Resultados para "Lisa" en Narrativa femenina

After a devastating betrayal and a brush with death, 60 year old retired police captain Carrie Ware needs more than just sunshine—she needs to feel alive again. Swapping her fast-paced city life for a quiet summer in the charming coastal town of Lost Love Cove, she expects silence, solitude... maybe a sea breeze or two. What she doesn't expect? Matt Parker—her 65 year old grumpy, tool-belted next-door neighbor who's just as broken as she is.

Asimmetria è un romanzo come non ne avete mai letto. Esplora con originalità e intelligenza, umorismo ed eleganza le relazioni asimmetriche della vita contemporanea. Ineguaglianze di età, potere, talento, ricchezza, celebrità, fortuna, geografia e giustizia. Alice ha venticinque anni, vive a New York e lavora per una casa editrice. Una domenica, mentre legge seduta su una panchina di Central Park, incontra un uomo divertente e affascinante, che riconosce subito come Ezra Blazer, il leggendario premio Pulitzer per la letteratura universalmente ammirato.

It's time to shake off the dust and make a new start... A warm, uplifting novel of bold adventures and new beginnings, perfect for readers of Rachel Joyce, Joanna Nell and Sophie Green. 'Warm, witty and wise - Winifred Peters is an absolute delight!' CELIA ANDERSON 'A joy from beginning to end'...

Paris, a winter's night in 1983. She is sixteen years old, lost in unfamiliar streets. On a scrap of paper in her pocket is the address of a photographer, K, thirty years her senior. Almost four decades later, as her life and the world around her begin to unravel, the grown woman seeks to comprehend the young girl of before. Set in Oslo, New York, and Paris, Girl, 1983 is a quest through layers of memory and oblivion.

En una remota provincia de China, las mujeres crearon hace siglos un lenguaje secreto para comunicarse libremente entre sí: el nu shu. Aisladas en sus casas y sometidas a la férrea autoridad masculina, el nu shu era su única vía de escape. Mediante sus mensajes, escritos o bordados en telas, abanicos y otros objetos, daban testimonio de un mundo tan sofisticado como implacable.

A strong, spirited woman who refuses to be tied down finds her wild heart caught between two very different men in this sweeping novel from legendary bestselling author Lisa Kleypas Liberty Jones dreams of the wider world beyond Welcome, Texas, and has the determination to find it. She also has...

Lisa a quitté sa ville natale, Belfort, pour aller vivre avec Jérémy à Widensolen, près de Colmar. Elle est heureuse un temps, mais très vite, elle sent que les choses bougent et pas dans le bon sens. Un soir qu'elle suit Jérémy, elle tombe en panne devant un hôtel/restaurant où elle est hébergée par le propriétaire et son petit-fils. Pour Lisa c'est la révélation... Mais Jérémy n'a pas dit son dernier mot.

It’s the summer of ’69. While her peers revel in free love and rock and roll, Suzannah is home from college, sequestered inside her conservative Southern home. Her domineering father has condemned rock music and driven away her best friend. She’s counting the days until fall. But everything changes when her free-spirited best friend, Livy, resurfaces, urging Suzannah, a talented singer, to join her for three days of peace and music in upstate New York. Fed up with her father’s rules and fearful for her brother’s fate in Vietnam, Suzannah agrees to the road trip.

De acuerdo con los valores de Confucio, «una mujer educada es una mujer inútil», pero Tan Yunxian, nacida en una familia de élite, es criada en condiciones excepcionales. Su abuela es una de las pocas doctoras que hay en China, y enseña a Yunxian los pilares de la medicina, los Cuatro Exámenes —mirar, escuchar, tocar y preguntar—, algo que un hombre nunca puede hacer con una paciente.

It's 1895, and 14-year-old Hannah Brandt struggles with the harsh realities of life on a new Nebraska homestead. Her imagination is captured by a wild filly that she ultimately loses, but the door to her destiny opens.

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* From “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review) an immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century China—perfect for fans of Lisa See’s classics Snow...

