Showing results for "the field" in Coming of Age

Lucas, the star quarterback, seems to have it all—superstar athletic abilities, expensive clothes, cars, and women who will stop at nothing to be his, if only for a night. Tessa is a young woman who lives her life always doing what is right. She tries desperately to hold herself accountable to the demanding expectations of her family, and everyone around her, while remaining virtuous. However, when two worlds collide, sparks fly and ignite in a fiery passion that neither Lucas nor especially Tessa are ready for. Will the fire and passion of first love win, or will it destroy them?

Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community where jobs are few and poverty is a simple fact - just like the hot Appalachian breeze or the pests that can wipe out a tobacco field in days. RubyLyn Bishop is luckier than some. Her God-fearing uncle, Gunnar, has a short fuse and high expectations, but he's given her a good home ever since she was orphaned at the age of five. Yet now, a month shy of her 16th birthday, RubyLyn itches for more.

Living by my father's rules has never been easy. Who does he think he is anyway? Jase Steel has broken every rule he tries to make me live by. The last one though, that last D, ruined my virgin skin, my relationship with my father, and changed my whole life. No Decorating. I should have listened to him...but I didn't.

Keeka: Alone in the world after her mother's death, she tries to find the life she dreamed of as a child. Trucker: Alone in the world, the family he felt part of begins to fall apart as his dreams of being an NFL quarterback become his reality. What happens when everything you had is gone, everything you wished for seems to be in arm's reach, and your world begins to spin in circles? You fall.

Als Maddie nach den traumatischen Ereignissen im Herbst an die Silveroaks Park zurückkehrt, trifft sie Aiden. Und Maddie wird schnell klar: Ihr neuer Kommilitone macht nicht nur auf dem Footballfeld, sondern auch in ihrem Theaterkurs eine gute Figur. Von Anfang an fühlt sie sich zu ihm hingezogen und obwohl sie spürt, dass es ihm ähnlich geht, hält Aiden sie konsequent auf Abstand. Dennoch ist er immer da, wenn sie in Schwierigkeiten steckt oder Hilfe braucht und die Funken zwischen ihnen lassen sich nicht ewig ignorieren.

A never-ending journey awaits you along a Mobius strip that runs the circulatory system from flushed head to rapid heart, along asphalt lanes stinking of gasoline fumes and vulcanized rubber. Join Fields's feral boys, captivating Peter Pans in flight from detestable home life, school life, everyday life. Along the way, you'll pick up passengers, hitchhikers runaways plotting wicked larks, stay-at-homes longing for a nudge, grownups ready to be bent to a boy's whims.