Ergebnis für "Paris Star" in Literatur & Belletristik

Actor, alcoholic and amateur sleuth Charles Paris returns in another quintet of humorous theatrical thrillers. All Charles asks for is a nice juicy part in a successful play - but wherever he appears on the bill, murder and mystery always play a starring role.

Im November 1974 bricht Werner Herzog zu einer Wanderung von München nach Paris auf. Sollte er die französische Hauptstadt erreichen - das ist seine feste Überzeugung -, würde die von ihm verehrte Filmhistorikerin Lotte Eisner am Leben bleiben. Vom Gehen im Eis ist eine große, zu Herzen gehende Meditation über Leben und Tod - ein Wortfilm, der neben den mehr als vierzig Spiel- und Dokumentarfilmen von Werner Herzog eine ganz eigene Ausstrahlung und Magie besitzt.

Alain Bonnard, Besitzer eines kleinen Programmkinos in Paris, das früher seinem Onkel gehörte, ist Nostalgiker aus Überzeugung...

Jeder in Großbritannien kennt die Williamson-Schwestern Penny und Josephine. Mit über 90 Jahren sind die beiden exzentrischen Damen die letzten lebenden Kriegsveteraninnen des Königreichs. Für den Galleristen Archie sind sie die geliebten Großtanten, von denen er alles Wichtige im Leben gelernt hat. Vom Fliegenfischen und Reifenwechseln bis hin zum Rezept für den perfekten Martini. Als die beiden Ladies in Paris geehrt werden sollen, packt er kurzerhand seine Koffer, um sie zu begleiten.

Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. They compose a secret history, both intimate and panoramic, of modern times, and offer a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within a world that is Paris.

Falling stars are supposed to be a lucky sign, but not for Austen. Her new job as a secretary in an international games company isn't off to a good start. Her first assignment - decorating the Christmas tree in the lobby - results in a trip to the ER after Dee, the company's second-in-command, gets hit by the star-shaped tree topper. Dee blames her instant attraction to Austen on her head wound, not the magic of the falling star. She's determined not to act on it, especially since Austen has no idea that Dee is practically her boss.

In "All the Stars in the Sky", dem letzten Teil der Reihe "Until the End of the World", versuchen Cassie, Peter, Penny und die anderen, sich zur letzten verbliebenen Safe Zone in Alaska durchzuschlagen. Doch der Weg dorthin ist lang, und nicht nur Zombies wollen ihnen an den Kragen. Kann es Cassie gelingen, inmitten all des Schreckens ihr gebrochenes Herz zu heilen und wieder etwas Glück zu finden?

A hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane from “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (New York Times Book Review) and the bestselling author of Squeeze Me. Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about...

Diana Biller’s The Brightest Star in Paris is a novel about first loves...and second chances. Amelie St. James, prima ballerina of the Paris Opera Ballet and sweetheart of Paris, is a fraud. Seven years ago, in the devastating aftermath of the Siege of Paris, she made a decision to protect...

In this delectable novel, a chef on the rise fuels her passion for cooking while enduring the hardest challenges she’s ever faced after a debilitating injury. Everybody wants a piece of grand chef Sophie Valroux. With her once-destroyed reputation fully recovered and then some, Sophie is...

Rider doesn’t have a lot of rules when it comes to guys, but there is one - he doesn’t date, not ever. He’s content with random hookups because dating means too much. That’s reserved for the one person he knows he can never have: his best friend, Cameron. After watching his own family fall apart, Cam longs for someone who will stick it out through thick and thin. He’s had a string of girlfriends who never seem to be the right one. The one person he can always count on is Rider. One night out changes everything between them.

August in Edinburgh, and thousands of performers of all stripes have flocked to the Fringe Festival. Among them is Charles Paris filling in at the last minute after a student actress breaks a leg and has to drop out. Showcasing an earnest one-man show in a sea of stand-up comics is a bit of a gamble, but at least he's acting, and with a Charles Paris production, what could possibly go wrong?

The author of the “enthralling” (Woman’s World) The Lost English Girl returns with a heartfelt new novel about estranged sisters who inherit their late mother’s dress shop in World War II London. Isabelle Shelton has always found comfort in the predictable world of her mother’s...

As president of a major pharmaceutical empire, Peter Haskell has everything. Power, position, a career and a family, which mean everything to him, and for which he has sacrificed a great deal. Compromise has been key in Peter Haskell's life, and integrity is the base on which he lives. Olivia...

“Morgan is a masterful storyteller... For fans of Jojo Moyes, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and Stacey Ballis”-Booklist Review on One Summer in Paris USA TODAY bestselling author Sarah Morgan returns with this heartwarming novel about the power of friendship, love and what happens when an ending is...

Genetically engineered with partly alien DNA, Lieutenant Selene Genji is different from ordinary humans. And they hate her for it. Still, she’s spent her life trying to overcome society’s prejudice by serving in Earth’s Unified Fleet. Genji is stationed on a ship in orbit when humanity’s factional extremism on the planet reaches a boiling point, and she witnesses the utter annihilation of Earth. When the massive forces unleashed by Earth’s death warp space and time to hurl her forty years into the past, Genji is given a chance to try to change the future and save Earth.

Annie Mayer arrives in France with dreams of becoming a ballerina. But when the war reaches Paris, she's forced to keep her Jewish heritage a secret. Then a fellow dancer offers her a lifeline: a ballroom partnership that gives her a new identity. Together, Annie and her partner captivate audiences across occupied Europe, using her newfound fame and alias to aid the Resistance.

Zwischen hemmungsloser Leidenschaft und den dunklen Seiten eines Mannes... Der prickelnde Erotikroman von Elodie Perron. Jeanne Monnet ist schön und hat ihre beruflichen Ziele klar vor Augen. Das ändert sich, als die junge Anwältin Luc Bronnard wieder trifft. Der selbstbewusste, dominante Mann hatte sie bereits als Studentin verführt. Was für ihn nur eine kurze Ablenkung von seiner Scheidung war, veränderte Jeannes Leben. Nie wieder möchte sie sich einem Mann gegenüber so ohnmächtig fühlen. Jedoch entfacht die nie vergessene Leidenschaft sofort von neuem, und Jeanne folgt Lucs Angebot, in seiner Kanzlei in Paris zu arbeiten.

Parade “Best Books of Summer” pick * Real Simple pick * She Reads “Best WWII Fiction of Summer 2021” pick The New York Times bestselling author of the “heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism” (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II...

The rich, the glamorous, the powerful all come to STARS - to gossip, to make deals, and to indulge luxuriously in their most erotic fantasies. At the magnificent and secluded Palm Springs mountaintop resort, bodies and souls are offered up to save fragile careers - or are used to extract the final succulent and satisfying drops of sweet retribution.