Résultats pour "Me" dans Europe

Imagine waking up one day to discover that you have forgotten everything about your life. Your only link with the past, your only hope for the future, is your identical twin. Now imagine, years later, discovering that your twin had not told you the whole truth about your childhood, your family, and the forces that had shaped you. Why the secrets? Why the silences? You have no choice but to begin again. This has been Alex's reality: a world where memories are just the stories people tell you, where fact and fiction are impossible to distinguish.

The truth is, we all tell lies... take a deep breath and get ready for the most twisty, tense and unsettling book of the summer. 'If, like me, you have been longing for a psycho-thriller of genius since you finished Gone Girl, then the wait is finally over. There are very few books in this world...

Mykonos is a place of contradictions. Billionaires dancing next to backpackers. Sunset romance followed by sunrise regret. A simple beach day that somehow becomes a three-day adventure. A calm breeze that turns into a wind that takes your wig, your dignity, and sometimes your patience. In this audiobook, you will meet real people of the island. The ones who stay all year. The ones who return every summer without knowing why. The ones who swear they will never come back and then find themselves at the airport again three months later.

In diesem Werk gibt es nicht nur ein einfaches Aufzählen von Orten und Sehenswürdigkeit auf der Insel Lesbos. Stattdessen hält Eva Demski auch einzelne Momente und Atmosphären mit einer wunderbaren Liebe zum Detail fest, indem sie den Spuren von Sapphos folgt. Die erste Lyrikerin der Weltliteratur ist nicht einfach nur ein Mythos, viel mehr ist sie auch das Symbol für die Liebe zwischen Frauen. Die Autorin beschreibt, wie Lesbos heute aussieht und was dort noch an Sapphos erinnert. Und gleichzeitig setzt sie sich mit den Werken der Lyrikerin auseinander.

From Sheila O'Flanagan, the number-one best-selling author of Someone Special and Things We Never Say, comes an unpauseable, heart-searching new novel for every woman who still remembers her first love.... Carlotta O'Keefe is happily engaged, and the wedding plans are coming together. She's clear about her future path, both personally and in her busy career. Maybe Chris doesn't make her heart race every time she sees him, but you can't have that feeling forever. Can you?

Greek to Me is a charming account of Norris’s lifelong love affair with words and her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, seeks the fabled Baths of Aphrodite, and reveals the surprising ways Greek helped form English. Filled with Norris’s memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine - and more than a few Greek men - Greek to Me is the Comma Queen’s fresh take on Greece and its exotic yet strangely familiar language.

In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls “a kindof novelistic memoir,” Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland—in flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances...

Mit einem Esel nach Portugal reisen? Für Lotta Lubkoll kein Problem! Sie hat ihren Bus so umgebaut, dass ihr bester Kumpel Jonny mitfahren kann. Für die beiden geht es einmal um die Iberische Halbinsel, wo Lotta früher mit ihrer Familie überwintert hat. Mithilfe eines Fotos will sie sich auf die Suche nach einem fast vergessenen Ort ihrer Kindheit machen. Auf dem Weg dorthin erleben die zwei Freunde allerhand Abenteuer, von Schießübungen des französischen Militärs bis hin zu einem heftigen Sturm in Spanien. Sie treffen auf begeisterte Bulli- und Eselfans und finden ihren ganz eigenen Rhythmus on the road.

When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter she had never forgotten. But when Ye Pei arrives in Italy, she learns her mother works on a farm far from the city. Her only connection, a mean-spirited Chinese auntie, puts Ye Pei to work in a small-town café. Rather than giving up and returning to China, a determined Ye Pei takes on a grueling schedule.

In 1954 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post- war London for Greece. Moving first to the tiny island of Kalymnos they then settled on Hydra and stayed for almost a decade.

From a magical childhood in Kenya, through misery at an American high school, to rescue by an inspirational teacher in England, Victoria Whitworth weaves a sublimely rich narrative, which is both an ode to her beloved Greece and Corfu, and a highly original exploration of myth and legend. Her adventures in the often weird and unsettling world of a Corinth English language school, and the shattering experience of her rape by a Greek taxi driver, lead Victoria to question some deeply familiar stories.

Lisa Anselmo wrapped her entire life around her mother, a strong woman who was a defining force in Lisa’s life—maybe too defining. When her mother dies from breast cancer, Lisa realizes she hasn’t built a life of her own and struggles to find her purpose. Who is she without her...

En las semanas que mi esposo y yo estuvimos ahí descubrimos la calidez de su gente, lo interesante de su historia, la belleza de su entorno y de su arquitectura. Su tranquilidad, su aislamiento, su luz, la claridad de sus aguas, el silencio de sus noches, lo estrellado de su cielo, lo sinuoso de sus calles y lo enraizado de sus tradiciones. Todo suma para que, si usted llega hasta aquí, corra el riesgo de quererse quedar. Muchos antes que yo han comprobado que tiene "un difícil llegar y un peor salir".

In "NOSTALGIA" begleiten wir den Erzähler auf seiner Reise von Deutschland an die etruskische Küste, ans toskanische Meer. Dort wo auch das zauberhafte Dorf steht, wo er sich zuhause fühlt wie kaum sonst irgendwo auf der Welt. Die immerwährende Sehnsucht nach dem tiefblauen Meer, dem Glück nachspüren im samtenen Abendwind, bei einem besonders guten Glas Wein, unter dem Dach eines intensiven Sternenhimmels. Der Genuss der wundervollen Küche. Und im Einklang zu sein mit den Düften und Klängen, die nur der Süden zu geben vermag. Um all das geht es in diesem Hörbuch.