Category: Womens Literary Fiction

discovering love skill taking dangers, letting cross, and believing in moment probabilities . . .

A devastating break-up--

Yes, i am able to be your spouse after 5 years jointly. i am able to marry you, to do laundry jointly, to have youngsters with you and get up in the course of the evening once they cry, and take a look at to discover time for intercourse, and snicker approximately it once we cannot. i am prepared for it all, Daniel.
Katy McNamara is prepared, yet Daniel, her dedicated yet commitment-wary boyfriend, isn't really. while her 30th birthday comes and is going and not using a marriage inspiration, she leaves the uninteresting protection of an east coast freelance task for an project in Costa Rica, hoping the distraction of writing approximately yoga and browsing in a tropical paradise can help her heal.
Enter Carson Richardson--tanned, tall, and good-looking, a world-class surfer who additionally occurs to be shrewdpermanent, prosperous, and a truly great man.
A breathtaking new love--
Carson the surf god teaches me find out how to experience the waves. Carson sits with me on a surfboard, and we kiss because the solar units at the back of us. Carson seems on with approval as I ship a postcard domestic with one sentence that reads: i am not coming again.
Loving Carson opens a global of experience for Katy, although the hazards of his game continually lurk on the edges in their happiness. If the unthinkable occurs, will the fable be enough?
Falling in love capability trusting, hoping, sharing--and studying to dwell for at the present time. Falling in love capacity figuring out that existence is as fragile and as appealing as seashore glass.
Suzan Colón is the writer of younger grownup novels in accordance with the television sequence Smallville. Suzan has contributed to O, the Oprah journal, reliable house responsibilities, and plenty of different guides. She has been practising yoga for almost twenty-five years, is a twice-certified yoga teacher, and has taught on the world-renowned indispensable Yoga Institute in big apple urban. She lives in New Jersey together with her husband, Nathan. stopover at the writer at SuzanColon.net.

Ledger of the Open Hand seems on the intimate strength of cash and emotional debt throughout the eyes of a girl attempting to seize carry of her personal lifestyles. Beholden to a intelligent good friend and confused by way of relatives responsibilities and guilt, Meriel-Claire (MC) eventually stumbles into what she’s been lacking. She falls in love and reveals her calling as a debt counsellor in the middle of a countrywide monetary hindrance. yet balancing the books for strangers is less complicated than reconciling her personal advanced relationships. Regrets and deficits gather till MC needs to come to a decision what she owes to these she loves. With humour and perception, Ledger explores giving, taking, and our tendency to regard love as a stability sheet.

Leina est une jeune femme coquette de 26 ans à los angeles recherche d’un emploi strong et bien rémunéré. Allant d’entretiens en rendez-vous sans jamais avoir de retours positifs, sa quête start à prendre une tournure désespérante. Mais un jour, elle rencontre un recruteur pour le moins particulier... Est-elle prête à tout pour un activity ?

In her artistic, occasionally bittersweet, finally uplifting debut, Sandi Ward attracts readers into one impressive cat’s quest to make feel of her international, illuminating the boundaries and mysterious depths of affection . . .

puppy vendors comprehend cat’s loyalty isn't simply earned. Boo, a imaginative younger tom cat with a willing eye and inquiring brain, has still grown intensely dedicated to her human better half, Carrie. a number of days in the past, Carrie—or mom, as Boo calls her—suddenly went away, leaving her kinfolk, together with Boo, in disarray. Carrie’s husband, Tommy, is far-off and distracted whilst he does his most sensible to take care of Boo’s human siblings, particularly child Finn.

Boo concerns approximately who will fill her nutrition dish, and supply a hot lap to nestle into. More urgent nonetheless, she’s attempting to discover the advanced fact approximately why Carrie left. notwithstanding often mystified by way of human habit, Boo is bound that Carrie as soon as cared passionately for Tommy and adores her young ones, even the non-feline ones. yet she additionally sees it will possibly no longer be adequate to make issues correct. probably just a cat—a clever, observant, very decided cat—can do this . . .

splendidly soft and insightful, The dazzling Thing explores the intricacies of marriage and family members via an unforgettable point of view on the middle of it all.
 
