Resultados para "LIKE" en Psicológica

In Like Life's eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore's characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can't quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships.

A young married couple hires a middle-aged widow during the wife, Nora's, difficult pregnancy; they don't realize the dominating force she will become in their small family. Signora A - maid, nanny, and confidante - becomes the glue in their household and, over time, the steady and loving presence whose benign influence allows them to negotiate the complexities of married life. The delicate fabric of the young family comes undone when Signora A is diagnosed with lung cancer.

Shortly after 9.30 in the morning, a young man walks into Surf City, Bondi’s newest shopping complex. He’s wearing a dark grey hoodie - and a bomb around his neck. Just a few minutes later, he is locked in a shop on the upper floor. And trapped with him are four innocent bystanders. For police chaplain Paul Doherty, called to the scene by Senior Sergeant Boehm, it’s a story that will end as tragically as it began. For this is clearly no ordinary siege. The boy, known as Ali Khan, seems as frightened as his hostages and has yet to utter a single word.

This is the predicament Polly Cooke faces when she returns to her new home. The first weeks in the house had been idyllic, but soon Jacob, a local man, is watching her. What does he want and why is he so obsessed with Polly? In a situation where nothing is what it seems, you might end up regretting letting some people in.

Dark secrets and family crimes drive a ruthless female serial killer in Ellen J. Green’s breathtaking sequel to Amazon Charts bestseller Twist of Faith.

Lexie Brooker—a down-to-earth grandmother, retired landscape architect and dog lover—begins to question her reality. Is she imagining the strange new room in her apartment, the unfamiliar books on her nightstand, and the dead people casually chatting on her couch? Or has she somehow stumbled into a parallel version of her life? As Lexie navigates this bizarre new world, she must decide: does she want to return to her old life, and if so, how in any world can she find her way back?

Fiecare povestire din Aş vrea să mă aştepte şi pe mine cineva este astfel gîndită încît soarta fiecărui personaj să se decidă într-un unic moment crucial. În Evenimentul zilei, agentul comercial Jean-Pierre nu află de consecinţele catastrofale ale unui moment de neatenţie decît a doua zi, din paginile ziarului Le Figaro. Personajul feminin central din Catgut îşi decide singur viitorul în cele cîteva secunde urmînd unui incident traumatic.

A gripping new novel of suspense about a woman drawn into a world of wealth and privilege like she’s never dreamed, but comes to realize that the family behind it all is hiding terrifying secrets... Some families bury more than the past. Emily grew up in a broken home and did everything she...

जब इंसान अंदर से टूटता है तो वो अपनी बात समझाने के तरीके ढूँढने लगता है । और जब अंदर भावनाओं का ज्वार उठ रहा हो और सुनने वाला कोई न हो, तो वो खुद के लिए फैसलें लेता है ।

"Your eyes are amazing. I’ve never seen a blue like that.” Emma Landry is tough, independent, beautiful, and smart. Being an outcast unable to identify with her classmates, she was willing to do whatever it takes to climb her way out of poverty.

I don’t know who I am. I don’t know who to trust. But someone out there knows what really happened to me. The faces staring back at me feel wrong, their voices uncomfortably distant. Ever since I woke from the coma, it’s like I’ve been locked in a stranger’s life. My memories are fractured – frozen at thirty, yet they insist I’m forty. A wife. A mother. But these strangers? They say they’re my family. Daniel, my husband, swears he loves me, yet I can’t recall saying ‘I do.’ My children’s faces stir nothing but guilt. Even the wedding album feels staged.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past colored by unexpected loss, addiction, and the enduring emotional pull toward home. After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new...

A woman searches for her missing father in order to reconcile the many strange and fantastical secrets of her past before she loses herself completely in this deeply profound and magical novel by Audrey Burges. Keryth Miller is disappearing. Between the growing distance from her husband, the...

We all know someone like Becca. She has the job everyone wants, a designer wardrobe, a hot-shot lawyer boyfriend, holidays to exotic locations. And she flaunts her perfect life all over social media. It drove her colleague Lizzie mad, but she couldn't stop looking. They were never really friends - and yet Lizzie knew everything about her. Or did she? When chance and a terrible mistake pull Lizzie back into Becca's orbit years after they lost touch, she'll realise that you can't always believe what you see online...and that finding out the truth might be the worst thing you can do.

Heart Like A Bonfire is a confluence of poignant tales from within a hospice company. Based on the author's 13 years as a spiritual care provider and bereavement specialist in a hospice, it explores dying, death, grief, and bereavement from several perspectives, facing these with a blend of gritty honesty and loving spirituality.

Zurück an Islands Strände, zurück zur dramatischsten Liebesgeschichte des Jahres. Hals über Kopf hat Lilly Island verlassen, als sie von Arons Lüge erfahren hat. Jetzt sitzt sie verloren bei ihrer Großmutter auf Sylt und weiß nicht, wie es weitergehen soll. Bis sie eine Nachricht von SaveThe Iceland bekommt, die sie daran erinnert, dass ihr Herz längst für das karge Land im Nordatlantik schlägt. Genau wie für Aron, dem derweil die Zeit davonläuft und der seinen Augen nicht trauen kann, als Lilly eines Abends wieder vor ihm steht.

Eine dramatische Liebe vor der rauen Kulisse Islands. Als Lillys herzkranker Zwillingsbruder stirbt, bricht für die Studentin eine Welt zusammen. Ihre Trauer findet in Berlin keinen Platz, also flieht sie kurzentschlossen nach Island, um den einzigen Menschen zu besuchen, der ihr in den letzten Monaten Halt geben konnte: Aron. Die beiden haben sich online in einem Forum für Angehörige von herzkranken Menschen kennengelernt. Doch als sie endlich vor ihm steht, ist er abweisend. Erst als Lilly ihm vom Tod ihres Bruders erzählt, tröstet er sie.

Eliza Moss's intoxicating debut novel is a dark, intense, and compelling account of what happens when a young woman falls in love with the wrong kind of man. Enola is approaching 30 and everything feels like a lot. The boxes aren’t ticked and she feels adrift in a way she thought she would...

Joey Taylor jokingly starts a public page for "God" on FaceSpace and forgets about it when he goes off the grid from social media. Four years later, he returns to the page to find that it has over 30 million "likes". When Joey discovers the immense power and responsibility that comes with this incredible online audience at his disposal, the former pizza delivery driver develops a God complex of his own. Joey's newfound fame on FaceSpace takes a turn nobody could ever see coming.

In a riveting and unputdownable thriller from the Queen of Suspense, a young woman is ensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever—her childhood home. At the age of ten, Liza Barton shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged stepfather...