Résultats pour "Frank" dans Afro-américaine

All over the city, they are watching: Black men paid to stand guard, invisible among the wealthy flâneurs and yet the only ones who truly see. From Les Grands Moulins to a Sephora on the Champs-Élysees, Ferdinand, Ossiri, and Kassoum find their way as undocumented workers amidst political infighting and the ever-changing landscape of immigration policy. Fast-paced and funny, poignant and sharply satirical, Standing Heavy is a searing deconstruction of colonial legacies and capitalist consumption and an unforgettable account of everything that passes under the security guards' all-seeing eyes.

Gustav Heller, Kriminalrat der Königlichen Polizei in Dresden, reitet an einem Sommertag im Jahre 1879 die Elbe entlang, als ein plötzlicher Knall die Stille zerreißt. Auf dem Fluss ist der Kessel eines Frachtdampfers explodiert, Tote und Verletzte treiben im Wasser. Beherzt zieht Heller einen Schwerverletzten an Land. Wenig später führt ihn ein diffiziler Fall von Sabotage, Erpressung und Mord wieder an die Elbe: Zwei Dampfschiffreedereien kämpfen erbittert um die königliche Schifffahrtslizenz und schrecken auch nicht vor drastischen Mitteln zurück. Doch Hellers hartnäckige Nachforschungen erregen den Unwillen seines Vorgesetzten.

Malibu Washington (yes, that’s her real name!) is an R&B singer turned influencer with a voice that will bring you to your knees and a face made for magazine covers. She survived a messy divorce from Tyrese—her first love, father of her son, the man who made her famous, and the one who broke her heart. Now she’s engaged to Jaylen, a man who promised her forever.

It was Frank's destiny to become a boss. Having been raised by a kingpin, Frank was groomed to follow in his footsteps. Stanley had begun to teach Frank the game when he was only ten years old, but love was never part of the curriculum. When CeCe met Frank, she was drawn to him like a moth to a...

Marcus Webb, a modern financial educator, is sent back to 1852 Mississippi. He teaches wealth principles to enslaved men and women who cannot use them because their internal thermostat, the set point for what they believe is possible for people like them, has never been touched. He fails. He returns. He goes back and works differently, going identity-first with both the enslaved and the enslavers. When he returns to the present, America looks like the Constitution intended. The book is for every listener who has ever had the tools and not used them, and never understood why.

Dresden 1956: An dunklen Herbstabenden werden in der Stadt wiederholt Frauen brutal vergewaltigt. Als an der Elbe eine Frauenleiche gefunden wird, nimmt die Unruhe in der Bevölkerung zu. Mithilfe eines weiblichen Lockvogels kann Max Heller einen Verdächtigen festnehmen. Der psychisch labile und von Narben entstellte Mann gesteht die Vergewaltigungen, leugnet aber standhaft den Mord. Läuft der wahre Mörder etwa noch draußen herum? Auch privat gerät Max Heller unter Druck, denn seine 13-jährige Pflegetochter Anni ist nach einem Streit spurlos verschwunden.

When tragedy strikes Marjette’s street, and an unexpected child shows up on the first day of school with an uncle who has all the class moms aflutter, Marjette is forced to contend with both her neighbor and her own heartache over losing the life she once thought was guaranteed.  

The Devil Wears Prada meets Class Mom in this delicious novel of love, money, and misbehaving parents. One of The Daily Skimm's Reads Pick for May 2020 One of Good Housekeeping's 20 Best New Fiction Books of 2020 Good Morning America Mother's Day in Quarantine Books to Buy One of New York Post's...

Two opposites. Undeniable attraction. Three mobsters. An offer they can't refuse. It sounds like trouble as Jackson Jones and Mackenzie Cunningham, reluctant partners and two of the best private investigators in Los Angeles, return to solve their most dangerous case yet. Jackson Jones and...

After a difficult five years, at age forty-three, Nina Morgan Clarke’s time has finally arrived. With an ex-husband relocated across the country, her father bouncing back after the loss of his beloved wife, and her daughter, Xandra, thriving at boarding school, Nina is stepping into her dream job as a trifecta: a first-generation, Black female head of the storied Royal-Hawkins School. To mark the moment, Nina and her best friend, Marisol, take a long-overdue girls’ trip to celebrate the second half of Nina’s life—which is shaping up to be the best part of her life.

Kellie Anne Ross moved to Chicago two and a half years ago, to try and start her life over after a breakup that left her heart in pieces. Now a successful dance instructor with her own studio, the displaced Texan spends her time teaching students, winning prizes in line-dancing contests, and dodging phone calls from her obsessed ex, Carl. A master at keeping her chin up in bad circumstances, she secretly dreams of the day she can move on from her past and find a good man to spend her life with.