Showing results for "Sofia" in Genre Fiction

Within the pages of 96-year-old Doris’s red address book are the names of all those she has loved and lost, telling the story of a colourful life. Living alone in Stockholm, she is comforted by the weekly calls of her grand-niece Jenny, who is haunted by a painful childhood. Finally, Doris decides to put pen to paper, using her address book to recall the memories of a life well-lived – from 1930s Paris runways to narrow New York escapes during World War Two – and what she and Jenny discover may well change their lives forever....

Beck: On the final night of my band's sold-out world tour, my high life comes crashing down on me. Girlfriend. Band. Best friend. All of it. Blindsided, humiliated, pissed off, I take off and slam right into Violet. Years have gone by since we shared a life-changing conversation in the dark where an unexpected and fierce connection ignited between us. Now our high voltage attraction explodes. Between us, it's soul-searing and wild. And in an impressive twist of fate, she and I are connected in more ways than we know.

Luna è una ragazza solare che vive una vita piena in una cittadina di provincia. È cresciuta sola con suo padre dopo che sua madre Ines è stata portata via dalla malattia quando lei era piccola. È legata alla famiglia, agli amici, ama lo sport ed adora stare tra la gente. Vive seguendo le sue passioni, finché un'escalation di avvenimenti inaspettati ed incredibili sconvolge per sempre la sua esistenza spostando il suo punto di vista sull'amore, sulla vita e sulla fede. Tratto da una storia vera, questo audiolibro è stato narrato per dare forza e speranza alle persone.

Un'opera a due facce, da un lato in mondo sognante, romantico, solidale, dall'altro lato i tormenti e le contraddizioni di un mondo giovanile sempre più solo e disorientato.

From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him. As he grows up, Simonopio becomes a cause for wonder to the Morales family, because when the uncannily gifted child closes his eyes, he can see what no one else can - visions of all that’s yet to come, both beautiful and dangerous.

Un incontro casuale ha fatto nascere questo libro. Un’organizzazione segreta sullo sfondo, i pochi amici di contorno, una storia d’amore. Nel mondo succedono avvenimenti strani, avvenimenti che, tante volte, non riusciamo a spiegare. Ecco, forse leggendo questo racconto qualcosa alla fine sarà più chiaro.

La anodina vida de Sofía y Daniel cambia radicalmente cuando él recibe una carta anónima en la que se le dice que Sagrario, a la que venera, no es su verdadera madre y que si quiere conocer la verdad de su origen debe ir a París esa misma noche. Intrigado, pregunta a su padre por esta...

Tenochtitlan, 1551. Thirty years after the Spanish Conquest destroyed everything she loved, the last Aztec empress has passed and left behind a pristine yet tenuous legacy for her children. As her last will and testament is read out, her daughter Isabel suspects that another account of her mother’s life may exist, hidden away, chapter by chapter, in the Valley of Mexico. Following each clue, Isabel is determined to find out who her mother really was and to discover the secrets she buried in order to survive.

Sofia is an ordinary schoolgirl living in a future Singapore where the population is divided into three social strata. When she inadvertently unlocks the gateway to a new world, she realises she must escape the government's radar. She ventures into the lowest rung of society, the Voids, and...

We met at my older brother’s house and instantly I knew that he was trouble. He kissed me, right there in the bathroom without a care in the world. And from that moment on, I was his. We were young, brave and naïve when we met. Sneaking around and falling in love. Giuliano Ferrara was perfection. A beautiful, crazy mistake. With his big brown eyes and his boyish charm.

"Klinik 13" är en nervkittlande spänningsthriller som utspelar sig i sjukhusmiljö, där du följer Jennifer i hennes jakt på upprättelse genom svek, hopp och förälskelse. Med huvudet mot knäna och armarna hårt virade runt benen sitter Jennifer ensam i sitt rum. Samma rum som hon suttit inlåst i de senaste åtta åren. Tankarna snurrar... Gränsen mellan drömmar och verklighet suddas ut och efter ett livsavgörande val fattar Jennifer beslutet att rymma från den mardröm hon lever i.

