Showing results for "Paradise" in Coming of Age

Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he does not think to ask when he will be returning. But the truth is that his ‘uncle' is a rich and powerful merchant and Yusuf has been pawned to him to pay his father's debts. Paradise is a rich tapestry of myth, dreams and Biblical and Koranic tradition, the story of a young boy's coming of age against the backdrop of an Africa increasingly corrupted by colonialism and violence.

Italy, 1950. The dawn of a new decade brings with it the promise of lasting peace and prosperity as the hardships of war are consigned to the past. In Pieve Santa Clara, a tiny village in rural Lombardy, Graziella Ponti, now a teenager, lives a simple life with her widowed mother and aunt. But Italy is transforming around Graziella at great speed and, as her childhood gives way to the start of her womanhood, she must learn to navigate this ever-changing new world.

Sara is 25. She has never used a tampon without having a panic attack. She starts dating Miles. For three months, they don’t touch. Miles respects her boundaries, though he longs for them to melt away. Sara desires Miles, but she knows her body, or rather she knows it is an unknowable thing. Sara wants to be in love, to find a person who allows her to be herself. Someone who is happy with everything she is and everything she isn’t. Miles hopes he won’t hurt her.

Die 14-jährige Billie verbringt die meiste Zeit in ihrer Hochhaussiedlung. Am Monatsende reicht das Geld nur für Nudeln mit Ketchup, doch ihre Mutter Marika bringt mit Fantasie und einem großen Herzen Billies Welt zum Leuchten. Dann reist unerwünscht die Großmutter aus Ungarn an, und Billie verliert viel mehr als nur den bunten Alltag mit ihrer Mutter. Als sie Marika keine Fragen mehr stellen kann, fährt Billie im alten Nissan allein los – sie muss den ihr unbekannten Vater finden und herausbekommen, warum sie so oft vom Meer träumt, obwohl sie noch nie da war.

Love can overcome any obstacle. I hope so because choosing to be together will take an act of complete faith, something I’ve never been capable of before Mallory. But now that I’ve tasted heaven I have no intention of letting her go. The last three months were the best of my life and now our time together is over too soon. Selfishly, I need more. I want all of her, which is more than she can give with the distance that divides us.

Cuando los padres de Yusuf, de doce años, le dicen que vivirá con su tío Aziz durante una temporada, el chico se muestra entusiasmado. Pero lo que Yusuf no sabe es que su padre lo ha empeñado para saldar una deuda imposible de pagar, ni tampoco que Aziz no es pariente suyo, sino un rico y acaudalado comerciante con el que viajará por África central y las riberas del Congo en vísperas de la primera guerra mundial.

In his tantalizing debut novel, Paradise Salvage, at once a taut thriller and a lyrical coming-of-age story, John Fusco marvelously traces the unforgettable trajectory of 12-year-old Nunzio Paradiso's last summer of innocence.

Winner of the 2005 Gival Press Novel Award. A teenage girl from Greece discovers that her father isn't who she thought he was. A tale of passion, hypocrisy, and betrayal.

Meredith has been uprooted to the middle of nowhere with two kids and an abusive husband. After she fantasizes about ways to kill him, he ends up dead. Despite all the evidence pointing to her, Meredith finds an unlikely supporter and friend in the county sheriff. Together, they uncover some ugly truths about her husband and this small, isolated town. Can Meredith make this place a new home for her family, or will the real secret behind her husband's death send her away for good?

The debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the book examines the lives and morality of American youth in the aftermath of World War I. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking.

Anna, una mujer que dejó su trabajo en la gerencia de un hotel para ocuparse de sus hijas y de su marido, recibe un mazazo al conocer la noticia de la muerte de su esposo en un accidente. El golpe es doble al enterarse de que, en el momento de ser atropellado, salía de un hotel de la mano de su mejor amiga.

Jen Oakes is a free spirit who's home to enjoy Lindsey Point's beach scene for a few weeks. Max Wainfield is the local geek who's fallen for the wrong girl. Can Jen help Max get the girl he wants before she leaves at summer's end...or will she end up falling for him instead?

Роман о тех, чья юность совпала с безмятежным периодом застоя, и на кого в 90-е пришелся основной удар, потребовавший "выбора пути", "перекройки" мировоззрения, создания новой картины мира.

Surviving an accident that takes his mother’s life, 22-year-old songwriter Santiago DeAngelo is consumed by grief, guilt, and the opiates he is prescribed for his injuries. Nearing rock bottom, he receives inspiration for a song from his late mother. As he struggles to write it, he falls in love with Kitty Holladay, a music producer who offers a rare shot at fame with a hidden agenda. Kitty seduces him into the fast-paced world of pop music, where he records a hit album while fighting his opiate addiction to write the one song that will help him make peace with his mother’s death.

Conformada por retazos de memoria, el narrador de esta novela va desgranando los momentos en los que gozó de la frágil propiedad del paraíso, los momentos de una infancia en apariencia inocente y dichosa pero encarnada en el dolor y la incertidumbre.