Ergebnis für "alles anders" in Literatur & Belletristik

Ivon ist Anfang 30 und arbeitet für das Unternehmen ihres verstorbenen Vaters. Ihr Leben besteht eigentlich nur aus ihrem Job, was ihrer Mutter ein Dorn im Auge ist. Renate will unbedingt, dass ihre Tochter einen festen Partner findet und beginnt, ihr Leben zu genießen. Allerdings ist die Liebe Ivon einmal zu viel in den Rücken gefallen. Ihre Mutter gibt dennoch nicht nach. Ivon fühlt sich bedrängt und glaubt, ihre Mutter mit einem Deal ein für alle Mal zum Schweigen zu bringen. Als Renate einwilligt, wittert Ivon ihre Chance.

Eine Own-Voice-Romance mitten aus dem Leben – Skye steckt mitten in ihrer Quarterlifecrisis und muss sich die wirklich wichtigen Fragen stellen: Was will ich mit meinem Leben anfangen? Was macht mich wirklich glücklich? Skye ist verliebt in die Liebe, aber kann sie auch die Liebe für sich selbst entdecken? Skye ist eine "Serial Monogamist": Ihr Leben lang hüpft sie von Beziehung zu Beziehung und bleibt nie lange allein.

Etwas muss sich ändern, aber was wenn die ganze Welt gegen einen scheint? Snehas Abschluss fällt in den Schlund der amerikanischen Rezession, und doch gehört sie zu den Glücklichen. Für ihre erste Stelle zieht sie nach Milwaukee; und obwohl der Job aufreibend ist, eröffnet er ihr unverhoffte Möglichkeiten: Sie kann die Drinks ihrer neuen Freunde bezahlen und ihren Eltern in Indien Geld schicken. Sneha stürzt sich auch ins Dating und verknallt sich bald in die Tänzerin Marina. Doch der Druck ist groß, und bald zeigt sich, dass dieses gute neue Leben auf wackeligen Beinen steht.

Deputy US Marshal Miro Jones has a reputation for being calm and collected under fire. These traits serve him well with his hotshot partner, Ian Doyle, the kind of guy who can start a fight in an empty room. In the past three years of their life-and-death job, they've gone from strangers to professional coworkers to devoted teammates and best friends. Miro’s cultivated blind faith in the man who has his back… faith and something more.

The first in the Honor series, Above All, Honor introduces single-minded Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts and the woman she is sworn to protect - Blair Powell, the daughter of the President of the United States. Cam's duty is her life - and the only thing that keeps her from self-destructing under the unbearable weight of her own deep personal tragedy. However, she hasn't counted on the fact that the beautiful, willful first daughter will do anything in her power to escape the watchful eyes of her protectors, including seducing the agent in charge.

Ist es besser, von einer traurigen Liebe zerrissen zu werden, als überhaupt nicht zu lieben? Carolina ist achtundzwanzig Jahre alt und auf der Suche nach sich selbst, als sie Brida begegnet, einer Heilerin, die vor den Trümmern ihrer zweiten Ehe steht. Zwanzig Jahre trennen die beiden Frauen. Doch während Carolina vom ersten Augenblick an erkennt, welche Liebe sie verbindet, hat Brida nicht nur Angst, sich auf die Beziehung einzulassen, auch ihr Mann verhindert einen Neuanfang. Ohne Hoffnung bricht Carolina alleine nach Schottland auf, um ihren Weg als Schriftstellerin zu gehen.

Leon Alcantara and Max Drake are finding help in the most unlikely of places. A third dragon has manifested, promising Leon untold elemental power. Another specter from Max’s past returns to haunt him, presenting a tempting offer. But everything comes with a price. Perhaps the risk is worth the reward. More anomalies are erupting across Dos Lunas. The boys need all the help they can get against the rogue time mage responsible. The Quartz Spider has finally shown his hand, and only Max and Leon can stop him. But how can they stop the enemy when the enemy is time itself?

Orphaned and stuck in a one-traffic-light prairie oil town, a young man yearns for a family to belong to and sets out to find his last known living relative, his estranged grandfather, somewhere in Serbia. Armed with nothing but his wit and resourcefulness, he starts his trek, from his hometown on the Canadian plains, across continents and countries, in search of acceptance and family, which he finds, but in the most unexpected people.

Having barely moved into his new apartment, Jax never expected to break up a fight between his new neighbors, resulting in a physical altercation and a visit from the cops. Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine that it would lead to him meeting Danny, the cute theater manager, and playwright that lived next door. Unfortunately, his first impression of Danny wasn’t exactly a favorable one.

