Résultats pour "Conni" dans Fiction

Una mujer acaba de perder a su marido y vela el cadáver durante la noche. Sobre la mesilla hay un libro –la Biblia– que la esposa hojea. Va leyendo los párrafos subrayados por el hombre que se ha ido para siempre. Una oleada de recuerdos le viene a la mente y empieza un lento, desordenado...

Sandra Foster studies fads and their meanings for the HiTek corporation. Bennett O'Reilly works with monkey group behavior and chaos theory for the same company. When the two are thrust together due to a misdelivered package and a run of seemingly bad luck, they find a joint project in a flock of sheep. But a series of setbacks and disappointments arise before they are able to find answers to their questions - with the unintended help of the errant, forgetful, and careless office assistant Flip.

Deadly family secrets could cost an Amish woman her life. Amish widow Emma Zook’s quiet life shatters when her late husband’s hidden past puts her family in the crosshairs of a ruthless crime syndicate. As threats mount, state fire investigator Aaron Andrews steps in to protect Emma and her...

Con la orden de ocupar un puesto militar abandonado, John Dunbar se encontró solo, más allá de los límites de la civilización. El robo y la supervivencia pronto lo obligaron a ingresar al campamento indio, donde comenzó una peligrosa aventura que cambió su vida para siempre.

Three time-traveling historians are visiting World War II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward, studying children evacuated from London; and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the middle of the Blitz. But when the three become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler's bombers attempt to pummel London into submission.

The hunter is about to be caught. I have one name left on my list. For four years, I've been a ghost, a con artist, and a thief with a single mission: to dismantle the corporate monsters who played a part in ending my mother's life and peace of mind. I navigated Halloween's home invasion and...

Den tyska lilla flickan Conni kan knappt bärga sig inför julen och allt som hör till. Hon börjar planera redan innan höstlovet ens hunnit gå av stapeln! Hon pysslar och fixar och förbereder så att allt ska vara klart när den stora dagen kommer. Och förberedelserna är ju också väldigt mysiga! Tillsammans med sin familj och sin skolklass firar Conni julen i glittrande snö, med rostade kastanjer och gåvor från Sankt Nikolaus.

Galardonado con el Premi Ciutat de Barcelona, 2019 Un viaje espectral entre la vida y la muerte, entre el amor y su pérdida en este impresionante debut de Mateo García Elizondo ​ «Vine a Zapotal para morirme de una buena vez. En cuanto puse un pie en el pueblo me deshice de lo que traía en...

It’s the late 1980s, and Connie Martin, a doctor working for the Epidemiology Intelligence Service of the CDC, is called to Colorado to investigate an alarming outbreak of birth defects. Born illegitimate in the San Luis Valley as Consuela Martín, a name known only to close friends and to her beloved gamer and programmer husband, she arrives as an unknown. Joined by environmental activists who suspect the state’s Superfund sites and by doctors and parents who fear for its children, Connie attempts to discover the link between habitat destruction and damage to innocents.

When a little girl is kidnapped, a K-9 team must move fast. During a search-and-rescue mission, Officer Aimee Street and her K-9 partner, Brumley, save Texas rancher Clay Turner from an underwater well moments before it collapses. But Clay’s relief is fleeting because his four-year-old...

Charlotte, a.k.a. Ruby the town psychic, has a good thing going in Castle Cove. Her baby sister Paige is blossoming under their newfound stability. Charlotte is becoming a pillar in the quirky beachside community. And Deputy “Cute Butt” Jared has finally wedged himself into her life with a heart big enough to make them a real family. But Charlotte should have known better than to let a con run too long. Her parents have found them, and the inveterate con artists won’t let Paige out of their clutches unless Charlotte helps them rob the innocent people of Castle Cove blind—including Jared.

Ícaro vive con resignación la decadencia del matrimonio de sus padres, la angustia de su madre por el futuro que tendrán que afrontar solos, la confusión de su padre, la inquietud de toda la familia. Pero, mientras el niño despierta a la sexualidad gracias a la complicidad de un compañero...

The Lowell Brothers are used to hard luck and hard times. But when they decide to leave their rough-and-tumble neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, they hope their fortunes will change in Spruce, Washington, where they go to mine for gold. But they are not the only gold-diggers. Victor Lowell, the eldest brother, loses his heart to a conniving beauty whose father has cheated them out of the worth of the gold they’ve mined....

Suzu sta bene da sola. Single venticinquenne, non teme di ammettere una scomoda ma semplice verità: l’intimità non fa per lei. Abita in un minuscolo appartamento in un quartiere anonimo di una metropoli giapponese e fa l’aiuto cameriera in un famiresu. “Vivi e lascia vivere” è la sua...

Diciembre de 2002. Trinidad Alcázar vive con su familia en San Clemente, en el Valle de Paravachasca, situado en la Provincia de Córdoba, Argentina. Allí explotan, desde hace muchos años, una mina de cuarzo y mica. Esteban Alcázar, su padre, muere dejando a su esposa, la española Valle de...

Sir Phillip si aspettava che Eloise Bridgerton, come tutte le zitelle, fosse bruttina e pronta a tutto pur di accasarsi. Ma si sbagliava. La giovane donna che gli si presenta è determinata e soprattutto bellissima. È lei però ad avere qualche dubbio, soprattutto quando scopre che Sir Phillip non è affatto un gentiluomo, e per di più ha due figli pestiferi che avrebbero proprio bisogno di una madre.

Hugo apareció sin avisar, bueno, sin avisar no, que era una fiesta de exalumnos de mi antiguo colegio. Lo que quiero decir es que no esperaba volver a verlo. Nunca. Y allí estaba él, acercándose hacia mí acompañado de mi mejor amiga, mirándome con esos ojos que me atravesaban y la mejor sonrisa que nunca he visto

Nurse Connie Byrne has lived and worked through the Second World War, has celebrated its ending with friends and patients in the East End of London and is now enjoying a fresh new chapter in her life and looking forward to her wedding. But, as many a young bride-to-be has proved, the path of true love never runs smooth.... Connie's busy professional life and the characters who are her patients serve to give her a much-needed sense of perspective.

Connie Byrne, a nurse in London's East End working alongside Millie Sullivan from Call Nurse Millie, is planning her wedding to Charlie Ross, set to take place as soon as he returns from the war. But when she meets him off the train at London Bridge, she finds that his homecoming isn't going to go according to plan. Connie's busy professional life, and the larger-than-life patients in the district, offer a welcome distraction, but for how long?

A stunning evocation of Australian life through the war to the 1950s, this novel is intimate and sweeping, immediate and dreamlike - a magical rendering of darkness and joy, and the beauty inherent in difference. For readers of Sarah Winman's Still Life, Trent Dalton's All Our Shimmering Skies...