Résultats pour "Emma" dans Vie de famille

Romanzo, scritto nel 1815, dopo "Orgoglio e pregiudizio" e "Ragione e sentimento", è il primo romanzo in cui l'eroina è bella, ricca e senza impedimenti di sorta (tanto che la Austen disse che quell'eroina non sarebbe piaciuta a nessuno fuorché a lei); per cui non ha necessità di sposarsi per vivere, e pertanto decide di "non sposarsi mai".

The story of a mother, her son, a locked room, and the outside world. It’s Jack’s birthday, and he’s excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real – only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside....

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ADULTS AND ANIMALS 'Compulsive and hilarious, like a brilliant gossip with your best friend. Emma Jane Unsworth is my favourite' Sara Pascoe 'Her best yet – funny, gritty, delightfully feral and, as ever, painfully truthful' DOLLY ALDERTON ‘An...

Escape to the Cornish coast with this irresistible summer read, perfect for fans of Jill Mansell and Philippa Ashley. Bramble Challoner has had a very normal upbringing. She lives in a semi in the suburbs of London with her parents and works at the call centre down the road. She still goes out...

"Natalie, it's mum. You need to come home. It's your father…" Clutching the phone, my hands shaking, my entire world tilts. For years I've run from a family secret which threatened to devastate us all. But with my darling father's life on the line, I have to face the truth, whatever the cost...

Akin is a tender tale of love, loss and family, from Emma Donoghue, the international bestselling author of Room. 'If Room forced home truths on us, about parenthood, responsibility and love, Akin deals with similar subject matter more subtly, but in the end just as compellingly' - Guardian A...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow, an irresistible story about what happens when your teenage fantasy comes true after you’re already an adult. “American Fantasy has everything we need right now: '90s nostalgia, humor, and it is a...

Can one Greek summer heal the secrets of the past? Could discovering a family secret encourage Kat to follow her heart? Shattered by the sudden loss of her twin, Nik, Kat is lost in grief. The comfort of family feels both soothing and suffocating, but everything changes when she inherits a house...

Emma Woodhouse es una joven hermosa, lista y rica, y a la vez, bastante mimada y empeñada en hacer de casamentera. Cuando la joven pierde la compañía de su antigua institutriz, se enfrenta a un vacío en su vida y decide ayudar a los demás a tener una vida tan perfecta como la suya. Es así que toma bajo su tutela a la humilde Harriet Smith para conseguirle un marido. Así, sus afanes para que Harriet tenga un matrimonio ventajoso junto con su personalidad manipuladora, provocarán una serie de enredos, malentendidos y confusiones que pondrán a prueba la confianza en sí misma y retrasarán su propio final feliz.

“[January] LaVoy vivaciously narrates [Emma] Rosenblum’s fast-paced story, conveying the women’s snarkiness and suspicion to perfection.” — Library Journal Meet Frost, Morgan, and Belle—a wealthy, gorgeous group of New York City moms, the queen bees of downtown Manhattan. Their...

For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. But all does not go according to plan.

Wesley Friends School is Washington, DCs most prestigious prep school, so of course Aki Hiyashi-Brown is proud to teach at it and send her daughter Meg there. Why wouldn't she be proud? Parents kill to have their kid enrolled at Wesley. Not only is Wesley the premier academic destination for the...

For two years, Megan, Peter, and their two older daughters, Alexis and Hannah, dream of nothing but being reunited with the family’s youngest child, Emma, who was kidnapped just before her third birthday. When Emma is miraculously found living with an elderly couple just miles from the family’s home, they are hopeful that her return will heal the wounds her disappearance created. But Emma is vastly different from the sunny toddler they remember. She barely remembers her parents or her older sisters. She is quiet and withdrawn, and, worst of all, longs for the very people who kidnapped her.

'Oh my heart, I wasn’t not expecting that… that twist. My heart just broke… The tears just came rolling out. Ugh, so emotional!' Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ____________ A lost love. A devastating secret. And a summer that could change everything… Two years on from her husband’s...

The Last Love Note will make listeners laugh, cry, and renew their faith in the resilience of the human heart—recognizing that while you may never stop loving the one you lost, you can always find love again.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Room comes a stirring novel about a retired professor, whose life is thrown into chaos when he takes his grand-nephew to the French Riviera. Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower living on the Upper West Side, but born in the...

READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY “A mesmerizing novel filled with different types of love and secrets from the past.” —Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee A missing child, two girls in search of their true identities--a stunning novel...

An emotionally intense novel about a mother and her precocious five-year-old son who are held captive in a small shed, and their unbreakable bond and determination to escape. "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" —San Francisco Chronicle To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. It's...

As revistas de celebridades dedicam espaço cativo para noticiar a vida do magnata grego Ari Zavros ao lado de uma top model diferente a cada semana. Mas Tina Savalas não se parece em nada com essas beldades. Porém, mesmo sendo uma garota simples, esconde um grande segredo. Dera a luz a um...

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