Showing results for "Max" in Coming of Age

Max is about to finish high school. On the surface it appears he has everything, but underneath he is floundering. Grappling with questions about his birth parents and his sexuality, he feels that there is a seed of badness deep within him that will inevitably be exposed. After an incident at the end-of-year party sets Max's world to crumbling, he must finally figure out who he is and where he came from–and who he is allowed to love.

Max kämpft. Max flieht. Max sucht. Er kämpft gegen die Verrücktheit einer Welt, die aus den Fugen gerät. Er flieht vor den Menschen, die ihn nicht verstehen. Er sucht die eine Frau, die er wirklich lieben kann. Dies ist die Geschichte eines großen Künstlers des vergangenen Jahrhunderts: Max Ernst. Im Spiegel von sechs Frauenleben erzählt dieser Roman vom 20. Jahrhundert und entwirft das Panorama einer wahnwitzigen Zeit.

Ansel Bray, an artist known around the world for his tragic hiatus from the canvas. Ansel Bray, a broody, handsome man not known by me, at all. Long dark hair, blue eyes, and dimpled cheeks. I've never met her, but her image is imprinted in my mind. An angel muse who inspires me to paint again.

Veronica Mars meets the World of Warcraft in The Unfortunate Decisions of Dahlia Moss, a mystery romp with a most unexpected heroine. If it were up to me this book would be called Hilarious Things That Happened That Were Not At All Dahlia's Fault -- or HTTHTWNAADF, for short. OK, I probably...

A sensitive boy growing up in a bad neighborhood, Harry Riddle doesn’t fit in with the kids who hold up gas stations, steal purses, and drop safes on policemen. He prefers to contemplate the American dream and his father’s advice for achieving it: “Get rich, boy. Then sleep till noon and screw ’em all.” But when Harry gets his first job as a cafeteria busboy, a customer warns him that money leads to corruption. The idea disturbs him so much that he accidentally sticks his hand into a meat grinder.

It's the middle of the Great Depression, and Morris Katz and his cousin, Albert, are broke. But that's all about to change when they head off to college on a mission from Morris' mother to find rich, unattractive Jewish girls to marry. The boys arrive on campus armed with a secret weapon: the poetry of Morris' cousin, Crip. Within a day Morris is courting Celeste Zimmerman, the frumpy heir to a movie theater franchise.

Le temps d'un automne, quatre personnages – Maxime, Tania, Clémence, Gabriel - évoluent avec leurs doutes, leurs questionnements, leurs espoirs. Ils se rencontrent, se croisent, se cherchent, explorent leur passé pour construire leur avenir. Par petites touches, ils reviennent sur des blessures, des erreurs, des souvenirs, pour mettre au jour ce qui les unit et leur permettre de tisser les fils de leur vie future. Chacun d'eux suit sa trajectoire et cherche à donner un sens à sa vie, à se réconcilier avec son passé ou à éclaircir des secrets oubliés.

Insoddisfazione, apatia, frustrazione. Sono sensazioni che proviamo ogni giorno, bloccati nelle nostre vite vissute a metà. Fortunatamente però, la forza di reagire insita nell'essere umano è l'impulso che ci consente di andare avanti, ed è lo stesso che permette a Max, il protagonista di questa storia, di affrontare il suo malessere. Il destino però, è cosa nota, riserva sempre delle sorprese ed una semplice passeggiata in montagna può trasformarsi in un'avventura inaspettata.

On his first day of college, farm boy Asa Hearthrug enthusiastically jumps out of bed - and discovers that his pajama pants are caught in the bedsprings. He learns that his dog has died, and his father, in an effort to soften the blow, tells an absurd story about a female bullfighter. Next, the freshman pays a visit to his high school sweetheart to say a heartfelt good-bye, but Lodestone La Toole is more interested in hamburgers than vows of devotion.

Tim ist 16, als er die gleichaltrige Lena unter Drogen auf einer Party vergewaltigt. Vier Jahre später wird er aus der Haft entlassen und soll ein neues Leben beginnen. Doch die Auswirkungen seiner Tat dauern an - und lassen weder ihn noch Lena los.

Eines Abends wird der verheiratete Musiker Alexander Goudeveyl nach einem Konzert von einer jungen Frau angesprochen...

Chicago, 1985: Yale ist ein junger Kunstexperte, der mit Feuereifer nach Neuerwerbungen für seine Galerie sucht. Gerade ist er einer Gemäldesammlung auf der Spur, die seiner Karriere den entscheidenden Schub verleihen könnte. Er ahnt nicht, dass ein Virus, das gerade in Chicagos Boystown zu wüten begonnen hat, einen nach dem anderen seiner Freunde in den Abgrund reißen wird. Paris, 2015: Fiona spürt ihrer Tochter nach, die sich offenbar nicht finden lassen will.

After attempting to drink away a broken heart, Raven Walker finds herself in the arms of the one man she never thought she'd have. The problem is he happens to be her childhood crush and her brother's best friend. What she assumes will be just a one-night stand turns into so much more. He's strong, confident, loyal, tattooed, and before she knows it, her head and heart are fighting a battle between staying within the boundaries or crossing a line she can never come back from.

Ever since they first met at university, Beth and Nick have circled in and out of one another's lives: supporting each other through grief, marriage, divorce, career crises and family dramas. Fourteen years ago, when they were on the cusp of adulthood, they both survived a devastating fire that sent their lives in different directions. And they’ve been running ever since: from the pain, from the memories, and most devastatingly of all, from the guilt.

After four years of living with relatives in Switzerland, 17-year-old Joel Scherzenlieb finds himself in the United States for the summer, working at a Boy Scout camp. There, he meets 19-year-old Corey Cobbett, a fellow counselor and the only person Joel wants to be friends with. Soon, Joel's sarcastic, distant CIA father shows up and whisks him away to live with his mother, grandmother, and older sister on a farm in Virginia - he's not going back to Switzerland after all.

Clara ist mit ihrer Kraft so gut wie am Ende. Seitdem beim gemeinsamen Sohn eine schwere Atemwegserkrankung festgestellt wurde, stehen sie und ihr Mann Paul unter Druck. Da tritt von einem auf den anderen Tag ihr alter Jugendfreund, ihre erste große Liebe Max wieder in ihr Leben. Er bietet der erschöpften Familie völlig überraschend sein Ferienhaus auf Sylt an, um dort wieder zu Kräften zu kommen. Doch kaum auf Sylt angekommen, bemerkt sie, dass ihre Gefühle für Max immer noch stark sind.