Títulos em Amadurecimento

Enola is approaching 30 and everything feels like a lot. The boxes aren’t ticked and she feels adrift in a way she thought she would have beaten by now. She wants to be a writer but can't finish a first draft; she romanticizes her childhood but won’t speak to her mother; she has never been in a serious relationship but yearns to be one half of a couple that DIYs together at the weekends. Enter: enigmatic writer.

The London suburb of Croydon,1964: Helen Hansford is unmarried and in her thirties. Something of a disappointment to her middle-class parents, she’s an art therapist at the Westbury Park psychiatric hospital, where she has been having a rebellious love affair with her colleague Gil, a dashing but married doctor. One spring afternoon they receive a call about a disturbance at a derelict, vine-covered Victorian house a few miles up the road. There the police find a mute, thirty-seven-year-old man called William Tapping, his hair and beard down to his waist.

Il libro ha come protagonista un giovane avvocato di successo, Luca Pertinelli, e il coro di amici (e colleghi di lavoro) che l'accompagnano "in scena". Fino a quando non arriva dall'Inghilterra la giovane Sabine, di cui Luca si innamora entrando in conflitto con il proprio ambiente, la moglie e le regole di un mondo in cui egli stesso è irrimediabilmente prigioniero. Nella seconda parte del romanzo, la scena si sposta su un'isola vacanziera dove la presenza di Sabine farà esplodere in modo drammatico le contraddizioni che dominano il circuito di sciagurati gaudenti attorno ai quali Bulgaro traccia un disegno collettivo di grande respiro.

Gina ha dieci anni ed è figlia di un politico democristiano, Mario Caruso, che nell'estate del 1980 è costretto a lasciare la famiglia e scappare da Napoli. Con sua madre Sofia e la sorella Betta, Gina parte sotto falso nome per raggiungere suo padre in Sardegna. Grazie alla passione sfrenata per le storie e le parole nuove, Gina prova con tutte le sue forze a comprendere cosa stia succedendo alla sua famiglia, cercando di decifrare il significato di termini per lei esotici come “capro espiatorio”, “latitante”, “brigatista” e “camorrista”.

Tre bambini nascono nello stesso giorno in tre luoghi diversi: Jerry a Central Park, New York, durante un concerto dei Grateful Dead; Giulia in un istituto religioso ad Assisi, mentre alla radio viene trasmessa la canonizzazione di Santa Giulia Billiart; Guido all’ospedale di Livorno, a poche ore dalla morte di Judy Garland. È il 22 giugno del 1969, e le vite future dei tre saranno influenzate da ciascuno degli eventi di quel giorno. Si racconta qui delle loro tre esistenze, della loro crescita, della loro formazione mista a quella di un paese, e di un mondo, negli anni incerti trascorsi tra il 1969 e il 2001.

Life-long friends Louisa, Jeannie and Kate are following in the footsteps of their families, working at the Clarks shoe factory. But when Britain declares war on Germany, the Somerset village of Street is shaken to its core. The Clarks factory is at the heart of life in the village, but the Clark family are Quakers and pacifists. Before long, there are fierce debates amongst the workers and tensions between those who oppose the war and those who believe the village men should go to fight.

Elsa is struggling. Her formative, exhilarating relationship—with a couple—has abruptly ended, leaving her depressed and directionless in her childhood bedroom. The man and the woman were her bosses, lovers, and cultural guideposts. In the relationship’s wake, Elsa scrolls aimlessly through the internet in search of meaning.

Eighteen-year-old Anna is still learning how to live in the world outside Advocate Hospital where she spent months there as a psychiatric patient. As her high school friends and boyfriend Murph head off to college, Anna still struggles to overcome the wounds of her past while navigating the challenges of the future.

Ein Sommer und der Zauber der ersten Liebe... Charkiw, 1986: Als der rebellische Jura im sowjetischen Pionierlager eintrifft, glaubt er einen langen, langweiligen Sommer vor sich zu haben. Doch dann tritt Wolodja in sein Leben. Der Gruppenleiter plant ein Theaterstück auf die Beine zu stellen und bittet Jura um Hilfe. Während der Vorbereitungen merken die beiden, dass sie weitaus tiefere Gefühle füreinander hegen als nur Freundschaft. Gefühle, die eine Gefängnisstrafe bedeuten könnten, sollte jemand etwas bemerken. Nach dem Sommer trennen sich die Wege der jungen Männer.

