Showing results for "Change" in Contemporary Fiction

Newlyweds Margaret and Patrick decide to spend a year in Kenya. Patrick practices medicine while Margaret works as a photojournalist. Then a British couple invite them on a climbing expedition to the summit of Mount Kenya. During their ascent an horrific accident occurs. In its aftermath, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how it has transformed her and her marriage, perhaps for ever.

In the Prince of Wales Hotel and the shabby terraces and tearooms of Westbourne, retired lives run their course - all, in their different ways, anticipating crisis.

Grab a pack of KOOLs, rev up the Camaro, and tune in Stairway to Heaven - you're daytripping back to 1973. That's the summer Eddie Sacks, having flunked out of college, is driving a cab and trying to figure out exactly who and what he wants to be. The only place he finds common ground with his Nixon-loving, cigar-puffing dad (a.k.a. the Captain) is at Belmont Park, where Secretariat makes his historic bid for the Triple Crown.

MatiLou is 11, the brightest one in her class, and an only child. She’s wished for a sister and on the hottest day, PerryAnn, who is 14, appears on Grandma Waters’ cactus farm next door. PerryAnn’s grandmother sells the minerals rights under the farm and begins drinking heavily while in the midst of grieving the loss of her only son, PerryAnn’s father. The threat of external change to the beloved cactus farm looms throughout the story because three men in steel toe boots have come to stake a well right in front of Grandma Waters’ house.

Mack and his friends are hanging out on the beach when one of them disappears in the waves - only to reemerge with gills lining her neck. One by one, the teenagers develop aquatic features never before seen on humans. But Mack, the last one to transform, suspects that something is not quite right. Surely, magic like this cannot come without dire consequences.

All they have is hope and a dream.... In the Shoreditch District of East London, Brick Lane is known as a rough part of town, and the derelict, abandoned commercial building on Princelet Street only adds to that reputation. The whole building is dusty, dirty, and falling apart - not the spot anyone would expect a young couple to open a non-profit cafe. Although Aasha and Christopher doubt themselves, they see the potential in this decrepit location. They’ve left their fancy, highly paid, and sought after corporate jobs to dedicate their lives to helping people in need.

4 janvier 1998. Un garçon de dix ans apprend que ses parents se séparent. Tout son monde s'effondre. Il pleure, puis se tourne vers le ciel, à qui il demande tout bonnement de sauver sa famille. Le lendemain s'abat sur la ville une tempête de verglas historique. La catastrophe naturelle amène avec elle son lot de changements; face à l'adversité, des liens se créent. Dans le froid, l'entraide, la solidarité et l'altruisme enflamment les cœurs. Mais la tempête aura-t-elle l'effet escompté sur la famille de notre jeune héros?