Resultados para "Girls" en Contemporánea

Nueva York, Navidad y un juego muy peligroso que tal vez no debieron comenzar. ¿Sabrán ganar la partida? Brooke Mackenzie, una chica del SoHo que se muda al Upper East Side, uno de los barrios más exclusivos de Manhattan, en contra de su voluntad a la corta edad de diez años, pero que gracias a su arrolladora personalidad y a su nuevo mejor amigo consigue adaptarse sin problemas.

Lizzie Winchester, la heredera de una de las grandes fortunas de Nueva York. Conrad Stone, un chico que vive de su imagen y se muda a un edificio un tanto peculiar. Modelo de fotografía y pasarela, acostumbrado a gustar y a que las mujeres se postren a sus pies. Lizzie, una chica con varios trabajos para poder costearse los estudios y el alquiler, un pasado que quiere olvidar y un vecino al que odiar. Un puñado de almas que buscan sobrevivir en una sociedad sin escrúpulos. ¿Alguna lo logrará? Un amor inesperado. El dichoso destino.

Ava, una fotógrafa que ama Manhattan y el barrio de Nolita, lugar en el que creció y vive con sus dos mejores amigas. Ava está harta de relaciones fugaces y tóxicas. Ava ha aprendido que el amor no duele ni empequeñece, sino sana y nos crece.

Alice Mackenzie, una chica que ha crecido con la figura de un bombero condecorado por su labor durante el 11-S y que sueña con ser como él. Alice llega al parque setenta y seis dispuesta a demostrar su valentía, esfuerzo y coraje. Tristan Jordan, Teniente de la Brigada de rescate ciento once, también descendiente de bomberos y un pasado demoledor que solo desea olvidar.

In the bingo card of life, Piper Delmonico did not expect to mark out the squares "widowed" and "sober" before her ten year high school reunion. Pushing 30, designing lingerie for a manager who wouldn't know silk from satin, and constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop, she finds herself face to face with someone who witnessed, first hand, the very public demise of her good girl reputation. Thrown together a decade later, Piper expects "Marble Man" Fitz Westfall, the golden boy with the stoic face, to be another person telling her she's too much.

A female attorney named Keisha is intimately involved in a relationship with a female author named Zoi’ and a male gynecologist named Greg. Keisha has been able to keep her idiosyncrasies hidden from her family and friends for months, but now her secret affair with Zoi’ is creeping to the forefront. Keisha is feeling pressured by Zoi’ to end her relationship with Greg and equally pressured by Greg to get married now. She has finally realized that she must choose between the love of her life, Zoi, and the politically correct life with Greg she is supposed to live.

Ellen Murphy spent her childhood in an idyllic house by the sea. A house surrounded by flower-filled gardens and a white picket fence. A house she fled at 18. A house full of secrets. When Ellen's mother, Rose, an ex-nun, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Ellen reluctantly returns home to care for her and uncovers a clue to the one secret that has haunted Ellen all her life: the identity of her father. But that is just one of the many secrets hidden behind the beautiful facade of the house on Rose Hill.

Once upon a time, the pressure to be the perfect daughter her demanding mother needed nearly broke Mikayla Whitman. Desperate to find an outlet, she picked up a pair of drumsticks, forever altering the rhythm of her life. Since then, she’s been determined to make her own way, finding her home with her bandmates even as she fights to keep her past and her present firmly separate.

Dottie and Mary forged a friendship over a bag of penny sweets when they were eight years old. They've shared everything together since then. Now, at seventeen, they're both shopgirls working at Woolworths. As they go out in the world in pursuit of love and happiness and life becomes more complicated, the simplicity of their childhood dissolves. The heady excitement of first love will consume them both, but the pain of unintentional betrayal will test their friendship.

When Simon Parker asked me on a date, I had no intention of accepting his offer. We worked together for almost a decade, and I never thought of him as anything more than a good friend. But my pole ladies convinced me to give him a chance.

