Résultats pour "Stella" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

À Londres, Stella porte à bout de bras sa famille depuis trop longtemps, alors qu'elle ne rêve que de chambres d'hôtes à la campagne. Aussi, lorsqu'elle reçoit un mystérieux message de sa grand-tante, elle monte sans hésiter dans le premier train. Direction, la maison familiale en Normandie, où un tableau ayant appartenu à sa grand-mère, Hortense, a disparu. Parmi les souvenirs qui s'amoncellent, Stella cherche des indices.

Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate. In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn't much a girl wouldn't do for a glass of water. Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses or the fact that...

The #1 New York Times bestselling romantasy series continues with more drama, higher stakes, and deadly consequences. Duty. Blood. Honor. Power. Saeris Fane doesn't want power. The very last thing she needs is her name whispered on an entire court's lips, but now that she's been crowned queen of...

Takis Würger erzählt mit Tempo und Wucht die Geschichte einer Liebe im Jahr 1942. Berlin im Jahr 1942. Eine Geschichte über Angst und Hoffnung - und über die Entscheidung, sich selbst zu verraten oder seine Liebe. Eine Geschichte, die auf wahren Begebenheiten beruht. Friedrich kommt aus gut behütetem Haus vom Genfer See nach Berlin, ein stiller Mann auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit. In einer Kunstschule trifft er Kristin. Sie nimmt Friedrich mit in ihre Nächte in geheimen Jazzclubs. Sie trinkt Kognak mit ihm und gibt ihm seinen ersten Kuss. Bei ihr kann er sich einbilden, der Krieg sei weit weg.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Club comes a new novel of love and betrayal, set in Berlin in 1942 In 1942, Friedrich, an even-keeled but unworldly young man, arrives in Berlin from bucolic Switzerland with dreams of becoming an artist. At a life drawing class, he is...

Friedrich es un joven suizo que se muda a Berlín para seguir con su carrera artística. Allí conoce a Kristin, una chica muy hermosa y segura de sí misma que se hace cargo de él y le enseña a moverse entre los cenáculos de la efervescente vida nocturna de la ciudad, con sus cabarets y clubs de jazz. Pronto, la intensidad de su relación se convierte en una apasionada historia amorosa, hasta que un día Kristin se presenta en casa del muchacho con la cara y el cuerpo cubiertos de moretones.

For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents—moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella’s own mother is convinced that her daughter is...

Tara Peabody jumps into the fray. She’s a fighter, a survivor, and will not tolerate the humiliation and disrespect Stella Gale has dragged her through. Does she have what it takes to exact the revenge that so many others have sought, and still seek? Mick’s quest for revenge becomes ever more complicated by both his love for Annie and the long-held secret she reveals to him. Pete Strate is the wild card that puts into motion what Margaret Appleman believes could culminate in her dream of finally “bagging a very big bird”. Stella heads out to find Annie and bring her back home.

For over 600 years, Darius of Agremon has fought wars on behalf of those who needed his skills in combat. As a lechagos on Strongili, he spends his days commanding the Minoan coastguardsmen against pirates and marauders. His nights are spent alone, for despite having had wives in the past, he has watched them all grow old and die, childless, as he continues to live.

What’s become of the Immortal Darius? His wife, Stella, worries about his fate as she rules over their city-state of Deminon, especially when she learns he’s been the victim of treachery. She’ll do anything to get him back. Enslaved as a traitor to Rome, Darius is forced to fight gladiators as part of the funeral rites of powerful Romans. His years of experience on the battlefield serve him well in the arena - until he’s forced to fight Marcus - a younger, stronger gladiator who is unaware of his own immortality.

Bloomsbury presents Rip Tide, the sixth novel in the Agent Liz Carlyle series by Stella Rimington. Read by Amy Noble To catch an enemy with nothing to lose, MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle must venture into dangerous waters. When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of...

