検索キーワード： 女性の冒険

Peluquerías, postizos, tinturas, cortes y extensiones, quirófanos, clínicas, lipos, liftings, flotadores, operaciones estéticas, residuos patógenos. Los ámbitos en que transcurre y el vocabulario que ilumina esta siniestra historia protagonizada por Ruth Epelbaum –la detective creada por Krimer en Sangre kosher– nos anticipan que en esta novela, como siempre, las mujeres se hacen cargo, padecen, disfrutan, ponen el cuerpo. Y lo pone sobre todo la entrañable Ruth.

Amelia, la protagonista de la serie, es la antiheroína por excelencia: su curiosidad la mete en líos de los que sale gracias a su instinto. Esta vez la encontramos en Miami, nuevo destino de su esposo, diplomático. La pareja se ha dado una segunda oportunidad, pero Amelia vuelve a sentirse...

With Prejudice is a romantic yet harsh action story of runaway soldier Michael Carver and a young Cherokee woman called Little Deer who find each other when their worlds collide in 1838 America. Amid the destruction of the Native tribes and their forced migration out west to the new Indian Territory, Michael becomes disillusioned with the army and the treatment of the indigenous people and decides to leave it all behind and return to his farm in Virginia.

Hay muchas maneras de decir adiós, hay instantes únicos en los que la ficción y la memoria se hibridan y enraízan en una misma página para exhibir la red de una despedida. De este umbral doloroso germinan las historias encadenadas con las que Clara Obligado nos acerca a tres mujeres y sus profundas pérdidas, a los diversos espacios y tiempos en que les tocó vivir.

Una ragazza è seduta su una ruota di scorta bucata, in mezzo al nulla della campagna novarese. I suoi capelli, un tempo rosa zucchero filato, ora sono un garbuglio di colori improbabili. Pochi riconoscerebbero in lei Cloro, celebrità di internet con milioni di follower in tutto il mondo. Insieme a lei, a tentare di riparare un'auto che ha macinato migliaia di chilometri, c'è Leo, trentaquattrenne disilluso, che dalla vita non ha avuto nulla di ciò che si aspettava - e dire che non si aspettava molto.

Questo memoir, scritto nella lingua ispirata e inconfondibile di Tea Ranno, si apre con un risveglio in ospedale: Tea ha quarantacinque anni ed è appena stata operata d'urgenza per un'infezione che, partita dall'utero, è arrivata a infuocarle l'intestino, il fegato, i polmoni. Soffre di endometriosi da quando è giovanissima. Ma questa volta ne è quasi morta. L'endometriosi è una malattia cronica che colpisce molte donne. Le cause non sono ancora del tutto chiare, la diagnosi spesso è complessa e non esiste una cura definitiva.

"Kannst du mir dein Herz zeigen?"– Ausgerechnet diese Frage muss die junge Anthropologin Paula beantworten, nachdem sie im Amazonas lebensgefährlich von einer Giftspinne gebissen wird. Geschwächt trifft sie in einem fernen Urwalddorf auf das wissbegierige Mädchen Aya, die schnell zu einer wertvollen Freundin wird. Dort lernt sie auch den Stammeskönig und schließlich eine weise Schamanin kennen. In nur wenigen Tagen erkennt sie, dass tiefe Verbindungen zu anderen Menschen die größten Abenteuer von allen sind und dass diese Verbindungen nur mit offenen Herzen entstehen und wachsen können.

The stakes are the highest they've ever been when fate decides now is the time for me to start a wild phoenix chase... I'm still not sure I'm meant to be Relic Keeper but the work is never-ending. What's on the agenda now? A call for help from Phoebe that sends me and my trusty sidekicks into action. The Emberflare phoenix clan is missing a very important relic. And while the circumstances are mysterious at best and nefarious at worst, the most important thing is that we retrieve it. And this is no ordinary knick-knack. It's the Phoenix Flame itself!

Caffè in der Wüste: Giulia Caminito erzählt vom italienischen Leben in Eritrea, von einer starken, übergroßen Mutter – und von einer jungen Frau, die sich ihre Freiheit erst nach und nach erkämpft. Ein historischer Roman von herber Schönheit. Die Lombardei im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Die Menschen suchen Zuflucht vor ständigen Bombenangriffen, deutsche Besatzer jagen Partisanen, das Essen wird rationiert. Die 13-jährige Giada wohnt bei ihrer Tante, einer gläubigen Faschistin, Gewalt und Entbehrung prägen den Alltag.

