Showing results for "Maria" in Women's Fiction

Die Rückkehr zum Karlsplatz. Lichterfelde, 1968: Zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben reist die junge Tänzerin Maria nach Deutschland, in die Heimat ihrer Mutter Vera. Hier an der Deutschen Oper in Berlin hat sie ihr erstes Solo-Engagement als Ballerina erhalten. Sie taucht ein in die spannende Musikszene der Stadt - und sie macht sich auf die Suche nach den Spuren ihrer Herkunft.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Maria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dramatic novel, based on the woman glamorized in The Sound of Music, brings Maria to life as never before. “As immersive, heartbreaking, and ultimately redemptive as the...

La familia De Villalta, burgueses acomodados de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, recibe una carta preocupante y misteriosa en medio de la noche. Tiene que ver con los tristes eventos que han asolado a la familia en los últimos tiempos. Inés, la hija mediana, emprenderá un viaje a la península con la única intención de salvar a su familia.

Vuelve a sumergirte en un tiempo inolvidable. Después de El tiempo entre costuras, SIRA, la nueva novela de María Dueñas. La Segunda Gran Guerra llega a su fin y el mundo emprende una tortuosa reconstrucción. Concluidas sus funciones como colaboradora de los Servicios Secretos británicos...

Agata ha quarant’anni e vive a Napoli da quando, diciottenne, ha lasciato il suo paesino dell’Irpinia per frequentare l’università. Lavora in un museo di arte contemporanea, ha un marito e due figli piccoli. Ogni mattina, per accompagnare i bambini a scuola, passa davanti alla cartoleria di zona, una stanza delle meraviglie piena di palloncini colorati, unicorni e indispensabili oggetti inutili che, nello spazio delle due vetrine su strada, scandisce il passare del tempo e l’avvicendarsi delle stagioni, dal periodo della cancelleria per l’inizio della scuola al momento dei gonfiabili per le vacanze al mare.

Declared “a writer to watch” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), New York Times bestselling author María Dueñas pours heart and soul into this story of a woman who discovers the power of second chances. A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her...

Molly Edwards and Emma Bears Jones are inseparable—two powerhouses of television, hosting rival shows on Shine Ch33 and BBS12. But years of friendship crumble in a single night, a scandal sparked by a reckless decision at an industry party that sends their lives spiralling out of control.

Maria Eriksson bor i en mellansvensk stad och arbetar på bank när hon möter mannen med de svarta ögonen. Hon blir oerhört förälskad, förlovar sig och föder deras dotter Emma. Men förhållandet spårar ur. Mannen blir alltmer våldsam. Han hotar, slår och våldtar. När Mia träffar en annan man och gifter sig blir det ännu värre. Familjen hamnar i en mardröm av misshandel, terror och mordförsök. Myndigheterna står handfallna. Till slut tvingar man Mia och hennes familj att gå under jorden.

Only she knows the truth of his sacrifice. Maryah is devastated after her brother's death — but when he returns as her guardian angel, she must face a dark secret from the past. When Maryah's brother appears in her living room, she thinks she's dreaming. She isn't. Danny died the night before — yet he stands before her, as real as ever. Shaken and shattered, Maryah spirals into grief and guilt. Her marriage is slipping away. Her beloved dog is dying, and a long-buried secret threatens to consume her. Everything she believed begins to unravel.

Bianca Perea, studiosa madrilena, è in California per catalogare e archiviare le carte del letterato spagnolo Andrés Fontana. Ad aiutarla c'è l'ex allievo prediletto di Fontana, Daniel Carter. A mano a mano che procede nelle ricerche, Bianca inizia a chiedersi perché nessuno - e in particolare Daniel - abbia finora recuperato l'eredità di Fontana. Per ottenere le risposte che sta cercando, Bianca dovrà scavare nel passato, affrontare retroscena impensati e svelare interessi politici nascosti. Ma dovrà soprattutto tornare a credere in se stessa.

A vida mais invisível de Maria das Dores promove uma empregada doméstica a protagonista de uma saga familiar que atravessa quase um século de história brasileira. Maria das Dores viveu uma existência “invisível”, lutando de maneira obstinada para vencer na vida e criar seus três filhos.

