Resultados para "The Future" en Narrativa femenina

Dos mujeres, una ciudad, un misterio: una historia entre la realidad y la ficción, entre el thriller psicológico y la novela de formación. Una escritora consagrada que trabaja en sus memorias redescubre los viejos diarios de su primer año en Nueva York, a finales de la década de 1970. Recién salida de un pueblo de Minnesota, sin apenas dinero y con hambre de nuevas experiencias, se deslumbra por todo lo que le ofrece la ciudad.

The job was simple. Pose as her boss's fiancee for the weekend and earn $1,000. But Karin and Craig's make-believe love affair takes an unexpected turn when circumstances throw them together in the same room for the night. While Karin's feelings blossom, Craig makes it clear he's only interested in a friends-with-benefits relationship. Will Craig's fear of commitment drive Karin from his life professionally as well as emotionally?

“I giorni del Cavaliere Solitario erano finiti; questa era l’età dei milioni di eroi.” Un viaggio intorno al mondo attraverso le azioni di gente comune che combatte il cambiamento climatico: dalle perdite di metano nel Mar Artico, all'Amazzonia resa arida dalla siccità fino alle pianure alluvionali del Gange e al fenomeno del fracking in Texas, tutti quanti sono collegati mediante il progetto Milioni di Occhi, una rete sperimentale che unisce virtualmente le persone quando hanno bisogno di ispirazione e supporto.

Aud ama la piccola Ellie, la sua bambina. Ma nessuno sa chi è il padre di Ellie, neppure Aud. Spinta dalle precarie condizioni economiche e con il rischio di vedersi togliere la piccola dai servizi sociali, Aud deciderà di lasciare Londra insieme a Danny, un suo amico, pur di non svelare il segreto della nascita di sua figlia. Una storia toccante e cupa, di maternità negata e scelte pericolose.

In questa raccolta di racconti, tre narrazioni ad altissimo potenziale corrosivo, Nicoletta Vallorani, tra le migliori autrici di fantascienza italiana, ci riporta alle tipiche atmosfere del noir e cyberpunk, che fanno da sfondo e cornice alla nostra realtà contemporanea. Tra loschi suq milanesi e traffici illegali di organi e dati, ecco prendere forma un moderno “catalogo di orrori assortiti, […] signore rifatte, omologhi erotici e synthafreak a quintali.”

Le idee di Clelia Farris hanno la consistenza degli aculei dei ricci di mare e un sapore, tra l'aspro e l'agrodolce, che si conficca nella mente. Nelle sue storie i personaggi possiedono identità liquide e sfuggenti come Kieser, che vorrebbe diventare se stesso mediante operazioni di “Chirurgia creativa”, oppure Yuliano, l'uomo senza gusto estetico di “Nemico segreto”, e ancora Gabola, impegnato in una lotta contro l’esproprio della collina di Piccolo Tuvu.

Amelia è stata una bambina studiosa e responsabile, poi un'adolescente studiosa e responsabile e oggi è una quasi trentenne delusa e responsabile. Tra sette giorni compie trent'anni e la sua nuova occupazione preferita è stilare liste dei suoi fallimenti. L'ultima è venuta più lunga del previsto: abita nella cantina dei suoi genitori, per mantenersi scrive articoli di tendenza per una rivista hipster, ma siccome è sottopagata deve anche portare a spasso il cane della vicina tre volte al giorno e fare la cameriera in un pub del centro pieno di adolescenti ubriachi.

After the mysterious disappearance of her fiancé, Alma Hughes moves to a remote island in the North Atlantic, where she hopes to weather her grief and nurture her ailing dog. But the strange town of Violette has mysteries as well. Townsfolk say that the radio tower overlooking their town broadcasts messages through their home appliances, their dreams, even the sea itself. When lightning strikes the tower, illuminating the sky in a brilliant flash, Alma finds herself caught in the unexplainable aftermath of one of Violette’s deadliest storms.

Questa storia si sviluppa come una parodia del genere post-cyberpunk, aggiornato ai nostri tempi tra social network e gamification e in uno stile che ricorda la serie distopica "Black Mirror".

When faced with the inequities of college life for women in 1965, first-generation college student Ramona Bronson must decide whether she's willing to risk her education for the possibility of better. As fall term begins, Ramona is reassigned to the night shift waitressing at Dusty's Drive-In, which closes after the female-only campus curfew. Panicked because she needs her job to pay tuition, Ramona petitions to appeal the curfew on the advice of her friend Dimitri.

A New York Times Notable Book Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a...

A lost temple. A deadly foe. An unbearable choice. When we are attacked by milens and one of my hunters is abducted, my friends and I race to find her. But dark forces surround my missing warrior and the trail has gone cold. We get a lead on a lost temple reportedly inhabited by Miletus, but its location suggests there is some celestial involvement in his plans. When Artemis refuses to answer my call and we are losing hope of finding my hunter we get help from an unlikely source. But our final destination is wrought with peril and we may be walking into a trap.

Carol is a gifted pianist who has never needed anything but her talent–until an untreatable injury stops her playing. Terrified that it might end her career, she moves to a village on the coast to convalesce and teach singing. She becomes beguiled by glimpses of her next life–a healer called Andreq. Is he really what he seems to be? Does his life have any clues that can help her now?

Meryem has learned to look out for number one. Abducted as a teenager from England to Turkey, thirty years later she is finally free to live life on her own terms. She is divorced and wealthy, working a lucrative job in Dubai, when a whispered confession from her dying father turns her world upside down, and sets her on a path to discover the truth. The first step is a return to London, and her childhood friends, Alma and Sammy, with whom she embarks upon an impromptu 80s weekend.

When Sasha meets Elliot a month before her wedding to Pete, the news he brings seems incredible. He claims to have arrived from the future, explaining that their timeline was knocked off course in 2010, preventing them from meeting, and begs her to find him in the present day. But Sasha’s wedding plans are underway, and though she’s curious, Elliot turns out to be feckless, rebellious, and engaged to a glamorous and pregnant Belle.

A provocative, exuberant novel about time, memory, desire, and the imagination from the internationally bestselling and prizewinning author of The Blazing World. A young woman, S.H., moves to New York City in 1978 to look for adventure and write her first novel, but finds herself distracted by...

It’s the late 1980s, and Connie Martin, a doctor working for the Epidemiology Intelligence Service of the CDC, is called to Colorado to investigate an alarming outbreak of birth defects. Born illegitimate in the San Luis Valley as Consuela Martín, a name known only to close friends and to her beloved gamer and programmer husband, she arrives as an unknown. Joined by environmental activists who suspect the state’s Superfund sites and by doctors and parents who fear for its children, Connie attempts to discover the link between habitat destruction and damage to innocents.

This is the turning point.... When Collie flees an abusive husband, she’s also escaping her sordid past. But when her money is stolen, the only way to earn it back in time for her trip to Alaska, is to do the very thing she hoped she left behind. Burning Night festival is only a month away, and she simply has to be there.

Sometimes heroism is found in dreams deferred. Charlotte, NC. 1918. Broadway darling Calla Connolly had it all: a rising career on the stage and a loving fiancé, a fellow stage actor. But after his tragic death early in the war, Calla is touring the American training camps, hoping to convince...

Now a USA TODAY bestseller! "The Vanishing of Josephine Reynolds drips with lush Jazz Age detail, a vivid cast of characters, and a protagonist whose future literally depends on her ability to navigate the past." --Barbara Davis, bestselling author of The Echo of Old Books A captivating tale of...