Tessa Sherman had just been dumped by yet another woman who didn’t understand what it was like to have a calling. Being a cop wasn’t just a job to her; it was a part of who Tessa was as a person. And if she had it her way, she would do it for the rest of her life. Tessa only wished she could find a girlfriend that wouldn’t mind having a partner that could get called away on a case at any moment, and that understood how important being a detective was to her.

When Jack Moreno receives an anonymous invitation to the Zodiac anniversary gala, he’s inclined to ignore it. His best friend (and more), Holloway Holmes, vanished from his life five months ago, and Jack has no desire to bump into Holloway’s terrifying father, Blackfriar. But included with the invitation is an offer Jack can’t refuse: the promise that he’ll learn what really happened to his mother.

Raised in a conservative Christian home in the East Coast of Canada, Mag is urged to preserve her purity at all costs. Desperate to secure her place in heaven, she rejects the hyper-sexual youth culture of her small town—until she falls for a magnetic, sophisticated girl while attending a program designed to usher young people into Evangelical Missionary work. Spiraling into shame and regret, Mag breaks away from the Church and launches herself into the world of sex for hire, attempting to shed her repressive past and become an anti-virgin—the antithesis of who she was raised to be.

Everyone tells Jordan Fontaine not to worry about the summer camp that isn't really a summer camp, not to worry about the survival statistics she's been calculating since elementary school, or about the quickly averted eyes and frowning mouths of her peers when she tells them her Liaison is coming to visit her and her brothers. She does not dare to tell anyone that her pulse quickens when she looks at the beautiful Liaison.

Glamorous movie star Dara Thomas has it all - an Oscar nomination, dozens of magazine covers proclaiming her the sexiest woman alive, and people of both sexes clamoring for her attention. She also has a carefully guarded secret life.

Daniel Whitlock is terrified of going to sleep. And rightly so: he sleepwalks, with no awareness or memory of his actions. Including burning down Kenny Cooper’s house — with Kenny inside it — after Kenny brutally beat him for being gay. Back in the tiny town of Logan after serving his prison sentence, Daniel isolates himself in a cabin in the woods and chains himself to his bed at night. Like the rest of Logan, local cop Joe Belman doesn’t believe Daniel’s absurd defense.

I never thought I’d stoop to sitting on Santa’s lap and asking him to bring me a boyfriend. In my defense, though, the man of my dreams had just knocked me into a store display 10 minutes prior, so I wasn’t exactly thinking straight. Hah, but when did I ever. I never thought I’d see Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome again. Imagine my surprise when I showed up at my parents’ house for the holidays, only to find out that my sister had asked Santa for the exact same thing I did - and he’d delivered early.

Jax Cooper never planned to meet his mates. A strong wolf shifter, who keeps his Fae heritage hidden, all Jax wants to do is keep his pack safe and his secrets tucked away. But when men turn up from another pack, all intent on stealing the two men Jax knows to be his, then Jax's wolf has a hard time controlling himself. Aelfric and Fafnir have been together for 300 years. Not that unusual for two Sidhe Fae princes.

Nico Andretti knows one thing is true: Love is for fools. Being a tour bus guide in Times Square isn’t his dream job and he yearns for more than living in his mother’s basement apartment, but life is tough in the big city. At least the men on the bus are eye-candy galore, and they’re one and done. Why bother with seconds when you’ll only get hurt? And Nico knows hurt—he’s got a father he’s never met and an ex who broke his heart and shattered his self-esteem. Then Dr. Ford St. Claire takes his tour, and Nico enjoys his own personal sightseeing of the gorgeous older man.

A piercing short story collection that explores the feverish hunger and dizzying pleasure of girlhood and queer coming-of-age in a small town, from an acclaimed emerging writer “An ode to Black girlhood in all its forms, each story its own messy, hilarious, profound illustration of desire...

Cuando Uno -que le debe su nombre a la devoción de su madre por un mártir español- atraviesa una crisis de pareja con C, se anota en un curso de filosofía con la prestigiosa profesora Berta Orlás. Allí, cada jueves, un grupo comenzará a construir una forma descarnada de amistad. Uno conocerá a Ana, ejecutiva exitosa con un secreto inconfesable, a la frágil Eva -cuya determinación pondrá a prueba la cohesión del grupo-, y a Lourdes y Gerardo, una pareja convencional que hace preguntas incómodas.