Resultados para "The List" en Ficción contemporánea

A Jocelyne le quedan quince millones y un solo deseo. Deshacerse de ellos.Jocelyne tenía todo lo que necesitaba para ser feliz, pero su vida se hizo añicos el día que ganó el bote del Euromillón. Su marido la traicionó y le robó el premio, y después acabó con su vida. Ahora está sola con los 15 millones que él no consiguió dilapidar, y su vida no parece tener rumbo.Perseverante y luchadora, Jocelyne se inscribe en Ganadores Anónimos y descubre una particular galería de personajes que, como ella, han visto cómo su vida daba un vuelco.

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! Recommended by The New York Times Vogue People NPR Vulture The Guardian Cosmopolitan Rolling Stone Publishers Weekly The Sunday Times and many more! In this sensational, page-turning debut novel, a high-profile female...

On the eve of his 36th birthday, author Mike Gayle picked up a pen and contemplated his life. He is nowhere near being an adult - even though his tenth wedding anniversary is looming and his second child due shortly. Appalled by this lack of maturity, Mike draws up a to-do list containing every item he's been meaning to do but keeps putting off.

They are known as Team Midnight, an elite force trained to disappear behind enemy lines, to wreak havoc where an enemy least expects it. Their job is simple, hide in the shadows, kill without hesitation, and complete the mission at all costs. They are America's secret warriors.

While on a search-and-destroy mission in the middle of Iraq, Marine Force Recon Team 2400 winds up on the wrong end of a life-or-death chase across the desert. After taking out a meeting of international extremists, the team finds itself tracked by the one terrorist who got away.

Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.

Es va morir durant laterratge, explica ella al principi daquesta misteriosa novel.la. Un avi extremeny i una jove holandesa shan trobat en un avió que va de Barcelona a Amsterdam. Shan assegut a la mateixa fila i han conversat una mica. En sortir de lavió, ella sendú cap a casa una capsa que el seu company de viatge volia ensenyar al seu fill gran. Ell va emigrar a Holanda als anys seixanta per treballar-hi, es va casar amb una artista holandesa i van tenir tres fills.

In a world ravaged by a deadly pandemic, former rock star Chris Price leaves New York and sets out on a long journey home to England. It’s been six years of devastation since the plague killed his wife and daughter, and Chris is determined to find out if any of his family has survived. His passage leaves him scarred, in body and mind, by exposure to humankind at its most desperate and dangerous. But the greatest ordeal awaits him beyond the urban ruins, in an idyllic country refuge where Chris meets a woman, Pauline, who is largely untouched by the world’s horrors.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. With a new introduction by...

Kort før Anden Verdenskrig flygter Jack og Sadie Rosenblum med deres lille datter fra Berlin til London. Da de går i land i Harwich, får de udleveret en pamflet fra den Tysk-jødiske hjælpekomite. Den fortæller, hvordan man bliver en rigtig englænder, og Jack følger listen slavisk. Han går i Covent Garden, køber ind i Harrods og taler aldrig tysk, med mindre han en sjælden gang bander. Men trods sin gode vilje møder han et utal af forhindringer.

Ein Roman über die dunklen Seiten des Internets und die Dynamiken von Social Media. Bei den British Book Awards 2024 für das Debüt Book of the Year nominiert. "O mein Gott, hast du die Liste gesehen?" Für Ola und ihren Verlobten Michael verändert sich von einem Moment auf den anderen ihr ganzes Leben. Denn auf der Liste steht Michaels Name zusammen mit vielen anderen prominenten Männern, denen sexuelles Fehlverhalten vorgeworfen wird. Und die Liste verbreitet sich im Netz in Sekundenschnelle.

A hilarious and romantic standalone novel from the bestselling author of the I Heart series, Rachel Summers loves a to-do list: Boyfriend – Flat - Great job. NOT on the list: Being dumped - Best friends Emelie and Matthew ride to her rescue with an entirely new kind of list – The Single Girl’s To-Do List.

'This novel has humour and pathos in spades - I laughed and cried' CINDY MACDONALD, The Saturday Paper Vivian Walker is dying. This is not on her list of things to do. A darkly funny debut that proves even the most imperfect of lives is worth celebrating. Now that I've got cancer, I know I...

Sie ist die Tochter, die stets unsichtbar war neben ihren braven, blonden Schwestern. Sie ist die alleinerziehende Mutter, die sich stets nach mehr Freiheit und Unterstützung sehnte. Sie ist die Überempfindliche, die stets mehr spürte als andere. Sie ist jemand, der Veränderungen hasst. Doch irgendetwas muss geschehen. Denn ihre Kinder sind im Begriff auszuziehen, und sie muss sich verkleinern, ihr altes Leben ausmisten, herausfinden, was davon sie behalten, wer sie in Zukunft sein will.

In their twilight years, two 80-something sisters, Esther and Minnie are coaxed from their easy chairs and their comfort zone of carpet slippers, crochet hooks, jigsaws, and rummage sales to fulfill the dying wish of a dear friend. They go on to undertake a road trip of sorts in Esther's beloved classic Trafalgar blue Morris Traveller, affectionately known as "Vivien". The trip, however, is no minor errand to return late library books. Theirs was to be an epic undertaking from Lodon's Whitechapel to Raipur, deep in the heart of the Indian Subcontinent.

The wilderness--forest, desert, glacier, jungle--has been the scene of the past century's most exciting stories, inspiring many of its greatest writers, including Jack London, Norman Maclean, Evelyn Waugh, Redmond O'Hanlon, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, H.M. Tomlinson and Algernon Blackwood. Selections from these authors' most gripping works are delivered by equally compelling narration producing an audiobook experience ideal for people who are fascinated by the beauty, insight and danger that awaits us all in the wild!

The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. With writing from Greg Child, David Roberts, Stephen Venables, Alfred Lansing and others, Epic is a collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world’s most famous peaks, often in the worst possible conditions!

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes “frothy fun . . . Faster than a swiping Visa, more powerful than a two-for-one coupon, able to buy complete wardrobes in a single sprint through the mall—it’s Shopaholic!” (The Washington Post)...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes “frothy fun . . . Faster than a swiping Visa, more powerful than a two-for-one coupon, able to buy complete wardrobes in a single sprint through the mall—it’s Shopaholic!” (The Washington Post)...