Ergebnis für "The M Word" in Literatur & Belletristik

Bronx doesn't mind being used as a pawn in the hot lawyer's plan to piss off his father. After all, he probably would have done the same thing if his dad had introduced him to a new step-mom who was barely six months older than him. And it helps that Monty is not only ridiculously good-looking, but he's smart, kind, and has an accent that makes Bronx weak in the knees. He's also an amazing distraction from the fact that Bronx's husband up and left him and his son without warning, turning their lives upside down.

Adele is a caretaker. Always has been, always will be. So when his lifelong best friend comes home after losing his job to a nervous breakdown and chronic illness, Adele steps in. And it's easy enough, except for the fact that Adele has been in love with Kash for most of his life. He'd moved on once, with a wife and kid, but all that fell apart, and now Kash is back in his life and needs him more than ever. Adele isn't quite sure how to protect his heart while also giving his best friend what he needs, but the one thing he does know is that he won't let Kash down. Not now. Not ever.

"Oh my God, Briar! Where did you get that prosthetic leg?" Things as a parent Lane thought he'd never say for four hundred, Alex. But that's par for the course in Lane Ashbury's life considering everything is on the verge of falling apart. He not only has a toddler building her skills as a professional klepto, but he's also on the verge of divorce, and hoping desperately to save his business before it goes under. Luckily, the owner of the stolen leg might just be an angel in disguise when he offers to be Lane's new nanny instead of pressing charges.

She dislikes her children, detests her ex-husband and despises her colleagues. When her mother dies, Roberta is left with a pile of letters and a mystery surrounding her son. The letters reveal Roberta’s heritage is not what it seems, and she is soon on a mission to become a better person. Told with humour and emotion, this is the tale of one woman’s journey to find out where she came from. As she looks to the past for answers, more questions are raised. Will Roberta discover whom she really is?

All Cameron Roberts and Blair Powell want is a small, intimate wedding, but the paparazzi and a domestic terrorist have other plans. First Daughter Blair Powell and her lover Cameron Roberts, newly appointed deputy director of the Homeland Security Office, escape to a ski chalet in the Rockies after a harrowing attack by members of a domestic terrorism organization. Under orders from the White House, Blair reluctantly allows a member of the "enemy camp," investigative reporter Dana Barnett, to join her inner circle in the hopes of limiting her media exposure.

This audiobook is what I call “authentic spoken word” of modern times. When listening, you find that the accent changes from time to time. However, Jamaican patois is so popular among most cultures you will no doubt grasp and understand the meaning.

Lucy Honeychurch, accompanied by her vigilant guardian, Charlotte Bartlett, makes her first foray into the world, touring Italy and discovering a country very different to the English countryside she was brought up in.

Jesus erscheint im Sevilla des 16. Jahrhunderts, wo gerade die Inquisition wütet. Das Volk erkennt den Messias sofort und ebenso auch der greise Kardinal und Großinquisitor, der ihn in einem Kerker festsetzen lässt, und ihm in der Nacht in einem langen Monolog darzulegen versucht, warum Jesus kein Recht mehr habe, durch ein erneutes Erscheinen das Wirken der katholischen Kirche zu gefährden. Der Großinquisitor wirft ihm vor, er habe die Menschen überfordert und ihnen nur Unglück gebracht.

Over half of Earth's population has left the planet, mainly as contract workers for aliens, and the homeworld is losing relevance to the emigrants. The EarthCent president takes on the task of making sure that humanity isn't permanently stuck in a rut of low-skilled labor. Can the ambassador put aside her new-found obsession with the Galactic Free Press crossword puzzle and help save the day?

Some religions state that the very universe was created by words. The nation of America was founded using words. Words established the rights and freedoms this nation enjoys. The first of those rights is freedom of speech, which implies so much more than the right to use words. This anthology contains four stories from four authors. Each story pays tribute to either the ideals held by America’s First Amendment or to the concept that the words people use hold power. These authors took the concept of words and placed it in futuristic, apocalyptic, and fantasy settings.

Lilly Anne Freemantle and her new friends have experienced the cruelty of an unimaginable being and now live in fear, knowing that it will return and that they will never be safe. They know they need to destroy the being before it claims more lives. But will their plan work? Or will others die? This novel reminds us that uttering those "three little words" can bring joy and happiness. Yet, it makes you wonder what happens when love is not reciprocated. Can this be a catalyst for terror, horror, and death?

Moving house has become a way of life for 15-year-old Isobel Miller; her father is an army major, her mother a middle-aged, pregnant, chain-smoking alcoholic. But the move to the village of Langham could be the straw that breaks the camel's back. To the truculent teenager it might as well be to Timbuktu. The only light in her miserable existence is her grandfather, storyteller elite, her savior. And when one of his macabre tales is mentioned in the local paper, Isobel is drawn into the depths of evil and devil worship.

Four words posed in a question started the beginning of our future. Will you marry me? Ten years of love and laughter, triumphs and failures, losses and gains later, and four words threatened to end it all. Everything has a beginning and an end. I just never saw mine coming. Especially when I finally thought we were getting it all. Until my husband and lifeline uttered.... I want a divorce. Only I had four words of my own. Words that should be said out of happiness and pure joy. Words I’d been dying to say, but never could.

Venture into a hard-hitting world of spiking adrenaline, tempered fear, and life-or-death stakes. With stories from award-winning authors and former fighters, Fighting Words brings you the best in combat sports fiction.

The Only Words podcast celebrates the beauty and power of poetry through conversations with poets and poetry lovers.

Hello. I cover short stories, poems and novel, that are both original content and established published work from other authors.

Trish Holt is a pianist, living in picturesque Boothbay Harbor, Maine. She is stunned and blindsided by the most bitter kind of betrayal: Her boyfriend of three years has left her. Her bitterness is compounded by the fact that Trish has made bad choices when it comes to relationships, much of it stemming from her own issues as an adopted child. When she moves, she encounters Michael Quentin, her neighbor and local chef. He helps her get over the betrayal. As Michael and Trish fall in love, childhood issues resurface.

A show about the meaning and origin of words, books and writing.

Words can seduce. Whispers can destroy. And sometimes, the wrong thing said at the wrong time is exactly what sets desire on fire. Mouthy Encounters gathers ten high-heat short stories where professionalism collides with passion, and language becomes the most dangerous weapon of all. In these offices after dark, it’s not silence that keeps reputations safe—it’s the moans, gasps, and whispered provocations that threaten to ruin them. She mouths off to the boss and pays the price. He dares her to say it louder, and she does.

Dynan Telaerin finds himself on a corpse-strewn hillside, uncertain if he’s really dead or only half alive. He’s charged with saving his long dead ancestor, who was the most powerful telepath to ever exist. Dynan’s own telepathic powers aren’t much good to him. There are monsters and minions hunting him down. Way too many of them can fly. The demon’s lair isn’t the place to learn anything - except how to run and how to hide. In this realm, it’s possible to die twice. But when Dynan finds out they’ve taken his brother, he will do anything to get him back.