Resultados para "Luster" en Novela histórica

Razor sharp, provocatively page-turning and surprisingly tender, Luster by Raven Leilani is a painfully funny debut. 'A taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. It's brutal–and brilliant.' - Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth 'A book of pure fineness, exceptional.' – Diana Evans...

After five years of mourning her lost love, Moira MacKenzie had finally move on with her life and seek a husband. Finding out Vincent MacKintosh was alive after all those years dealt her the greatest shock of her life. She might have loved Vin, but he had never loved her back. Vin is a man...

After the untimely death of her husband Toby, Lady Victoria Howard discovers that she possesses the magical gift of time travelling, using an enchanted mirror in her grandmother's attic. During her foray through the mirror, she travels back in time, meeting people linked to her own aristocratic family, several generations earlier, which opens up some interesting questions for Victoria. In steamy, time-travelling adventures that would rival "Outlander", Lady Victoria Howard travels to a variety of different time periods and countries, enjoying exciting new experiences and pleasures.

Edward, Earl Lippincott, is cut from the same cloth as his late and unlamented brother, the Fifth Duke of Wyndmere. When a madman has the earl's family in his crosshairs, the earl's overindulgence and self-destructive ways halt. He works alongside his brother, the Sixth Duke of Wyndmere, restoring the family name to secure a suitable marriage for their sister, but is distracted by their sister's lovely friend Lady Aurelia.

Em 1866, numa exclusiva escola inglesa, um jovem aluno se afoga em circunstâncias misteriosas. As repercussões de sua morte se estenderão por muitas décadas, em uma saga de traição, ganância, vingança e paixão.

Brother and sister Jerry and Daisy Lou Malone leave behind their provincial Midwestern upbringing to test their mettle in the big, beckoning world of 1920s America. For Jerry, the future lies west, with like-minded pioneer souls keen to play the “land game” as homesteaders on the Great Plains. Daisy, in turn, heads for the lights and luxe life of New York City, hoping to sing her way to stardom.

Child prodigy Joshua Bland’s life has been anything but bland. Joshua’s father abandons him and his mentally imbalanced mother when he is a young boy, leaving him to be raised by a cynical, hostile, and self-doubting stepfather. When Joshua loses a national knowledge competition, his family’s reaction puts him on the path to becoming a World War II veteran, best-selling author, successful producer, and absentee father.

A dramatic chapter of American history comes vividly to life in this evocative tale of a mother and daughter navigating the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. On a beautiful December day, young Marty Langsmith’s life explodes into flames. Evacuated with her mother, April, to the mainland, Marty’s new world is haunted by nightmares of the lion in the lei shop, a creature fabricated by a neighbor that’s said to devour happy children. Meanwhile April, powerless to shield her daughter from the devastation of the Japanese attack and the uncertainty of life without her deployed army father, is caught between her longing for the past and her hope for the future.

A major motion picture (2007) from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Brokeback Mountain): an intensely passionate story of love and espionage, set in Shanghai during World War II. In the midst of the Japanese occupation of China and Hong Kong, two lives become...

Lust For Life is Irving Stone's biographical novel about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh...

"Han låter fingrarna glida in innanför hennes underbyxor. Han drar ner dem och låter dem sitta över hennes knän. Och så kysser han henne. Kysser henne precis där det känns som skönast." Hovdamerna passar upp på henne. Hon bor i ett gigantiskt palats. Och, hon är landets drottning. I mångas ögon har hon allt. Men det hon saknar är passion - och erotik. Under en bal träffar hon en mystisk diplomat. Han kommer att tända hennes lust och längtan. Men också någonting mer ...

"Jag längtade efter att bli penetrerad - jag som aldrig ens hade sett en mans erektion, jag som alltid hade varit så stolt över min oskuld." På julafton, 1907, lämnar Jane London för att möta upp sin fästman på landsbygden. Det är ett arrangerat äktenskap som gynnar hennes far, som är överlycklig över att få gifta bort sin dotter till en hertig. Jane skriver ett brev till sin goda vän Cathy, där hon berättar allt om sitt möte med den kyliga fästmannen och hans familj, som hon snart får veta är väldigt kinky.

"Mina höfter gungar i knullandets takt och för kuken allt djupare upp i mig. Varje nerv i min kropp kittlas på det mest vällustiga sätt. Evgeny och jag är som berusade av kåthet, våra kroppar som fastklistrade." Slaget vid Tsushima är över, men kriget och dess strider är inte långt borta. Medan kapten Evgeny Voronov, från den ryska kejserliga flottan, och hans grevinna Irina Rostova, försöker söka skydd i Manilla, utsätts de för en ny attack. Mitt bland skriken, skräcken och dånet från granater blir kärleken deras enda säkra nödhamn.

"Tjänaren var naken och hade en slank och delikat kropp. Hon tog ett av Inayas ben och lade prinsessans fot på sin axel. Hon förde försiktigt tvättsvampen längs hennes ben och pausade en stund vid insidan av hennes lår." Inaya, prinsessan av Kalifatet Cordoba, är känd för sina dikter och för den kompromisslösa öppenhet som provocerar prästerskapet och driver dem till vansinne. Hon klär sig i genomskinliga tunikor, hyllar intellekt, kreativitet och talang över allt annat och hon gör inte skillnad på kvinnor och män.

The only rule for being a hockey star's nanny: Look but don't touch. But sharing a bedroom wall... Means I can hear everything he is doing. And sooner or later, he might make me crack.

Learn about the real life of Anne Bonny, a novel about the teenager who runs away from the confining life of colonial Carolina to Nassau in New Providence, Bahamas hoping to enjoy the lust filled, idealized life of freedom as a pirate.

Savage, lawless, 1880's frontier Skagway, Alaska, is ruled by ruthless men. A woman isn’t welcome, except in dance halls. Young widow Jessie barely knows how to fend for herself, much less those depending on her in an unwelcoming man’s world.

Frankreich, 12. Jahrhundert: Frei und ungebunden reist die wunderschöne Elise durch die Lande. Mit ihren romantischen Liedern bezaubert sie ihre Zuhörer - und weckt das Interesse des stolzen Ritters Gawain Steward. Einen Rausch der Lust findet sie in seinen starken Armen, obwohl sie genau weiß: Für den adligen Vertrauten des Königs ist sie nicht die Richtige. Schweren Herzens verlässt sie ihn, ihre heimliche Liebe zu ihm tief in ihrem Herzen verborgen.

1652. The English King is dead, his heir a fugitive in a foreign land. Amid the cold grandeur of the Louvre, young Henry Nash is drawn into a covert world of political intrigue and whispered passions. Handsome, streetwise and carrying secrets of his own, Henry is tasked with raising funds for the Royalist cause by charming the jewels off the necks of England’s lonely noblewomen. But each flirtation brings him closer to betrayal—and each secret he keeps risks destroying the only loves he has left.

Buffalo, New York, 1901 … a muscular, young city, Queen of the Lakes … The Electric City … where the money that builds Newport mansions and Park Avenue townhouses is made, plays host to the world’s greatest fair, the Pan-American Exposition and its 8,000,000 guests … And less than a mile from the great spectacle, a web of love, lust, and intrigue is forming among the young, elite Ashwood Set.