Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Coming of Age

It's 1968, and sixteen-year-old Bobby Stuart is just trying to get by. His father is MIA in Vietnam, his mother can barely support the two of them with the money she makes waitressing, and his trailer park life makes Bobby the target of wealthy bullies who rule the school.

Life gets even more interesting when an emissary from the estate of Lord Charles Stuart of London shows up at the door. The man is there to investigate whether the American Stuarts are descendants of a long-exiled branch of the Stuart line-and possible heirs to the British throne.

In England, Bobby encounters...

In the tradition of such great Latin American magic realists as Jorge Amada, Sergio Kokis recreates the magic world of a child in Brazil.

The novel is told from the point of view of a Brazilian painter in exile somewhere in the northern climes - man who longs for the warmth and vibrancy of his childhood.

But his childhood and adolescence were not easy. Torn between a deeply religious (and superstitious) mother and his father, a man of science and reason, the young man survives his home life, life at boarding school, and life abroad to become an artist and a person in his own...

For the millions of readers who devoured the Green Gables series, Before Green Gables is an irresistible treat; the account of how one of literature's most beloved heroines became the girl who captivated the world.

In the long, hot Illinois summer of 1973, insecure, motherless Jamie falls under the dangerous spell of her older, more worldly cousin Fawn, who's come to stay with Jamie and her uncle as penance for committing an "unmentionable act."

It is a time of awakenings and corruptions, of tragedy and loss, as Jamie slowly discovers the extent to which Fawn will use anything and anyone to further her own ends--and recognizes, perhaps too late, her own complicity in the disaster that takes shape around them.

"A captivating story about a teenager's struggle to be accepted by her peers. ....