Unlucky in love, Julia takes a radical step and travels solo to a spiritual retreat in Kefalonia. With an agenda to avoid men, work on healing her inner rage, balance her chakras and eat lots of Greek food, the Mediterranean heat is exactly what she needs. But before she leaves the airport, Julia meets Vincent, a handsome Spanish architect, who challenges her spiky aura in more ways than one.

Shy and deaf, 23-year-old Claire Deveraux has worked hard to land her dream job as a foreign service officer at the US Embassy in Paris. Yet her idyllic life is shattered when she finds a woman lying on the restroom floor dying from a gunshot wound. The dying woman utters three words to Claire and conceals a thumb drive in Claire’s pocket. The items are keys to the location of proceeds from a bank robbery. The killer, certain Claire now has sole possession of those items, must find her, recover the code words and the drive, then kill her before she can solve the puzzle and recover the money.

Premio de Novela Histórica Alfonso X El Sabio. «Solo espero que al morir yo no terminen asesinándose entre sí, ya que el odio enraíza en sus almas». A lo largo de toda su vida María de Molina sufrió por amor. Primero por casarse con su sobrino, Sancho IV de Castilla, matrimonio que no fue bien visto ni por el anterior rey, Alfonso X, ni por el papa, que denegó la dispensa por lazos consanguíneos. Su viudedad y la posterior regencia a la espera de la mayoría de edad de su hijo Fernando IV, aguantando los embates de la desestabilizada política ibérica, fueron un nuevo trago amargo para la reina.

College heptathlete Margaret Crandall is invited to compete for a spot with a secret company to become an elite assassin. While still in the training pipeline, her mentor is murdered attempting to kill the billionaire shipping tycoon, Victor Lars Junius, who is a member of a global criminal empire and attempting to transform himself into the legendary actor Richard Burton.

To Buddy, Scarlett smells like strawberries and sunshine--a world away from the scents of danger, decay, and death that plagued his old life in Doha. Following his rescue from a dog-fighting ring, Scarlett brings Buddy home to Dubai. With Scarlett, Buddy forgets what it feels like to be hungry, or have a foot kick him in his side, or feel alone. But he never forgets the smells.

In the tumultuous town of Yáquimo, Santo Domingo, Jacquotte Delahaye is an unknown but up-and-coming shipwright. Her dreams are bold but her ambitions are bound by the confines of her life with her self-seeking French father. When her way of life and the delicate balance of power in the town are threatened, she is forced to flee her home and become a woman on the run along with a motley crew of refugees, including a mysterious young woman named Teresa.

In a world ravaged by climate change, three individuals—Emma, a high school student; Senator Rand, a politician stripped of privilege; and Richard, a military man—navigate the chaos, and find hope amidst tragedy. Their journeys of resilience and transformation reveal the enduring strength of the human spirit in a world forever altered.

As her lover’s sanity deteriorates, Kit is forced to team up with a seductive vampire with ulterior motives. And when the perilous domain’s existence is confirmed, Kit has only one option remaining: risk her life to enter and hope to return with the cure.

Die junge Eva geht weiter ihren Weg in der mondänen Hotelwelt Karlsbads. Ein Kaffeemädchen in Karlsbad. Ein Eklat im Adonis. Und erneut ein Aufbruch ins Ungewisse. Eva wird im Hotel Adonis zum Kaffeemädchen ausgebildet, wo sie gemeinsam mit drei weiteren jungen Frauen den neuen Cafésalon des Hotels in Schwung bringen soll. Das bringt ihr nicht nur den Spott der Kellner, sondern wegen der hohen Trinkgelder auch Neid ein. Zum Glück kommt Lord Beauvais wieder ins Adonis, der Eva in großväterlicher Freundschaft verbunden ist und ihr zur Seite steht, wo er nur kann.

Für Dalia ist die Gärtnerei ihrer Großeltern ihr Zuhause. Hier in Cornwall ist sie aufgewachsen, gemeinsam mit ihren vier Cousinen hat sie viele Sommer zwischen den leuchtenden Blumenfeldern verbracht. Nach dem plötzlichen Tod ihrer Großmutter Rose kommen die inzwischen erwachsenen Cousinen im Herrenhaus der Gärtnerei zusammen und machen eine Entdeckung, die für Dalia alles verändert: ein Brief ihres vermeintlich unbekannten Vaters.

Hold on to your cauldrons, because the Six Twisted Sisters are back and ready to tackle the latest supernatural disaster! After quieting the chaos caused by that pesky, magical hurricane, the sisters could sure use a break. But that's not how their twisted luck works. Before they can even breathe a sigh of relief, a levee mysteriously breaks, flooding parts of the city making gondolas a viable mode of transportation. The sisters could sit back and enjoy their beignets anyway, but that has never been their style.