Coming of Age

After ten years of loyal service, Daisy Butterworth has been made redundant. Like any clever woman, she knows the cure to redundancy is a little too much wine and her best friend. Only the next morning, Daisy has more than a hangover...she has a whole new house—in France....

The men in the secret society known as the Lords think they rule the world. And in a way, they do. Each has sold their soul to the devil at a young age in exchange for power and wealth. Like anything else, they have different levels of success.

Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of 14. But as of this morning...they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love...every memory has vanished.

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction - but assassins are getting closer to her door....

Colleen Hoover held listeners spellbound with her novel Hopeless, the story of what happened when a troubled girl named Sky encountered a long-lost childhood friend, Dean. Now, in Losing Hope, we finally learn the truth about Dean Holder....

The Rachel Incident is an all-consuming love story. But it's not the one you're expecting. It's unconventional and messy. It's young and foolish. It's about losing and finding yourself. But it is always about love.

The second born son in a broken marriage, Joey Lynch has spent a lifetime picking up the pieces of a family unraveling. When his older brother Darren skips town on his first day of secondary school, twelve-year-old Joey finds himself thrown into the role of protector....

Kara McIntyre is supposed to be jetting off to her destination wedding in Hawaii. However, a last-minute hitch appears to have left her without a job, home and, more importantly, a fiancé.

Living on her family’s idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive and precociously talented 16-year-old who loves to write stories....

Jack O' Reilly is a 17-year-old New Englander who in 1805, sails with his parents on the Perdido Star to Cuba....

In fifth grade my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student Ryen....

They were a perfect and beautiful family - until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed....

Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism....

A young warrior called Rezkin is unexpectedly thrust into the outworld when a terrible battle destroys all that he knows....

He's addicted to booze. She's addicted to sex... staying sober is only half the battle. No. More. Sex. Those are the three words Lily Calloway fears the most....

One of the most beloved novels of our time, Watership Down is an epic journey, a stirring tale of adventure, courage, and survival....

A little deer walks into the wolf’s den. I want answers. I know nothing of love, family, or stability, having been raised in the foster system and spat out at eighteen, pregnant, and with no memory of how that came to be.

Lei Ling Wen is lonely. Bored of her demanding after-school schedule of tuition, study and violin lessons, she struggles to see eye to eye with her strict Chinese-Malaysian mother....

You’ve heard of the Afterlife. Welcome to the Beforelife. There are four of us: Samuel, Lucy, Thomas, and me – Eliza.

Inspired by real events, this is a story about gangs, growing up in Scotland and the struggles young people face in choosing a future in Britain today....

Yanko White Fox is used to expectations. Since he was a small boy, his father has expected him to become a powerful mage and redeem his family’s honor. Even if his heart was elsewhere, Yanko always accepted his responsibility.

An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America....

It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry....

Rejected by all, he must learn to master the darkness within if he is to stop Mal’goroth from destroying humanity....

Ever since she was a child, Ivy has been gripped by visions of strange realms just beyond her own....

Kara McIntyre is supposed to be jetting off to her destination wedding in Hawaii. However, a last-minute hitch appears to have left her without a job, home and, more importantly, a fiancé. TV sensation Ollie Chiles and Kara always have each other’s backs. But when his wife goes viral in a compromising clinch with another man, Ollie must choose between supporting his best friend in her hour of need or going home to save his marriage.

Griffin Hurt is in over his head. Between his role as Peter Proton on the hit TV show The Nuclear Family and the pressure of high school at New York's elite Boyd Prep—along with the increasingly compromising demands of his wrestling coach—he's teetering on the edge of collapse. Then comes Naomi Shah, twenty-two years Griffin’s senior. Unwilling to lay his burdens on his shrink—whom he shares with his father, mother, and younger brother, Oren—Griffin soon finds himself in the back of Naomi’s Mercedes sedan, again and again, confessing all to the one person who might do him the most harm.