Stella Boor's biological father is a nameless, faceless sperm donor. At least, that's what her parents have led her to believe. Imagine her surprise when she learns he's none other than rock legend Billy Jameson and that Billy has died and left Stella a historic inn on a sprawling farm in the mountains of Virginia. A city girl at heart, Stella can't imagine living anywhere but New York. Her first inclination is to sell the property. But the terms of Billy's will stipulate she manages the inn for three years before putting it on the market. 

Julian Langham was poised on the brink of a dazzling career when the lawyers lured him into making a catastrophic mistake. Now, instead of the concert platform, he has a title he doesn’t want, an estate verging on bankruptcy...and bewildering responsibilities for which he is totally unfitted. And yet the wreckage of Julian’s life is not a completely ill wind. For Tom, Rob, and Ellie it brings something that is almost a miracle...if they dare believe in it.

Hazard: A game of Chance and Luck, made riskier when Fate is rolling the dice. For Aristide Delacroix, the first throw summons shades from his past. A man he had met, just once, over a card-table... and the lovely girl indirectly responsible for plunging his life into catastrophe. For Lord Nicholas Wynstanton, tired of waiting for Madeleine Delacroix to make up her mind, it slyly suggests he begin a whole new game with loaded dice; while for Madeleine, it devises a terrifying lesson in missed opportunities and the uncertainty of second chances.

Bei dem Titel "Stella - ein Weihnachtsmärchen" handelt es sich um eine von vielen anrührenden und tiefgehenden Geschichten des Bestseller-Autors Sergio Bambaren. Protagonistin darin ist Taube Stella, die ein buntes Federkleid trägt und sich zu Beginn der Erzählung noch schwer damit tut, anders auszusehen als ihre Artgenossen. Doch wartet auf die kleine Taube mit ihrem regenbogenfarbenen Gefieder im Verlauf der Handlung noch eine ganz besondere Aufgabe.

Die Postmeisterin empfängt ihre Gäste, eine Madame Sommer, die ihre offenherzige Tochter der Baronesse Stella als Gesellschafterin anvertrauen möchte...

I swore I'd never touch Lainey Daniels. She's my son's ex and too sweet for a man like me. I try my best to resist her, but one night, I give in. I take her to my cabin in the mountains to keep her safe. Now, she's mine, whether she's ready for it or not. I expect her to run, to hate me for the filthy things I want to do to her, but she doesn't. She meets my darkness with a blaze of her own. And I'll burn the whole world down before I lose her.

Sonnet sequences, which these poems by Sidney made very popular in the Elizabethan age, reflected the Medieval motif of courtly love, whereby a wretched lover courts an unavailable woman, typically married already and faithful to her vows. The poet, although unsuccessful, is a slave to her beauty and virtue, which, by pulling in opposite directions, hold him in an agonizing tension that prolongs the sequence. Sidney wrestles creatively, though, with the restrictions of the ancient conventions. The first line of the first poem declares him an iconoclast, for he defies the very definition of a ...

Torino, 1993. Ludovica e suo fratello Edoardo frequentano il liceo, vivono in una casa piena di begli oggetti, libri e opere d'arte, indossano vestiti di marca e hanno fiducia nel futuro. Poi, un giorno, Arturo Montella viene arrestato. I ragazzi scoprono dalla televisione che il padre è coinvolto nell'inchiesta Mani pulite: è accusato di corruzione e finanziamento illecito al partito.

Arthur ha cinque anni quando sua madre Clarisse gli rivela un gran segreto: tra non molto dovrà partire per un lungo viaggio con destinazione Urano. E lì, racconta Clarisse, sul pianeta ghiacciato dalle ventisette lune, popolato da lumache con il guscio azzurro che mangiano niveo prezzemolo polare, da alberi-cervo con sonore campanelle appese ai rami e da tante altre creature straordinarie, proprio lei avrà il compito di disegnare le stelle che notte dopo notte illuminano l'universo.