Resultados para "Lila, Lila" en Novela histórica

LILIA is a gripping, cinematic novel inspired by my family's extraordinary true story of resilience and survival during World War II, under Mussolini's Fascist Italy and Hitler's brutal Nazi occupation. Amid the devastation of war, a young girl and her family struggle to endure unimaginable loss, betrayal, and the daily terror of Nazi rule. Stripped of her childhood and forced to navigate an unforgiving world, Lilia clings to the one thing that cannot be taken from her: hope.

Dans le brouillard d'une soirée d'automne de 1944, un sexagénaire de noble allure contemple l'île abitibienne dont il est le propriétaire et sur laquelle est érigé un singulier château. Retiré du monde depuis quinze ans, fuyant de lourds secrets et de dangereuses passions, Gontran Lecomte se plaît dans cet exil volontaire, qui lui a permis de survivre à l'écroulement de ses univers familial et professionnel. Mais voilà que, soudain, une jeune femme se dresse sur le cap rocheux à ses côtés avant de se laisser choir dans l'eau glacée.

Lila Bonnard has left her island home in the Caribbean to join the faculty as a visiting professor at Mayfield College in a small Vermont town. On her way from the airport to Mayfield, Lila witnesses the fatal shooting of a Black man by the police. It turns out that the victim was a professor at Mayfield, and was giving CPR to a white woman who was on the verge of an opioid overdose. The two Black faculty and a Black administrator in the otherwise all-white college expect Lila to be a witness in the case against the police. 

A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. Lila, homeless...

In the South Carolina Hills, along the Savannah River Watershed, in the fall of 1829, 14-year-old, three-quarter Cherokee Sahani, whose Christian name is Charity, sets out on a journey with her 83-year-old white grandfather to Fort Charlotte for what she thinks is a trip to trade the pelts he has accumulated in order to replenish their supplies. However, Charity soon discovers that her grandfather's objective in making this trip is to get her married off and settled somewhere.

St. Petersburg, Florida, 1944. Thelma Miles can’t stand injustice. Broke and orphaned near the close of WWII, when the 18-year-old lands a coveted spot on the Florida Girls war bond tour, she believes she's escaped her criminal past. Until she discovers she's stepped into the mafia's lair.

In the summer of 1865, Emmaline Gulledge is 11 years old and stubborn as a mule. Determined to do exactly what she sets her mind to, she explores the mountains and valleys around her home with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and a keen eye that misses nothing. When her mother dies, Emmaline, Emmy for short, is thrust into the mystical, spiritual world of her mother's native peoples, the Tsalagi, better known as the Cherokee.

Florida Girls, Vegas Girls, Havana Girls: The Complete Series Three women. Three cities. One empire. They enter a world ruled by men. They intend to take it for themselves. In 1940s Florida, a beautiful stranger arrives with a traveling troupe—and finds herself caught between a dangerous...

Havana, 1950. Thelma Miles has carved out a precarious independence running a Havana nightclub and raising her niece when she learns her reporter friend's car has gone over the cliffs off the Pacific Coast Highway. The woman had been on the verge of publishing a groundbreaking exposé. Only Thelma knows the deadly secrets she took with her—secrets powerful men would kill to keep buried.

Las Vegas, 1945. Reeling from her husband’s death, Thelma Miles sets out to tear down a mafia empire. As federal agents circle, rival gangs plot, and her father’s empire grows more powerful by the day, Thelma masterminds an elaborate ruse. To pull off the con, she assembles an unlikely crew: a Hollywood starlet who is more than she appears; a relentless reporter on a crusade to root out corruption, and her former boss who may or may not be undermining the whole operation.

Free-spirited Lilias Honeyfield has a secret. She’s certain the rich and powerful Duke of Greybourne is meant to be hers. He just needs to reappear in her life and stop denying his love for her before she’s forced to wed another. Though it’s been seven years, she has never forgotten the beautiful but tormented man hiding behind the mask of moody boy, nor does she believe she imagined the searing passion between them. But the day Nash Steele finally reappears in town, the rogue destroys her hope by claiming he never returned her affection.

