Showing results for "The Stranger" in Coming of Age

When Cara stumbles across a stash of old postcards in the attic, their contents make her question everything she thought she knew. The story she pieces together is confusing and unsettling, and appears to have been patched over with lies. But who can tell her the truth? With her father sinking into Alzheimer’s and her brother reluctant to help, it seems Cara will never find the answers to her questions. One thing is clear, though: someone knows more than they’re letting on.

Mona has almost everything: money, friends, social status...everything except for freedom. Languishing in her golden cage, she craves a sense of belonging. Desperate for emotional release, she turns to a friend who introduces her to a world of glitter, glamour, covert affairs and drugs. There she meets Ali, a physically and emotionally wounded man, years younger than her.

When reading and writing are the most important things in the world. Jevick, the pepper merchant's son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home - but which his mother calls the Ghost Country. When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria, Jevick's life is as close to perfect as he can imagine. Just as he revels in Olondria's Rabelaisian Feast of Birds, he is pulled drastically off course and becomes haunted by the ghost of an illiterate young girl.

You can find almost anything in a charity shop, but can you find love? You can certainly find friendship, and there is both laughter and tears ahead when 19-year-old Zaffron, lonely, anxious, and without direction, meets Blaire Daintry, good-looking, charming, and gay. Both volunteers in the charity shop, he has a hidden agenda, she has secrets, but they are friends from the start, despite Blaire’s constant sparring with Ida, the stern, good-hearted older volunteer who Zaffron admires. And perhaps Ida has secrets too.

From the quiet rhythms of farm life to the shifting social landscape of small-town adolescence, the story follows Roy Nilsson through a decade of transformation in Squak Valley and the town of Issaquah, nestled at the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. This richly textured story captures the wonder of growing up in the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest at a simpler time—when the future was still a mystery and life left room for reflection. Roy is curious, resilient, and adventurous, whether navigating creek beds or witnessing mysterious lights in the night sky.

Fifteen years ago, Berta fled from Madrid to London to escape the controlling mother who made her childhood a living nightmare. Now, following her mother’s death, she is forced to return and face the ghosts of her unhappy past. But it is not long before she discovers that her own bleak memories are nothing compared to the dark deception lurking in her family. How did her sister’s loveless marriage really end? And is the loyal housekeeper really hiding the truth about the strange disappearance of Berta’s father?

A chance game of hide-and-seek played the night the revival tent burned down has turned into three years of looking over their shoulders for young Marnie and Frank, who believe they witnessed a murder. Now, a Yankee stranger has come to town - flashing a big smile and a cash-filled wallet as he spends his time asking all kinds of questions. Torn between wanting to relieve the Yank of his cash and trying to stay out of Hell, the two spend a day in the employ of their enemy.

La repentina muerte de su mejor amiga, Sofía, impulsa a Hada a recapitular sobre su propia vida. Insulsa, tímida y apocada, sabe que son muy pocas las veces que ha arriesgado y demasiadas las que, a escondidas, se ha limitado a observar tras un grueso telón el discurrir de su propia existencia. Decidida a sacar todo el jugo a la vida, confecciona una lista, sobre las chaladuras y las audacias más relevantes emprendidas por Sofía, con la intención de emular cada una de ellas.