Résultats pour "Perfect" dans Littérature du monde

Anna and Tom, an expat couple, have fashioned a dream life for themselves in Berlin. They are young digital "creatives" exploring the excitements of the city, freelancers without too many constraints, who spend their free time cultivating house plants and their images online. At first, they reasonably deduce that they've turned their passion for aesthetics into a viable, even enviable career, but the years go by, and Anna and Tom grow bored.

Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can’t even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just how challenging the next ten days are going to be.

A radiant, exquisitely told portrait of a young woman growing up between cultures, in search of her future self Before you are anything, you are a daughter. At first, you are a child at home in your mother’s belly: a beloved daughter, a vision of the future. But who will you become? At the Dol...

China, the 1720s. Giuseppe Castiglione, a promising and ambitious Italian painter, is recruited by the Jesuits to serve the Emperor of China. But his painting style is rejected as inauspicious. Meanwhile, Niuhuru, a grey-eyed, too-tall girl is chosen as a concubine to a minor prince and sent to live in the Garden of Perfect Brightness, where Giuseppe meets her when he is tasked with turning the Garden into a wonderland for the Qianlong Emperor. But as the Garden changes and Niuhuru is swept upwards to ever-greater importance, is something precious being lost?

An Earphone Award Winner Audiobook performed by Therese Plummer When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she's at a crossroads in her life. Fresh out of high school and pregnant with her art teacher’s baby, Izzy faces an uncertain future. Her mother is dead and her father is a drunk. The...

All thirty-four-year-old Mae Van Dorn wants is to live alone, with little connection to the oodles of people who have always let her down. But she soon finds herself living with her estranged brother in a town she’s never been to and working for the founder of the local megachurch, though she’s as misanthropic as they come. The pastor seems to not be quite as Christian as he should be, but the people in his orbit may just teach Mae that the human race isn’t so bad after all.

The moment I first gazed into Alex's soulful gray eyes, I knew I'd met the man I wanted to spend my life with. And I was right. When my beloved sister vanished, Alex put up posters and wiped away my tears after bad dream—she put me back together. But when police pull a crumpled photo from my dead sister's pocket, and I see my husband's familiar face smiling back at me, my perfect world shatters.

Thomas Gephardt is a world traveler. Or at least, he would like to be one. Determined to leave the confines of his sheltered upbringing in the United States, he voyages to France to expand his horizons. He spends three months with a French family in Bordeaux, working in a local hotel. Inspired by these experiences, Thomas has plans to continue traveling. However, a romantic interest in Paris - an Israeli woman named Sendi - complicates matters.

When Dave Hickey was 12, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out - he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which just about killed him. Fortunately, for Hickey and for us, he survived, and continues to battle, decades into a career as one of America's foremost critical iconoclasts, a trusted, even cherished no-nonsense voice commenting on the all-too-often nonsensical worlds of art and culture.

The author of I Ain’t Doin’ It and popular comedian Heather Land returns with a collection of laugh-out-loud, hilarious, and unfiltered essays that explore the funny and inspirational moments in everyday life—perfect for fans of Rachel Hollis’s Girl, Wash Your Face. A popular social...

Benito Pérez Galdós fue un hombre de gran cultura y vitalidad, ávido lector de la literatura inglesa y francesa de su época, y amante de las artes. Su obra narrativa, enmarcada en el realismo, supera este esquema y, como antes hiciera Cervantes, creó vidas y mundos de ficción en los que lo real se muestra en perpetuo conflicto entre la razón y el corazón. Doña perfecta, novela fundamental para comprender su obra, nos muestra los contrastes entre los conservadores y los liberales del siglo XIX en España, a la vez que hace una crítica de los tradicionalistas.

From the author of The Matzah Ball comes a pitch-perfect romcom following a third-generation Jewish matchmaker who unwittingly finds her own search for love thrust into the spotlight... The perfect Jewish husband should be: A doctor or lawyer (preferably a doctor) Baggage-free (no previous...

Some truths can do more harm than good. This is what Isa comes to believe at the tender age of nine, when she first has a dream about kissing a girl - an act that would never be acceptable to her family. By her late 20s, Isa has left her hometown in South Texas, so that her conservative family won't discover that she’s gay, and immersed herself in the workaholic routine of law school.

Niro is a photographer who’s lost the joy of taking photos. Burned by a bad break-up, she’s in desperate need of inspiration. Vimal is determined to win back his ex-girlfriend. When he hears she’s bringing her new boyfriend on a group holiday, he impulsively declares that he’s bringing a plus one too. Their mutual friends have the perfect solution: Niro can pretend to be Vimal’s new girlfriend and join the holiday. Imagine the incredible photographs she could take in the Swiss alps.

Penelope Primrose has worked tirelessly to create her picket-fence bliss. After dreaming of a beautiful home and an idyllic small-town lifestyle, the would-be Southern belle perfected impeccable grooming and manners to land her childhood sweetheart. But her visions of a rapid ascent up the social ladder shatter when she finds her ideal husband with another woman. Thrown into a divorce-driven spin and desperate to reinvent herself, the plucky Alabamian is totally confused by the chemistry she feels with the motorcycle-riding, guitar-playing cowboy next door.

My house side has every type of energy. We should search our life around the house, not in the world. This is my biggest mistake. But it has a story of fate. Who will work properly with everyone.

What if everyone in your family was given a DNA test at Christmas: would there be any surprise results? For two women the answers are shocking, and dangerous. Perfect for readers of Liane Moriarty and Sally Hepworth. Families lie. DNA doesn't. Isobel Ashworth breezes through life, blissfully...

Mientras Lina Ortega camina hacia el altar con un casi desconocido, empieza a replantearse las decisiones que ha tomado en los últimos días. Una romántica empedernida, se pregunta cómo ha llegado a esta complicada situación en la que no tiene más remedio que casarse con un hombre al que apenas conoce.

A genre-bending exploration of poetry and human migration—another revelatory expedition from the National Book Award–winning poet who changed the way we see art, the museum, and the Black female figure. Winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Twenty-five years ago, after her maternal...

Even If weaves a visual and poetic tapestry of faith that is both scrappy and heartfelt. In this hand-crafted book, Janie relates her own journey of learning to trust God, even to the point of overcoming life-gripping fear. Her desire is to encourage, inspire, and help others find their way to wholeness of life and freedom from fear.