Risultati per "Trudy" in Letteratura e narrativa

Quando Nora Seed fa il suo ingresso nella Biblioteca di mezzanotte, le viene offerta l’occasione di rimediare agli errori commessi. Come sarebbe andata la sua vita se avesse preso decisioni diverse? I libri sugli scaffali della Biblioteca di mezzanotte hanno il potere di mostrarglielo, proiettando Nora in una versione alternativa della realtà. Ma le cose non vanno sempre secondo i piani e prima che scada il tempo, Nora deve trovare una risposta alla domanda di tutte le domande: come si può vivere al meglio la propria vita?

Celeste e Nadir non sono fratelli, non sono nemmeno parenti, non hanno una goccia di sangue in comune, eppure sono i due punti estremi di un'equazione che li lega indissolubilmente. A tenerli uniti è Pietro, fratello dell'una da parte di padre e dell'altro da parte di madre. Pietro, più grande di loro di quasi dieci anni, si divide tra le due famiglie ed entrambi i fratellini stravedono per lui. Celeste è con lui quando cade per la prima volta e, con un innocuo saltello dallo scivolo, si frattura un piede. Pochi mesi dopo è la volta di due dita, e poi di un polso.

Bruno Manera e Federica Pesenti sembrano una coppia felice. Lui è un ricco cinquantenne, lei di anni ne ha trentacinque ed è l'erede di una dinastia di imprenditori della "valle", operoso distretto del Settentrione dove dominano i maggiorenti, l'élite dei capitani d'industria che ha costruito l'ordine del duro lavoro per tanti, del profitto per pochi e delle menzogne per tutti. Su insistenza di Federica, Bruno accetta di trasferirsi in paese, varcando la frontiera invisibile della provincia profonda.

Tras la muerte de su madre, Mina se ve forzada a regresar a su natal Colombia y a enfrentar la vida que había dejado atrás. En este intrincado viaje al pasado, la protagonista cuestiona su identidad y las decisiones que la llevaron a migrar a México, lejos de la comodidad de su hogar y del...

An ancient evil awakens in the Southern Ocean, inspiring madness in all who sense its coming. The stars are right again in this audio adaptation of the classic story by H. P. Lovecraft that has inspired millions through literature, games, movies, comics, and the horror of their own imaginations. That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.

When a devastating fire sweeps through St. John's, Newfoundland, in the summer of 1892, nineteen-year-old Lily Hunt hopes it's the beginning of a new life that will transform her from a dutiful daughter to a crusader, a suffragist, and a woman in love. Twenty years later, Lily's daughter Grace is deeply immersed in campaigning for women to have the vote. When Grace learns of her mother's involvement in the suffrage cause, the Lily she discovers bears little resemblance to the mother who raised her.

For decades, the Holloways have operated a convenience store in the working-class neighborhood of Rabbittown in St. John's, and every customer has a story. In a vibrant, contemporary family saga, filled with idiosyncratic characters, Trudy Morgan-Cole tells the tale of three generations of Holloway women - Ellen, Audrey, and Rachel - their loves and their livelihood in times of great change.

Impetuous Lady Martha and her sister, Lady Julia, are shy country girls, come to London to be presented to Society by their Aunt Maybelle, the Duchess - and, if the Duchess has her way, to marry well. However, the plain-spoken sisters are ill-prepared to cope with the circumspectly courteous demands of city life and High Society. Will Lady Martha survive her encounter with Lord Peter Thornham with her reputation intact, or will his rakish reputation soil another family's good name?

Olivia Coulson is pretty and determined enough to attract any man's eye. George Chilton-Brookes, heir to the Cropton estate, is visibly enchanted by her, while handsome gentleman farmer Kit Fernley is also drawn to her looks and vivacity. Olivia wavers between her two suitors, eventually inclining towards the wealth and social position that marriage to George will bring - only to find that he has turned his attention elsewhere. So she marries Kit: handsome, attentive, loving... and in her eyes, second best. Unable to forgive her George, Olivia sets out to make him pay....

In the halcyon days of the 1930s Sebastian Kilbride, a screen idol, and Nick Kennedy, his accountant and financial adviser are close friends, enjoying an almost idyllic lifestyle. The lives of their wives and families are intertwined. Tessa Kilbride, in contrast to her glamorous husband, is scatterbrained, warm-hearted and a homebody; Sally, Nick's efficient, well-groomed wife, is conversely a woman frustrated by domesticity.

Recently widowed, Katherine Chambers is taking her young son to visit her husband's family when disaster strikes. The ship they are sailing on runs into a severe storm off Robin Hood's Bay on the Yorkshire Coast. The Whitby lifeboat goes to their rescue but the freak weather conditions mean that not only is the ship lost but the lifeboat crew as well. However, among the bodies on the beach, a survivor is found.

It is 1802, and when her beloved father dies, Lucy Mitchell's curiosity is fired by his last words: 'the de Northbys owe you'. Who are the de Northbys, and why do they 'owe' the Mitchells? Her mother says he was too sick and confused to make sense, but Lucy undertakes some investigations of her own.