Newly divorced from overbearing husband Malcom and with only reruns of Bergerac and an irascible black cat called Ivan for company, Meg decides it’s time to add a little colour back into her life. So when she spots a flyer for a local art class at the Lower Begley community centre, she grabs a brush — despite her only painting experience being a half-hearted coat of magnolia in the downstairs loo.

Sonja Fong isn’t afraid of a little chaos. As director of the League’s research center in Mystic Bayou, a tiny town in Louisiana that’s home to supernatural creatures and humans alike, she’s responsible for making sure things run smoothly. It’s not an easy task when her daily memos include lines like “new equipment is needed because the old equipment was destroyed by a temper tantrum involving dragonfire.”

Plus-sized Rachel Simon has settled into her life. But in a lifetime of not-quite fitting in and battling demon food issues, she has given up on finding love, despite the nagging of her close circle of friends. Now, Rachel has received some big news: a fashion blog, which she secretly wrote on the side, has caught the eye of a major fashion magazine, who not only want her to write a column, but are giving her an award at an upcoming banquet. The problem? She used Lisa’s picture on her bio and believes they expect a tall beautiful blonde to walk through the doors of the magazine.

Dotty, Lucy and Annabelle all turn up for work at Coventry's department store Owen Owen at the same time as war is declared. Dotty is an orphan, Lucy is the sole carer for her little sister, and although Annabelle has led a life of privilege until now, everyone's having to pinch the pennies at the moment. The three form an unlikely bond, and with disaster at every turn, they're going to need each other...

Tia, Ton'ya, and Tammi are not only making moves in the game, but they're doing it in the bedroom too - and anywhere they need to get what they want. Tia is quick with her razor-sharp mouth, and she carries an equally sharp razor to slice a throat if need be. Ton'ya is loyal to a fault but will fight back if threatened. Tammi is the brains of the operation. They have collected more bodies than a Manhattan hooker working the lower East Side. What happens when the heart gets in the way of making money?

Gemini "Gemma" McKendrick knows just about everything about everybody in Townsend Harbor. With her quirky boutique in big financial trouble, she makes a snap decision to rent out the basement of her cozy craftsman to Townsend Harbor newcomer Gabe Kelly. A man with a past as colorful as his tattoo sleeves, who has become an urban legend since he blew into town. And who better than Gemma, Townsend Harbor's own gossip guru, to answer the rumor mill's most pressing questions?

Three generations. One summer that will change everything. Jenna has returned to the sunny shores of Lake Summers, tucked under the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York, with her daughter Sophie to care for her aging mother, Sweet. Recently divorced, Jenna finds comfort in lazy afternoons along the water and long nights watching Sweet tell Sophie stories about her long-lost loves. When she meets Sweet’s new next-door neighbor, Troy, she recognizes him instantly as the boy with whom she shared her first kiss.

As London goes up in flames during the Blitz, two sisters from Bermondsey find their lives changed out of all recognition.... When a bombing raid destroys nearly everything she holds dear, May joins the ATS and becomes a gunner girl. Peggy, May's elder sister, is trapped in a stifling marriage, yet amid the chaos of war, a route to freedom beckons. From war will come hardship and tragedy as well as new, unexpected friendships and love affairs.

A task a day to cure a broken heart. Esmé Peel is approaching thirty with some trepidation, but hope in her heart. If she can just get her long-term boyfriend Andrew to propose, she will have ticked everything off her 'things to do by the time you're 30' list. She didn't reckon on finding another woman's earring in her bed however, and soon she finds herself single, homeless and in need of a new plan. Her best friend Carys gives her the perfect present – The Single Girl's Calendar – which has a different cure for heartbreak every day:

A heart-warming story about family secrets and one woman’s escape to dreamy Sandy Cove on the stunning west coast of Ireland. The picturesque beach of Wild Rose Bay is the last place Lydia Butler thought she’d be. But having just lost everything, the run-down cottage she inherited from her Great Aunt Nellie is the only place she can take her daughter, Sunny. Hidden away in a tiny Irish village, she can protect Sunny from the gossip in Dublin, and the real reason they have nowhere else to live....