Ergebnis für "Falling Over Sideways" in Literatur & Belletristik

To the small town of Landmark Mountain, Callum Landmark is a man of few words and is considered to be the family grump. Uninvited and unexpected, I crash into his world like a wrecking ball and disrupt the delicate balance of his carefully constructed existence. Forced to live together due to my life's unexpected adventure, I find that the more time I spend with him, the more I see beneath his impenetrable exterior and into the heart of the man that not many are privileged to witness.

Alexander de la Grip is known in the tabloids and gossip blogs as a rich, decadent, jet-setting playboy who spends most of his days recovering from the night before. With a string of beautiful conquests, he seems to care about nothing and no one. Isobel Sørensen has treated patients in refugee camps and war zones, and is about to depart Sweden for a pediatric hospital in Chad.

Hailee DeLuca hat einen Plan: Die Zeit, in der sie sich zu Hause verkrochen und vor der Welt versteckt hat, ist vorbei. Sie will mutig sein und sich trauen, all die Dinge zu tun, vor denen sie sich früher immer zu sehr gefürchtet hat. Doch dann lernt sie Chase Whittaker kennen - und weiß augenblicklich, dass sie ein Problem hat. Denn mit seiner charmanten Art weckt Chase Gefühle in ihr, die sie längst verloren geglaubt hat. Und nicht nur das. Er kommt damit ihrem dunkelsten Geheimnis viel zu naheDie neue Reihe von Bianca Iosivoni: emotional, romantisch, herzzerreißend!

Mit seiner sprachlichen Kunst und seiner packenden Erzählweise gelingt es Don DeLillo in "Falling Man", das scheinbar Unsagbare überzeugend in Worte zu fassen. New York in Asche und Rauch am 11. September. In eindringlichen Bildern zeichnet DeLillo den Ablauf der Ereignisse nach: Von den Tätern zu den Opfern, von Hamburg nach New York. In unvergesslichen Szenen entsteht das Leben einer Familie nach der Katastrophe, die berührende Geschichte einer Liebe ohne Zukunft. Karg und klar ist DeLillos Blick für die geheimen Details des Alltags, die in jedem noch so unscheinbaren Augenblick die Zerbrechlichkeit des Ganzen ahnen lassen.

Dr. Jordan Williams devotes her life to two things: saving patients in the operating room and pleasuring her latest conquest in the bedroom. Her idea of commitment is spending a few hours together in bed. Single mom Emma Larson is Jordan’s polar opposite. Family and fidelity mean everything to her. After an ugly divorce from her wife, a plastic surgeon, she and her five-year-old daughter move in next door to Jordan. While she finds Jordan undeniably attractive, falling in love with another womanizing surgeon is the last things she needs.

‘Amazing . . . Intense suspense, shocks and scares plus chilling insider authenticity make this one very special’ LEE CHILD 'FALLING is the best kind of thriller (for me as a reader anyway). Characters you care deeply about. Nonstop, totally authentic suspense' JAMES PATTERSON ‘Attention...

Twenty-year-old Karina is proud of the independent life she is trying to create for herself in Ft. Benning, Georgia. A dutiful officer’s daughter, supportive sister to a troubled twin brother, and caring friend to her roommate, Elodie, Karina always puts the needs of others ahead of her own and prides herself on being a fixer of broken things—whether it’s the house she’s just bought or the fragmented family she works hard to keep intact. Like anyone who has grown up around an army base, Karina also knows the background noise that follows men and women home from war.

Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. There is September 11 and then there are the days...

It all started with a lube mishap, a torrential downpour, and an unwelcome guest in my new condo. How was I to know that the sexy man I threw my wet bra at wasn’t an intruder? Leo is my brother’s best friend and an eternal bachelor who makes my blood boil in all the ways it shouldn’t. Sharing a condo? It’s a disaster waiting to happen. To make matters worse, my best friend, Ethan, moves in too. With his heated looks and possessiveness, I’m starting to realize he might be more than just my best friend. I’m falling for both men, but with rising tensions between them, how can I possibly choose?