Showing results for "SARA" in Literary Fiction

"തമിഴ് ബ്രാഹ്മണരുടെ ജീവിത പശ്ചാത്തലത്തിൽ എഴുതപ്പെട്ട നാർമടിപ്പുടവ എന്ന ഹൃദയസ്പർശിയായ ഈ നോവൽ സാറാ ജോസഫ് എന്ന...

Seventeen-year-old Georgia has a secret - one that is isolating her from everyone she loves. She is desperate to tell her best friend, but Sophia is ignoring her, and she doesn’t know why. Before she can find out, Sophia is left fighting for her life after a hit-and-run, with Georgia a traumatized witness. As a school psychologist, Georgia’s mother Anya should be used to dealing with scared adolescents. However, it’s very different when the girl who needs help is your own child.

The year is 1883, and in New York City it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of antivice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin, Sophie - both graduates of the Woman's Medical School - treat the city's most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they've strived for in jeopardy.

En La rosa en el viento todos los personajes se desplazan, emprenden viajes que son a veces físicos y a veces emocionales, pero que en todos los casos los llevan lejos de quienes eran al principio.

Las Cartas a Ricardo, de Rosario Castellanos, constituyen un tesoro y un documento único en la literatura mexicana de la primera mitad del siglo XX. No sólo son la crónica amorosa de uno de los personajes más logrados de nuestra tradición escritos por sí misma, Rosario, sino el amuleto a través del cual podemos conocer los prejuicios de las instituciones que subordinaban los sentimientos a la luz de la razón. Aparecer en estas cartas es el triunfo sobre ese acto de desaparición que opera de forma particular en las mujeres.

1846. Glasgow is a city on the cusp of great social change, but behind the curtains, neighbours are watching, and rumours of improper behaviour spread like wildfire on the respectable Blythswood Square. When Charlotte Nicholl discovers that the fortune she has been bequeathed by her father is tied up in a secret collection of erotic art, she is faced with a terrible dilemma: sell it and risk shaming her family's good name or lose her home.

Las mujeres de Sara combina amor, intriga, humor, pasión y magia, un viaje solitario de una joven chica de provincia, que busca encontrar su lugar en la capital, en una búsqueda intensa de su yo interior. Un recorrido esperanzador pero repleto de dolor, pérdidas, injusticiasy penurias que van gestando su nueva vida, en una metamorfosis modelada por el aprendizaje que emerge de su propia experiencia.

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Ms. Magazine, The Root, Popsugar, Bustle, and many more! “An utterly absorbing and dazzling novel about the stories we tell to stay alive and the secrets we keep to protect ourselves.” — Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New York Times Bestselling author of The...

A hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin...

When Sara Hardy inherits a cottage in the small town of Redemption, Connecticut, it is just the break she needs to draw a line under her past - to begin again, on her own. Sara never thought she'd be starting over. She was married, successful, and the mother of a beautiful girl. But the life she thought was on the right path has taken a series of wrong turns...

Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues - gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest - visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences. But her routine is disrupted by the arrival of the local police chief, who insists on scattering the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger.

“Sara Shepard delivers the perfect read….A brilliant storyteller.” —Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of Very Valentine and Brava, Valentine “[Written] with unflinching honesty and unstinting compassion.” —Jacquelyn Mitchard, author The Deep End of the Ocean “This riveting...

Don't miss the TV miniseries premiering March 8, exclusively on BritBox! “A blistering historical thriller.” — Entertainment Weekly A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this breathtaking debut that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the...

זוכה פרס ספיר לספרות שנת 2007. בעיירת ספר מרוחקת חיים התושבים באימה מתמדת מפני האויב שמעבר לגבול. שש שנים לאחר מותו של אחד מיקירי תושביה- מלך הפלאפל המקומי- עדיין לא...

""I was totally immersed in the strange, beautiful world of Sara Flannery Murphy’s The Possessions. A gripping, chilling read that’s part love story, part mystery, and completely original, it’s sensuous, scary, and utterly thrilling. I’ve never read anything quite like it."" —Anton...

È una notte lunga e afosa all'Ospedale Papardo di Messina. Intorno alla mezzanotte un'ambulanza, con l'infermiera Nenzi di servizio, trasporta una donna in condizioni gravissime. Si chiama Sara. Investita da un'auto mentre tornava a casa con la sua Vespa, finisce in sala operatoria per un intervento lungo e delicato alla testa. Al di là della porta del reparto si forma un bivacco di amici e parenti. In quella sala d'attesa, che diventa un luogo dove la vita si sospende, ci sono il marito Ale, la madre Piera, le zie, le amiche-sorelle Lisa e Angela.

When Gabby’s husband accepts a transfer to Pakistan, she discovers a new world of heat and colour, of exotic bazaars and trips to the breathtaking Kashmiri mountains. It's an escape she didn’t know she was looking for. But then a shocking letter from her sister reveals a devastating secret. Gabby is transported back to her childhood home on the Cornish coast, and as memories unravel, so too does her new life in Karachi. Will Gabby find the courage to face the dark secrets and embrace a different future?

“Laugh out loud funny and poignant. I loved it!”—LORI FOSTER, New York Times bestselling author Johanna is not a thief—and she is definitely not sorry. In the back room at an elite gallery party, 40-something soccer mom Johanna Porter stands face to face with her younger self. The girl...

Deeply humane, in turn wry and humorous, the stories in this collection haunt readers with their searing honesty.Lalitha, abused by her own mother, learns that bullies carry emotional traumas that scar everyone’s lives.Shiva Das confronts the truth of his own culpability when his adult special...

Set in a Paris darkened by World War II, Sara Houghteling’s sweeping and sensuous debut novel tells the story of a son’s quest to recover his family’s lost masterpieces, looted by the Nazis during the occupation. Born to an art dealer and his pianist wife, Max Berenzon is forbidden from...