Resultados para "Victoria" en Literatura y ficción

«¡Qué libro! Una novela increíble, delicada y contundente a la vez.» Maggie O'Farrell. Galardonada con el Women's Prize de 2025 y finalista del Premio Booker de 2024, La guardiana, aclamada ópera prima de Yael van der Wouden, alabada por la fuerza de su escritura y su atmósfera inquietante y muy bien tramada, es una audaz y aguda exploración sobre las secuelas emocionales del deseo.

Struggling to feel worthy, Gawain knows some sins can never be forgiven. He may be considered a knight, but his past was never so noble, and the fear he won't ever have a future is one he can never let go. Imprisoned for over 1,500 years, Galahad knows that freedom can be an illusion, especially if the only way to defeat the witch is by staying caged for eternity. And then maybe nothing, not even Gawain's love, can free the chains around his heart.

Kay of Isca knows Charles St. John is his fated soul mate, but between battle, duty, and saving the world, staying in the same reality, never mind the same bed, is proving a bit more of a challenge than either stubborn man will admit. The malicious armies of Morgan le Fay are gathering, and the chance that one of their friends has already been lost to evil is a real possibility too terrifying to contemplate. Nothing is ever as it seems, but unless Kay can unravel the vile plans centuries in the making, they won't just die before they get a chance to love.

Since the day that Tessa met Beth, it feels like she's been torn. Torn between the love for a man and the love for a woman, torn between her religion and her beliefs, torn between Raymond and Beth. Just as Tessa finally gathers the courage to stand up for herself and confesses to her sexual orientation, things go wrong. She kisses Raymond and Beth leaves her. Tessa doesn't know where she stands with anyone in her life anymore.

Tessa's life is perfect. She has everything a woman could want, a good job, a family that supports her, and a boyfriend who only ever tries to make her happy. But somehow, even when she has all these things, she feels like her life is empty. When she lies to Raymond to escape her cut-and-paste life, she meets Beth, a whirlwind of a woman that takes her breath away. Too much alcohol, too little inhibition, and it ends in a night that confuses Tessa and leaves her perfect life a little skewed.

Tessa knows that she doesn't just like men, but she's not sure if she's just into women either. She loves Beth, but she still doesn't want to commit to a relationship with her and call herself a lesbian. Besides, she's still friends with Raymond and the thought of him finding out and being disappointed in her is one of the things holding her back.

Tessa still can't decide between her two lives. Her past is begging for her to come back. Her future is terrifying, and Tessa is in the middle, unsure about which to choose. Throw a stranger in the mix and things just get complicated. When she doesn't make a decision Beth feels she waited long enough and leaves. Tessa is heartbroken but Beth has had enough.

Tessa's life is perfect. She has everything a woman could want: a good job, a family that supports her, and a boyfriend who only ever tries to make her happy. But somehow, even when she has all these things, she feels like her life is empty. When she lies to Raymond to escape her cut-and-paste life, she meets Beth, a whirlwind of a woman that takes her breath away.

Tessa wants Beth back but when she goes out to get her she realizes it's too little too late. Beth has found someone else - an ex of her own - and it's hard to know if it is real or if it's just to spite Tess. Raymond has a girlfriend now, too, and suddenly Tessa realizes that she's completely alone. It's the one thing she's feared all her life, and it's happening. Her worst nightmare is coming true.

Azim Boaz is a hard-working vampire who takes care of his family until his freedom is taken from him. Drugged and kidnapped, Azim is sold to a sadist. His strength and spirit are whittled away by his cruel captor, but hope arrives in the form of a tentacled savior. Working as a consultant on a missing person case, Victor Thalassa catches the scent of his mate—one of the missing paranormals he’s searching for. Despite the connection between them, Victor doesn’t want to make the silent vampire his until Azim is strong enough to make his own choices.

