Lia: 410 books

“All about looking: at a landscape, at language, at a sign . . . Purpura goes beneath the surface, writing not just about what she sees but what it means.” —Los Angeles Times   Lia Purpura’s essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they’re also deliciously subversive...

From Bestselling author, Lia Fairchild... When all you've known are lies, how do you face the truth? My past was a bitch. Now it's come back to haunt me. After months apart, Daniel and I are finally trying to make our relationship work. But my lies run deeper than either of us...

From Top 10 Bestselling Author, Lia Fairchild Lexy’s apartment is a dump, but she refuses to move in with her controlling fiancé. Instead, she takes matters into her own hands, getting down and dirty to fix things. Then Tate, the super’s sexy son, shows up. Lexy and Tate spar over the...

A powerful new collection from poet, essayist, and frequent New Yorker contributor Lia Purpura Lia Purpura has won national acclaim as both a poet and an essayist. The exquisitely rendered poems in this, her fourth collection, reach back to an early affinity for proverbs and riddles and the...

Readers familiar with Lia Purpura’s highly praised essay collections—Becoming, On Looking, and Rough Likeness—will know she’s a master of observation, a writer obsessed with the interplay between humans and the things they see. The subject matter of All the Fierce Tethers is wonderfully varied,...

Vencedor do Prêmio Jabuti em 1978, O Coração Disparado consagrou a autora como a voz mais feminina da poesia brasileira. Nele, Adélia aprofunda um dos temas que se tornariam marca de sua obra: a religiosidade. "A experiência religiosa é uma experiência poética. A poesia aponta para o...

" Soudain, la réalité me frappe... Je meurs ... " Aucune question sur le passé. Seul l’avenir compte. C’est ce qu’elle croyait... Après un terrible accident, Zoé, jeune photographe de vingt-cinq ans, fait ses valises pour New York. Là-bas, elle...

" Soudain, la réalité me frappe... Je meurs ... " Aucune question sur le passé. Seul l’avenir compte. C’est ce qu’elle croyait... Après un terrible accident, Zoé, jeune photographe de vingt-cinq ans, fait ses valises pour New York. Là-bas, elle espère...

Un viaggio per tappe dentro quei luoghi magici del turboconsumismo dai quali la recessione rischia di sbatterci fuori. Bisogna imparare a muoversi con circospezione. Lia Celi lo sa perfettamente e la sua satira, divertentissima e sferzante, è anche un modo intelligente per ironizzare sul nostro ruolo...

«Hombre versus Mujer. Mujer versus Hombre. Cerebros en lucha.» «Con ser necesarias las diferencias entre los sexos para propiciar los conflictos, no son suficientes ¿A qué se debe pues, a día de hoy, este conflicto de sexos en la especie humana? Creo que la acción precipitante hay que...

Quando a fé se deixa manipular, pessoas viram presas fáceis de toda sorte de abuso. A confiança autêntica e sincera em Deus é gradualmente substituída pela submissão acrítica aos desmandos de lideranças despreparadas. Carentes de acolhimento são habilmente capturados pela manipulação emocional...

Quand l’arrivée d’un garçon mystérieux chamboule tout…« Il y a eu ce garçon. Bleu. Bleue était son âme. Bleu était son cœur. Bleus étaient ses yeux, même si, aux yeux des autres, ils apparaissaient bruns. Mais moi, je les savais bleus car ils contenaient l’infini. »À son arrivée...

'Lia straightened, rubbing her bum, the tears trickling down her face. She'd had much worse beatings since she became a slave to the Bikers, but almost never one so humiliating; the stinging in her bottom eclipsed by her extreme embarrassment as she glanced around at the leering customers.' Submissive...

Rosalie has everything a lady could possibly want, except someone to share her life with. The problem is, she's been cursed to search for her one true mate. Granted, she was created to have sex and inspire sexual mastery in others, so she doesn't mind a little trial and error. But then there's...