Résultats pour "Born" dans Roman féminin

Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard is the luckiest man in the world: a bona-fide sports superstar and the pride of the NFL with a profitable side career as a buff billboard model for End Zone underwear. But life in the glory lane has started to pale, and Dean has set off on a cross-country...

In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A 30-something-year-old “millennial everywoman”, she has recently left her white-collar desk job - in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time - as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women - alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her.

I am born from a curse of love— a law older than my name, older than my breath. The First Law. The Blood of Love. I grew up in the forest, wild and wordless, marked by an ancestral power I do not understand. My hands calm storms. My eyes see through skin and into soul. The spirits follow me like shadows— watching, waiting, whispering. Then Sun finds me. When his gaze meets mine, something ancient stirs. My gift responds to him… not with destruction, but with awakening. Love should save me, yet with him, love becomes a doorway— one that opens the curse sleeping inside my bloodline.

Udonwa's family is at war—a war of relationships, played out under the tyranny of a monster dad. Age twelve, Udonwa has a peculiar love for her father, Reverend Leonard Ilechukwu, who favours her but beats his wife and his other children. She sees his good side: after all, he pays the school fees, and tells her that she, named "the peaceful child," is the one most likely to become a doctor.

Harley Carmichael-Roth was born into money. She has everything a girl could dream of, except the one thing she really wants—a successful career as an actor. Harley's aunt Rachael Carmichael went from silver screen legend to Hollywood recluse, and now Harley cannot get in the door. That is, until she is cast to play Rachael, a woman she looks so similar to but doesn't know. Is this her chance?

Esta novela ha pasado de ser la breve historia de una joven coreana a convertirse en un terremoto que ha sacudido a las mujeres de medio mundo. Kim Ji-young (que lleva el nombre más común entre las mujeres coreanas nacidas en 1982) es aparentemente una mujer como cualquier otra, con una juventud sin pena ni gloria, siempre a la sombra.

On the sun-drenched shores of a remote Tanzanian island, a baby is born—a child unlike any other. Her skin is seen as an omen of misfortune, a sign of evil. Her father turns away in horror. Her mother collapses in despair. The village elders whisper of ancient customs: such a child must not live.

For fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Jhumpa Lahiri, Ruined a Little When We Are Born delivers a stunning exploration of family and motherhood against the backdrop of Indian diaspora and culture. Tara Isabel Zambrano weaves elements from both the physical and supernatural worlds to beg the question: are we all ruined a little from our first breath?

Die drei Freundinnen Janna, Helen und Lou könnten kaum unterschiedlicher sein. Die eine ist alleinerziehende Mutter, die andere eine Karrierefrau und die dritte hat sich der Rettung des Planeten verschrieben. Trotzdem halten sie seit fünfzehn Jahren zusammen wie Pech und Schwefel. Und seit einiger Zeit haben sie auch noch eine neue Gemeinsamkeit: Frust! Weil das blöde Leben einfach nicht so will wie sie. Also beschließen die drei, etwas zu ändern - und starten mit einer gemeinsamen WG in einem alten Gutshof. Nur warten da ungewöhnliche Nachbarn, zänkische Tiere und liebestolle Besucher auf sie.

Islas Chatham, 1835. La joven moriori Kimi ha sido testigo directo de la invasión maorí de sus tierras. Dolorosamente, ha comprendido que las leyes de sus dioses no la pueden proteger ni de los maoríes, ni del hombre blanco. Tampoco el hombre cuyo hijo está esperando podrá salvarla.

Al mismo tiempo, una joven alemana, Ruth, ha decidido viajar al fin del mundo detrás del sueño del hombre al que ama. Pero, ¿realmente merece la pena seguir los pasos de un hombre cuya lucha la mantiene siempre alejada de él?