Resultados para "The Artist" en Narrativa femenina

Jaipur, India, 1955. Con tan solo diecisiete años, Lakshmi escapa de un marido abusivo y se dirige a la vibrante ciudad de Jaipur, donde se convierte en la artista de henna más solicitada y en la confidente de las mujeres de las castas superiores. Las clientas creen que la henna de Lakshmi...

Por la autora de Los amantes de Praga, Alyson Richman Principios del siglo XX. El mundo está dominado por hombres y el ámbito artístico en Estocolmo no es una excepción. Hilma af Klint, cansada de no encontrar un espacio para desarrollarse, convoca cada viernes por la noche a un enigmático...

In the shadow of the London Blitz, artist Elsie Turner clings fiercely to her canvases, refusing to let war dim the colors that define her. The bombs test her nerve, but the struggle also stirs memories of her golden youth in India and of the long-lost love of her life.

Olivia is supposed to be floating through her honeymoon—not plotting revenge. But when the past turns up in Venice, all bets are off in this irresistible short story from Sunday Times bestselling author Veronica Henry. November in Venice, and amid the rose-gold rooftops and canals, Olivia is...

“A magic spell of a book.” —Julie Buntin “Heavy Cream is funny, deeply felt, and positively effervescent, brimming with life and color and texture—I was repeatedly struck by its humor, its compassion, and its candor.” —Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most...

Hampshire, 1916: Alice traces her hand over the cold glass of the window as the pale morning light slips into the empty room. The pain of loss is worse than a physical one. Reminders of Edmund are all around her. The coldness of the sheet on the other half of the bed. The unrelenting silence in the cottage when her stepdaughter Lottie is at school or tucked up asleep at the end of another day. Keeping up with their stained-glass commissions takes every ounce of her strength, and as Lottie becomes more withdrawn, Alice worries desperately about how best to care for the troubled girl.

England, 1908: Alice Dalton never intended to rebel against her aristocratic parents. But after her father’s failed attempt to arrange a marriage for her with Edmund Cutler, son of a wealthy stockbroker, she flees the family home humiliated – and determined to make a life for herself as an independent woman, however hard that might be. When a chance opportunity leads to her taking a position as a stained-glass artist’s apprentice, Alice is stunned when she meets the man she’ll be working for: the hateful Edmund Cutler. 

Alaska. Grace Hart guards her independence fiercely. Leaving a marriage that left her unfulfilled, the thirty-nine-year-old maintains a quiet existence off the beaten path running a coffee shop with only a mini-Australian shepherd for company. So when her ex shows up two years later looking to reconnect, she gives him one month to win her over or never darken her days again. Hunter Hart likes to go with the flow. Denying his sadness over his wife calling it quits, the renowned photographer convinces himself that the chance to answer to no one makes it all worthwhile.

An award-winning and provocative novel about women’s bodies, sex, autonomy - and the power of the image. Hypothetically, would you want to live forever but invisible, or a short life seen? Hypothetically, would you give up wine forever or sex for ten years? Hypothetically, would you show a...

FOR RENT: LAKE HOUSE ESTATE FOR BROKEN HEARTS: When Sienna spends a night drinking her troubles away by a pool at a lakeside estate, the following morning, she remembers none of the things that took place. Her hungover mind tries to piece together the events of the previous night but, even when the insanely handsome Mason Sweete enters the room, her thoughts are still muddy. Sienna isn’t sure Mason can be trusted but she finds herself intrigued by him, even though a former lover plays heavy on her heart and mind.

Gusty Sweete, notorious brainiac and handsome playboy, is having the time of his life at a luxurious Turks and Caicos resort. When the exquisitely beautiful and mysterious Renata Reed enters his life, everything changes. After spending several glorious days together, Gusty believes he has found the one he could spend his life with. Then he discovers that Renata is gone and has no idea what happened to her nor how to contact her. Shaken by the prospect of losing Renata for good, Gusty returns home.

A beautifully written tale based on the true-life story of Varian Fry, called "the artists' Schindler," who rescued thousands of Europe's finest creative minds from certain death in WWII. In 2000, Sophie Cass, an ambitious journalist, may have finally found her big break. Convinced a celebrated...

When Meredith flies home to New England, daughter Eloise in tow, she leaves her husband and a life back in LA. A heartbreaking loss is killing their marriage. So she looks to her mother and siblings for the support she desperately needs, and the love her daughter surely deserves—two things her husband can’t seem to provide. Meredith’s mother, Delia, is thrilled by their sudden arrival at the family farm. But her husband braces for the chaos his stepdaughter and granddaughter will surely bring. 

June Tremblay is struggling to find herself as a painter when she accepts a summer job as assistant to renowned artist Hiram Lammergeier on his private island off the Maine coast. The reclusive legend has one peculiar rule: under no circumstances is June to create any art of her own. Caught between her need to paint and her desire for Lammergeier, June rebels, and her transgression sets off a chain of retaliation that will shape the rest of her life.

The Body Artist begins with normality: breakfast between a married couple, Lauren and Rey, in their ramshackle rented house on the New England coast. Recording their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words, Don DeLillo proves himself a stunningly unsentimental observer of our...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. ¿Crees en el amor a primera vista? Logan no cree en el amor a primera vista. Aun más, no cree en casi nada a lo que no pueda poner un nombre; cosas reales como su trabajo de detective en la policía de Baltimore o sus clases semanales de...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. La artista estaba embarazada… ¡Y tuvo que casarse con el hombre más rico del mundo! Raj Belanger tenía todo lo que el dinero podía comprar y, también algo que nunca había deseado, la responsabilidad sobre Pansy, su pequeña sobrina...

Miniserie Bianca 188 ¿La madre de su hijo… iba a llevar su corona? El príncipe Konstantin no podía olvidarse de Emma Carmichael, quien desapareció después de que él tuviera que romper la relación por un contrato matrimonial que había firmado. Cinco años después, se encontraron...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. ¿Lo único en lo que coincidían? ¡Su atracción! El último retrato de la artista Willow Jacobs iba a hacerle triunfar. Hasta que el hijo de la retratada, Leonidas Stanhope, exigió que nunca viera la luz del día. Él era todo lo que ella no...

Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard is the luckiest man in the world: a bona-fide sports superstar and the pride of the NFL with a profitable side career as a buff billboard model for End Zone underwear. But life in the glory lane has started to pale, and Dean has set off on a cross-country...