Resultados para "Sunset" en Literatura y ficción

En el Londres de 1857 la mayoría de las jóvenes de su edad sueña con encontrar marido, casarse y cumplir así con lo que la sociedad espera de ellas. Pero que Olivia Turley no es como la mayoría de jóvenes lo saben todos los que la conocen. Su belleza e inteligencia compiten por igual y su innata curiosidad derrotará a todo aquel que pretenda convertirla en un mero objeto decorativo. Rodeada de intelectuales y filósofos, crece acostumbrada a dar su opinión sobre cualquier tema y con un elevado sentido de la justicia.

Una mirada realista, viva y totalmente actual de la familia y la sociedad norteamericana posterior a la crisis. Miles Heller es un joven introvertido que a los veinte años decidió dejar Nueva York y romper toda relación con sus padres. Siete años después no ha retomado el contacto y reside...

Septiembre de 1860. Sunset Bayou, Oakville.Han pasado tres años desde que Olivia se trasladó de Londres a la plantación que su tío John le dejó en herencia.Después de su matrimonio con Tyler Hudson nada ha sido como ella había imaginado. La plantación ha seguido funcionando como siempre y los doscientos veintitrés esclavos que eran de su tío ahora son suyos. Los ánimos de los sureños están alterados y su resistencia a lo que consideran intolerables ataques por parte de los yanquis está a punto de llegar a su fin. 

He is the town sheriff. She is the woman who has been avoiding him for seven years. And the little girl she just brought back... belongs to both of them. Lauren Returning to Sunset Valley is the last thing I want to do. But I'm out of money, out of options, and I have a six-year-old daughter who...

She’s spent decades following someone else’s dreams, and now, she must make a choice between her marriage… and herself. As a child, Nora Murray was never able to put down roots, and wanted nothing more than to build lasting friendships and a community of her own. As an adult, Nora watched those dreams die time and again when she fell in love with a man whose job moved them from place to place. Somewhere along the way, Nora set aside her own desires and resigned herself to a lifetime of uncertainty, and upheaval. Until she stepped foot in Mermaid Bay… and everything changed.

Sunset is bittersweet love story about putting yourself back together after the sky has fallen in. Ruth and Hannah are sisters. They build each other up and tear each other down. Even as polar opposites they make each other laugh more than anyone else in the world. Ruth is forever single...

A book of modern contemporary poetry using forms from around the world. 

He is the perfect mayor with a political future mapped out to the last detail. She is the bohemian chaos who has been driving him crazy for months. And they've just been named co-chairs of the biggest festival of the year. Iris I've been in Sunset Valley for six months, and I'm still the...

This bundle contains first four books in the best-selling series Sunset SEALs. Great way to get started exploring Sunset Beach with the four couples in this series, which is ongoing.

Rather than accepting a marriage arranged by his mother, the powerful military matriarch of Westwind, Creslin chooses exile, setting out to find his own identity and developing his magical talents through conflict with the enigmatic white wizards of Candar. What Creslin doesn't know is he stands in the way of their plot to subjugate the world.

Rather than accepting a marriage arranged by his mother, the powerful military matriarch of Westwind, Creslin chooses exile, setting out to find his own identity and developing his magical talents through conflict with the enigmatic white wizards of Candar. What Creslin doesn't know he stands in the way of their plot to subjugate the world.

SEAL Team 3 member Andy Carr is liking his Florida digs—the call of the seabirds and the roaring of the ocean at his back door. They've embarked on renovating the little house at Sunset she found while they were falling in love, and this house means more to them than just glass, wood, and sheetrock. Will echoes from their past destroy the harmony of their romance? Andy always fights to win, but what if he loses?

The old Heusinkveld mansion overlooks the mostly shuttered main street of the small town of Burdener's Hill. Once a testament to local wealth and aspiration, the brooding edifice now clings to life as the Sunshine House, a retirement home inhabited by an eccentric collection of locals bound together by fond memories of their shrinking hometown. When a newly arrived resident finds herself tormented by a threatening specter from her past, paranormal investigator Ellie Jordan is called in to confront it.

My name is Sally. For over thirty years I’ve stalked the night, a slave to the vampire nation. I’ve walked among you – a wolf in sheep’s clothing – committing countless atrocities in their name. Now, on the eve of Armageddon, I’ve been offered a chance for redemption, however slim. My past has caught up to me, beckoning me back to the city of my rebirth. I’ll need to seek out those responsible for my turning and confront them once and for all. I’m outnumbered and outgunned, but they’re dead wrong if they think I’m outclassed.

Kennedy never expected to run into Luke, the hot Australian firefighter she had a mind-blowing one-night stand with four months ago, on the tropical island where she's now the official resort photographer. Even more surprising is how equally turned on she is by his hunky British cousin, Addison. Finding the feisty, flirty American he met at a New York bar is a surprise for Luke. Even more surprising is how he can't stop thinking about sharing the woman of his dreams with his cousin.

Los Angeles. Christmas, 1967. A city on fire as a killer strikes . . . A young nurse, Kerry Gaudet, travels to the City of Angels desperate to find her missing brother, fearing that something terrible has happened to him: a serial killer is terrorising the city, picking victims at random, and...

A promise given, a promise kept...a star returned to its heaven. The circle of giving becomes the gift of receiving. Love completes its journey.

Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midlands town, from 1829 to 1832, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Leavened with comic elements, Middlemarch approaches significant historical events in a realist mode: the Reform Act 1832, early railways, and the accession of King William IV. It looks at medicine of the time and reactionary views in a settled community facing unwelcome change.

Blakesley Thorne moved to San Diego to escape a horrendous history in Los Angeles; a divorce, betrayal, and murder were only part of it. A distant cousin of marshal Wyatt Earp, Blakesley intends to start a new life with her three young daughters in the homestead that has been in her family for generations. The home is full of legends of cursed gold and evil tidings.

Two ghostwriters walk into a Key West bar and decide to swap gigs....