Résultats pour "The Baby" dans Littérature du monde

Grant Neville is my father’s best friend. The person he trusts the most in the world. Forbidden territory personified. I know it is wrong on so many levels, but I can’t seem to get enough of his presence.... His ocean-blue eyes have a way of finding me in every room, his dimples make my knees go weak, and my hands itch to be buried in his dark hair. But I know better by now. My history with older men has left me with plenty of scars, and Grant is not just any older man.

In Makoko, the floating slum off mainland Lagos, Nigeria, nineteen-year-old Baby yearns for an existence where she can escape the future her father has planned for her. With opportunities scarce, Baby jumps at the chance to join a newly launched drone-mapping project, aimed at broadening the visibility of her community. Then a video of her at work goes viral and Baby finds herself with options she could never have imagined - including the possibility of leaving her birthplace to represent Makoko on the world stage.

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The author of the critically admired, award-winning A Replacement Life turns to a different kind of story—an evocative, nuanced portrait of marriage and family, a woman reckoning with what she’s given up to make both work, and the universal question of how we reconcile who we are and whom...

Midwife Maeve McGill can deliver a baby with no complications, but finding love isn't that easy. After falling for and being dumped by a doctor who only wanted her as a glorified nanny for his kids, she left her job for a position at a clinic in Wirralong. Maeve is determined to embrace her new life with the help of her friend, Lacey. Men are absolutely off the menu.

In this continuation of the Southern Roads series, Dr. Jay Cross is worried things are getting serious between Rachel Hutchins and Barry Devine, and decides if he's going to land the brainy beauty, he's going to have to up his game. So Jay approaches the three Armstrong brothers, all of them strapping ex-military men, and asks them to make him over from a small-framed British intellect into an alpha male Southern boy who will get Rachel's attention. The brothers agree and are determined to make a southern man out of him, but will all the sweat and humiliation be a waste of time?

In the final audiobook in the series, a new baby is coming, and there's nothing more exciting! Plus, Evie makes a big decision about her future. As usual, there's a guest at the B&B with secrets of their own.

Daniel is a freelancer without health insurance or a committed relationship when he suddenly finds himself as the sole caregiver for his dangerously premature daughter. As he grapples with whether he will run from responsibility or grow into fatherhood, he befriends an outspoken neonatal intensive care unit nurse struggling to balance the demands of her job and her own family.

Mark is the dominant alpha with a badge and a past he can't escape. The one who left me tangled in memories after a steamy night. Now, this muscular silver fox sets my heart racing.

Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. It's about existence and nonexistence, about being born - without consent. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce women to their violations, traumas, and body parts.

desperate L.A. professional couple, unable to have children, arrange to buy the unborn baby of a dirt-poor Louisiana pair. Emotions run high and relationships hang by a thread in this passionate and heartbreaking Off-Broadway drama by Mad Men writer Jane Anderson.

A sister struggles with guilt as she helps her brother plan to run away with a man he’s seeing in secret. When the police pull them over one night, everything changes. Bitch Baby is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South.

Lass uns das Leben leben! So zauberhaft und schwungvoll wie ein bunter Konfettiregen. Sie findet Worte für das Lebensgefühl einer ganzen Generation: Julia Engelmann. Ihr Text "One Day" wurde ein sensationeller Poetry-Slam-Erfolg im Internet, ihre Tourabende sind ausverkauft, ihr Sound und ihre Sprache sind so einzigartig wie berühmt. In diesen neuen Texten geht es darum, wie wir unser Glück in die Hand nehmen, Träume wahr machen und uns dabei selbst treu bleiben.

"Eines Tages, Baby, werden wir alt sein, oh Baby, werden wir alt sein und an all die Geschichten denken, die wir hätten erzählen können." Julia Engelmanns Slam "One Day" hat über Nacht eine Welle der Begeisterung ausgelöst und Millionen Fans im Netz gefunden. Ihre Message, Träume endlich in die Tat umzusetzen, trifft den Nerv der Zeit. Denn in jedem von uns steckt so viel mehr!

Lisa Rasmussen just had a baby, and everything in her life seems perfect at this point. Only she wishes that everyone else around her would be as flawless as she is and stop getting in her way. And if they won't listen, then she'll make them.

Mit "One Day" gelang Julia Engelmann ein sensationeller Poetry-Slam-Erfolg, der als Internetphänomen Millionen begeisterte und als Buch wie Hörbuch zum Bestseller wurde. Ihr ganz eigener Sound und ihre ganz eigene Sprache sind es, die die Herzen so berühren. Jetzt stellt sie erneut eine stimmungsvolle Playlist poetischer Texte über Träume und Liebe zusammen, über Wünsche und Freisein, aber auch über Loslassen und Traurigkeit.

Neste conto de 1895, Kate Chopin retrata a ruína de um mundo composto aparentemente por vidas perfeitas nas fazendas da Louisiana devido ao mistério que envolve um bebê mestiço. A autora aborda o tema do racismo por meio de personagens que agem de forma irracional quando confrontados por situações complexas em termos raciais e pelas suas próprias crenças.

Bitter Sweet Love is the much-anticipated second collection of internationally best-selling poet Michael Faudet, author of Dirty Pretty Things, a finalist in the 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards. Michael Faudet's whimsical and often erotic writing has captured the hearts and minds of...