Résultats pour "One" dans Fiction contemporaine

Vanessa's luck has just run out. Though she's supposed to be her parents' perfect daughter in every way — the one with the college degree, the big-girl job, and the successful lifestyle — her sudden and unexpected break-up from her ideal boyfriend has left her reeling. Bradley, however, is used to disappointing her parents. As the "rebel" of the family, she's never had to live up to the expectations her older sister has.

Lucio Battistini knows the three most important days of his life: the day he was conceived, the day his wife agreed to marry him, and the day he died. But wait. Let's go back a bit: to the day Lucio discovers he has only three months left to live, the day he realizes it's time to turn his life around. Because so far he hasn't been getting it right. In fact he's been thrown out by his wife and is sleeping in the stockroom of his father-in-law's bakery. From now on things have to change, and every moment counts.

Samantha Jackson has been missing for 18 years when she gets back in touch with her sister. Sam needs Freya - now a grown woman with a family of her own - to take in her son. But Dino is not a happy child, despite the warmth of Freya's family he cannot settle. He startles at loud noises and he's prone to angry, violent outbursts. He's one of the family, Freya knows he is, but why doesn't it feel like that? In order to keep her daughters safe, Freya is forced to go in search of the truth. What is going on with Dino, and what really happened to her sister the night she left?

Vishesh is a dreamer who is driven by his passion for writing and words. But like most Indian middle-class families, his parents are impatient to see him settled in a government job. Despite all obstacles, making no complaints, he continues to follow the hard path, holding up the promise he had made to himself, trying to fulfil his father's wishes and failing over and over.

In One Flat Summer, newly redundant clothing salesman Ken Warburton finds himself adrift and drawn into the serious world of gambling after a good win at Newmarket. He has big plans, but what of the cost at home? In the sequel, Sharing Fatman, Margaret disapproves of her husband Ken's gambling on horses and takes the reins to find an absorbing new hobby to fill their retirement. But she ends up throwing caution to the wind when they make a connection with Mr Fatman at the horse sales.

Paisley is ready to go: graduation, summer, and then she’s off to college. That is, until the mysterious new stranger in town named Beacon stops her dead in her tracks. Beacon blows her mind and it isn’t long before he’s got her blowing off her plans, too. But when catastrophe strikes - twice - can she defend her beautiful man against the people who want him gone? Or is Beacon really the bad boy that everybody warned her about?

Fresh out of her degree, Chloe Jackson is utterly lost. Her career is a non-starter, her family aren’t much help, and her boyfriend may not be her boyfriend after all. With a head full of questions and no job in sight, she can’t help but wonder where she wandered off track. Why did she give up her art, why is everything she knew falling to pieces, and who can she rely on? Desperate, she visits the doctor, and is given two things: a handful of pills and an appointment with a therapist.

Your family are always there for you...aren't they? For Tara, Vee, Niall, and Damian, the children of the Shine family, their parents have seen them through thick and thin. In fact, Gus and Joan's lifetime of hard work has given their children a very comfortable start in life. But with the Irish economy in crisis - money is thin on the ground and perhaps it's time to for the younger generation to learn a few home truths. As the children are forced to live a life without the Bank of Mum and Dad.

Can you ever forget your first love? Liberty Evans hasn’t.She has a beautiful daughter, a successful career as an actress, and she’s married to one of Hollywood’s most powerful directors.But behind the glamour, things are not what they seem. Her daughter Brooke is turning into a spoiled teenager, her husband controls everything she does, and Liberty longs for Cory, the man she loved before she became famous. Unable to live a lie any more, Liberty returns to England with a reluctant Brooke, to start a new life.

Jerome Searing, ein einfacher Soldat der Armee General Sherman, sollte am Kennesaw Mountain in Giorgia den Feind erkunden...und kehrte nie wieder zurück...

Camille se acerca a la cuarentena cuando, de repente, se ve envuelta en un mar de dudas. No es que sea desgraciada, pero tampoco se siente realmente feliz. Tiene la impresión de que la felicidad se le escurre entre los dedos. Es cierto que ha conseguido un trabajo que le permite estabilidad financiera, pero en realidad no le apasiona. En casa, la rutina se ha instalado en su matrimonio: ya ninguno de los dos se esfuerza. Y la relación con su hijo... es más tensa que la cuerda de un equilibrista.

"Little One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 130. A woman had three daughters: The eldest had one eye in the middle of her forehead, the second had two eyes like ordinary people, the third had three eyes; two on the sides of her head and a third in the middle of her forehead. Her mother and sisters scorned Little Two Eyes because she was like other people and treated her badly, leaving her only their leftovers to eat...

"Buy one get one free" erzählt die Geschichte von Tookie und seiner Gang. Es erzählt vom Teufelskreis von Rassismus, Armut, Drogen, Gewalt. Gegengeschnitten und verwoben mit einer Erfolgsgeschichte des amerikanischen Traums: Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger. Vom Bodybuilder zum Gouverneur, von Mister Universum zu Arnold Strong, von Conan der Barbar zu, laut TIME, einer der 100 einflussreichsten Personen der Welt.

He could not sleep with anticipation of taking his date to a wonderful dinner and to a dance club. As he finally sleeps, he imagines telling her while they were on the dance floor, how she has affected him from the first time he saw her.

Best heard with earphones and more than once. Welcome to The Dance Shoes. And so Friday afternoon opens with many surprises. Surprises that left her wondering even more about this new Gentleman, who seems to be sneaking into her life. Nouveau, the author, narrator, music composer and musician, shares his sensual music and stories and takes the listener to "Places Where Only She Can Go".