Résultats pour "Happy Hour" dans Fiction

With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the wisecracking sensibility of a golden-age Hollywood heroine, Marlowe Granados’s stunning début brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City. Refreshing and wry in equal measure, Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel...

Growing older doesn’t necessarily mean growing wiser. Gin in one hand, paintbrush in the other, Franny Calderwood has turned her back on the world, or at least the world she used to love. Having lost her husband, Frank, in tragic circumstances three years earlier, 65-year-old Franny copes the...

"Je suis la véritable trace, le plus solide des indices attestant de tout ce que nous avons vécu en dix ans en Algérie. Je cache l’histoire d’une guerre entière, inscrite sur ma peau depuis que je suis enfant." Aube est une jeune Algérienne qui doit se souvenir de la guerre d’indépendance, qu’elle n’a pas vécue, et oublier la guerre civile des années 1990, qu’elle a elle-même traversée. Sa tragédie est marquée sur son corps : une cicatrice au cou et des cordes vocales détruites. Muette, elle rêve de retrouver sa voix.

Can they fall in love, sixty minutes at a time? 'Cressida's characters are wonderful' Sarah Morgan 'Bursting with warmth' Kirsty Greenwood 'We couldn't put this down!' BELLA 'You'll devour this' Woman's Weekly The deliciously captivating new standalone novel from the bestselling author of The...

Zwei junge Frauen in New York: ein funkelndes Debüt voller Witz und Glamour Isa Epley ist einundzwanzig Jahre alt und weise genug, um zu wissen, dass der Sinn des Lebens im Vergnügen liegt. Tagsüber verkauft sie mit ihrer besten Freundin Gala Klamotten an einem Straßenstand, um ihre...

All Beulah Land wants is to play piano in her favorite honky tonk, take care of her elderly bestie, and thumb her nose at the church across the road. Life has other plans. Soon Beulah finds herself playing piano in the very place she swore she'd never enter again. The church choir goes on strike, the minister is as irritating as he is handsome, and everyone has an opinion on what Beulah should do with her life. So what's a girl to do? Create her own misfit choir out of barflies.

Shannon ist Fotografin und Single. Eine illustre Hochzeit im sonnigen Mexiko ist genau der Auftrag, den sie braucht: Er ist gut bezahlt und bietet jede Menge Möglichkeiten, einen attraktiven Mann kennenzulernen. Doch vor Ort läuft nichts nach Plan und plötzlich muss sich Shannon um den heißen, aber arroganten Bräutigam kümmern, statt am Strand mit dem Barkeeper zu flirten. Victor hatte sich seine Flitterwochen ganz anders vorgestellt. Denn statt mit seiner Braut im Bett zu liegen, sitzt er jetzt mit einer schönen Fotografin da, die ihm gehörig die Meinung sagt.

In her years of being a sleuth, Sabrina Carlson has rarely been this puzzled. She keeps asking herself, who would murder a car salesman in broad daylight? During happy hour, no less...Just when Sabrina believes she might be on the right track, a series of wild twists threaten to turn the case upside down. Will Sabrina be able to cut through the layers of deception and catch the killer in time?

Perpetually tired from working 24 hours a day since Adam and Eve were cast out from the Garden of Eden, The Angel of Death takes a Happy Hour and chronicles how he was "promoted" from the Arch Angel of Truth to The Angel of Death because, "No one wants to hear the truth all the time."

Cadence didn't sit down one night and decide that downing two bottles of wine was a brilliant idea. Her drinking snuck up on her - as a way to sleep, to help her relax after a long day, to relieve some of the stress of the painful divorce that's left her struggling to make ends meet with her five-year-old son Charlie. It wasn't always like this. Just a few years ago, Cadence seemed to have it all - a successful husband, an adorable son, and a promising career as a freelance journalist.