Résultats pour "The Beau" dans Fiction

Jamais Étienne et Mélina n'auraient imaginé quitter les berges de la Garonne. Les deux gamins aiment se retrouver sur une petite île au milieu du fleuve, insouciants et heureux malgré la pauvreté de leurs familles. La crise qui bouleverse le pays met fin à l'enfance. Étienne part apprendre le métier d'imprimeur à Toulouse, très vite rejoint parMélina, engagée comme gouvernante par de riches industriels. Dans la ville rose, le monde ouvrier se prend à rêver à des lendemains qui chantent.1936 sera l'année de tous les possibles.

Beau Whittaker has watched his brothers find love one by one, but every attempt he's made has ended in disaster. He's carved more time for dating by leaving his busy law practice in favor of living out at Whiskey Mountain Lodge and providing private law help and professional bodyguard services for select clients.

When tragedy strikes, Erin races to the hospital to be by her brother's side—but never makes it. A flat tire on a lonely road. A stranger with a kind smile. A car ride straight into a nightmare. She awakens in a child's bedroom. Pink walls, glittery drawings, a collection of dolls…and no way out. Erin's captor offers her a mind-boggling proposition: play the part of his sickly sister, and in return, Erin will be freed when all is said and done.

Povestea lui Diane începe în mod brutal cu moartea soțului și a fetiței sale, eveniment care o aruncă în cea mai cumplită depresie. Totul se oprește în loc, în afară de inima ei, care continuă să bată. Cu încăpățânare. Dureros. Zadarnic. Când cel mai bun prieten și asociat în mica afacere cu o cafenea literară la Paris, Felix, îi propune o călătorie ca început pentru o nouă viață, Diane alege să îndeplinească o mai veche dorință a fostului ei soț și se refugiază departe de lume, într-o mică așezare din Irlanda.

Quando uma pedra preciosa é misteriosamente roubada de uma casa de campo inglesa, todos desconfiam dos três irmãos órfãos... Para fugir da suspeita, eles se alistam separadamente na Legião Estrangeira Francesa. Agora valentes legionários, os irmãos enfrentam diversos perigos e devem lutar pela sobrevivência. Será que eles conseguirão voltar para a Inglaterra a salvo? Quem teria sido o ladrão dessa pedra tão almejada? Essa história clássica sobre fraternidade e honra foi fonte de inspiração para o filme clássico "Beau geste" (1926) com William Powell e para a série de televisão homônima da BBC, realizada em 1982.

More unpublished works from the archives of Louis L’Amour: complete short stories, partial novels, treatments, and notes that will transport readers from the Western frontier to India, China, and even the future. Exploring the creative process of an American original, the Louis L’Amour’s...

The first of its kind, a unique volume of twenty-one unpublished gems from one of the twentieth century’s most popular and prolific writers Using his father’s handwritten notes, journal entries, and correspondences, Beau L’Amour uncovers how and why many never-before-seen manuscripts...

A USA Today Bestseller In its heyday, Piney Peaks and its beloved Christmas house were made famous by Sleighbells under Starlight, a romantic holiday movie. Fifty years later, the small town is ready for a new love story. As a successful film liaison, Elisha Rowe has her heart set on one thing...

Lucas Kinkaid is sick of being pressured to marry his sister Marjorie’s choice for him - Florence Weston. Lucas doesn’t love Florence and doesn’t even want to get married, but the women in his life have teamed up against him. He’s had it. He’d rather marry a stranger than the lazy, mean-spirited Florence. When he overhears a couple of cowboys talking about getting Mail Order Brides, he decides that will be his solution. He’ll order a bride for himself. Sara Jones doesn’t believe in love.

Louis L’Amour’s long-lost first novel, faithfully completed by his son, takes readers on a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. Fate is a ship. As the shadows of World War II gather, the SS Lichenfield is westbound across the Pacific carrying eighty thousand barrels of...

Two young ladies, born in the shadow of the siege of Metz and the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by the Prussians, are swept up in the changing cultural, industrial, medical, scientific, and geo-political tides of the late 19th century in France; they act without hesitation on the new empowerment of women, in business and in love. Against this background and the art nouveau of the École de Nancy, a solitary sculptor is drawn into the girls’ lives.

Alfred Blakesley, Duke of Lowell, has long been an enigma. No one dares to give a man of his status the cut direct, but there's simply something not quite right about him. What would the society ladies say if they learned the truth - that the Duke of Lowell is a wolf-shifter and the leader of a pack facing extinction if he doesn't find his true love? So now he's on the hunt for a wife.

After being captured and held captive in a traveling menagerie, Alwyn Ap Lewin, Duke of Llewellyn, refuses to shift into his lion form. The longer he denies his inner lion, the sicker he gets, but he'd rather die free than be captive ever again. The denizens of Lowell Close live in fear and suspicion of Alwyn—except for lady apothecary Tabitha Barrington. Tabitha alone can help the shapeshifting duke, and with her by his side, the Wild Lion of Wales discovers he has something to live for and to fight for after all.

Widowed farmer and father, Ezra Lapp never thought he could love another woman after he lost his wife. Now that his son is grown, he finds himself falling for a woman much too young for him. To make matters worse, she’s the daughter of one of his closest friends. Ezra can’t seem to stay away from her, however, despite knowing that her daed would never approve of the match. Sally Wagler fears she is destined to be an old maidel.

Louise Lambright had never been so confused. She fears her infatuation with Mark Jones, the Englischer next door, is not the Lord’s will, but she seems to have little control over it. Mark is fun, friendly, and fascinating. Louise secretly wonders if he might be willing to convert to the Amish faith for her.

Doug is troubled on the inside. He's not young enough to allow himself to believe that he just hasn't found his place in life, because he thinks he has. Doug would have you believe that he's just a waste of space. That isn't the case at all. There is a magical town in Arkansas called Eureka Springs. This mystical little town has so much to offer that one may never get to experience it all. Doug and his family got to experience this place and bathed in its healing nature; they went floating for the first time ever. While the trip did not save his marriage, it did save the man's soul.

Rochelle Baxter was an artist recently arrived from Washington State, cruelly cut down in the early stages of a promising career. Now all that remains of her lies on a cold slab in the Cochise County morgue, and Sheriff Joanna Brady knows that murder has once again infected her small desert...

Fourteen-year-old Vicki Gray loves Christmas, and this year's will be special indeed. Still, she has a dilemma. Her long-distance friendship with Chase is great, but she enjoys being with her classmate and friend Danny as well. On winter break with her BFF, Jess, by her side, Vicki tries to balance the two. Will she ever feel as comfortable around Danny as she does around Chase? Join Vicki for a fun-filled school holiday as she and her friends discover that Christmas holds many surprises!

It is 1985 and Jane, a glamourous MI5 officer, has entrusted a new high stakes mission to Sergeant Tommy Henshaw, a Royal Marine Commando, agent handler, and covert intelligence specialist. While working as an agent handler in South Armagh, he has volunteered for a deep cover operation, sanctioned by the Government, to target the covert activities of the Provisional IRA’s secret England Department. Their sinister plot involves using London’s underworld to facilitate the assassination of Margaret Thatcher and her entire cabinet once and for all.

Meet Louise Patterson. She's dead. She's also in Hell: a place where everyone must face the challenges of being damned. This includes below-code living arrangements, a supernatural closet that makes getting dressed every day punitive, and absolutely horrible coffee.