Resultados para "The Temple" en Narrativa femenina

A town held together with secrets. A wealthy widow looking for an heir. One choice could shame high society into submission. Eighty-year-old Southern aristocrat Iris Temple’s health may be failing, but her wit is as sharp as ever. Before she joins her ancestral ghosts, she must pick an heir to take over her sprawling estate - and the book of secrets that's kept her family in power for generations. This audiobook includes two novels in one volume: Temple Secrets and Gullah Secrets.

Twenty-five years ago, Joanna Johnson fled her hometown of Rivers End, leaving behind her best friend, her first love, and a dark secret. When a mysterious letter arrives, she’s forced to confront the past she’s tried so hard to forget… Returning to the picturesque coastal town, Joanna is drawn back into the world she left behind. Walking along the sandy stretch of beach below her aunt’s cottage in Willow Bay, the memories come flooding back of all the dreams she cherished until betrayal and a stormy night at sea tore them apart.

Harriet Main moves to the beautiful coastal town of Rivers End with a heavy heart. The bookstore she’s opening on the idyllic main street is a small distraction from the pain of her recent divorce, and the guilt over failing her daughter Olive when she needed her most. When Harriet finds an anonymous old diary in a collection of books donated to the store, she’s shocked when the donor refuses to take it back, wanting nothing to do with the tragic book.

Journalist Sadie is home for the first time in fifteen years, staying in her small childhood bedroom as she deals with her estranged father’s death and her surprising inheritance. When Sadie meets Rebecca, the reclusive new owner of the solitary cottage at the edge of nearby Whisper Lake, she’s taken aback by the older woman’s request for help: ‘I need to find my family. Will you help me?’. She’s even more surprised when afterwards, Rebecca acts as if she never made the plea.

Ivy Ross left Rivers End ten years ago, vowing never to return. Her heart broken, her trust gone, the father she adored behind bars. But when her sister Jody begs Ivy to return to finalise their inheritance, the majestic Fairview House, she is drawn home. And when she finds a collection of heartfelt letters hidden in her father’s library, everything she thought she knew is called into question. The anonymous letters reveal a heartbreaking love story that force Ivy to rethink the terrible night that tore her family apart.

ஓர் அழகான மங்கையின் வாழ்வில் அணுஅணுவாய் ரசித்து வாழ வேண்டிய நிமிடங்களை தொலைத்து, அணுஅணுவாய் அவள் கஷ்டங்களை அனுபவிக்கிறாள். கடமை, கன்னியம், கட்டுப்பாடு, யாரையும் புண்படுத்தாத மனம், என்று நகரும் அவள் வாழ்வில், எதையும் அனுபவிக்காமல் முற்றும் துறந்தவளாய் வாழ்வில் போராட்டங்களையும், இடர்பாடுகளையும் மட்டுமே அணுபவித்து, தன்னை இழந்து கனவில் கூட அவற்றை நினைக்க கூடாதவளாய், தன்னை மட்டுமே நம்பி இருக்கும் மூன்று உயிர்களுக்காக உயிர் வாழும் ஓர் உயிரை பற்றினதே ஆலயமாகும் மங்கை மனது.

א.ב. יהושע מסתתר משועשע מאחורי הקלעים של המקדש השלישי, הנובלה הדיאלוגית הזאת ונוטש אותנו לנפשנו עם הדמויות, אך לא לפני שרקח עלילה מפולפלת של נְכלים רבניים סבוכים, בפאריז ובתל־אביב, עלילה שהוא מושך בחוטיה הצבעוניים ושודד למענה לפאריז חומרים מן הנובלה האיטלקית שלו, 'הבת היחידה', כדי להעמיד אותם לבסוף, כעבור שנים רבות, על ראשם בתל־אביב.

Life is counted in tiny breaths, ones that measure the length of your existence. Life stole the ability to make those breaths easy when Lily was nine years old. Turned her quiet. Made her curl into herself, and shut out a world that threatened to bury her under its weight. The end of her world is what brings him back - her biker. His chocolate eyes pierce her soul while his club tempts her with a life that she didn't know she could ever have. Especially not when she was clutching the tattered remains of her existence.

Temple Dancer, a novel of awakening and connection, spans the distance of time, space, and culture through the parallel lives of Saraswati, a young Indian temple dancer in the 1940s and Wendy, an unfulfilled artist living in contemporary New England. On a crowded train in southern India, a strange encounter leads to the exchange of a dusty red book, with a mission.

Although Old Sally has been gone a year, Violet still hasn’t gotten over the loss of her beloved grandmother, with whom she shared the connection of the ancient Gullah magic. Mired in grief despite her thriving tea shop in downtown Savannah, what Violet wants more than anything is to hear from her grandmother - especially when her Gullah intuition indicates a storm is brewing.

In this comedy, the quest for fame has no boundaries...but celebrity has its downside. We follow ex-actress BunnyLee Welles, who returns to Los Angeles for her best friend’s wedding and finds that she is instantly recognizable. From the customs officer to the baggage clerk to the Lyft driver, everyone knows her single-dimple smile. They mimic her. They take selfies with her. They hand her unsolicited film scripts. In the four years she has been traveling abroad, her sole commercial role for Dial-a-Denture has recently become an online meme. Like it or not, BunnyLee is now famous.

""The Lightness could be the love child of Donna Tartt and Tana French, but its savage, glittering magic is all Emily Temple’s own."" —Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists A Most Anticipated Novel by Marie Claire Elle WSJ...

This summer doesn’t just unearth the past—it threatens to unravel Sabrina’s life completely. Her alcoholic father is dying, she’s estranged from her family, and she’s only surviving motherhood thanks to bottomless cups of coffee and secret cigarettes. After years of trying to avoid her issues, she finally comes face-to-face with them on a reluctant journey back to Seaside, Massachusetts. And this time, she doesn’t run away.