Titoli in Romanzo di formazione

Ci sono luoghi da cui sembra impossibile uscire, posti che ti stringono come una gabbia, tra strade che tornano sempre su se stesse e segreti che affondano fra le crepe dell'asfalto. Max lo sa bene. Lo vive tutti i giorni sulla propria pelle da che il padre, di punto in bianco, ha deciso di abbandonare lui e la mamma. Poi anche Rachele è scomparsa nel nulla, e tutto è diventato più cupo e soffocante. Per fortuna ci sono Cosma lo Zingaro, Tobia e Guido, il suo branco, gli amici di sempre, e le loro nottate di fumo e nostalgia alla Fabbrica abbandonata.

Als er vierzehn ist, verliebt sich Hannes Prager in das Mädchen Polina. Um ihr seine Liebe zu zeigen, komponiert der wundersam begabte Junge eine Melodie, die Polinas ganzes Wesen und Wünschen umfasst. Kurz danach stirbt Hannes’ Mutter bei einem Unfall, mit ihr stirbt seine Musik, und Polina verschwindet aus seinem Leben. Nach Jahren, in denen er nichts als Leere fühlt, erkennt Hannes: Er muss Polina wiederfinden. Doch das Einzige, womit er sie erreichen kann, ist ihre Melodie.

""Warm and wise, Frankie is a woman worth getting to know.""—Bonnie Garmus, New York Times-bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry From the internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show, a dazzling and decades-sweeping story about love, bravery, and what it means to...

Dies ist kein Kriminalroman. Hier geht es nicht um Verbrechen. Nein, hier wird warm und stimmungsvoll beschrieben, wie zwei Menschen einander helfen. Kommissar Waporetzki hat es einsam. Seine Wache ist abgelegen, fern aller Menschen und jeder Kriminalität. Er hat es so gewählt. Nichts hat er zu tun und sein Arbeitsort ist wunderschön. Er liebt es, allein zu sein. Aber es wird ein Einbruch gemeldet, der keiner ist. Der Kommissar ist mit einer Teenagerin konfrontiert, ganz zart, ganz harmlos. Sie schwimmt in Hilflosigkeit und er sieht sie. Er sieht sie und die Gewalt.

This story is, in short, about a monster meeting another monster. One of the monsters is me. Yunjae was born with a brain condition called Alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions like fear or anger. He does not have friends—the two almond-shaped neurons located deep in his...

Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in “awful kid stuff,” the experience forms Jim’s ideal of spiritual completion. Defying his parents’ expectations, Jim strikes out on his own, hoping to find Bob and rekindle their amorous friendship.

Der große Familienroman aus Italien – bewegend, identifikatorisch, menschlich wahr. Und plötzlich gibt es ein Davor und ein Danach. Rom, 1980er Jahre: es ist ein ruhiges, zufriedenes Leben, das die Familie Ansaldo führt. Der Alltag dreht sich um den Feinkostladen, in dem Marisa, Stelvio und ihre Tochter Betta arbeiten. Den Sommer verbringen sie seit Jahren in ihrem kleinen Haus am Meer. Aber als Betta nachts auf dem Weg zu einem Strandfest ums Leben kommt, ändert sich alles: der einst so harmonische Zusammenhalt der Familie bekommt Risse und niemand ahnt, welches Geheimnis Bettas Cousine Miriam belastet.

Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised—the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they’d built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves—until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.

An intoxicating debut novel of "one motherless daughter's discovery of...the strange and wonderful places we find love" —The Washington PostSue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in...

Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets he needs to atone for. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed. As the people of Faha anticipate the endlessly procrastinated advent of the electricity, and Noel navigates his own coming-of-age and his fallings in and out of love, Christy's past gradually comes to light, casting a new glow on a small world.

Leonardo cresce nell'Italia degli anni Novanta, dove la televisione non è solo intrattenimento, ma una finestra su un mondo di possibilità. Dopo la perdita prematura della madre, trova conforto nei programmi TV, in particolare in Love Boat, che diventa il suo rifugio dalla solitudine e dalle delusioni quotidiane.

Out there is chaos, the collapse of society, and so much to be afraid of. All that matters is freedom. That’s what Remy Blake has been taught by his survivalist father. Raised off the grid in the middle of nowhere, his own survival skills not yet honed, Remy is days shy of his eighth birthday when his father unexpectedly dies. As seasons pass, supplies run out, and fending for himself grows more desperate, Remy sets out on foot, unprepared for the great unknown of civilization.

Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn, considerada una de las primeras grandes novelas estadounidenses, quizá presente una visión más oscura y desencantada que "Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer" (novela con la que comparte personajes pero intercambia protagonistas), porque en ella se visibilizan más...

Sophie Delavallois is the new companion to the ageing Dowager Marchioness, but she also has another reason for coming to the infamous Wyverne mansion, one that will shake the family to their core. Lord Drake left his childhood home many years ago, and only returns now to see his beloved grandmother. He takes little interest in the goings on of the house, until the arrival of Mademoiselle Delavallois. There’s something about her that he can’t put his finger on; it's as if he’s seen her before, but surely, that is not possible…

In Spencer’s fantasies, the breezy, queer streets of Provincetown, MA are utopia, a place where he can be free. Yet when a violent attack in his suburban Arizona schoolyard sends him to the hospital, he decides queer utopia can’t wait. And one night, with the help of his best friend, the teenage witch Joy, he hitches a ride to find it.

Written in 1954, this controversial story cracked down on the public school system and dramatized student violence as no other novel of its time did. Hunter used his own teaching experience to create protagonist Richard Dadier, who lands his first real job as an English teacher at North Manual Trades High School in New York City. Dadier knows the students here will be tough, but nothing has prepared him for the world he enters.

A young woman climbs the tallest tree in Istanbul’s centuries-old Gülhane Park, determined to live out the rest of her days there. Perched in an abandoned stork’s nest in a sanctuary of branches and leaves, she tries to make sense of the rising tide of violence in the world below. Torn between the desire to forget all that has happened and the need to remember, her story, and the stories of those around her, begins to unfold.

The four Bliss siblings have a loving but complicated bond, but when their mother, Dorothy, dies seemingly without a will, this relationship is put to the test. As the mourning siblings try to make sense of the situation, one of them is caught with a secret: before she died, Dorothy entrusted her favourite daughter with her will and a letter - and told her to destroy them both. But what Anna finds in the documents could change everything. Do the other siblings not deserve to know what it is about them that their mother was so desperate to hide?

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENON—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! More than 18 million copies sold worldwide A Reese’s Book Club Pick A Business Insider Defining Book of the Decade “I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!”—Reese Witherspoon...

Inspired as a boy by the multiple meanings to be found for a single word in the dictionary, Kohei Araki is devoted to the notion that a dictionary is a boat to carry us across the sea of words. But after thirty-seven years creating them at Gembu Books, it's time for him to retire and find his replacement. He discovers a kindred spirit in Mitsuya Majime - a young, disheveled square peg with a penchant for collecting antiquarian books and a background in linguistics - whom he swipes from his company's sales department.