Resultados para "Else" en Narrativa literaria

Rosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave behind everything she knows with only a suitcase of clothes and her father’s violin. An epic generational story about womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation...

Una giovane donna, ospite della zia nel Grand Hotel di San Martino di Castrozza, per salvare il padre dalla rovina economica deve mostrarsi nuda a un vecchio...

Heather Harris is a piano teacher and professional musician, whose quiet life revolves around music, whose memories centre on a single song that haunts her. A song she longs to perform again. A song she wrote as a child, to drown out the violence in their home. A song she played with her little sister, Harriet. But Harriet is gone...she disappeared when their parents died, and Heather never saw her again. When Heather is offered an opportunity to play piano on a cruise ship, she leaps at the chance.

Bailey's brother, Henry, and his best friend Griffin are stars in the restaurant field. They are known as the Color Wheel Boys because of their renowned Buckhead restaurants Vert, Blanc, and Noir. Bailey is determined to chart her own course; to not be forever known as Hank's daughter, Henry's sister, or "whatever" she is to Griffin. Bailey's dreams propel her to New York, where her vision garners accolades and fame. Just when she seems on the verge of having it all, a shocking betrayal throws Bailey's world into chaos. 

The Invention of Everything Else is a luminous imagining of an unlikely friendship between the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young hotel chambermaid. Louisa, obsessed with radio dramas and the secret lives of the hotel guests, first catches sight of the hotel's most famous resident on New Year's Day, 1943, and is determined to befriend the strange man.

2009. Lindsey and Georgie have high hopes for their summer on Martha's Vineyard. In the wake of the recession, ambitious college graduate Lindsey accepts a job as a nanny for an influential family who may help her land a position in Boston's exclusive art world. Georgie, the eldest child in that family, is nearly fifteen and eager to find herself, dreaming of independence and yearning for first love.

The first time I saw you, I knew you were meant to be ours. I took you in my arms, your little hands in tight fists, and I knew I was going to do everything in my power to be the mother you needed and deserved… When Catriona loses her baby girl at birth, it shatters her. But like a light in...

The city of Vukovar, situated on Croatia's easternmost periphery, across the Danube River from Serbia, was the site of some of the worst violence in the wars that rocked ex-Yugoslavia in the early '90s. It is referred to only as "the city" throughout this taut political thriller from one of Europe's most celebrated young writers.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! “Very few authors have the power to make you laugh on one page and cry on the next. Moyes is one of them.” —The New York Times A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling...

"Schon das Gestern verschwimmt, und alles, was ein paar Tage zurückliegt, bekommt den Charakter eines unklaren Traumes." Else, Tochter eines Wiener Rechtsanwalts, erreicht im Kurort San Marino ein Brief ihrer Mutter, in dem sie Else bittet, diese möge den Kunsthändler Dorsday um ein Darlehen für Elses Vater bitten. Dorsday willigt zwar in das Geschäft ein, stellt dafür aber eine Bedingung, die Else in schwere Gewissensnöte stürzt. Seine 1924 erschienene Erzählung "Fräulein Else" gestaltet Arthur Schnitzler als einen durchgehenden inneren Monolog, als Zwitter zwischen Drama und Novelle.

Brought to you by Penguin. Exquisitely written, sublimely fraught and erotically charged, How to Be Somebody Else is an uncoming of age in New York City Spring 2015, New York. On the surface Dylan has achieved the impossible - a life in New York, eight years of making this stick. And yet it is...

A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from international sensation Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars 'A delightful reverse-Cinderella story of two women who seem polar opposites - until circumstance forces them to...

Someone Else's Love Story is beloved and highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson's funny, charming, and poignant novel about science and miracles, secrets and truths, faith and forgiveness; about falling in love, and learning that things aren't always what they...

Vor grandioser Kulisse spielt das Drama um Else, die jäh aus ihrer großbürgerlichen Welt katapultiert wird...

I count down the days until we can leave the city behind and return to the beach house. Where James and Katie can roam free over the dunes, like they did as children, and Peter will swap his six a.m. starts for the stacks of fluffy pancakes he lovingly serves up for our family breakfasts. These sun-drenched, golden days, just the four of us, are what I hold on to all year long. But this summer, Katie’s best friend will be coming with us. I tell myself the girls will have fun together, pushing aside the doubts I have about this uninvited guest. Isa.

A taut, complex psychological thriller from the author of The Doctor's Wife Like The Doctor's Wife - which The Boston Globe called "a compelling read"-Somebody Else's Daughter is a literary page-turner peopled with fascinating and disturbing characters. In the idyllic Berkshires, at the...

Jørgen og Else har skabt verden lige som de syntes den skulle være. Men det er som om der mangler noget. Flere bjerge? Verdenshave? Bananpalmer?
Hvad med om vi lavede et lille menneske? foreslår Jørgen så.
Uh, siger Else. Men det skal ikke være et stort groft menneske.
Nej, Nej, siger Jørgen. Det skal være en fin lille sag, et lille menneske. Et menneskebarn. En alternativ skabelsesberetning om at lave et menneskebarn.

From New York Times bestselling novelist Joshilyn Jackson comes an e-original short story that gives a fierce and funny character from Someone Else's Love Story a standalone adventure all her own. Shandi Pierce got pregnant when she was only seventeen years old. She fell for her son—deeply...