Resultados para "Melissa" en Ficción biográfica

Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectations, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won acclaim as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art.

Anais Nin fue una mujer que no aceptó ninguna regla convencional en su búsqueda del amor, del placer sexual y el frenesí de la existencia, con múltiples amantes que completaban su agenda a tiempo completo. Casada con su marido Hugh Guiler, mantuvo relaciones sexuales con infinidad de personas, entre ellas con su primo Eduardo Sanchez, el escritor Henry Miller, su muer June Mansfield, sus dos analistas Dr. René Allendy y Otto Rank, Antonín Artaud, y finalmente con su propio padre Joaquín Nin.

L'envoutante Vanessa Ground a toujours su qu'elle avait un penchant puissant pour la sexualité. Elle a toujours vécu au rythme de ses passions et de ses pulsions lui permettant ainsi de vivre le moment présent. La séduction et l'assouvissement de ses désirs lui ont permis de vivre une multitude d'expériences hord du commun.

China, the 1720s. Giuseppe Castiglione, a promising and ambitious Italian painter, is recruited by the Jesuits to serve the Emperor of China. But his painting style is rejected as inauspicious. Meanwhile, Niuhuru, a grey-eyed, too-tall girl is chosen as a concubine to a minor prince and sent to live in the Garden of Perfect Brightness, where Giuseppe meets her when he is tasked with turning the Garden into a wonderland for the Qianlong Emperor. But as the Garden changes and Niuhuru is swept upwards to ever-greater importance, is something precious being lost?

Somehow they find themselves in Hot Springs, Arkansas, but why? At thirteen, Rosalia suffers a sexual assault and her reputation is damaged in her hometown of Gliewitz, Germany. She must choose between a life of rejection or a sojourn into the wild, unknown land of Arkansas, where a young man awaits who will marry her. Her journey during the mid-1800s takes the listener across the Atlantic Ocean where she is almost kidnapped by a gentleman who conceals his true career: sex trafficking of hapless immigrant women in transit to America.