Resultados para "Sophie" en Histórico

Sophie es una muchacha polaca, dulce y de pálida hermosura que vive en una casa de huéspedes del Brooklyn de los años cuarenta junto a Nathan, un joven judío obsesionado por el pasado, y Stingo, el tercero en discordia, un joven procedente del Sur convencido de que llegará a ser un escritor...

Kitty Talbot necesita una fortuna. O, mejor dicho, necesita a un hombre que tenga una. Al fin y al cabo, esto es 1818 y solo los varones cuentan con el privilegio de obtener su propia riqueza.

Josée a épousé Alan, un peintre américain, qu'elle croyait "bien tranquille". Mais l'oisiveté cède le pas à la manipulation mentale, quand Alan laisse dériver ses fantasmes jusqu'à l'aveuglement, et que la jalousie devient le filtre de son amour. Épuisée et amère, Josée fuit la Floride pour retrouver Paris et son ancienne liberté. Elle est en proie à des sentiments contraires, où l'attachement et la lassitude tiennent la première place. Ce roman de Françoise Sagan oscille entre le ton désinvolte qui a fait son succès, et l'épaisseur de personnages hésitants, la lecture de ce texte rend perceptible toutes les micro-modulations de ces sentiments amoureux.

To the outside world, Electra D’Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world’s top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous. Yet beneath the veneer, Electra’s already tenuous control over her state of mind has been rocked by the death of her father, Pa Salt, the elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from across the globe. Struggling to cope, she turns to alcohol and drugs. As those around her fear for her health, Electra receives a letter from a complete stranger who claims to be her grandmother.

1851. Bounced from one home to another their whole lives, orphaned identical twins Sophie and Mariah Carter have always relied on each other for love and support, even though the sisters couldn't be more different. Brash Sophie wants to be an inventor, and demure Mariah wants to be an artist. Both long to visit London for the summer—Sophie to see the Queen's Great Exhibition and Mariah to study the world's finest collection of paintings. But when their cantankerous aunt answers their letter pleading for a place to stay, she insists she only has time and room to spare for one of them.

Lady Sophie Windham has maneuvered a few days to herself at the ducal mansion in London before she must join her family for Christmas in Kent. Suddenly trapped by a London snowstorm, she finds herself with an abandoned baby and only the assistance of a kind, handsome stranger standing between her and complete disaster.

Het trouwseizoen gaat beginnen – en Kitty Talbot heeft geen minuut te verliezen om een rijke man aan de haak te slaan Engeland, 1818. Als Kitty Talbot drie maanden voor haar bruiloft aan de kant wordt gezet, ziet haar toekomst er allesbehalve rooskleurig uit. Zonder een fortuin om de schulden van haar overleden, gokverslaafde vader af te betalen, zullen Kitty en haar zusjes financieel geruïneerd zijn. Maar Kitty is strijdlustig, dus binnen twee weken verlaat ze het platteland en is ze op weg naar misschien wel het gevaarlijkste slagveld van Engeland, de Londense society.

Quando Kitty Talbot é rejeitada pelo noivo três meses antes do casamento, o futuro se torna sombrio. Sem a fortuna dele para pagar as dívidas de jogo de seu falecido pai, a única coisa certa na vida dela e de suas quatro irmãs mais novas é a ruína. Mas a jovem nunca foi de dar as costas a um desafio, então sai de casa em direção ao campo de batalha mais perigoso da Inglaterra—a temporada social londrina. O objetivo é simples: encontrar um solteiro rico para salvar a família Talbot da miséria.

Été 2007. Sara et Sébastien partent pour un road trip au volant de Lucette, une voiture délabrée qui ferait le bonheur d’un ferrailleur. Au cours des onze dernières années, leur relation d’amitié a flirté avec l’ambiguïté et les malentendus, au grand regret de leurs familles et de leurs amis, convaincus qu’ils sont faits l’un pour l’autre. En quête d’aventure, les deux jeunes adultes ignorent encore que bien des surprises les attendent au détour du chemin.

Cuando la señorita Eliza Balfour se casó con el conde de Somerset, veinte años mayor que ella, fue el evento de la temporada... y poco importó que él no fuera el marido que ella quería. Diez años más tarde, Eliza es viuda, rica, noble y, por primera vez en su vida, libre. Siempre ha cumplido las normas, pero ahora está decidida a hacer lo que le apetezca. Y lo que desea es ir a Bath con su prima Margaret para dedicarse a pintar y a flirtear con el infame lord Melville.

