Resultados narrador por "Elisabeth Lagelee" en Todas las categorias

This guide features interviews with 30 change-making creators—many of whom are internationally renowned—who boldly push the boundaries of fashion and beauty. Each conversation offers moments of insight, fascinating discoveries, and highlights enriching journeys that are sure to spark your creativity and inspire your personal style.

Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarceration and forced incestuous marriage during the worst violence of the French Revolution of 1789, they dared sartorial revolt.

A Jacket Off the Gorge peels back the layers of the criminal mind, revealing a fascinating look at one man's struggles within himself and with others. Jon's story raises questions about incarceration versus rehabilitation, lack of mental health treatment for offenders, and abuses by those we entrust to uphold the law.

Awakening from a dark defeat, Faythe discovers a greater threat to the life she took back. Staggering truths will challenge her and reveal that some bonds were forged to defy. With the battle lost, the war has just begun, and as an enemy is captured, it soon becomes clear a storm can be tamed but never bottled.

Born Simone Jules, reinvented as Eleanor Dumont, and largely remembered as Madame Moustache, A Betting Woman is a historical novel inspired by the tumultuous life, times, and loves of America's first professional croupier of modern-day blackjack, bringing to life an intrepid and entrepreneurial real-life woman who lived on her own terms.

In the twenty-first century, we meet Verity Frazier, a disillusioned history professor who sets out to prove that the artist responsible for the illuminated artwork in Christine de Pizan’s medieval manuscripts was a remarkable woman named Anastasia. As Anastasia’s story unfolds against the exquisitely-rendered medieval backdrop of moral disaster, political intrigue, and extraordinary creativity, Verity finds her career on the brink of collapse by her efforts to uncover evidence of the lost artist’s existence.

Warsaw, 1939. Poland is on the brink of war, and for Anna Nowak, life will never be the same again. Her brother, Lech, is called up to fight as an officer in the Polish army. He expects to be home in a matter of weeks, but it will be many years and a journey of thousands of miles before he can be reunited with those he loves. Anna's younger brother, Jan, dreams of being a soldier too. But his dreams turn into nightmares when the Germans invade and his best friend is incarcerated within the ghetto.

Josephine is obsessed. Or possessed—by unrequited love for a younger man who doesn't promise anything, but who gives her a taste of intimacy that puts her on the brink of losing her mind. Oscillating between her elusive lover and her older former partner, stuck in the hell that is working in a cubicle, and obliged to tend to her destructive, senile mother, Josephine is trapped. After a work assignment promises to deliver distraction, Josephine makes a decision to visit a former quarantine island in the Adriatic Sea, where she meets an enigmatic, beautiful man with a haunting story.

To reclaim her throne, Tauria leaves behind her safety to travel across courts. A marriage alliance with the prickly Prince of Olmstone could grant her the power to fight for her kingdom . . . or inspire a monarch's deadly vengeance that threatens all she holds dear. No amount of distance can make Nik forget his desires, but caught in a torturous conflict of heart against duty, he's at risk of losing both. Now is the time to choose. Claim the bond and accept the prophesy that kept him from her all this time . . . or set his aching heart-and hers-free once and for all.

While the kingdoms prepare to unite, Faythe is forced to remain hidden in plain sight. But suspicions quickly arise with the mysterious fae general from an ally court. Getting close to Reylan could unravel truths she longed for, but trust is hard to gain and even harder to hold. When lurking evil threatens the alliance that keeps them all safe, Faythe may find herself on the side where danger meets desire in a force that could break past the guard on her heart.

Between helping her mother with the Darker Agency and laying the smack down on monster baddies, Jessie Darker puts the "normal" in paranormal. But lately, things have gotten a little crazy...even for a smart-assed half-demon teenage girl. For starters, Jessie's been contracted into fifty-five years of annoying servitude. To a demon. Then there's Lukas Scott, her sexy new boyfriend. Once the former incarnation of Wrath, he's been going through some, uh, changes. Like residual anger. And trading chaste hangouts for lusty make-out sessions.

