Títulos em Amadurecimento

"Shattered Resilience" is a harrowing yet deeply moving tale of Sarah, a young girl whose life is marred by a series of tragedies and trials that test her to her core. Sarah's story begins in the shadow of abuse at the hands of her stepfather, a traumatic experience that sets the stage for her tumultuous journey ahead. As she navigates the complexities of adolescence, her life takes a darker turn, leading to her first stay in a mental hospital.

Naema, an elderly princess dedicated to her pet causes, is in a bind: struck by a malady that maroons her in Montreux, she’s unable to host an exclusive gala dinner in Berlin to honor the author Masud al-Huzeil for his lifetime achievement in Arabic literature. Not only is she unable to attend, RSVPs have been slow to materialize, and she’s reduced to begging the ancient award winner to find some attendees at the last minute. Masud invites his old friend Demian, a native Berliner, who in turn invites his two best friends.

Star point guard Mack Morris’s senior year of high school begins with twin cataclysms: the death of her father and the arrival of transfer student Liv Cooper. On the court, Mack and Liv discover an exhilarating, game-winning chemistry; off the court, they fall into an equally intoxicating more-than-friendship that is out of bounds for their small Pennsylvania town in 2004, and especially, for Liv’s conservative mother. As Mack’s desire and grief collide with drugs, sex, and the looming college signing deadline, she is forced to reckon with the disconnects between her past and her future.

Twentysomething Frida Rodriguez arrives in Paris in 1991, relishing the city’s butter-soaked cuisine and seeking her future as a war correspondent. But then she writes to a bookshop in Seattle, and receives more than just the book she requests. A friendship begins that will redefine the person she wants to become.

Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she’s a professional clown who creates raucous, zany fun at gigs all over Orlando. Between her clowning and her shifts at an aquarium store for extra cash, she’s always hustling. Not to mention balancing her judgmental mother, her messy love life, and her equally messy community of fellow performers. Things start looking up when Cherry meets Margot the Magnificent—a much older lesbian magician—who seems to have worked out the lines between art, business, and life.

È l’estate del 1984, quattro ragazzini scappano da un orfanotrofio e dalle «Invisibili», come chiamano le suore che gestiscono l’istituto, per vivere un’ultima avventura insieme quando scoprono che uno di loro sarà adottato. Trovano prima nascondiglio in montagna e poi, ispirati dal libro di fantascienza da cui uno dei ragazzi è ossessionato, cercheranno rifugio in un loro fantastico rito di passaggio, prima di dover affrontare in modo definitivo quello che li aspetta a valle.

At a meatpacking facility in Missouri, Dee-Dee and her coworkers kill and butcher 40,000 chickens in a single shift. The work is repetitive and brutal, with each stab and cut a punishment to her hands and joints, but Dee-Dee's more concerned with what is happening inside her body. After a series of devastating miscarriages, Dee-Dee has found herself pregnant, and she is determined to carry this child to term.

Con questo magistrale romanzo Jean-Claude Izzo chiude la trilogia marsigliese avviata con Casino totale e Chourmo. In Solea lo scontro con il sistema degli intrecci illeciti tra imprese, politica e malavita è violentissimo. Ma al di là della posta politica, il romanzo è un’esplosione di rabbia per questa vita che avrebbe potuto essere bella, per questi amori che non si sanno vivere.

Víctima de la edad de "la punzada", León, de catorce años, acaba de terminar el segundo grado de secundaria y vive el momento con la locura propia de la edad. Inquieto e inconforme con la estricta disciplina de su padre, decide comprar un boleto de autobús con sus ahorros para ir tras Osbelia, su amor platónico que está de vacaciones en Guadalajara. Pero el camino desde el Distrito Federal se convierte en toda una odisea abundante en aventuras, con misteriosos personajes que lo llevan a descubrir lo duro, y también emocionante, que es crecer.

We used to call ourselves The Three Musketeers. I know it's cliché, but we were only kids. They usually took turns being in charge, which was fine with me. I was just happy to go along with them. After all, I thought I was the luckiest little girl in the whole world. Most of my classmates only had one best friend, but I had two: my best friend Izzy and her twin brother. Back then, I hoped things would never change, but that's the problem with more. Once I saw a glimpse of it, it was impossible to stop wanting it. Especially when it came to Shane.

