Résultats pour "Marina, Marina" dans Littérature et fiction

""The best book of the summer."" -- InStyle ""I LOVED this novel....If you have ever sung along to a hit on the radio, in any decade, then you will devour Mary Jane at 45 rpm."" —Nick Hornby Almost Famous meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this ""delightful"" (New York Times Book Review) novel...

¡SORPRÉNDETE CON LA PRIMERA NOVELA DE NÚRIA MARÍN! ¿Cómo alguien con tan mala suerte en sus relaciones puede ser la reencarnación de la diosa del amor, la sensualidad y la belleza? Tras pillar a su novio poniéndole los cuernos, Paula se va de crucero con su amiga Mónica por las Islas Griegas. En el templo de Apolo en Delfos, un hippy que lleva un cuervo en el hombro, fuma mucha marihuana para dispersar las visiones y asegura ser el oráculo le revela que ella es la reencarnación de Afrodita, la diosa del amor.

"A book that's a feast, an occasion and a celebration. Randy Boyagoda delightfully skewers the industrial-academic complex but also creates moving characters who seem to have walked in from the dorm and faculty meeting next door. The result is as moving as it is hysterically funny." —Gary...

Has she gone too far this time? It's all gone horribly wrong and the worst has happened.Alison is in deep, deep trouble and no amount of lies are helping. Forgetting the first rule of lying, she's protesting her innocence but no one will believe a word she says no matter how hard she lies. Mother's dark prophecy that she'd get what she deserves haunts her as she contemplates the best years of her life behind bars.

Back home after her life changing moment at Frogham train station, it seems that Alison's life is looking up, and there's even a possibility of romance on the horizon. Maybe she can finally stop lying. But it's not very long before it all starts to go wrong, and when Alison makes an enemy of Blake's new girlfriend, she decides it's time to get herself a proper job and make something of herself.

Julie Randall needs that book. Not because it's a rare first edition, but because the handwritten notes in the margins will unlock the secrets of her Victorian-era kitchen garden in north London. The book was almost hers, but now, it's in the hands of some aristocratic jerk who probably doesn't know a tomato from a cucumber. Make that a handsome, aristocratic jerk.

Charlotte Holden, Sugar's favorite pediatrician, knows better than anyone that love only leads to heartbreak. Instead she's focused on creating the Grow Clinic, an outpatient center for children. All she has to do now is host the best Founder's Day parade in the history of Sugar, Georgia, to win over a big-city donor. Easy as peach pie. Then sexy Jace McGraw blows back into town and utters those three words every woman dreads: We're still married.

Marie-Claire is willing to do whatever it takes to stay at her prestigious London art school. Learn to loosen up? Leave her comfort zone? One kiss in a dark alcove with handsome footballer Mick Carr might be the answer. Suddenly, what started as a harmless fling turns into a nationwide scandal as the paparazzi hunts her and Mick’s ex-girlfriend brews trouble at every turn. Mick might hold the key to her success, but he also held the keys to her destruction. Will his love save her or destroy her?

Fat and friendless, carer to her mother by day and a secret binge eater by night, 28-year-old Alison hates her life. She feels powerless to help herself until one day she encounters the person she would like to be and determines to transform herself. Admiration soon turns to obsession, and as Alison loses weight she discovers she’s capable of things she never imagined. Will she get the life she desires or the life she deserves?

The hated house of her childhood has been sold, and Alison now has a smart new apartment and a new, exciting career. Everything, in fact, that she’s ever dreamed of. Mother is but a sad and miserable memory. Life is good, life is slim. But then it all starts to go horribly wrong...again, and Alison has to ask herself - is it her? She’s trying her very best to be a good person, but it’s harder than she thought it would be and, if she’s honest, which she’s mostly not; it’s a bit boring. Is she more like Mother than she’d care to admit?

Based on true historical events, Brendan Malone: The Last Fenian is a folkloric satire examining the dark, destructive side of paternal love.

Couples therapist Marin Johns is in love with love until she catches her fiancé in the act. Heartbroken and convinced her life is a lie, she’s determined to show that all men are double-dealing pigs. So when the handsome and sweet James Young asks her on a date, she sees the perfect chance to prove her theory to the world. From snooping in his apartment to hiring a fidelity inspector, Marin sets trap after trap to expose James as just another cheating male. But the therapist didn't realize that the harmless experiment would put her friends at risk.

Das Hörbuch zum Buch. Wie oft im Leben darf man verliebt sein? Gibt es überhaupt eine Liebesgrenze? Das Huhn namens Klio weiß es aus eigener Erfahrung und ist bereit uns darüber zu berichten.

A sharp and prescient novel about women in the workplace, the power of Big Tech, and the looming threat of foreign espionage from Kathy Wang, “a skilled satirist of the northern California dream” (Harper’s Bazaar) In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in...

""The Means is such a fast-paced, breezy comedic novel that you may find yourself surprised that Fusselman deftly and directly leads you to existential dilemmas and the absurdity of capitalism and striving for more."" – The Millions Shelly Means, a stay-at-home mom and disgraced former PTA...

""Do you want to read something funny? Let’s say, a novel set at a divorce ranch in Reno in the 1930s? A book with memorably eccentric characters, sparkling dialogue, a satisfying plot twist, and some romance and sex? A feel-good literary comedy/western? Here it is, then, the book you've been...

Una inolvidable crónica preñada de humor de un acontecimiento que trascendió el Telón de Acero. Esta obra comprende la investigación del periodista Daniel Utrilla sobre el supuesto avistamiento de un ovni en la ciudad rusa de Vorónezh en 1989. Las averiguaciones del narrador compondrán un perfecto eco de la España berlanguiana y desnortada de la época. Novela coral, periodismo excéntrico, historia inolvidable.

Wann hatte ich aufgehört zu leben? Mit den ersten grauen Haaren, Kleidergröße 44, als ich nicht mehr tanzen ging, abends zu müde für Freundinnen war...? Anne ist Anfang 50 und schwer frustriert. Drangsaliert von ihrer Mutter, ignoriert von ihrem Göttergatten und inspiriert von einer Wunschliste aus Kindertagen, macht sie sich auf die Reise. Und landet: in Wien. Gibt es einen besseren Ort, um alten Träumen endlich neues Leben einzuhauchen?

Vergnügliche Episoden aus dem abenteuerlichen Leben des Katers Franzl, der aus dem beschaulichen oberpfälzischen Dorf Pentling in die Ewige Stadt auswandert...