Raven Ledger was born two minutes before her twin brother Matthew. The newborns shared the same blood, the same womb, and the same parents. But everything about the siblings was different . . . one was darkness and one was light. Raven was born into poverty to a mother who couldn’t care for her, and a father who would do anything to see his twins thrive. Eventually, Raven becomes a pawn between her parents.

Una historia caprichosa, ambientada en una universidad del sur de California, sobre un estudiante de posgrado que sueña despierto y suspira por una mujer hermosa y exótica sentada a su lado en clase.

Desde el pensamiento de un niño de nueve años, pasando por las etapas de su adolescencia y adultez, en el libro se intercalan las narraciones que muestran parte de la transcripción que ese niño hizo de un cuaderno anónimo encontrado en un albergue para maestros en un lugar ficticio. "

The coming-of-age genre is full of the corpses of good dogs. Where the Red Fern Grows, Old Yeller, Marley and Me, Endurance, White Fang, and even the Odyssey sacrifice dogs to character arc. But not this one. The dog in this book lives to a ripe old age. The fate of the other characters however, cannot be guaranteed.

We all learn differently. We learn best when we learn together as a family.

Der 21jährige Benni lebt im Wohnheim für geistig Behinderte. Er hat Stress mit den Betreuern, weil er mit jeder hübschen Frau flirtet und sie als Freundin gewinnen will. Doch dann trifft Benni seine Traumfrau Sunny in einer Münchner Wohngemeinschaft. Sie ist umwerfend und das Beste daran ist: Er darf sie küssen und streicheln, ohne Ärger zu bekommen. Doch etwas fehlt ihr, das ihm wichtig ist – ein eigener Geruch. Außerdem zeigt Sunny keinerlei Mitgefühl für Bennis Trauer um den toten Vater. Als Benni heftig darauf reagiert, passiert ein Unfall und er muss flüchten.

When 16-year-old Gabriel Lazris, an American in Santiago, Chile, meets Caro Ravest, something clicks. Caro, who is Chilean, is charming, curious, and deeply herself. Gabriel dreams of their future together. But everybody’s saying there’s going to be a coup—and no one says it louder than Gabriel’s dad, a Nixon-loving newspaper editor who Gabriel suspects is working with the C.I.A. Gabriel’s father is adamant that the moment political unrest erupts, their family is going home. To Gabriel, though, Chile is home.

Questa è una storia che comincia una sera a cena, quando Libero Marsell, dodicenne, intuisce come si può imparare ad amare. La famiglia si è da poco trasferita a Parigi e la madre ha iniziato a tradire il padre. Questa è la storia, raccontata in prima persona, di quel dodicenne che da allora si affaccia nel mondo guidato dalla luce cristallina del suo nome. Misura il fascino della madre, gli orizzonti sognatori del padre, il labirinto magico della città. Avverte prima con le antenne dell’infanzia, poi con le urgenze della maturità, il generoso e confidente mondo delle donne.

Cosimo, Italo e Vanda sono bambini di appena dieci anni con i sogni, la voglia di scoprire il mondo e la spensieratezza dell’infanzia intrappolate dalla Seconda guerra mondiale. Mentre l’intera nazione vacilla, i tre, di fronte alla scomparsa di un amico, non hanno dubbi: devono partire per una missione di soccorso. La loro fuga darà il via a una seconda, disperata missione di soccorso, quella di una suora e di un militare in convalescenza che subito si mettono sulle loro tracce. Nel 2023 da questo libro è stato tratto un film omonimo diretto da Claudio Bisio.

This is a story of Gurdev and his cohort, a group of refugees who travel east from Pakistan after Partition. It is a tale of falling apart and coming together as the world burns around them. Will Gurdev be successful in his new business of making garments for women? Will he find love after his wife and children leave his side? There may be uncertainty here, but there is also relentless hope.

Moving between the landscapes of fictional Runion, North Carolina, and Nashville's Music Row, Gabriel's Songbook follows a songwriter and singer through his search for fame and belonging. As he juggles ambition, love, and occasional despair, he finds that his dream of success and his love of music become increasingly at odds.

