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1101) Uma estranha em casa
Author
Publisher
Record
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Karen and Tom Krupp are happy--they've got a lovely home in upstate New York, they're practically newlyweds, and they have no kids to interrupt their comfortable life together. But one day Tom returns home to find Karen has vanished--her car is gone and it seems she left in a rush. She even left her purse--complete with phone and ID--behind. There's a knock on the door. The police are there to take Tom to the hospital. His wife has had a car accident,...
1102) Cita en Samarra
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Cita en Samarra, una de las grandes novelas de la vida de un pequeño pueblo estadounidense, es el mayor logro de John O'Hara. En diciembre de 1930, justo antes de Navidad, el circuito social de Gibbsville, Pensilvania, se electrifica con fiestas y bailes. En el centro de la élite social se encuentran Julian y Caroline English. Pero en un momento precipitado nacido dentro de un vaso alto, Julian rompe con la sociedad educada y comienza un rápido...
1103) Odin denʹ
Author
Language
Russian
Description
"The episodic story takes place during a single day each year for two decades in the lives of Dex and Em. Dexter, the louche public school boy, and Emma, the brainy Yorkshire lass, meet the day they graduate from university in 1988 and run circles around one another for the next 20 years. Dex becomes a TV presenter whose life of sex, booze, and drugs spins out of control, while Em dully slogs her way through awful jobs before becoming the author of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.
"One of the finest novels ever written, 'Jane Eyre' is also one of the most misunderstood masterpieces of world literature. Whereas most modern teaching of the text misreads or misinterprets Charlotte Brontë's devout and profoundly ingrained Christian faith and intentions,...
1105) Le secret du mari
Author
Series
Livre de poche) volume 34095
Publisher
Albin Michel
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
"Jamais Cecilia n'aurait dû trouver cette lettre dans le grenier. Sur l'enveloppe jaunie, quelques mots de la main de son mari : « À n'ouvrir qu'après ma mort. » Quelle décision prendre ? Respecter le vœu de John-Paul, qui est bien vivant ? Ou céder à la curiosité au risque de voir basculer sa vie ? Tous les maris - et toutes les femmes - ont leurs secrets. Certains peuvent être dévastateurs. Best-seller aux États-Unis, ce roman, intense,...
1106) Four novels of the 1930s
Author
Series
Library of America volume 313
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Already a frequent contributor of well-crafted stories to The New Yorker when he turned to the larger canvas of the novel, John O'Hara wrote with unusual acuity about the power of status and class in American life. His reputation as a novelist rests largely on four extraordinary books published from 1934 to 1940. These early novels, like those of his contemporaries Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, dramatize the longings and dashed hopes of...
1107) Tudo é Rio
Author
Publisher
Porto Editora
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
"Lucy é a prostituta mais concorrida da cidade. Dalva, por contraste, é de origem familiar e muito tradicional, mulher de Venâncio, senhor de uns ciúmes doentios. Lucy e o casal, Dalva e Venâncio, protagonizam um triângulo amoroso que se afasta dos lugares-comuns dos romances e nos faz questionar, sob formas surpreendentemente originais, quais os verdadeiros limites do perdão, até onde pode ir a intensidade de um amor, de que valores se reveste...
1108) Farforovai︠a︡ zhiznʹ
Author
Series
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo Ė
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Russian
Description
"Tina had everything: an attractive husband-businessman, a luxurious home, prosperity and, most importantly, the opportunity to travel. But life seemed empty to her, and only on trips she felt really alive, as if an unknown force was driving her away from home ... once, when Tina returned at the wrong time, everything collapsed: she found her husband with his mistress; both of them were dead! Then everything got worse and worse: it turned out that...
1109) La pareja de al lado
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
"La vecina nos ha invitado a una pequeña fiesta en su casa pero prefiere que mi hija de seis meses no vaya. Nada personal, es solo que no soporta la idea de que llore. Y mi marido está de acuerdo. Después de todo, dice, es la casa de al lado. El plan que me propone es que nos llevemos el monitor infantil y nos turnemos para ir a verla cada media hora. La niña duerme la última vez que voy a verla. Pero ahora la casa me parece excesivamente tranquila,...
1110) Sredi volkov
Author
Series
Publisher
Ėksmo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Russian
Description
Sophia Claire thought she had hit the jackpot in her life. She had everything: a beautiful house, money... And, most importantly, a smart and attractive husband Robert, the CEO of a large pharmaceutical company. But a visit from the police shattered her rose-colored glasses. The town is rocked by a series of murders of young women who have something in common. They were all Robert's mistresses. Now Sophia is forced to reconsider her views on marriage...
1111) Non chiedere perché
Author
Publisher
BUR
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Italiano
Description
"Serve un pizzico di follia per inseguire, nella vita, quello che a tutti appare un sogno irragionevole. Questa storia si sviluppa a Sarajevo, in piena guerra fratricida della ex Jugoslavia, nell'estate del 1992, quando i cecchini sono appostati dietro ogni persiana, le granate dilaniano interi quartieri, persino arrampicarsi su un albero può essere letale: c'è chi muore perché non ha saputo resistere alla tentazione delle ciliegie. Con la ferita...
1112) Tanto cielo per niente
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
agosto 2018.
Language
Italiano
Description
"È notte e le onde lente del mare luccicano in mille riflessi negli occhi di Stella. La donna è affacciata a una terrazza protesa sull'Egeo, non riesce a prendere sonno da ore. Una miriade di stelle e la magia di una sera d'estate di molti anni prima le tormentano la memoria. Un'estate in cui aveva tutta la vita davanti e un futuro che brillava come il suo nome. E che le ha lasciato un segreto inconfessabile chiuso nel cuore. Adesso si sente spersa...
1113) La verità e altre bugie
Author
Series
Publisher
Marsilio
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Italiano
Description
"Scrittore di bestseller di fama internazionale, Henry Hayden vive appartato in una splendida villa sul mare. Le donne lo adorano e la vita gli sorride. La sua esistenza così perfetta rischia però di incrinarsi il giorno in cui la sua giovane amante, nonché editor, gli rivela di essere incinta. Un imprevisto che, insieme alla serenità coniugale, rischia di costargli la carriera: ma davvero raccontare tutto alla moglie è l'unica possibilità che...
Author
Series
Notebook volume 1, 2
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's. It's the story of their teenage romance, followed by years of separation because he was from the wrong class, followed by her decision, on his return from World War II, to be her own woman and marry him. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned...
1115) Su último día
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
La nueva novela de suspenso nacional del autor más vendido del New York Times de The Couple Next Door y Someone We Know In Upstate New York, Stephanie y Patrick se están adaptando a la vida con sus bebés gemelos con cólicos. Las niñas son un puñado, pero a Stephanie no le importa ser una ama de casa, cuidándolas mientras Patrick hace de nueve a cinco para pagar las cuentas. Cuando una mujer del pasado de Patrick se les acerca inesperadamente,...
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