… Er is een onmiddellijke aantrekkingskracht, maar er zijn ook talloze redenen waarom Gemma niets met hem kan beginnen. Het lot denkt daar blijkbaar anders over, want ze blijft hem maar tegenkomen. Gemma en Boreas zetten alles op het spel in de acht dagen die ze samen doorbrengen. Maar durven ze de sprong ook écht te wagen?

Ten-year-old Leo spends her mornings tidying the rooms of her nonna's time-worn Italian hotel, quietly accumulating the junk and treasures left behind by guests – a pearl earring, a lock of hair. Years later, over another hot, endless Italian summer, the hotel is one of the only things in Leo's life that has remained constant. An accident has knocked her family sideways; her brother Max is distant and Nonna has grown frail. But then she meets Dolores, an American girl who sets something alight in Leo that she didn't know existed.

Meet Danny Adams. He's the Homecoming King and the "Workshop King," but now he's about to embark on his most important journey yet: becoming the king of his own future. This is more than a book—it's an invitation into Danny's world. As a young man with Down Syndrome, he has built a beautiful life with his chosen family at the Washington Street Group Home. But when a new work program offers him a shot at his dream job at Amazon, he must find the courage to step beyond his comfort zone.

This is a book on a young boy that experiences a lot of adversity growing up with no structure but in the end has done the work to heal the little boy that's inside him.

When fifteen-year-old Blake awakens with vivid memories of a life he's never lived, he discovers he possesses knowledge of future events that could change everything. Armed with these insights, Blake must navigate the treacherous waters of high school while grappling with an impossible question. How do you use knowledge of the future responsibly?

Germany, 1940. Roxy ducked behind the rusted train carriage in the darkness. She’d walked all night alone. She just needed to make it across the railyard and onto the final carriage of the train slowly pulling into the station ahead. Then she’d be safe. At least for a little while… Cared for by her aunt and extended family since losing her parents as a little girl, Roxy Popa has always felt like an outsider. She hates to follow the strict rules her family hold her to.

’n Jong man begin werk by ’n apteek in Bloemfontein maar is gou ontnugter deur sy lot. Is werk, eet en slaap al wat die volgende vyftig jaar vir hom voorlê? Wanneer hy afkom op die mistikus Thomas à Kempis se geskrifte, begin hy droom oor ’n asketiese lewe–weg van geldmaak en ambisie. Op die vooraand van sy reis na ’n Franse klooster, ontdek hy hy het ’n oom wat ’n Katolieke priester geword het, en nou woon in Parys.

'Dreams that are laughable when said aloud are what's worth pursuing. Even if you fall, you do so with much poise.' In a small, enigmatic café in Hsinchu, Taiwan, everyone is waiting for someone. Whether it's love, a second chance, or a sign of something greater. The café is more than just an...

In der Hoffnung auf ein ruhigeres Leben ziehen die Blums vom pulsierenden Brooklyn ins beschauliche Riverburg, wo Vater Gus nach herausfordernden Jahren endlich eine Professur ergattert hat. Gleich an ihrem ersten Schultag wird die achtzehnjährige Hazel ins Büro des Direktors zitiert.

Fourteen-year-old Rainey Royal—fierce, gifted, and dangerously magnetic—lives in a once-elegant, now-crumbling townhouse with her cultish jazz-pianist father and the women who orbit him. Her mother is gone. Her father's best friend hovers too close. And Rainey, left largely to her own devices, must learn to navigate desire, betrayal, and vulnerability in a city that shimmers with promise and threat. As she gathers friends and misfits into her orbit, Rainey tests the limits of who she can become—sometimes a rebel, sometimes a criminal, always a girl determined to recreate herself.

The war has changed. The truth is rising. And Jesse Finch must rise with it. After surviving captivity and betrayal, Jesse returns to a world that barely resembles the one he left. His powers are fractured, his confidence shaken, and the enemy more dangerous than ever. As new races, forgotten magic, and divine influences emerge, Jesse must uncover truths buried beneath fear and deception.

Lea hat eigentlich alles, was man sich wünschen könnte: Als Tourmanagerin begleitet sie eine erfolgreiche Band quer durchs Land. Doch hinter ihrem Lächeln verbirgt sich ein Gefühl, das sie kaum in Worte fassen kann. Als eine schockierende Diagnose alles verändert und ein intimer Moment viral geht, steht Lea plötzlich ungewollt im Rampenlicht. Jetzt muss sie sich entscheiden: Will sie sich weiter verstecken oder wagt sie den mutigsten Schritt ihres Lebens und steht endlich zu sich selbst?