Résultats pour "Stiller" 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.

Bei der Durchreise durch die Schweiz wird der Amerikaner James White von der Grenzpolizei festgenommen. Es besteht der Verdacht, bei ihm handle es sich um den seit sechs Jahren vermissten Bildhauer Anatol Ludwig Stiller. Im Gefängnis wird White mit der Vergangenheit Stillers konfrontiert, mit Freunden und Ehefrau, die ihn alle zum Selbstbekenntnis drängen. Sein Tagebuch, seine Lebensbeichte, beginnt der Häftling mit den berühmten Worten: "Ich bin nicht Stiller".

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

It always started like this, a pulse inside me, like a warning before the tide surged, roared... and froze everything. Twenty-year old Emma just landed in Rome, to find the father who walked out of her life more than a decade ago and was too busy eating pizza to call. Traveling with her is a secret she's carried alone since childhood: sometimes, around her, time stops. People and cars freeze, rain hangs still in the air and there's only her left in the silence. To make things worse, instead of her dad, Em runs into a past she'd rather forget in the person of Lily, her stepsister.

Nursing the faded scars of a long-held trauma, Emily Page and her husband, awaiting the arrival of their first child, move from New York City to the uber-wealthy Clairmont, Texas. There, Emily is swept into a world of opulent privilege and shifting loyalties. But the secrets she keeps follow her south, and with them comes the danger that her new friends can't protect her from, and her new enemies will not hesitate to use to destroy her once and for all.

The beloved Fannie Flagg is back and at her irresistible and hilarious best in I Still Dream About You, a comic mystery romp through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, past, present, and future. Meet Maggie Fortenberry, a still beautiful former Miss Alabama. To others, Maggie’s life seems...

Derek always felt that there was more to his world than meets the eye. Like any other high school senior, he eagerly awaited the last, first day of school. Little did he know, this day would change everything. Beneath his typical teenage façade was a storm of self-doubt and a nagging feeling of not belonging.

Arrested and imprisoned in a small Swiss town, a prisoner begins this book with an exclamation: ‘I’m not Stiller!’ He claims that his name is Jim White, that he has been jailed under false charges and under the wrong identity. To prove he is who he claims to be, he confesses to three unsolved murders and recalls in great detail an adventuresome life in America and Mexico among cowboys and peasants, in back alleys and docks. He is consumed by ‘the morbid impulse to convince’, but no one believes him.

Der internationale Bestseller erzählt die wahre Geschichte eines Diplomaten-Ehepaars, das sein Leben riskiert hat, um Tausenden Juden zur Flucht aus Wien zu verhelfen. Wien, 1938. Dr. Ho Fengshan, der Generalkonsul von China, macht sich Sorgen um seine Ehefrau Grace. Die schüchterne US-Amerikanerin fühlt sich nicht wohl mit den gesellschaftlichen Verpflichtungen einer Diplomatenfrau, und der aufkommende Nationalsozialismus bereitet ihr immer mehr Unbehagen. Als Grace sich mit der Jüdin Lola Schnitzler anfreundet, erkennt Dr. Ho sofort das Risiko, das die Beziehung für sie birgt.

Unsure of her future within the Amish community, Beth Peachy arrives in Lancaster County for the summer to care for her ailing grandmother. Yet with dementia threatening to steal away Mammi's memories, Beth's visit quickly evolves into an urgent search for the answers to questions that her relatives seem determined to avoid. How can Beth possibly make a lifelong vow to the Amish church when her own family is concealing so much of the past from her?

Former minor-league baseball player Jimmy Bailey spent four years in incarcerated after taking a plea deal for a crime he didn't commit. He believed freedom awaited him on the day his sister, Debbie, picked him up from Walpole State Prison, a maximum-security facility in Massachusetts and brought him home to live with his mother in North Weymouth, Massachusetts..

The Evans Family is flying out for a much-needed vacation in one week. Before then, they plan to take a break from their busy careers. But what's a week-long break with the Evans clan without a little drama?

A popular baker and cake decorator, Bobbi Bright should know better than anyone that not all sweet things are good for you. Still, she can't quit her first love, Noah Laskera completely unserious billionaire adventurer who makes her feel like the only woman in the universe—when he's around. He bails on her constantly, and she's tired of being his second choice. So she makes a plan to quit Noah and get her life back on track. She's going to get married and have children like she always wanted.

Everything in Edith’s life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her teeth are rotting in her skull. And her best friend, Val, is dead. Still Life volleys between the present and recent past, chronicling the lives of three women—one cis, two trans, all forever entwined.