Resultados para "Camillo" en Narrativa literaria

La prima folgorante apparizione letteraria di don Camillo e Peppone, la coppia di amici/nemici più famosi della narrativa italiana, immortalati al cinema da Fernandel e Gino Cervi. Da una parte c'è don Camillo, un prete di un paesino emiliano. Alto e ben piazzato, appassionato di caccia, don Camillo tende a risolvere pragmaticamente e fisicamente questioni ingarbugliate. Dall’altra c’è Peppone, il sindaco comunista del paese, amico d’infanzia di don Camillo e compagno di scorribande giovanili ma ideologicamente l'opposto di don Camillo.

Una historia de amor contagiosa. Han pasado seis meses desde que el mundo fue azotado por una pandemia. El virus está mutando, lo cual imposibilita la búsqueda de un tratamiento y aproximadamente la mitad de la población mundial ha fallecido. Estar cerca de otro ser humano es una sentencia...

Ellen och Nora bor tillsammans med sin pappa och styvmamma. Livet är lugnt, och framtiden verkar ljus. En dag hittar Ellen sin lillasyster Nora i badkaret. Hon är död. Sorgen är fruktansvärd och familjen måste försöka konfrontera det faktum att olyckor inträffar. De måste försöka gå vidare. Men det som inledningsvis verkar vara en olyckshändelse blir mer och mer förbryllande. Och den som snart blir huvudmisstänkt är Camilla, styvmamman, en person som visar sig vara allt annat än vad hon utgivit sig för att vara ... Kontroll - Camilla är del två av tre i serien Kontroll av Ulla Bolinder.

A little girl throws up Gloria-Jean's teeth after an explosion at the custard factory; Pax, Alexander, and Angelo are hypnotically enthralled by a book that promises them enlightenment if they keep their semen inside their bodies; Victoria is sent to a cursed hotel for ailing girls when her...

It's been seven years since Mallory shot to fame as a literary sensation. But after years of struggling with writer's block, she's desperate to resurrect her career before it spirals into obscurity. She needs inspiration to strike – and fast. Enter Leo – a young struggling addict sleeping under bridges and trading sex for survival. He's vulnerable. He's enigmatic. He's exactly what Mallory has been looking for. Mallory needs Leo if she wants another bestseller. Authenticity sells, and there's nothing more authentic than real life. She's the perfect person to tell Leo's story.

No new people: that's Annie Mercer's vow. It's bad enough that her boss sabotaged her chemistry career and her best friend tried to cure her with crystals. But after her fiancé, Jon, asks for space while he's gallivanting around Paris, Annie decides she needs space too - from everyone. Yet when Harper moves in next door, Annie can't help but train a watchful eye on the glamorous but fragile young woman. And if keeping Harper safe requires teaming up with Mo, a maddeningly optimistic amateur detective, who is she to mind her own business?

Vera Keller, the daughter of German immigrants in turn-of-the-century New York City, finds her life upended when the man she loves becomes engaged to another woman. But Angelo Bellavia has also inadvertently opened up Vera’s life to unexpected possibilities. Angelo’s new wife, Pearl, the wealthy daughter of a clothing manufacturer, has defied her family’s expectations by devoting herself to the suffrage movement. In Pearl, Vera finds an unexpected dear friend…and a stirring new cause of her own.

Julianne Westcott was living the kind of life that other Protestant girls in prewar Liverpool could only dream about: old money, silk ball gowns, and prominent young men lining up to escort her. But when she learns of a blind-and-deaf brother, institutionalized since birth, the illusion of her perfect life and family shatters around her.

Erotisk novell om Bent, en frånskild man som håller sig för sig själv. En dag ser han sin granne Viola på stranden och det blir starten på ett hett förhållande mellan dem två. Camille Bech (f. 1963) är en känd författare av erotisk litteratur. Hon har bland annat gett ut "Advokaten" (2015), "Anais" (2016) och "Jul med Joeleen" (2017).

I genitori di Miranda sono inglesi ma vivono nella Francia rurale, in un manoir fatiscente dove nidificano i pipistrelli e proliferano le piante rampicanti. Anche Miranda, attrice teatrale, vive in Francia, e quando va a trovare i genitori affronta con stoicismo gli inevitabili supplizi, dalla temperatura artica della casa alle costolette di vitello conservate dal 1983 e servite con nonchalance.

