Títulos em Amadurecimento

I heard it said once that every human is a story with skin. If this is true, paragraphs would be etched in the scars on my wrists. Whole chapters could be written about the way my heart pounds when I startle awake. And every single one of my tears could fill a book. But stories, with all their promise, only leave room for disappointment. I don’t have room for that anymore. I left it all—the hope, the love, the promise—back in my old life with the ghosts I’d rather forget: Jude. Emma. Pacey. Kevin. This is how I dare to move forward and to believe in a beginning. I let go of the old.

On the brink of graduation, Arvy Keening is ready for her life to begin. When two drug dealers come to collect, they reveal that the pills are Monas – a rare pharmaceutical that induces life-changing orgasms. Arvy gets an ultimatum: sell 200 Monas in 48 hours or die. After recruiting Wolf, a (devastatingly hot) local dealer, Arvy and Wolf barrel through town, appealing to horny students, lonely barflies, and a mysterious sorority, all the while Arvy tries to repress the maelstrom of grief that's welling up inside.

The First After is a perceptive and tender debut novel following a young woman living abroad in Portugal who finds herself caught between her old life and her hard-won new life when her ex-boyfriend and first love visits her in Lisbon for a dreamy and dizzying week.

Los grillos se han callado de golpe y Gabi se despierta con un vacío en el estómago. Sus padres se han ido y sabe que algo está a punto de ocurrir. Los días anteriores en el campo los ha pasado como siempre: ayudando con el grano, perdiéndose bajo los calistros con su perra Sombra y soportando las bromas crueles de sus hermanos mayores. Se ríen de él porque es diferente: conoce los secretos de las plantas, unos guantes cubren las verrugas de sus manos y una extraña condición le impide reconocer las caras.

Das Buch erzählt die Lebensgeschichte von Theo Sattler. Er wächst als Sohn eines Hunsrückbauern in Morbach auf. Als er vierzehn Jahre alt ist, wandert die Familie nach Amerika aus. Der Vater hat den ältesten Sohn Paul vorausgeschickt, dem sie nach New-York folgen. Nach einer langen und beschwerlichen Reise, auf der die Mutter verstirbt kommen Vater und Sohn in Amerika an. Von Paul fehlt jede Spur und die beiden durchleben eine schwere Anfangszeit. Die harte Arbeit im Hafen kostet auch dem Vater das Leben. Nun muss sich Theo allein in New York durchschlagen.

Ethan Adams has always preferred the quiet rhythm of the band hall to the chaotic solos of center stage. A high school junior and self-proclaimed band geek, he's content to let the spotlight shine on his older brother, 19-year-old Danny, whose Down Syndrome has always been the dominant note in their family's symphony. With divorced parents—a father conducting a new, "perfect" life with a new family, and a tired, single mom struggling to keep their own orchestra afloat—Ethan often feels like a forgotten instrument in the background.

Levi, a 17-year-old girl, barely escapes the clutches of her abusive mother, Selene, after a harrowing attempt on her life. Awakening in a hospital, she learns she has family waiting for her in Montana. Seeking refuge and a chance at a new life, Levi moves to a small town to live with her potential fathers—Jack and John twins. As she navigates her first week at a new school and adjusts to her new home life, Levi meets some new friends, and an old love. However, her world tilts once more as strange occurrences hint at her supernatural heritage.

For listeners of Shark Heart and Hollow Kingdom, a funny, magical, and tender debut novel following a lonely, conflict-averse man whose sudden ability to understand animals sends him on a wild romp around NYC, and ultimately helps him discover his own voice.

Maggie is on the brink. Her MFA thesis painting—a vast canvas of twenty women suspended between life and death—is met with polite confusion. Her marriage-material boyfriend, Rob, is too consumed by his office job to notice her unraveling, and she’s one missed call away from her Turkish mother filing a missing person’s report. To make matters worse, her brother’s partner, a performance artist who insists on being called “The Artist,” seems to embody the kind of confidence Maggie can’t muster.

