Resultados para "Else" en Literatura y ficción

You know those summer night, cool breeze, everybody is outside and kicking it? Music blaring, you chilling with your girls, watching the guys? Well, that’s how it went for Moët. Moët Rubins was sitting on her best friend’s stoop with her girls, kicking it and having drinks, when a drop top...

There was an old man who loved words; Not many words here for nerds. Lots of words that rhyme; Some will tickle your spine. These limericks demand to be heard. This collection came from a desire to delight readers of all ages—teachers, students, and families. The inspiration for these verses came from selected minutes in my daily life, and were written in random order for your enjoyment. These poems work best when you read them aloud to someone else. Let them paint a picture in your mind. Let them put a bounce in your step. Let the music of the language ring true in your ears.

Rosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave behind everything she knows with only a suitcase of clothes and her father’s violin. An epic generational story about womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation...

Dear Reader, If you are looking for a passionate romance, a slick political thriller or, perhaps, a ripping yarn with volcanos, pirates and ghosts; a book where everything ends neatly and makes perfect, unequivocal sense, then I’m afraid this is not the book you’re looking for. If you like...

Una giovane donna, ospite della zia nel Grand Hotel di San Martino di Castrozza, per salvare il padre dalla rovina economica deve mostrarsi nuda a un vecchio...

Happy hoes ain’t hatin’ and hatin’ hoes ain’t happy. That’s how Moet feels as she steps into the role as Zane’s fiancée. She can handle the blogs, but her anger won’t allow Cabrina to keep disrespecting her relationship with Zane. When Cabrina takes things too far, will she and...

Everything Feels Like the End of the World is a collection of short speculative fiction exploring possible futures in an Australia not so different from our present day to one thousands of years into an unrecognisable future. Each story is anchored, at its heart, in what it means to be human...

Bailey thought she’d gotten her happy ending. She is married to the man she loves, she has started a family, and her design business is flourishing. But when Bailey’s ex-husband, a famous TV chef, is found murdered with her DNA all over his apartment and body, she is suddenly facing murder charges in a high-profile case. Already burdened by the demands and challenges of marriage, motherhood, and her career, Bailey now must do everything she can to prove her innocence. But it’s the ones she thought would surely be on her side who might be doubting her innocence the most.  

On the eve of her fortieth birthday, a woman wakes up from a pickleball accident with the unexpected chance to relive her twenties in this sparkling novel from a fresh, new voice. Sutton Layne is almost-forty and fabulous, with a happy marriage, three beautiful children, and a successful...

One day I was watching one of my aunties battle cancer. She was older, never married—alone. That day I decided I never wanted to be like her. So I looked around and there was Michael. He worked on Wall Street. He was available. Most of all, he was into me. I let him catch me, then I made the biggest mistake of my life: I married a guy I didn’t love. Maybe if I’d loved him, we’d have connected in bed and I wouldn’t have woken in the mornings feeling exploited.

Denishia Boswell is a successful florist and owner of Happily Ever After Floral Shop. Although she creates beautiful bouquets and floral designs to enhance any romantic or intimate setting, she’s having problems enhancing her own love life. She’s in a lackluster relationship that she is...

A.J. Gejlagers historiske roman fortæller om den unge bonde Esben, der under stavnsbåndets sidste dage i slutningen af 1700-tallet kæmper en brav kamp mod herremandens tyranni og de forfærdelige lidelser, han må undergå i sin tid i militsen. Esbens største ønske er at være fri til at ægte sin elskede Else, som verden synes fast besluttet på at skille ham fra.

Fräulein Else ist eine aufgewühlte Neunzehnjährige, die sich vor einem angeblichen Familienfreund ausziehen soll, um 30.000 Gulden für ihren überschuldeten Vater zu beschaffen. Der Zwiespalt zwischen Selbstachtung, Furcht und der Pflicht, das Opfer für die Familie, das ist nicht nur ein literarisches, sondern auch ein psychologisches Meisterwerk.

Heather Harris is a piano teacher and professional musician, whose quiet life revolves around music, whose memories centre on a single song that haunts her. A song she longs to perform again. A song she wrote as a child, to drown out the violence in their home. A song she played with her little sister, Harriet. But Harriet is gone...she disappeared when their parents died, and Heather never saw her again. When Heather is offered an opportunity to play piano on a cruise ship, she leaps at the chance.

Bailey's brother, Henry, and his best friend Griffin are stars in the restaurant field. They are known as the Color Wheel Boys because of their renowned Buckhead restaurants Vert, Blanc, and Noir. Bailey is determined to chart her own course; to not be forever known as Hank's daughter, Henry's sister, or "whatever" she is to Griffin. Bailey's dreams propel her to New York, where her vision garners accolades and fame. Just when she seems on the verge of having it all, a shocking betrayal throws Bailey's world into chaos. 

When a local festival comes to a bloody end, Ruby must use her powers of seeing into the future to help the local sheriff find the killer before it's too late. 

The Invention of Everything Else is a luminous imagining of an unlikely friendship between the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young hotel chambermaid. Louisa, obsessed with radio dramas and the secret lives of the hotel guests, first catches sight of the hotel's most famous resident on New Year's Day, 1943, and is determined to befriend the strange man.

A Manhattan fashion consultant searches for a mysterious letter writer—and finds an unexpected adventure . . . Sage Parker has a dream job—she helps the rich and powerful keep their wardrobes current and suitable for every need. Her sense of fashion is impeccable, her connections are...

When novelist Andy Drake returns to his hometown to care for his ailing father, a reconnection with his childhood friend Rachel escalates into a secret love affair. For Rachel, struggling to maintain the facade of a picture-perfect life, it’s an escape from an emotionally abusive marriage. Then Andy receives an anonymous note warning him to end the affair. Or else.

Kat’s boss has vanished. The police suspect her. But they’ll never find him where he’s gone! Only Kat can help him. Interior designer Kat is broke and desperately needs this commission restoring the Edwardian mansion of Fownhope Priors, but her employer Scott’s wife and mother-in-law are...