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Lucky e Sua Dama
Par Sandy Raven. 2019
Rapita dall'Highlander: Il clan McGregor
Par Joice Mascena. 2023
Victoria Green, ancora in lutto per la perdita dell’amato fratello, è costretta sposare Sebastian, un libertino dipendente dal gioco d'azzardo…
che la odia. Le sue preghiere, per sbarazzarsi del matrimonio sono esaudite, ma non si aspetta che il suo liberatore e rapitore sia l'assassino di suo fratello. Archie McGregor, leader del clan McGregor delle Highlands scozzesi, è accusato di un crimine che non ha commesso. Suo fratello è tenuto prigioniero in Inghilterra per convincerlo ad arrendersi, ma prima di farlo vuole dimostrare la sua innocenza. Decide di rapire Lady Victoria Green per guadagnare tempo e per liberare suo fratello. In mezzo a rapimenti, fughe e tradimenti, tra i giovani nasce un amore intenso. Ma può l'amore abbattere le barriere che impediscono loro di vivere questa passione? Riuscirà Victoria a dimenticare il suo desiderio di vendetta, e Archie sarà in grado di scacciare i fantasmi del suo passato per costruire un futuro insieme? Parole chiave: romanticismo, highlander, medievale, amore, rosa, adatto ai minori di 16 anni.Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
Par Barbara Kingsolver. 2022
WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONA New York Times "Ten Best Books…
of 2022" • An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller "Demon is a voice for the ages—akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield—only even more resilient.” —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick"May be the best novel of 2022. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love.” (Ron Charles, Washington Post)From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturitySet in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.Murmures du Désir: Un romance médiévale (Romance de château #1)
Par Amanda Mariel. 2023
Au cœur de l'Angleterre médiévale, une dame et un mercenaire forgent un amour plus fort que l'acier, luttant à la…
fois contre leur passé hanté et une menace imminente dans Murmures du désir. Plongez dans un monde d'intrigues médiévales, où l'héritage du château d'Almerry est forgé à travers les feux de l'amour et de la vaillance. Au cœur du luxuriant comté d'Almerry, se déroule un récit d'honneur, de bravoure et d'un lien indestructible. Lady Isabel d'Almerry est une force à ne pas sous-estimer, grande, aux longs cheveux noirs et aux yeux verts perçants, elle a maîtrisé les compétences d'une chevalière, forgée dans les flammes de la tragédie. Le meurtre brutal de sa mère a brisé sa confiance, laissant son cœur protégé par des murs d'acier. Mais lorsque sa fidèle dame de compagnie, Clarisse, disparaît sans laisser de trace, la détermination inébranlable d'Isabel la propulse dans l'inconnu traître. Entre en scène Sir Ariston, un chevalier mercenaire au service d'Almerry, dont le passé est gravé dans la tristesse. Hanté par les morts impitoyables de ses parents et de sa sœur sous ses yeux, il porte le poids d'un passé déchirant. La perte de sa femme et de son nouveau-né ne fait qu'approfondir ses blessures, le laissant comme une figure solitaire aux cheveux pâles et aux yeux bleus perçants, cherchant du réconfort sur le champ de bataille. Le destin tisse leurs destins ensemble lorsque Ariston découvre Isabel au milieu des bois entourant Almerry. Une rencontre fortuite se transforme en une connexion indestructible, défiant les barrières qu'ils ont chacun érigées autour de leur cœur. Alors qu'ils entreprennent un périple périlleux pour sauver Clarisse, leur partenariat se transforme en un amour qui transcende les cicatrices de leur passé. Les revers et les défis mettent leur résolution à l'épreuve, mais chaque épreuve ne fait que renforcer leur lien. Des sentiments romantA Esposa Secreta: Romance medieval (Montfault #2)
Par Camila Winter. 2020
A Esposa Secreta por Camila Winter Saga medieval Saga medieval, história de amor e mistério A Esposa Ssecreta Uma mulher…
misteriosa chega ao castelo de Saint Denis, no coração do Languedoc, exigindo ver o Conde de Rennes e Hainaut. Ela afirma ser sua esposa, mas o conde pensa que a pobre mulher enlouqueceu porque ela chega usando um hábito puído e conta uma história muito estranha: ela não é sua esposa, sua esposa morreu há anos e ainda assim algo no rosto daquela freira perturbada chama a atenção do Conde de Rennes, algo dolorosamente familiar: É a dama da torre, a esposa secreta, aquela que cativou o seu coração nos seus primeiros anos ou ela é apenas uma impostora do mal? Gênero: FICÇÃO / Romance / Histórico / MedievalTula (LA EDAD DORADA DE HOLLYWOOD #1)
Par Hannah Howe. 2023
A sus veinticinco años, Tula Bowman es considerada la estrella más grande de Hollywood. Sin embargo, termina recluida en un…
psiquiátrico después de un colapso nervioso. ¿Cuál es la razón que desencadena su colapso nervioso? La perturbadora respuesta se encuentra en Tula, el primer libro de la serie La Época dorada de Hollywood.Um Casamento Escocês
Par Camila Winter. 2021
Em seu aniversário de dezesseis anos, a mãe de Angelet resolve fazer uma surpresa que a jovem jamais se esquecerá:…
