Títulos em Amadurecimento

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.

Ten-year-old Margaret hides beneath a blackberry bush in her family’s lush backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of flashlight tag. Hers is a childhood of sunlit swimming pools, Saturday morning pancakes and a devoted best friend, but her family life requires careful prudence. Her mother can be as brittle as she can be loving, and her father and brother assume familiar, if uncomfortable, models of masculinity. Then late one fateful summer, everything changes. A line is crossed and in the wake of that betrayal the simple pleasures of girlhood slip away.

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.

Sam and Daisy have been best friends since university. Back then Daisy was a wild, Fleetwood Mac-obsessed girl descended from the Yorkshire Moors, while Sam’s youth was misspent traipsing around Liverpool on shopping trips and nights out. But as they lean against each other on a wooden bench in the tired garden of their beloved local pub, gazing out at Sam’s wedding, they have no idea that their paths are about to truly diverge for the first time.

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.

Ein schicksalhaftes Geheimnis und eine romantische Liebe im Schatten des Loreley-Felsens. 1842 in Bacharach: Die Schiffertochter Lisette und der Gastwirtsohn Manuel glauben, dass sie füreinander bestimmt sind, ​stoßen jedoch auf Widerstände. Als Manuel wegen seiner Lehre bei der Kölner Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft nach London geht, beginnt Lissi nach der Geschichte ihrer Mutter Julie zu forschen, die angeblich einst von der Loreley stürzte. Genau dort ereignet sich nun ein schweres Schiffsunglück. Lissi wird beschuldigt, es verursacht zu haben.

“Jane Eyre” is a masterpiece of gothic romance, where tempestuous passions and dark secrets intertwine in an epic and intimate tale of love, tragedy, and one woman’s struggle for happiness against overwhelming odds. Orphaned Jane Eyre, raised in the home of her kind-hearted aunt, must confront loneliness and cruelty. Her challenging upbringing fortifies her natural independence and spirit, qualities that prove essential when she becomes a governess in the enigmatic and brooding Mr. Rochester’s household.

The royal court is in turmoil, following a massacre. So Kel, Prince Conor’s body-double, is hunting for traitors. The notorious Ragpicker King, ruler of Castellane’s criminal underworld, holds the only clues. But they lead to a dark conspiracy to destroy the royal family – headed by the man set to marry the women Kel loves. Lin will be judged, after claiming to be the legendary Goddess Reborn. And her people’s charismatic leader is ready to test her powers. Failure will mean exile, and only further dangerous deception can save her now.

Eighteen-year-old Katherine - bright, stylish, frustratedly suburban - doesn't know how her life will change when the brilliant Jacob Goldman first offers her a place at university. When she enters the Goldmans' rambling bohemian home, presided over by the beatific matriarch Jane, she realises that Jacob and his family are everything she has been waiting for. But when a romantic entanglement ends in tears, Katherine is forced into exile from the family she loves most. And her journey back into the fold, after more than a decade away, will yield all kinds of delightful surprises...

My name is Katherine Parr. I’m thirty-one years old – already twice widowed. I love a man I can’t have. I’m to wed a man no one would want. He has cast aside two wives and watched another die in childbirth. Two more have had their heads struck from their bodies, on his order. What will become of me as Henry VIII’s sixth wife? I will have the king’s ear. With that comes power. But power means danger in the Tudor court.

In the rugged wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, twelve-year-old Leif's world is shattered when his father dies in a tragic logging accident. But as Leif struggles to bring his father's body out of the dense forest, he is burdened with a devastating truth that will change everything.

Occlusion, a modern sea story explores the complex relationship of a young man coming of age, a captain, a lover and the first woman with whom he learns intimacy. Henry a student readying a small sailboat to navigate his way to England to meet his college lover, meets an old sea captain. A relationship evolves which, in ways unfathomable will change his life.

On Stenland, there comes a time known as skeld season: one day, any woman on the island can wake with three black lines on her forehead, the mark of a skeld. Skeld season comes around without warning, and while each window of time lasts only three months, anyone a skeld turns to stone is very much dead. That's how Tess’s mother killed Soren’s parents. Maybe for this reason alone, Tess and Soren should not have fallen in love. Since the time her mother was a skeld, Tess has wanted to leave Stenland, to run from the windswept island, from her family and friends

Jim spent his summers exploring his grandfather's farm on the Round Mountain. This summer was different. Jim and his cousins make an important discovery and, in doing so, add a new twist to the storied history of Central Texas. The discovery may endanger their lives, but may also prove to be the richest find in the annals of Lone Star treasure hunting. Or maybe not.

Für Dalia ist die Gärtnerei ihrer Großeltern ihr Zuhause. Hier in Cornwall ist sie aufgewachsen, gemeinsam mit ihren vier Cousinen hat sie viele Sommer zwischen den leuchtenden Blumenfeldern verbracht. Nach dem plötzlichen Tod ihrer Großmutter Rose kommen die inzwischen erwachsenen Cousinen im Herrenhaus der Gärtnerei zusammen und machen eine Entdeckung, die für Dalia alles verändert: ein Brief ihres vermeintlich unbekannten Vaters.

Veertien jaar lang heeft Jude Farraday de behoeften van haar kinderen boven die van zichzelf gesteld. Haar tweeling, Mia en Zach, zijn slimme en gelukkige tieners. Wanneer Lexi Baill naar hun kleine, hechte gemeenschap verhuist, is niemand gastvrijer dan Jude. Lexi, een voormalig pleegkind met een duister verleden, wordt al snel Mia's beste vriendin. Dan wordt Zach verliefd op Lexi en worden de drie onafscheidelijk. Alles gaat goed – tot het laatste jaar van de middelbare school. Plotseling voelt niets meer veilig.

È il 1978 e la situazione, agli occhi di Marina, appare assai confusa. Gli ideali e le speranze del decennio precedente hanno perso i colori luminosi con cui dipingevano il futuro e, grigi e opachi, si stanno trasformando in violenza, morte, scontri fatti di fumogeni e manganelli. E anche la sua vita familiare sembra incupita dalla stessa mancanza di luce. La madre si è trasferita a Monterotondo, che nonostante i pochi chilometri dalla capitale a Marina appare un mondo scialbo e molto distante da lei. Così resta a Roma, con suo padre.