Naive and innocent, Lady Ellen Pembroke falls for a dashing young army officer. Captain Paul Harding finds his attention captured by the beautiful young daughter of the Duke of Pembroke at a house party in the summer. Finding Ellen is like finding treasure on the battle field. His sanity clings to her – something beautiful to remind him that not all in the world is ugly. Ellen is someone to fight for and someone to survive for when he is inevitably called to arms in the battle of Waterloo.

John Harding, Duke of Pembroke, has everything: wealth, power and status. But beneath the facade is a man bruised by betrayal, haunted by loss and trained never to trust. Love, to John, is a myth. Years ago, Katherine Spencer secretly loved her brother's best friend, John. But she has always known her place: born of scandal and followed by whispers and prejudice. A future with a duke was never for her. Now, she has the chance of marriage to a respectable clergyman. But when John strides back into her life, will Katherine compromise her reputation and let everything unravel?

War changes a man, and Captain Harry Marlow is no exception. Haunted by the horrors of the Crimean War, he now spends his time seeking solace in the quiet routines of military life. But when he encounters Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Cotton, a woman trapped in the gilded cage of a retired colonel’s keeping, his world is thrown into turmoil.

Reroots Mary Magdalene and Jesus in the lush ecology and complex spiritual culture of Second Temple Period Judea and Galilee under Roman rule Rewilds the Gospels with the forgotten voices of defiant and oppressed women, the nature-based storytelling of oral communities, and the embodied...

Countess Amelia Amesbury has her work cut out. As well as balancing her alter ego—secret advice columnist, Lady Agony—and the blackmailer threatening to reveal her real identity, her sister has also announced she's getting married. It's joyous news, but places all the planning for a high society wedding firmly at Amelia's door. Luckily, her good friend and local vicar Mr. Cross has agreed to the expedited nuptials, so that's one less thing to worry about. Until Cross is found dead at the church. Now in between bridal arrangements, Amelia must follow the clues Mr. Cross left behind.

Desperate times call for drastic measures . . . and Miss Caroline Devereux is most certainly desperate. Her spendthrift father's been gambling away every spare shilling, racking up debts, selling off their family's coveted objets d'art, and bringing them to the edge of ruin. Up until now, she's been able to stave off the creditors—and afford luxuries like tea—by penning sensational Gothic tales. But they're out of time, and Caroline must play the one card she has left.

After years of wild adventures overseas, Miss Sophie Everton is in no hurry to return home to the boring strictures of the ton. But she's determined to reclaim her family's fortune - even if she has to become a spy for the Prince Regent to do it. Before she can get her first assignment, she lands right in the lap of the dark and dashing Duke of Rockeforte. She's faced hungry tigers that didn't look nearly as predatory.

Romantisch derde deel over de vrouwenspionnen van het Vogelhuis. Felicity Vane mag dan een wiskundig genie zijn, haar familie overtuigen van haar academische ambities blijkt een lastige opgave. Ze besluit te infiltreren in de glamoureuze wereld van The Lucky Penny – een illuster gokparadijs – om zo haar toelage voor de universiteit bij elkaar te spelen met een potje kaarten. Dan beschuldigt Ash, de frustrerend knappe eigenaar van The Lucky Penny, haar van vals spel.

Marigold Bloom is bloemist in de winkel van haar familie. Nadat haar verloofde het uitmaakt ziet het er echter niet zo goed uit voor Mari of voor de bloemenwinkel. Wanneer Mari per toeval kennismaakt met de verschrikkelijk knappe maar extreem humeurige Oliver Lockhart komt ze op het pad van detectivebureau het Vogelhuis. De vrouwelijke detectives daar rekruteren haar onmiddellijk voor een speciale klus: de vermiste zus van Oliver terugvinden. Om haar te vinden moeten Mari en Oliver doen alsof ze pas verloofd zijn.

Cairan MacDonald hat bei einem Massaker auf der Isle of Eigg alles, was ihm lieb und teuer ist, verloren, außer sein Leben. Einzig und allein der Gedanke an Rache ermöglicht es ihm, sein Dasein zu fristen. Um diese zu bekommen, lässt er sich auf einen Handel mit der Feenkönigin Morgane ein. Doch aus dem Feenreich entkommt man nicht so leicht. Schließlich aber bekommt er doch noch eine Chance. Um Morganes Reich zu entfliehen, soll er es denjenigen mit gleicher Münze heimzahlen, denen er sein Schicksal zu verdanken hat.