Jessie Darker goes to high school during the day, but at night she helps with the family investigation business. Cheating husbands and stolen inheritances? They're your girls—but their specialty is a bit darker. Zombie in your garage? Pesky Poltergeist living in your pool? They'll have the problem solved in a magical minute. For a nominal fee, of course....

Ne manquez pas le prochain livre de la série, Les sorcières de New York.« Ils ne veulent pas de Shay. C'est toi qu'ils veulent. »D'accord, ce ne sont pas les mots auxquels je m'attendais, venant de la bouche de mon père ange, Matiel. Mais ils étaient bel et bien là. La Guilde des Anges Assassins veut ma mort. Fantastique. Je veux dire… Qu'est-ce qu'une sorcière doit faire pour s'en sortir, de nos jours ? Je ne peux même pas me promener tranquillement sans que quelqu'un essaie de me tuer ! Pire encore, je n'ai aucune idée de la raison pour laquelle ils me pourchassent.

When recent divorcée and famous romance novelist Violet Bell loses her once lustrous career writing happily-ever-afters, a whirlwind weekend in the Nation’s Capital with her closest college friend—a sexy British speechwriter named Aaron Wright—could have her wondering if Mr. Wright hasn’t been right underneath her nose all along…

La vampiresse Freida finit par découvrir Shay. Merveilleux. Hum… Je suppose qu'il n'y a pas de repos pour les méchants, comme on dit. Suis-je méchante ? Juste un peu. En tant que sorcière Stellaire, j'ai eu ma part de luttes. Ce que je veux dire, soyons honnêtes, être une sorcière est déjà assez difficile, mais quand vous ajoutez une petite sœur dans le mélange, les choses deviennent complètement folles. Shay a le pouvoir du Soleil en elle, et tout le monde veut en avoir une part, y compris la méchante vampiresse Freida.

Ne ratez pas le prochain tome de la série Les Sorcières de New York! Après avoir emménagé chez Valen avec Shay, je pensais pouvoir enfin me reposer, passer du temps nue avec mon géant au milieu de cette ville effervescente. Mais quand quelqu'un trouve un corps décharné dans le restaurant de Valen, je comprends que répit n’est pas encore d’actualité. Et la situation ne fait que s’empirer ! D'autres corps sont découverts, et un enquêteur du Conseil Gris commence à fouiller l'Hôtel Twilight ainsi que le restaurant de Valen. Les preuves pointent vers mon géant.

Ce n’était sûrement pas... atterrir en prison, ce que j'avais envisagé pour passer le reste de la nuit ! Non ! J'avais imaginé un « mambo » horizontal avec un certain géant ultra-chaud. Au lieu de cela, je me retrouve coincée dans une cellule de moins de dix mètres sur dix, affamée et avec une sérieuse envie de faire pipi toutes les heures. Avec, pour seuls compagnons, les murs de pierre froids et d’occasionnels cafards. Je suis piégée dans les entrailles du bâtiment du Conseil de Gray ! Et je ne sais pas si j'en sortirai un jour !

Après avoir combattu les Fractures et les démons, j’ai cru pouvoir prendre quelques jours de repos. Mais je me trompais. Les touristes évitent le Twilight Hôtel comme la peste après l’invasion des démons. Pour éviter la faillite à l’établissement, la direction décide d’y organiser une Semaine du Casino pour relancer les affaires. L’idée est géniale. Il n’y a qu’un petit problème. Des gens commencent à mourir dans notre communauté paranormale.

When war threatened Europe, my parents sent me from our vineyard in France to safety in America, where I found a new life, with friends who become family. But even in a land untouched by the bombs, the shadows of war loomed over my heart. As secrets from my past emerge and the world around me is torn apart, I must confront the grief of loss, the weight of duty, and the delicate balance between love and loyalty.

Découvrir mon mari au lit avec une autre femme, ce n’est pas comme ça que j’avais prévu de commencer ma journée. Pas plus que de me retrouver à la rue la minute d’après. Et sans le sou. Alors, quand je reçois une offre d’emploi de la part de l’Hôtel Twilight (un hôtel paranormal en plein Manhattan qui fait à la fois office de résidence et de sanctuaire), j’accepte sans hésiter.