“A appealing and touching check out the intricacies of marriage and relatives existence, all visible in the course of the loving and targeted standpoint of the kin pet.”
--Modern Cat

Butterfly Tears is a set of brief fiction that depicts the studies of chinese language immigrant ladies dealing with the demanding situations of existence in a brand new kingdom. The tales are set in numerous components of China, Canada, and the U.S. and look at chinese language women’s cross-cultural reports in North the United States in addition to women’s concerns and political discrimination in China. The tales, or components of reports, set in China supply the reader fascinating glimpses into occasions reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution and Mao’s demise. within the identify tale, an old chinese language legend approximately fanatics and stories of a violinist who commits suicide in the course of the Cultural Revolution hang-out a tender girl who fears her husband is having an affair. Leaving her abusive husband, a lady and her younger son in A overwhelmed Mandarin Duck stream to New Brunswick the place they shape a brand new kinfolk with a traveling professor from China. dual Rivers tells the tale of a feminine engineer who results in penal complex due to her love affair with a married guy. Feminism and altering male/female relationships shape one other vital subject matter that runs via a few of the stories.

In a North Carolina tiger sanctuary, she came upon new love and a brand new function.

Sylvia Holt has misplaced her dream of the fitting suburban Atlanta life—via infertility, a painfully failed adoption, and a husband who’s dishonest on her with a more youthful lady. Her divorce leads her to a North Carolina holiday domestic, the place she settles in without different ambitions than to turn into a tragic recluse. yet then her next-door neighbor, Ethan Montgomery, lures her into the fantastic international of his tiger sanctuary.

Sylvia slowly heals, and her bond with Ethan and the tigers—many of them rescued from abuse and neglect—turns her right into a fierce recommend for the large cats. She and Ethan conflict a sinister broker in black-market potions made up of tiger elements. Sylvia’s maternal instincts kick in much more with the rescue of a tigress and her tiny cub. regardless of demanding situations, threats, and doubts, Sylvia and Ethan forge forward, falling in love and dealing opposed to all odds to safe a destiny for the endangered cats they adore.
Valerie Joan Connors is the Michigan-born daughter of an artist and a musician. as well as her profession because the operations supervisor for an structure, engineering, and layout company, she makes time for her precise ardour, writing. She is the 2013 president of the century-old Atlanta (Georgia) Writer’s membership. IN HER protecting is her first released novel. stopover at her at www.valeriejoanconnors.com.

Une ode aux plaisirs perdus

Au second même où l’Histoire sombrait dans sa période los angeles plus noire, important, Gloire, Flore et Luca – quatuor passionné, amoureux et pétri de justes reasons – vivaient une lifestyles turbulente où périls et plaisirs s’entremêlaient, au son du Lambeth stroll. Felicity, los angeles fille née de cette belle équipe, revient sur l’île du lac de Côme où tout s’est alors noué pour découvrir le mystère de ses origines. Une histoire rythmée par l’Orfeo de Monteverdi… Comme si seule une musique pouvait restituer los angeles cruauté des amours, l’audace des hasards.

Ce roman historique narre le tourbillon de quatre vies qui s'entremêlent à l'aube de los angeles Seconde Guerre mondiale.

EXTRAIT

L’île Comacina ? Une goutte d’encre posée sur une feuille de papier trop lisse pour l’absorber. Elle est à portée de voix du rivage et pourtant elle paraît secrète, indéchiffrable, tout le contraire de los angeles rive claire où nous nous tenons, tante Gloire et moi : autour de notre hôtel, ce ne sont que villas pimpantes, terrasses et patios fleuris de longue date.
Nous touchons au yet. Je suis là, toute penaude, et Gloire non plus ne sait remark se tenir. Nos corps se heurtent, nos words se bousculent. L’attente a été si area of expertise ! Et l’enjeu est si grand ! Cela fait des années que Gloire vit pour cet speedy : me raconter le début de l’histoire à l’endroit même où tout a commencé. Mais c’est à moi, je le sais, d’encourager son récit. Je l’ai fait, hier soir déjà. Et ce matin, l’idée me plaît de l’écouter longtemps. À l. a. vue de l’île, mon désir de savoir est plus vif que jamais.

