Ergebnis für "Julien" in Abenteuer für Frauen

Elenore struggles to heal emotionally from an accident years before that killed her boyfriend and uses substances to get through. When she becomes pregnant and her current boyfriend beats her, she flees to a man who has just been biding his time, waiting to make her life a living nightmare of which she sees no way to escape.

Brought to you by Penguin. Fear your neighbour. Praise the Republic. Preach liberty. Hate monarchy. Speak in whispers. Trust no-one. Revolutionary Paris, 1792: As the city spirals into bloodshed, Henrietta Lightfoot a young Englishwoman runs for refuge to the sumptuous home of Grace Dalrymple...

1900, Exposition Universelle de Paris. Aileen Bowman, trente-cinq ans, journaliste, célibataire, est venue couvrir l'événement pour le New York Tribune. Née d'un baroudeur anglais et d'une française utopiste, élevée dans le décor sauvage des plaines du Nevada, Aileen est une femme affranchie de tout lien et de toute morale, mue par sa passion et ses idéaux humanistes. Au fil d'un récit qui nous immerge au cœur de la ville en chantier, du métropolitain naissant aux quartiers des bordels chers aux peintres, la personnalité singulière d'Aileen se confond avec la ville.

Ever since running away from home as a teen, Hope Callahan has lived a rough life, often on the other side of the law. When a drug deal goes bad, she’s found in the desert beaten and nearly dead by Ozzie Byrd, a scruffy old guy in an RV. Ozzie has his own criminal past, but through him, Hope is given a chance at a new life. Will she grab this unexpected and unusual opportunity, or run from it, trying to stay alive on her own?