Mostrando resultados por narrador "Elena" en Todas las categorías

Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty, playful, whip-smart essays traverse history, myth, science, and more, bringing each beast vibrantly to life.

The account of the translation of the Holy House from Nazaeth to Yugoslavia and finally to Loreto Italy in 1290 - 1294. It is in Loreto to this day.

Audrey Thomas è una trentenne newyorkese molto spiritosa e senza peli sulla lingua. È autrice di romanzi erotici e nella vita privata non è troppo incline ad abbandonarsi al romanticismo. Al grande amore preferisce il “divertiamoci qui e ora e poi domani ognuno a casa propria”. Ma la sua esistenza sta per essere sconvolta da una serie di novità: sua madre, con cui ha sempre pensato di condividere un certo femminismo intransigente, le annuncia che ha finalmente deciso di compiere il grande passo: si sposa.

If only I'd never signed that contract. Or accepted the one I didn't. My husband doesn't trust me. Not that I can blame him. But he needs me, needs my image. I need his connections. And I have to find a way to convince him to set aside our differences. There's one way that always works. Even when we hate each other, our bodies betray us. The one place we've never disagreed is in bed.

For her I risked it all, but was it worth her paying the price? She knows my secret. Now, what will she do to protect it and the crown? What will I be willing to do to protect her? That answer is easy . . . everything.

Was erzählen uns Handabdrücke auf frühen Höhlenmalereien über die Rolle der Frau bei der Jagd? Und die parfümierten Handschuhe der Katharina von Medici über Prostitution im 16. Jahrhundert? Was hat ein Mobiltelefon mit Femiziden zu tun? Oder Kim Kardashians Brillantring mit Elena Ferrante? Eine Kulturgeschichte der Frau erzählt entlang an 100 Objekten, gelesen von berühmten weiblichen Stimmen unserer Zeit. 100 bemerkenswerte Frauen aus dem öffentlichen Leben haben die Texte eingelesen, darunter Schriftstellerinnen und Künstlerinnen, Unternehmerinnen und Politikerinnen, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Aktivistinnen.

An epic, breathtaking story of self-discovery, love, and adventure from New York Times bestselling author Joshua Davis and his son Kal Kini-Davis, perfect for fans of Nina LaCour and John Green. Seventeen-year-old Mia is stranded in the middle of the Caribbean. After a mortifying incident in the...

Hazel ha sedici anni, ma ha già alle spalle un vero miracolo: grazie a un farmaco sperimentale, la malattia che anni prima le hanno diagnosticato è ora in regressione. Ha però anche imparato che i miracoli si pagano: mentre lei rimbalzava tra corse in ospedale e lunghe degenze, il mondo correva veloce, lasciandola indietro, sola e fuori sincrono rispetto alle sue coetanee, con una vita in frantumi in cui i pezzi non si incastrano più.

Clásica novela histórica escrita por Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda que narra un episodio en la historia de su familia. Doña Beatriz de Avellaneda, mujer del conde de Castro-Xeriz, se opone a la boda que el rey Juan II de Castilla ha dispuesto entre Dolores, la hija de Beatriz, y un bastardo: Rodrigo de Luna.

Elyse, Sebastian, and Kiana lives are thrown into chaos with the revelations and truths that they must face. Shifterkind will never be the same. The five thrones could all end now.

Overwhelm and burnout have become commonplace descriptions in our society. So many of us move from stressor to stressor, relying on coffee and alcohol to get us up in the morning and down in the evening. We buy our “rhythm” at the store and our bodies pay the price. So many of us are skating on the surface of our true nature, our natural rhythm. We “hold it together” in rigidity and inflexibility until we fall apart, forever the servant of the ego and mind at the expense of who we really are, and what it really means to be human.

I'm no knight in shining armor. My suit is tarnished. It was a mistake to lie to Neela, but I had no choice. Protecting her and her baby has become more than a job to me. It's personal. But she'll never trust me again now—and I can't blame her. Our relationship was a house of cards that came tumbling down when she discovered the truth. Luckily for me, she can't fire me. We're stuck together, at least for as long as the threat remains. And I plan to use every second to convince her we belong together.

"At once suspenseful and tender…a queer horror masterpiece." —Marisa Crane, author of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself In this chilling contemporary horror novel, a phony spiritualist returns to her hometown to assist in an investigation that eerily mirrors her sister’s death, forcing her...

Intorno alla metà del XX secolo, l'arte cambiò la sua direzione: abbandonò le sponde dell'arte colta figurativa in favore di un avvicinamento alla cultura popolare. Da questo avvicinamento nasce la "Pop Art", abbreviazione di "popular art", i cui esponenti e rappresentanti sono fotografi, pittori, musicisti, scultori, registi, personalità eccentriche. Sono tutti uomini e donne visionari dotati di un particolare senso artistico che molti non avrebbero esitato a definire "bizzarro".

Helping her aunt grow her floristry business has given a new purpose to Tracy’s life. She’s delighted to be introduced to a young entrepreneur who plans to open the trendiest restaurant in the Pacific Northwest. The addition of her lily arrangement transforms a dull-looking room into a swanky functional space that has everyone responding in awe and admiration. On the opening night of the restaurant, things take a sour turn when the jovial atmosphere is ruined by a rival restaurateur. Things go from bad to worse when the spouse of this rival is found dead.

Esilaranti e sulfurei, questi nove racconti aprono uno squarcio sulla vita americana, mettendone a nudo il sentimento di un'epoca. Con narrazione incendiaria, David Foster Wallace evoca personaggi storici come Lyndon Johnson, presentatori televisivi, yuppies, punk e proletari della provincia più depressa, indagando il drammatico gioco tra verità e finzione, "la materia di cui sono fatti i sogni collettivi." Uscita nel 1989, questa raccolta è considerata un classico della letteratura americana.

Darien Davenne is a man of honor. And when he comes across Thea Johnson, the woman recovering from a traumatic kidnapping, he promises to protect her. But who's going to protect her from him when everything in him longs to make her his mate?

Tre giorni dura il ritorno a Trieste di Alma, che dalla città è fuggita per rifarsi una vita lontano, e ora è tornata per raccogliere l’imprevista eredità di suo padre. Un uomo senza radici che odiava il culto del passato e i suoi lasciti, un padre pieno di fascino ma sfuggente, che andava e veniva al di là del confine, senza che si potesse sapere che lavoro facesse là nell’isola, all’ombra del maresciallo Tito "occhi di vipera". A Trieste Alma ritrova una mappa dimenticata della sua vita.

"Findus und das eigene Fahrrad": Findus sitzt beim Fahrradfahren sehr gerne vorne bei Pettersson auf der Lenkstange. Aber er will jetzt auch einmal ein eigenes Fahrrad haben. Und Pettersson baut ihm eins. Die ersten vorsichtigen Fahrversuche gelingen eigentlich schon ganz gut. Also fühlt sich Findus zu schwierigeren Herausforderungen berufen. Als Pettersson schläft, wagt er eine rasante Hügel-Abwärts-Tour. Was die Hühner in große Schwierigkeiten bringt.

In Pura Belpré Honor–winning author Adrianna Cuevas's new spooky middle grade novel. Frani must fight to stop the undead from rising in her father’s body-farm laboratory—that is, if she can embrace the true nature of her brain and its ADHD. No one has ever called Frani Gonzalez...