Resultados para "Domina" en Literatura de género

Judith Rashleigh nos ha demostrado cómo, gracias a su trayectoria sangrienta, ha podido pasar de ser una becaria explotada en una casa de subastas a convertirse en una marchante de arte internacional. Sí, Judith ha dejado una estela de sangre en su camino, pero su nueva vida como galerista en Venecia, rodeada de elegancia y codicia, representa todo lo que siempre ha querido ser. Y, además, a puerta cerrada, la alta sociedad ofrece un montón de lujuriosas actividades de las que Judith continúa disfrutando.

Dominica Moore lives in a war zone—both at home and at her new school—in that she endures cruelty by the hands of her father and also by the hands of her peers at school. She doesn't meet what they consider to be the standard norms of society-their codes of ethics. Instead, Dominica Moore goes against the standard norms of society. Through her endless struggle to be accepted for who and what she is inside, Dominica looks to the Lord for friendship and strength.

Esther Harding, a leading risk analyst at one of the country's largest banking institutions, is becoming more and more convinced that she has uncovered a ticking bomb with the potential to overshadow 2008's market crash. And as her own employer pursues "investment" strategies with ever-increasing levels of risk, she becomes convinced she must do something. Yet what can one person really do? The markets are edging closer to a tipping point.

In this collection, Kaie Kellough’s characters navigate race, history, and coming-of-age by way of their confessions and dreams. Through the eyes of jazz musicians, hitchhikers, quiet suburbanites, student radicals, secret agents, historians, and their fugitive slave ancestors, Kellough guides us from the cobblestones of Montreal’s Old Port to the foliage of a South American rainforest, from a basement in wartime Paris to an underground antique shop in Montréal during the October Crisis, allowing the force of imagination to tip the balance of time like a line of dominoes.

Dominika i Amanda, dwie przyjaciółki, nieumyślnie doprowadzają do śmierci swojego kolegi. Wyrzuty sumienia obu dziewczyn nie pozostają bez wpływu na ich relacje, a splot nieszczęśliwych wypadków sprawia, że życie traci również Amanda. Dominika czuje, że wszystko zaczyna się rozsypywać jak domek z kart. Wydaje jej się, że jest obserwowana i na każdym kroku towarzyszy jej strach przed tym, że skrywane tajemnice wyjdą na jaw.

The Allied forces in Korea are reeling from North Korea’s surprise attack. The air supremacy General Carswell holds over the theater are the only things holding back the surge of enemy mechanized units swallowing up vast tracts of the central region. The ground supply routes to the east are threatened. And with the conflict with China, there are few reserves that can be spared for the Korean Peninsula. In Taiwan, Chinese advances are within miles of Taipei. More and more American and Taiwanese forces are fed into the line holding China from pushing into the capital.

In this riveting sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller, Maestra, femme fatale Judith Rashleigh once again leads readers into the mesmerizing and dangerous underworld of Europe’s glamorous elite. Since opening her own art gallery in Venice, Judith Rashleigh—now Elisabeth...

Ci sono uomini abituati a esprimersi solo attraverso il denaro. Uomini che non vanno liquidati con facili parole: lo sa bene Romolo Bugaro, che - oltre a essere uno scrittore ipnotizzato dal mondo - è un avvocato che conosce da vicino, per lavoro, le traiettorie di ascese e fallimenti. Ritrarli con verità, nel bene e nel male di cui sono capaci, è la scommessa di questo suo romanzo. Perché la verità non indebolisce il giudizio etico, anzi lo rafforza proprio nella misura in cui lo complica.

"La vie reprend. Étrangement identique. Le même quotidien, la même routine familière, rassurante. Avec un supplément de sérénité. Et le sentiment extraordinaire que la vie est belle et qu'elle le sait plus que les autres." Amélie, architecte d'intérieur mariée à son amour de lycée et heureuse maman d'un petit garçon, vient de remporter une épreuve médicale. Elle est guérie. Après le soulagement et la joie, vient le temps des questionnements. Animée par un formidable appétit de vivre, Amélie trouve soudain son existence fade.

Discovered after more than 40 years, a vintage action-adventure novel set on Domino Island – a Caribbean paradise toppling under murder, corruption and organised crime… ‘Like a dream come true – an undiscovered Desmond Bagley novel … and it’s a great one!’ LEE CHILD Bill Kemp, an...

Hi, my name is Melvin Frink. I was once a promising medical student concentrating on neurosurgical procedures. More specifically, I was confident that we could justify the lobotomization treatment in some patients. Controversial? Yes. But I was making headway and earning the respect of my peers, until a terrible accident put me in a coma. Three years later, I awoke with renewed determination. Mother wouldn’t like what I had in mind. Or would she?

Ein Jüngling wird vom Propheten Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts zu Hakim, dem Putzmann der ägyptischen Botschaft in Damaskus geschickt, um den hundertsten Namen Allahs herauszufinden. Doch Hakim erzählt ihm nur von seinen Erlebnissen, die er aufgrund der Ratschläge des Propheten in früheren Jahren gemacht hat, aber den hundertsten Namen Allahs kann er ihm nicht nennen.