Showing results for "Nina" in Literature & Fiction

"The finest historical novel our 20th century has yet produced; indeed it dwarfs most of the fiction of any kind that Europe has produced in the last twenty years." -- Contemporary Movements in European Literature, edited by William Rose and J. Isaacs "As a novel it must be ranked with the...

Fifteen-year-old Nina and her family are struggling to hold things together in the wake of the accidental death of her brother several years earlier. Seeking refuge in art, Nina's mother has painted a series of nude portraits of her remaining child. As these haunting images go public, Nina is forced to deal with her burgeoning sexuality in front of a large and critical audience.

Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They're excited to meet her! She'll have to Speak. To. Strangers. And as if that wasn't enough, Tom, her trivia nemesis, has turned out to be cute, funny, and deeply interested in getting to know her. It's time for Nina to come out of her comfortable shell. 

Nina è una storia insolita di mafia, d’amore, di merda.Una storia triste intrisa di sangue e White Russian. Ma Nina non è solo una donna, è anche una pasticca. Una sostanza naturale che produce stati estremi di piacere.Presenta però due effetti collaterali. E uno di questi è la morte. Voce: Monica MantegazzaSoggetto, testi e montaggio: Masanumero10

When Emmanuelle Peroni’s father - and mayor of her town - asks her to help rehab Cooper Endicott’s image, she’s horrified. Cooper drives her crazy in every way possible. But he’s also her father’s protégé, and she can’t say no to him without him finding out the reason why: Cooper and her have a messy past. So Emmanuelle reluctantly launches her father’s grand plan to get this Casanova someone to settle down with and help him lose his Lothario reputation.

Lord Nathaniel Harte, the disagreeable duke of Beswick, spends his days smashing porcelain, antagonizing his servants, and snarling at anyone who gets too close. With a ruined face like his, it's hard to like much about the world - especially smart-mouthed harpies (with lips better suited to kissing than speaking) who brave his castle with indecent proposals. But Lady Astrid Everleigh will stop at nothing to see her younger sister safe from a notorious scoundrel, even if it means offering herself up on a silver platter to the forbidding Beast of Beswick himself.

When one Coast Guard officer is found dead and another goes missing, Coast Guard Investigative Service special agent Finn Walker faces his most dangerous crime yet. His only clues are what little evidence remains aboard the dead officer's boat, and the direction the clues point to will test Finn and the Guard to their limits. When investigative reporter - and Finn's boss's sister - Gabby Rowley arrives, her unrelenting questions complicate an already volatile situation. Now that she's back, the tug on Finn's heart is strong.

Jun Nakayama was a silent-film star in the early days of Hollywood. By 1964, he is living in complete obscurity, until a young writer, Nick Bellinger, tracks him down for an interview. When Bellinger reveals that he has written a screenplay with Nakayama in mind, Jun is intrigued by the possibility of returning to movies. But he begins to worry that someone might delve too deeply into the past and uncover the events that abruptly ended his career in 1922. Like the changing social and racial tides in California - and the unsolved murder of his favorite director.

‘Literally out-Christies Agatha’ - Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair reimagines the unexplained eleven-day disappearance of Agatha Christie that captivated the world. In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days. Only I know the truth of her...

After their ill-fated fling quashed her dreams, small-town chef Philippa Gayle’s onetime rival-turned-lover Dominic Crawford upended her life. But when Philippa’s forced together with the celebrity cook on a project that could change her life, there’s no denying that the flames that were lit years ago were only banked, not extinguished. Can Philippa trust Dominic enough to let him in … or are they just cooking up another heartbreak?

Brought to you by Penguin. Narrated by BAFTA winning actress Joanna Scanlan. From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force...

When Sara Foster runs away from home at 16, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that clings to her. Across the city, Emilie Dubois is in a holding pattern. In her seventh year and fifth major as an undergraduate, she yearns for the beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but is unable to commit.

Das Geheimnis kann dich zerstören - und alles, was du liebst. Nachdem Becca von ihrem Mann verlassen wurde, nimmt sie einen weiteren Job in einem Restaurant an, um über die Runden zu kommen. Während sie nachts arbeitet, sind ihre Kinder Rosie und Alex alleine zu Hause. Dann trifft Becca auf Maddy, der es noch viel schlechter geht. Maddy hat alles verloren und etwas so traumatisches erlebt, dass sie nicht darüber sprechen kann. Und Becca beschließt, Maddy zu helfen. Je mehr sie allerdings Maddy in ihr Leben lässt, desto mehr Unstimmigkeiten fallen ihr auf.

On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop - or, rather, a 'literary apothecary', for this bookseller possesses a rare gift for sensing which books will soothe the troubled souls of his customers. The only person he is unable to cure, it seems, is himself. He has nursed a broken heart ever since the night, twenty-one years ago, when the love of his life fled Paris, leaving behind a handwritten letter that he has never dared read.

Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family’s cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. What happened to Nina? Nobody knows. Simon’s explanation about what happened in their last hours together doesn’t add up. Nina’s parents push the police for answers, and Simon’s parents rush to protect him. They hire expensive lawyers and a PR firm that quickly ramps up a vicious, nothing-is-off-limits media campaign.

Seit die junge Künstlerin Ellie ihren Mann verloren hat, kann sie nichts anderes mehr malen als die unterschiedlichen Farben von Stille. Wirklich überraschend hingegen ist die Enthüllung, dass Phil kurz vor seinem Tod ein Cottage in Wales, Ellies Heimat, gekauft hatte. Ellies Leben und das zauberhafte Häuschen am Meer haben jedoch leider eins gemeinsam: Sie sind akut einsturzgefährdet. Und der einzig verfügbare Handwerker im Umkreis von 50 Meilen ist ausgerechnet der grimmige Liam, der Ellie mindestens genauso aufregt wie die Löcher in ihrem Dach.

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS POPULAR NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014 A laugh-out-loud true story of the trials and tribulations of being a live-in nanny in 1980s London and inspired a major TV series starring Helena Bonham Carter. ***** In 1982 Nina Stibbe, a 20-year-old from Leicester...

Après avoir échappé de justesse à une tentative d’assassinat, le journaliste John "Fox" Cattuso, du New Herald Post de Los Angeles, est envoyé par son rédacteur en chef en Italie pour faire un documentaire sur le Grand Jubilé du millénaire. Fox, accompagné de Nancy Shepard, jeune et belle stagiaire, s’intéresse particulièrement à l’étrange maladie de l’ingénieur Sorsi, responsable du système de surveillance du Vatican, et lui fait une visite à la clinique. Or, dès le lendemain, il apprend sa mort soi-disant causée par une embolie. Fox est loin d’être convaincu qu’on lui a dit la vérité.

Quince años después de la noche en la que desaparecí, llamo a la puerta de mi antiguo hogar. Y entonces mi amigo aparece muerto. Todos creen que fui yo. Pero no lo hice. No podría haberlo hecho. Porque no soy la persona que creen que soy… No tienen ni idea de lo que soy capaz, ni del verdadero motivo por el que regresé a este lugar. Ni de hasta dónde llegaré para proteger a mi hijo.

Dallas Phillips refuses to believe her father committed suicide, even though things were tough on his farm and he was deeply in debt. When she hears he'd told a neighbor about an upcoming windfall, she grows suspicious, and her suspicion only deepens when she realizes someone is lurking in the nearby mountains after dark. For help, she turns to Trey Jakes, local police chief - and her former lover. As they begin to investigate, another mystery comes to light.