Showing results for "Veritas" in Literature & Fiction

Working as a chef aboard a private yacht might not seem like a vacation for most people, but to Lauren Murphy, a highly-regarded sous chef at a top New York restaurant, the opportunity to spend seventeen days in the Virgin Islands, sailing from one tropical location to the next, while having complete freedom to create her own menus is a dream come true. Enter Grey Wells, the owner and captain of the Veritas, and the most complicated person Lauren has ever met.

Vienna, aprile 1711. Da dieci anni una guerra rovinosa insanguina l'Europa. Solo la capitale asburgica conserva miracolosamente la sua opulenza: mentre carestia e devastazione cancellano un'intera epoca, a Vienna si mangia, si beve e si balla. Il garzone protagonista di Imprimatur e Secretum, che in Italia si era ormai ridotto alla vita di stenti dello spazzacamino, trova salvezza proprio nella città imperiale: Atto Melani, agente segreto del Re Sole, gli ha saldato un antico debito. I due vecchi amici si ritrovano, ma troppe cose sono cambiate.

When a sentient recursion begins quietly overwriting existence—event by event, life by life—nearly everyone remains unaware of what is being taken. But one child is different. Born partially immune to the deletion, she becomes the last witness to a world unmaking itself.

Saru Argentu, inteso Tararà, appena introdotto nella gabbia della squallida Corte d’Assise, per prima cosa cavò di tasca un ampio fazzoletto rosso di cotone a fiorami gialli, e lo stese accuratamente su uno dei gradini della panca, per non sporcarsi, sedendo, l’abito delle feste, di greve panno turchino. Nuovo l’abito, e nuovo il fazzoletto. Inizia così "La verità" di Pirandello.

When a bookworm on borrowed time meets a younger, free-spirited chicken farmer, sparks and feathers fly . . . Harrison Phillip Fletcher III isn't supposed to be here. Not in Burlington, Vermont, not running Vino & Veritas, a quaint inclusive bookstore and wine bar, and definitely not still alive...

The author argues that both Hughes and Plath were creative psychopaths. A psychological and literary study of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, from a working psychotherapist. Plath had been mentally ill since childhood, and brought her condition into the marriage with ted Hughes, creating a folie a deux.

A straight guy gives gay hookup tips to a virgin. What could go wrong? When I first met Whit, I couldn't get away from him fast enough. He's a hockey player, and I hate everything to do with the sport that broke my heart. But I can't help feeling sorry for the guy. He's newly out and desperate...

Cosa faresti se scoprissi di vivere una vita piena di menzogne? Quando una notizia scioccante sconvolge il mondo di Juno Ryan, lei si ritrova improvvisamente senza l'uomo che ama e senza modo di ottenere le risposte di cui ha disperatamente bisogno. Così fugge nell'incantevole Villa Naranja in Spagna. I cieli azzurri e gli aranceti abbondanti – insieme a Pep, il bel figlio dell'enologo – iniziano a lenire il suo cuore spezzato e solo lei stessa può reagire come si deve.

They were born in Ireland, forged in Boston, and immortalized in the cult classic The Boondock Saints. But before legend, there was blood. Connor and Murphy MacManus slip across the Canadian border chasing the promise of America, only to land in a Boston that chews up the desperate and spits them out. The city’s underworld runs on crime and corruption, and survival means learning fast—or dying faster.

L’esperienza vissuta nell’angoscioso sogno: l’anziana donna nero-vestita, sguardo minaccioso e agghiacciante, che con voce infernale pronuncia ripetutamente “non ti darò pace”, il reale manifestarsi nella sera successiva della stessa che resasi visibile, ripete la medesima minaccia “non ti darò pace”, rivelano al giovane quattordicenne che la linea tra il reale e il surrreale si è spezzata. Misteri e verità nella vita di un medium, frutto di un’accurata indagine, e molteplici testimonianze, si annovera nella categoria del “romanzo sperimentale”, inteso come documento di vita.

I'm not the obvious choice to run Burlington's coolest wine bar—quiet, brooding, clueless about tannin content, and always one wrong turn away from another downward spiral. But no one seems to mind that I'm a wreck. Besides me. I just focus on getting through each shift until the night a...

Hester Grayson's own soul is at stake when she works with the dead. Either they cross over to the spirit world in a timely fashion or become hideous wraiths doomed to haunt her for eternity.

Brent Weyland was the life of the party until an injury ended his hockey career. Now he's retreated alone to a lakefront house, trying to make sense of a life and body that doesn't feel like his anymore. Jon Norquist was happily married right up until he wasn't. Now a single father in his 40s, he's trying to figure out what comes next. In the meantime, he pours his heartache and regret into the lyrics he sings for the wine bar crowd a couple of nights a week. When a friend coaxes Brent out for a night of wine and music, he puts Brent and Jon on a collision course. 

Gabe wants Alec between the sheets . . . too bad Alec's undercover already . . . Rich kid. Party boy. Gabe is tired of the labels. He's a smart guy, but ever since he got kicked out of grad school, people are only interested in his no-limit credit card and his pierced ears . . . and other places...

After becoming an inadvertent viral sensation—and losing her job and her girlfriend as a result—Phoebe Shaw retreats to Vermont. Renovating her late grandmother's cabin into a vacation rental seems like the perfect way to lie low for a while. But the last person she expects to encounter on...

Noel un inquieto quarantenne inaspettatamente deve fare i conti con le proprie origini. Si ritrova suo malgrado coinvolto in un'avventura vorticosa, districandosi in un crescendo di situazioni scomode, tra misteri, cimeli antichi, donne ammalianti ed un labirintico maniero.

I don't have time for an unplanned visit home to help out in my father's struggling letterpress shop. My stint in Vermont will have to be short, for a couple of reasons: One, I'm a busy executive trying to climb the corporate ladder. Two, my ex is still my dad's right-hand man in the shop. And I...

It was just a bet . . . until feelings got involved. This job sucks but someone's got to do it. My readers expect me to chronicle my very real, very steamy encounters in my novels. I'd never want to disappoint my fans, but the creative well has run a bit dry. Burlington, Vermont, seems like a...

My new roommate has the worst taste in men. I mean, Murph's special. He's funny and flamboyant and full of life. While I'm straight, even I can tell these guys aren't good enough for him. I had to yell at one date, toss another one out the door, and throw a beer in another's face. Kind of...

A second chance at love? Or a second chance to ruin everything? When Skyler spots the new bartender at Vino and Veritas, his body responds before the guy even turns around. But when he does, it takes only a heartbeat for recognition to set in and for sparks to fly. Judson's been gone for ten...