Romance Literary Fiction

Qui si racconta los angeles storia di Germain, lo «scemo del villaggio». Centodieci chili di muscoli in step with sorreggere una testa selvatica, un passato di mancata educazione sentimentale e un presente di conta dei piccioni e pomeriggi spesi al bar. Qui si racconta di un incontro straordinario nel più ordinario dei luoghi, un parco pubblico. Si traccia il delicato resoconto della più improbabile delle complicità, quella tra un gigante semi analfabeta e una vecchina con i capelli viola e l. a. passione consistent with i libri. Si dimostra che l’intelligenza è altra cosa dalla cultura. Quando le vite di Germain e Margueritte si accomodano sulla medesima panchina, ogni cosa, dentro e fuori, comincia a cambiare. E così questa può anche essere una storia che parla di avventure o di amore... o di indiani. Perché no? I sentimenti, come le parole, non sono innati. Bisogna acquisirli, piano piano. E quando sbocciano non conta più il vuoto che c’è ancora da riempire, ma tutto il pieno che invade il cuore e los angeles testa come gramigna che non si può più estirpare. Il mondo in cui pianta le sue radici un’altra selvatichezza, fatta di affetti, fatta di parole. Come quella di Germain e Margueritte, e del vocabolario che ne riscrive i destini.

Nella pittoresca giungla di artisti della Montparnasse anni Trenta, Lillian e Jay si incontrano e intessono una tormentata storia d’amore. Jay, pittore flexible e irriverente, rappresenta consistent with Lillian los angeles liberazione dai pregiudizi e dalle convenzioni borghesi di cui è prigioniera, ma los angeles sua presa di coscienza assomiglia più a un'educazione artistica che sentimentale. Le innumerevoli avventure erotiche in cui Jay - ispirato allo scrittore Henry Miller - si perde, l'entrata in scena dell'enigmatica ballerina Djuna, della fascinosa Helen e dell'incantevole Sabina, costringono Lillian a confrontarsi con l'immagine riflessa di altre donne e a scoprire dentro di sé forme d’amore fino a quel momento inespresse. In un caleidoscopico alternarsi di emozioni, i personaggi e le situazioni si scompongono e si ricompongono creando ogni volta nuovi scenari, come nell'ultima sfida dove il Giocatore di Scacchi tenta di trasformare un get together troppo convenzionale in un intreccio magico e surreale di seduzioni, incontri e confessioni. Inedito in Italia fino al 1998, Scale di fuoco rappresenta uno dei vertici narrativi dell’opera di Anais Nin.

«Una cleaning soap opera surrealista».
«New York instances»

«Fra i migliori dell'autrice del Delta di Venere, Scale di fuoco è un romanzo onirico e viscerale, magistralmente in grado di attirare nel vortice emotivo di situazioni in un continuo rimando tra sogno e realtà».
«il manifesto»

«Un tourbillon di emozioni, seduzioni e incontri».
Corrado Augias, «Il Venerdì di Repubblica»

«Il libro è tutto percorso dalle inquietudini di questa donna confusa, curiosa, inibita e disinibita al pace stesso, che si pone domande sulla propria identità e sulla passione».
«Donna Moderna»

Kelly Benjamin is popping twenty whilst a snowboarding twist of fate hurries up her life’s plan. most significantly, her wish to write poetry is better and rushed. She hungers for event that would develop into her poem.

Touring Kelly’s Poem occurs in 1963. Kelly is a pupil in a small Kansas city. After her harmful shut name, she relocates to spend her junior 12 months in collage in another country – the place she believes she will inhale, covet, and discover poetry.

In the early Sixties, women’s roles have been solid for them. Be a ‘nice’ woman, and discover a strong guy, and calm down. That used to be by no means on Kelly’s agenda.

In this huge, immense quantity of 2 books in a single, Kelly’s trip starts along with her travels to Mexico urban. There she's going to not just research poetry – but in addition lifestyles. With humor, and with the pathos recognized to formative years, Kelly desires to study the intricacies of affection.

Guiding Kelly on her love-quest are her roommates. they're Nora, a ‘proper-minded’ fellow pupil. Erika, a wild eu prostitute, and Leigh, a lesbian archeology scholar. alongside the way in which, she additionally meets ‘good seize’ husband fabric. Her mom and dad may approve of Eduardo, Carlos, and Kirk.

An collection of roommates and applicable younger males must have been sufficient pleasure for her. Then she met the beguiling Doctora. Now that was once adequate pleasure of someone.

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TWO books in a single, this literary novel is available in at 135+K phrases and 500 pages. Enjoy!

Cal walked out of detention center and right into a moment likelihood at profitable Aly together with his grandma’s beater sailboat and a reclaimed dream of boating charters.

Aly has the enterprise smarts, strings to a startup personal loan, and center he by no means must have damaged. He’s acquired squat. until you count number adequate unique artwork to inventory a monster rummage sale and an affection for weed.

But he’d merely ever enjoyed Aly. That needed to count number for anything. Aly wanted a man who owned backyard instruments, tires worthy rotating, and a voter’s registration card. He’d be that man or die trying.

For a person who’s ever struggled to degree up. And failed.

just one girl may perhaps win the...Heart of the Falcon.

All her existence, raven-haired Anqet had basked within the tranquility of Nefer...until the day her father died and her uncle descended upon the property, hungry for her land, hungry for her. eager to break out his merciless obsession, she fled. yet now, masquerading as a commoner within the impressive urban of Thebes, Anqet faces
a new threat. Mysterious and seductive, count number Seth seems a soldier dependable to the pharaoh. but quickly Anqet will locate that he is drawn her right into a net of treachery and hope, the place one fake stream may perhaps finish her life... and his fiery ardour might model her soul forever.