uma viagem à Inverness, na Escócia, para visitar parentes de sua mãe de quem Angie nunca ouvira falar. Angelet está feliz e pronta para a aventura, mas ao chegar ao Castelo dos MacArthur, ela descobre um segredo que sua mãe mantinha guardado a sete chaves. Segredo esse que mudará a vida da filha para sempre. Uma família repleta de segredos obscuros e a presença de um escocês, um herdeiro misterioso de uma família tradicional de Inverness, que começa a seguir seus passos e não a deixa em paz. Archie MacDowald é o homem mais lindo que ela já viu na vida, mas também é o mais perigoso…La Chica de Findley
Par Suzan Tisdale. 2024
Ella había ganado su corazón sin intentarlo... y él solo puede esperar una oportunidad para ganar el suyo. Cuando Findley…
McKenna regresa tras su batalla contra los ingleses para ofrecer a Maggy Boyle un hogar entre su clan, solo encuentra muerte y destrucción en lugar de la joven viuda que le ha robado el corazón. Con apenas su fe, su corazón de Highlander y un poco de tela escocesa ensangrentada a la que aferrarse, Findley jura que encontrará a Maggy y a sus hijos, sin importar el infierno que deba soportar. ¿Cómo puede depositar su confianza o su corazón en manos de un hombre al que apenas conoce y mantener su libertad al tiempo que oculta sus secretos? Maggy tiene muchos secretos. Secretos que, de ser descubiertos, destrozarían a su familia. Temerosa de verse obligada a contraer otro matrimonio sin amor, Maggy consigue mantener oculta su identidad y a su familia unida durante tres largos años. Pero cuando su casa es destruida y secuestran a su hijo, los secretos empiezan a desvelarse, uno a uno. ¿Cómo puede poner su futuro y el de sus hijos en manos de Findley McKenna, un hombre al que apenas conoce? ¿Y qué pensaría él de ella si descubriera la verdad?A Donzela e o Dragão
Par Camila Winter. 2020
A Donzela e o Dragão por Camila Winter Montfort Saga Romântica Medieval A Donzela e o Dragão A chegada de…
um belo cavalheiro francês ao convento de Santa María D'Este em busca de sua namorada fugitiva será o início desta história de amor e aventura ambientada na França e na Itália no século 15. Etienne de Montfault acaba de encontrar uma noiva pudica que o deixou plantado no altar e planeja levá-la à força se necessário, mas a noviça faz de tudo para evitá-lo. E enquanto ele aguarda impacientemente a noiva esquiva, uma bela noviça do convento chamada Annabella Rosselli cruza seu caminho. A dama olha para ele e cativa seu coração instantaneamente. Mas é um amor proibido e condenado, um amor que não tem futuro. Ele sabe que deve regressar com a noiva ao seu país, porque para isso fez uma longa e perigosa viagem desde Provença, mas não consegue parar de pensar naquela bela noviça da Provença de cabelos dourados e um olhar tão doce que o espia escondida no jardim todas as manhãs ...Scent of Rainbow: Et à la terreur mortelle je t'abandonne
Par Katharina Emilie Sachs. 2009
La Martinique sert de décor à ce roman dont l’histoire se déroule à la fin du XIXe siècle, époque de…
l’éruption de la Montagne Pelée. Ceci est un hommage au personnage central, à savoir le gouverneur Louis Mouttet, qui ne parvint pas à sauver de nombreuses vies lors de l’éruption volcanique, car ignoré du gouvernement en France. Il fut longtemps tenu pour responsable des conséquences désastreuses de la catastrophe de 1902. Ce livre met en exergue l’incurie du gouvernement français à l’époque. La question qu’il incite à se poser est la suivante : le gouvernement ferait-il encore preuve d’incurie si l’un de ses territoires lointains était de nouveau en proie à une catastrophe de cette envergure ? Il y a fort à parier que la réponse serait oui.Un Guide Spirituel, Un Tigre Fantôme, et Une Mère Effrayante ! Megan est une adolescente de treize ans qui se…
rend compte qu'elle possède des pouvoirs psychiques que les autres n'ont pas. Au début, elle a essayé d'en parler à sa mère, mais les conséquences ont été désastreuses, alors elle a appris à se taire à leur sujet. Cependant, certaines personnes proposent leur aide et un animal lui montre une amitié particulière, mais ils ne sont pas 'vivants' au sens normal du terme. Ils sont décédés. Megan a trois amis de ce type : Wacinhinsha, son Guide Spirituel, qui était Sioux dans sa dernière vie sur Terre ; son grand-père maternel, Gramps et un énorme tigre de Sibérie appelé Grrr. Wacinhinsha est extrêmement savant en tout ce qui concerne le spirituel, le psychique et le paranormal ; son grand-père est un 'mort' novice et Grrr ne peut parler que le Tigre, comme on peut l'imaginer, et la plupart de cela, bien sûr, est incompréhensible pour les humains. Dans 'Megan part en vacances', la famille part en vacances à l'étranger et Megan est fascinée par l'endroit. À son retour à la maison, elle se rend un peu ridicule en prétendant être ce qu'elle n'est pas et en se vantant. Cependant, sa mère et quelques autres la ramènent à la réalité. Wacinhinsha lui donne une explication de sa récente infatuation pour sa destination de vacances.Ricordami di dimenticare
Par Laurence E Fisher. 2023
La famiglia è tutto per Pam Aulsebrook. E quando viene strappata dalle braccia della sua famiglia nel bel mezzo della…
