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In early twentieth-century Sicily, noblewoman Mimi Inglese, a talented painter, dreams of escaping the rigid expectations of her class by gaining admission to the Palermo Art Academy. But when she contracts tuberculosis, her ambitions are shattered. With the Sicilian nobility in decline, she and her family leave for New York City in search of a fresh start.

In early twentieth century Japan, women have few rights. Yet one precocious poet—a brooding daughter, locked in her room at night by protective parents—runs away from home to live a life of her choosing. She falls in love with a fellow poet and follows him across Siberia to Paris, where they...

Experience the myth and magic of antiquity's most alluring—and provocative—goddess as never witnessed before, in this gorgeously rendered, unflinching, and deeply vulnerable retelling from the author of Mother of Rome and Medusa's Sisters. Two hundred years before the common era, Aphrodite...

Roman majeur du XIXe siècle, ces mémoires d’une institutrice donnent la parole à Jane Eyre, narratrice lucide et ardente. De ses premières années à sa vie d’institutrice, elle raconte son chemin vers l’indépendance, entre rigueur morale et élans du cœur.

Eine Bestsellerautorin in der jungen Bundesrepublik. Eine Ehe voller Respekt und Humor. Und das Ringen um Anerkennung einer Frau in männderdominierten Zeiten. »Liebe. Im Leben geht es um die Liebe zu dem Menschen, neben dem man aufwachen möchte. Beim Schreiben geht es darum, auch mal was...

Yuki Ibuki erzählt eine wunderbar warmherzige Geschichte über eine junge Frau, die erst loslassen muss und aufbricht, um schließlich an dem Ort, wo die Wurzeln ihrer Familie liegen, zu heilen. Seit Mio gehänselt wird, geht die Teenagerin nicht mehr zur Schule. Stattdessen zieht sie sich in...

Beauty journalist, and 40-something year old woman, Erica Pells, is tired of feeling invisible and disappearing behind her nematode wrinkles. She’s over the ‘pro-ageing’ articles she is exclusively asked to write (apart from the punny headlines that no one appreciates.) Frankly, she's over most things; getting older, heavy contouring, boring old Wiltshire and her exasperating Mum (who clearly prefers her prodigal brother, Simon).

Brought to you by Penguin. A young fugitive is drawn into a group of revolutionaries in this absorbing novel from the author of Flashlight On the run after an act of violence against the American government, twenty-five-year-old Jenny Shimada is drawn into caring for three younger fugitives. One...

E così feci quello che non avrei mai pensato di fare. Soli in mezzo a una distesa di lavanda, nei pressi del vecchio mulino, tolsi il berretto e sciolsi i capelli da quella morsa nella quale li costringevo. Col suo viso magro e aguzzo, mi guardò un attimo e mi sorrise con stupore misto a sorpresa.

Några år efter att Linnéas man gått bort börjar livet långsamt ta form igen. När skolan anställer en ny sträng rektor, mitt i terminen, väcks oron på nytt. Linnéa och Johan blir genast osams om Melkers skolgång. Men när det kraschar för allt fler elever behöver de hjälpas åt för att hitta en lösning. I takt med att deras engagemang växer gör även känslorna det.

Paru en 1863, ce roman parmi les plus audacieux de George Sand embrase la scène des idées et des mœurs. Au centre, une jeune femme — Mademoiselle La Quintinie — aux prises avec les certitudes de son siècle, voit sa conscience mise à l’épreuve par des dogmes impérieux et des attentes sociales implacables.

À l'aube, Crachotte quitte discrètement le bateau familial pour une mystérieuse escapade en barque. Du haut de son mât, Max, l'ancêtre des Neuveure, l'aperçoit et, intrigué, se tait. Le lendemain, l'adolescente repart; cette fois, il la suit à bonne distance, nage près de deux kilomètres et la voit s'arrêter entre deux rochers avant d'entrer dans une grotte.

Lovers of classical fiction will enjoy viewing life through the lens of Jane Ward as she grapples with the meaning of love in this 1931 Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Generational pressures are on full display over the course of four decades, as we see her struggle with her upbringing by Victorian parents, yet strain to understand her own children’s life choices, as the Roaring 20’s boasts dramatic changes in societal norms.

Rennix has spent most of his life playing game after game until he just wanted solitude. Then out of nowhere, he's blinded by siblings he never knew existed, and a woman who refuses to give him the time of day. Gentleman's club owner by night, and a human craving something else by day. He and his twin, Reminisce, are far from home, in a new city with new rules. A change he didn't see coming is on the horizon, because for once, he realizes that what he thought he wanted, he didn't.

She can fix everyone's problems—except her own. Connie is great at giving advice. But she's terrible at taking it. Stuck in a dead-end job, living in a shabby house-share, and dating a man she doesn't really love anymore, her life is falling apart. But when she helps out her best friend, then...

Former investigator, Thomas Ravnsholdt—known as Ravn—drifts like wreckage along Copenhagen's harbour, numbed by cheap liquor and old wounds. But his peace is shattered when a desperate young woman shows up, pleading for help: her brother has vanished after stealing millions. The trail leads Ravn from the windy docks of Copenhagen to Berlin, where ghosts of the Cold War still linger: Stasi files, double agents, and brutality that never truly came to an end. Ravn soon realises that the missing is not merely lost, but ensnared in a deadly web.

When a body is discovered at an abandoned Suffolk farm, DS Rob Minshull and the squad believe it's the latest casualty of the drugs war terrorising rural communities. But when the victim is identified as a well-respected local teacher, the case is thrown wide open. While they hunt the murderer, the South Suffolk CID team face a new threat. A brutal vigilante group dispensing its own twisted justice puts the investigation in grave danger, as well as the detectives.

Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter verliert die Schauspielerin Nina ihre Stimme. Das Schweigen ihrer Mutter schnürt ihr die Luft ab. Zu viele Fragen sind noch offengeblieben: Was hat Irma so erschüttert, dass sie der ältesten Tochter nie die ersehnte Wärme geben konnte? Was geschah damals, in jenem...

* ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2025 * In 2008, Desiree, January, Monique and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood and of big city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they are finding their way through the...

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