In the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, one summer in the 1970s, a family—a husband and wife, their daughter, and their crippled teenage son Camilo—take in an orphan named Cosme. The boys unexpectedly fall in love, but an act of violence shatters their intimate world and changes their lives forever. Decades later, when Camilo returns to his hometown, he is haunted by his first love and the long shadow of Brazil's military dictatorship.

Nessa releitura sáfica de 10 coisas que odeio em você, duas garotas que tinham tudo para se odiar descobrem que têm mais em comum do que imaginam. Ninguém mexe com Petra Galvão. A "megera adolescente" do Nossa Senhora de Pádua é conhecida pela sua reputação de ter respostas ríspidas na ponta da língua e estar sempre mal-humorada. A única que parece ter vencido essa barreira é sua irmã e melhor amiga, Bianca. Elas são tão unidas que o colégio inteiro sabe que, para conseguir ser amigo de uma, você tem que ser amigo das duas. Todo mundo já ouviu falar sobre Clara Verano.

"Szybko pozostawiasz jeden pocałunek na brodzie, aby następnie długo i namiętnie całować moją szyję. Odchylam głowę, abyś miała do niej lepszy dostęp. Przymykam oczy, skupiając się na tych przesiąkających mnie doznaniach. Liżesz i ssiesz skórę, chwilami mocno ją przygryzając i zostawiając po sobie czerwone ślady. Naznaczasz mnie sobą. Nie mam zamiaru narzekać czy ukrywać tego później przed natrętnym światem. Niech patrzą, niech zazdroszczą, niech się zastanawiają, kim jesteś".

"Nawet jeśli położyłyśmy się w mniej widocznym miejscu, dość daleko od najbliższego zejścia na plażę, to zdawałam sobie sprawę, że nie jesteśmy kompletnie same. Jednocześnie nie byłam w stanie cię z siebie zrzucić. Za bardzo podobała mi się ta sytuacja. Zbyt mocno łaknęłam pocałunków, pocierania twojego uda o moje, nawet jeśli irytował mnie piasek. Czułam napinające się mięśnie, twardniejące sutki, oddawałam się podnieceniu, jednocześnie czekając, aż ktoś przypomni ci o tym, że nie zniknęłyśmy dla otaczającego nas świata".

Twenty-year-old Dennis Eastman has a choice to make: either enter the U.S. Naval Academy, or find some other course in life. He decides to spend his final month of freedom in Los Angeles with his old mentor and lover, Lincoln Gardner, hoping to find some answers. But Linc fails to meet him at the airport, and when Dennis enters his friend's apartment in Beverly Hills, he's promptly confronted by the police: Gardner has been brutally murdered!

Eine geleakte SMS, ein Shitstorm und ein Mord: Der Großunternehmer Adi Dietz schickt seinem Kumpel Olaf eine Privatnachricht, in der er die Vikki mit einem bestimmten unflätigen Begriff beleidigt – und Vikki Victoria ist nun mitten im Publicitystrudel. Als sie dann genau diesen Olaf tot in seinem Homeshopping-Sender-Chefbüro auffindet, macht die Polizei sie sofort zur Hauptverdächtigen. Um ihre Unschuld zu beweisen, sucht die Vikki nach dem echten Mörder, mit Motorradrocker Wolf und Influencerin Kathi an ihrer Seite.

Vikki Victoria, Anfang 40, lebt als bekannte Künstlerin in der Nähe des Viktualienmarkts in München und ist ihres Lebens froh. Bis eines Morgens zu unchristlicher Zeit (vor 12 Uhr!) ein Anruf von ihrem Ex-Freund Wolf kommt: Der Toni, der Vikki jahrelang Morddrohungen geschickt hat, ist aus dem Gefängnis ausgebrochen. So muss sich die Vikki au-gen-blick-lich in Sicherheit bringen. Doch wohin? Natürlich in die alte Heimat, nach Übertreibling. Mit wehender Perücke und dem Motorradrocker Wolf an ihrer Seite beginnt für sie eine eine absurde Odyssee, bei der Vikki Victoria alle Register ziehen muss, um zu schützen, was sie liebt.

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