Résultats pour "Adults" dans Vie de famille

From the author of the Read with Jenna pick The Wedding People, a ruefully funny coming-of-age novel that deftly dissects matters of the heart and captures the lives of children and adults as they come to terms with life, death, and love. At the center of this affluent Connecticut suburban...

Il bel viso della bambina Giovanna si è trasformato, sta diventando quello di una brutta adolescente. Ma è proprio così? E in quale specchio bisogna guardare per ritrovarsi e salvarsi? La ricerca di un nuovo volto oscilla tra due Napoli consanguinee che però si temono e si detestano: la Napoli di sopra, che s'è attribuita una maschera fine, e quella di sotto, che si finge smodata, triviale. Giovanna oscilla tra alto e basso, in una città che pare non offrire né risposte né scampo.

Le jeune prince Marcus est encore un enfant lorsqu'il assiste impuissant au massacre de toute sa famille. Seul rescapé de cette boucherie fomentée par Ojsternig, ennemi héréditaire de la famille de Marcus qui va s'asseoir sur le trône, Marcus ne doit son salut qu'à la jeune Héloïse, fille d'Agnès, la lavandière du village qui l'accueillera sous son toit pour l'élever comme s'il était son fils. Luca Di Fulvio retrace l'ascension paradoxale d'un petit prince, un demi-dieu qui va devoir apprendre dans la douleur comment devenir un homme.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! "In a time when all we want is hope, it’s a beautiful book to reach for." -Jenna Bush Hager "Brimming with kindness, forgiveness, humor and love and yet (magically) also a page turner that held me captive until it...

Soon to be a NETFLIX Original Series. A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL set in a divided Naples by ELENA FERRANTE, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. “There’s no doubt [the publication of The Lying Life of Adults] will be the literary event of the...

Jenny hat eine Lebenskrise: Sie ist über 30, frisch getrennt von Art, der nun mit einer Influencerin liiert ist, und in ernsthafter Gefahr, ihren Job beim angesagten feministischen Online-Magazin "The Foof" zu verlieren - und jetzt zieht auch noch ihre Mutter, die Dramaqueen, bei ihr ein. Klug, rasant, witzig und mit genauem Blick für die Tücken der Selbstwahrnehmung in Zeiten von Social Media - Emma Jane Unsworth schafft eine hinreißende Heldin, die einem sofort ans Herz wächst.

“If Love, Actually and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation are your two favorite holiday movies, you’re going to love The Adults.”—Bustle NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE “Sometimes a nasty family comedy is just what you need for the holidays...

From the author of The Book Club Hotel, a widow's plan to spend the summer in Cape Cod is upended by an unexpected guest and a secret that could change everything... Perfect for fans of Rebecca Serle and Jennifer Weiner. "The perfect summer novel—sharp, smart and so much fun!" —Viola Shipman...

Medizin-Studentin Chloe hat zusammen mit ihren Freundinnen Vic und Rachel vor einigen Monaten eine geheime Gruppe ins Leben gerufen, die sich an Männern rächt. Stalking, sexuelle Übergriffe, Gewalt – sie lassen diese Mistkerle nicht mehr damit davonkommen. Seitdem hat sich die Atmosphäre an der Ontario University spürbar geändert. Der Zirkel des Schweigens und Wegsehens wurde durchbrochen, überall machen sich junge Frauen für sich selbst und andere stark. Das bedeutet auch, dass Chloe, Vic und Rachel weniger zu tun haben. Was großartig ist. Aber es erfüllt Chloe mit einer seltsamen Leere.

Brought to you by Penguin. It might not be the stuff of dreams, but Padma and Wallace have spent ten years building a relationship that feels . . . fine. Until Wallace gives Padma an ultimatum about starting a family she's not sure she even wants. Padma's fifteen-year-old niece Myra is reaching...

Si chiama Alessandro ma per tutti è Gullit, come il calciatore del Milan, anche se parla appena e balbetta, accende le luci di casa durante il giorno, legge i giornali al contrario e non ha neppure un amico. L’unico a capirlo davvero è il fratello maggiore. I due crescono insieme sotto il sole di Cesenatico, tra gli ombrelloni colorati del Bagno Beatles, lo stabilimento balneare gestito dai genitori che si accende di allegria in estate per rimanere nascosto nella nebbia d’inverno.

A compelling and perceptive tale of intimacy, memory and relationships from the bestselling author How can you know someone you've never met? Joyce Conway leaves hospital after recovering from a terrible accident. Having faced a near-death experience, she is suddenly awakened to the stark...

La vita di Viola, la protagonista del romanzo, viene rivoltata come un calzino dal momento in cui un pesantissimo Suv la fa cadere di bicicletta, incidente che non procurerà fortunatamente nessuna ferita. Da quel momento in poi il filo del destino inizierà a tessere e a disfare una tela ora orlata da meravigliosi disegni, ora da terrificanti figurazioni.

What kind of women do daughters become when their fathers are missing and their mothers can't love them? How do they find love and ways to love themselves? Nearly three decades of secrets lie between Lola Ashby and the two girls she reluctantly raised. Now, prompted by the one father figure she respects, older daughter Frankie agrees to drive from Portland to visit her ailing mother, who abandoned the girls when they were in high school.

Una impresionante novela debut sobre la lucha de una joven madre peruana indocumentada que está dispuesta a darlo todo por su familia y su nueva vida en Nueva York. Ana Falcón, junto con su esposo Lucho y sus dos hijos pequeños, huyeron de la lucha económica y política del Perú en busca de...

A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky. For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children...

Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on America’s nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls. Through her heroine, the beautiful and ruthless Undine Spragg, a spoiled heiress who looks to her next...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, Oprah Daily and NPR! “Dazzling...Finally free from the book’s grip, now all I want to do is get others hooked.”— The Washington Post “A page-turning social...

Don't miss the Christmas wedding of the year, in Meet Me Under the Mistletoe, by the bestselling author of The Twelve Dates of Christmas, Jenny Bayliss. 'Jenny Bayliss is the queen of uplifting, funny, smart romantic comedies.' – Freya Sampson, author of The Last Library A winter wedding of...

A mythic love story set in Trinidad, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut is a masterwork of lush imagination and exuberant storytelling—a spellbinding and hopeful novel about inheritance, loss, and love's seismic power to heal. "Roots the reader in [Trinidad’s] traditions and rituals [and]...