Resultados para "The Star" en Literatura y ficción

"Ageless" Hollywood diva Jessica Gray is finishing the last leg of her one-woman show in St. Louis, Missouri, and the nearby town of Chouteau Forest is dazzled. During the show, she humiliates three homeless women onstage, fires her entourage - not for the first time - and makes a bitter enemy of the town's powerful patriarch. After she collapses at an after-show party and is rushed to the hospital, she ignores the advice of her doctors and discharges herself in order to return to LA.

A hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane from “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (New York Times Book Review) and the bestselling author of Squeeze Me. Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about...

Laurie kann nicht fassen, dass ihre beste Freundin Nicky von ihrem Ex aufs Übelste belogen und verletzt wurde. Also fährt sie zu ihm und macht ihm eine Szene, die ihresgleichen sucht. Aber leider fällt ihr zu spät auf, dass sie zur richtigen Adresse fahren sollte, wenn sie ein Haus stürmt. Drew kann nicht fassen, was gerade passiert. Er hat geahnt, dass das Weihnachtsfest mit der Familie mal wieder in einer Katastrophe endet, aber muss es gleich so chaotisch verlaufen?

It is 1613, and William Shakespeare is trying to extinguish a fire at the Globe Theatre. Just as a fiery beam is about to fall on him, he is transported across time and space to Nelson, British Columbia. William quickly accesses his new reality. Slowly, he begins to master 20th-century mannerisms, new speech patterns, and new ways to make a living. He decides his best hope is to become a screenwriter, but first he must deal with his nemesis (and one-time friend), Ben Jonson, who has no taste for the modern world and is convinced he knows a way to return to 17th-century London.

This program is read by Noah Galvin, who starred in The Good Doctor, Dear Evan Hansen, The Real O'Neals, and Booksmart. "A Star is Bored is an absolute knockout. Riotously funny and wickedly tender." — Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the Six People...

"A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." —The New Yorker "His most spectacularly inventive novel." —The New York Times One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he...

The legendary Lone Star Cafe, a little corner of Texas right in the heart of New York City. At one time or another, everyone from the Rolling Stones to Willie Nelson has jammed there. But this night, Thanksgiving eve, there's a different type of jam at the Lone Star. Larry Barkin, half of the headlining Barkin Brothers, is found dead in his dressing room, his head bashed in with his own guitar and a two dollar bill stuffed in his shirt pocket. It's Kinky they call for help, but the fast-talking, cigar-smoking country singer turned amateur detective has other plans.

Young Bardell arrives in London seeking fame and fortune as a musician. Embarking on a helter-skelter ride through the heart of the London music scene, he discovers challenges and opportunities abound in equal measure. Living on dreams and fresh air, the bard’s luck is reliant on those he crosses paths with. Not everyone falls for his charm or ego and there are hard lessons to be had before he can ‘make it’, assuming he can ‘make it’ at all...

LoveStar, the enigmatic and obsessively driven founder of the LoveStar corporation, has unlocked the key to transmitting data via birdwaves, thus freeing mankind from wires and devices, and allowing consumerism, technology, and science to run rampant over all aspects of daily life. Cordless modern men and women are paid to howl advertisements at unsuspecting passers-by, REGRET machines eliminate doubt over roads not taken, soul mates are identified and brought together (while existing, unscientifically validated relationships are driven remorselessly asunder), and rocketing the dead into the sky becomes both a status symbol and a beautiful, cathartic show.

Starring Irene Dunne as Susan and Fred MacMurray as George, together in Bright Star, a gay new exciting comedy adventure! Bright Star chronicles the happenings at the offices of The Hillsdale Morning Star, a small town newspaper owned and edited by Susan Armstrong. Played by Irene Dunne as a no-nonsense professional, Susan nevertheless has a sweet spot for her star reporter. George Harvey, played by Fred MacMurray as an energetic and competitive journalist, challenges, bothers, and bewilders his boss at every turn.

When a freak accident claims the lives of her first mothers, Vabeh—a bi-racial, precocious tween—moves to New York to live with Devon and Morgan Gregson Bennett, a couple whose identities and ambitions were never built with parenthood in mind. Devon, an artist fighting to stay visible, must protect a child whose presence attracts both warmth and scrutiny. Morgan, a strategist and writer, finds her carefully ordered life reshaped by the story unfolding at home.

