Résultats pour "John" dans Amitié

Brought to you by Penguin. Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie -...

Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution or the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is...

On an island off Ireland’s west coast strange things are afoot: two teenage boys set fires while their worlds fall apart, a couple drive out to the hills in a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, a widow seeks a stranger’s help to bury her grief and a horse crashes a house party. Adrift in the treacherous waters of small-town boredom, the residents reach out with love and cruelty, desperation and hope, in their pursuit of connection. 

“The book I most often give as a gift to cheer people up.” —Hilary Mantel * “A deceptively smart comic gem.” —The New York Times Book Review Set in a 1950s Sydney department store during the holiday rush, this “witty and delicious” (People) comedy of manners follows four women...

A dream vacation on a luxurious yacht turns deadly in this pulse-pounding beach read. "Fabulous read." —Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The View From Lake Como "Irresistibly wicked ... I couldn't put it down!" —Kathryn Stockett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Help Belle...

In 1897, Pieter Rijken is a young Dutch Calvinist schoolteacher who wants to be a good man, but he thinks it may be impossible. After going too far with one of his students, he is forced to flee to Southern Africa. On the way there he meets Bertram Hugin, a happy-go-lucky German with a knack for getting Pieter into trouble. Once there, Pieter meets Jaap and his daughter, Dien, mixed-race Africans who challenge everything the young man believes in—and especially Pieter himself. Along the way, all of them must overcome violence, rape, and betrayal if they are to achieve their dreams.

'De ratones y hombres' narra la historia de Lennie y su compañero y ángel de la guarda George, dos braceros al borde de la indigencia. Contratados en una granja regentada por un ex boxeador, la insatisfecha esposa del patrón pone en serios aprietos a Lennie, que la mata accidentalmente y huye...

The start of a dark, gripping crime thriller series from UK Top 20 bestselling author John Nicholl Be careful who you trust. The Mailer family are oblivious to the terrible danger that enters their lives when seven-year-old Anthony is referred to the child guidance service by the family GP...

The dark and gritty crime thriller that will have you hooked, from UK Top 20 bestselling author John Nicholl He’s inside her home. Successful novelist Mia is being stalked. Photos of her and her four-year-old daughter arrive in untraceable emails that demand Mia perform various tasks or else...

An absolutely gripping crime thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat from UK Top 20 bestseller John Nicholl. What drives a woman to murder? Twenty-nine-year-old Cynthia Galbraith is serving a life sentence for murder, and struggling with the traumatic past that put her behind bars...

Third-year Harvard student William Price takes an absence from his studies when an opportunity arises to accompany Charles Dickens on his American tour as his personal assistant. Leaving the love of his life, Rebecca, behind in Cambridge and traveling along the East Coast with Dickens and his lively crew, Price discovers the incomparable joys, follies, temptations, and opportunities of life on the road. As Price gets to know Dickens in a series of settings, from somber one-on-one chats to his flamboyant performances and raucous after-parties, they develop a complicated friendship.

The Jesus Nut tells the parallel stories of three unlikely pilgrims - a reviled professor, a delusional homeless veteran, and a priest who loves strip clubs - searching for the greatest religious relic of the 21st century. Thrown together after a raucous showdown with evangelists, they decide to ignore their differences and work as a team in pursuit of their holy purpose. Their journey to New York City leads to a fateful encounter with a former advertising executive, whose mad ramblings suggest he might be the very oracle to help them fulfill their destiny.

John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension between commercial demands and artistic integrity and the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists. An extraordinary reimagining of the life of one of the greatest screen comedians...

September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War, but in 1917 Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious...

Morning comes to New York city. The world teeters on the brink of our final war, and the air is too hot, too thin. People struggle to breathe, despite their puffing oxygen concentrator units, while they make their way on the sidewalks lined with the outstretched hands of the homeless. Another...

17-årige Ronny har svært ved at finde sin plads i livet. Hans mor er ufaglært, og hun presser ham alt, hvad hun kan for, at han skal få sig en lærerplads eller en uddannelse, så han kan få et bedre liv, end hun har haft. Men det er, som om der hele tiden går noget galt for Ronny, når han endelig tror, han har fundet sig et ståsted.

17-årige Ronny har endelig fundet en læreplads, og hans mor er meget tilfreds. Men det er ikke så nemt, som man kunne håbe. Specielt ikke når hans kæreste er datter af hans mester, som i forvejen ikke er venligt stemt over for Ronny.

The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson she was a law student on work experience. He was a twenty-one year old, led from the dock of the Old Bailey to begin a life sentence for murder. He'd said he was innocent. She'd believed him. Sixteen years later Tess overhears a couple of hacks...

Told from the view point of 83-year-old Billy, the listener learns of how he recently lost his life-long partner, Cat. Are Violet and Cat one in the same person? Writing from his memory of the events in 1954, Billy sits in his cottage at Grizzly Pointe Senior Living on the day of the Summer Solstice of 2025, managing to craft a story that took place 71 years before while he has a hard time remembering what he ate that morning or if he ate at all. And then, one by one, his three children and 17 grandchildren start checking on him.

'Vital, bang-on, and seriously funny' Roddy Doyle The second novel from the Costa Prize shortlisted author of Big Girl, Small Town. Smart-mouthed and filthy-minded, Maeve Murray has always felt like an outsider in the shitty wee town in Northern Ireland that she calls home. She hopes her exam...