guerra, farà di tutto per tornare al suo posto. Senza di loro al suo fianco, la sicurezza non significa nulla. Rischiando tutto, Pam scappa e torna a casa. L'incontro con Paul Konieczny, un soldato polacco, sconvolge il mondo di Pam. Improvvisamente, c'è una nuova ragione per vivere, amare e rimanere in vita. Su suo ordine, i due tornano insieme nella Polonia devastata dalla guerra, ma al loro arrivo nulla è come promesso. Ora, con la sua vita in pericolo, Pam deve cercare di lasciare la Polonia. Riuscirà Paul a rispettare il suo voto più sacro: riportare Pam a casa e infine raggiungerla in salvo?Dry Water: A Novel by Robert J.C. Stead (Canadian Literature Collection)
Par Robert J.C. Stead. 2008
Dry Water tells the story of Donald Strand, from the time of his arrival as a ten-year-old orphan at his…
relatives’ Manitoba farm in 1890 to his apogee as a successful farmer. It recounts the crises he faces during a troubled marriage and the great stock market crash of 1929. His life parallels the growth and development of Manitoba during the same period.Stead considered Dry Water, written in 1934–1935, to be his crowning achievement. He was unable to find a publisher for it during his lifetime, although an abridged edition was published by Tecumseh Press in 1983. This new edition includes the complete typescript, a critical introduction, and explanatory notes that place this novel in its proper literary and historical context.A young Canadian marches over the Pyrenees and enters into history by joining the International Brigades—men and women from around…
the world who volunteered to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. This new edition of Ted Allan’s novel, This Time a Better Earth, reintroduces readers to the electrifying milieu of the Spanish Civil War and Madrid, which for a short time in the 1930s became the epicentre of a global struggle between democracy and fascism. This Time a Better Earth, first published in 1939, tells the story of Canadian Bob Curtis from the time of his arrival in Spain and the idealism and trials of the international volunteers. Allan’s novel achieves the distinction of being both a work of considerable literary and historical significance and a real page-turner. This is the first installment of a series of titles to be published in the Canadian Literature Collection under the Canada and the Spanish Civil War banner. This is a large-scale project devoted to the recovery and presentation of Canadian cultural production about the Spanish Civil War (spanishcivilwar.ca), directed by Bart Vautour and Emily Robins Sharpe.Crow Mary: A Novel
Par Kathleen Grissom. 2023
The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything returns with…
a sweeping and &“richly detailed story of a woman caught between two cultures&” (Sandra Dallas, New York Times bestselling author) inspired by the real life of Crow Mary—an Indigenous woman in 19th-century North America.In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell&’s past, falls in love with her husband. The winter trading season passes peacefully. Then, on the eve of their return to Montana, a group of drunken whiskey traders slaughters forty Nakota—despite Farwell&’s efforts to stop them. Mary, hiding from the hail of bullets, sees the murderers, including Stiller, take five Nakota women back to their fort. She begs Farwell to save them, and when he refuses, Mary takes two guns, creeps into the fort, and saves the women from certain death. Thus, she sets off a whirlwind of colliding cultures that brings out the worst and best in the cast of unforgettable characters and pushes the love between Farwell and Crow Mary to the breaking point. From &“a tremendously gifted storyteller&” (Jim Fergus, author of The Vengeance of Mothers), Crow Mary is a &“tender, compelling, and profoundly educational and satisfying read&” (Sadeqa Johnson, author of The Yellow Wife) that sweeps across decades, showcasing the beauty of the natural world, while at the same time probing the intimacies of a marriage and one woman&’s heart.Mrs. Gulliver: A Novel
Par Valerie Martin. 2024
From the prize-winning and beloved author Valerie Martin (Mary Reilly, Property, Italian Fever) comes a surprisingly inventive tale of female…
subversion and agency in a patriarchal world, with two brilliantly crafted protagonists to root for.It&’s 1954 on far-flung Verona Island, a tropical paradise with a fragile economy and a rising crime rate. Prostitution is legal and Lila Gulliver is proud of her business, a high-end brothel where her clients are guaranteed privacy and discretion. When Carità Bercy, a young, destitute, and beautiful blind woman arrives at her door seeking employment, Lila decides to give her a chance.Carità proves a valuable asset to the house, as well as a psychological puzzle to her employer. One hot night, Ian Drohan, a handsome youth and the scion of the wealthiest family on the island, visits Lila&’s house and falls madly in love with Carità. Lila doubts his sincerity and fears for Carità &‘s future.Carità has no such fears. In fact, Carità is a reckless force of nature, determined to succeed in ways Lila hasn&’t even contemplated. Spirits of the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, as well as the devilish denizens of the magical island in The Tempest, haunt this steamy tale of passionate love, found and lost, and found again.Ours: A Novel
