Showing results for "Belle" in World Literature

Un destin exceptionnel. New York, dans les années 1900. Une jeune fille, que passionnent les livres rares, se joue du destin et gravit tous les échelons. Elle devient la directrice de la fabuleuse bibliothèque du magnat J.P. Morgan et la coqueluche de l'aristocratie internationale, sous le faux nom de Belle da Costa Greene. Belle Greene pour les intimes. En vérité, elle triche sur tout.

'A gripping story of family betrayal, full of passion and anger … moving and memorable' Rose Tremain ‘Harrowing, poignant and ambitious … a definite for book clubs’ Nina Bhadreshwar What will it take to uncover her past? A lost child. When Mivvi is young, her mother Belle is a puzzle...

The year is 1920, prohibition is in full swing, women are clamoring for the vote, and a narrow-minded intolerance is on the rise. Life isn't easy for an unmarried woman, not in a little town like Gentry, Louisiana, especially after she's sent to jail for swimming in an indecent bathing costume...

Most people think the reason Prudy Millings married the best-looking preacher in the Carolinas—who inexplicably turned psychotic and mowed her down with the church van—is that she was raised all wrong. So not true. Prudy's reclamation of her life begins two years after the crime spree that nearly stopped her heart. She packs up her two precocious children and settles in her parents' South Carolina hometown where she deals with a delightful Proverbs-spewing mama who pretends her grown daughters are virgins.

Jerica and Jesse settle into Summerleigh and count themselves lucky to start their family in the beautiful old home. With the renovations nearly complete, Jerica uncovers Loxley Belle's name carved into a wooden desk in a forgotten shack near the old home. Along with the discovery comes the feeling that the last Belle girl needs her help. Jerica and Jesse do their best to piece together the past and find that the youngest Belle had secrets of her own.

Alger, 1955. Chez les Chouraqui, on fête dans l'allégresse la naissance du petit Albert. Autour du berceau, on écoute du jazz, on admire les robes des demoiselles, on parle football et mariage... La vie, quoi. La guerre vient de commencer. Une guerre qui ne dit pas encore son nom. Sept années plus tard, les rêves seront balayés. Tout ce petit monde se verra contraint de s'inventer un avenir. Ailleurs.

"Grace Helena Walz has taken her place among such treasured Southern novelists as Dorothea Benton and Anne Rivers Siddons." --Mary Kay Andrews, NYT bestselling author "This is a positively charming debut from a stand-out new voice. Add it to your TBR list immediately!" --Kristy Woodson Harvey...

Sweet Home Alabama?meets?Emily in Paris?in this hilarious romp through the world of extravagant southern weddings. Ringless, jobless, and hopeless, Lottie Jones commits to doing the only thing she truly studied in school: wedding planning. When floundering and unlucky-in-love twenty-something...

""Tasty. . . . [Andrews is] the queen of sass, and revenge is her favorite ingredient.” — Daytona Beach News-Journal Battling TV chefs find themselves competing for a coveted weekly time slot on national television in Mary Kay Andrews’s delightful and hilarious New York Times bestseller...

Un vasto cimitero sul mare. Migliaia di tronchi d'albero, neri e spogli come lapidi, su cui si posa una neve rada. Da anni questo sogno perseguita la protagonista Gyeongha che, dopo una serie di dolorose separazioni, si è rinchiusa in un volontario isolamento. Sarà il messaggio inatteso di un'amica a strapparla alla sua vita solitaria: quando Inseon, bloccata in un letto d'ospedale, la prega di recarsi sull'isola di Jeju per dare da bere al suo pappagallino e Gyeongha si affretta a prendere il primo aereo.

In una Seoul rovente e febbrile, una donna cerca di recuperare la parola che ha perso in seguito a una serie di traumi. Nell'aula semideserta di un'accademia privata incontra lo sguardo dell'insegnante di greco, che sta perdendo la vista. Tra di loro nasce un'intimità intessuta di penombra e di perdita, grazie alla quale la donna riuscirà forse a ritornare in contatto con il mondo.

Neste conto, publicado pela primeira vez em 1894, Manna Loulou conta a história de Zoraide, uma mulher escravizada criada como afilhada da sua senhora.