Résultats pour "Love" dans Politique

Seventeen-year-old Debora Rosenbaum, ambitious and in love with literature, arrives in the capital of the new Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kharkiv, to make her own fate as a modern woman. The stale and forbidding ways of the past are out; 1930 is a new dawn, the Soviet era, where skyscrapers go up overnight. Debora finds work and meets a dashing young officer named Samuel who is training to become a fighter pilot. They fall in love, and begin to mix with Ukraine's new cultural elite.

Dee Blum has a plan. Or rather, her parents do. Graduate college. Go to law school. Become a divorce attorney. Be “successful.” But Dee wants more—more purpose, more passion, more than checking off someone else’s boxes. A surprise gig leading eco-tours of ethical coffee farms in Costa Rica offers a fresh start.

“Sacks is an extraordinarily gifted writer.”—Washington Post Unfolding during an invasion of Gaza, The Lover tells the story of an affair between a young Israeli soldier and a Canadian woman. The emotional realities of ideology and war begin to change the lovers, who undergo a parallel...

Jaclyn Taylor’s life is curated to absolute perfection. Despite having secret political ambitions of her own, the only way the Washington darling will have a seat at the table is on the arm of a Senator, Vice President, or if she plays her cards right, as the wife of the next President of the United States. Engaged to presidential hopeful Christopher Blake, everything is falling into place for Jaclyn. Until he doesn’t show up on their wedding day.

A social novel that reviews the various political currents and their social influence on the people of Egypt and carries major political symbols and projections.

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK SELECTED BY BUZZFEED & THE NERD DAILY "Quick-paced, sharp, and thoroughly entertaining. I couldn’t put it down!”—Helen Hoang Shake some hands. Kiss some coworkers. Cutthroat political consultant Thom Morgan is thriving, working on the governor of California’s...

“Ms. Haigh is an expertly nuanced storyteller long overdue for major attention. Her work is gripping, real, and totally immersive, akin to that of writers as different as Richard Price, Richard Ford, and Richard Russo.”—Janet Maslin, New York Times The highly anticipated new novel by...

From one of Iran’s most acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers, his first novel to appear in English—a dazzlingly inventive work of fiction that opens a revelatory window onto what it’s like to live, to love, and to be an artist in today’s Iran. The novel entwines two equally...

A riveting political thriller and love story. Set primarily in contemporary Russia and the United States, here is a novel that brilliantly knits together four seemingly unconnected lives: Adam, a CIA intelligence operative who suffers from albinism and searches for the Russian assassin who killed his mother, an act he witnessed as a child; Lily, a young Hawaiian Chinese journalist who falls in love with him; Bazil, an Indian intelligence operative from Mumbai who befriends Adam; and Zahira, a beautiful Afghani girl mutilated by the Taliban.

Control the scandal, control your life. I'm a simple girl. Celebrity attorney. Disinherited daughter of a tech billionaire. The dirty little secret behind the scandals. I never wanted to be famous. A quiet life was enough for me. But that was before my new client made me famous. Now I'm surrounded by the media, and my face is on the cover of every magazine. What does a girl do when she's had enough of others dictating her life? She takes back control. However, my past isn't willing to give me up that easily. But I have a plan.

Abbey Mei Otis's short stories are contemporary fiction at its strongest: taking apart the supposed equality that is clearly just not there, putting humans under an alien microscope, putting humans under government control, and more. Otis has long been fascinated in using strange situations to explore dynamics of power, oppression, and grief, and the 12 stories collected here are at once a striking indictment of the present and a powerful warning about the future.

For Metropolitan Police detective Fiona Fitzgerald, the mysterious case of the Austrian ambassador's beautiful wife's death is a stark reminder of her upbringing. High-class soirees, men with power, and bored political wives are abundant in this high-profile case. Underneath it all, Fiona understands the publicity nightmare for the Washington elite - and the lengths they will go to for damage control in order to protect their hallowed reputations.

A coming of age story set in a Scottish fast food restaurant: take a group of full time burger flippers and cash starved students, add a likeable geek with a love of political theory, and a passionately angry French anarchist, and you have a recipe for rebellion. Rife with dry British humor and working-class sensibilities.

Soni and Madhi come across very aggressive in the election campaign. But is it really easy to fight against the love of your life?

Opposition party decided to take undue advantage of this incident by giving an interesting offer to Soni. If she accepts the entire scenario of the election will change.

Soni's father is very ambitious and decides to take political millage of his daughter's lesbian relationship. Will he succeed?

Winner of the Epigram Books Fiction Prize ‘Slick, sharp . . . a joy to read’ - Tash Aw, author of Five Star Billionaire Jasmine Leong is the heiress apparent to Phoenix, her family’s billion-ringgit company known especially for its pork snacks. When her grandmother, the great Madame Leong...

La storia si snoda tra la corte di Luigi XIV, il Re Sole, a Versailles, e le avventure di una famiglia di Ugonotti costretta a fuggire dalla Francia, a causa della persecuzione ordinata dal Re, fino in Canada, in piena sommossa Irochese. Certo siamo lontani dal fascino londinese delle storie di Sherlock Holmes, ma la ricostruzione storica e le avventure a ripetizione fanno di questo un lavoro interessante e facilmente fruibile.

Un reportaje histórico a Margherita Sarfatti, amante y biógrafa de Benito Mussolini, que devela detalles inéditos sobre la vida y la trayectoria del dictador y abre la puerta a una lúcida y reflexiva lectura sobre los fascismos y populismos contemporáneos.

Secrets, bargains, and ambition...love was never part of the plan. I'm a complicated woman. Human rights attorney. Commander to my colleagues. Fiancée to the most powerful man in the country. No one knows our arrangement is a devil's bargain. I learned long ago love is a useless distraction. Money and status are the true motivators. Powerful alliances are more important than romantic entanglements. My passion is my work, and nothing, not even the promise of happily-ever-after, will keep me from accomplishing my mission.