検索キーワード： 成長

Armand Bernal is breaking apart. The trials of youth become a torrential odyssey of dislocation and disorientation. In this bildungsroman for our modern age—an age of collapse—Ben Faulkner has created an unforgettable character wary of work, college, relationships, and the world at large, becoming an unstable young man moving toward an act of terrifying violence. Will he survive the gothic America of The Agonies?

Phillip I. Elkins, a.k.a. Señor Felipe, is a storyteller, salsa maker, father, son, educator, author, musician, and radio host of "LA Sounds" on KZFR, Chico, California. Running from the Fire is a coming-of-age story that begins with a skinny, nearsighted Jewish kid trying to find a home and identity among white and Latino peers in East Los Angeles, an emotional voyage that takes him through love affairs and fistfights and ends with him drafted by the Army and en route to Vietnam. The book is intense, frequently funny, and deeply poignant as he describes his youth and adolescence.

Meet Daniel Nour: Egyptian and Australian; loud and painfully awkward; conservative and very confused (especially about other boys). He's never quite pulled off normal, but 'not-normal' is where the best stories are. Now he's made his peace with that and is ready to share his wisdom. Told as a series of snapshots from Daniel's life–from 'How to Be Born' to 'How to Die' and everything in between–this is a sharply funny tale of culture, family and trying, but not always managing, to come of age.

Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo’s shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.)

Alex and Leah meet at medical school and form an immediate and intense connection. Over the course of four years as they are caught in the push-pull of love and betrayal, longing and reunion, neither can quite give up the other, even as they question whether they are good for each other. Twenty years later, when Alex and Leah encounter each other again, will they make the right choice?

Editorial Assistant Clodagh “Clo” Harmon wants nothing more than to rise through the ranks at the world’s most prestigious fashion magazine. But there’s just one problem: she doesn’t have the right pedigree. Clo is a ‘workhorse’ in a world of beautiful, wealthy, impossibly well-connected ‘show horses’ and it seems that her fortunes will never change. That is until Clo meets Harry Wood, a reporter with visions of his own media empire and the person who might be Clo’s ally in gaming the system…or is he the only thing standing between Clo and her rightful place at the top?

Einmal die Küste runter, immer am Meer entlang. Für Martin, 49, abgerockter Musiker, One-Hit-Wonder von vor 20 Jahren, steht die Route fest. Sein Ziel: Ein Musikfestival in Portugal, seine große Chance aufs Comeback. Als seine Schwester ihn kurz vor Abreise bittet, während ihres Reha-Aufenthaltes auf ihren Sohn Karl aufzupassen, ist die Antwort klar: Nein. Einen 12-Jährigen kann Martin gerade überhaupt nicht gebrauchen. Er bringt den Jungen bei Oma unter und fährt los, in seinem alten Kombi, immer in Richtung Süden.

Bijoux wird nach Unruhen in Kinshasa als Teenager zu ihrer Tante Mira nach London geschickt. Hier verliebt sie sich zum ersten Mal – in eine Frau. Vor ihrer religiösen Tante muss sie das verbergen, doch sie ahnt nicht, dass auch diese ein Geheimnis vor ihr hat: den wahren Grund dafür, dass sie vor vielen Jahren von Afrika nach Europa kam, in ein Land, in dem sie sich immer noch nicht zu Hause fühlt. Bijoux weiß: So wie Tante Mira will sie nicht enden. Und trifft eine Entscheidung.

സോക്രട്ടീസിന്റെ കഥകള്‍ പലപ്പോഴും ഫാന്റസിയും മാലിക്കും കലര്‍ന്നഒരു കുഴമഞ്ഞാണ്. വേറോണിക്ക @ 15 ഒരു പ്രായത്തിന്റെ കഥ മാത്രമല്ല. മുറിവേറ്റ സ്ത്രീത്വത്തിന്റെ ഏകാംഗ കലാപം കൂടിയാണ്.

Christmas, 1983. In the aftermath of yet another furious argument, seven-year-old Andrev’s mother lets him in on a secret: his father is, in fact, not his father. And so begins a new kind of childhood, in which fathers come and go, arriving in red Volvos and sweeping his mother off her feet. Fathers can be magicians or murderers, artists or canoe enthusiasts, and, like growing pains, or the weather, they appear uninvited and leave without warning. Fathers are drawn to his mother like moths to a flame – but even she can’t control how they behave.

