Titoli in Narrativa femminile

Nord de la Californie, fin des années 1960. Evie Boyd, quatorze ans, vit seule avec sa mère. Fille unique et mal dans sa peau, elle n'a que Connie, son amie d'enfance. Lorsqu'une dispute les sépare au début de l'été, Evie se tourne vers un groupe de filles dont la liberté, les tenues...

Les filles sont partout dans ce roman. Elles mènent la danse. De New York à Paris, de la Bourgogne à Londres ou à Miami. Des filles qui inventent, s’enflamment, aiment. Des filles qui se battent pour la vie. Et les hommes ? Ils sont là aussi. Mais ce sont les muchachas qui dansent...

Anne vit à Bruges au temps de la Renaissance, Hanna dans la Vienne impériale de Sigmund Freud, Anny à Hollywood de nos jours. Toutes trois se sentent différentes de leurs contemporaines ; refusant le rôle que leur imposent les hommes, elles cherchent à se rendre maîtresses de leur destin...

Bienvenue au Peninsula, un palace de rêve au cœur de la ville qui ne dort jamais. C’est là qu’officie Kathleen, dont la mission, en tant qu’hôtesse d’accueil, est de satisfaire toutes les demandes de ses prestigieux clients. Pour la plupart d’entre eux, elle est transparente –...

Moi : Kathleen, 25 ans, rêveuse tendance fleur bleue. Statut : célibataire… pour l’instant. Avant, ma vie sentimentale se limitait à lire les petites annonces de la rubrique « Rencontres » du New Yorker. Avant, j’étais la concierge de luxe désespérément romantique du Peninsula...

Dans la nuit du 18 au 19 janvier 2011, Laëtitia Perrais a été enlevée à 50 mètres de chez elle, avant d’être poignardée et étranglée. Il a fallu des semaines pour retrouver son corps. Elle avait 18 ans. Ce fait divers s’est transformé en affaire d’État : Nicolas Sarkozy, alors...

Trois baisers, trois baisers et l’homme caracole, libre, flamboyant, crachant du feu et des étoiles. Ses sens s’affolent, il voit mille lucioles, des pains d’épices, des...

Trois femmes, trois vies, trois continents. Une même soif de liberté. Inde. Smita est une Intouchable. Elle rêve de voir sa fille échapper à sa condition misérable et entrer à l’école. Sicile. Giulia travaille dans l’atelier de son père. Lorsqu’il est victime d'un accident, elle...

"Strange, considering it all now after a night's sleep, that I'd had no premonition of what awaited. That seems to be the nature of life, however. Things that ought to come with warnings rarely do." The Year is 1884 and Emma M. Lion has, at long last, gained her majority. Entering a golden age...

Francesca ha quarant'anni, un (quasi) ex marito arrogante e meschino, due figli che stanno lasciando il nido e una madre anaffettiva. La sua è un'esistenza in gabbia, in cui il vuoto è ormai diventato una presenza dolorosa e costante. Quando si guarda allo specchio prova un senso di smarrimento da togliere il fiato, ma è proprio nel momento in cui la vita sembra averle già svelato tutto che il vento inizia a cambiare. Un vento toscano, che la porta a trascorrere l'estate da sola in Maremma allontanandosi dalla quotidianità e da ciò che conosce.

Femminista, animalista, dedita alla medicina alternativa. Avrebbe qualche problema oggi. Ma nel XVI secolo, Rosmunda era considerata una strega. Le appassionanti avventure di una donna dallo spirito libero, in viaggio dall'Italia fino a Londra e ritorno. Rosmunda, sballottata da vicende che ne metterebbero alla prova la volontà di reagire, riesce invece ad affrontarle ogni volta con rinnovata energia e con una predisposizione all'amore per il prossimo che ricorda gli insegnamenti religiosi. Tutto nasce da ritrovamenti casuali di diari e di manoscritti che riportano a tempi lontani.

The daughter and granddaughter of prominent Manhattan lawyers, Meredith McKenzie is destined for the best of everything: top schools, elite social circles, the perfect marriage. Spending her childhood in Germany as her father prosecutes Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, Meredith soaks up the conflict between good and evil as it plays out in real time. When her family returns to the United States, she begins blazing her own trail, swimming against the tides, spurred on by her freethinking liberal grandfather, determined to become a lawyer despite her traditional, conservative father's objections.

Il capolavoro di Flaubert, per cui fu accusato di immoralità, che racconta l'insoddisfazione e l'irrequietudine della seconda moglie di Charles Bovary. Flaubert's masterpiece, for which he was accused of immorality, which tells of the dissatisfaction and restlessness of the second wife of Charles Bovary. Please note that this audiobook is in Italian.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY S WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014. From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love, race and identity. As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the...

'Breathtaking' Haruki Murakami, international bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles On a hot summer’s day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko’s teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing...

Borgo è un paese di mille anime sull’Appennino, tagliato in due da una provinciale scalcinata e malridotta, ai lati cespugli secchi e alberi rachitici, pezzi di asfalto e scaglie di vetro. A Borgo, ogni giorno tutti passano davanti allo stesso bar, accennano un identico saluto all’unico barista, oltrepassano i soliti cancelli arrugginiti dei pochi palazzi, volgono lo sguardo alla cappella votiva sul ciglio della strada, una madonna asfittica e ingrigita.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. On a rain-soaked bridge, Aylin believes she has reached the end of the road. Then a stranger appears and refuses to leave her there. Mustafa’s unexpected kindness leads Aylin into a house full of wounded, brilliant people who have all been given...

Who owns your body? On a hot day in 1968, while lining up for the daily dress check at school, Annette Calvert yanks out her hem. The dress represents everything she's been simmering about since her father, an ambitious journalist, bought the newspaper in Catchings, Texas: the rule-crazy high...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Clara returns to Bellhaven after three months away, determined to repair what she can and expose what she must. The past has not stayed buried, and the family secrets surrounding her marriage demand more than another promise. As she and Adrian face the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A call before dawn tells Clara that something has been taken. Adrian's urgency draws her into a search where the remaining pieces of their past must finally fit together. The marriage that began as a bargain now depends on what they are willing to risk...