Showing results for "Marina" in Literary Fiction

The novel Carlos Ruiz Zafón wrote just before The Shadow of the Wind. 'Fifteen years on, the remembrance of that day has returned to me. I have seen that boy wandering through the mist of the railway station, and the name of Marina has flared up again like a fresh wound. We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine...' In May 1980, 15-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts...

Barcelone, 1979. Óscar, quinze ans, a l'habitude de s'échapper du pensionnat et d'errer dans la ville. Un jour, alors qu'il s'est introduit dans une demeure à l'allure abandonnée, il rencontre Marina qui va briser la solitude de ses escapades quotidiennes. Lorsque la jeune fille l'emmène à la découverte d’une tombe anonyme flanquée d'un papillon noir sur laquelle vient se recueillir chaque jour une femme couverte d'un voile sombre, les deux adolescents décident de mener l'enquête.

This audio edition is read by Audie-Award winning narrator, Marin Ireland! From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of the astonishing true story of two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina — Kline’s own distant relatives —...

It is AD 2565. When 17-year-old Marine cadet Arun McEwan forges an unlikely friendship with an alien scribe, he crashes into a world of treachery and conspiracy. How can he possibly survive three more years until graduation when every day brings a new deadly threat? But survive he must because his new alien allies show him glimpses of his destiny - a vision of a better future that only he can forge. A dream called the Human Legion.

In seinen freien Stunden streift der Internatsschüler Óscar Drai durch die verwunschenen Villenviertel Barcelonas...

“Vampires are making a comeback, and Yuszczuk is spearheading their revival with this bloody novel.” —The New York Times Book Review It is the nineteenth century, the twilight of Europe’s bloody bacchanals, and a vampire must escape. She arrives to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the...

From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, a sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of one young woman. St. Petersburg, New Year's Eve, 1916. Marina Makarova is a young woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints...

The vanhat are within the walls, and mankind’s days are numbered. Mathison has a desperate plan. A suicide mission. Infiltrate fortress Sol to shut off the defenses long enough for a d-bomb strike to kill the vanhat invaders.

Este es un libro de filosofía de guerrilla, una puesta en práctica de los presupuestos filosóficos que Marina Garcés planteaba en su libro anterior, Filosofía inacabada. Pensar radicalmente provoca que nos relacionemos con lo que somos y lo que hacemos a...

Olympic swimmer Jesse Austin is seduced and consequently edged out for a gold medal by her Australian rival. From there, Anshaw intricately traces three possible paths for Jesse, spinning exhilarating variations on the themes of lost love and parallel lives unlived.

In this haunting novel, a young nurse forms an unlikely connection with the elderly man she cares for, and finds herself confronting the guilt she carries from her past Marguerite Demers is twenty-five when she leaves Paris for the sleepy southern village of Saint Sulpice to take up a job as a...

Filomena Quarta - ex giornalista quarantenne, da poco orfana di padre - si ritrova all'improvviso in bolletta e con un'ingombrante eredità: la Dimora...

Before writing his memoir of madness, Darkness Visible, William Styron was best known for his ambitious works of fiction–including The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie’s Choice. Styron also created personal but no less powerful tales based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine...

Medieval England Spring, 998 AD. Brother Galen of Yarmwick is desperate to return to friend and family. So after the triumphal unveiling of the king’s gem encrusted Book of Hours, he’s ready to rush home. But just as he thinks life will go back to normal, the Bishop of Crowland orders Galen to accompany him to Rome. Galen thought the journey to Lundenburh was gruelling. How will he face an epic voyage of thousands of miles?

Anglo-Saxon England, 997 AD. Sixteen-year-old scribe, Galen, and his friend Alcuin the illuminator, are running late. Galen's frailty has delayed their mission–to produce the most glorious book in honor of the king. They are crossing the treacherous marshes of eastern England when vikings attack.

Al-Andalus 998 AD. Galen and Alcuin have been taken prisoner by the Moors. Galen is a Moorish doctor’s latest project. Alcuin languishes in the dungeons, watching over the bishop, who is slowly being tortured to death for a treasure. Galen and Alcuin must learn how to survive in a strange new kingdom which is rapidly turning hostile towards Christians. Martyrdom, a life of slavery, or escape are their only options. But how can they escape when they have been separated?

Lena, geboren 1967 in der Ukraine, lebt drei Jahrzehnte lang angepasst, aber unglücklich mit dem korrumpierten System in der Sowjetunion. Auf Druck ihres Mannes emigriert die Familie in den 90er- Jahren nach Deutschland. Heute wählt Lena die AfD - völlig unverständlich für ihre Tochter Edi, die zu dem Leben ihrer Mutter keinen Zugang findet. Sie selbst will Journalistin werden und die Welt sehen. Die Vergangenheit und das kulturelle Erbe ihrer Mutter sind ihr fremd - und doch muss sie Stellung beziehen.

Los niños de Chile están desapareciendo y nadie sabe por qué. Algunos creen que se escapan; otros, que son secuestrados. Solo dos personas —una ilustradora y una niña llamada Catalina— saben la verdad, pero es demasiado extraña para que nadie jamás...

Kann man sich totstellen, um der Erschießung zu entkommen? Einen Fluch unschädlich machen, indem man die Tür verriegelt? Den Abschied vergessen und Gefühle auf Leinwand bannen? Kira erzählt ihre Familiengeschichte. Eine Geschichte von Aufbrüchen und Verwandlungen, von Krokodilen und Papierdrachen. Die junge Künstlerin Kira lebt mit Marc und dem gemeinsamen Sohn Karl in Berlin. Sie gibt Malkurse für Kinder, hat lange nicht ausgestellt, lange nichts gemalt - und zweifelt.

" Une comédienne, on ne cherche pas à savoir qui elle est. Une comédienne, on l’invente. Une comédienne est un rêve. " La comédienne de ce roman, l’actrice trans la plus connue du monde, peut vivre toutes les vies sur scène mais se sent acculée par un nouvel événement dans son quotidien : elle a décidé, contre tout bon sens, de fonder une famille. Contre l’avis de tout le monde aussi, elle décide de monter une pièce de Jean Cocteau, " pourquoi pas quelque chose de moins français, de moins tordu ? ", et de tenter, en plus, un retour périlleux au village natal pour voir ses parents.