Résultats pour "Winston" dans Fiction

Meet Forrest Gump, the lovable, hurculean, and surprisingly savy hero of this remarkable comic odyssey. After accidentally becoming the star of Univerity of Alabama's football team, Forrest goes on to become a Vietnam War hero, a worl-class Ping-Pong player, a villainous wrestler, and a business...

Eddie Winston ist 90 Jahre alt. Er hat viel gesehen, viel erlebt und auch geliebt, doch er wartet immer noch auf seinen ersten Kuss ... Als echter Gentleman und unverbesserlicher Romantiker verbringt Eddie seine Tage als Freiwilliger in einem Wohltätigkeitsladen, wo er die Spenden sortiert. Doch manches bewahrt Eddie auf wie einen kostbaren Schatz: alte, zerfledderte Briefe. Den weichen Schal, in dem noch ein letzter Hauch vom Parfüm der Trägerin hängt. Die bekritzelten Chucks mit den zwei Initialen. Dinge, bei denen Eddie spürt, dass sie für irgendjemanden da draußen noch eine Bedeutung haben.

Six years after Brucie, the collie-cross with extraordinary powers, was rescued by Ginger and her four teenagers, 22-year-old Vanessa is the first of the family to fall in love. But how can she trust this when the relationship of her parents, who'd loved each other, was marred by trouble? Determined to understand what is going on in Vanessa's heart, Brucie undertakes a journey that also encompasses the unusual upbringing of her quirky and gifted young man, Zenon.

The bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons is back with a delicious novel about a trio of best friends in Manhattan who agree to change their lives in the most personal and dramatic way possible—and to do it within one calendar year. Meet Emmy, Leigh...

The bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons is back with a delicious novel about a trio of best friends in Manhattan who agree to change their lives in the most personal and dramatic way possible—and to do it within one calendar year. Meet Emmy, Leigh...

The author of the beloved international hit The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot returns with a funny, uplifting story about the power of friendship and finding love in unexpected places. Eddie Winston is 90 years old. He has lived and he has loved, but he has never been kissed. A true...

Beloved writer Sean Dietrich--also known as Sean of the South--will warm your heart with this rich and nostalgic tale of a small-town sheriff, a mysterious little girl, and a good-hearted community pulling together to help her. Folks in Moab live for ice cream socials, baseball, and the local...

It’s 1925. Hitler has published Mein Kampf and Mussolini has shut down the free press in Italy. Three friends meet on a Scottish estate for a weekend of salmon fishing and convivial conversation over brandy and cigars: Winston Churchill, future world leader; "Bendor", 2nd Duke of Westminster; and Coco Chanel, iconic fashion entrepreneur. The narrative develops into a visceral account interspersed with sharp and insightful humor, revealing two men whose deep friendship is divided by their profound political differences, as each of them tries to navigate an uncertain world.

The Gump phenomenon continues! Forrest Gump is back! The lovable man for all ages, who captured America's heart in the #1 bestselling novel Forrest Gump and in the blockbuster film, returns in the long-awaited sequel to the book hailed by Larry King as "the funniest novel I have ever read." A...

Betty Rose Milenski dreams of Broadway. Talented, ambitious, and obsessed, she was the biggest fish in college. But New York is a harsh wake-up. Unemployed and ignored, she faces a career as cocktail waitress instead of on the stage. And the clock is ticking. She jumps at an internship at the country’s most famous summer stock playhouse, in spite of its bizarre, all-controlling reputation. There, she joins a family of eccentric and endearing fellow actors and bonafide stars, lorded over by the benevolent dictator Rex Terrell.

Georgia and detective Cal Perkins are through. Fine. Maybe, it’s an opportunity to give charmer Hamlet Miller a chance. But there’s no time for romance when Georgia hosts her stepsister and her roommate Quincy during a college chorale tour - and Quincy steals Georgia’s car and disappears. When her car turns up in a cemetery with a cryptic note lying on the front seat, Georgia decides to take action.

Koya and Deuce's journey can either be the most beautiful love story one could imagine, or it could be a disaster that blows up not only their personal lives, but also their professional ones. They'll have to decide what's most important to them along the way and hope they can come out on the other end whole.

"Bein' a idiot is no box of chocolates," but "at least I ain't led no hum-drum life," says Forrest Gump, the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this wonderful comic tale. When the University of Alabama's football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, that's only the beginning! He flunks...

The Paris Wife meets PBS’s Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history’s most remarkable women: Winston Churchill’s scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome. Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England by...

The Lassiter siblings have been blessed with an internal detector identified as the love gene. Now that they have found love, one obstacle after another is threatening their happy ever after . . . Luke Lassiter is determined to give his fiance Sasha Coles the perfect wedding on the beautiful waters of the Mediterranean sea. Now that Luke has won Sasha's heart, he wants to protect her peace of mind. The imp, known as Stephanie Coles, is doing all she can to disrupt her daughter, Sasha's life. Her goal is simple, money . . . and money