Resultados para "Rico" en Literatura y ficción

Me llamo Rita, fui Miss España y ahora vivo del faranduleo. Presento galas, hago publicidad en Instagram que me pagan con champús y ahora me han dado un programita muy mono en la tele.

Cuando la neoyorquina Rachel Chu acepta pasar el verano en Singapur con su novio, Nicholas Young, imagina un hogar familiar humilde y tiempo a solas con el hombre con el que espera casarse. Pero Nick ha olvidado facilitar ciertos detalles a su novia. En primer lugar, que la casa en la que creció parece un palacio; segundo, que está más acostumbrado a viajar en aviones privados que en coche; tercero, que, aparentemente, es el hombre soltero más codiciado del país.

Radio star Nelle Brown is known coast-to-coast for her sweet and sultry voice. But her press agent and manager, Jake Justus, is familiar with another side of the darling of the airwaves: her crackpot marriage to a penniless tycoon, disastrous string of lovers, and propensity for flying into spectacular fits of rage. Now, it appears she’s being burned by an ex-flame who’s holding her scandalous love letters for ransom. The missives could ruin Nelle’s career, but so could the scoundrel’s murder.

One of New York’s finest saves brilliant and debonair (but drug-addicted) Daniel Topler from his suicide attempt on the George Washington Bridge. In court, the judge entrusts the young man to the care of Dr. Jacob Bernstein, an elderly psychiatrist at an upscale rehab clinic. The doctor issues these commands: Obey the no-drugs rules and join the geriatric temple men’s group he leads - or face incarceration. Dan has no choice but to comply. Dan’s prep school friends initially lure him back to the drugs, booze, and women. But all that changes when he meets Bernstein’s daughter, Laura....

Buddha Fan Utz und Jesus Fan Lo oder umgedreht haben an der Uhr gedreht. Jetzt ist die Uhr weg, aber sie haben noch eine genaue Uhr von Chinamann für günstig, die seit Urzeiten funktioniert. Es ist Zeit zu LACHEN, die beiden Superfreaks aus Nordgermany (Lil Chi (Chicago), Nähe Rostock) haben Witze, Weisheiten usw. für's Leben mit ihren letzten ca. 14 Gehirnzellen hingezaubert. In Fachkreisen-, Experten- und in allen Götterkreisen sind sich mal alle einig, es ist ein Meisterwerk geworden. Es liegen (oder stehen?) ca. 555 Topsprüche vor. Die "Superhelden" versuchen das Multiversum zu retten... Schaffen sie es??

Resourceful Bingo Riggs and his partner, Handsome Kusak, are in the sucker-bait business, snapping candid pics of tourists off Central Park. Their fly-by-night enterprise can be irresistible to souvenir lovers, but with one camera in a pawnshop and their developing room in the bathtub of a two-room dump near Hell’s Kitchen, their venture is wretchedly underexposed - until they stumble upon an insurance fraud scheme between the allegedly dead eccentric Mr. S. S. Pigeon and his business partner and beneficiary.

One postman! Two postmen! Three postmen! All murdered! John J. Malone sticks his nose into the case of the dead postmen and picks up a crack on the head, an Australian beer hound, and six redheaded twins. It all begins when he takes on a new client, Rodney Fairfaxx. Rodney was tabbed for the postmen murders because he hadn’t received a letter from a dead girl for more than 30 years. Malone doesn’t think that this is enough reason to kill, but he can’t prove it.

When you find out your best friend and business partner is secretly sleeping with your wife, it may be time to move on.... From your job and your marriage.... Which is precisely what happened to Jamie Newgent. A change of lifestyle is what’s needed, and a bachelor pad on the fourth floor of a jutting tower provides a new home, a fresh start, and a new chapter in his life.

Spreading democracy takes more than cutting-edge military hardware. Winning the hearts and minds of a troubled nation is a special mission we give to bewildered young soldiers who can’t speak the native language, don’t know the customs, can’t tell friends from enemies, and–in this...

The antidote to Eat, Pray, Love! Based on Greenberg's own travels to Bali, Occupy the Rice Fields ventures into very different territory, documenting encounters with fake spiritualists, hustlers, and hawkers. Occupy the Rice Fields, the solo performance, premiered at Space 4 Art in San Diego in May 2013 and was produced by North Coast Repertory, Solana Beach, in May 2015.

Schon seit ihrer Jugend ist Hannah Vegetarierin. Sie lebt in der Stadt und hat nur noch wenige Verbindungen zum dörflichen Leben ihrer Kindheit. Als jedoch ihre Mutter stirbt, kehrt sie auf deren Hühnerhof zurück – vorübergehend, denkt sie, bis alles geregelt ist. Doch das Landleben in seiner Schönheit und seinem Schrecken nimmt sie in Beschlag, und schon bald entwickelt Hannah ein ganz besonderes Verhältnis zu den Tieren: Sie schlachtet und vakuumiert sie, verabschiedet aber jedes Hähnchen mit einer eigenen Biografie, die der Verpackung beiliegt.

Radical environmentalist Roscoe Alolo has been abducted. As ransom, his kidnappers demand that the village of Golden Springs cancel its gala Earth Day celebration. Whiz sociologist Huck Carp, who idolizes Alolo, vows to solve the case, and unexpectedly teams up with a hermit calling himself Johnny Appleseed.

When Ruth, Susie, Diana, and Maggie meet for their usual Wednesday morning coffee in Manhattan, each woman is drowning in holiday dread. Ruth faces another lonely Christmas with her dismissive husband. Susie struggles under the crushing weight of hosting duties for her demanding family. Recently divorced, Diana dreads facing the holidays without her familiar life. And control-freak Maggie feels overwhelmed by everyone else's expectations.

Ominous signs portend great danger, and Regina Y-Z, a psychic, fears the worst. Furthermore, the warning signs all point to her former best-friend, Celeste Bonneville. According to the Aeon religion, Y2K will bring about the End of Days. Celeste, a leader of the Central Ohio Conclave of the Church of Aeonism, looks forward to her future life in a digital paradise, called Singularity. The most holy Master Desiderata has chosen Celeste for a special mission. If the apocalypse doesn’t happen on its own, she has instructions for how to light the fuse to get it started.

2028. Prime Minister Fitzwilliams' instincts tell him it's time to call a snap election. His cabinet team is adequate (just), the howling protests of the doctors after the GP changes has finally died down and, best of all, the Australian Greens are in receivership. So what could possibly go wrong? The PM is prepared for everything until he finds himself facing what he least expected - an actual opposition. How do you deal with a party that doesn't play by the rules, protests in the nude, sends mail by carrier pigeon and has a list of candidates all called Ned Ludd?

A vibrant and absorbing novel of six friends--each an unforgettable Latina in her late twenties--and the complications and triumphs in their lives As soon as it was written, The Dirty Girls Social Club began turning heads. The Chicago Tribune reported that the book "set off a bidding frenzy"...

A propulsive page-turning thriller following the hit reality TV show Garden State Goddesses where secrets are uncovered, intense rivalries surface, and a startling murder propels a producer on a riveting quest for the truth. On this season of Garden State Goddesses: Getting canceled means...

An ebullient, funny, and hugely original novel told from the perspective of Beep, a squirrel monkey who—with the help of a brilliant young girl— forges the way forward for a planet in crisis.​ In this immensely enjoyable and wise novel, it takes a sweet and personable squirrel monkey, Beep...