As the snowstorm of the century rages toward Newfoundland, twenty-one-year-old Xavier is beaten and stabbed in a vicious attack. His mother, Jules, must fight her way through the shuttered streets of St John’s to reach the hospital where Xavier lies unconscious. When a video of the attack surfaces, Jules struggles to make sense of what she sees in the footage—and of what she can’t quite make out. While Xavier’s story unfolds, so, too, do the stories that brought him there.

Nine years have passed since Ana Koehl had sex with her pot-addicted anesthesiologist husband; seven since she began an affair with a gonzo journalist. She's gratified by her work as a book doula but burdened by her belief that she need always be on call. Her elderly mother's birthday greeting is an inflation-adjusted calculation of the cost of raising Ana in a mice-infested house, her brother has hijacked the will of their recently deceased starchitect father, her adult child is changing rapidly before her eyes, and her best friend advocates for the truth in lies.

Lately, Moira O’Mara has been wearing a secretive Mona Lisa smile, leaving her sister Aisling—and the rest of the family—dying to know what she’s up to. But Moira’s not ready to spill the beans about the new man in her life just yet. They already tease her about her love for a good party (she’s Irish, after all—what’s life without a little fun?), so for now, her romance is staying firmly under wraps.

On an all-expenses-paid holiday, Claudia Taylor jets off to glorious Santorini with her two best friends, Tara and Sophie. But when her simple task of handing over a flash drive becomes complicated, and the handsome Jack tries to romance her, Claudia's holiday becomes less relaxing than she'd hoped. 

Alex Carissa is thrilled when her identical twin sister, Sam, and her husband move into the neighborhood. For Sam, years of infertility, followed by an unthinkable tragedy, have left her despairing of ever having a child. Money is tight, and IVF is expensive. Sam’s only hope may be to ask her sister to be a surrogate. Alex will do anything for Sam, but when the sisters embark upon an unorthodox route to surrogacy, jealousy, guilt, and legal complications soon follow.

Most people can’t tell a good wine from a bottle of Two-Buck Chuck. At least that’s what best friends Reggie and Audrey decide one night while celebrating their daughters’ election to the elite Mohave High Tigerette Pom Squad. But cheerleading in Scottsdale doesn’t come cheap, and both women are strapped for cash and going through a rough patch. Reggie’s husband has announced he’s gay and wants a separation. Audrey’s husband is entering rehab. But what if they could earn money by selling cheap wine in fancy bottles? How hard could it be?

Nach dem Tod ihres Mannes räumt Christien Brinkgreve das gemeinsame Haus um. Was wie eine äußere Routine erscheint, stößt bei ihr eine innere Bewegung an: Eine Frau blickt zurück–auf ihr Leben, ihre Ehe, ihre Rolle in der Familie und in der Welt. Was bleibt von den gemeinsamen Jahrzehnten? Wer war sie in der Beziehung, wer ist sie ohne sie? Und wie kann es sein, dass sie sich als selbstbestimmte Frau zwischen Liebe und fremden Erwartungen verloren hat?

If you could repeat one year of your life, what would you do differently? This heartwarming and hilarious novel features three best friends who get the chance to return to the year they turned 40, the year that altered all of their lives in ways big and small - and get the opportunity to change their future. But it doesn't take long for all three women to learn that reliving a life and making different decisions leads only to new problems and consequences and that the mistakes they made may in fact have been the best choices.

Antiikkiunelmia ja tunteiden kipinöitä. Anna-Lisa Johansson on päättänyt jättää tylsän toimistotyönsä Tukholmassa ja toteuttaa unelmansa omasta antiikkiliikkeestä entisen elintarvikeliikkeen tiloissa Roslagenin kylässä. Anna-Lisa nauttii täysillä maalaiselämästä ja saa kylästä nopeasti uusia ystäviä. Uusien tuttavuuksien joukossa on vihreäsilmäinen automekaanikko Johnny, joka tuntuu vierailevan Anna-Lisan putiikissa yhä useammin.