Ergebnis für "Dancer" in Psychologie

Part romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love. Now with a new introduction from the author. K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments...

Now a major television series starring Russel Hornsby, Arielle Kebbel, and Michael Imperioli, “Lincoln Rhyme is more relentless than ever” (People) and Jeffery Deaver delivers “supercharged tension” (USA TODAY) in this New York Times bestselling suspense masterwork. NYPD criminalist...

When he was a little boy, there was a house behind Alex Lowry's house. Except he was the only one who could see it. Only he could hear the woman singing from within. Decades later, after the pandemic costs Alex his corporate job, he picks up work delivering specialty items to homebound clientele and, against all odds, he realizes he enjoys his new life. His world is simpler. Quieter. Until he once more hears the tuneless, wordless song of the woman from the house behind.

When Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer living on Cape Cod, awakes with a gruesome hangover, a painful tattoo on his upper arm, and a severed female head in his marijuana stash, he has almost no memory of the night before. As he reconstructs the missing hours, Madden runs afoul of retired prizefighters, sex addicts, mediums, former cons, a world-weary ex-girlfriend, and his own father, old now but still a Herculean figure.

South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami’s most touching novels. Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up...

In a world of beauty, a ceramic-made ballerina awakens atop her music box. She must dance for her elven owners, and so her ballet goes on and on. They praise her elegance, her poise and balance, until one day she falls and her ceramic fractures—but the ballerina dances again, ignoring her ever-increasing fissures. The music plays, captivating and demanding... but should she dance? Even when what she once loved becomes a trap? A clever, dark, psychological fairy tale for adult listeners.

Dance of the Heart follows Michael Baldwin—a gifted ballet dancer chasing his dreams in New York and Chicago. Outwardly, he’s built the perfect life: a successful career, a loving partner, and a new dream home on the shores of Lake Michigan. But when a beautiful new dance partner enters his world, Michael is forced to confront desires and emotions he never expected. In this heartfelt and emotionally charged journey of self-discovery, Michael finds himself caught between loyalty and longing, between the life he's built and the truth awakening inside him.

Kate is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world, a world she can’t help satirizing even as she balances injury and self-doubt to maintain her place within it. At every turn she is haunted by her close relationship with her younger sister, Gwen, a fellow company dancer whose career quickly surpassed Kate’s but who has recently suffered a breakdown and returned home to Michigan. Alone for the first time in her life, Kate is anxious and full of guilt about the role she played in her sister’s collapse.

J. P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker, two of New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance’s most acclaimed series characters, join forces for the first time in one of the most suspenseful works of her career. Years ago, Amos Warren, a prospector, was gunned down out in the desert and Sheriff...

A suspense novel concerning Lieutenant Frank Mooney's quest to find the killer who has robbed, raped and murdered several New York women. The killer, and his female accomplice, realize someone is copying them and track down a second murderer. Written by the author of City of the Dead.

Molly Arnette is very good at keeping secrets. She and her husband live in San Diego, where they hope to soon adopt a baby. But the process terrifies her. As the questions and background checks come one after another, Molly worries that the truth she's kept hidden about her North Carolina...

Paris, 1978. A single misstep ends Elise’s ballet career; a lifetime of listening in other ways has made Adrien—a deaf painter—fluent in motion. When they meet by chance, brush and breath find a shared rhythm. Through gestures, sketches, and rehearsals held in silence, they learn that beauty isn’t perfection—it’s persistence. As Elise relearns balance and Adrien studies the music inside stillness, their collaboration becomes a series of four portraits—Stillness, Air, Ache, Peace—that map the arc of recovery and the language of love.

Eigentlich ist alles wie immer; Joy mag nur One-Night-Stands, Leonard bangt als alleinerziehender Vater um seinen Job, Violetta ist einsam und unglücklich, Martin reich und unglücklich, und Emma K. lebt mit ihren 91 Jahren zwischen dem Jetzt und Früher. Sie alle wohnen in einer Straße an der Küste und haben nichts miteinander zu tun. Aber nur solange, bis der Mensch begreift, dass er geliebt werden will und damit auf sich selbst zurückgeworfen wird.

A ballerina spirals into a world of lust and luxury in this new addictive novel by Melanie Hamrick, author of First Position. Jocelyn Banks has always felt like an outsider in the ballet world. She was raised in rural Louisiana, taught to scrap and hustle for the life she wanted. And ever since...

A dancer’s fall from grace ignites a dark ambition in this propulsive novel about the seductive, cutthroat world of professional ballet by debut author Melanie Hamrick. Five years into her career at the North American Ballet, Sylvie Carter has come a long way from the girl she once was—the...