When Elin receives a letter from her childhood friend Fredrik on the Swedish island of Gotland, memories come flooding back: of a past she has tried to forget and a terrible secret she has shared with nobody—a secret that made her flee the island and never return. Torn between past and present and afraid the truth will destroy her family, Elin sets out on a journey to another continent, but also to another time and another life. 

Sofia Khan is going about everything the wrong way. At least, that's what her mother, Mehnaz, thinks. Sofia is twice-divorced, homeless and—worst of all—refusing to give up on a fostered baby girl. Sofia's just not behaving like a normal woman should. Sofia doesn't see it like that. She's planning to adopt Millie, and she's sure it'll be worth it. (Even if it means she and Millie have to stay at Mehnaz's place for a while.) And as Sofia finally begins to live the life she's chosen, she finds both romance and happiness start to blossom.

Struggling to overcome her own troubled past, a female bond agent is plunged into the modern-day graffiti subculture, where she must confront a dangerous and unexpected destiny. By the author of Picture Me Rollin'.

This is the day my life changes forever. It started so normally. The alarm went at 7am. My husband made bacon and pancakes for me and our seven-year-old daughter, the kitchen full of chatter and laughter. He gave me a quick kiss, told me he loved me, grabbed his wallet, and rushed off to work. Just an ordinary day. Until I get the call from the school. It was Tom’s turn to pick up our daughter. He must be held up for some reason. I find Tom’s phone under our bed. Now I know there’s something seriously wrong. I scroll through his messages. A text sent late last night: I KNOW EVERYTHING.

Lanya flieht vor einer arrangierten Ehe nach Ybbs an der Donau. Sie verbringt einen Sommer mit allen Freiheiten am Fluss, wo sie Boris, dem Sohn ihrer Gastfamilie, sehr nahekommt. Um ihn vor der Anfeindung im Dorf zu schützen, macht sich Lanya mit ihm auf den Weg stromabwärts, nach Budapest und weiter zu der orientalischen Insel Ada Kaleh am Fuß der Karpaten und folgt so dem Strom der Geschichte und der Gefühle.

Inspired by true events, in Sofia Grant’s powerfully moving new novel a young woman peels back the layers of her family’s history, discovering a tragedy in the past that explains so much of the present. This unforgettable story is one of hope, healing, and the discovery of truth. Sometimes...

Vicken has a plan: throw himself into the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal and end it all for good, believing it to be the only way out for him after a lifetime of depression and pain. But, stepping off the subway, he finds himself in an endless, looping station. Determined to find a way out again, he starts to explore the rooms and corridors ahead of him. But no matter how many claustrophobic hallways or vast cathedral-esque rooms he passes through, the exit is nowhere in sight. The more he explores his strange new prison, the more he becomes convinced that he hasn't been trapped there

Das Leben eines Menschen enthält so viel Liebe, Leid und Glück. Wir müssen uns nur die Zeit nehmen zuzuhören. Doris wächst in einfachen Verhältnissen im Stockholm der 1920er Jahre auf. Als sie zehn Jahre alt wird, macht ihr Vater ihr ein besonderes Geschenk: ein rotes Adressbuch, in dem sie all die Menschen verewigen soll, die ihr etwas bedeuten. Jahrzehnte später hütet Doris das kleine Buch noch immer wie einen Schatz. Und eines Tages beschließt sie, anhand der Einträge ihre Geschichte niederzuschreiben.

hahaEine tiefe Schuld. Ein unerwarteter Brief. Und eine bewegende Reise in die Vergangenheit. Die schwedische Fotografin Elin Boals führt mit ihrer Familie ein scheinbar perfektes Leben in New York. Doch die Fassade ist trügerisch, denn Elin lebt in ihrer eigenen Welt, in die sie niemanden wirklich hineinlässt. Als sie völlig unerwartet einen Brief aus ihrer Heimat Gotland erhält, brechen die Erinnerungen mit Macht über sie herein - obwohl sie alles dafür getan hat, ihre Vergangenheit zu vergessen.