Jamie O'Neill loves the color red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of certain objects, books with dust jackets, rivers, cats, and Edgar Allan Poe. At age thirteen, there are two things he wants most in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother, Noelle, who died when he was born. In his mind, these things are intimately linked, and at his new school, despite the daily barrage of bullies and cathedral bells, he meets two teachers who might be able to help him, though each struggles against inertias of their own.

Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to live with her parents in the home of her childhood. She hopes for comfort but the devoutly Catholic household confines her and forms a dangerous glass wall of guilt and repression between Clara and the outside world. Clara both longs for and fears what lies beyond, and when she escapes into an exhilarating and passionate love affair her fragile identity cracks.

Miv und ihre beste Freundin Sharon sind unzertrennlich. Als Mivs Vater mit der Familie wegziehen möchte, bricht für sie eine Welt zusammen. Eine brutale Mordserie hält Yorkshire in Atem, doch ihr Zuhause und Sharon hinter sich zu lassen, kann Miv sich trotzdem nicht vorstellen. Egal, wie seltsam es dort auch geworden ist, seitdem ihre Mutter aufgehört hat zu sprechen und Tante Jean sich nun um alles kümmert. Was wäre, wenn der Mörder gefasst würde? Könnte Miv dann bleiben?

Lorel has always dreamed of becoming a witch—learning magic, fighting monsters, and exploring the world beyond the small town where she and her mother run the stables. Even though a strange plague is killing the trees in the Kingdom of Cekon and witches are being blamed for it, Lorel wants nothing more than to join them. There’s only one problem: all witches are women, and she was born a boy. When the coven comes to claim her best friend, Lorel disguises herself in a dress and joins in her friend’s place, leaving home and her old self behind.

何歳になっても短いスカートが似合うママは、今日も娘をそっちのけで、恋に仕事に忙しい。「幸せになりたいんやったら、誰かのせいにしたらあかん」。自由奔放なママに翻弄されるわたしは、反発しながら、それでも愛しながら、次第に大人になっていく――。

The Goddess rises up through the ashes of dead divinity to light a beacon for a world of ancient shadows. To conquer the reflections beyond, she must face the one that lies in the mirror. A cherished companion left in jeopardy, the Mystery Cult of the Goddess of Mirrors, Fate, Illusion, and Light has nonetheless grown and prospered, crushing its enemies and forging key alliances in two powerful cities. Faith Energy? Followers? Gold? It’s all rolling in. Her cup overflows. But to wake the one she cares for so dearly, she’d toss it all aside in an instant.

Vigga, Ende 20, lebt in ihrem eigenen kleinen Kosmos. Einzig ihre lebenslustige, aufgeschlossene Freundin Maiken schafft es immer wieder, sie aus ihrer Komfortzone zu locken. Als diese schwanger wird, fürchtet Vigga, dass nun alles anders wird, und zieht sich zurück. Zur selben Zeit begegnet sie in einem Aquarium in Kopenhagen dem Oktopus Rosa. Fasziniert von dem intelligenten, einzelgängerischen Wesen hinter Glas, beginnt sie, Rosa täglich zu besuchen, und ein zartes Band zwischen Mensch und Tier entsteht. Durch Rosa erkennt Vigga: Ohne Strömung und Bewegung ist es unmöglich zu leben.

Con una sabia mezcla de humor y ternura, Nicole Krauss relata una hermosa aproximación a los temas del amor, la pérdida y la memoria, además de un homenaje a la literatura y a la forma en que los libros pueden cambiar la vida de las personas.

Victor and Zoey are getting old—well, older—and it’s beginning to be a real problem. Best friends since college they have been through thick and thin, poor and poorer, drunk and drunker throughout their twenties in New York. Victor has built a successful career writing celebrity profiles for one of the last glossy magazines left standing, and Zoey is working for a fashion startup that is desperately trying to figure out how to monetize influencers, but has definitely figured out how to create a toxic work culture.

Romeo und Julia in modernem, queerem Gewand mit einer düsteren Dark-Academia-Atmosphäre. Alles hinter sich lassen. Von vorne anfangen. Genau das hat sich Josh von einem Studium an der Brynmor University versprochen. Aber nach dem Streit mit einem anderen Studenten steht er wie in seiner Schulzeit erneut als Außenseiter da. Zu allem Überfluss trifft er in Brynmor jetzt auch noch Finn Godwins wieder. Die Familien von Josh und Finn blicken auf eine jahrzehntelange Fehde zurück, und auch Finn und Josh sind in der Vergangenheit immer wieder aneinandergeraten.