Meet Sofie. The history of her sexuality begins when she loses her virginity to Walter the recruitment consultant. So, naturally, she thought that things could only improve from there. But she was wrong. It seems Sofie's been wrong about a lot of things. First, she thought she was into men: wrong. Then she met Frida and thought she was set for life: wrong again. Turns out, facing up to everything she thought she knew about herself requires a lot of trial and error.

Everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together – everybody but Shiloh and Cary. Slow Dance follows these star-crossed best friends from their inseparable teen years on the wrong side of the tracks to their far-flung adulthoods – through her marriage and motherhood and his time in the Navy – as they try to work out what they’re actually supposed to be to each other.

Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two interwoven stories. In the first, it’s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he’s sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie. Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the book’s main characters is also named City Coldson—but Long Division is set in 1985.

Tímida, discreta e gentil, Mary Jane consegue um emprego como babá da filha de um médico, mas logo no primeiro dia de trabalho, a garota descobre que foi parar na casa de uma família hippie que vive de um jeito completamente diferente de sua própria família. Para completar, o médico em questão é um psiquiatra que trata de um famoso astro do rock viciado em drogas.

Von den Bindungen, die unser Leben prägen: Als Sunnys Vater nach langer Krankheit stirbt, ist für sie nichts mehr wie vorher. Ihre Beziehung geht in die Brüche, eine ihrer engsten Freundinnen fällt ihr in den Rücken. Was bleibt, sind die Erinnerungen an ihren Vater, ihre Familie und die Jugendjahre im wiedervereinigten Berlin der Neunzigerjahre. Und an ihre Freundinnen Jessi, Alma und Katharina, die alle so ganz andere Väter hatten als sie.

Liam is living the dream. His senior year at college, and he's the big man on campus, the quarterback for the football team. Rumored to be drafted to the big leagues he's focused and determined. Eat, sleep, and breath football. Then he meets his little sister's roommate, and suddenly football is no longer his only focus.

Isabel Rosen hat noch ein Semester am Wilder College vor sich, als ein neuer Professor ihren Kurs für Kreatives Schreiben übernimmt. R. H. Connelly ist ein charismatischer Lehrer und ein Mann mit Geheimnissen. Er gibt Isabel das Gefühl, gesehen zu werden, schön und talentiert zu sein: die Frau, die sie sein möchte. Die beiden beginnen eine Affäre, die die Grundlagen dessen, wer Isabel zu sein glaubt, immer mehr erschüttert. Während ein weiteres Drama um ein verheiratetes Paar am College alle um sie herum in Atem hält, ahnt Isabel, dass die Grenze zwischen Jugend und Erwachsensein weniger klar ist, als sie dachte.

As one of the daughters of an English Earl and his Indian Mistress, Anya Marleigh has defied Regency society’s rules by playing her sitar and singing beautifully for Queen Charlotte at the court of George III. When she comes into an unexpected inheritance, her change of fortune comes with a catch — she must marry before her twenty-fifth birthday or the money will go to her trustee — the infuriating but devilishly sexy Lord Damian Ashton, who also has the power to approve her choice of husband.

Alexander Kingwood IV is a dark prince who wants to be King. Sara Jane Grayson is the woman he wants as his queen. When it seems the world is against them, they will fight for their happily ever after. She was my destiny. I was her downfall. We were a match made in hell. When we were together, that hell was pure heaven.

It's 1972 and ten-year-old Deborah is living a ten-year-old life: butterscotch angel delight and Raleigh chopper bikes, and Clunk Click, and Crackajack and Jackanory, Layla and the Bee Gees, flares and ponchos. But new girl Sarah-Jayne breezes into school, pretty as a picture and full of gossip and speculation, as well as unlikely but thrilling stories about levitation. The other girls are dazzled but Deborah is wary and keeps her distance.

Young, successful, beautiful and wild, Mason and Athena Armada are a romance for the ages. They appear to have everything anyone could want. As money pours in, their lives become more reckless. Passionate and dangerous, blind devotion leads Athena to the brink of her senses and her love is tested in ways that even she could not conceive of as a partner to Mason’s sexual voyeurism.