All Calvin Elkan has ever wanted to do is escape his mother and her Pentecostal church, the Lighthouse. Calvin is eternally at odds with the brutal abuses and ignorance of his upbringing in a right-wing evangelical sect in Ohio. Under the guidance of his great-grandfather, he turns to art and music to escape his mother’s blows and the grip of the Lighthouse. He spins the dark world around him into a satirical comic called The Brother Cobweb Chronicles. After high school, Calvin moves out and enrolls in art school, finally free of his oppressive childhood home.

Cette histoire évocatrice et chargée d'émotion, saluée par Publisher's Weekly et Kirkus Reviews, suit un enfant illégitime placé dans une famille puissante et excentrique d'Hollywood après une liaison scandaleuse. Ses origines sont méticuleusement dissimulées par un avocat notoire à la demande d'un célèbre compositeur. Déterminée à enterrer la vérité, sa mère adoptive tire les ficelles et fait appel à des alliés influents, dont une icône de la télévision, pour s'assurer que le garçon ne découvre jamais son passé.

Beneath the Mango Trees is a beautiful coming-of-age novel that transports readers to a small coastal village in Jamaica, where young Marley James lives under the warmth of her family's heritage and the wisdom of her beloved grandmother, Nana Liz. Every day, under the sprawling branches of an ancient mango tree, Marley hears tales of her family's past, deepening her connection to the land and culture that shaped them.

Dal cassetto del mio comodino sbuca un portafoto in plastica arancione pieno di fotografie brutte, ed è subito estate del 1990. C'è Claudia con la frangetta e un paio di occhiali da sole con lenti fumé, Gina un po' più magra e con i capelli bagnati sciolti sulle spalle, io con gli occhiali da vista e sottile come un orbettino. Lulù era già andata via. Mi ricordo gli anni dopo la sua fuga, quella strana assenza mista a sollievo. Non sapere dove fosse e cosa stesse facendo era inquietante, ma la vita senza di lei era diventata più semplice, almeno per noi.

Ophélie déteste Noël et sa coloc et amie Zoé adore cette fête. Cette année, Ophélie se sent dans un creux de vague : son chum l’a laissée pendant l’été et son avenir en tant prof de littérature au cégep est loin d’être assuré, puisqu’elle est en début de carrière. Zoé propose donc un pari à son amie : si elle réussit à lui faire aimer Noël, elle aura le droit de décorer l’appartement plus tôt l’an prochain. Le bal des activités de saison est lancé. Zoé ne lésine pas sur les classiques des fêtes, ce qui permet à Ophélie de rencontrer Laurent, avec qui le potentiel amoureux est au rendez-vous.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK: Se doresc, se amăgesc, își fac griji despre sex și despre lumea în care trăiesc. Poate că, pur și simplu, ne naștem ca să iubim și să ne facem griji pentru oamenii pe care îi știm și ca să continuăm să iubim și să ne facem griji chiar și atunci când există lucruri mai importante pe care ar trebui să le facem. Alice, romancieră, îl întâlnește pe Felix, care lucrează la un depozit, și îl întreabă dacă i-ar plăcea să meargă cu ea la Roma. În Dublin, prietena ei cea mai bună, Eileen, trece printr-o despărțire și începe din nou să flirteze cu Simon, pe care îl știe încă din copilărie.

Estate 2001: in tutte le radio impazza il singolo-tormentone Ossessione Onirica di Boavida. Non è una stagione come le altre: a Genova va in scena il G8 più discusso della storia, Carlo Giuliani viene ucciso, qualche giorno dopo si consuma la mattanza della scuola Diaz; le Torri Gemelle cadono giù, a settembre, per mano dei terroristi. Ernesto Celi, in arte Boavida, continua a cantare canzoni disimpegnate perché così vuole la sua etichetta discografica. Interviste, ospitate, il Festivalbar in cui deve esibirsi dopo che una star si è rifiutata di cantare in playback.