Resultados para "He" en Narrativa literaria

"This was a man" empieza con un disparo, aunque, ¿quién ha apretado el gatillo? ¿Quién morirá? ¿Quién sobrevivirá? En Whitehall, Giles Barrington descubre la verdad sobre Karin, su esposa, cuando el secretario del gabinete le revela un secreto. ¿Es una espía o solo una testigo inocente? Harry Clifton empieza a escribir su obra capital, mientras su esposa Emma cumple diez años al frente del Hospital Real de Bristol. Emma recibe una inesperada llamada de Margaret Thatcher; quiere ofrecerle un trabajo.

Emma Fern has won at life: she's a prize-winning author and she's blissfully happy with her husband, Jim. It wasn't an easy rise to the top, but Emma knows you can't achieve success without sacrifice. The trouble is, Jim knows that too. As her literary triumph starts to fade into the past, Emma comes under pressure to write a second bestseller. But her big secret is that she didn't write the first one. She's a fraud, and the only people who ever knew the truth are...no longer a problem.

John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension between commercial demands and artistic integrity and the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists. An extraordinary reimagining of the life of one of the greatest screen comedians...

A gripping, suspenseful, psychological thriller that fans of T.M. Logan, My Lovely Wife and K.L. Slater won't be able to put down. He loves you. He loves your children. He’d never put his family in danger. One of these is a lie. It started like any other day at the hairdressers where Sally works as a stylist... until her first client innocently shows her a family photograph; a photograph that causes Sally to collapse in shock.

When Paula Gadd’s husband of almost 30 years dies, just days away from the seventh anniversary of their son Christopher’s death, her world falls apart. Grieving and bereft, she is stunned when a young woman approaches her at the funeral service and slips something into her pocket. A note suggesting that Paula’s husband was not all that he seemed....

Single mum, Holly Wilson, and her twenty-year-old son Harry have an enviably close relationship but when Harry finds out that she is pregnant and, for reasons unknown to all but herself, intends to raise the baby alone again, he begins to question her decision not to tell him about his own father, who abandoned them before his birth. Upon discovering his father’s name, Harry secretly embarks on his search for the truth, a search which takes him to Los Angeles where he uncovers a tragic story.

Le père de Fauve se révèle là où le magnétisme rencontre la dureté. Il attire pour mieux anéantir, fait des enfants pour les abandonner, n'avance que pour jouir. Jusqu'à ce que la maladie frappe. Se sachant condamné par un cancer, il retourne vers son unique fille pour en faire sa dernière femme, son plus important projet. Fauve devra grandir avec l'angoisse du deuil, les fins du monde qui s'enchaînent et l'ambiguïté d'un amour aussi vaste que corrompu.

Frederik, der er søn af en dansk soldat og en lokal kvinde, kommer til verden på Guldkysten, på den tid da Danmark havde kolonier i Afrika og Vestindien. Han er en begavet dreng, og han bliver adopteret af den danske præst på fortet Christiansborg, der tager ham med til Danmark. Trods universitetsstudier og danske kærester falder Frederik aldrig rigtigt til, og han kommer til at leve hele sit liv splittet mellem sine to kulturer. H.E. Sørensen (f. 1940) har skrevet en lang række bøger om rejser, samfund og historie, og især Sønderjylland, hvor forfatteren selv har hjemme, har fået en st

Jake escapes his horrific captivity as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Cassie is a caregiver at the military hospital and nurses Jake back to health. Their love begins over a bowl of Jell-O and carries them back home to the Kansas farm. Everywhere life takes them, there are others with the same haunting dreams of war. Some have only one leg and some have none. Some have just lost their way home. Cassie and Jake begin with one person at a time and over 27 years, hundreds of vets find a little peace on the bank of the farm pond, and they learn to reach back and help another buddy up the hill. The best and the worst of us live in these words and the depth of Jake and Cassie's love can be understood only in the context of the world they dared to change.

Adopté par un sénateur romain à qui il a sauvé la vie, Marcus, un jeune homme brillant devient deux ans plus tard, l’émissaire spécial de l’Empereur Trajan, pour qui il effectue des missions impossibles. Malgré son jeune âge, fin stratège à qui tout réussit, il sait convaincre et ses hommes le suivraient jusqu’en enfer. Érudit et bien éduqué, il fait des rencontres qui modifient le cours de sa vie.

The inaugural title from Roxane Gay Books, And Then He Sang a Lullaby is a searingly honest and resonant debut from a 23-year-old Nigerian writer and queer liberation activist, exploring what love and freedom cost in a society steeped in homophobia. August is a God-fearing track star who...

Elena McMahon walks off the presidential campaign she has been covering for a major newspaper to do a favor for her father. Elena's father does deals. And it is while acting as his agent in one such deal - a deal that shortly goes spectacularly wrong - that she finds herself on an island where tourism has been superseded by arms dealing, covert action, and assassination. The Last Thing He Wanted is a tour de force - persuasive in its detail, dazzling in its ambiguities, enchanting in its style.

Performed by Nancy Pearl, Jeff Schwager and a multi-cast that includes book contributors Luis Alberto Urrea, Siri Hustvedt, Laurie Frankel, Vendela Vida, and Richard Ford. The Writer’s Library audiobook also features real conversations with Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, and Laila Lalami...

A brooding, suspenseful novel of sensuality and vengeance, set amid the fields and villages of 19th century England. Bella Ford, jilted by her unscrupulous lover, plans revenge that ends in a catastrophic act of violence.

Unlucky in love, Julia takes a radical step and travels solo to a spiritual retreat in Kefalonia. With an agenda to avoid men, work on healing her inner rage, balance her chakras and eat lots of Greek food, the Mediterranean heat is exactly what she needs. But before she leaves the airport, Julia meets Vincent, a handsome Spanish architect, who challenges her spiky aura in more ways than one.

Kate Hart and Dominic Knight's volatile love affair continues in the last book in the All or Nothing trilogy from C.C. Gibbs. Self-made billionaire Dominic Knight has always been the master of his destiny. From the boardroom to the bedroom, he takes charge of every situation, every impulse...

Dominic Knight is a man who is always in control. A self-made billionaire by the age of twenty-three, a genius of innovation, and CEO of a global tech empire, Knight always gets what he wants. And he wants Kate Hart. . . A rising star of cyber forensics, Kate is well aware of Knight's reputation...

Lucy Delacourt's temp position isn't quite her dream job but it pays the bills. The highlight of her day is riding the elevator in the mornings with a handsome stranger. But everything changes when the stranger seduces her. Completely out of character, she yields without a fight, but she has no idea her wanton acts with a man whose name she doesn't know will change her life forever. Because the sexy stranger is none other than Jeremiah Hamilton, billionaire CEO of Hamilton Industries, and one taste isn't nearly enough to satisfy his need.

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME AND THE NIGHT WE LOST HIM Best Books of Summer Selection by People, Elle, Redbook, Domino Magazine, Us Weekly, PopSugar, PureWow, InStyle, W Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, Southern Living, Arizona Republic, and Tallahassee...

Brilliant. Wealthy. Powerful. Dominic Knight is one of the hottest tech developers in the world -- and the most demanding lover Kate Hart has ever known. Whether in the boardroom or the bedroom, he is always in charge. But there is one thing he cannot control: Kate's fiery heart . . . As a...