Ergebnis für "Divorce" in Literatur & Belletristik

What is a happily ever after really worth? Naomi was living the quintessential love story. Boy meets girl. They fall in love, get married, buy a dream house, start a family . . . Then—he kicks her out, hires the city’s best divorce lawyers, drains their accounts, and takes up with a...

Isabel Walker has flown to Paris to offer moral support for Roxy, her pregnant stepsister. Roxy's husband, Charles-Henri, favorite son of a powerful French family, is having a love affair. Divorce seems imminent. When her entire family arrives to help with legal issues, Isabel feels intense pressure to keep everything from falling apart. And in the background, the unstable husband of Charles-Henri's lover lurks menacingly.

An addictive domestic drama set during one hot Stockholm summer that marks the American debut of #1 Swedish bestselling author Moa Herngren. “The collapse of a thirty-two-year marriage is depicted with an even hand in this book, which amounts to two parallel novels: one about a woman 'feverish...

THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY. WHICH ONE WILL YOU BELIEVE? 'Addictively readable. Absorbing, bittersweet' Pandora Sykes Gripping and emotional, THE DIVORCE explores the unravelling of a marriage from first the wife, then the husband's point of view. Together for more than thirty years, Bea...

"As narrator, the terrific Laser, an actress and puppeteer, only enhances the swoon-worthy quirks and romance." —Vulture A Today show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick, A Goodreads Choice Awards 2024 Winner, and long-listed in many Best of the Year 2024 picks! A propulsive and uncommonly wise...

When Zara Thompson throws herself a divorce party to celebrate her freedom from her unfaithful husband, she expects it to be the beginning of her new life. What she doesn't expect is for Marcus, her soon-to-be ex-husband, to crash the party with revelations that threaten to shatter everything she thought she knew. In one explosive night, Zara's carefully planned celebration spirals into chaos. A suspicious photo, a drunk therapist, an outspoken exotic dancer, and a series of shocking truths force her to question six months of certainty.

Charles Williams was one of The Inklings, an Oxford based group of writers which included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Although Williams' poetry was mainly influenced by his deeply held Christian faith, he also studied mysticism and had a great knowledge of and respect for the ideas and values of the classical world. Divorce (1920) is Williams' third book of poetry following Poems of Conformity which is also available on Librivox. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)

Au cœur de l'été caniculaire de Stockholm, Bea attend avec impatience les vacances familiales sur l'île de Gotland. Après une année stressante, elle veut passer du temps avec Niklas, son mari depuis trente ans, et leurs deux filles adolescentes. La veille du départ, une dispute éclate et Niklas quitte la maison. Bea s'attend à ce qu'il revienne après quelques heures, mais il ne réapparaît pas, et laisse sa famille partir seule pour Gotland.

Onze ans se sont écoulés depuis que Sarah Morgan, brillante avocate, a défendu son mari, Adam, accusé du meurtre de sa maîtresse. Après avoir découvert que Bob avait eu une aventure d'un soir, Sarah n'hésite pas à demander le divorce. Cependant, au beau milieu de leur séparation houleuse, de nouvelles preuves ADN sont découvertes dans l'affaire contre Adam, obligeant la police à rouvrir l'enquête et replaçant Sarah sous les feux des projecteurs.

Dan Starkey is a young journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife, Patricia, a prodigious appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets a beautiful and apparently impoverished student. And then, terrifyingly, she is murdered. Is it because she was not exactly who she claimed to be? Is...

Nine essential works by C. S. Lewis in one deluxe audio edition: Mere Christianity The Screwtape Letters The Great Divorce Miracles The Problem of Pain A Grief Observed The Abolition of Man The Weight of Glory George MacDonald...

"The Great Divorce" by C. S. Lewis is a thought-provoking and imaginative exploration of the afterlife. The novel follows a group of souls who are given the opportunity to leave their miserable existence in Hell and travel to Heaven. Along the way, they encounter a variety of characters and obstacles that test their understanding of morality, redemption, and the nature of God.

Geraldine Borden has realized that there's one thing her bottomless wealth can't grant her: children. When an attempt to remedy her infertility fails, she's left with nothing but rage, jealousy, and a murderous idea. She aims to take a place that all children adore and transform it into a twisted arena of carnage. And while her true masterpiece is still under construction, she seeks to entertain herself with a crude prototype filled with barbaric backyard games. Several children from a small New England city have gone missing under mysterious circumstances.

When love turns to hate - that's where I come in. I'm Halton Andrew Smithers, attorney. Hal to my clients and friends. Messy divorces, deadbeat dads, runaway wives, cheating partners - I handle them all. I know the seedy side of love, and it isn't pretty. I avoid emotional attachments - I've seen all too often when hot passion turns to frozen tundra. I satisfy myself with helping people behind the scenes. It gives me a sense of satisfaction that completes my life. Until she enters it and everything I believe is turned upside down. She fills a void I never knew existed.

FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE ONE OF...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB “For all those who crave a good page-turner, this is one wild ride of a story that carries equal parts wit and wisdom. I learned so much about Stoicism—I laughed out loud for real. And underneath the humor there was always...

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Brooklyn: the iconic classic. Read by the star of the Oscar and BAFTA-nominated film adaptation, Saoirse Ronan. The classic novel that inspired the major motion picture. The prequel to Colm Tóibín's bestselling novel, Long Island. In a small town in 1950s Ireland Eilis Lacey is one among many...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A darkly comic and warm-hearted novel about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush—bringing together his adult daughter, two orphaned kids, and a cat who can predict death—by the beloved author of Rabbit Cake and Unlikely Animals...

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle reminds us that comedy...