Heinrich Berlingen, Baron von Satten, braucht einen Erben für seinen Titel und sein Lebenswerk, aber will sich nicht binden. So kommt Niklas von Altenmark, ein siebenjähriger preußischer Krautjunker zu dem ruhelosen älteren Herrn, und das, obwohl er doch niemals von daheim fort wollte. Unter den Fittichen des Barons reist Niklas über Berlin ins vorrevolutionäre Paris, erlebt die letzte Blüte des Rokokos, bevor der Ausbruch der Französischen Revolution sie nach London treibt, und von dort über den halben Kontinent.

Санька Рябинин пытается найти свое место в мире, где границы между добром и злом размываются с каждым днем. Жизнь преподносит новые испытания. Это захватывающая драма о любви, предательстве, дружбе и вере в будущее, разворачивающаяся на фоне лихих девяностых, времени надежд и разочарований, когда каждый день мог стать последним.

How do these four pioneering women connect, across centuries, vast oceans and far-distant planets? The puzzle leads to a vintage computer game, an unforgettable fellow traveller and a quest: to find out what home means to them. Homebound is a coming out and coming-of-age story, a wild and precarious sea adventure, a space odyssey.

At 26, Sam doesn't feel like she's living the adult life she was destined to have. Rather than enjoying a thriving academic career in an exciting city, she's working a dead-end waitressing job, navigating a situationship that's both toxic and intoxicating in equal measure, and living in her mom's condo. Her mom's new neighbor, Nick, is the ultimate grown up. His nine-year-old daughter Kira is his world, her happiness his only priority, especially in the wake of his divorce. Sam has zero interest in an ultra-dependable guy pushing forty, and frankly she's a little afraid of kids, too.

But when the local council announces plans to turn the allotments into luxury housing, Germaine finds herself leading a battle to save the place that has become a sanctuary for fractured souls. Amidst crumbling sheds and overgrown paths, the ragtag band plans protests, forges alliances, and uncovers long-buried secrets.

Florida, 1982. A nine-year-old watches as his dead father's possessions are hauled away: his clothes and tools, his faux-leather recliner. His sensei says it's a perfect time to turn his weaknesses into weapons. His PE teacher says he runs like a pregnant ostrich. His mother takes out a personal ad. Everyone is trying to teach him a lesson but he is, it seems, a slow learner. Meanwhile, with each passing day, his father recedes, growing less and less plausible, almost a myth.

Paris, 1995: It's been five years since Lily Jacobsen and her best friend Mary Louise arrived from their small town of Froid, Montana. When Mary Louise abruptly moves out, Lily feels alone in the City of Light for the first time and is in need of a new way to support herself. She lands a job as the programs manager at the American Library in Paris, following in the footsteps of her French neighbour Odile, who infused her childhood with tales of heroic World War II librarians.

Picture a social misfit who has stumbled through life, making every conceivable mistake along the way. Despite his best efforts to find stability and understanding in a world that seemed to elude him, he remained stubborn and uncompromising, clinging to a deep-seated attitude of non-conformity. His headspace had no room for compromise, and as a result, he had never experienced a meaningful relationship of any kind.

Mary has lived with a secret, hiding the scars of an abusive past and struggling to navigate a world that doesn’t know the real her. At sixteen, she’s on the brink of unraveling, with everything she’s kept hidden threatening to surface. Mitch, her best friend, has always stood by her, but when he uncovers the truth of what Mary has been hiding, everything changes. With the weight of her secret now out in the open, Mitch’s love and loyalty are put to the test as their bond is pushed to its limits. Together, they’ll have to face the truths they’ve kept buried and find the strength to survive.

Quando Carla lascia il paese per lavorare in città come segretaria alla fabbrica di bottoni Zedapa, ha poco più di vent'anni ma le idee molto confuse su cosa si deve fare con i maschi e soprattutto col proprio corpo. Finché un giorno, per strada, le allungano un volantino con una domanda che la spiazza: "Conosci il tuo corpo?". Così, seduta a terra in cerchio tra di loro, con uno specchio in mezzo alle gambe, imparerà che per scoprire chi è davvero deve avere la forza di mettere da parte tutto ciò che le è stato imposto e osservare i propri desideri.

This tale transports listeners to a consequential precipice in Catherine’s life. One where she discovers her voice and begins to understand the needs of her own heart—and how fragile that heart may be—transforming her into the antagonist listeners know and loathe in Jane Austen’s cherished Pride and Prejudice.