Resultados para "Families" en Contemporánea

Emelie, madre de tres hijas, está cansada de la vida. Desde que el padre de las niñas se volvió a Gambia ha estado luchando por sacar adelante el día a día. Tiene un presupuesto muy justo, un trabajo extremadamente aburrido y, a pesar de la presión, no se ve preparada para meterse en Tinder. Sin embargo, la llegada de una carta inesperada está a punto de cambiar su vida para siempre: ha heredado una casa en la isla de Serdenö.

Una chica. Un chico. Un ascensor. Y un cortocircuito que los deja encerrados dentro. Solos.

Cuando ella cree haber dejado atrás su pasado, pero al bajar de un avión y verse inundada por el calor del Mediterráneo y los recuerdos su corazón... Bum. Cuando él parece pasar de todo, pero la repentina e inesperada luz de una habitación se le clava en el pecho y... Bum. El fin de una era.

They're a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together - birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, weekends away. And they're a happy family. Johnny's wife, Jessie - who has the most money - insists on it. Under the surface, though, conditions are murkier. While some people clash, other people like each other far too much.... Everything stays under control until Ed's wife Cara, gets concussion and can't keep her thoughts to herself.

Mucho tiempo atrás, Catalina Berenguer y la cesta de su bicicleta se dieron de bruces con River Cabana. River le arregló la "cestita de la bici", trepó hasta su ventana, la estremeció de pies a cabeza con su mirada azul y se precipitaron juntos hacia el cielo, sin dejar de mirarse ni de esbozar las sonrisas más radiantes jamás vistas.

Libby Cooper hasn’t celebrated Christmas since the night her parents died in a terrible accident. She wants to forget that the season of goodwill even exists; but her grandmother has other ideas. It’s time for Libby to start living her life just as her parents would have wanted her to do. First stop New York! What better way to immerse herself in the celebrations, than working in her great aunt’s Christmas shop, just a few blocks from Central Park? Making new friends in the Big Apple is the easy bit, but leaving the past behind proves much harder than Libby imagined.

Tracy Goldstein entiende muy bien lo que implica estar enamorada: ilusiones rotas, perder sus ahorros, y ver la empresa que construyó con arduo trabajo en manos de otro. ¿Cometer el mismo error? No, gracias. Estaba advertida sobre los hombres. No obstante, el día en que empieza a trabajar para el frío y distante CEO de S.W. Group, Tracy sabe que está en graves problemas. A medida que avanzan los días, la tensión entre ambos se cuece a fuego lento, y a ella le resulta cada vez más difícil no cruzar la delgada fina entre la cordura y el riesgo.

Tracy Goldstein entiende muy bien lo que implica estar enamorada: ilusiones rotas, perder sus ahorros, y ver la empresa que construyó con arduo trabajo en manos de otro. ¿Cometer el mismo error? No, gracias. Estaba advertida sobre los hombres. No obstante, el día en que empieza a trabajar para el frío y distante CEO de S.W. Group, Tracy sabe que está en graves problemas. A medida que avanzan los días, la tensión entre ambos se cuece a fuego lento, y a ella le resulta cada vez más difícil no cruzar la delgada fina entre la cordura y el riesgo.

Lisa Edwards, top London magazine editor, has been fantasizing about promotion to New York. Instead, she's asked to launch a new women's magazine in Dublin. She thinks nothing could be worse - until she meets her new staff. They're friendly, helpful, and enthusiastic - in other words, they wouldn't last two minutes in London!

How do you define yourself when others have already decided who you are? Six years ago, when Camden Daniels came back from war without his younger brother, no one in the small town of Alba, Colorado, would forgive him - especially his father. He left, swearing never to return. But a desperate message from his father brings it all back. The betrayal. The pain. And the need to go home again. But home is where the one person he still loves is waiting. Willow. The one woman he can never have. Because there are secrets buried in Alba that are best left in the dark.

Algunos días no deberían existir. Cualquiera que se encontrara en el pellejo de Bea pensaría lo mismo. ¿Cuántas probabilidades hay de que la Administración cometa un error tan grave que envíe tu vida y tu estabilidad al garete? ¿Y de que te toque precisamente a ti? ¿Y qué es lo peor de todo? Que quien tiene que demostrar que fueron ellos los que metieron la pata eres tú —¿quién si no?—. Jodido, ¿verdad? Viuda, con un bebé al que mantener y sin trabajo, a Bea no le queda otra que pedirle a su cuñado, Theron Mitros, que la ayude a deshacer el entuerto.

One day, sitting in traffic, Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life. But in this event is born the seed of something which will take Stella thousands of miles from her old life, turning an ordinary woman into a superstar, wrenching her whole family apart. For the first time real, honest-to-goodness happiness is just within her reach. But is Stella Sweeney, Dublin housewife, ready to grasp it?

To the outside world, Electra D’Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world’s top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous. Yet beneath the veneer, Electra’s already tenuous control over her state of mind has been rocked by the death of her father, Pa Salt, the elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from across the globe. Struggling to cope, she turns to alcohol and drugs. As those around her fear for her health, Electra receives a letter from a complete stranger who claims to be her grandmother.

When I was little, I was obsessed with fairytales. My dad told me the stories of the stars and white knights who rescue princesses. I’d wear a silver plastic crown and stare at the sky, waiting for the day my knight in shining armor would come. Then my dad died, my crown broke, and my mom shipped my sister and me off to boarding school. And then I met them. My knights. Only they’re nothing like the fairytales I grew up on. They’re wrapped in sin and shrouded in darkness. Bossy, protective, alphaholes. And heirs to the Italian mafia.

Agent Kavi Dhillon has dedicated two years to hunting the elusive thief known as Wraith. But capturing his image—or catching him—is a feat yet to be achieved. Now, Wraith is after the ultimate prize: a phoenix egg. Is it a real phoenix egg? No one knows. But the Coven wants it, along with the thief and the mysterious buyer. Adrian Tanner didn’t choose a life of thievery—it chose him when survival meant breaking the rules at sixteen. Two decades later, he’s a master of magic and stealth, earning his reputation as Wraith through carefully selected, high-stakes jobs.

The story of a relationship that everyone thought was forever and which is now in danger of being for never, The Break is about getting older and staying in love when life, real life, is trying to pull you apart.

Unge, sensitive Finch Whiteoark passer ikke ind i sin familie med familiemedlemmernes voldsomme følelsesudbrud og lidenskabelige livsappetit. I stedet finder Finch trøst i musikken; en passion der ikke finder megen grobund på Jalna. Både Wakefield og Piers gør nar af den følsomme dreng, og heller ikke Renny kan finde ud af at tale med den akavede teenager.

The new novel from best-selling author Paige Toon, author of The Last Piece of My Heart and One Perfect Summer. What happens if you meet the right person at the wrong time? Nell and Van meet as children when their parents fall in love, but soon they are forced worlds apart. Five years later, they find each other. Their bond is rekindled, and new feelings take hold, but once again they have to separate. For the next two decades, fate brings Nell and Van together every five years, as life and circumstance continue to divide them. Will they ever find true happiness?

Rachel Lear lives in a dream world with her head in the clouds - and it’s starting to show. There’s the dissertation she can’t quite finish, the ex-boyfriend whom she has yet to kick to the curb, and those pesky 20 pounds she keeps meaning to lose. But when her overbearing father finally runs out of patience and cuts her off from the family fortune, Rachel finds herself thrust into the real world. She never could have guessed that’s where she would finally meet a knight in shining armor.

After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles.