Résultats pour "William" dans Fiction contemporaine

The Bottom of the Sky is an aching rags to riches family saga that surges from rural squalor into the opulent power chambers of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. The story contrasts the 30-year struggles of an abused sister and brother who seek to reclaim themselves from their abhorrent past. One is abandoned to a life of sexual desecration and addiction. The other escapes with his demons to wield fragile, uncanny genius and unrelenting ambition to amass staggering wealth.

Die wundersame Wandlung eines Mannes, der irgendwo zwischen Himmel und Erde feststeckt und von Gott die allerletzte Möglichkeit erhält...

Kansas, 1870: Der Student Will Andrews kehrt Harvard den Rücken, um im Wilden Westen sein Glück zu finden. Er landet in Butcher's Crossing, einem Ort mitten im Nirgendwo. Dort wimmelt es von rastlosen Männern, Huren und zwielichtigen Gestalten. Auf der Suche nach Geld und Abenteuern schließt sich Andrews einer Gruppe von Büffeljägern an. Nach einer strapaziösen Reise gelangen sie ans Ziel und geraten, besessen vom Töten der Büffel, in einen Blutrausch.

Die 30-jährige Suzie Cartwright kann ihr Glück kaum fassen - vier Wochen bezahlter Urlaub in Verona, welch herrliche Aussichten! Einzig Lord Tedborns Tochter Alexandra, die sie dorthin begleiten soll, könnte zur Herausforderung werden. Doch entgegen der Aussage des herrischen Vaters ist Alexandra weder launisch noch flatterhaft. Die beiden unterschiedlichen Frauen freunden sich an und lassen sich vom mediterranen Zauber der Stadt verführen.

Das Leben des jungen Arthur Maxley schwankt zwischen Müßiggang und einem nie verwundenen Trauma aus der Kindheit. Einen Abend und eine Nacht lang folgen wir ihm: zunächst zu einem Dinner mit seinem Vater, den er viele Jahre nicht gesehen hat. Schuld und Scham lasten auf dieser Begegnung, deren abruptes Ende einen Vorgeschmack bietet auf das verheerende Finale dieser Nacht.

När Clay spelar kort på en saloon promenerar plötsligt Celia in, en kvinna som Clay varit gift med! Hon behöver hjälp och snart är Clay indragen i ett mysterium Clay Allison eller.

Staden Bakersville var inte sig lik. Sheriffen, Clays gamle vän, brydde sig bara om flaskan. Clay beslutar sig för att göra något åt saken Clay Allison eller. William Marvin Jr är pseudonym för författaren Bengt-Åke Cras (född 1943) som skrivit 124 böcker i serien "Sexy Western". Cras har även skrivit ungdomsböcker, serier, sagor, noveller och dokumentära böcker, ofta under olika pseudonymer.

Big Fish meets The Notebook in this emotionally evocative story about a man, a woman, and an alligator that is a moving tribute to love, from the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning memoir Rocket Boys—the basis of the movie October Sky. Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the...

When Dr. Watson returns to London from a weekend seminar, he finds hat Sherlock Holmes has been arrested. Inspector Lestrade refers Watson to a questionable psychiatric hospital where Holmes is jailed for mental incapacity.

Zee Finch has come a long way from a motherless childhood spent stealing boats—a talent that earned her the nickname Trouble. She’s now a respected psychotherapist working with the world-famous Dr. Liz Mattei. She’s also about to marry one of Boston’s most eligible bachelors. But the suicide of Zee’s patient Lilly Braedon throws Zee into emotional chaos and takes her back to places she thought she’d left behind.

“I’m crazy about Bond Girl. Erin Duffy is a fresh, funny, and fabulous new voice.” —Adriana Trigiani, author of Brava, Valentine The Devil Wears Prada meets Wall Street in Bond Girl—a hilarious, fast–paced race through the jungle of high finance in four–inch heels. An author who...

In Kate Rorick’s first adult fiction novel, we enter the wild, bewildering world of modern pregnancies. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll shake your head as you wonder where everyone’s sanity went... Meet the mothers… Nathalie Kneller: Nathalie’s plan: to announce her pregnancy now...

“Weisman is perhaps wired more tightly into the reclusive special operations community than any other writer, and his knowledge of weaponry and field techniques is staggering.” —Washington Times “A pro who knows his stuff.” —Oliver North John Weisman, whose expertise in the field of...

A bombastic Welsh publican bets a rival that a converted wooden pub barrel can successfully cross the Irish Sea. The pride of the local village is soon put on the line. The landlord's son is tasked with skippering the Green Beagle barrel boat on a risky journey to the Emerald Isle. Behind closed doors, he tells his son not to worry because he will arrange to fake the crossing. But when the big day finally arrives, it becomes clear there will be no escaping making this voyage for real.

This is the eight book in My Memoirs, a love story, modern fairy tale, a rock-and-roll story, and my family history - a history of Glasgow a man unemployed for decades then an author.

Growing up wild and carefree in the 60s, every year was a great time in our lives. But before we saw the reality of everything and start to worry, life was pure laughter. We were so much freer back then. Best time in those years: sixth to eighth grade. The summers of those years to be exact. Best friends you would ever have. Last time you would be totally care free and truly happy. Last time you would act and not think. You would make memories of the littlest things, and those memories would stick with you forever. But only if you were lucky, and boy were we lucky.