Showing results for "FREEDOM" in Coming of Age

Blair Eakins is a 15-year-old Ulster Scot living in Ireland under the crushing weight of famine, poverty, and prejudice against his people. In search of a better future for himself and his beloved, he pays for passage to Philadelphia the only way he can: he commits himself as an indentured servant for a term of four years. In London, 10-year-old orphan pickpocket Mallie Ambrose is arrested for stealing a handkerchief. After experiencing the horror of Newgate Prison, she is sentenced to "Transportation", bound into indentured servitude and exiled to Maryland for seven years.

Eine Beerdigung führt 2016 den Rostocker Kay und seine Clique aus Schulzeiten wieder zusammen. Erinnerungen werden wach: an die unbeschwerte Jugend Anfang der 80er Jahre, aber auch an geplatzte Träume und die Enge des DDR-Systems. Die acht Freunde galten als unzertrennlich, vertrauen einander zutiefst – bis der erste aus der Clique wegen versuchter Republikflucht verhaftet wird.

Freedom Lessons begins in Louisiana 1969 as Colleen, a white northern teacher, enters into the unfamiliar culture of a small Southern town and its unwritten rules as the town surrenders to mandated school integration. She meets Frank, a black high school football player, who is protecting his family with a secret. And Evelyn, an experienced teacher and prominent member of the local black community, who must decide whether she’s willing to place trust in her new white colleague.

With the stress of graduation and planning weddings, Annisa and her group of friends want to end things with the counsel once and for all. They strengthen their bond to the strongest it can be and go on the offensive. After they achieve their goal, they find that was not their only problem. Now they have to figure out who will be the next counsel, and how to deal with other realms that have found their way in. While the group guards over the Origin, Annisa goes with members of the other realms to track down the wayward travelers, before they cause too much damage in our realm.

La vie d'Alice Lambert est en vrac. Après avoir quitté son mari, sa maison et tous ses repères, elle se voit obligée de s'installer à Paris chez son père, avec qui elle est en conflit depuis toujours. À l'aube de ses cinquante ans, elle doit réinventer sa vie et repartir à zéro, mais ce nouveau défi lui semble insurmontable… Par les fenêtres de ce grand appartement désert, elle voit le monde tourner sans elle et revisite son passé entre deux verres de whisky.

Heart Radio x Dreams Bedtime Bookclub April Book of the Month The dazzling, powerful story of a gutsy showgirl who tries to conquer her past amongst the glamour of 1960s Las Vegas – finding unexpected fortune, friendship and love. In the summer of 1968, Ruby Wilde is the toast of Las Vegas...

A naive teen sent out of Cuba to retrieve smuggled family jewels on the eve of the Bay of Pigs invasion comes of age in New York City at the height of the sexual revolution and earns his political and economic freedom. By a twist of fate, he begins to lose his liberty when his oppressive parents arrive and refuse to assimilate into American society. Take the journey and discover why success isn't always measured by what one becomes, but often by what one overcomes.