Résultats pour "The Baby" dans Littérature et fiction

There are only three things in this world that are certain: death, taxes, and babies. Nobody knows this truth better than Emily McCoy, a third year resident working in Baby City, the affectionate nickname for the busy Labor and Delivery unit at a New York City hospital. On a typical day in Baby City, Emily delivers more babies than the number of hours of sleep she manages to squeeze in that night. And definitely more than the number of dates she's been on since she started her training in OB/GYN two years earlier.

Lacanau. Un bar. Six amis d'enfance, à la vie à la mort. Trois étés. Trois histoires déjantées. Tome 3 : l'été de leurs 27 ans, focus sur Roman et Céleste. Alors qu'elle recherche ardemment son "vieux riche idéal", Céleste tombe par hasard sur une perle rare : un jeune homme à la plastique parfaite et au compte en banque bien fourni. Sa cible n'étant guère intéressée, Céleste devra faire preuve d'imagination et de détermination pour le ferrer.

Lacanau. Un bar. Six amis d'enfance, à la vie à la mort. Trois étés. Trois histoires déjantées. Tome 2 : l'été de leurs 26 ans, focus sur Vadim et Jiya. Pour Vadim et Jiya, les inséparables, fans de Motus, cet été sera l'été de toutes les folies. Jiya, la boxeuse garçon manqué, adepte des relations d'un soir, verra ses certitudes bouleversées en croisant un homme de son passé, dont elle s'était éprise, adolescente. Un mauvais garçon devenu un homme dangereux et redoutable.

The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years—except Biff, the Messiah’s best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in...

Jule ist Hebamme aus Leidenschaft. Für sie gibt es nichts Schöneres, als werdende Mütter zu begleiten, bis hin zum großen Ereignis der Geburt. Doch als sie selbst ungewollt schwanger wird, fangen die Komplikationen an. Denn der Kindsvater - ein One-Night - entpuppt sich ausgerechnet als Lebensgefährte ihrer sympathischen Klientin Amelie. Und schon ist Jule mitten in einem Strudel widerstreitender Gefühle.

The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus is an award winning religious satire; a fast-paced comedic re-imagining of the events surrounding the birth of Jesus with sensibilities similar to The Book of Mormon and Monty Python’s Life of Brian.

Amber Fitzpatrick is about to hit thirty and has achieved none of the things she hoped to have done by now. Her dreams of owning her own business seem out of reach. Her boyfriend has just dumped her and now her biological clock is clanging in her head. But maybe Amber doesn’t need a man for the next stage of her life? Maybe as an independent woman she can have a baby all by herself? There’s only one problem. Handsome but excruciatingly annoying best friend Tyler Williams.

P.J. O’Rourke began writing funny things in 1960s underground newspapers, became editor-in-chief of National Lampoon, then spent 20 years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly as the world’s only trouble spot humorist, going to wars, riots, rebellions, and other "Holidays in Hell” in more than 40 countries.

Katie Johnson may make her living consulting with new moms on the latest, greatest baby gadgets no parent should be without, or which mommy meet-ups are the most socially desirable, or whether melon truly is the new black, but the success of her marriage to her husband, Alex, depends on controlling her own urges toward motherhood. He's adamant that they stay childless. Sure, Katie understands that he's upset over the fact that his out-of-town ex-wife rarely lets him see their 10-year-old son, Peter. But living vicariously through her anxious clients and her twin sisters' precocious children only makes Katie resent his stance more deeply.

In the quaint but frigid Chicago suburb of Lake Park Villa, grumpy food critic Josie Tucker is on the trail of a would-be killer. Is wealthy cough drop heiress Lynetta Downes about to lose her life? Or is she simply losing her marbles?

Criminal defense investigator Cecil Younger spends his days coaching would-be felons on how to avoid incriminating themselves. When Sherrie, a returning client with a good heart but a penchant for bad boys, asks him to track down some evidence that will help with her case, Cecil agrees. Cecil treks out to the shady apartment complex she mentioned, only to find his teenage daughter, Blossom, inside. He manages to get both the box Sherrie wanted and his daughter safely home, and later discovers the "evidence" is a large pile of cash - fifty thousand dollars, to be exact.

Bridget Jones - singlepigen, alle kender og elsker - er tilbage og nu med en bule på maven. Bridget elsker sin singletilværelse og jobbet som tv-producer, men hun ser samtidig for sig, hvordan udløbsdatoen for hendes fertilitet hastigt nærmer sig. Efter en række sjove og pinagtige situationer, som er så typiske for Bridget Jones, finder hun ud af, at hun er gravid.

Jahrelang hat Michael Mittermeier auf der Bühne Späße über junge Eltern und Arschlochkinder gemacht. Nun ist er selbst Vater geworden. Wie seine Tochter sein Leben verändert und worüber er jetzt lacht, davon erzählt er auf unnachahmliche Weise in diesem Hörbuch. Michael Mittermeier liest in seiner ehrlichen, selbstironischen und herzzerreißenden Art über eine Zeit im Leben, in der sich die Gefühle von Stolz, Unsicherheit und Glück rasant abwechseln.

My mother wants all her kids and grandkids to spend Christmas Eve at her house and wake up on Christmas morning together. Sounds reasonable, right? And it would be. If it weren’t my mother. My husband, Declan, is protesting any involvement, though he’s openly intrigued by the idea of claiming his territory by having sex in my childhood bed. And by intrigued, I mean a series of really hot suggestions that make me whimper when I have to say no. Wait - why am I saying no, again?

Former diplomat Leona Robin wonders if she made a mistake moving to rural Texas. Her son loves it here, but in a place where it's normal for a prize bull to have his own pet pig and hay bales are raining from the sky, Leona wonders how she'll ever fit in. That is, until she's thrown right into local preacher Ralph Maybeath's arms. Is this love? Maybe, maybe not.

Allison Horvath is an attorney, a wife, and a mother. This is a day in her life.

Wealthy Cassandra Lennon has pricked her finger on the spindle of personal tragedy 15 years earlier and isolated herself behind rose-covered walls. They call her the Sleeping Beauty. But this is modern-day Texas and her castle is a ranch. Ellison Stewart is so enticingly attractive to women their knees buckle on first sight, and he hates it. Is he the prince Cassie has been waiting for?

The sound of a vehicle door opening was like opium to their dog Boo. Police car, garbage truck, animal control van, serial killer in a stolen pickup, it made no difference to Boo. She'd jump in with anyone. "Name's Corey Smith," the serial killer said, introducing himself with a smile aimed over Boo's back straight at Flannery Sommers.

A collection of comedies and dramas about modern women’s lives and loves, starring Jenny Eclair Jenny Eclair is one of Britain’s most-loved stand-up comedians, and the first woman to win the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe. She has written several acclaimed books, including the Sunday...

... nämlich dann, wenn es darum geht, dem bisher bekannten Leben die Abrissbirne zu verpassen. Mama Sonya redet hemmungslos Tacheles...