Resultados para "Bed" en Literatura y ficción

The agenda of the weekly meeting of the Widows’ Association has one goal: Find a husband for Patricia Potter. The other members—Amy, Amanda, and Cecily—can’t stand Patricia’s moaning about mystery illnesses and the loss of her beloved husband, Henry Potter. The only way to resolve...

It’s bad enough that its venom-dripping chelicerae can slice through flesh like warm butter. Worse? It’s right there under the bunk. It’s a fact now. To make it through the night, the children must obey the rules: don’t get out of bed, stay out of the shadows, and don’t wake the beast. But as the threats multiply, so do the rules of survival. And with the safety of dawn still hours away, the fun is just beginning.

Winnie, Stella and Frankie have been best friends forever. When their lives unexpectedly unravel, they spontaneously decide to buy a gorgeous B&B on a remote Greek island. Drenched in hot sun, Villa Valentina is the perfect escape from reality. But when Winnie meets Jesse, their brooding neighbour, she finds that Greece is full of its own complications - not least how attractive he is....

In a charming and witty novel, Sarah Bilston tells the story of a busy career woman who finds her pregnancy a breeze -- until she's ordered off her feet for complete and total bed rest. Quinn ""Q"" Boothroyd is a young British lawyer married to an American and living in New York City. She's...

Time for Bed is a bedtime story for parents and adults. Ten desperate parents hire Wrinkles the Clown to scare their brats straight, then one-by-one, ten little brats all meet their supposed fate. This book makes a great gift for parents, but can be enjoyed by anyone who likes a good old fashioned creepy clown story, right before it's time to turn out the lights and go to sleep. Dad jokes, rhymes, and puns... this book has it all. Have friends that don't like clowns? This is the perfect gag gift for Halloween, Christmas, Hanukkah and birthdays! Let Wrinkles haunt your dreams tonight!

A comic monologue by Christopher Green, starring Caroline Quentin. A feisty woman has taken to her bed in the spare room and she is not getting up - ever. She's 39 and has decided that she is not having children. She claims her boyfriend is in denial, though in reality he is in Zurich. Directed...

When an old man dies in an assisted living center, the undertaker is the first to show up, hoping to get the business. “Easy money!” he declares, but his hopes for an easy funeral are dashed when a psychic insists the old man was murdered. He starts out doing the right thing—he informs the sheriff’s department of the psychic’s suspicion that the death might have been a murder. They laugh him out of the office, leaving the poor undertaker to try to solve it himself. Lucky for him, he has help.

A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present—loaded with assassins and mad poets, RPGs and slasher films, pop bands and the perils of social media “Your view of twentieth-century history will be enlarged and altered...

Rising star author Bea Williams needs a vacation. And her godmother’s snug Greek island retreat is the perfect place to use as an escape from her writer’s block. Until she finds she’s going to have to share her idyllic one bed cottage with him – Gibson Caddell, one time childhood friend and a great big, drop-dead-gorgeous red flag. As the sun sets on Santorini, Bea’s thoughts soon turn to something much more pressing – there’s two of them. And only one bed

For fans of Outlander, New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands’ newest installment of the Highland Brides series brings us a sweeping tale of passion as a laird’s swim in a loch leads to the love of a lifetime. An invigorating swim in the loch was exactly what Calan Campbell, Laird of...

Rediscover the modern classic that launched the career of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Everything and Big Summer with this beautiful anniversary edition of her “contemporary Cinderella tale told with intelligence, wit, and style” (Susan Isaacs, New York Times bestselling...

Our hero learns more life lessons and experiences the first disconcerting flutters of his heartstrings.

In this final instalment of the Adventures of Mr Verdant Green, the eponymous hero finds himself perplexed thricefold.

A wonderfully amusing account of the escapades of a naïve student at Oxford, c. 1850.

Modern technology is terrifying. The average smartphone carries out 3.36 billion instructions per second. The average person can carry out only one instruction in that time. Stop and think about that for a second. Sorry, that's two instructions; you won't be able to do that. But what if modern technology was... literally terrifying? What if there really was a ghost in the machine? Prepare to travel through the bad gateway as acclaimed actor, writer and comedian Tom Neenan (The Mash Report) finds out what horrors may be lurking in our apps and gadgets.