Résultats pour "The Tenants" dans Fiction contemporaine

Brian has arrived at university with a stronger desire than the acquisition of knowledge: he's going to be a star of TV's hottest quiz, University Challenge. But his progress on 'The Challenge' is somewhat stymied by his growing desire for the beguiling Alice Harbison, struggling to make her mark as an actress. And as obstacles impede their affair, Brian becomes more and more convinced that only overwhelming success on the quiz show will win her.

On the morning after the 2003 Academy Awards, Max - an Oscar-winning writer/director whose fame has waned - and his lover, Elena, are in bed, still groggy from last night's red-carpet festivities. They are talking about movies, talking about love, talking about the just-begun war in Iraq. But...

Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy Rabitte, brilliantly coached by Joel 'The Lips' Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from Paris Hall to immortality on vinyl. But can The Commitments live up to their name?

Haley Williams never boarded the Senior Class Cruise. Eighteen, blond, blue-eyed—she matches the nine other women who vanished across state lines. She also matches her mother. For Ivey Williams, Haley’s disappearance isn’t random—it’s the return of a man she thought she escaped. As the FBI hunts a pattern and a retired detective barrels toward vengeance, Ivey faces the truth she buried to keep her daughter safe.

Mr Darcy and Elizabeth now have two children, Miranda and Edward. Miranda is a model daughter, well attuned to life at splendid Pemberley and, were it not for her sex, would make a perfect heir. Edward, alas, would not, and as he and his grandmother, Mrs Bennet, fall into the clutches of those who are not what they seem, awful questions arise about the succession at Pemberley - must the entail be broken and Edward disinherited, ending the Darcy line on the estate?

Sara kan knappt bärga sig inför julafton. Tänk att de äntligen ska få fira Emmas första riktiga jul! Garderoben är redan full med klappar och firandet ska hållas hemma hos Saras föräldrar, precis som vanligt. Emma kommer få uppleva en sådan där magisk familjejul som Sara alltid haft i sitt barndomshem. Det skulle förstås vara fint om snön ville komma också - då skulle allt vara perfekt. Just som Sara är på väg ut för att köpa de sista julklapparna får hon ett upprört samtal från sin mamma.