CE QU'EN PENSE l. a. CRITIQUE

Daniel Soil excelle [...] à mul­tiplier les détails concrets qui confèrent à ses personnages épaisseur et humanité ; et, pour traduire les plaisirs à jamais per­dus, son écriture se fait gour­mande, sensuelle. - Laurent Robert, Promotion des lettres

À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR

Après des études universitaires à Bruxelles, Daniel Soil (1949) enseigne pendant une douzaine d’années, avant de devenir responsable d’associations de jeunesse. Dès 1988, il travaille à los angeles promoting des créateurs belges francophones, dans divers can pay, avant de travailler pour los angeles politique de l’Enfance. Il est aujourd’hui Conseiller à los angeles Délégation Wallonie-Bruxelles au Maroc. Son prime roman, Vent faste (2000) a obtenu le Prix Jean Muno 2001 en Belgique. Il a aussi été lauréat en 2001 du competition du most efficient Roman à Chambéry.

a young, witty debut novel a couple of unmarried mom elevating her daughter one of the higher crust of recent York urban society within the overdue 20th century from a nine-time Moth StorySLAM champion.

Laura hails from the higher East aspect of new york, born into outdated cash, drifting aimlessly into her early thirties. One weekend in 1981 she meets Jefferson. the 2 sleep jointly. He vanishes. And Laura realizes she’s pregnant.

Enter: Emma.

Despite her revolutionary values, Laura increases Emma via herself within the comparable blue-blood international of personal colleges and summer season houses she grew up in, buoyed by way of a number of indelible characters, together with her eccentric mom, who informs her society neighbors and Emma herself that she was once fathered by way of a Swedish sperm donor; her brother, whose early life stutter reappears within the presence in their forbidding father; an incredibly sort male pediatrician; and her overbearing ally, whose lifestyles has the Park street script in each approach with the exception of childbearing. in the meantime, the apple falls faraway from the tree with Emma, who starts to query her surroundings in a fashion her mom by no means could.

Told in vignettes that mine the profound from the mundane, with meditations on every thing from intercourse and loss of life to insomnia and the catharsis of crying at the subway, a textured portrait emerges of a lady suffering to appreciate herself, her daughter, and the altering panorama of latest York urban within the eighties and nineties. Laura & Emma is an acutely insightful exploration of sophistication and family members battle from a brand new writer whose offbeat sensibility, understated wit, and classy prose rejoice the comedy and pathos that make us human.

Il sogno di Maya è di diventare una donna audace, coraggiosa, libera. Libera di viaggiare nel lontano Oriente di cui sin da bambina ha sentito raccontare dal padre, professore di storia a Oxford. Durante l'infanzia e l'adolescenza le lettere che il celebre esploratore Richard Francis Burton, il suo idolo incontrastato, le ha inviato da Bombay, alle spiagge di Goa e dalle montagne azzurre di Nilgiri, da Hyderabad e da Alessandria l'hanno nutrita dell'atmosfera e degli aromi di quei luoghi magici. Ma nell'Inghilterra di advantageous Ottocento una donna non solo non può sperare di studiare, ma nemmeno di andare alla scoperta di posti così lontani. A meno che non sposi un ufficiale in partenza proprio consistent with l'Arabia... Tuttavia, los angeles vita in Oriente non è come l'aveva sognata. E mai, soprattutto, Maya si sarebbe immaginata che sarebbe stata rapita dai predoni del deserto in keeping with ordine del sultano locale. Un'avventura da incubo, in cui in step withò conosce Rashad, il capo dei predoni, un uomo temibile e affascinante che segnerà il suo destino in step with sempre. l. a. luna colour zafferano è un'appassionante storia d'amore e al pace stesso è un romanzo che svela il mistero dell'Arabia descritto attraverso il deserto, i palazzi, i colori, l'atmosfera, i profumi, raccontati con uno stile suggestivo che restituisce l'immagine di un'epoca e che avvince il lettore dalla prima all'ultima pagina.