Resultados para "Lady di" en Ficción contemporánea

Lucky Santangelo har en plan. Hon ska köpa Panther Studios - filmbolaget som hennes skådespelande make, Lennie Golden, är bunden till. Allt som behövs är att gamle Abe Panther går med på att sälja. Vad Lucky aldrig kunnat förutspå är att Abe har ett väldigt specifikt krav för att affären ska gå i lås. Hon måste hjälpa honom sätta dit arvtagarna som driver bolaget, en gång för alla. Sex veckors arbete under täckmantel - sen är Panther Studios hennes.

South Georgia, 1956. When 16-year-old Quincy Bruce goes to live with her Aunt Addy, she has no idea that what happened 13 years earlier in wartime London can destroy her future. Her parents have gone to Africa as missionaries, leaving Quincy with her free-spirited and lively aunt, a war widow, and the only person who supports Quincy's ambition to become a musician. When another aunt accuses Addy of having been the inspiration for the adulterous woman in Nathan Waterstone's infamous wartime novel, The Lady, Quincy vows to prove her wrong.

If your purpose for buying an audiobook is to find something to help put you to sleep, this is not it. But if you want to follow a small time con-man from coast to coast as he somehow managess to irritate, intimidate, of just in general piss off the following list of people - hit men, drug dealers, doctors, antique dealers, coin dealers, cops, and an unfaithful wife who thinks it is OK for her to steal everything from him that he steals from everybody else - then you have found the right book!

L'atzar fa que en Martí i en Miquel es coneguin. L'amistat entre els dos xicots i el descobriment de les vivències de l'avi d'en Miquel els marquen profundament, perquè saben transformar aquestes relacions en una experiència positiva.

"The Lady's Maid" is a story by Katherine Mansfield: Eleven o'clock. A knock at the door... I hope I haven't disturbed you, madam. You weren't asleep - were you? But I've just given my lady her tea, and there was such a nice cup over, I thought, perhaps...

Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. This early complete work, which the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the title character. Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother- and sister-in-law, Charles and Catherine Vernon, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence.

Irgendetwas fehlt in Hannas Leben. Aber was? Während einer Auszeit in einem Seminarhaus hofft sie, Antworten zu finden. Obwohl der Ort nicht hält, was er verspricht, bringt sie etwas dazu, zu bleiben: das Versprechen, Lady Buddha zu begegnen. Ein überraschender Aufbruch beginnt, den Hanna sich nicht hat träumen lassen. Und ehe sie sich versieht, steht sie plötzlich vor der Lady.

Margaret O'Shea never thought she'd find herself praying for the life of an English soldier. But with her grandson Eoin fighting in Iraq, Margaret can't do anything but say the rosary and hope that he comes home unscathed. His fiancée Katarzyna is a good Catholic girl, even if she goes to Nottingham's Polish church rather than its Irish one. What Margaret doesn't know is that Kathy's way of coping with Eoin's absence goes beyond prayer or reading horoscopes.

"The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of the eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow, and one of the few stories in which for much of the plot Watson must act alone and try his best with Holmes left in the background. Holmes sends Dr. Watson to Lausanne to investigate Lady Frances Carfax's disappearance since he himself is too busy in London. Lady Frances is a lone, unwed woman denied a rich inheritance on account of her sex.

Realization from the attention, the glamor, and the fame that accompanies being the First Lady comes to a head. Each woman soon realizes that being the First Lady is not all it's cracked up to be. The lies, deceit, the hurt, and the pain that comes with being a First Lady forces them to face reality.