Résultats pour "The Names" dans Littérature et fiction

Holly has a plan for everything. But she never could have planned for this. Holly Murphy’s perfectly planned life is not going so well. Her fiancé recently dumped her, the team she supervises at work secretly hates her, and now the promotion she’s worked so hard for is in jeopardy. Thinking that maybe Holly is too tightly wound and needs a break from everything, Holly’s boss demands she take a vacation.

The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last Summer in the City is a witty and despairing classic of Italian literature. Biting, tragic, and endlessly quotable, this translated edition features an introductory appreciation from longtime fan...

Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most unforgettable characters: Shylock Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, Shylock is juxtaposed...

Senhor Jose is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman, something happens to him.

From the moment Liverpool teenager Jess stars in the school musical, she knows that she's got to be a star. Fast-forward a few years, and the closest the now 22-year-old Jessica has gotten to stardom is as a children's entertainer - which is where she meets Jack, uncle to the spoiled five-year-old birthday princess who spots Jessica's talent and offers her a job with a record label. But that means that she'll have to leave her family and her home and move to London - where she quickly finds that the streets aren't quite paved with gold.

The comedian and his gang of entertainers head toward the Fortress of Good in the hopes of finishing his mission. Of course, travel in the wasteland isn't as easy as it used to be, and they are waylaid in a mysterious town underneath the ruins of Salt Lake City. What will they find there? A gang of sickening weirdos? Strange culinary delights? Top hats? Or even worse... polite conversation? Certainly, it couldn't be all of those things. Could it?

Meet MacKenzie Bly, as he navigates the trials of life while struggling with the vexed issue of being a teenage boy. Perfect for fans of Sue Townsend. I am fourteen years old and I’m called MacKenzie Bly. It’s a good name, isn’t it? Unfortunately, I just made it up, I’m actually called...

Come here Brodie... Sit down, Brodie; Get off the sofa, Brodie; Get in the car, Brodie; Breakfast's ready, Brodie; Shut up Brodie! I think my name is Brodie. Though, to be honest, I don't really bother about names very much. They're more of a human thing. Us dogs mostly just go by sense of smell...

Mein Name ist John Doe. Das Fehlende in mir ist schrecklich. Und wissen Sie, was es so schrecklich macht? Nein, natürlich wissen Sie es nicht, denn Sie sind nicht ich. Sie sind nicht … dieser John Doe. Ich erzähle Ihnen, was so schrecklich ist. Ich verliebe mich voll und ganz in diese wunderbare und wunderbar schöne Dahlia Flower … in meine Retterin. Oh nein, nicht aus Dankbarkeit, sondern aus echter … aufkeimender Liebe. Aufkeimende Liebe? Fast schon Prosa, nicht wahr? Ob ich früher Gedichte geschrieben habe? Oder habe ich gar jemanden getötet?

Timothy Cooper's novel, 2020 or My Name Is Jesus Christ and I'm Running for President paints a hilariously envisioned America caught up in presidential politics. In actuality, it tells the prophetic story of the rise of Donald Trump. Here Jesus returns to Earth, only to find himself pitted against his satanic stepbrother, Beelzebub, in a contest for the presidency and for the very soul of America.

‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’ With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire’s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to...

Ex-journalist Dan Starkey is stuck in a grimy Belfast bedsit. His life is a disaster, and his only solace is the pub round the corner. He really, really needs something to get his teeth into. Fellow ex-journalist Mark Corkery provides that something. Corkery, an Internet horseracing gossip...

Russell Fink is twenty-six years old and determined to salvage a job he hates so he can finally move out of his parents’ house for good. He's convinced he gave his twin sister cancer when they were nine years old. And his crazy fiancée refuses to accept the fact that their engagement really...

What’s stronger than magic itself? A Brownstone with a mission. Brownstone security continues cleansing Seattle’s magical mobster underbelly while Alison draws strength from her trusted circle as she fights off the virus draining her powers. She uncovers the smuggling of magical pets and the harmful side effects of testing savage spells on humans and still has time to chase down her enemies. It’s dirty, dangerous work and leaves her friends the targets of vicious attacks. Not smart, bad guys. Do you even know who you are messing with?

President Andrew MacIntyre was having a pretty good first year in the Oval Office. Suddenly, during what should have been a peaceful Christmas season, he's facing one of the worst national security crises in American history. And, it's being masterminded out of a sleazy New Mexico strip joint? What the hell?

Join Danny and his friends as they have many misadventures in a southwestern Pennsylvania steel town during the late 1950s and early 60s. The story has many memorable and odd characters. It was a much simpler time; there were no cell phones, computers, or video games. People still gathered around the radio to listen to Superman and Fiber Magee and Molly. If they were lucky enough to have a TV, it was black and white and all kitchen appliances were white.

A mixed-breed offspring of Marley and Me and All Creatures Great and Small, His Name was Brownie is your next book for fun. Peopled with multiple Marley dogs (and Marlas as well), nearly all listeners will recognize their dog or cat, son or daughter, spouse - maybe even themselves - as the featured characters barrel their way through their laughable adventures.

Larry Feingold has a nice life. He has a wife and son whom he loves, a comfortable job as an accountant, and a lovely home in Encino, California. Yep, life is good for Larry - until one morning when he receives the news he is the Son of God, reborn to this earth. Why is this not a good thing? Well, there's this - um - situation. You see, the apocalypse is coming in three days, and it's up to Larry to deal with it. Should be a snap for the Son of Man, right? Tell that to Larry Feingold.

A New York Times Notable Book and New York Times bestseller, “DeLillo’s haunting new novel, Zero K—his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, Underworld” (The New York Times), is a meditation on death and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a...

Dr. Dongle, the indefatigable slayer of parents who give their children awful name, returns more vile and angry than ever in Volume 4. In the crosshairs this go-round are the mothers and fathers of Keightlynne, Equinox, Jaxton, Virva, Fhoenix, Rayge, Gusty, Jaykub, Infinity, Darlington and 90 more names that it's OK to openly despise. The usual warning: the language herein is among the most foul, vile and vulgar you'll ever read. The faint of heart and those with a weak sense of humor need not apply.