Résultats pour "Heroine" dans Fiction

“Full of Victorian sapphic romance, metafictional horror, biting misandrist humor, Hollywood intrigue, and multiple timeliness—all replete with evocative illustrations that are icing on a deviously delicious cake.” –O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE “Brimming from start to finish with sly humor...

The latest novel from million-copy bestseller author Graham Norton - a dazzling, decades-sweeping story about love, bravery and what it means to live a significant life. 'Warm and wise, Frankie is a woman worth getting to know' BONNIE GARMUS 'I loved Frankie so much. I couldn't stop reading it...

Hollywood Star Turns Spy In 1943, movie producer Henrik Zoltan approaches Amelie Blake under the guise of offering the Hollywood star a leading part in his upcoming film, but he has a more meaningful role in mind. Amelie’s homeland of Sweden declared neutrality in the war, but Stockholm has...

A BRAND NEW deliciously spicy, Regency romance from Emma Orchard, perfect for fans of Eloisa James and Bridgerton England, 1802. A duke who has sworn never to lose control is about to meet the one woman who can make him forget everything... Rémy Temple Wylde has spent ten years believing his...

An utterly heartbreaking historical saga of love, loyalty and one orphan girl’s fight to belong from bestseller Chrissie Walsh. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Emma Hornby! Born in a gypsy caravan and left behind by a mother fleeing for her life, young Rosie knows only the...

Deadly family secrets could cost an Amish woman her life. Amish widow Emma Zook’s quiet life shatters when her late husband’s hidden past puts her family in the crosshairs of a ruthless crime syndicate. As threats mount, state fire investigator Aaron Andrews steps in to protect Emma and her...

A stolen child. A terrible wartime secret. Norway, 1940. Seduced by Nazi propaganda, Liv offers herself to the German High Command as war reaches rural Norway. She has something very special that they want in Berlin - but the personal cost will be terrible. Can she survive what she did as a...

The heroic story of the only female Argonaut, told by Jennifer Saint, the bestselling author of ELEKTRA and ARIADNE. When a daughter is born to the King of Arcadia, she brings only disappointment. Left exposed on a mountainside, the defenceless infant Atalanta, is left to the mercy of a passing...

Nenhum alarme soou no 78o andar da Torre Norte do World Trade Center e ninguém sabia o que tinha acontecido às 8h46 do dia 11 de setembro de 2001 – uma manhã que teria sido de um dia normal de trabalho para milhares de pessoas. Cego desde o nascimento, Michael também não via nada naquele...

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the free and sovereign states, bound in service to God and man, with liberty and justice for all,” Sheena quoted out loud, reading from notes provided by her Subterranian and Quazarian sponsors. Will responded by picking up his cell phone and texting. “What are you doing?” asked Sheena. Will raised his face and smiled. “I’m sending this pledge to my dad. As the governor of Texas, he’ll have everyone in the state reciting it.” “I hope so,” declared Sheena.

Shirley Davenport is as much a patriot as her four brothers. She, too, wants to aid her country in the war efforts and joins a new branch of the Coast Guard for single women called SPARs. At the end of basic training, Captain Webber commissions her back home in Maine under the ruse of a...

She doesn’t believe in soulmates. Then she starts seeing everyone else’s. USA TODAY bestselling author Natalie Messier returns with a witty, speculative romance where fate may leave its mark, but love is still a choice. In a world full of soulmates, Paloma Alvarez is a nonbeliever. The...

The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature and we return to her, and the novel she propels, again and again. Remarkably, there has not yet been an examination of Leo...

Bloomsbury presents A View to a Kilt by Wendy Holden, read by Charlie Sanderson. Forget about Cool Britannia and Gallic Chic. Scotland is having a fashion moment... 'Effing marvellous' JILLY COOPER. 'Funny and smart' INDIA KNIGHT. 'Total bliss' DAILY MAIL. London's most glamorous glossy magazine...

Brookhants School for Girls: infamous site of a series of tragic deaths more than a hundred years ago. Soon to be the subject of a controversial horror movie about the rumoured ‘Brookhants curse’: in the early 1900s, Brookhants students Flo and Clara fell madly in love, brought together by their obsession for a scandalous memoir. A few months later they were found dead in the woods, after a horrific wasp attack, the book lying next to their intertwined bodies. Three more grisly deaths followed before the school was forced to close. 

Heroines of Avalon and Other Tales by Ayn Cates Sullivan transports readers into the time of legend and revisits deities and legendary female characters linked to Welsh and British mythology. In this book, the author shares her insights and her journey to discovering her past, a journey that compelled her to research the extraordinary characters in her book.

On the heels of The Speed Chronicles (Sherman Alexie, William T. Vollmann, Megan Abbott, James Franco, Beth Lisick, etc.) and The Cocaine Chronicles (Lee Child, Laura Lippman, etc.) comes The Heroin Chronicles, a volume sure to frighten and delight. The literary styles are varied, as are the moral quandaries herein. Heroin has long been understood as the most "literary" of narcotics, and this collection will, for better and worse, have tremendous pop cultural appeal.

Mulheres também podem ser heroínas. Quando a jovem estudante de enfermagem Frances McGrath ouve essas palavras, sua vida ganha uma nova perspectiva. Criada na idílica Coronado Island e superprotegida pelos pais conservadores, ela sempre se orgulhou de fazer a coisa certa e de ser uma boa garota. Mas o ano é 1966 e o mundo está mudando. De repente, Frankie começa a imaginar um futuro diferente para si mesma. Quando seu irmão vai servir no Vietnã, ela age por impulso e resolve se juntar ao Corpo de Enfermagem do Exército.

Seventh-century England is a hodgepodge of warring Anglo-Saxon states filled with shifting alliances and treacherous grabs for royal power. Kings rise and fall, depending on Woden's luck. Northumbria, the damp kingdom north of the river Humber, is a state riven with rivalries and kings determined to expand at any cost. Women have no obvious role in a warrior society, but by using their wits, four women - two queens and two abbesses - make monumental changes. Based on true events and people, this is the story of Northumbria through the eyes of the most important women of their time.

An utterly fantastical and undeniably queer melding of Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein that recasts Mary Bennet as an insatiable scientist, one who creates a monster in an attempt to save herself from spinsterdom Awkward, plain, and overlooked, Mary Bennet has long been out of favor not...