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Taylor Jenkins Reid

    20 dicembre 1983

    Taylor Jenkins Reid crea romanzi avvincenti che approfondiscono le complessità delle relazioni umane e le dinamiche della vita delle celebrità. Il suo stile è noto per la profonda esplorazione della psicologia dei personaggi, impiegando spesso molteplici prospettive per scoprire strati di desiderio, ambizione e vulnerabilità. Reid crea narrazioni immersive che risuonano con i lettori a lungo dopo l'ultima pagina. Le sue opere sono una celebrazione delle complessità dell'amore, della perdita e della ricerca dell'identità.

    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    Carrie Soto Is Back
    Atmosphere
    Tu, io e tutto il tempo del mondo
    After I do. Ti lascio per non perderti
    Daisy Jones & The Six
    I sette mariti di Evelyn Hugo
    • Daisy Jones & The Six

      • 352pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      Il bestseller che ha scaldato le classifiche inglesi e americane. Un libro incredibilmente originale. Il romanzo più rock dell'anno. Daisy Jones & The Six: il gruppo rock più mitico di tutti i tempi. I loro concerti riempivano gli stadi in tutto il mondo, le loro canzoni hanno acceso le notti di un'intera generazione. La loro storia è il racconto di un'ascesa folgorante, dalle prime esibizioni nei peggiori locali di Los Angeles al successo planetario. È l'incarnazione stessa di un'epoca e di uno stile di vita - sesso, droga e rock'n'roll. È la sintesi di un'alchimia perfetta, non solo sul palco: l'amore tra Daisy Jones - la splendida vocalist, spirito libero e inafferrabile - e Billy Dunne, il frontman carismatico e dannato. Eppure, il 12 luglio 1979, dopo un concerto memorabile, il gruppo è scoppiato. Nessuno ha mai saputo perché... Fino a oggi. Musicisti della band, manager, fan, parenti e amanti: sono tutti testimoni di questa storia, ma ognuno ha la sua versione dei fatti. E oggi, a quarant'anni di distanza, sono finalmente pronti a raccontarla. Un romanzo a più voci che crea una leggenda. Una geniale prova d'autore. Una lettura che ci rende inevitabilmente fan di una band di cui poi vorremo ascoltare ogni singola canzone.

      Daisy Jones & The Six
      4,2
    • An epic novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program and the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilots Hank Redmond and John Griffin; mission specialist Lydia Danes; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer. As the new astronauts prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined and begins to question everything she believes about her place in the observable universe.Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant.Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars.

      Atmosphere
      4,4
    • Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father, Javier, as her coach. A former champion himself, Javier has trained her since the age of two. But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning player named Nicki Chan. At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked “the Battle-Axe” anyway. Even if her body doesn’t move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever. In spite of it all, Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells her most vulnerable, emotional story yet.

      Carrie Soto Is Back
      4,2
    • The Bewitching

      • 354pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      Three women in different eras confront danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga. Nana Alba often recounted tales of witches to her great-granddaughter Minerva, shaping her fascination with horror literature. Now a graduate student, Minerva is researching Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure author known for macabre tales. As she assembles her thesis, Minerva discovers that Tremblay's famous novel, The Vanishing, was inspired by true events from the Great Depression. Tremblay, who attended the same university as Minerva, became obsessed with her beautiful and mysterious roommate, who vanished under enigmatic circumstances. As Minerva delves deeper into Tremblay's manuscript, she feels a sinister presence reminiscent of the malign force that haunted Tremblay and the missing girl. These unsettling occurrences echo Nana Alba's stories of her girlhood in early 1900s Mexico, where she had a chilling encounter with a witch. Minerva suspects that the same dark shadow that plagued her great-grandmother and Beatrice Tremblay now threatens her in 1990s Massachusetts. The pursuit of an academic career can be grueling, but it may become deadly when witchcraft is involved.

      The Bewitching
      4,1
    • A love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who has finally brought her back to life

      One True Loves
      4,1
    • August, 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together, the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over-especially as the offspring of the legendary singer, Mick Riva.By midnight the party will be completely out of control.By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames.But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family's generations will all come bubbling to the surface. (goodreads.com)

      Malibu Rising
      4,0
    • Maybe in Another Life

      • 336pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      From the acclaimed author of Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a breathtaking novel about a young woman whose fate hinges on the choice she makes after bumping into an old flame; in alternating chapters, we see two possible scenarios unfold--with stunningly different results At the age of twenty-nine, Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. She has lived in six different cities and held countless jobs since graduating college. On the heels of leaving another city, Hannah moves back to her hometown of Los Angeles and takes up residence with her best friend Gabby. Shortly after, Hannah goes out to a bar one night with Gabby and meets up with her high school boyfriend, Ethan. Just after midnight, Gabby asks Hannah if she's ready to go. A moment later, Ethan offers to give her a ride later if she wants to stay. Hannah hesitates. What happens if she leaves with Gabby? What happens if she leaves with Ethan? In concurrent story lines, Hannah lives out the effects of each decision. Quickly, these parallel universes develop into radically different stories with large-scale consequences for Hannah, as well as the people around her. As the two alternate realities run their course, Maybe in Another Life raises questions about fate and true love: Is anything meant to be? Is there such a thing as a soul mate? Hannah believes there is. And, in both worlds, she's found him.

      Maybe in Another Life
      3,9
    • Emmas Herz. Roman

      • 400pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      An ihrem Hochzeitstag erhält Emma die Nachricht vom Hubschrauberabsturz ihres Mannes Jesse, der für tot erklärt wird. Während sie mit Sam, ihrem Jugendfreund, ein neues Leben beginnt und sich in ihn verliebt, erhält sie kurz nach ihrer Verlobung einen Anruf, der alles verändert.

      Emmas Herz. Roman