Perched atop Ibiza’s sun-kissed hills, a world away from the pulsating beats of nightclubs, stands the weathered silhouette of Casa Maria. Eve knows little of her father’s Ibizan family or the veiled history of his departure from the island before her birth. Since her mother’s death, she’s felt like she hardly knows him at all. When an unexpected inheritance offers them an invitation to return, Eve seizes the chance, even if that means facing the pain that lingers in her father’s past. After all, he’s not the only one who needs to escape the shackles of a life in anguish.

Une exploration éblouissante des sentiments au féminin, des jeux entre l'apparence et la vérité. Son nom est Liv Maria Christensen. Enfant solitaire née sur une île bretonne, entre une mère tenancière de café et un père marin norvégien. Envoyée subitement à Berlin à l'âge de 17 ans, elle tombe amoureuse de son professeur d'anglais. Le temps d'un été, elle apprend tout. Le plaisir des corps, l'intensité des échanges. Mais, à peine sortie de l'adolescence, elle a déjà perdu tous ses repères.

Thirty-two-year-old Catherine Hope has a great memory. But she can't remember everything. She can't remember her ninth year, or when her insomnia started. And she can't remember why everyone stopped calling her Catherine-Maria. With a promiscuous past, and licking her wounds after a breakup, Catherine wonders why she resists anything approaching real love. But when she loses her home to the devastating deluge of 2007 and volunteers at Flood Crisis, a devastating memory emerges.

Suiza, 1939. Santa Ursula acoge a alumnas extranjeras para el nuevo curso. Charlotte, una de las veteranas, será la encargada de integrar a Sara Suárez. Con el paso de los días, las jóvenes fraguan una amistad que se verá interrumpida por la guerra. Oxford, década de 1970. Caroline Eccleston prepara su tesis sobre los internados suizos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El hallazgo del cierre inesperado de uno de ellos enciende la curiosidad de Carol, que no duda en viajar a Zúrich para encontrar respuestas.

A literary revelation! Her Body and Other Parties was nominated for the National Book Award and 2017 Kirkus Prize. Based on the book, a series is being made that was announced by the producers to be “a feminist Black Mirror”. It contains eight spicy, boundary-crossing stories about the universal female experience: the relation between sex and power, objectification, the tyranny of the beauty canons, stereotypes, misogyny, and violence.

It's a piece of news Daphne never expected to hear: Her globe-trotting friend Skylar, who vowed never to get married, is engaged! Time to celebrate in Manhattan - Skylar's treat, of course. After years scaling the corporate ladder, she can more than afford it. Daphne arrives in NYC with news of her own - the novel she's finally finished appears to be going nowhere but the trash bin of every publishing house around. She's devastated, but plans to keep her disappointment under wraps.

Eine Insel, eine Liebe und ein ganzer SommerDamit hatte Sarah nicht gerechnet. Noch nicht ganz über die Trennung von ihrem Ex hinweg, verliebt sie sich schon wieder. Als Lennard, ihre Neueroberung, sie bittet, mit ihm nach Sylt zu gehen, kann sie ihr Glück kaum fassen. Sie liebt die Nordseeinsel und kann sich nichts Schöneres vorstellen, als mit ihm dort zu leben.

Trots sina stora olikheter är Agneta och Carina bästa vänner. Agneta röker som en borstbindare, säger vad hon tycker och har gärna ett glas rött i handen, när som helst. Carina har en mer blygsam, romantisk läggning och är aningen godtrogen när det gäller män. Nu är Carina sambo med Mats, som gåtfullt försvinner veckor i sträck och vars mobil alltid tycks ha dålig täckning.

Grecia, 1830. La guerra per l’indipendenza dall’Impero Ottomano, che ha attirato giovani romantici da tutta Europa, si è appena conclusa. Fra i molti che sono scomparsi in questo incantevole angolo di mondo, ce n’è uno il cui destino preme molto a Irene Maughan: si tratta di James, erede di lord Hasting. L’intraprendente fanciulla si imbarca così in un viaggio burrascoso per trovarlo, in cui non potrà fare a meno di imbattersi in Alexandros Spatis, un greco che nasconde dei segreti.