Resultados para "Teresa" en Coming of age

I'm alive. I'm out of the Hells. I've become one of the most powerful people in mage society overnight. Also, it's summer break. But there's no rest for the wicked. I witnessed dark magic and darker crimes in the Hells. Now, I stand with allies I struggle to forgive, against a mortal enemy who once held my heart in his hands. Powerful men want to make me a pawn in their unhinged games, to be used or sacrificed at their whim. They can try. My boyfriends and I will carve our own path through mage society, whatever it takes. I have innocent people to protect. Vengeance to take.

Sometimes love burns so hot in your veins that it consumes all rational thought. That's why Brock and I never had a chance. I had to start my life over. College was my chance to become someone new. I changed everything about myself to fit in, but one person saw through my facade. The attraction between Abel and I was undeniable, but I still hadn't healed from the painful secret I carried around with me. Abel struggled to get me to face my past in order to move forward. In doing so, he revealed a secret of his own; one that changed everything I thought I knew.

As Josie Belle Gore, daughter of a Louisiana train engineer and Texas seamstress, journeys with her itinerant family through the deserts of the boom-and-bust American West and revolutionary Mexico, she learns that in her life, two things are constant: the preciousness of water and her role as the savior of her family.

Seit ihrer Jugend in Rom haben sich die beiden Frauen nicht mehr gesehen. Jetzt sind sie Mitte 40, geschieden, haben erwachsene Kinder. Federica, die eine, wurde von der anderen einst um Herkunft, Wohlstand und eine Mutter, die etwas hermachte, beneidet. Beide einte der Wunsch, schön und beliebt zu sein, und Federicas ältere Schwester war ihr gemeinsames Idol. Bis 1988, in einer Oktobernacht, auf tragische Weise alles anders wurde.

En los cuentos de Pía Barros hay un crudo realismo y una mágica sorpresa. Maestra del relato, deja caer en sus cuentos toda la vitalidad que ilumina y guía su propia vida. Personajes del mundo corriente adquieren fisonomías especiales en las historias crudas, donde el dolor, la sorpresa y la tragedia, entretejen con ironía desenlaces sorpresivos, como debe ser en todo cuento.

Desde el sur del continente americano, en la soledad de las montañas y los bosques, cerca de los hielos y los valles, mirando de frente el desierto y el mar, estos relatos nacen con toda la fuerza de un pueblo que se nos revela con su mezcla maravillosa de paisajes y ciudades de bullicios vigorosos. Un desborde de energía en la urbe que se esconde entre las cumbres, poblada de gente creativa y heredera de culturas que lentamente se encuentran con el paso de la historia.