Resultados para "Het incident" en Narrativa literaria

When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr Byrne, her best friend James helps her devise a plan to seduce him. But what begins as a harmless crush soon pushes their friendship to its limits. Over the course of a year they will find their lives ever more entwined with the Byrnes' and be faced with impossible choices and a lie that can't be taken back...

Miriam è in coma dopo un incidente. Andrea la conosce appena ma si è innamorato perdutamente di lei, e ora le siede accanto e le parla, tutti i giorni, perché riesce a sentire la sua voce. Le loro parole si incontrano in un limbo oscuro, dove Miriam ricostruisce i suoi ricordi e Andrea cerca di tenerla ancorata alla vita. Attorno al letto della ragazza si muovono altre figure, che attendono il suo risveglio.

Se il nome di una persona ne influenza il destino, allora quello della piccola Plectrude non potrà che essere straordinario. Nata in prigione da un'uxoricida, allevata dopo il suicidio della madre da una zia che la preferisce alle sue stesse figlie, sembra destinata a un futuro prodigioso. Misteriosa ed enigmatica come una dea, bella come una principessa delle fiabe, sicura come una creatura di intelligenza superiore, inizia la sua vita a passo di danza, inconsapevolmente avvolta dall'ombra del suo passato tragico e violento.

A desperate man. Many unwelcome visitors. When a small town ignores bullying in one generation, it leads to tragedy in the next. Consumed by anger, Ben Franklin dreads more attacks on his home. The teens in the small town have named his home "The Ghost House." On a moonless Halloween, the beleaguered man does some scaring of his own and injures a teenage girl. The teen, April, followed her two friends in completing the tradition of facing the foreboding structure.

From one of China’s most famous contemporary writers, who celebrated novel To Live catapulted him to international fame, here is a stunning collection of stories, selected from the best of Yu Hua’s early work, that shows his far-reaching influence on a pivotal period in Chinese literature...

Brilliant but troubled historian John Washington returns to his hometown of Chaneysville, Pennsylvania—just north of the Mason-Dixon Line—to learn more about the death of his father. Washington discovers that his father was researching a mystery of his own: why 13 escaped slaves reached freedom in Chaneysville only to die there, for reasons forgotten or never known at all.

An NPR Books We Love 2025 One of Brooklyn Public Library’s Books We Love 2025 The world has stopped. But Rachel is just getting started… It’s spring of 2020 and Rachel Bloomstein—mother of three, recent divorcée, and Brooklynite—is stuck inside. But her newly awakened sexual desire...