Showing results for "Laura" in Literary Fiction

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME AND THE NIGHT WE LOST HIM Best Books of Summer Selection by People, Elle, Redbook, Domino Magazine, Us Weekly, PopSugar, PureWow, InStyle, W Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, Southern Living, Arizona Republic, and Tallahassee...

Kill for Love is a searing satirical thriller about Tiffany, a privileged Los Angeles sorority sister who is struggling to keep her sadistic impulses-and haunting nightmares of fire and destruction-at bay. After a frat party hookup devolves into a bloody, fatal affair, Tiffany realizes something within her has awoken: the insatiable desire to kill attractive young men.

“Masterly deftness, funny sentence by funny sentence...a moving and intricately braided story of two mothers.” —Jonathan Franzen, The Guardian This “beguiling, addictive read” (People, Book of the Week) and Belletrist Book Club pick about a blue-blooded single mother raising her...

The enchanting story of a midwestern girl who escapes a family tragedy and is remade as a movie star during Hollywood’s golden age. In 1920, Elsa Emerson, the youngest and blondest of three sisters, is born in idyllic Door County, Wisconsin. Her family owns the Cherry County Playhouse, and...

Florence, 1500. Fresco painter Jacopo Torni longs to make his mark in the world. But while his peers enjoy prestigious commissions, his meager painting jobs are all earmarked to pay down gambling debts. When Jacopo hears of a competition to create Florence's greatest sculpture, he pins all his hopes on a collaboration with his boyhood companion, Michelangelo Buonarroti. But will the frustrated artist ever emerge from the shadow of his singularly gifted friend?

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME AND THE NIGHT WE LOST HIM Heralded as “impossible to put down” (Elle), and named a Best Book of the Summer by Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Marie Claire, and Us Weekly, Eight Hundred Grapes is a...

Dans La Semaine perpétuelle, les récits et les voix s'entremêlent : adolescents, personnes âgées, gens d'internet. Écriture animiste, où toutes les choses du monde peuvent parler – où le monde est possédé. Un livre audio à la vivacité poétique frappante, la découverte d'une voix. Comme tous les grands romans, La Semaine perpétuelle a pour sujets la vie, le temps et la mort.

**INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** “In many ways, this meditation on community and swimming follows in the footsteps of the enormously popular A Man Called Ove… Both are charming and heartwarming.”—Kirkus Reviews WE'RE NEVER TOO OLD TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS—OR TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Rosemary...

C'est l'histoire d'une fille qui n'est pas d'accord avec l'ordre social. De l'enfance à l'écriture, en passant par un bar mystérieux, une maison abandonnée, un immeuble rempli de sectes, ou le sommet d'une montagne, la narratrice nous entraîne dans une odyssée parsemée de miroirs homériques, de chants d'aèdes qui nous montrent le livre en train de se faire. Les Forces reprend et détourne les motifs du roman d'apprentissage. Alternant le prosaïque et le théorique en un éclair, le livre se déploie dans une narration allant du tragique au comique.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House, the “harrowing, gripping, and beautiful” (Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author) story of two friends, raised in the same orphanage, whose loyalty is put to the ultimate test when they meet years later at an...

Recipient of 3 awards, Beyond All Desiring reveals the deep secrets of Sara, a woman who was "different" in a time of conformity. When Sara's niece, Janice, is notified that her sharp-witted aunt, now in her 80s, hasn't been seen for several days, Janice's panicky drive to find out what's happened begins our journey of discovering that Sara has led a life very different from what her relatives and friends assume. Historical events of the 20th century form a backdrop to Sara's often tumultuous personal life.

Emilia only wants one thing: to forget the betrayal and lies of her ex-boyfriend and start over in Munich. But this turns out to be difficult when she moves in with passionate animal rights activist Lorena, who not only throws out all animal products, but also never misses an opportunity to lecture Emilia.

Ci sono due porte che si aprono sui nostri sogni: quella d'oro è la più splendente ma porta sogni falsi e sviati; quella di corno è più dimessa, ma i suoi sogni sono veri. Una raccolta di racconti che illuminano la vita contadina e piccolo-borghese dell'Italia tra la fine dell'Ottocento e i primi del Novecento. "Le date, per me, sono essenziali per costruire i miei personaggi, che non vivono dovunque e sempre. Come lettore, io trovo vuoto e piatto un certo modo di raccontare, i cui personaggi potrebbero esistere da qualsiasi parte, a New York come a Milano, in una condizione più teorica che reale.

Life is good for Dr. Laura Nelson. Her kids have their ups and downs, but seem well adjusted to high school and college; her research project at the university is going well; and she is highly regarded as the chief of surgery at Tampa City Hospital. The sense of tranquility is disrupted when she is drawn into the diagnosis of the first case of HIV/AIDS seen in Tampa. But the challenge of this new disease is dwarfed by the disaster that impacts Laura’s life a few days later. A highly resistant bacterial infection is raging in the surgical intensive care unit, and patients are dying.

Eine junge Bankerin gegen die Strippenzieher der Finanzwelt: Im 3. Teil der brandaktuellen Thriller-Reihe von Bestseller-Autor Veit Etzold geht es um noch mehr Geld und noch dunklere Geschäfte. Viel Zeit bleibt der jungen Bankerin Laura Jacobs aus Berlin nicht, um sich von der fingierten Mord-Anklage zu erholen, mit der man sie aus dem Verkehr ziehen wollte: Ihr Arbeitgeber scheint in einen katastrophalen Skandal verwickelt, bei dem die Altersversorgung von Millionen von Deutschen auf dem Spiel steht.

Darren Hunter has been seriously injured once again by his father Joseph, so Edward is unprepared for the news that his ex-girlfriend Felicity is expecting his child. He is already father to Lily, and he just got things together with Gemma, thanks to their ordeal.