Ergebnis für "Angels" in Großstadtleben

Wenn das Schicksal dich ins Rampenlicht rückt, bleibst du… oder läufst du weg? Antonia Adams entstammt einem lieblosen Zuhause. Weder ihre Mutter noch ihr Vater haben ihr je Zuneigung geschenkt. So lernte Antonia unsichtbar zu sein und keine Aufmerksamkeit auf sich zu ziehen. Filme sind ihre...

There's a saying in Brooklyn that if you come from my part of town, you're from around the way. Around the Way Girls is a fast-paced look at the life of some street-smart women who think they know it all but are about to get the lessons of their lives.

Jealousy, envy, and pure hateration. Maybe you've been there? Maybe you know someone that's going through it? Whatever the case you know when things get rough you can always count on your Sister Girls to be there for you. Take a look inside the lives of Crystal, Susan, Jewell, and Elsie. Their lives are laced with love, lust, and loyalty. Crystal must deal with a past she can't escape. Susan is in denial and needs to get real. Jewell is looking for a "good man." And Elsie is confused about her sexuality. When their issues explode, each woman is forced to confront her life and herself.

PREMIO NADAL 2026. Por el autor de La península de las casas vacías. 3.ª EDICIÓN «Su porvenir ya es más grande que su pasado. La ciudad de las luces muertas es una delicia literaria.» Juan Cruz «Me ha gustado una barbaridad. Un desfile de personajes para mí muy entrañables y ya...

Sometimes bad things happen to good Angels... er, Angels who try to be good. So my adventures continue... but not as I'd hoped. The tables have turned. My crush/best friend has moved on. And my unhealthy infatuation--a half-breed demon--has been avoiding me. Time for a change of plans. If only I could erase my mind of all men and stop the recent streak of bad luck. But first I suppose I should figure out how to assist my fellow Angels with Earth's newest threat.

The long-awaited True to the Game IV arrives nineteen years after the last franchise installment with Quadir and Gena barely newlyweds before they're violently kidnapped, separated, and hunted across two continents by the FBI and a ruthless Italian crime family while their Philadelphia world...

Longlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2021 ‘Excellent, lucid, intelligent and gripping’ – Scotsman ‘An utterly riveting read’ – Guardian, Thriller of the Month 6 December 1993. A drug dealer called Scrappy is shot and left for dead on her mother’s lawn in South Central...

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE A big and big-hearted novel—one enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER...

Ava knew that her mother's emotions were destroyed, and the sack she was carrying was too heavy to carry around. Ava saw how religion positively transformed people, but sometimes it did the opposite. She wondered how it could mess up someone's mind. Ava didn't know whether her mom had depression, but she did know that her mom was using God as a shield to justify the adversities that were happening at that time.

The sweeping, unforgettable story of an interracial couple in 1990s New York City who are determined to protect their love against all odds—a reimagining of Romeo and Juliet “Triumphant . . . sensuous, tender, and faceted like cut glass.”—Cathy Park Hong, award-winning author...

Queen of Angels rollicks on the colorfully profane streets of 1970s New York amid comic romance, gangland violence, psychedelic drugs, and teenage heartbreak. Mick, the wild, drug-dealing son of a wealthy Irish surgeon, has fallen hard for Terri, a guilt-ridden 14-year-old from a poor Irish Catholic family. As a ruse to evade Terri's strict parents, the lovers join a production of Romeo and Juliet at Mick's school. They recruit Mick's brooding best friend Ferdinand and Terri's repressed older sister Helen, who are unexpectedly cast as Romeo and Juliet.

No uno de esos que le cuentas a tu amiga a los ocho años. No. Un secreto de los gordos, de los que llevas ocultando demasiado tiempo porque, de salir a la luz, toda tu vida podría cambiar en un segundo. Sofía quería estudiar Medicina. Tenía todo lo necesario para ello: entusiasmo y unas notas brillantes que le permitirían escoger carrera y universidad a su antojo. Hasta que aquello alteró todo su mundo. Pablo regresa a su ciudad natal después de cinco años huyendo de los recuerdos.

Arnie’s Angels is a fascinating book. Although science fiction, it is set in the near future: farmers still carry shotguns, criminals go to court in police vans, and people travel to Amsterdam by train.

Two sisters living in London’s tough East End … will Jennifer and Kathy be tough enough to survive? Katherine and Jennifer Finch are like chalk and cheese: Katherine is a midwife, dedicating her life to helping others – and Jennifer is a prostitute. Leaving home age 15, Jennifer must learn...

Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl meets P-Valley in Nic Stone’s adult thriller debut about two missing erotic dancers from Atlanta’s most notorious gentlemen’s club and the woman committed to finding them. When Damaris “Charm” Wilburn, a new daytime dancer, is missing for her shift at Boom...

It's the late 1980s and Gena, a young girl from the projects, meets millionaire drug dealer Quadir and falls madly in love. Quadir builds a massive empire while fighting his rivals and enemies. Gena faces the challenges of holding onto her man, her house, her car, and the cash. Both of them find...

The third and most explosive installment of the groundbreaking True to the Game trilogy will take you on a marathon race through the mean streets of Philly. Beginning where the second installment's dramatic cliffhanger left us, True III will finally reveal Gena's mysterious stalker and savior...

Serena is a Bermudan jazz singer whose demons lead her to abandon her daughter Artie. Artie's anger eventually drives her to Serena's younger lover, Jamie L'Heureux, a jazz superstar. The spirit of Charles Mingus thrums throughout the story as these two women tangle in a syncopated mother-daughter relationship.

A year after the AIDS-related death of filmmaker Clarence Laird, known to friends as Angel Clare, his young boyfriend, Michael, is still in deep mourning. Clarence’s older, sophisticated friends—male and female, gay and straight—find themselves the custodians of Michael, a callow kid they never liked much to begin with. What follows is a dark, intimate comedy about real grief and false grief, misunderstanding, friendship, love, and forgiveness.

Chicago cabbie Eddie Miles isn’t looking for trouble. He’s just trying to get through another tough night in a dangerous city. When he stumbles on a teenage prostitute left for dead, he finds himself unable to turn away.