Marina: 920 books

Este libro es un peculiar tratado de psicología. Se ocupa de las fuentes del mal. Es un ensayo de espeleología íntima, de descenso al núcleo ígneo del volcán humano. La conciencia moral ha trabajado durante muchos siglos sobre sí misma, perforando galerías en la roca amorfa de nuestra intimidad....

"In The Middlepause Benjamin deftly and brilliantly examines the losses and unexpected gains she experienced in menopause. Menopause is a mind and body shift as monumental and universal as puberty, yet far less often discussed, especially in public, which is what makes Benjamin's work here so urgently...

A new romance by Marina Oliver. London 1906. Livvy faces several battles. Patients will not accept her as a 'proper' doctor. Politicians will not grant votes to women. And she can never marry Sir James while their beliefs are so different: he thinks letting women vote is wrong, and would never...

  An unpredictable and innovative debut novel from a provocative new voice in Australian fiction. Embracing the noir tradition and featuring a prose style quite unlike any before, with references that will go both over your head and under your feet, Pink Mountain on Locust Island will flip...

A short novella by Marina Oliver, author of 60+ novels. Coming out of the shower in her borrowed apartment, Rezia is confronted by a very angry - but very blond and attractive - young man. She expected her photographic commission in New York to be exciting - but not this exciting! Klaus...

"This is one of the best books I have read on the subject" The Sun "Fresh, witty and reassuringly down-to-earth" You Magazine Fed up with advice that did not take into account a less than perfect pregnancy, Dr Chiara Hunt and Marina Fogle set up their pregnancy course, The...

SINOSSI DE "NELLA SPIRALE DEI SENSI" DI MARINA FABBRI Aurora è una donna di sani principi morali, innamoratissima del suo fidanzato Paolo. Con lui, suo primo e unico amore, vive un rapporto sentimentale romantico, nel quale il sesso ne è solo un'inevitabile, dolce conseguenza. Aurora...

The fame of Joan of Arc began in her lifetime and, though it has dipped a little now and then, she has never vanished from view. Her image acts as a seismograph for the shifts and settlings of personal and political ideals: Joan of Arc is the heroine every movement has wanted as their figurehead....

Miles Talbot, spy, is sent to England by the exiled Charles II in the mid-1650s, to sound out what support there is for a restoration. He meets Cherry Weston, a beautiful and wealthy young widow who holds many entertainments for Parliamentarians at the time of the Parliament of the Saints. Among her...

" .. .1 have no love for life as such; for me it begins to have significance, i.e., to acquire meaning and weight, only when it is transformed, i.e., in art. If I were taken beyond the sea­ into paradise-and forbidden to write, I would refuse the sea and paradise. I don't need life as a thing...

During the Stalin years Russia had four great poets to voice the feelings of her oppressed people: Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetayeva. The first two survived the terror, but Mandelstam died in a camp and Tsvetayeva was driven to hang herself in 1941. This comprehensive selection...

A brand new regency romance from Marina Oliver, author of over 60 books. When Joanna finds herself destitute after her gambler father's suicide, unable to find work, and is offered instead a marriage of convenience, she sees no other option. Sir Kenelm needs a wife as a chaperone, since governesses...

New Regency from Marina Oliver. Brigid has no money, but her unknown family appear to come to her rescue. Is the offer of a home an escape or a trap? Brigid, orphaned, becomes companion and friend to Sophia. When Sophia's brother Matthew proposes, she cannot take him seriously. He must not be allowed...

A new Regency from Marina Oliver When his half-brother is injured, Silas determines to take his place and go back to England to claim John's inheritance. They are almost the same age and look alike. Silas's mother Jenny was John's wet-nurse, and still lives near the Priory. He sails on the...