Resultados para "Heidi" en Narrativa literaria

Heidi is writing a script to explain the financial industry, based on how the men within it approach romance. Her clueless heroine is looking for a Wall Street husband, but who’s the best option? The trader? The investment banker? The venture capitalist? Scene by sizzling scene, Heidi considers their assets. What she wants for certain is a happy ending - but when she hits a dead end, it might take a real-life finance guy to show her what a long-term investment really looks like.

On a hot June day in 1965, two six-year-old boys, Gareth and Jack, compete to see who can climb higher up a tree. When Jack falls and loses his eye on a thorn bush, the accident sets off a series of events that will bind the boys together for the rest of their lives. When the best friends meet albino twins Clara and Blanca, a shared fate unfolds. With Gareth and Jack's help, the twins are able to reclaim their lives and leave their nightmarish past behind them.

This piece, set in the year 2024, follows the lovelorn travails of a hapless member of the Hungarian surveillance apparatus.

A few weeks later, an unharmed Mary reappears as suddenly and mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming to have little memory of what happened to her. Her mother, concerned that Mary has somehow been sullied by the experience, sends her to therapy with a psychologist.

Heidi is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning and Heidi: How She Used What She Learned. It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her paternal grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book "for children and those who love children" (as quoted from its subtitle).

Born into a wealthy family in Northern England, Ivory Frame rebels. She escapes to interwar Paris, where she finds herself through art and falls in with the most brilliantly bohemian set: the surrealists. But Ivory’s life is violently interrupted by the Second World War. She flees from Europe, leaving behind her friends, her art and her love. Now over 90, Ivory receives unexpected news from the past: she has a grandchild, despite never having had a child of her own....

Aspiring novelist Molly MacGregor’s life is strikingly different from a literary heroine’s. Named for one of literature’s least romantic protagonists, Moll Flanders, Molly lives in Edmonton, a city she finds irredeemably unromantic, where she writes university term papers instead of novels, and sells shoes in the Largest Mall on Earth. There she seeks the other half of her young life’s own matched pair.

The daughter of a Danish immigrant and a black G.I., Rachel survives a family tragedy only to face new challenges. Sent to live with her strict African-American grandmother in a racially divided Northwest city, she must suppress her grief and reinvent herself in a mostly black community. A beauty with light brown skin and blue eyes, she attracts much attention in her new home. The world wants to see her as either black or white, but that's not how she sees herself.

Als der jüdische Kaufmann Jacob Hirschvogl 1897 zum Königlich-Bayerischen Hoflieferanten ernannt wird, glaubt er sich und seine Familie als gleichwertige Mitglieder der Münchner Gesellschaft anerkannt. Zwar begegnet seine Frau Thea Jacobs Enthusiasmus mit einer gewissen Skepsis, doch der Erfolg des Kaufhauses belehrt sie eines Besseren. Tochter Lily übernimmt das Kaufhaus am Münchner Rindermarkt in den goldenen 20ern und wähnt sich am Ziel aller Wünsche.

Germany, 1940. While struggling to survive at an orphanage, young Didi crosses paths with a rebellious, quirky girl who will either help her escape a life of abuse and uncertainty, or lead her down an even darker path.

Set against the sparkling backdrop of the theater world, this propulsive debut follows the relationship between an actress who refuses to abandon her career and the daughter she chooses to abandon instead. Sadie Jones, a larger-than-life actress and controversial feminist, never wanted to be a...

"Propulsive and affecting.... This is worthy of a standing ovation." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Set against the sparkling backdrop of the theater world, this propulsive debut follows the relationship between an actress who refuses to abandon her career and the daughter she chooses to...

Ein tiefer Blick in seine Augen, und es ist um sie geschehen... Doch ist Hannah auch bereit für die Liebe? Sonny ist attraktiv, selbstbewusst – und nur den Sommer über in der Stadt. Für Hannah die perfekte Gelegenheit, denn sie lässt sich nicht auf feste Beziehungen ein. Genauso wenig wie Sonny. Doch je besser sie sich kennenlernen, desto mehr fühlen sie sich zueinander hingezogen.

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy” (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands...

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and The Vaster Wilds, and series editor Heidi Pitlor. “There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims guest editor...

“To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time,” recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. “They were windows into emotions I had and hadn’t had, into other settings and...

A collection of the year’s best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor JesmynWard says that the best fiction offers the reader a “sense of repair.”The stories in this year’s...

Als der Priester der Sankt-Nicholas-Kirche in Alexandria tot aufgefunden wird, herrscht nicht nur in der Gemeinde heller Aufruhr: Alles deutet auf Mord hin. Doch wer oder was steckt dahinter – die Mafia, ein Familienstreit oder doch der erfolgshungrige Archäologe, der in den Gotteshäusern der Stadt etwas zu suchen scheint und vielen ein Dorn im Auge ist? Die junge Kommissarin Theodora Costanda wird mit dem Fall betraut und stößt auch durch ihre Außenseiterrolle – als Frau, als Angehörige der griechischen Minderheit, als Christin – bei ihren Ermittlungen auf eine Mauer des Schweigens.

Raus aus der Komfortzone, rein in den Urlaub! Die perfekte Romanbegleitung für den Sommer, Liebesglück inklusive... Hals über Kopf bucht Felicity einen exklusiven Sommerurlaub: Wellnessabenteuer an einem geheimen Ort. Doch statt nach Bali geht es mit dem schlechtgelaunten Oliver und zwei anderen Frauen nach Schottland. Auf dem Programm: wandern bis die Füße abfallen, schlafen unter den Sternen, baden in eiskalten Lochs und zu sich selbst finden. Kurzum: Felicitys absoluter Horror.

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor. “Without stories, we cannot live well,” shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short...