Showing results for "Colors" in Coming of Age

Zoe's life is full of colour. A fan of impromptu yoga, inspirational quotes and experimenting with hair dye, she's on a mission to make the most of each and every day - even if she is currently spending most of her time behind a checkout till. Then she meets Tristan. The rumour is that since his dad died, Tristan's life has fallen apart. No one has seen him for months. But now he's reappeared, does that mean he's back to 'normal'? Zoe soon realises Tristan is struggling with a sadness that she can't possibly understand and becomes determined to bring a world of colour back into his life.

In the spirit of Khaled Hosseini, Nadia Hashimi and Shilpi Somaya Gowda comes this powerful debut from a talented new voice—a sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends in Mumbai, India, whose lives converge only to change forever one fateful night. India, 1986: Mukta, a ten-year-old...

It's been a long seventeen years since Jess last saw her grandmother or visited the family cottage set on an idyllic lake in Northern Michigan. For all that time, she's been haunted by loss - of her innocence and her ability to trust and, most of all, of a profound summer romance that might have been something more. So when her grandmother leaves the house to her, Jess summons her courage and returns to a place full of memories - and secrets.

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.

It's 1969 when 15-year-old Huey Fairchild begins high school at Claremont Prep, one of New York City's most prestigious boys' schools. His mother had uprooted her family from their small hometown of Akersburg, Georgia, a few years earlier, leaving behind Huey's white father and the racial unrest that ran deeper than the Chattahoochee River. But for our sharp-tongued protagonist, forgetting the past is easier said than done. At Claremont, where the only other nonwhite person is the janitor, Huey quickly realizes that racism can lurk beneath even the nicest school uniform. After a momentary slip of his temper, Huey finds himself facing legal charges.

Encuentra en la narración de Leandro los colores necesarios para quitarle el tono gris a la vida y poder verla como tu propia obra en permanente creación. Leandro, el tímido e inseguro, gracias a la pasión que le puso a su talento y a la confianza que fue ganando en sí mismo con cada una de...