Ergebnis für "Luster" in Belletristik

"There is a universal appeal to [Narrator Ariel] Blake's performance as Edie, a protagonist who may be her own worst antagonist. Blake's delivery has an immensely human, relatable quality that makes the listener want the best for Edie as she struggles to make her way in the world." -- AudioFile...

I used to think my future in pro hockey, my motorcycle between my thighs, and my friends were all I needed. But she changed all that. She thinks she’s above it all. She thinks she can move into my father’s house with her gold-digging mother. She thinks she can do no wrong, but I saw her that night. Now I’m consumed by revenge. And my two best friends and I will be the ones to punish her. I won’t think about how soft her lips look or the way she whispers those pretty little lies. My new stepsister ruined my life. And now we’re determined to ruin her.

A life of salvaging tech and fighting horrors in deep space has given him nerves of steel. But now, he's up against the toughest job of his life. On a frozen, not-quite-dead planet, a desperate salvage operation has gone wrong. Max, hired to investigate, travels to the distant world, but his ship is downed by an abandoned defense system.

Lust For Life is Irving Stone's biographical novel about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh...

Luke just wanted to get away. What better place than a personal, secluded cabin in the woods to clear his mind? Besides, the quarantines were still in place, and the world wasn’t getting any better. Social media was abuzz with tales of an impending disaster, wars brewing overseas, and more. Then it happened. One of those apocalypse predictions turns out to be true: a massive solar flare shatters the power grid worldwide. Pressing on, Luke makes it to his cabin and discovers a woman already there....

A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR “A heartfelt portrait of a complex family.” —People “Laugh-out-loud-funny.” —Harper’s Bazaar “Quintessential...

Elfriede Jelineks Roman über Lust, patriarchalische Machtverhältnisse und Sexualität, der viel Aufsehen erregte: Als selbst die Angst vor Aids auch das hinterste Alpental erreicht hat, muss der Fabrikdirektor gezwungenermaßen seine außerehelichen Eskapaden einstellen und sich wieder seiner Frau Gerti zuwenden. Doch Gerti versucht den sexuellen Angriffen ihres Mannes zu entfliehen und landet schließlich in den Armen des Studenten Michael, aber auch dieses erotische Abenteuer endet für Gerti in Demütigung.

Submission is freeing… Love is a trap. I’ve never seen his face. But I ache to feel his body. My fellow soldiers call him Alpha. It’s an insult, mocking his macho bravado, his aggressive arrogance. I’ve heard the snark, seen the rolled eyes. Alpha. It’s a joke. But when I hear him speak…His rich, deep voice. His lush British accent… I guess the joke’s on me. Since the zombies came, civilization fell, and new social structures arose, I’ve known that my independence relies on my disinterest in any particular man.

Sasha Cherlin died the night she let Nick Tate walk out on her for a life of crime. Her very essence was destroyed when they broke their promise to one another. Nick Tate made his choice with her future in mind. He loved Sasha enough to know that leaving her behind was the only way to keep her safe. Special Agent Jax Barlow understands the bond of love and he plans to use it to get justice. Nick and Sasha will do anything to rewrite their past. He's counting on that to bring them down.

The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally—well, to be accurate, artificially—business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a...

Avery thought she knew the rules: rebound sex, no strings attached, no risks. After her ex dumped her for being “incapable of commitment,” the fiery 35-year-old redhead is determined to prove she can still have fun—at her favorite psychology conference, no less. Then she meets Raya.

Sasha Young has seen enough heartbreak in her work as a social worker to recognize a trainwreck when she sees one. So why on earth is she falling for June Crane? June is beautiful, magnetic… and completely hung up on her ex. Worse, she works at the same hospital. Every instinct tells Sasha to run.But then June invites her to lunch. Just a friendly gesture, just a chance for Sasha — new to town — to make a connection.

Nach einer unschönen Ehe kauft sich Tessa Carmichael eine kleine Farm und lebt dort recht zurückgezogen am Rande einer Kleinstadt. Eines Abends steht ein Soldat vor ihrer Tür und behauptet, diese Farm würde ihm gehören. Liam Thompson hat nicht ganz Unrecht, Tessa kennt sein Gesicht aus dem Fernsehen. Er ist der Soldat, der fünf Jahre lang ein Gefangener von Terroristen war. Alle hatten ihn für tot gehalten und so wurde die Farm nach dem Tod seiner Großmutter an Tessa verkauft. Liam sieht so müde aus, dass Tessa ihn nicht einfach wegschicken will, sie lässt ihn in ihr Haus.

“Hilarious and endearing...Shmutz is a dirty book with a pure heart.” —The New York Times In this witty, provocative, and “compulsively readable coming-of-age story” (Cosmopolitan), a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get married fears she will never find a groom because of her secret...

Sofia Holt lives for one thing: her cookbook manuscript. Every recipe, every word, every late night in the kitchen — it’s her life, her dream, her future. There’s no space for distractions. And definitely not for love. Then Renee Forbes walks in. Gorgeous. Playful. A zookeeper with a wild smile and eyes that linger too long. At first, Sofia convinces herself Renee’s just being friendly. But the stolen glances, the teasing banter, the undeniable pull? Impossible to ignore.

Kamikaze Lust takes the listener on an electrifying ride through the spectacle of life and death in millennial America. Smart, hardboiled, and humorous, the novel taps the American obsession with sex and death, sex and popular culture, sex and the written word, sex and pornography, sex and green M&Ms, and, of course, the perennial sex and love. Sanders voices a feminism buried in desire that nevertheless insists on sprouting and blossoming.

Manche Küchen sehen heute aus wie Cockpits, und die Wahl des richtigen Olivenöls wird zur Schicksalsfrage, deren Beantwortung über die ästhetische Kompetenz und die soziale Bonität des ambitionierten Amateurkochs entscheidet. "Kochen ist ja soooo kreativ", wird da geseufzt, vorausgesetzt man weiß, wo man den angesagten In-Balsamico kaufen kann.

My name is Liam Wyatt, and my brother, Oliver, and I are the founders and owners of Wyatt Enterprises. He found love, and I was still trying. After dating a countless number of women throughout the years, I was ready to have a real relationship with the possibility of settling down. I could have any woman I wanted. So what was the problem, you ask? I didn't want just any woman. I wanted the one. Unfortunately, I still hadn't found her - until Avery Lewis walked into my life and turned my world upside down.

My name is Delilah Graham, and music is my life. I moved from Chicago to live in the one place that I considered to be the center of the universe: New York City. At 23 years old, after raising my two brothers and sister, it was time for me to start my own life. I worked as a waitress in a greasy diner by day, and by night I performed my music in small clubs around the city and on the streets of New York. That was until a man and his daughter stepped into the diner and changed my life forever.

James was no one special until he became an overnight millionaire. With his financial worries gone, he sets his eyes on a local waitress named Beth in hopes to explore a possible relationship. Then the world changed forever. After James narrowly escapes death, he takes refuge in his mountainside mansion with Beth and her attractive friend Claire. With fallout destroying the weather system and people going insane from an unknown neurotoxin, the world is more dangerous than it ever has been.