Résultats pour "beach" dans Fiction contemporaine

In Inghilterra, secondo Philip Larkin, "i rapporti sessuali incominciarono nel millenovecentosessantatre", "tra la fine del bando a "Lady Chatterley" e il primo ellepi dei Beatles". La giovane coppia protagonista del nuovo romanzo di lan McEwan patisce invece gli ultimi fuochi di un clima diffuso di repressione sessuale. La prima notte di nozze, e prima esperienza sessuale per entrambi, scocca infatti alla vigilia di quell'"annus mirabilis". Tutto avviene in appena due ore, in un antiquato hotel vicino alla celebre spiaggia di ciottoli di Chesil Beach.

New York in den 40er Jahren - von den schillernden Nachtclubs in Manhattan zu der dröhnenden Marinewerft in Brooklyn. Krieg liegt in der ölgetränkten, rauchigen Luft. Die Männer sind an der Front, nun stehen die Frauen in der Fabrik. Doch die junge Anna verfolgt beharrlich ihren Traum: Sie will Marinetaucherin werden. Mutig schwimmt sie gegen den Strom und taucht unter die gigantischen Kriegsschiffe an den Docks. Allein die Gedanken an ihren verschwundenen Vater vermögen es, sie in noch unbekanntere Tiefen zu ziehen.

Was it pure chance that he had run into her so soon? Philip had never believed in destiny, and his father had believed in nothing but his own genius. And yet… From the moment recent Oxford graduate Philip takes the helm of a new marine life institute in Palm Beach, his presence revives old...

Multimillionaire real estate investor and CEO of Kaanapali Palms Ben Crawford is not above getting in bed with organized crime to make his dream come true. A widower, his 19-year old daughter, Leigh, means everything to him. Forgotten is the child he abandoned long ago, never imagining this would come back to haunt him. Leigh Crawford is gorgeous, spoiled, precocious, and primarily looking to have fun at her daddy’s new luxury hotel. After meeting super-hot Hawaiian chauffeur Masami, things get steamy in a hurry. Will they crash-land, or could there actually be a future between them?

As teenagers, Poppy Carlisle and Serena Gorringe were the only witnesses to a tragic event. Amid heated public debate, the two seemingly glamorous teens were dubbed 'The Ice Cream Girls' by the press and were dealt with by the courts. Years later, having led very different lives, Poppy is keen...

In Kate Rorick’s first adult fiction novel, we enter the wild, bewildering world of modern pregnancies. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll shake your head as you wonder where everyone’s sanity went... Meet the mothers… Nathalie Kneller: Nathalie’s plan: to announce her pregnancy now...

”I’ll read anything she writes” — Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author While blogger Angela Clark explores the most romantic city in the world, she must keep her relationship, and her career, from falling apart—in this sequel to Lindsey Kelk’s I Heart New York Angela...