Risultati per "Long Island" in Narrativa di genere

Nella casa di Eilis Lacey, a Long Island, suona il campanello. Alla porta c'è uno sconosciuto, irlandese come lei, che viene a portarle una notizia sconvolgente. La vita di Eilis negli ultimi vent'anni è scorsa piuttosto tranquillamente: i due figli ora adolescenti, Larry e Rosella, il marito idraulico Tony, e nelle casette adiacenti due dei suoi cognati, Enzo e Mauro, con le rispettive famiglie, oltre alla torreggiante suocera Francesca. Una tipica famiglia italo-americana degli anni Settanta, che lavora, mangia, dorme, decide, vive insieme, molto presente e disponibile ma almeno altrettanto voluminosa e invadente.

Ricco, vecchio e solitario nel suo esilio in Madagascar, Long John Silver rimugina sul passato. C'è una taglia sulla sua testa ma il pensiero della forca lo preoccupa meno di un'oscura posterità. Nel poco tempo che gli resta, il tremendo pirata dell'isola del tesoro racconta la sua versione della storia, tracciando un poderoso affresco della pirateria con tanto di arrembaggi, estenuanti bonacce, giri di chiglia e feroci capitani.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice New York Magazine’s Beach Read Book Club...

The illegitimate daughter of an English lord, Sian Jones abandoned her heritage to live in a stalwart coal-mining community in South Wales. Empowered by their cause, she's engaged to be married to the leader of a revolutionary movement that is bracing itself against the tyranny of English mine owners. But Sian's principles are unexpectedly shaken when she accepts a job as governess under Alexander Hyatt, the mysterious marquess of Craille, the oppressive symbol of everything she has come to resist.

It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans - Ben, Addie and their two children - are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington, DC to suburban Long Island. Benny was a successful lawyer in the Department of Justice, but all that has come tumbling down. With the McCarthy era of paranoia, persecution, and propaganda at its height, his past has come back to haunt him, forcing him to pack up his family and leave the capital behind.

* OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, WASHINGTON POST, VULTURE, GLAMOUR, FRESH AIR, NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TIMES (London), THE IRISH TIMES, THE NEW STATESMAN...

Lucas Baird never got much of a break when he was a child, but by his early 20s, his good looks and easy manner allow him to skate through life without having to put in much effort. On the cusp of manhood in years yet still a boy, what Anthony Trollope called a hobbledehoy, charming Luke has enjoyed his extended adolescence of drinking and small-time cons.

Eleven-year-old actor Eden Giuliano presents a brand new line of exciting children’s stories from Icon! The classic Treasure Island is an exciting adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a wonderful tale of buccaneers and buried gold. We know you will enjoy this very special series from Icon Audio Arts hosted by young Eden Giuliano!

“A thrilling escape.” —Marie Claire (UK) “An elegant, sinister, beautiful nightmare.” —Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colours of the Dark Long Bright River meets Lost in this adrenaline-fueled thriller of a missing plane, a remote island, and two sisters torn apart when a vacation...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers comes a soul-searching story about a young woman struggling to redefine herself and the power of love, family, and fate. Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an...

2014 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year, Literary Fiction, and Solo Narration—Female! Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín's provocative, haunting, and indelible portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that...

A witty, spectacular, and timely tale of modern-day witches waging war on the patriarchy, from fan favorite Kirsten Miller, the author of The Change and Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books. There are places on earth where nature’s powers gather. Girls raised there are bequeathed...

National Bestseller A #ReadWithJenna book club pick following an Irish American family with three adult sisters returning home to Long Island to face tension-filled dinners, ghosts from their pasts, and family secrets in a gripping novel full of biting wit and profound heart. It’s been years...

As the New York Times has said, “Few writers can manipulate a plot with [Chris] Bohjalian’s grace and power.” Now he is back with an ambitious new novel that travels between Jay Gatsby’s Long Island and rural New England, between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century. When...

The New York Times Bestselling Author of After This and Charming Billy Elizabeth Connelly, editor at a New York vanity press, sells the dream of publication (admittedly, to writers of questionable talent). Stories of true emotional depth rarely cross her desk. But when a young writer named...

“A sharp-witted tragicomedy about money, morality, and a family teetering on the brink. A splendidly funny novel.” —Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street For readers of Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting and Jenny Jackson’s Pineapple Street, an irresistibly...

From the “great storyteller” (Natalie Jenner, author of The Jane Austen Society) Brooke Lea Foster, a captivating new novel set in 1965 and 1978 about a graduate student who returns with her sisters to their family’s summer home on Martha’s Vineyard and begins to unravel old family...

“Bursting with the magic of first love, it’s everything I want in a summer romance.” —Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of EVERY SUMMER AFTER Named a Best Book of Summer by Real Simple Reader’s Digest Country Living The Skimm BookBub GoodReads...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this “spellbinding” (Vogue), “smoldering” (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. “Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the...

“Utterly captivating. What a lovely summer novel!” —Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author “On Gin Lane encapsulates the very best of historical fiction.” —Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author After her fiancé whisks her off to the glistening shores of...