Showing results for "vincent-" in Coming of Age

Vincent knows the glamorous side of the Mafia, being born a soldier. Lake lives on the opposite side of the tracks, born the daughter of a soldier. The light and dark side of him are at constant war, but he is letting his darkness reign. She is trying to find peace, and she will soon be far enough away to find it. Discovering that his boss owns her showed him how little he knew her. Knowing all about him only makes her want to hate him.

Er hat eine Gabe. Sie ist seine Muse. Nova hat ein Problem. Die Edelsteinerbin braucht einen respektablen Job und - noch viel wichtiger - eine vorzeigbare Beziehung. Und zwar dringend. Am besten, noch bevor ihr Vater in die Stadt kommt. Nach einer stürmischen Nacht mit Henry Saint Clair, der so gar nicht in Novas übliches Beuteschema passt, beginnt ein Plan in ihr heranzureifen: Henry soll ihren Freund spielen. Im Gegenzug kann sie ihm dabei helfen, die eine Sache wiederzufinden, die er vor Jahren verloren hat: seine Liebe zur Kunst.

Vivian Graham has an acceptance letter into Harvard, a badass tattoo, loyal friends, ties to marijuana, a penchant for Dunkin' Donuts, and her pesky V-card. Everyday she takes the Red Line to her job at The Green Pot in Boston, while her friends enter the coveted, black iron gates to higher learning. The ramifications from a tragic accident have put her life on hold while time marches on for everyone around her.

Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother Wayne is seven. One day, when they're alone together, there's an accident, and Wayne is lost forever. Though his body is never recovered, their mother can't stop searching. The missing boy cleaves the family with doubt: how do you grieve an absence? And how does it feel? As C grows older, she relives and retells her story, and she sees her brother everywhere: in cafes, airplane aisles, subway cars.

She was my foster sister, her luxurious house the only home I'd ever known. I fell in love with Evie before her doctor parents signed my adoption papers. They threw me out the day they caught us. Now I'm Dr. Jones, so far removed from who I used to be, it seems like a bad dream. I tell myself nothing can touch me. Until I see the residency roster at Alpine University Hospital. There's only two incoming neurosurgery residents each year. This year it's Landon Jones - and Evie Rutherford.

The boy next door. That's what he was. Dash Frasier - my hero from the day we met, when I was six and he was nine. His sister was my best friend, the three of us one happy crew. Then one sweaty summer night changed everything. No one understood me like Dash. No one made me feel so loved. That's why, when he skipped town, it wrecked me. Now I'm older. Wiser. I've just snagged my dream job, writing at a film studio. The lead animator on my project? You guessed it.

In the 1960s, Midwestern boy and Boy Scout, Nathan delivers newspapers and mows lawns. Nathan uses his cover to move about yards and sneak into the homes of his neighbors, uncovering their secrets. In high school, one of the local misfits introduces him to diet pills, which help him overcome his shyness. In an amphetamine high, he meets Cindy, who he hopes will steer him along the “morally straight” path of the Boy Scout Oath he swore to.

Young Abbie struggles to cope with the traumatic experiences in her life. Ripped from everything familiar after her parents’ divorce, she is dropped into an unknown neighborhood and is emotionally abandoned by her mentally unstable mother. Abbie is caught up in the cruel nature of one sister’s addictions and is often rescued by her other sister’s love and sense of familial responsibility. The story reveals family secrets and the shift of cultural norms as it leaves the 1970s and enters the 1980s.

Im Jahr 1949 stecken beide in den Kinderschuhen: die deutsche Demokratie und Rita Gawehn. Zwanzig Jahre später, 1969, stehen sie auf dem Prüfstand: Sind sie erwachsen geworden? Als Tochter einer jungen Frau mit großen Träumen und wenig Chancen erlebt Rita alles mit: die Scheidungswelle nach dem Krieg, die Wiederverheiratungswelle danach, die Großfamilie, die Kleinfamilie, die Freundschaftsfamilie und die Mutter-Kind-Familie. Sie ist ein Scheidungskind, ein Stiefkind, ein Schlüsselkind und wächst bei zwei äußerst ungewöhnlichen Frauen auf.