Risultati per "La cura" in Narrativa storica

«Non avevo mai pensato tanto in vita mia a cosa succedeva sotto la mia pelle.» Che quella allo specchio fosse un'immagine ingannevole, che sotto la pelle fossero in atto processi misteriosi e ineluttabili, Raffaella Romagnolo lo ha scoperto a ventisette anni. E ci sono voluti quasi tre decenni dalla diagnosi di sclerosi multipla perché decidesse di raccontare ciò che a lungo è rimasto chiuso in un faldone di cartoncino rosso, l'archivio personale della sua storia clinica.

Julius Hertzfeld, brillante professore di psichiatria presso l'università della California scopre di avere poco più di un anno di vita. Che fare quando la vita spensierata termina di colpo? Julius Hertzfeld non ha dubbi: continuerà a occuparsi dei suoi pazienti e a cercare di ridestare, nella terapia di gruppo, il sentimento della vita dentro di loro. Sa, anche, che non si sottrarrà all'ultima sfida rappresentata dal suo paziente più ostico.

Parigi, 1894. Mentre si immerge nelle intricate ricerche per la sua seconda laurea in Matematica, dopo aver conseguito quella in Fisica, Marie s'imbatte in Pierre, un animo affine in grado di decifrare la sua mente complessa. Tra loro nasce un connubio di intelletti straordinari, uniti dalla sete di conoscenza e dalla volontà di esplorare insieme gli enigmi dell'universo. Tuttavia, Marie fin da giovane si rivela essere una donna particolare: rifiuta il destino di moglie tradizionale, respingendo l'idea di confinarsi tra le mura domestiche.

«Rifiutarsi di amare per paura di soffrire è come rifiutarsi di vivere per paura di morire.» La vita di ciascuno di noi è stata attraversata dall’amore, con le sue luci e le sue ombre: i primi innamoramenti acerbi, le illusioni che fanno volare e poi cadere, le ferite che lasciano segni...

«Éste es un libro sobre la vida... apasionado y alegre, sentimental y burlón.» ROSA MONTERO Cuando Rosa Montero leyó el maravilloso diario que Marie Curie comenzó tras la muerte de su esposo, y que se incluye al final de este libro, sintió que la historia de esa mujer fascinante que se...

En los buenos tiempos, las chicas se casan por amor. En los malos, no siempre pueden elegir. En el Madrid recién salido de la guerra civil, sobrevivir es un duro oficio cotidiano. Especialmente para Manolita, una joven de dieciocho años que, con su padre y su madrastra encarcelados, y su...

When a young nurse dies on her watch, Florence Nightingale must uncover the deep-hidden secrets someone will kill to keep buried. It is 1853. Lady of the Lamp Florence Nightingale has just accepted the position of superintendent of the Establishment for Gentlewomen during Temporary Illness in London. She has hardly had time to learn the names of the nurses in her charge when she suddenly finds one of them hanging in the establishment's library. Her name was Nurse Bellamy.

Convention-flouting Nora Harris is a determined young medical student in Gilded Age Manhattan. A surgeon’s daughter, she always leads with her head—until her father’s latest protégé, Euan Colquhoun, steals her heart. Love and logic bind the newly betrothed couple together, but a tragic accident cuts their bright future short. Grief-stricken, Nora finds surprising comfort in corresponding with Euan’s older brother, Malcolm. She decides to forsake her ambitions to retreat to the Colquhoun family farm deep in the tangled woods of upstate New York.

In late summer of 1562, within a bedchamber at Whitehall Palace, Elizabeth Tudor prays for the recovery of the delirious, fever-racked friend who has served her for twenty-six of her twenty-nine years. Ten days later, with loyal, handsome Lord Robert Dudley by her side, the queen leads her retinue to London’s Royal College of Physicians to enlist two learned doctors in the raging battle against disease and pestilence.

What’s a good mystery story without a beautiful blonde to set things in motion? When the femme sharing a bench with Mallory in the Port City, Iowa, bus station is accosted by a scar-faced, one-eyed thug, the aspiring writer stops minding his own business and leaps into the fray with nothing but his fists and a well-aimed Pepsi bottle.

Mary Fawcett refines the healing recipes she’s inherited from generations of women before her—an uncanny and moral calling to empathize with the sick. When witchfinder Matthew Hopkins arrives in her small village, stoking the fires of hate, he sees not healing but the devil at work. Mary’s benevolent skills have now cast her and her young brother under suspicion of witchery. Soon, the husband of one of Mary’s patients is found murdered, his body carved with strange symbols.

Después de compartir toda una vida, el esposo de Bárbara muere. Ella, devastada por la situación, pierde el rumbo. A bordo de un crucero, decide abandonarlo todo, incluso a sí misma. Se despide de su familia, de su casa y de los recuerdos que alguna vez la hicieron feliz. ¿Cómo recuperar...

Curas ilustrados y con hijos, boticarios de pueblo, músicos, licenciados,notarios, pequeños comerciantes, administradores de correos, soldados que nunca habían hecho guerras, un arsenal de una docena de lanzas: una conspiración que parecía condenada al fracaso, repleta de indecisos y...

In Brooklyn in 1899, Dr. Noah Whitestone is called urgently to his wealthy neighbor's house to treat a five-year-old boy with a shocking set of symptoms. When the child dies suddenly later that night, Noah is accused by the boy's regular physician - the powerful and politically connected Dr. Arnold Frias - of prescribing a lethal dose of laudanum. To prove his innocence, Noah must investigate the murder - for it must be murder - and confront the man he is convinced is the real killer.

With Samis life on the line, Jace and his friends race to find a cure for the soul spore. Coming up short again and again, they turn to the last being who might be able to help them: Zurvan, god of infinite time and space. Yet his price is steep: represent him at an out-of-time tournament...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF CANADA READS 2026 FINALIST FOR THE 2026 KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-pushing love story but a Canadian...

Dr. Gabriella Mondini, a strong-willed, young Venetian woman, has followed her father in the path of medicine. She possesses a singleminded passion for the art of physick, even though, in 1590, the male-dominated establishment is reluctant to accept a woman doctor. So when her father disappears...

Cambridge University is in dire financial straits: the town's landlords are demanding an extortionate rent rise for the students' hostels, and the plague years have left the colleges with scant resources. Tension between town and gown is at boiling point and soon explodes into violence and death. Into this maelstrom comes a charismatic physician whose healing methods owe more to magic than medicine, but his success threatens Matthew Bartholomew's professional reputation - and his life....

A welcome return to Vianne Rocher and the village in rural France that was the setting for Joanne Harris's remarkable and much-loved number one bestseller Chocolat. Perfect for fans of Victoria Hislop, Fiona Valpy, Maggie O'Farrell and Rachel Joyce. 'Vianne - unconventional, good-hearted...

Ellen O'Casey, an Irish Catholic immigrant, is struggling to support her ailing mother, her teenage daughter and herself. Washing other people's laundry in the day, and singing in bawdy pubs at night, Ellen is determined to make a better life for her family by saving enough for the passage to New York where the rest of her extended family have already emigrated. But Danny Donovan, a local gangster and the landlord of the pubs where Ellen sings, intends to make her his mistress.