Ergebnis für "Amy" in Literatur & Belletristik

Camden Harris, the famously hot, hulk of a footballer is laid up in a London hospital. But his busted knee doesn't stop him from running his well-practiced game on Indie Porter - his redheaded spitfire of a doctor. She's not his type, not even close. But she could be the perfect distraction from the soul-crushing damage this injury could cost him.

Sie waren beste Freunde, bis sie Mitbewohner wurden …. Als Kinder verbrachten Poppy McAdams und Booker Harris jede freie Minute miteinander. Als Teenager behielt Poppy ihre Gefühle für den charmanten, gut aussehenden Booker für sich. Dann verließ sie London, um in Deutschland zu studieren. Sechs Jahre hat sie ihn nicht gesehen. Nun kehrt Poppy zurück und nimmt Bookers Angebot, bei ihm vorübergehend zu wohnen, an. Booker stockt der Atem, als Poppy immer noch strahlend wie früher vor ihm steht. Aus dem unbeholfenen Mädchen von einst ist eine umwerfende Frau geworden.

For decades, a quartet of Chinese women who have emigrated to San Francisco gather to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk—they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Over the years, their stories have informed the lives of four daughters who feel the weight of family and world history on their shoulders. With wit and sensitivity, this novel explores the deep, complicated, and sometimes painful connections between mothers and daughters.

He should've known he wouldn't win going up against the best. Everyone knew I was the most popular in the brothel. There was no point pretending otherwise. In a shameless act of revenge, he had the guards called and had me arrested for offending the man who'd chosen me over him. They, in turn, sold me off to the barbarians.

Für die Story ihres Lebens riskiert sie alles. Diese Story ist die Chance ihres Lebens: Cecily darf als Erste den berühmten Bergsteiger Charles McVeigh interviewen, nachdem dieser innerhalb eines Jahres alle vierzehn Achttausender bestiegen hat. Die Sache hat nur einen Haken: Cecily bekommt das Interview erst, wenn sie mit ihm den letzten Gipfel, den Manaslu, erklommen hat. Die kleine Gruppe macht sich auf den Weg, da kommt es im Basislager zu einem tragischen Unfall.

A simmering, provocative novel about a couple whose affair with a young Greek woman over the course of a summer in Athens threatens to crack their relationship wide open “The type of book you’ll want to gulp down in one breathless sitting . . . A summer in Athens? Check. Millennial malaise?...

For decades — in China and in San Francisco — Winnie Louie and Helen Kwong have kept each other's confidences, but those secrets are about to be revealed. Convinced that she is dying, Helen decides to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of hidden truths — not only hers, but those of Winnie and of Winnie's daughter, Pearl.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother, and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's secrets. “One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar...

Alexander Benedict is a misanthropic thirty-something magical consultant, working with the Agency's top homicide detective, and perfectly content with his life, thank you very much. Julian St. Albans is the youthful heir to his family's fortune and affiancéd to his beloved Cecil Mandeville, a family friend as well as Julian's lover. When Mandeville is murdered using magical means, Alex is brought in on the case. It's the worst day of Julian's life, but until they meet, it's just another case for Alex. Neither of them have any idea how their lives are about to change.

Perhaps this concealment, this disguise, was beneath me… It is done, however, and it was done for the best. Elizabeth Bennet, walking in Kent the day after Mr Darcy’s proposal meets with an unfortunate mishap. A meeting with an adder has disastrous consequences for her and when she wakes from a period of unconsciousness, she has no memory at all of the last ten months of her life. To her complete shock she learns that she is engaged to a man called Darcy, a man she has no recollection of meeting before.

Travis Keeping, Star der Formel 1, hat den Titel fest im Blick – als sein heimlicher Freund, der aufstrebende Formel-2-Fahrer Jacob Nichols, bei einem Rennen schwer verunglückt. Während Jacob um sein Leben ringt, kämpft Travis mit sinkenden Leistungen auf der Rennstrecke und gegen den erbitterten Widerstand von Jacobs queerfeindlichen Eltern. Travis hofft, dass alles wieder gut wird, sobald Jacob aus dem Koma erwacht. Doch er ahnt nicht, wie weitreichend der Einfluss von Jacobs Familie ist – und wie sehr sich ihr Leben bereits verändert hat.

After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life.

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident - or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court. Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion.

Er hat sie zurückgewiesen. Sie hasst ihn. Können sie eine Beziehung vortäuschen? Der Fußballer Tanner Harris ist dafür bekannt, mit sämtlichen Damen Londons ins Bett zu steigen, doch die attraktive Neonatalchirurgin Dr. Belle Ryan ist tabu für ihn. Als er von den Paparazzi erwischt wird – splitterfasernackt und mit seinem besten Stück in der Hand – ist ausgerechnet sie die Einzige, die er um Hilfe bitten kann. Belle dachte einst nach einem heißen Flirt mit Tanner, dass der bärtige Bad Boy perfekt wäre, um mit ihm Stress abzubauen.

Every year, a woman from each town is chosen as a tribute to the barbarian clans to keep the peace, never to be seen or heard from again. The rumors about the barbarian clans were horrific. It was a sentence worse than death. I never thought they'd choose me. But when my brother betrays me by telling my father about my interest in men, he decides to throw me to the wolves to spare our family the shame—making me the first male tribute.

“A hilariously fresh and spicy rom-com that I couldn’t put down!” -Meghan Quinn, USA Today Bestselling Author Help Wanted: Grumpy mountain man seeks baby momma. Job is an incubator position only. Surrogate must be impervious to grunting as the form of communication and nosy brotherly...

A People magazine must-read of summer! ""Suiter Clarke paints a devastating portrait of a cultlike institution and a town in its thrall. It’s even worse than we imagined."" — New York Times Book Review A young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown, where a radical evangelical...

'Tis the Season is a collection of stories inspired by the beloved characters of Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice.

Fact or fiction: proposing to your best friend so she can inherit her family business is a great idea. When Addison “Roe” Monroe tells me she’s going on a husband hunt at the local lumberjack competition so she can inherit her father’s lumberyard, desperate times call for desperate...

"Deliciously funny and spicy." -Elsie Silver, New York Times bestselling author Alone and Looking to Bone! Loudmouthed Mountain Man Seeks Fiery Woman to Grow Old With. I might look like a tall, tattooed, bearded neanderthal...but like an onion, I have layers. Swipe right if you like a proud cat...