Résultats pour "Still" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

In her life, there have only been three lovers. But Leslie doesn’t lament the meager number, she only truly mourns the second one. In her youthful arrogance, she turned him away, thinking there would be many more chances. Now, she lives two lives—one in the present, and another plagued by bittersweet memories of the past. But maybe, even now, it will be possible to reconcile the two.

Eine neue Zeit, eine große Liebe und eine mutige Frau, die ihren Weg geht. Um ihre Familie zu retten, folgt Elise von Achenthal ihrer Pflicht und heiratet den Londoner Fabrikantensohn Fletcher Cunningham. Die Hochzeitsreise führt sie über den Atlantik zu Plantagen im Süden der USA, wo Elise die Schrecken der Sklaverei aus erster Hand miterlebt. Doch Fletcher sieht in der Ausbeutung von Sklaven und Arbeitern nur seinen Vorteil. Und damit nicht genug: Um die schwangere Elise zu „schonen“, kauft er sich eine junge Sklavin und nimmt sie zu seinem Vergnügen mit nach England.

Ein BND-Agent bricht während eines Restaurantbesuchs in Manila plötzlich zusammen - ohne erkennbare Ursache. Der Vorfall sorgt in Berlin für Alarmstimmung, denn in Kürze soll in Manila eine deutsche Regierungsdelegation eintreffen. Anna und ihr Team müssen deshalb herausfinden, was passiert ist. Der Verdacht fällt auf Mikrowellenwaffen, eine Technologie, die weltweit für Angriffe auf CIA-Agenten verantwortlich gemacht wird. Die Spur führt zu einem nordkoreanischen Geheimdienstoffizier - und zu einer mysteriösen Frau.

Mac and Jamie had their life together all planned out. Until Jamie did the unforgivable and left Mac for another woman. Twenty years later, they meet again for the first time at a friend’s wedding. Mac’s pain lingers, while Jamie is still haunted by regret.

Until John Wilson met the warm, wise woman who became his fourth wife, the object of his most intense devotion had always been the work of William Shakespeare. From his feat of memorizing Romeo and Juliet and half a dozen other plays as a student to his evangelical zeal as a professor, John's faith in the Bard has shaped his life. But now his mental powers have been diminished by dementia, and his wife has reluctantly moved him to a residential care facility.

Runau, 1905: Die junge Helene wird gezwungen, den gewalttätigen Großbauern Otto zu heiraten. Ihre Ehe ist vom Patriarchat geprägt. Auch ihre Söhne müssen für den Vater schuften wie Arbeitssklaven. Als Otto im Ersten Weltkrieg fällt, versorgt die sechsfache Mutter den Bauernhof allein. Mit ihrer großen Liebe, dem Grenzsoldaten Ewald, bekommt sie sechs weitere Kinder. Bald aber stellt der erstarkende Nationalsozialismus die Familie vor eine Zerreißprobe. Helene verliert durch Unfälle, den Zweiten Weltkrieg und ein grausames Kriegsverbrechen sechs ihrer zwölf Kinder.

With compassion and insight, Jess Montgomery weaves a gripping mystery and portrait of community in The Stills, the powerful third novel in the Kinship series. Ohio, 1927: Moonshining is a way of life in rural Bronwyn County, and even the otherwise upstanding Sheriff Lily Ross has been known to...

Um sich von der Trennung von ihrem Freund abzulenken, krempelt Amber ihr Leben völlig um: Sie stürzt sich gemeinsam mit ihren Pflegegeschwistern in die Renovierung des alten Hotels und sucht sich dazu noch einen weiteren Job. Dort läuft sie bereits an ihrem ersten Tag ausgerechnet Brian in die Arme.

I'll be there. Through thick and thin. Ride or die. You can count on me. The promises people make. The vows we take. Assumptions of the heart. Emotion tells us how we feel, but life...life has a way of plunging us in boiling water, burning away our illusions, testing our faith, trying our convictions. Love floating is a butterfly, but love tested is an anchor. For Grip and Bristol, love started at the top of the world on a Ferris wheel under the stars, but when that love is tested, will they fly or fall?

Imagine you, your spouse, and your 16-year-old son are invited to go out of town. When you get to your destination, you discover someone tricked you into going on the trip. You soon realize your son was poisoned and there is no known antidote. Your child has 10 hours to live, 12 at most. This is exactly what happened to Dr. Amy Sinclair, a medical researcher from Zionsville, Indiana. Still is the enthralling story of the lengths Amy and her husband go through to save the life of their only son.

Wenn es Winter wird und Schnee und Eis alle Spuren verwischen, erwacht in den einsamen Wäldern Brandenburgs das Böse. Über Nacht verschwinden Mädchen und Jungen auf mysteriöse Weise. Kein Kind wird je wiedergesehen. Nur ein Mädchen taucht unerwartet und verstört wieder auf, seine Lippen sind seitdem verschlossen. Erst als ein verzweifelter Vater auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln beginnt, bricht es sein Schweigen. Doch damit dreht sich die Spirale des Bösen nur noch schneller.

Bodies are piling up in once peaceful Edelleen, Colorado since Deric met Lana. Now in the grasp of a darkness that he cannot subdue or escape, he seeks vengeance on the residents of the sleepy mountain town. As Deric descends into madness, the creature demands blood. It watches. It waits. With a failing marriage and exposed affair sending his personal life and career spiraling, will Sheriff Haines be able to put his personal conflicts aside in time to catch a killer? Or will Deric lose the battle between conscience and terror, unleashing unabated evil onto Edelleen?

What happens when two men who have been together for 17 years fall out of love? Sivan Cruz, a set director in San Francisco, and Walter Wainwright, a big shot Bay Area lawyer, find out the hard way. Walter loves Sivan with all his heart but rarely talks about it, and Sivan needs to hear the words. The language of the love they have shared for so long, that has enabled them to build a life together and raise two children, stops working. They become - still.

Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.

Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At 50 years old, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life - and her relationship with her family and the world - forever.

This book is a compilation of small observations and musings. It's filled with moments of reflection and a love letter to simple joys: passing a simple blade of grass on the sidewalk, the freedom of peeing outdoors late at night, or the way a hand-built ceramic mug feels when it's full of warm tea on a chilly morning. It's a catalog and a compendium that examines the complicated experience of being all too human and interacting with a complex, confounding, breathtaking world ... and a reminder to stop and be awake and alive in yourself.

Have you ever yearned to embark on a profound journey of self-discovery, love, and connection? Look no further than Still the captivating debut poetry collection by Renzo Del Castillo that will transport you to the heart of a family's journey from Lima, Peru to Miami, Florida as political refugees and asylum seekers.

Mo Collins, the reluctant hero, has sailed around the country on board the replica pirate ship, the Viva Ancora, and now he finds himself only miles from his childhood home. But now the world has gone to hell. Hordes of naked, blue, biting zombies have flooded the now dead Alabama lake town. Mo and his only surviving shipmate, Crow, spend their days fishing and their nights watching the monsters roam, seeking untainted flesh and leaving a disgusting mess in their wake.

On his own since he was fifteen, Ángel Cruz has never had to explain how or when he moves to anyone. As someone who works from the shadows, he goes where and when work calls. His relationship with Tamar Kinsey means he has to learn to open himself to her or risk losing the hot-tempered beauty.

Ich bin nicht Stiller, sagt Mr. White nach seiner Verhaftung bei dem Versuch, die Schweizer Grenze zu überqueren....