Resultados para "Camillo" en Ficción biográfica

Camille Di Maio's novel The First Emma is the true story of Emma Koehler, whose tycoon husband, Otto, was killed in a crime-of-the-century murder by one of his two mistresses - both also named Emma - and her unlikely rise as CEO of a brewing empire during Prohibition. When a chance to tell her story to a young teetotaler arises, a tale unfolds of love, war, beer, and the power of women.

After serving seventy years in prison for the murder of her sister, Eula, Della Lee has finally returned home to the Texas town of Puerto Pesar. She's free from confinement - and ready to tell her secrets before it's too late. She finds a willing audience in journalist Mick Anders, who is reeling after his suspension from a Boston newspaper and in town, reluctantly, to investigate a mysterious portrait of Eula that reportedly sheds tears.

Judy Goodman and Beverly Caldwell have different reasons for putting continents and oceans between themselves and their disparate pasts, but they have the same desire—to earn a coveted position on an elite team of stewardesses for Pan American Airlines. For Judy, running away from an oppressive marriage in small-town Pennsylvania is a risk she must take. And for Beverly, leaving behind the gilded cage of New York society will allow her to pursue a future of her own making.

Patrick è convinto di essere morto e di non conoscere la donna con cui è sposato da vent'anni. Emma è in stato vegetativo da quando era bambina, eppure non presenta alcun danno cerebrale. Jennifer sente voci nella testa che le intimano di uccidersi. Amy è scossa da convulsioni alimentate da un trauma insondabile. Non c'è limite alla profondità dell'abisso in cui la nostra mente può precipitare. Sette capitoli, sette pazienti, sette storie.

A vividly-rendered portrait of both the rise of Impressionism and of the artist at the center of the movement, Claude and Camille is above all a love story of the highest romantic order. In the mid-nineteenth century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult...

Peint à Vienne en 1910, le tableau de Gustav Klimt Portrait d’une dame est acheté par un collectionneur anonyme en 1916, retouché par le maître un an plus tard, puis volé en 1997, avant de réapparaître en 2019 dans les jardins d’un musée d’art moderne en Italie. Aucun expert en art, aucun conservateur de musée, aucun enquêteur de police ne sait qui était la jeune femme représentée sur le tableau, ni quels mystères entourent l’histoire mouvementée de son portrait.

Camilla Stockmann flytter som højgravid ind i en lejlighed på Frederiksberg, hvor et andet barn tidligere er blevet født på dørtærsklen. Historien går, at der var blodige hænder på dørkarmen i tiden efter. Lejligheden er nøje udvalgt som hendes børns fremtidige barndomshjem, men en dag kommer hun som journalist på sporet af en sag, hvor et barneskelet bliver fundet i hendes kvarter. Siden får hun kendskab til endnu et barnedrab, der skete på samme tid og sted, og familiens før så hyggelige lejlighed bliver pludselig forbundet med noget ildevarslende og u-hjemligt.

The New York Times bestseller from one of the most versatile and bold writers of our time—“an astonishing, tightly structured, and lyrically told” novel (People) inspired by Princess Diana. What if Princess Diana hadn’t died? Diana’s life and marriage were fairy tale and nightmare...