Véra - Libros y biografía

Au lendemain de la Révolution russe de 1917, Vera Figner (1852-1942) revient sur son histoire personnelle. Jeune aristocrate devenue la Vénus de la Révolution, elle raconte dans ses Mémoires sa longue...

Stress can damage your personal and professional life, creating anger, a lack of concentration and nervous behaviour. The key to overcoming it isn’t suppressing your stress – it’s understanding it....

Voici un récit sans concession sur ce que fut le choc de la Première Guerre mondiale, un roman d’apprentissage où les sentiments amoureux sont magnifiés par l’urgence de vivre, ainsi qu’un manifeste féministe...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I in this unforgettable true story of young love, war, and how to make sense of the darkest times'Remains one of...

A strong addition to the ‘Principles series’ of introductory guides. The book explains what stress is, how it causes physical and mental problems and how to cope successfully with the increased pressures...

Force et rapidité  : Hector, douze ans, possède tous les atouts pour remporter cette année la Coupe Zeus. C’est le plus grand honneur dont puisse rêver un adolescent dans la petite ville où habite Hector....

En 1958, la maison d’édition Putnam s’apprête à publier aux États-Unis le chef d’oeuvre de Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita. Quelques mois avant la parution, l’auteur et son épouse, Véra Nabokov, pressentent...

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

Lorsque la Seconde Guerre éclate, Véra est une toute jeune Juive polonaise. Elle est envoyée chez les sœurs, d’abord, puis à la campagne, où ses parents imaginent qu’elle a de plus grandes chances de...

Julietta's holiday becomes a nightmare when she is swept up in the frenzy of other people's abhorrent need for revenge.Julietta leaves New York when her relationship ends, never dreaming she would become...

Lampenfieber oder Höhenangst? Höher, schneller, weiter, schöner?   Wie wär's mit einfach nur dazwischen, nach dem Davor und vor dem Danach?   Die Ode an das Erwachsenwerden im Dazwischen als scheinbar...

Emma Williams and BJ Johnson fall madly in love, completely aware that their relationship will not be readily accepted by a post-war prejudiced society.In 1948, London is a city recovering from the Second...

Long lost love cannot easily be rekindled, or can it, if there's a love-child involved?After more than twenty years apart, Emma Williams and BJ Johnson are brought together by their love-child, Daniel....

Danila lavora da poco più di un anno in una agenzia per il lavoro, sta per sposarsi con Dario ed è felice. O forse no. Il suo lavoro le piace ma non è il sogno della sua vita, il suo rapporto con Dario...

Bambina è un’opera complessa, multiforme che mira a coinvolgere il lettore in un’esperienza sinestetica ed emotiva. Le parole sono immagini, evocano immagini, emozioni, sensazioni universali in cui il...

Vera Carvalho Assumpção, explora com perícia uma das características da narrativa policial contemporânea, o espaço urbano e suas contradições sociais, econômicas e culturais. Ao fazer de São Paulo o cenário...

Lívia e Paty são melhores amigas e vizinhas, que foram criadas juntas, como se fossem irmãs. Lívia tinha uma irmã mais nova, que se chamava Felícia, e Paty um irmão mais velho, que se chamava Joshua,...

Situações de extrema vulnerabilidade são trazidas nas três investigações selecionadas para compor a edição desse livro, apresentando algumas estratégias metodológicas inovadoras. Entre os temas abordados,...

Poeta, ensaísta e contista com mais de 40 livros publicados, nasceu no município de Pacatuba, no Ceará. Foi eleito em 1985 o Príncipe dos Poetas Cearenses. Com formação em Direito e Letras, atuou como...

Two abandoned children are brought up in an all girls' orphanage until they are deemed old enough to fend for themselves in the outside world. Bella Jones is eighteen and Anne Marie O'Shea is sixteen...

In war-torn Britain, John Hawthorne and three daughters, Meg, Patty and Abigail, rally forth on the battlefield of their own shattered lives. For three children left without a mother in the middle of...

Connections, for better or worse, made by Jane O'Connell after divorce completely disrupt her life, both shattering and illuminating her existence with unexpected consequences.Jane O'Connell did not envisage...

 Rodi Bartlett sits on a plane taking her to the land of her conception.  She can't call it the land of her birth because when her mother was sixteen years old, she had flown back to England from Corfu...

Show business executive Kimberley Mason always felt something was missing from her life.   She forms an association with a theatrical agency in Australia and uncovers a secret kept by her parents for...

Marriage, a new home and a new baby, Joel Thomas, all make up a perfect life for Nell Winston until suddenly her husband is no longer there and she turns into a woman possessed of compulsion to rule her...

Succeeding at work these days is no walk in the park. It takes targeted effort, wisdom, intuition and some common sense. With constant change, unending competitiveness and bruising office politics, it...

Every now and then it makes sense to have honest chats with yourself, gain some clarity and take action to refresh your life and ambitions. Self Chat is a treasure chest of positively life changing questions...

Lúcia sentiu algo mudar quando o viu pela primeira vez, despertando em si sentimentos fortes e verdadeiros. E sempre quando encontra aqueles olhos cinza, ela sente sendo sugada a dois grandes abismos,...

With Murder In Common Friendship Is Inevitable In the town of Hollow Creek, South Carolina two separate murders, fifteen years apart, unite fifteen-year-old Pleasant Day and sixty-year-old Clarissa Blackwell....

Numa pequena propriedade rural, uma família cuida de um tambo de leite. As vacas são muito bem cuidadas e cada uma é chamada por seu próprio nome. Aninha é uma menina que não tem muito apetite e parece...