Par Phillip B. Williams. 2024
Chosen as a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Oprah&’s Book Club, Elle, Reader's Digest, The Rumpus, Kirkus Reviews, The Millions,…
Lit Hub, and more&“Fans of The Underground Railroad, The Water Dancer, and Let Us Descend will devour this lyrical and surreal saga.&” —Oprah DailyFrom a writer of singular voice and vision, a mesmerizing epic that reimagines the past to explore the true nature of freedomIn this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjuror who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there. She brings those she has freed to a haven of her own creation: a town just north of St. Louis, magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours.It is in this miraculous place that Saint&’s grand experiment—a truly secluded community where her people may flourish—takes root. But although Saint does her best to protect the inhabitants of Ours, over time, her conjuring and memories begin to betray her, leaving the town vulnerable to intrusions by newcomers with powers of their own. As the cracks in Saint&’s creation are exposed, some begin to wonder whether the community&’s safety might be yet another form of bondage.Set over the course of four decades and steeped in a rich tradition of American literature informed by Black surrealism, mythology, and spirituality, Ours is a stunning exploration of the possibilities and limitations of love and freedom by a writer of capacious vision and talent.Moonrise Over New Jessup: A Novel
Par Jamila Minnicks. 2023
"With compelling characters and a heart-pounding plot, Jamila Minnicks pulled me into pages of history I&’d never turned before."―Barbara Kingsolver, New…
York Times bestselling author of Demon CopperheadWinner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, an enchanting and thought-provoking debut novel about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves on Alabama soil during the Civil Rights Movement. It&’s 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into all-Black New Jessup, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. Instead, they seek to maintain, and fortify, the community they cherish on their &“side of the woods.&” In this place, Alice falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup&’s longstanding status quo and could lead to the young couple&’s expulsion—or worse—from the home they both hold dear. As they marry and raise children together, Alice must find a way to balance her undying support for his underground work with her desire to protect New Jessup from the rising pressure of upheaval from inside, and outside, their side of town. Based on the history of the many Black towns and settlements established across the country, Jamila Minnicks's heartfelt and riveting debut is both a celebration of Black joy and a timely examination of the opposing viewpoints that attended desegregation in America. Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel PrizeSerpent Box: A Novel
Par Vincent Louis Carrella. 2008
In the deep mountains of Appalachia, the Flints of Leatherwood, Tennessee, spread the word of the gospels by handling deadly…
serpents and drinking lye in front of large gatherings of the faithful. Believing his ten-year-old son Jacob—called Toad or Spud—to be a prophet, Charles, the patriarch, takes the boy down a long and arduous path as they travel the back roads of the postwar Deep South in search of God and plumb the depths of their unorthodox brand of faith. But sudden, shocking tragedy will shatter Charles's cherished dream of building a ministry and a permanent church—and set young Jacob on a dramatically different course.The Long Song: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (Nhb Modern Plays Ser.)
Par Andrea Levy. 2010
Now a major BBC TV drama, starring Tamara Lawrance, Lenny Henry and Hayley Atwell.A Sunday Times bestseller (2011), shortlisted for…
the Man Booker Prize, The Long Song by Andrea Levy is a hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable novel of the last days of slavery in Jamaica, for those who loved Homegoing, The Underground Railroad, or the film 12 Years a Slave.'A marvel of luminous storytelling' Financial TimesYou do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed.July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831, and she was present when slavery was declared no more. My son says I must convey how the story tells also of July's mama Kitty, of the negroes that worked the plantation land, of Caroline Mortimer the white woman who owned the plantation and many more persons besides - far too many for me to list here. But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse.Perhaps, my son suggests, I might write that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it. All this he wishes me to pen so the reader can decide if this is a novel they might care to consider. Cha, I tell my son, what fuss-fuss. Come, let them just read it for themselves.