Resultados para "William" en Ficción contemporánea

Jónas ha quarantanove anni e un talento speciale per riparare le cose. La sua vita, però, non è facile da sistemare: ha appena divorziato, la sua ex moglie gli ha rivelato che la loro amatissima figlia in realtà non è sua, e sua madre è smarrita nelle nebbie della demenza.Tutti i suoi punti di riferimento sono svaniti all'improvviso e Jónas non sa più chi è.

On Leila's way to meet her intended as his mail order bride, Dan McCall, a federal agent, finds her lying on the side of the road unconscious. He rescues her and she attaches her heart to him immediately. Dan is not the marrying kind...or is he? Joe, her intended, is not happy to lose yet another mail order bride, and takes drastic measures to insure their marriage. Leila faces a dilemma - risk the man's life who saved hers, or marry a man she despises.

From the poignant novel about a troubled Southern family, written when he was 26, William Styron reads with tenderness about the disabled younger child finding joy in the magic tricks of a workman, as her mother looks on, knowing her child’s sad fate.

Suzy lives in a dysfunctional household. She can't stand her mother; her father is keeping secrets; and her brother seems only to egg on their parents' erratic and unpredictable behaviour. Alongside her friends, Suzy finds herself drawn into the downward spiral of her parents' relationship, and as a result is drawn into the centre of a mystery surrounding a murder. 

'A big, bustling novel about love, friendship, money, ambition and the 21st century, packed with humour and intelligent observations ... I finished it tear-stained' Sunday Times 'Will have you hooked ... an ode to the enduring power of male friendship' The Times Best Summer Books For the first...

The Bottom of the Sky is an aching rags to riches family saga that surges from rural squalor into the opulent power chambers of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. The story contrasts the 30-year struggles of an abused sister and brother who seek to reclaim themselves from their abhorrent past. One is abandoned to a life of sexual desecration and addiction. The other escapes with his demons to wield fragile, uncanny genius and unrelenting ambition to amass staggering wealth.

McAvoys Travelling Cirkus kommer till stan, och Clay Allison tycker inte alls om det. Cirkusägaren är en otrevlig typ, men han för med sig en hel del vackra damer! En dag hittas en kvinna död. Det blir ett fall som bara Clay Allison kan reda ut. Clay Allison eller William Marvin Jr. är pseudonym för författaren Bengt-Åke Cras (född 1943) som skrivit 124 böcker i serien "Sexy Western". Cras har även skrivit ungdomsböcker, serier, sagor, noveller och dokumentära böcker, ofta under olika pseudonymer.

När Clay spelar kort på en saloon promenerar plötsligt Celia in, en kvinna som Clay varit gift med! Hon behöver hjälp och snart är Clay indragen i ett mysterium Clay Allison eller.

William är bara sex år gammal när familjen får det fruktansvärda beskedet: han har fått leukemi. Insjuknandet innebär en stor omställning för hela familjen. Och året som följer kommer att bli svårt, tungt och fullt av motgångar. Men det kommer också att vara ett år fyllt av livsglädje, vilja och kämpaglöd. Det mest uppenbara för en förälder i en sådan situation är hur mycket den skulle ge för att bara få hålla i sitt barn en gång till, bara en gång till. Två år senare kan familjen se tillbaka på perioden som svår, men att de klarade det. Detta är berättelsen om familjegemenskap, livsglädje och kärlek. Den är skriven av mamma Sandra och William.

Staden Bakersville var inte sig lik. Sheriffen, Clays gamle vän, brydde sig bara om flaskan. Clay beslutar sig för att göra något åt saken Clay Allison eller. William Marvin Jr är pseudonym för författaren Bengt-Åke Cras (född 1943) som skrivit 124 böcker i serien "Sexy Western". Cras har även skrivit ungdomsböcker, serier, sagor, noveller och dokumentära böcker, ofta under olika pseudonymer.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson reisen in eine südenglische Küstenstadt, wo mutmaßlich ein besonders grausamer Doppelmord geschehen ist. Bei der Untersuchung der verstümmelten Leichen ergibt sich jedoch eine Spur, die ins Meer führt und einen unerwarteten Täter suggeriert.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson machen sich auf die Suche nach einem abgängigen Ehemann. Alles deutet auf einen Mord hin, doch die Leiche bleibt unauffindbar. Der Hauptverdächtige ist ein Bettler mit entstelltem Gesicht.

Fabio è un ragazzo caparbio che impegna le proprie energie nella costruzione del suo mondo ideale. Si nasconde da ciò che non vuole vedere e si mostra per come vuole apparire. Si confronta sempre con Lisa, collega e migliore amica, che desidera da lui qualcosa di più, qualcosa che Fabio cerca in Alessandro e poi in altri. Bugie e omesse verità obbligano Fabio a vivere molteplici vite a seconda della persona che si trova di fronte, fino al punto di rottura che lo costringe a seguire l'unica strada possibile: la sua.

Honey Santana is determined to set up her own tour business, paddling tourists around the Florida Everglades in ocean kayaks. The result is a kayaking trip from hell, and an unplanned overnight stay on Dismal Key, one of the Everglades' islands.

Skinheads and Bikers clash in this graphic tale of subcultures gone wild. Eddie and his crew of non-racist skinheads take on Sadistic Sammy and his entire Motorcycle Club! The streets run red as both groups fight for survival.

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence...

One man. One year. So many ways to screw up.…William has a 12-year-old boss bent on his destruction; the interior design duo from hell re-decorating his bathroom; and an angry small person with a mean right hook on his case. On the plus side, he has as a gorgeous wife and an adorable (but insomniac) new son - and he loves them both. It’s just a shame that parenthood doesn’t stop him doing the wrong thing at precisely the wrong time, with catastrophic results for his small - and increasingly exasperated - family.

"William Wordsworth - Selected Poems" is a selection of popular poems by William Wordsworth, which all describe an experience (what Wordsworth termed "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings") which is recollected in tranquillity. That recollection stimulates the power of the human mind, the 'inward eye' or the imagination. Selected and narrated by Steve Patriarca, these readings are made in the hope that the audience will not only enjoy the poems but also find in them new power and meaning.

When Dr. Watson returns to London from a weekend seminar, he finds hat Sherlock Holmes has been arrested. Inspector Lestrade refers Watson to a questionable psychiatric hospital where Holmes is jailed for mental incapacity.

"Sackville imbues this character-driven historical drama with warmth, comfort, and a sense of optimism, especially during the story's darkest moments." —AudioFile Magazine William di Canzio’s Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. M. Forster’s secret novel of a happy same-sex love affair, tells the...