Resultados para "Pure" en Novela histórica

Cosa succede quando ti abitui all'infelicità? Alessio non ci ha mai pensato, fino al giorno in cui Elena entra nella sua vita e gli mostra che esiste qualcosa di bello e luminoso al di là delle responsabilità sul lavoro e della routine. Ma poi Elena sparisce, così com'è arrivata. E Alessio entra in una strana crisi personale: ha 29 anni, vive a Milano e ha un lavoro che gli piace. Però manca qualcosa: qualcosa di suo e di nessun altro. I sogni di un tempo dove sono finiti?

The Puranas contain narratives about the history of the Universe from creation to destruction and the genealogies of kings, heroes, sages, and deities. Some of the Puranas are discourses on cosmology, geography, and Hindu philosophy.

USA Today best-selling author Caitlin Crews has the uncanny ability to transport listeners to exotic locales with her mesmerizing prose. Pure Princess, Bartered Bride stars Princess Gabrielle, a pure and true royal who has caught the eye of dashing rake Luc Garnier. After arranging a marriage, Luc is shocked to discover the princess is just as proper in public as she is behind closed doors. Luc then makes it his mission to find the wanton hellcat she must keep hidden within.

Milano 1965: una città tranquilla, che pensa all'esordio di Pavarotti alla Scala. Una città abituata alla ligera, impreparata all'arrivo della malavita pesante dal Sud o di bande criminali come quella di Cavallero. Il destino di Sergio Malfatti, poliziotto ed ex partigiano, si legherà sempre più indissolubilmente alla storia d'Italia. Bombe, stragi, terrorismo nero e rosso, golpe, Gladio, P2, servizi deviati e paralleli, corruzione, a cui fa da collante la storia della mafia, la cui evoluzione criminale verrà vista per la prima volta da nord.

After fighting off a group of bandits, Cha Ming helps a people rebuild. His heart is heavy with guilt, but he can’t stay long. To face an inevitable foe, Cha Ming must journey to Quicksilver City, where he’ll meet the man who once enslaved him. Will he find the courage to face him?

If Gemma's parents find out she brought Harrison back into existence, she's dead. But she refuses to give up everything for which she's fought. Harrison is worth the risk. But her parents have other plans - dark plans that will unravel Gemma's world. She must watch her every step as she waits for the inevitable nightmare to catch up to her. As the danger mounts, will she have the courage to make the ultimate sacrifice and save the ones she loves?

Jessica Speight es una joven talentosa que estudia Antropología en el Londres de los años sesenta, pero cualquier previsión sobre su futuro se ve seriamente comprometida cuando, fruto de una relación con un profesor casado, se queda embarazada y debe afrontar, en soledad, las repercusiones...

Palos, Spagna, agosto 1492. Nuno ha sedici anni, ed è un granchio. O almeno questo è il soprannome che gli ha dato sua madre, morta pochi mesi prima, di cui Nuno conserva un ricordo che è dolore e luce insieme. Pur vivendo sul mare, Nuno non ha mai desiderato solcarlo, e preferisce guardarlo restando aggrappato alla terra, proprio come fanno i granchi. Finché, per una serie di circostanze tanto sfortunate quanto casuali, deve imbarcarsi su una nave di cui ignora la destinazione. Si tratta della Santa María, a bordo della quale Cristoforo Colombo scoprirà - per caso e per sbaglio - il Nuovo Mondo.

அமரர் சாண்டில்யனின் அற்புதமான புதினம் ஒலி வடிவில் 42 மணி நேரம் ஒலிக்கும் இந்த ஒலிப்புத்தகத்தில் 40க்கும் மேற்பட்ட சிறந்த கலைஞர்கள் பாத்திரங்களுக்கு உயிர் கொடுத்துள்ளார்கள்....

ராஜேந்திர சோழனின் கல்வெட்டு குறிப்புகளிலிருந்து பழந்தமிழர் கடல் கடந்து செல்வதும் அந்நாடுகளின் வாணிபத்தில் மட்டுமின்றிப் போர்களிலும் கலந்து கொள்வதும் சர்வ சகஜமாக இருந்ததென்பதை அறிந்தேன்.

அமரர் சாண்டில்யனின் அற்புதமான புதினம் ஒலி வடிவில் 42 மணி நேரம் ஒலிக்கும் இந்த ஒலிப்புத்தகத்தில் 40க்கும் மேற்பட்ட சிறந்த கலைஞர்கள் பாத்திரங்களுக்கு உயிர் கொடுத்துள்ளார்கள்....

This is the heartbreaking and passionate tale of true love's blindness and destruction by the bestselling author of the Victorian era, who romances were beloved of figures as diverse as Gladstone, Churchill, and Queen Victoria herself.

Shirley Dobbins wants nothing more than to live a quiet life and become a head housekeeper at a prestigious house. So when she is invited to come work for the mysterious baronet Sir Joseph Hunting at his estate, she thinks it is the chance of a lifetime. However, from the moment she arrives, things are not what they seem. As she becomes wrapped up in more of the baronet's radical science, she realizes something dark and otherworldly is loose within the estate. And if left unchecked, it'll claim the lives of all she holds dear.

"Je trouvai aimables la couleur sourde et rouge des lumières voilées, la blanche flamme en amande des lampes à opium, l'une toute proche de moi, les deux autres perdues comme des follets, au loin, dans une sorte d'alcôve ménagée sous la galerie à balustres. Une jeune tête se pencha au-dessus de cette balustrade, reçut le rayon rouge des lanternes suspendues, une manche blanche flotta et disparut avant que je pusse deviner si la tête, les cheveux dorés collés comme des cheveux de noyée, le bras vêtu de soie blanche appartenaient à une femme ou à un homme."
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"Hassib, herself an Egyptian immigrant living in West Virginia, articulates the full-bodied chorus of Egypt's voices." --The New York Times Book Review "Exquisite. . . . Anchoring the story is a pair of Cairo-born sisters whose fates spin in radically different directions in the wake of the...

Samuel Hinton learned at the tender age of 15 just how violent some men could be. But as a detective with the police force in 1910, he must deal with the murder of a schoolteacher, and he is shocked by the brutality. Kathleen Campbell travels to rural Florida to seek justice for her sister’s death. What she finds is an instant and unexpected attraction to the handsome investigator who swears he will find the killer. Another murder fills Samuel with a sense of urgency as he struggles with the depth of his feelings for Kathleen, knowing she could be the man’s next victim.

Jethro Knerr should be happy. He has achieved his goal of seeing all seven of his sons happily married, and he has several grandchildren on the way. But everything around him feels suddenly empty, and far too quiet. His enormous house is too big for just himself. Jethro's friends try to convince him that what he needs is a companion with which to share his life and the wonderful times ahead with his grandchildren, but Jethro cannot even entertain the thought of loving another woman. His heart still belongs to his beloved Miriam, although she has been gone for more than 10 years.

A “modern masterwork” (NPR)—remarkably told through museum wall labels—about a 20th-century woman who transforms herself from a precious object into an unforgettable protagonist. Author Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final...