Résultats pour "Frank" dans Vie urbaine

""Warm and wise, Frankie is a woman worth getting to know.""—Bonnie Garmus, New York Times-bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry From the internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show, a dazzling and decades-sweeping story about love, bravery, and what it means to...

Für die junge Frau aus der irischen Provinz ist die fremde Großstadt beängstigend, aber auch wild und aufregend. Dann lernt sie Joe kennen, der als Chauffeur arbeitet, aber eigentlich als Künstler erfolgreich werden will. Joe und Frankie verlieben sich und tauchen gemeinsam ein in die Kunstszene der Stadt. Frankie hilft in einem französischen Restaurant aus und macht es bald zum angesagtesten Lokal des Viertels.

We leave shadows, not footprints. Newlywed Danny McKenna's honeymoon ends abruptly when he learns his father has died, uncannily, on the same day as his hero, Frank Sinatra. Returning home to his knotty Irish American family, Danny is confronted with a painful truth--while he knows everything about the famous singer, his own father is a mystery. Tasked with giving a eulogy for a man he hardly knows, Danny sets out to uncover his dad’s past--an immigrant's tale of mid-twentieth-century America and the harsh realities of WWII lived in stark contrast to Frank Sinatra's famously extravagant life.

Niemals hätte Annegret gedacht, dass jemand ihre Rinderrouladen verschmähen könnte. Aber seit sie Witwe ist, ist alles anders. Und nun muss sie auch noch raus aus ihrem Haus. Unterschlupf findet sie bei ihrer Enkelin Isi in deren Berliner Studenten-WG. Für Annegret eine fremde Welt, in der sie nicht mal mit ihrem Gulasch bei den Mitbewohnern punkten kann. Denn die leben vegan. Überhaupt entpuppt sich die WG als ein Minenfeld der Missverständnisse: Gendern? Containern? Und LGBTQ ist gar keine Grillsauce? Annegret schwirrt der Kopf. Doch je länger sie in der Berliner WG wohnt, desto mehr blüht sie auf.

The Ainsworth Chronicles, Book Two: The Mystery of Ms. Teak Detective Carol Ainsworth really has her work cut out this time! Agnes at her craziest best. She discovers a secret that she can't reveal to anyone, including herself, and how does one psychic stop another from hunting her down? Meanwhile, Carol has her hands full with pissed-off Russians, the reborn builder of much of Victorian Victoria (yes, the Sir Francis Rattenbury), a young girl claiming to be our aforementioned psychic and there's something very wrong with Nathan, Carol's nephew that they saved from death.

Der Bestsellererfolg aus den USA − nominiert für den Women's Fiction Prize. Reese und Amy waren ein glückliches Paar, zwei Transfrauen in New York mit dem Traum von einer Familie. Doch dann entschloss sich Amy, wieder als Mann zu leben, und die Beziehung zerbrach. Als Ames drei Jahre später seine Chefin Katrina, eine starke, unabhängige Frau, schwängert, fasst er den Plan, dieses Kind gemeinsam zu dritt aufzuziehen. Ungewöhnlich − aber machbar. Ein moderner Gesellschaftsroman, der den Nerv der Zeit trifft. Intensiv gelesen von Britta Steffenhagen.

The Detective Story Club's first short story anthology is based around a London detective club and includes three newly discovered tales unpublished for 100 years, plus a story bearing an uncanny resemblance to a Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes story but written some seven years earlier.

Meet Roy Cooper, stoic, unassuming “errand runner” for various New York criminals. Roy arrives in Los Angeles to shoot a man named Martin Shine a week after a powerful earthquake has knocked out cell service, buckled the freeways, and thrown L.A. into chaos. Roy doesn’t know who Shine is...

“Dottie Frank’s books are sexy and hilarious. She has staked out the lowcountry of South Carolina as her personal literary property.” —Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides Bulls Island is a supremely satisfying tale of honor, chance, and star-crossed love, infused with Southern wit...

A mind-bending supernatural thriller from the creators of This Present Darkness and Saint. Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker—two of the most acclaimed writers of supernatural thrillers—have joined forces for the first time to craft a story unlike any you've ever read. Enter House—where you'll...

When it comes to good guys and bad guys, they don’t make ‘em like they used to. It’s 1974 Los Angeles, and two cops who never catch a break can feel a change coming. With a little luck and a lot of disregard for procedure, they’re not going to let anything stand in the way of finally getting ahead. Follow them for 67 hours, and gain a vision of how police work used to be done, back when the line between the good guys and the bad guys really meant something.

Author, bookseller, spy-breaker, killer. Enter the world of Russell Stickles. Not since George Harvey Bone in Hangover Square has there ever been a singular protagonist as compelling. As sickly. As sick. From the creator of Dead Funny: Horror Stories by Comedians comes a stunning novel that re-invents the tale of the empty man.