Showing results for "Humans" in Women's Fiction

"My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." If you just heaved a contented sigh at Mr. Darcy's heartfelt words, then you, dear listener, are in good company. Here is a delightful collection of never-before-published stories inspired by Jane Austen - her novels, her life, her wit, her world.

Lien, Katryn en Charlotte was jare lank beste vriendinne. Hulle is heeltemal verskillend, die vriendskap was van die begin af onwaarskynlik. Lien is heeltemal together, Katryn is temperamenteel en onvoorspelbaar. En Charlotte is die een wat stil-stil foto’s neem en skilder, en nooit ophou waarneem nie. Hulle het min in gemeen, maar daar was ’n sterk band tussen hulle.

Twenty years after the event that changed her life, Lisette is still haunted by the memory of Lacey Lockhart, the college student shot and killed in 1999 by her ex-boyfriend. As Lisette moves forward to take on new relationships and responsibilities, she looks for role models to navigate the promising world she now inhabits. But will Lisette's journey to find her purpose in life be deeper and harder than she thought? Will she have the courage to be the hero of her own story?

From “a writer at the top of her game” (The New York Times) comes a bighearted and sharply funny debut novel about two estranged sisters and the crossroads they face after becoming unexpectedly pregnant at the same time. Two years after the death of their mother, Jada and Maddy Battle both...

Natalia é uma mulher velha, muito velha, que passa os dias reclusa em seu apartamento à espera de telefonemas da filha que mora em outro país. Viúva e última sobrevivente de um grande grupo de amigos, ela carrega os seus queridos humanos como um buquê íntimo de desaparecidos, companhias invisíveis que povoam a casa a partir de suas memórias. Vicente, companheiro de Natalia, era professor de geografia e foi perseguido pela ditadura.

When 19-year-old Lacey Lockwood is killed by her possessive, controlling ex-boyfriend, she is trapped inside the body of Lisette La Tour, a straight-talking, no-nonsense stripper, wounded by childhood abuse, who dances under the name of “Attila the Hunny.” Lacey and Lisette share the spotlight on stage as well as on an urgent journey to avenge what has happened to them. Awaken is a gripping account of the awakening of the human spirit, which brings on healing and recovery set against a world of obsession, abuse, and abandonment.

Erst wenn sich abends die Straßen Seouls allmählich leeren, verlässt die Psychotherapeutin Hae-Su den Schutz ihres Hauses. Niemand soll sie sehen, eine Frau, die alles verloren hat: ihre Arbeit und Reputation, ihren Partner, ihre Freunde.

Beyond Human Boundaries exclusively dissects human emotions in their most fragile form where they cannot be seen but felt only lying deep inside and can be peeled layer by layer like an onion. The innermost layer is often hidden carefully and not fully discovered at all....