Daisy Kirkwood has only just escaped her small-town life and run away to New York City, the land of last-minute secret gigs at famous musical venues, when she's kidnapped by aliens. Unfortunately, no one ever writes about how to handle alien abduction in those fancy NYC guidebooks.

Set in the bright lights of daytime television, Satan's Sisters is the story of The Lunch Club – a long-running, popular ladies' talk show in which alliances are forged, careers are made, and bridges are burned. The show's famous red couch is ruled by its esteemed matriarch, Maxine Robinson, the first African-American to become a network news anchor, who maintains a hidden safe of diaries chronicling others' indiscretions for posterity – and leverage as needed.

Scarlett Kelly is the poster child for responsible living. Growing up as the daughter of the town floozy, she's made it her mission to be the exact opposite of her mother. So when she wakes up naked and hung over in bed with a bad-boy rock star, she bolts immediately. There's only one problem: Scarlett's bedmate is her new husband. Gavin needs to repair his image, or his music career will go down the tubes. He's also just learned he has a son he never knew existed. He needs to settle down, and bribing his new wife to stay married may just fit everything into place.

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Jule liebt Simon. Er ist ein erfolgreicher Mann, der nicht nur gut aussieht, sondern auch sonst alles hat, was eine Frau sich nur wünschen kann. Allerdings lässt der ersehnte Heiratsantrag von Simon verdammt lange auf sich warten. Warum das so ist, wissen Jules Freundinnen. Sie behaupten, Simon würde Jule nach Strich Faden betrügen und nichts anbrennen lassen. Lächerlich! Jule glaubt ihnen kein Wort! Doch dann erklärt ihr der feurige Italiener Marcello seine Liebe, zur selben Zeit taucht ein sehr sympathischer Nachbar auf und sie bekommt eine neue und ziemlich sonderbare Kollegin.

In the tiny European country of Tantalia, Princess Niobe is being groomed to ascend to the throne. What her people don’t know is that from the age of sixteen, the Princess has been trained by her martial arts instructor, Gethan, to kill the businessman responsible for her parent’s deaths. Once Queen, she will have ‘sovereign immunity’ and be free to kill without the risk of arrest.

Wenn dein Date eine Lüge ist, lügt sein Herz dann auch? Lucy ist verschroben, eine graue Maus, und stolz darauf. Warum auch nicht? Die Studentin verdient nebenher als Laborassistentin gutes Geld und keiner kommt ihr dabei in die Quere. Doch als der heißeste Kerl, den sie in ihren 22 Jahren jemals gesehen hat, ausgerechnet mit ihr Essen gehen möchte, verändert sich ihr Weltbild. Schließlich hat es Wochen gedauert, bis sie aufgehört hat zu sabbern, wenn er ins Labor kam. Was will er also ausgerechnet jetzt von ihr? Das Date kann nur schieflaufen. Nun, sie irrt sich.

Lana Matthews ist mit Leib und Seele Bibliothekarin, nach Feierabend verschließt sie aber die Leidenschaft in ihrem Herzen und öffnet es nicht mehr so schnell. Denn die vielen Enttäuschungen haben sie vorsichtig gemacht. Als der Broker und Frauenschwarm Caleb Rice ein Date mit ihr möchte, wird es brenzlig. Er ist alles, was sie nicht will - und doch möchte. Arrogant, selbstbewusst bis zum Anschlag, naja, wer zum Niederknien gut aussieht und dazu noch steinreich ist... Lana sollte Angst vor diesen Gefühlen und Wünschen haben, aber als sie sich darauf einlässt, auf Caleb einlässt, ist es schon zu spät.

Drei Freundinnen... ein Blumenladen und die ganz große Liebe zum Valentinstag. Ashley Moore hat es satt! Ihre Blumenallergie will nicht weichen und ein Date zum Valentinstag ist nicht in Sicht, obwohl es da diesen Pakt zwischen ihren Freundinnen gibt. Und dann schnappt ihr so ein Typ in piekfeinem Anzug auch noch den Parkplatz vor der Nase weg - ihren Parkplatz wohlgemerkt! Natürlich hat sie keine andere Wahl, als ihm die Stoßstange abzufahren. Doch dann muss Ashley feststellen, dass ihre Allergie und die nicht vorhandene Impulskontrolle die kleinsten Probleme sind, die sie momentan hat.