Resultados para "The Contemporary Novel" en Literatura y ficción

Lily’s life is turned upside down when she suddenly finds herself trapped in the body of Catherine Howard, King Henry VIII's doomed fifth wife. Can she make it out of Tudor England with her head and her heart intact? Slip into this raunchy, irreverent time travel romance! Lily's trip to...

Andrea lleva tres años intentando superar una ruptura sentimental. Susana acaba de encontrar a su novio con otra. Las dos hermanas Miró, con el corazón roto, comienzan a compartir casa y a reconstruirse. Pero a veces la vida da giros inesperados y te enfrenta a tus peores pesadillas. Como reencontrarte con el amor de tu vida, ese que te abandonó, y que este sea tu jefe. O que tu crush de toda la vida se fije en ti (y no sea oro todo lo que reluce).

Någon vill se den iranska författaren Sara Santada död och är villig att att göra vad som helst för att det ska ske. Fyra miljoner kronor är de beredda att betala för att dödsdomen skall utföras, och när Sara bjuds in till Köpenhamn ser de sin chans. Men någonting går inte enligt planerna och hotet mot Sara uppdagas. Säkerhetschefen Per Toftlund och kulturjournalisten Lise Carlsen utkämpar en desperat kamp mot klockan i jakt på en okänd mördare som inte skyr några medel för att utföra sitt uppdrag ...

La tímida June Jones vive en Chalcot, una pequeña población de Reino Unido, y es bibliotecaria de corazón. Sus mejores amigos son las personas que conoce cada día en el trabajo: el viejo Stanley, a quien ayuda con el ordenador; Chantal, una joven que busca un lugar tranquilo para estudiar; Leila, una refugiada que aprende inglés con ayuda de los libros de cocina que June elige para ella, o la activista Mrs. Bransworth, que critica todas las obras que encuentra en la biblioteca.

Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy enough daughter, and an eerie sense that life might be happening elsewhere. Then Tonie accepts a big promotion at work and Thomas agrees to become a stay-at-home dad. While Thomas is suddenly faced with the daily silence of an empty house, Tonie finds herself alive to previously unimagined possibilities. And at the head of the family, the aging Bradshaw parents continue their marital dynamic of bickering and petty undermining.

Book three in the #1 New York Times bestselling Into Darkness Series, following the dark rom-com sensations Lights Out and Caught Up. The game is on for these enemies-to-lovers with laugh-out-loud banter and scorching-hot brat play. I hate that woman. Tyler Neumann has spent years looking for...

Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of 14. But as of this morning...they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love...every memory has vanished. Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why. But the more they learn about the couple they used to be...the more they question why they were ever together to begin with. Forgetting is terrifying, but remembering may be worse.

Now a TV Series produced by FremantleMedia North America available internationally on Amazon, exclusively through Prime Video and starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning, and Pablo Schreiber. Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he...

If Fiona has learned anything in life, it’s how to keep a secret - even from the father who raised her. She is the only person who knows about her late mother’s affair in Tuscany thirty years earlier, and she intends to keep it that way...until a lawyer calls with shocking news: her biological father has died and left her an incredible inheritance - along with two half siblings.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Discover the word-of-mouth hit hailed by Ann Patchett as “A cause for celebration”—an intimate novel about the transformative power of the written word and the beauty of slowing down to reconnect with the people we love. “The Correspondent is this...

The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into presence, lost into found.

From American Book Award—winning author Ana Castillo comes a suspenseful, moving new novel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman. Eking out a living as a teacher’s aide in a small New Mexican border town, Tía Regina is also raising her teenage nephew, Gabo, a hardworking...

A warm, intimate novel that reminds us of the richness that can be found all throughout our lives—by the New York Times bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv and Open House “This gentle story of appreciation for the people and things that make up a life will renew your spirit...

One writer, one editor, one hot summer . . . Will this be a romance for the books? Ciara Sheridan’s father has left her with three things: a sprawling and distinctly ramshackle estate on the Irish coast, the outline for the finale to his bestselling epic fantasy series that he wanted her to...

En este “encantador debut” (People) y bestseller del New York Times —que próximamente será una gran producción cinematográfica protagonizada por Tom Hanks— de uno de los autores suecos más exitosos, un hombre gruñón pero adorable encuentra su solitario mundo patas arriba cuando...

A profound, bittersweet portrait of a Gazan immigrant's heroic efforts to heal his community and birth love from tragedy. As a financial crisis looms, Jamal "Jack" Shaban is trying to save his neighbors from bankruptcy. But who is Jack, really? For his flight attendant colleagues, he's an object...

Bessem notices Fatima for the first time on the soccer field-muscular and focused, she's the only woman playing and seems completely at ease. When Fatima chases a rogue ball in her direction, Bessem freezes, mesmerized by the athlete's charm and beauty. One playful wink from Fatima, and Bessem knows her life will never be the same.

From the acclaimed author of How to Be Eaten, a fresh take on the campus novel that follows an adjunct professor gigging her way through academia’s poor job market when she crosses paths with her old PhD adviser, whose new novel might be about her—for readers of Worry, Vladimir, and Less...

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and deep resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves into one of the most mysterious of...

A Reese's Book Club pick and a 2026 Audie Awards finalist for Audiobook of the Year! This program features multicast narration. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR 2025 An ENTHRALLING new novel from the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of Migrations and...