Ergebnis für "KL" in Frauenliteratur

A thousand eyes were watching me. Nobody in the room was talking, and the only sound was a muffled cough from the darkness in the back of the auditorium. Why wasn’t everyone whispering to their neighbors? Shouldn’t they be playing on their cell phones or even sleeping—like normal teenagers? I quickly thought back to high school when I was sitting where they were today. I couldn’t tell you the name of one person that came to speak, nor could I recall one subject matter that he or she would have even talked about.

When Detective Terin O'Brien is assigned to an investigation involving the Gold Vipers, she is blind-sided by the strong attraction she has for their newest member, Cole Davis. Now Terin is caught between wanting Cole behind bars and wanting him as a man, which she knows is wrong, stupid, and above all else... dangerous.

Fireflies in Tunnels is a fictional story told through the eyes of two narrators: sisters Irene and Vivian McDougall. As they tell their stories about how their family has disintegrated due to choices and secrets, these young women - in their observations and actions, respectively - reveal much about the role of responsibility for both women and men in the area of sexuality.

Caroline’s got frugality down to a fine art. She can make a tin of soup stretch for days, considers “reduced to clear” her love language, and thinks Christmas is just a daft excuse for people to throw their money away on tinsel trimmed tat. But Christmas Eve night takes a turn when her best mate, Marlene, drops in for a chat. Lovely, right? Except Marlene’s been dead for seven years and she’s got a message for Caroline, she will be visited by three spirits and if she doesn’t pay attention, her future’s looking bleaker than the contents of her fridge freezer.

This is the dark but humorous tale of Sarah Pemberton, who is not a happy woman. A down-to-earth, inventive soul who despises her stuck-up, pompous husband Neil, who believes he is much more intelligent and important than she is. When he refuses her a divorce and emotionally blackmails her into staying with him by threatening to take custody of their daughter, she decides to make life a little more entertaining for herself—by subtly torturing him at every available opportunity. Creative and adaptable, with a wicked sense of humor, she comes up with more and more ways to ridicule him.

Meet Alexandra, a small-town Texas girl turned fashion correspondent for the respected British Weekly. She wears all the right designers and knows all the right people, but can her reputation survive a collision with a six-foot-plus model at the Chanel Show? The fall has been splashed across every newspaper and television set in the world, it seems, and Alex has sworn to adopt status incognito. But there's one small problem.

A woman who returns to her hometown to investigate her childhood friend’s disappearance soon finds herself embroiled in a deadly web of half truths, cover-ups, and dark magic. On the surface, Liv Edwards has a near-perfect life—a handsome new fiancé, an apartment in Boston, and plans to...

Sometimes there is only a pole between survival and starvation. For Jessica Hughes, this is her reality. At 21, she’s single-handedly supporting her two younger brothers and her four-year-old daughter while paying off her deadbeat mother's gambling debts. Her life may seem like crap to others, but Jess knows it could be worse. Then, Hunter O'Shea walks back into her life and drops a bombshell - a secret that could destroy everything they once had. Once again, Jess finds herself picking up the pieces of her broken heart.