Resultados para "milka" en Literatura de género

A Roxane Gay Bookclub Pick A thirteen-year-old girl watches her white best friend totter along the edge of a building roof; a woman who lost her child in its first trimester finds empathy and horror in the waters of a city aquarium; a mother protects her teen daughter from a predatory love...

Matt Frazier, Jason “Hop” Hopkins, and Mark Ragone have been friends since elementary school. They played ball together, they hung out together, and they somehow managed to (mostly) work their way through the awkward years of junior high together. Now, they are finally starting to come into their own as they prepare to start their junior year, but on the first day of school, a new kid named Nate Mayes arrives and, with him, a secret.

Sean Hayes is driving a lime green dune buggy that a friend of hers traded from Elvis Presley for angel dust. A major motion picture is about to be released with Sean's accidentally naked breasts in it and she has just watched her best girlfriend shoot heroin, while Keith Richards nodded on the...

In her literary debut, internationally award-winning writer Courtney Zoffness considers what we inherit from generations past - biologically, culturally, spiritually - and what we pass on to our children. 

An Athlete. A Therapist. A Murder. A Medal. Siana Singh can run fast; she is just slow in discovering where she belongs, wedged between her traditional Punjabi family and her western beliefs. She clashes with her father on everything from ripped pants to life goals until she can no more. Dr. Silverstone is a therapist whose primary purpose has been one of being an exemplary mother. Living her life guided by deep faith, she has lost her daughter to 9/11 and her living son is behind bars. She understands loss well and is eager to help her patient Siana.

Matthew Rhys and Kate Burton headline a Welsh and Welsh-American cast celebrating the centenary of Dylan Thomas' birth in a performance of his timeless "play for voices." With characters such as Captain Cat, Polly Garter, and Nogood Boyo, Thomas brings to life the inhabitants of the fictional town of Llareggub in funny, poignant, and poetic detail. Includes a conversation with Andrew Lycett, author of Dylan Thomas: A New Life.

À vingt-cinq ans, Sofia travaille comme serveuse en attendant de finir peut-être, un jour, sa thèse. Elle semble avoir mis sa vie entre parenthèses pour s'occuper de sa mère, Rose, qui souffre d'une mystérieuse maladie des os. Toutes deux quittent Londres pour la côte andalouse, où Rose est prise en charge au sein de la luxueuse clinique du très controversé docteur Gómez, un médecin aux méthodes et aux motivations douteuses, mais qui apparaît comme son ultime chance de guérir.

Nominated for a 34th annual Lambda Literary Award An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follows nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of his Jehovah's Witness...

Brought to you by Penguin. Who was Gertrude Stein? Avant-garde American poet and art collector who made her home in Paris, godmother of modernism, queer icon, friend to Picasso and Hemingway, self-declared genius — a writer who has baffled readers and critics for a century. And why does she...

En couple avec Jean-Michel, maman de deux enfants et journaliste quand ils lui en laissent le temps, Isabelle tente de garder la tête hors de l'eau. Et puis, un jour, elle en a assez. Assez de gérer le calendrier familial avec ses rendez-vous à gauche et à droite, ses fêtes d'anniversaire de camarades d'école ou de garderie que, bien souvent, son fils et sa fille connaissent à peine, ses loisirs toujours choisis selon les goûts et les désirs des autres. Assez de cuisiner, de faire des courses, de ramasser des bas et des jouets.

'Jessica Andrews's first novel, Saltwater, was wonderful. The follow-up, Milk Teeth, is even better' Alex Preston, 'Fiction To Look Out For In 2022', The Guardian From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain. A girl grows...

Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Time, Esquire,BookPage, and more This darkly hilarious and “delicious new novel that ravishes with sex and food” (The Boston Globe) from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today is a “precise blend of desire...

To unify her family, Ave Maria must harness the power of love and its abiding truth in this lyrical and heartfelt novel, the third installment of the New York Times bestselling Big Stone Gap series “Trigiani can make you laugh in one sentence then break your heart in the next.”—Mississippi...

To unify her family, Ave Maria must harness the power of love and its abiding truth in this lyrical and heartfelt novel, the third installment of the New York Times bestselling Big Stone Gap series “Trigiani can make you laugh in one sentence then break your heart in the next.”—Mississippi...

'A dirty little jewel of a novel' Julia Armfield 'Malory Towers meets The Conjuring' Alice Slater 'Gory, tender, sexy' Krystelle Bamford 'Compulsively readable' Guardian In 1928, Emily Locke's final year at the isolated Briarley School for Girls is derailed when Violet, the school's brightest...

Bea has a husband and daughter. Bea also has an appointment for a termination. Her first child changed everything–her life, her relationship, her identity. Now she has a pregnancy test and a decision to face. This is a story about the women we (think we) know, the choices we make, the friends who stand by us and how the secrets we keep and the words left unsaid can be more dangerous than any lie we tell.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mother's Milk is the fourth of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick. This audiobook edition is read by stage and screen actor Alex...

A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world, from the award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold NATIONAL BESTSELLER * FINALIST FOR THE NYPL YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES...

Brought to you by Penguin. A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world A smog has spread, food is disappearing, and a chef escapes her career in London to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony: an experiment in a new way of...

Read by actor Alex Jennings, Patrick Melrose Volume 2 contains the final two novels in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick. The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril, and Patrick...