Ergebnis für "Alice" in Großstadtleben

Ce lundi-là, l'énigmatique propriétaire du Café Marble à Tokyo organise une dégustation de thé. Caché sous les cerisiers qui changent de couleur au fil des saisons, ce havre de paix se transforme alors en un lieu magique où l'amertume du matcha vient apaiser celle de l'existence. Alors qu'un chat blanc comme neige observe paisiblement les étonnants humains qui l'entourent, le Café Marble devient le lieu de rencontres insolites qui vont bouleverser la vie de ceux qui en ouvrent la porte.

Dissimulé à l'ombre des cerisiers qui bordent la rivière du quartier, le Café Marble à Tokyo ne compte que trois petites tables en bois brut. Et pourtant, les clients se succèdent dans ce havre de paix où les habitués peuvent contempler le passage des saisons à travers la baie vitrée. Une mystérieuse femme qui vient chaque jeudi y rédiger une longue lettre en anglais devant une tasse de chocolat chaud ; une brillante publicitaire complètement dépassée par son rôle de mère ; une jeune institutrice qui cherche un sens à son travail.

Grazie all'incontro con Alice, la sua indimenticabile ex, a quarant'anni dalla fine della loro relazione, gli eventi del passato ritornano alla memoria del protagonista. Egli ripercorre le tappe di una fase importante della sua vita: dalle difficoltà scolastiche e relazionali con l'altro sesso, all'amore per Viola, la ragazza che per prima lo aveva fatto innamorare, fino a giungere - appunto - ad Alice, un amore importante, che lo porterà a un'evoluzione profonda e a una maggiore fiducia in sé stesso.

Bells is always writing to her sister Katie, but Katie never replies. Preoccupied with her glamorous career in fashion, her busy life and her boyfriend Sam, she just doesn't have the time. Then Bells announces that she's coming to stay. She's not a secret exactly, but. . . Sam doesn't know she...

Moulin Rouge meets The Greatest Showman in this romance between a vaudeville star and a showbiz tycoon who find love at the turn of the twentieth century—framed by mischievous commentary of a contemporary young historian. It’s 1897, and a new fashion for thin threatens to end the career of...

Alice is the friend you wish you had. The girl who makes a party more fun, drinks wine out of a mug and makes you laugh while you’re crying over an ex. Alice is totally happy, everything is amazing, and there is nothing at all to worry about. Except, well: her job was really great—10 years ago. She is in love with her best friend. Her credit card bills are under her bed unopened.... But maybe the biggest problem for Alice is that she has a secret. A secret so big she can’t tell anyone.

'Will stick with you long after you've left the page. A triumph!' Yomi Adegoke, author of THE LIST 'Combined my favourite things, art and Caribbean food, with beautiful, nuanced characters that I could have spent a lifetime with.' Nathan Bryon, screenwriter of RYE LANE In one tiny Caribbean...

Three perfect strangers who help each other to believe in love again Holly's husband died, and she’s lonely. She needs to do something to save herself, quickly. Next thing she knows she’s interviewing for a voluntary cooking job, surprised to be ambushed by a scruffy man who looks like he...

It's the mid-'90s, and rebellion is in the air. Skylark is an activist, a raver, a tree-dweller, a world-changer. Handsome, dependable Dan appears on the scene, offering her the security she has never had. When they fall in love, she shows him a new way to live; he will never be the same. But Dan has a secret, which Skylark must never, ever know. A secret so powerful that its fault-lines run from their ordinary council flat right up to the highest echelons of the state.

Years ago, a desperate widow was left an inheritance to kill for. Three organized crime families had to hide their assets, and their accountant had a desperate widow and limited time live, so he devised a way to steal their money. To his surprise, it worked. Eighty years later, the powerful families are in a war for their legacy, when they discover the widow's debt. Everyone on both sides of the law wants the money, but where do they look?

Brought to you by Penguin. Love is messy. Love can make us feel alive. It can also bring us down. Sometimes we look for it in all the wrong places. This is a novel about longing, desire and dreams; about passion and risk and all the places in between. Maggie is pregnant with Circus Palmer's...

Bloomsbury presents Please Don't Touch the Body by Emily Doyle, read by Alice Dodd and Daniel Henning “A magnificent debut” (Laila Lalami) that explores loneliness and community, religion and repression, and the pleasure and pain of womanhood. By turns tender and irreverent, the 11...

When a beautiful piece of music stirs mega-tycoon Maximilian West, he remembers the women who have loved him and shaped his life. So begins a dazzling tale, taking us from the streets of London to the suites of New York, from the rise of Nazi Germany to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Strong, powerful, enigmatic, aloof, and adoring - many women made Maximilian the man with everything, but there is only one woman who can make him feel truly alive.