In his third novel, France explores the world from a new angle, delving into the emotional entanglement and self-discovery of a character with an addictive personality, searching for a way to fulfill the impulses that govern his life. When his best friend moves away the summer before his junior year, he loses the one person who keeps him grounded, and he spirals onto a dark path. As time passes, he realizes he's not only been hiding his inner demons from those he loves but also from himself.

Sull’isola non tutti vanno e vengono allo stesso modo. Ci sono quelli che arrivano con il sole di maggio e ripartono con le prime piogge di settembre. C’è chi fa avanti e indietro ogni giorno, senza più chiedersi a quale riva appartenga davvero. E poi ci sono quelli che, messi dalla vita davanti a un bivio, hanno dovuto scegliere se restare o imbarcarsi per una partenza che può valere un addio. Entrambe le scelte lasciano un segno invisibile e profondo.

The tables turn when the girl August Lancaster couldn’t stand at Lancaster Prep shows up at the same university he attends. She is suddenly everywhere. And is determined to remind him exactly who she is . . .

Nicholas has plenty of reasons to feel unstable: he’s fifteen, the child of divorced parents, living with his absent dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs, and an outsider at school. Then, one day in geometry class, he forgets how to breathe. The doctor says it’s just panic, but Nicholas suspects that his real problem might not be a psychiatric one: maybe the Greek god Pan is trapped inside his body.

"הרבה פעמים בחיי קראו לי בוגד. הפעם הראשונה הייתה כשהייתי בן שתים עשרה ורבע וגרתי בשכונה בסוף ירושלים. זה היה בחופש הקיץ, פחות משנה לפני שהשלטון הבריטי הסתלק מהארץ ומדינת ישראל נולדה מתוך המלחמה".

גיבור הספר פנתר במרתף הוא נער המכונה פרופסור, מפני שאינו מפסיק לבדוק מילים, להפוך אותן, להרכיבן ולסדרן מחדש. בימים של חרדה ושל עוינות הדדית הוא מתיידד עם שוטר בריטי תימהוני ומואשם על ידי חבריו בבגידה. בתוך כך הוא מגלה את עצמו מחדש, בודק, מהפך ומרכיב מחדש את עולמו, את יחסו להוריו, לאויב, ולעצמו.

יוגב מתחיל לשתות עם חבריו בבית הספר, ובמהרה מוצא עצמו בתוך מערבולת גופנית ונפשית שהולכת ויוצאת מכלל שליטה. הוריו, הדוגלים בחינוך מתירני, נמנעים מלהתערב במצב, ובסופו של דבר סבא וסבתא שלו הם העושים את הצעד ולוקחים אותו אל ביתם שבמושב בצפון. באווירה חדשה זו, של עבודת כפיים והסתפקות במועט, לומד יוגב לקחת על עצמו את האחריות למצבו, ובעזרת סביו, דודו ירון ונערה בשם זיו, הגרה בבית השכן, מתחיל לגלות מחדש את הכוחות ואת היכולות הטמונים בו.

When her family falls on hard times, Kitty refuses to give in to despair. With a talent for painting, she earns a few shillings selling her portraits at the bustling Soho Bazaar. But danger waits in the shadows, and when her mother is swindled out of almost everything and her sister is drawn into a reckless affair, their future hangs by a thread. As winter tightens its icy grip, can Kitty give them hope when all seems lost?

Torin O’Connor thought he could handle the shadows of his family’s Brooklyn mafia past, but one reckless mistake with the wrong Italian mobster changes everything. Sent to Montana’s rugged Carrillo Ranch to escape his own self-destructive choices—Torin finds himself under the watchful eye of Garett Barnes, a stoic cowboy with a past as unyielding as the land he works.

It's a story about being unaware of your own struggles, fearing rejection, feeling alone, striving to be a good person, and trying to please everyone except yourself. It's about falling in love, facing complete rejection, and embarking on a journey of self-discovery—asking, Who am I now?

Summer, 1986. The Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and young cousin—newly arrived from India—into their house in rural Wyoming where they’ll all live together. Because this is what families do. That is, until the sisters decide that it’s time for their uncle to die. According to Georgie, the British are to blame. And to understand why, you need to hear her story. She details the violence hiding in their house and history, her once-unshakeable bond with Agatha Krishna, and her understanding of herself as an Indian-American in the heart of the West.