Set opposed to the fantastic opulence of the pharaoh's court docket, it is a breathtaking story, wealthy with pageantry and aflame with unforgettable romance.

From the Paperback edition.

Ne pas s’encombrer de principes, agir à l’instinct selon ses envies, ne pas hésiter à se servir de son body pour arriver à ses fins : telles sont les règles de vie de oz.. Mais depuis quelques temps, aucune fille ne semble éveiller le moindre désir chez ce beau ténébreux. Contre toute attente, los angeles seule qu’il remarque, c’est Evana, sa colocataire et meilleure amie. Celle dont il prend soin depuis qu’une expérience traumatisante a bouleversé sa vie. Celle qui est pour lui intouchable et qu’il n’avait jamais vraiment considérée comme une femme. Jusqu’à aujourd’hui. ounces en est persuadé : il l’a toujours protégée… mais aujourd’hui, los angeles threat c’est lui.

Unhappily married Cape city educational paintings Berger is on the market what seems to be a certified lifeline: to reconstitute the ultimate papers of the nice South African author Charles de Villiers into book-form. he's uncomfortable concerning the function of ghost-writer, however the venture turns into literary detective-work he can't quit. Introduce De Villiers’ attractive daughter Taryn, and artwork is ensnared.

Sunderland alternates among sections, quite often in magazine shape, chronicling Art’s fight to make feel of De Villiers’ fragmented and disordered textual content, and sections – scenes, notes, outlines – from that very paintings (also entitled ‘Sunderland’). a singular of (literary) rules up to of personality, this attention-grabbing collaboration via of South Africa’s best wranglers of phrases nonetheless involves a literal crescendo; a finely tuned masterpiece to learn in a single sitting.

In the unique global of recent York Society, Darcy Snow Statton’s wealth and bloodline position her on the very most sensible of the city’s elite. but, for all her jewellery and awesome ballroom robes, Darcy has no freedom. whereas their husbands quadruple their fortunes, right girls have interaction in well mannered parlor chatter and stringent etiquette. Darcy’s husband, Claude Statton, us a guy of doubtful start yet huge, immense wealth, a guy whose polished external belies his darkish conduct and the unspeakable plans he ahs for his spouse. Darcy is a prisoner off Claude’s 5th street mansion and he or she has sworn to flee or die trying.

One snowy evening, former Pinkerton agent Tavish Finn discovers Darcy trying to flee. notwithstanding he's an acquaintance of Claude Statton, he has a fashion of extracting the reality from the gilded lies of the wealthy and he understands stunning secrets and techniques approximately Darcy’s husband. He is aware that Darcy is suffocating in her rarefied criminal and in Tavish’s eyes, Darcy sees a glimmer of hope…and a blessed promise of freedom.

The pleasure and grandeur of the USA on the flip of the century offer a glittering backdrop for Blind Trust, a narrative of passage and development, of cool probability and heated greed, and of the passionate fight waged by way of one lady decided to damage freed from the chains of convention.

“Full of ardour and wealthy old element . . . a charming learn, very unlikely to place down.” —Phyllis T. Smith, bestselling writer of I Am Livia and The Daughters of Palatine Hill

“This is Venice underneath the masks: a dismal and interesting love tale hiding in the shadows of the golden city.” —Marina Fiorato, bestselling writer of The Glassblower of Murano

Set in eighteenth-century Venice and in line with a precise account through Giacomo Casanova—here is a lush story of wish and threat, delivering a bit recognized portrait of the author as a tender man.

Caterina Capreta used to be an blameless lady of fourteen while she stuck the eye of the world’s such a lot notorious chronicler of seduction: Giacomo Casanova. Intoxicated through a fierce love, she wed Casanova in mystery. yet his stunning betrayal encouraged her to dedicate an act that may mark her ceaselessly . . .

Now two decades afterward the island of Murano, the girl in ownership of Caterina’s so much devastating mystery has seemed with a request she can't refuse: to absorb a noble-born lady whose scandalous love affair resembles her personal. however the girl’s presence stirs up unwelcome thoughts of Caterina’s turbulent prior. demonstrated like by no means sooner than, she unearths the tale of the fellow she's going to always remember . . .

Bringing to lifestyles a desirable bankruptcy within the background of Venice, Casanova’s mystery Wife is a journey de strength that charts one woman’s trip via love and loss to redemption.

“Seductive and unforgettable” —Harmony Verna, writer of Daughter of Australia

“Breathtaking, appealing . . . will mesmerize readers." —Rosanna Chiofalo, writer of Stella Mia

Hartwell's Nathan's tale is a strong follow-up to his Atom middle John liked. even if the narration chronicles, between different issues, a similar love tale because the first ebook, this can be a stand-alone paintings. The creation of a beautiful new personality, Harper, provides a brand new size to the narrative. Hartwell intertwines the tale of Nathan and Harper with the tale of Nathan and John whereas fending off a rehash of outdated info. just like the first publication, Nathan's tale makes readers imagine, covers a few debatable flooring, can produce tears, and also will carry lots of smiles. we expect this is often Hartwell's sweetest and most enjoyable book.

"There is a cause Luke Hartwell is a Rainbow Award successful writer: Atom center John liked and Nathan’s tale communicate for themselves and are the entire evidence you wish as to why. they're passionate and provocative books, written with the motive to discover ideals, to problem the established order, to question what it skill to like, to from time to time surprise and to incite response from the reader." - the unconventional Approach