When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the ground floor of a block of flats - she thinks it will be like any other shift work. She cleans toilets, sweeps popcorn, avoids the belligerent old owner, Iris, and is ignored by her aloof but...

It’s been thirteen years since doctors declared Libby Ross-Velasquez a goner. Yet here she is - cancer-free. So why doesn’t she feel more alive? Sure, Libby’s husband, Shiloh, has been distant. One of their daughters has a serious health condition. And her father’s death hovers over Libby like a rain cloud. Still, this eternal optimist knows she’s the winner of the existential lottery. But when her forced cheer isn’t enough to keep her family from catching her blahs, she decides to fly them all to Vieques. The Puerto Rican island is where she and Shiloh fell in love.

Wife. Mother. Breadwinner. Penelope Ruiz-Kar is doing it all - and barely keeping it together. Meanwhile, her best friend, Jenny Sweet, appears to be sailing through life. As close as the two women are, Jenny’s passionate marriage, pristine house, and ultra-polite child stand in stark contrast to Penelope’s underemployed husband, Sanjay, their unruly brood, and the daily grind she calls a career.

At fifty-three, Maggie Harris has a good marriage and two mostly happy children. Perpetually anxious, she’s also accumulated a list of semi-reasonable fears: falling air conditioners, the IRS, identity theft, skydiving, and airbag recalls. But never once did Maggie worry that her husband of nearly thirty years would leave her.

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.

Nel liceo di Clichy-sous-Bois, la giovane Kayden Abad scopre il potere della scrittura grazie alla sua insegnante di letteratura, che intravede in lei un talento capace di aprirle le porte di un futuro prestigioso. Ma dietro questa promessa si nasconde un rapporto ambiguo e pericoloso, fatto di manipolazione e seduzione. Attraverso il suo diario, Kayden racconta con lucidità e dolore le dinamiche di un sistema educativo rigido e spesso ingiusto, dando voce ai sogni, alle paure e alla forza dei legami tra adolescenti.

El comandante Camille Verhoeven vive la vida perfecta: está casado con la maravillosa Irène, con la que espera su primer hijo. Pero su felicidad se resquebraja tras un asesinato inusualmente salvaje. Desde que la noticia se hace pública, la prensa lo acecha y cada uno de sus movimientos se convierte en noticia de portada. Verhoeven descubre que el asesino ha matado antes. Cada uno de sus crímenes parece rendir homenaje a una novela negra clásica, por lo que los periodistas se apresuran a darle un sobrenombre: "El Novelista".

Marta vive ogni giorno in preda a uno strano e costante senso di inafferrabilità: anche le scelte più semplici, le decisioni più ovvie sembrano sempre un passo più in là di ogni suo sforzo. Non sfugge a questa sua irrequieta condizione nemmeno l'amore, che sembra volersi arrendere allo stesso senso di inadeguatezza: mai abbastanza affascinante, mai sufficientemente intelligente, mai all'altezza o idonea a soddisfare le aspettative dei partner. Trovare il modo per ovviare a quelle che ormai ritiene siano delle sue mancanze, diventa per Marta quasi un'ossessione.

Han pasado varios años desde el caso del asesino en serie que trastocó para siempre su vida, y el comandante Camille Verhoeven aún no se ha repuesto del todo cuando un nuevo desafío vuelve a implicarlo personal y profesionalmente: Alex, una mujer de treinta años, ha desaparecido. No es una mujer cualquiera, y Verhoeven, sin sospechosos ni pistas, debe adentrarse en la investigación de su personalidad para poder encontrarla, mientras ella agoniza en un almacén abandonado. Cada minuto que pasa puede ser el último. Y él no se lo perdonaría nunca.

Among Jane Austen's favorite novels, and a key work in the rise of Romanticism, Camilla follows the story of three young women, from childhood to young adulthood, and their pursuit of matrimony. Kind but naive Camilla is in love with Edgar Mandlebert, a handsome and noble young man. Intelligent Eugenia, destined to inherit her uncle's great wealth, is plagued with misfortune as she is left disfigured by smallpox and has men court her for financial gain only. Meanwhile their cousin, beautiful but selfish Indiana, never finds a fortune for her good looks.