Resultados para "The Heathen" en Literatura y ficción

When introverted loner Penny transfers to a Midwest university in search of the all-American college experience, she finds herself under the intoxicating influence of Stella, a glamorous, damaged sorority girl with a razor–sharp wit and a bottle full of secrets.

At 35, Gina Bourque is still playing the field. If he’s single, in his early 20s with dark hair and brooding eyes, there’s a damn good chance you’ll find him in her little black book. Jeffrey Ryan never imagined that at nearly 40 he’d find himself widowed and a single dad. But here he is - stumbling through this thing called life with two impressionable daughters watching his every move.

A comedy of Russian gangsters, town planners and a dog called Dennis. This hilarious story from Monty Python star, Terry Jones, will make you laugh out loud. Martin Thomas is not happy. The view he loves is about to be blocked by an ugly building. He decides to take action and forms a protest group. Then things go wrong and Martin finds himself running for his life. Along the way he gets mixed up with depressed town planners, violent gangsters and a kidnapped concert pianist.

Plain Heathen Mischief ups the existential ante, as Joel King, a defrocked Baptist minister, finds life even more bedeviling once he's served six months for a career-ending crime he might not even have committed. Now his incommunicado wife wants a divorce, the teenage vixen of his disgrace is suing him for a cool $5 million, a fresh start in Montana offers no hope for ex-cons of any religious persuasion, and the refuge provided by his sister turns as nasty as his parole officer. Talk about a crisis of faith.

Would you travel the world with a perfect stranger? Fasten your seat belts for an emotional journey filled with humor and adventure. Bachelor and newscaster Pete McCarney buys two plane tickets for a trip around the world with his girlfriend, but they split up shortly before the trip, and he can't get a refund. In a gutsy last-minute move, Pete goes on social media asking for women with his girlfriend's exact name to join him on the trip. Twenty-one women apply, and the ensuing interview process is both awkward and hilarious.

This series contains mature themes and strong language, and listener discretion is advised.

Meet Zoe and Greg Milton, a married couple who have let themselves go a bit. Zoe was a stunner in her college days, but the intervening decades have added five stone, and removed most of her self-esteem. Greg's rugby-playing days are well and truly behind him, thanks to countless pints of beer and chicken curry. When Elise, a radio DJ and Zoe's best friend, tells them about a new competition, it seems like the perfect opportunity to turn their lives around.

When siblings Dan and Hayley Daley inherit their late grandmother's derelict Victorian farmhouse, it seems like a dream come true. All they have to do is fix the place up and sell it for a tidy profit! Except - as anyone who has renovated an old house knows - things are never that easy. The walls are rapidly crumbling around them, the architect is a certified lunatic, the budget is spiraling...and then there's the disturbingly intelligent cow to worry about.

Thorn Marsh was raised in a house of whispers, of meaningful glances and half-finished sentences. Now she's a journalist with a passion for truth, more devoted to her work at the London Journal than she ever was to her ex-husband. When the newspaper is bought by media giant The Goring Group, who value sales figures over fact-checking, Thorn openly questions their methods, and promptly finds herself moved from the news desk to the midweek supplement, reporting heart-warming stories for their new segment, The Bright Side, a job to which she is spectacularly unsuited.

Boomerangers [boo-muh-rang-ers] - noun, informal: an adult who moves back home to live with a parent after a period of independence. Spencer: I love sex. I love the power, the intimacy, the euphoria it brings. Too bad I'm not having any... You'd think as New Orleans's most renowned sex therapist that I'd be swimming in single men. In a way, I am...except for the fact that one is in diapers and the other two are drowning in preteen hormones. As a single mother of three, my days are devoted to my clients and my kids, and my nights are spent with Fabio, my vibrator.

A figure from the distant past is resurrected just in time to solve the world's problems. There's only one catch - she plans to rule the world.

What happens when your ex-husband shows up on your doorstep looking for a place to live, just when you're about to get remarried? Twenty-eight-year-old, out-of-work editor/writer Elizabeth is about to find out. Her annoying ex-husband, Simon, has been "displaced" after forgetting to pay his rent and has nowhere to go.

Archie is a champion with many best-in-breed wins on his record. His conformation is perfect, and he is a loyal and brave companion. But when a lovely new competitor joins his world, Archie and his trainer Max must rise to the challenge and keep their eyes on the prize: the championship cup.

Greg is a hapless 20-something who travels to India to find enlightenment or, at least, some good ganja. When he falls off a truck somewhere in Tamil Nadu, tired, hungry, and hung over, he finds something else. The Upanishad of Greg is a modern-day fable about the power of tiny acts of kindness.

Coworkers at a legendary but troubled New York City museum struggle with issues large and small over the course of one extraordinary day in this whip-smart novel that is “satirical and incisive...like nothing you’ve ready before” (Town & Country). When Diane Schwebe, the director of a...

A book about nothing… and everything. A human wakes up in an alien body. A budgie thinks life is a musical. An AI will not stop talking. An android wants to feel things. And no one knows what they’re doing. They’re not a crew. There’s no plan. And no one’s really in charge. What unfolds is a not-quite-accidental, frequently illogical, occasionally profound journey through life, the universe, and everything. It’s told through curious beings, improbable moments, and meaning hiding where you’d least expect it.

Determined to find his Miss Right, James heads to Mengro City, hoping the legendary weekend dating games at a local bar will finally lead him to true love. But what he finds instead is a parade of peculiar personalities and the unexpected allure of a mysterious woman named Holly, who seems utterly uninterested in the game—or him.

Just because a man cheats on his wife and makes Danny DeVito look tall, dark, and handsome, is that any reason to kill him? The reluctant and quirky PI, Lee Alvarez, doesn't think so. The 34-year old half-Latina, half-WASP and 100% detective has her work cut out for her when the man is murdered on her watch. Of all the nerve. For Lee, this has become personal. From San Francisco's famous Embarcadero to quaint Princeton-by-the-Sea, she is out to find the killer. And for the killer, this has become personal, too.

Es ist eine stürmische Nacht kurz vor Weihnachten. Die Zwillinge Amanda und James liegen in ihren Betten, als plötzlich etwas mit einem lauten Platsch auf das Dach plumpst. Kurz darauf hören die beiden ein Klopfen vom Fenster - und trauen ihren Augen nicht: Auf dem Dach steht ein kleines Mädchen in einem dünnen weißen Hemd. Und sie hat Flügel, die bis fast auf den Boden reichen! Ein Engel? Hilary, so heißt das Mädchen mit den Flügeln, klettert durchs Fenster und macht es sich auf dem Sofa gemütlich, wo sie prompt einschläft. Wer ist sie? Und woher kommt sie?

Es ist eine stürmische Nacht kurz vor Weihnachten. Die Zwillinge Amanda und James liegen in ihren Betten, als plötzlich etwas mit einem lauten Platsch auf das Dach plumpst. Kurz darauf hören die beiden ein Klopfen vom Fenster - und trauen ihren Augen nicht: Auf dem Dach steht ein kleines Mädchen in einem dünnen weißen Hemd. Und sie hat Flügel, die bis fast auf den Boden reichen! Ein Engel? Hilary, so heißt das Mädchen mit den Flügeln, klettert durchs Fenster und macht es sich auf dem Sofa gemütlich, wo sie prompt einschläft. Wer ist sie? Und woher kommt sie?