Risultati per "a torre" in Narrativa femminile

Tradimenti, amori, cospirazioni nell'affascinante epoca Tudor. Due donne, due diversi destini, uniti per sempre sotto l'ombra della torre di Londra. Finché i corvi abiteranno la Torre di Londra, il Regno d’Inghilterra sopravvivrà. Joan Vaux non è come tutte le altre dame di corte. Ha la carnagione olivastra, si veste sempre con abiti scuri e i suoi capelli sono neri come le ali dei corvi che tanto ama. Li considera suoi amici e guardiani della Corona da quando è piccola. E oggi più che mai il Regno sembra in pericolo.

Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers. She’s spent a decade treating California’s most depraved predators and unlocking their motives - predators much like the notorious Bloody Heart serial killer, whose latest teenage victim escaped and then identified local high school teacher Randall Thompson as his captor. The case against Thompson as the Bloody Heart Killer is damning - and closed, as far as Gwen and the media are concerned. If not for one new development.

Inequality. Influence. Fraud. Sabotage. These are the themes of great fiction and our modern economy. In this collection of short stories by some of today’s most scintillating writers, the rich get poorer and the poor get richer. Yeah, right! From the heartbreaking to the hilarious, here are eight instantly classic battles over currency, class, privilege - and social distance.

Jess and Nina, Nina and Jess … to everyone else they’re typical best friends, sharing closeness and confidences in their own little world. But Nina and Jess have a secret. Simply by touching their foreheads together, they can swap bodies. In Jess’s assertive persona, self-conscious Nina turns bolder, free to say what she’s frightened to voice on her own. Inhabiting Nina, Jess becomes part of the loving, stable family she craves. Now, in crisis after her father’s death, Jess has reentered Nina’s life following a long separation.