Caught in the midst of World War I, Lila is a young Polish orphan living with an immortal being known as the Count. After witnessing the tragedies unfolding across Europe with Jörg, a German soldier who serves as her bodyguard, she resolves to use the Count’s powers in a desperate bid to...

Une jeune Anglaise, Alexis, ignore tout de l'histoire de sa famille maternelle, tant sa mère, Sophia, fait peser sur le passé une chape de plomb qui empoisonne leurs relations. Pour dénouer ce nœud obscur, Alexis décide de se rendre dans le village natal de Sophia, en Crète. Et découvre que juste en face se trouve Spinalonga, l'île où l'on déportait les lépreux. Quand elle apprend que son arrière-grand-mère y serait morte, elle décide d'élucider tous ces mystères.

Marjolaine, enceinte, ne sait comment accueillir cette nouvelle inattendue. Peut-être à cause de Philippe? Arrivera-t-elle à reprendre le dialogue avec Sophie, s’aimeront-elles de nouveau comme lorsqu’elles étaient jeunes, avant le décès de leur mère? La mort de Stéphane, cadet de la famille Lalonde, se dresse comme un obstacle. Qu’est-il vraiment arrivé ce fameux soir de juillet 1975? Sur l’île, les commérages vont bon train en ce qui touche les relations tendues entre les soeurs Lalonde.

The Legend of Lilia is the story of Lilia Litvyak, who at 15 made her first solo flight in a wood-and-canvas biplane. By the age of 21, she was the most dangerous woman in the sky as an ace fighter pilot over the Eastern Front during World War II. Research was gathered through in-person interviews in post-Soviet Russia with veteran female pilots and mechanics, colonels of Lilia's regiment, historians, and declassified records from Soviet archives.

Die junge Schwarze Celie wächst Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts in Georgia auf. Während ihre Mutter im Sterben liegt, wird sie mit vierzehn zum ersten Mal von ihrem Vater vergewaltigt und in den Folgejahren zweimal schwanger. Er gibt die Kinder weg, sie weiß nicht, ob sie noch leben oder tot sind. Als sie in die Ehe mit einem Mann gezwungen wird, der sie schlägt, wendet sich Celie in verzweifelten Briefen an Gott, da sie keinen anderen Ausweg mehr weiß. Erst als ihr Mann seine Geliebte Shug Avery ins Haus holt, verbessert sich Celies Situation.

Pendant trois jours, au cœur d'une Convention, Lila Lacombe déambule, parle fort, rit beaucoup et enchaîne les rencontres inoubliables. Mais derrière les lumières, les files d'attente et les applaudissements, un autre récit se tisse. Au fil des heures, les souvenirs remontent : son petit studio dans lequel elle vit seule depuis l'âge de 13 ans pour apprendre la danse, les débuts de sa carrière de comédienne de doublage, les rencontres tantôt solaires ou dangereuses et puis les sacrifices, les choix, les doutes.

Des décès, un mariage très attendu, des décisions déchirantes… La vie n’est pas toujours simple sur l’Île Verte! Marjolaine, enceinte, ne sait comment accueillir cette nouvelle inattendue. Peut-être à cause de Philippe? Arrivera-t-elle à reprendre le dialogue avec Sophie, s’aimeront-elles de nouveau comme lorsqu’elles étaient jeunes, avant le décès de leur mère? La mort de Stéphane, cadet de la famille Lalonde, se dresse comme un obstacle.

The Irish author of TransAtlantic presents his first collection of short fiction in over a decade. With unsurpassed empathy for his characters and their inner lives, Thirteen Ways of Looking explores the territory of chance and the profound and intimate consequences of even our smallest moments. In conversation with Lila Azam Zanganeh ( The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness).

Hitler is marching across Europe. When the book begins, war is only a rumor. Mary Rosie enjoys the excitement the influx of young servicemen bring to the area, especially one charismatic RAF pilot, to the dismay of Johnny, the boy who expects to marry her. When the first bomb strikes her home town, Mary is catapulted into the grim realities of war. A grim discovery on the beach changes her life forever.