Résultats pour "Property" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Nell I married a stranger. That stranger happened to be the vice president of a motorcycle club and not the fluffy bunny type of biker either. My new husband was part of a club that had one hell of an outlaw reputation. He also had a close female friend back home with her own plan to marry him...

A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin...

Nat, a middle-aged queer mother of two, feigns normalcy as she worries about her taciturn, loner son locked in his room. Her friend Maddy, a failed actress and fellow parent, frets over her missed opportunities and considers leaving her marriage. Next door, Ilya, a young construction worker, struggles to renovate a fixer-upper, but a buried stream threatens to flood the basement. An old woman eyes the street through the gap in her curtains. A lonely man wanders.

The three novels that make up this trilogy have long been recognized as masterpieces of 20th-century literature, and Galsworthy as one of its leading exponents. But don’t let that be the reason you put off listening to this wonderful work. There are passion and lust in these pages, high art and low comedy, and unthinking violence that ride alongside ever-correct manners. Scandal, tragedy, despair, rape, accidental death, marriage, remarriage and a healthy leavening of births all unfold against a rolling backdrop of a world war.

The first ever story collection from the inimitable Lionel Shriver ‘Genius’ Stylist ‘Phenomenal’ Observer ‘Brilliant’ The Times In her first ever story collection, Lionel Shriver illuminates one of the modern age’s most enduring obsessions: property. A woman creates a deeply...

In Alaska's brutal wilderness, monsters hunt in the dark. One of them wants Tessa and the other refuses to let her go. She never expected to fall for a biker, especially one with fangs. But danger is coming… and Vex is the only thing more terrifying than what's after her. Tessa Crystal Creek...

Welcome to the Kings of Anarchy MC, where the Kings rule in chaos, and the open road is our Kingdom. Lyric… There are three things in life that I need to survive: music, my Kings of Anarchy MC brothers, and Mellie. Without them, I’m incomplete. The chaos that comes with being the president of an outlaw biker club is an added bonus. I welcome it, thrive on it. When my world comes crashing down, the darkness threatens to swallow me whole. The only thing keeping me from letting it happen, is knowing I’m the only person who can fix things.

When her grandfather dies, young Jady Gray’s older siblings inherit his wealth—but to Jady, his favorite grandchild, he leaves only his signet ring, a trunk full of papers, and an unknown piece of property in southern England: property held in trust that Jady must wait ten years, until she is twenty-five, to own. Heartbroken and alone, with valiant courage she sets out to make her own way in the world, and discover why her beloved grandfather left her this puzzle.

Property Of is the book that launched a major literary career. In it, New York Times best-selling author Alice Hoffman introduces a lonely outsider who wants desperately to belong. She deeply envies the tough, sultry girls who wear mascara and black leather and hang with the local gang known as the Orphans. As the unnamed narrator determinedly tries to become the property of the gang's brooding leader, McKay, she will discover what can and cannot be possessed.

He made her his. Promised her safety. A place. A future. A life beside him. Rebecca "Bex" Pierce never belonged to anyone or anywhere, but she chose Clutch. Years inside the Dawnbreakers MC taught her what loyalty looked like. What it cost. And exactly where she stood in the hierarchy. Because...

Faded photographs of a glamorous couple in postwar Europe. Old letters hinting of tragic loss. And a breathtaking array of magnificent jewelry, spectacular stones in exquisite settings. These are the contents of a safe-deposit box long abandoned in a New York City bank. If no heir can be identified, the jewelry will be auctioned. But who was the woman who left such a fortune and no will?

Narkosmugling, rockerkrige og bloddiamanter fra Sierra Leone har været en del af Christian ”Chester” Grünwaldts liv i 45 år. Men han har også været familiefar. Han startede i 666 Stenløse, og undervejs blev han en del af Nationalen, den øverste ledelse i Bandidos i hele Europa...

Heavy is the head that wears the crown.

In part 2 of Property of a Rich Nigga, Jah struggles with the loss of Faye and Buck. Coupled with the stress of heading the crew and his family, he unravels chaotically.

In this first book of "The Forsyte Saga", Galsworthy paints a vivid portrait of a wealthy and ambitious London family at the turn of the century. Interwoven with this is the ill-fated romance of Irene and Bossiny.

In Dark Property, a woman carries a dying baby across a desert waste, moving toward a fortress harboring a mysterious resurrection cult. Menaced by scavengers, she nevertheless begins to suspect that the reality within the fortress may be even more unsettling than the blasted environment outside. In Contagion and Other Stories, Evenson takes his audiences into a world that is at once apocalyptic, dark, observant, and grotesque without ever dipping into static genre conventions.

Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel's salvation is their maid Adelle's belief in her strengths and her deep, lifelong friendship with Jestine, Adelle's daughter. But Rachel's life is not her own.

Blade Alaska is my kingdom, and as President of the Kings of Anarchy, I keep control of my men and secrets that could tear our lives apart Life here is simple—no one asks questions, and I don't offer answers. But when I find Hannah stranded and out of her depth, everything shifts. She doesn't...

From the time they were kids in Brooklyn, Shotgun knew he was meant to follow Irish everywhere. But living in the shadow of the man who got everything he ever wanted has tested the limits of Shotgun's loyalty. So when Irish brutally meets his maker, Shotgun's devotion shatters once and for all.

Melody Holton lived a life that didn't sit right in her spirit. Naïve to the outside world, small-town Montana was safe, until it wasn't. With no one to protect her or her cousin, Lyric, they fled, heading nowhere fast. Landing in South Carolina at the doorsteps of the Kings of Anarchy MC...