Résultats pour "Julia" dans États-Unis

Set in 1970s Chicago, a radiant story of personal and political revolution within a tight-knit Puerto Rican community. Over two thousand miles away from their ancestral island, Rosalinda Acevedo and her friends must adhere to their parents’ traditional expectations for Puerto Rican girls: Do...

Ya en el título de esta novela de Mario Vargas Llosa se recoge la doble historia en que se vertebra su argumento: por un lado, la relación amorosa del joven escritor Varguitas con una mujer de su familia mayor que él, la tía Julia; y por otro, la desaforada presencia del folletinista Pedro Camacho en la misma emisora de radio donde Varguitas trabaja.

In Northern Mexico, Paulina, Perla, Antonia, Reina and Jordan are striving to survive the barrio – hustling on the edge of a cartel-run economy, nursing the wounds made normal in a world that eats its own. Hovering over their trials is a spirit with gothic flair: Medea, a mythic mother of the Chihuahuan desert, ancient as the Aztecs but never too old to be petty.

Named by The Washington Post as a Notable Work of Fiction in 2017 and by Entertainment Weekly as a Best Debut Novel of 2017 Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Ann Patchett on PBS NewsHour, Minnesota Public Radio, Maris Kreizman, and The Morning News National Book Foundation “5 Under 35”...

This “masterfully woven…literary home run” (New York Journal of Books) follows four women across generations, bound by a beautiful wedding veil and a connection to the famous Vanderbilt family from the New York Times bestselling author of the Peachtree Bluff series. Four women. One family...

Julia Alvarez returns to her first love, poetry, in her latest collection, with scintillating poems drawn from all the seasons of her life, from childhood to the years of silver. “Visitations is a cause for celebration. The first book of poems by Julia Alvarez in over twenty years braids...

Kann man sich in einen Menschen verlieben, wenn man nur seine Stimme kennt? Ihr Leben lang hat Sewanee von der großen Schauspielkarriere in Hollywood geträumt. Doch ein tragischer Schicksalsschlag machte alles zunichte. Als Hörbuchsprecherin arbeitet sie nun abseits des Scheinwerferlichts. Ihr Leben verläuft endlich wieder in geraden Bahnen – bis sie eines Tages eine unvergessliche Nacht mit einem charmanten Fremden verbringt und gleichzeitig das Jobangebot ihres Lebens erhält: Zusammen mit Brock McNight, dem geheimnisumwobenen Star-Erzähler, soll sie eine romantische Liebesgeschichte einsprechen.

La primera novela para adultos en casi 15 años de la autora internacionalmente superventas de "In the Time of the Butterflies" y "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents". Antonia Vega, la escritora inmigrante en el centro de "Afterlife", ha sacado la alfombra de debajo de ella. Acaba de retirarse de la universidad donde enseñó inglés cuando su amado esposo, Sam, muere repentinamente.

Salvador arrives in the United States from Argentina with one big, unfocused goal: to become successful at something. He knows that America is the land of opportunity, and if he works hard, he will triumph. Together with his childhood sweetheart, he settles in the Big Apple, where dreams come true. But this ambitious young immigrant soon learns that it takes more than hard work and charisma to succeed and is changed by the harsh realities of living in New York.

BEING DEVELOPED AS A TV SERIES BY FOX "The heroine of this psychological thriller is, improbably, an astrophysicist and psychic. Narrator Karissa Vacker captures Vivvy Bouchet's smarts and the urgency with which she goes after the mystery of Lizzy Solomon's disappearance."- AudioFile “Narrator...

Ein abgelegenes Luxus-Resort mitten in der Wüste von Utah: Die Geschwister Frida und Gabriel hoffen auf ein paar erholsame Tage. Und es fühlt sich tatsächlich an wie im Paradies – bis die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden wird. Als der Verdacht auf Gabriel fällt, wird Frida mit ihrer Vergangenheit konfrontiert. Denn es ist nicht das erste Mal, dass ihr Bruder des Mordes verdächtigt wird.

In Thoreau’s God, Richard Higgins invites seekers—religious or otherwise—to walk with the great Transcendentalist through a series of meditations on his spiritual life. Thoreau offers us no creed, but his writings encourage reflection on how to live, what to notice, and what to love. Though his quest was deeply personal, Thoreau devoted his life to communicating his experience of an infinite, wild, life-giving God.

To everyone's dismay, an older widower falls in love with his young secretary in this unlikely romance.

To describe This Made Me Think Of You would be to describe love... nearly impossible in one short description, especially to someone who hasn't read/experienced it. So we'll end here with one short message: Discovering love is a beautiful journey. Sharing it and remembering it during the chaos of life—that's where true magic lies.

¿Concluye en algún momento la experiencia del tránsito de género? En esta delicada novela, a partir del tránsito de la autora se escribe un relato poblado de profundas e inteligentes reflexiones sobre lo que significa ese camino, sobre los destinos familiares y sus cargas, sobre la posibilidad de liberarlo y lo que pueden suponer esa decisión.