Ergebnis für "Dirt" in Belletristik

Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. When Lydia’s husband’s tell-all profile of Javier, the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city, is published, none of their lives will ever be the same.

Ich bin auf den Geschmack gekommen. Sie kann sich ruhig wehren. Es bringt ihr ohnehin nichts. Wenn ich etwas will, kenne ich keine Gnade und keine Zurückhaltung. Außerdem muss ich dringend mit ihr über die Sache mit dem Skalpell reden. Das war wirklich nicht nett und hat mir aufs Gemüt geschlagen. Sie weiß, wozu ich fähig bin, wenn ich gute Laune habe – und deswegen hätte sie sich wirklich vorher überlegen sollen, ob es klug ist, mich wütend zu machen…

Coming on the heels of his bestselling Choke, and Imperfect Strangers, Stuart Woods brings back one of his best loved characters, Stone Barrington, who most recently appears in New York Dead, in a fast paced, rollercoaster ride through the high-profile world of celebrity gossip. Feared and...

Brought to you by Penguin. When Ebby Freeman travels to France to take a three-month hiatus from her complicated home life, the last person she expects to find is her ex-fiancé Henry, with his new girlfriend in tow. Nearly twenty years earlier, the Freemans were the only African American family...

'I couldn't put it down. I'll never stop thinking about it' Ann Patchett 'One hell of a novel about a good woman on the run with her beautiful boy' Stephen King FEAR KEEPS THEM RUNNING. HOPE KEEPS THEM ALIVE. Vivid, visceral, utterly compelling, AMERICAN DIRT is the first novel to explore the...

Georgie Jutland is a mess. At 40, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrimination. One morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she sees a shadow drifting up the beach below - a loner called Luther Fox, with danger in his wake.

*Winner of the CWA New Blood Dagger 2023* 'A heart-wrenching mystery' – Jane Harper, author of The Dry Twelve year-old Esther Bianchi disappears on her way home from school in the small town of Durton – and the truth will not come easily. Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor is an atmospheric crime...

Nach dem Tod ihres Mannes bringt Eileen ihre Tochter allein durch und verzweifelt fast, als sich die Geschichte wiederholt und auch ihre eigene Tochter jung und unehelich Mutter wird. Doch in den Frauen der Familie Aylward stecken Kraft und Mut, und es reicht ihnen längst nicht, nur eine Nebenrolle im Leben zu spielen.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the multi-award-winning author of the number one bestseller, STRANGE FLOWERS, a searing, jubilant story about four generations of women and fierce love. The Aylward women of Nenagh, Tipperary, are mad about each other, but you wouldn't always think it. You'd have...

Mama say: "Your schooling is your voice, child. It will be speaking for you even if you didn't open your mouth to talk. It will be speaking till the day God is calling you come." That day, I tell myself that even if I am not getting anything in this life, I will go to school and become Teacher...

A standalone edition of Annie Proulx’s beloved story “Brokeback Mountain” (in the collection Close Range)—the basis for the major motion picture directed by Ang Lee, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. Annie Proulx has written some of...

Célian Laurent. Manhattan royalty. Notorious playboy. Heir to a media empire...and my new boss. I could have impressed him, if not for last month's unforgettable one-night stand. I left it with more than orgasms and a pleasant memory - namely, his wallet. Now he's staring me down like I'm the dirt under his Italian loafers, and I'm supposed to take it. But the thing about being Judith "Jude" Humphry is I have nothing to lose. Brooklyn girl. Infamously quirky. Heir to a stack of medical bills and a tattered couch.

Lydia Quijano Pérez vive en Acapulco, México, donde regenta una librería. Tiene un hijo de ocho años, Luca, el amor de su vida, y un maravilloso esposo que es periodista. Y aunque la situación en Acapulco comienza a agrietarse debido a los cárteles de la droga, Lydia lleva una vida confortable.

Le roman en tête des ventes aux USA ! Des coups de feu, des cris, des pleurs, des bruits de pas... Lydia tente d'étouffer les bruits en pressant la paume de ses mains sur les oreilles de son petit garçon, Luca. Ils n'ont aucune idée de ce qu'il se passe au-delà de la porte des toilettes dans lesquels ils se sont réfugiés. Quand le silence revient, ils sortent et découvrent le massacre. La fête de famille a viré au drame, tous les convives de la quinceanera sont morts, baignant dans leur sang, transpercés par les balles du cartel le plus puissant d'Acapulco.

Annie McIntyre has a love/hate relationship with Garnett, Texas. Recently graduated from college and home waitressing, lacking not in ambition but certainly in direction, Annie is lured into the family business—a private investigation firm—by her supposed-to-be-retired grandfather, Leroy, despite the rest of the clan’s misgivings.

“Guerra's portrayals of the principal female characters bring the story alive. Her natural-sounding delivery captures the intimate voices and personal stories of a strong-willed grandmother, a mother who is willing to adapt to 'fly-over country,' and a daughter who is injured during a...

Yellow dirt gathers in the creases of the toddler's dirty blue jeans and on the little hands used to brush away a pesky fly. The same yellow particles that cling to the walls of the Hogan, contaminates the drinking water and fills the air where his father works only to come home covered with yellow dust. Yellow dirt. That enriches the powerful, but at the expense of the unsuspecting Dine.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Runaways, written by Fatima Bhutto and read by Maya Saroya. Anita lives in Karachi's biggest slum. Her mother is a maalish wali, paid to massage the tired bones of rich women. But Anita's life will change forever when she meets her elderly neighbour...

Johnna LaGrange photographs death for a living. But when she gets the call that her younger sister Ori has vanished from their hometown of Sweetwater, North Carolina, the decay she's drawn to becomes chillingly personal. Returning to a town that never forgave her for surviving, Johnna finds her family in tatters—her mother drowning in vodka, her brother partying like nothing's wrong. Only Shannon, her ex turned detective, is willing to help. But as they dig into Ori's disappearance, buried memories start to surface.

Akiko couldn't abide little girls between three and ten years old - she detested them more than any other kind of human being. 'Fiery, beguiling stories' Paris Review 'The power of the artfully spun words make the reader shudder' Sayaka Murata 'The female writer I most admire among all the...