Résultats pour "Georgie" dans Fiction

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

La Mare au Diable, roman champêtre de 1846, ouvre le cycle pastoral de George Sand. Inspirée par ses souvenirs d’enfance, l’autrice y célèbre la vie des champs, la simplicité des âmes et les mystères de la nature. Au bord d’une mare que la rumeur dit hantée, se jouent, dans le secret des campagnes, les choix du cœur et le poids des usages. Entre saisons qui passent et croyances tenaces, se dessine une France rurale faite de labeur, de dignité et d’espérance.

പരിചയപ്പെടാം, ഒരേസമയം ഏകാധിപതിയും നിഷ്ഠുരനും കൊലയാളിയും കുടുംബസ്‌നേഹിയും പരോപകാരിയുമായ ഡോണ്‍...

DS George Cross can be rude, difficult and awkward with people. But his unfailing logic and dogged pursuit of the truth means his conviction rate is the best on the force. So when his police colleagues dismiss the death of a man as a squabble among Bristol's homeless community, Detective Sergeant George Cross is not convinced.

The career of George, the famed Greek mob boss, gets off to a bad start. As a teenager, he kills Joey, the man who might have been his father. Joey's twin brother, Lazarus, vows revenge. All George has to do to survive is to marry a Greek girl picked by his family. Unfortunately, George falls in love with Kelly, a girl who isn't Greek. She loves him. All she asks is that he leave his family. This is the first book in The Saga of George trilogy, a satire of mob novels. Set in the late 1960s, it blends Greek culture, mythology, and religious themes with sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is widely recognized as master of the historical spy novel. Furst’s works are vivid evocations of long-forgotten heroes and feature plots that unfold to the inexorable cadence of history. Night Soldiers is a simultaneously thrilling and illuminating tale of espionage set in 1934.

At first glance, the murder of Peggy Frampton looks like a burglary gone wrong. But DS George Cross, with his meticulous methods, thinks otherwise. The victim, a former mayor of Bristol, is now an online influencer whose forthright opinions attract the kind of attention that most people would like to avoid. There's no shortage of suspects. Cross's investigation will lead him from Peggy's unfaithful husband to her gambling-addicted son, to a scorned former lover with a grudge. But she also has political enemies in her past.

Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page. Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother’s absence.

»Mein Vater war Gärtner. Jetzt ist er ein Garten.« In seinem bisher persönlichsten Roman lässt Georgi Gospodinov das Leben seines Vaters in einer bewegenden Hommage auferstehen. Mit Witz und Wärme feiert er den leidenschaftlichen Gärtner, der bis zum Schluss nicht vom Umgraben, Säen und Jäten abzubringen ist – und vom Geschichtenerzählen. Der Vater zeichnet mit seinen Worten ein Bild der Welt, überall und so lebendig, dass alle Schmerzen vergehen und der Blütenstaub der geschilderten Kirschbäume sich in den Aschenbechern seiner Ärzte wiederfindet.

Eine bewegte Zeit. Eine unmögliche Liebe. Eine bewegende Saga. Das Ende des großen Zweiteilers. Nach drei Jahren in England kehrt Lily von Cappeln an der Seite ihres Mannes Henry nach Hamburg zurück. Allein durch ihre kleine Tochter Hanna schöpft sie Lebensmut. Trotz ihrer Angst macht sie sich auf die Suche nach Jo. Voller Wut hat er sich in den Arbeitskampf gestürzt, und auch in Lily erwacht der alte Widerspruchsgeist. Aber sie muss sich in Acht nehmen. Lily kann die Augen vor der Lage der Arbeiterfrauen nicht verschließen. Sie kann ihre Liebe zu Jo nicht ersticken.

GEORGE FALLS THROUGH TIME IS. . . "Incredibly entertaining and intelligent." —GARRARD CONLEY "Big-hearted and inspired." —STEVEN ROWLEY "Funny, surprising, profound." —GRANT GINDER "Unputdownable." —LUNA MCNAMARA Less meets the year 1300 in this exhilarating and thoughtfully...

Hamburg 1886. Die Reederstochter Lily träumt davon, Schriftstellerin zu werden. Bei einer Schiffstaufe hält sie die Rede - da weht ihr ein Windstoß den Hut vom Kopf, ein Arbeiter will ihn zurückholen und wird dabei schwer verletzt. Lily ist entsetzt, dass niemand an seinem Schicksal Anteil nimmt. Dann kommt der junge Johannes Bolten zur Villa der Reeder, um für seinen verletzten Freund Geld zu fordern. Lily will helfen und lässt sich auf ein gefährliches Versteckspiel ein.

“Fiercely funny, sexy, and culturally resonant.” —People, Best Books of the Month “Shamieh balances her characters’ painful family history and their boisterously funny voices.” —The New Yorker A “wonderfully brash and sparkling” (Oprah Daily, Best Books of the Year) novel...

New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is internationally renowned as master of the European espionage thriller. Unfolding in September of 1939 as Hitler’s Wehrmacht ravages Warsaw, the Polish Officer discloses the clandestine existence of Polish Military Intelligence.

Bestseller-Autorin Nina George kehrt zurück auf das Bücherschiff und erzählt eine bewegende, bezaubernde und kluge Geschichte über Freundschaft, das Lesen und alle Facetten der Liebe. Monsieur Perdu ist mit seinem Bücherschiff Lulu wieder in Paris. In seiner »Pharmacie Littéraire«, der Literarischen Apotheke, folgt der leidenschaftliche Buchhändler seiner Berufung: Menschen und Bücher zusammenzubringen, damit jede Maladie von Herz und Seele mit der richtigen Geschichte geheilt werden kann. Unterstützt wird Perdu bei dieser unendlichen Aufgabe von der jungen Pauline Lahbibi.

Did unrequited love spark a flame that ignited a cause that became the American Revolution? Never before has this story about George Washington been told. Crafted from hundreds of letters, witness accounts, and journal entries, Dear George, Dear Mary explores George’s relationship with his first love, New York heiress Mary Philipse, the richest belle in Colonial America.

In the bizarre world of Franz Kafka, salesmen turn into giant bugs, apes give lectures at college academies, and nightmares probe the mysteries of modern humanity’s unhappiness. More than any other modern writer in world literature, Kafka captures the loneliness and misery that fill the lives of 20th-century humanity.

During a dark period in the history of the United States, a few powerful government officials twisted the meaning of our laws and trivialized universal human rights principles. This novel peels back a deceitful veneer of legal gamesmanship to reveal flagrant violations of international law and the US Constitution. The narrative exposes the criminal actions of individuals who continue to make bold assertions that torture is not torture, that what they did was necessary, and that torturers are above the law.

Winston Smith este un personaj obişnuit: el urăşte, iubeşte şi munceşte ca oricare alt om. Ceea ce-l face deosebit este faptul că trăieşte într-o lume infernală, în care a urî, a iubi sau a munci sînt gînduri venite dintr-un efort supraomenesc al fiecărei clipe. Romanul O mie nouă sute optzeci şi patru descrie tabloul apocaliptic al unei Londre din era postatomică, locul de naştere al unui regim totalitar în care orice logică pare să fi fost abolită. Execuţiile fără rost, dispariţiile peste noapte au devenit fireşti.

Following the worst terrorist attacks in American history on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush pledged to bring those responsible to justice, especially the mastermind, Osama bin Laden. After failing to capture Bin Laden in Afghanistan, George W. Bush shifted his attention and that of his country to Saddam Hussein and Iraq, neither of which had anything to do with the 9/11 attacks (as history has proven).