Resultados para "Love" en Ficción contemporánea

Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY. 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? “Destined to be a...

**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE** Spanning forty years, two women's stories of love, loss and betrayal are intertwined in this award-winning novel by Jojo Moyes, internationally bestselling author of Me Before You, After You, Still Me and the new bestseller The Giver of Stars. **** When journalist...

What happens when we become used to each other, when we become bored, when we anticipate each other’s moods like the seasons cycled in a day? What happens when you are tired of me and I tire of you? Every couple has a story. How they met, how they fell in love – their ups, their downs. What...

Früher waren Davy und Joe gute Kumpels. Inzwischen treffen sie sich nur noch gelegentlich, wenn Davy aus England nach Dublin kommt, um seinen Vater zu besuchen. Es sind oberflächliche Begegnungen, sie sind erwachsen geworden, jeder hat sein eigenes Leben. Doch dieser Abend ist anders. Die beiden Männer ziehen wie früher um die Häuser, trinken ein Bier nach dem anderen, und die Gespräche werden immer vertrauter. Lange zurückgehaltene Gefühle und Konflikte drängen nach oben. Joe vertraut seinem Freund an, dass er seine Frau und seine Kinder für eine andere verlassen hat.

Früher waren Davy und Joe gute Kumpels. Inzwischen treffen sie sich nur noch gelegentlich, wenn Davy aus England nach Dublin kommt, um seinen Vater zu besuchen. Es sind oberflächliche Begegnungen, sie sind erwachsen geworden, jeder hat sein eigenes Leben. Doch dieser Abend ist anders. Die beiden Männer ziehen wie früher um die Häuser, trinken ein Bier nach dem anderen, und die Gespräche werden immer vertrauter. Lange zurückgehaltene Gefühle und Konflikte drängen nach oben. Joe vertraut seinem Freund an, dass er seine Frau und seine Kinder für eine andere verlassen hat.

LiLy 20周年　最新恋愛小説あなたは寂しそうに見える。俺ならそれを治せるのに。※※「お別れ、というより私にとってはデビューだった」池松綾華（彫り師／34歳）

The funeral of Ciara's beloved husband, Niall, is marred by the discovery of a hidden photograph, and someone at the wake wants revenge. That someone knows Ciara's shameful secret and wants to make her pay for a lifetime of happiness and good fortune. But how far will this mysterious person go to make her pay for something that happened 30 years ago?

Winner of multiple literary prizes, Laura Castoro pens novels in genres as diverse as contemporary fiction, Westerns, and period romance. Love on the Line stars unforgettable mother and daughter Thea and Jesse Morgan. Recently widowed, Thea has become a successful business woman and is now rekindling a love affair with a former star athlete-turned pastor. Meanwhile, Jesse struggles with her mixed race heritage as she tries to fit in at college.

In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers. The story is gripping enough: in 1994 a married, failed independent filmmaker, turning forty, falls in love with a well-known theorist and endeavors to seduce him with the help of her husband.

"The Amateur Nature Lover" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. It is possible that an education entirely urban is not the best conceivable preparation for descriptive articles upon the country. On the other hand, your professional nature-lover is sometimes a little over-familiar with his subject.

For some, love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends in tears. For four friends from Queens, it's about to get complicated....   

Darnell Carter’s heart stopped working the moment he awoke from his coma. But he had been dead on the inside for quite some time. He hopes to resuscitate it, but that depends on his wife, Latavia. The Carters have been on an unimaginable journey of lies, secrets, betrayal, and infidelity. What happened to marital bliss? Does it exist? After the death of their friends and their marriage, is it possible to pick up the pieces and move on?

KABIR–a young and dynamic travel journalist, he lands in Afghanistan for a special project. But his actual destination is Noosh, the love of his life. NOOSH–smart and spirited, she has known Kabir since her college days. In her hometown, buried under political unrest, she is waiting for Kabir, the man of her dreams.

Two short novellas brimming with Lawrence’s famous power and passion. In the first, an injured German prisoner-of-war awakens a grieving woman’s passion; in the second, Maurice and Geoffrey are brothers, farmers and virgins until a rainy night when Paula and Lydia chance along.

During the long hot summer of 1976, a brilliant young Cambridge mathematician arrives in a remote village in the Lake District and takes on a job as a farm labourer. Painfully awkward and shy, Spencer Little is viewed with suspicion by the community and his only real friendship is with scruffy, clever 10-year-old Alice. When he saves Alice from a wild-fire, the locals at last begin to accept him, but as he is drawn deeper into their lives, he also becomes aware of their secrets - and of the difficulty of keeping his own.

Nell’anno fatidico in cui il mondo intero sta cambiando, il 1989, due ragazzi della provincia italiana si incontrano su una pista da ballo: nasce un gemellaggio di carne, sudore e fasci di nervi. Un’amicizia fatta di meraviglia, di inevitabili miserie, di viaggi di non formazione alla volta di Amsterdam, Londra, Berlino, Thailandia. Non cercano identità, hanno solo bisogno di andare. A guidarli le onde della musica – di una musica nuova, artificiale, prepotentemente fisica. La storia di due ragazzi e di una generazione alla ricerca di un rito definitivo. Il club, la festa perfetta, il dj.

Rohan’s dreams come crashing down when his beloved breaks up with him. Unable to endure the trauma of separation, he decides to end his life. An unexpected phone call gives his story a twist and takes him on a journey to diverse places, where he discovers life-altering truths. Who is the mysterious call from? Is he able to overcome his grief and make a fresh start?

During his years in the majors, Floyd Patterson had pitched for everyone - Oakland, Cleveland, Cincinnati, even the Marlins. Now he's an Anchorage Lumberjack, and no one, perhaps not even Patterson himself, has any idea what the hell he's doing toeing the rubber in Alaska's Moose League. But when Jennifer Tisch of the Anchorage Daily News goes looking for a story, she soon learns there's much more to the tough-talking, hard-drinking Patterson than meets the eye.

Bestsellerforfatteren Wilbur Smith byder på et laenge ventet gensyn med den populaere Henry "Hal" Courtney i en roman fyldt med spaending, drama, heltemod og hjertesorg. Mange år er gået, siden Henry "Hal" Courtney så sin far blive henrettet. Nu er han kaptajn på sit eget skib og venter sit første barn med den frygtløse kriger, Judith Nazet. Men skaebnen har ikke sluppet sit tag i Hal, for under et stop i Zanzibar bliver Judith kidnappet. Det tvinger Hal til at kaste sig ud i en haesblaesende jagt, hvor han med livet som indsats må kaempe sig gennem ørken, savanne, slavemarkeder og hajfyldte farvande.

Von der Autorin des Bestsellers Die sieben Männer der Evelyn Hugo und Daisy Jones & The Six kommt ein epischer neuer Roman über die außergewöhnlichen Anstrengungen, die wir unternehmen, um über unsere Grenzen hinaus zu leben und zu lieben. Joan Goodwin sieht zu den Sternen auf, seit sie...