Ergebnis für "Maddie" in Literatur & Belletristik

Marnie MacGraw wants an ordinary life - a husband, kids, and a minivan in the suburbs. Now that she’s marrying the man of her dreams, she’s sure this is the life she’ll get. Then Marnie meets Blix Holliday, her fiancé’s irascible matchmaking great-aunt who’s dying, and everything changes - just as Blix told her it would. When her marriage ends after two miserable weeks, Marnie is understandably shocked.

Marnie MacGraw and Patrick Delaney have been in love for a few years now, enough to realize that they are imperfectly perfect together. Still, there are some things that maybe need a little attention. Marnie’s ebullient; he’s brooding. She thrives on change; he prefers stability. She sees marriage and parenthood in their future, but he can’t see beyond the shadow of an earlier tragedy. Then an eight-year-old surprise from Patrick’s past shows up on their doorstep, cartwheeling into their lives and spinning things in all directions.

Phronsie Linnelle was conceived at Woodstock in a serendipitous liaison between a free-spirited hippie and a farmer’s son and was born with magical wonder flickering in her DNA and rationality knit into her bones. All her life she’s been torn between the two. But now that she’s been betrayed by both love and the mother she once idolized, her rational side is winning. So when her best friend from childhood proposes that they give up on romance and marry each other, Phronsie agrees.

After three marriages and a lot of living, resilient Billie Slate knows exactly what trouble love can bring. Now she’s reinvented herself as the Heartbreak Bunny, an on-call performance artist who can heal anyone who’s been burned by that four-letter word, LOVE, by hopping about and whisking away sad mementos from their past relationships. Call it magic. Call it peculiar. But her bunny costume is as perfect as her breakup mantra: SNAP OUT OF IT.

After too many dates, thirtysomething Mimi Perkins is still single, unmoored, and longing for love. So when Ren Yardley—a handsome, divorced fellow drama teacher and single father—falls in love with her and proposes, she’s sure this is at last the good news her psychic predicted. Soon after proposing, Ren receives the devastating news that his ex-wife has been in a debilitating car accident, prompting him to temporarily move back into his former home to care for her and his daughters.

Newly orphaned, recently divorced, and semiadrift, Nina Popkin is on a search for her birth mother. She's spent her life looking into strangers' faces, fantasizing they're related to her, and now, at thirty-five, she's ready for answers. Meanwhile, the last thing Lindy McIntyre wants is someone like Nina bursting into her life, announcing that they're sisters and campaigning to track down their mother. She's too busy with her successful salon, three children, beautiful home, and...oh yes, some pesky little anxiety attacks.

Divorced and on a deadline, bestselling novelist Bea Pinkerton has a serious case of writer's block. With her agent breathing down her neck, Bea will do ANYTHING to avoid writing another word. So an invite to a reunion with her old school friends at a beautiful chateau in France is Bea’s perfect chance to escape. Surely here, relaxing with old friends and drinking cold fizz, Bea will find inspiration? But as soon as Bea arrives, she realises this is not going to be the peaceful getaway she anticipated.

Ça vous est déjà arrivé de vouloir quelque chose vraiment très fort et de succomber, tout en sachant que vous allez sûrement encore souffrir ? Non ? Eh bien, vous êtes plus raisonnable que moi. Je m'explique : À 27 ans, je reprends tout juste ma vie en main après une relation amoureuse désastreuse. Institutrice en attente de titularisation, mon bonheur est tout ce qui compte et je sais que je suis sur la bonne voie. J'exerce le job de mes rêves, j'ai des amies en or, un toit au-dessus de ma tête et je suis l'esclave d'un chat despote. Je coche toutes les cases, non ?

Newly single at sixty, Elin Anderson decides it’s finally time for an adventure of her own. With her marriage to tedious Tom now officially over, Elin plans to visit the family she hasn’t seen in years. First stop: Australia! But going home is harder than Elin thought. Everywhere she turns Elin sees brightness and colour, which only makes her own life seem even more drab and beige. How has she let herself fade away? Determined to have some fun, Elin reluctantly agrees to join The Silver Surfers – a group of seniors who travel the coast, only caring about their next big adventure.

“You know what people really need? Somebody who will listen hard and then find a way to tell them, ‘It’s not all your fault. It’s going to work out fine. Don’t give up.’” So advice columnist ‘Dear Lily’ Brown deeply believes. But Lily could write a letter to herself, asking what to do about an ex-husband who still wants her dating advice, how to redecorate the family home she’s kept exactly the same since her parents died tragically young, how to move on with her strangely becalmed life...and what to do when your wild-child estranged sister storms back into town.

Après une dernière frasque qui a failli les détruire, elle et la réputation durement gagnée de sa famille, Alexia Myers, étudiante, décide de reprendre sa vie en mains. Transférée dans une nouvelle université, loin de tout ce qu'elle connaît, elle s'applique à être tout le contraire de ce qu'elle était auparavant. Une nouvelle - et meilleure - version d'elle-même. Lorsqu'elle rencontre Asher, Lexi fait tout pour le garder à distance : son ancienne vie est derrière elle.

L'été́ de mes dix-huit ans devait être le meilleur de toute ma vie. J'avais réussi à décrocher un job bien payé qui allait me permettre de remplacer ma vieille voiture et de mettre de l'argent de côté avant de rentrer à la fac. Tout était censé bien se passer. J'avais tout calculé. Et puis je l'ai rencontré́, lui. Aleks Pierson. Le fils de mes patrons. Ce qu'il y avait entre nous était beau, fort, absolument bouleversant. Notre idylle aurait pu être mon histoire de cendrillon, celle qui se finit avec un " ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants ".

La presse à scandale va s'en donner à cœur joie. Moi, le Diable des Forty Niners, moi, le meilleur et le plus arrogant des quarterbacks de ma génération, je suis cantonné sur le banc de touche. Blessé juste avant les play-offs, je n'ai pas le choix, je dois regarder mes coéquipiers jouer sans moi. Et comme si ça ne suffisait pas, la direction des Niners me colle une "nounou" dans les pattes. Pourquoi ? Pour éviter que je fasse des bêtises.

Comédie romantique.Une histoire d'amour (& de dindon).Que se passe-t-il lorsque deux personnes aux caractères diamétralement opposés se retrouvent obligés de partager le même chalet ?Précisons un peu.Dans cette coloc improbable, vous trouverez : Un dindon de compagnie au caractère bien affirmé. Une excentrique.