Résultats pour "carr" dans Fiction historique

Hometown hockey hero, Blake has life completely figured out. He’s footloose and fancy free with the world’s coolest job and an endless parade of puck bunnies ready to help him celebrate his victories. The status quo is working for him, so why does he agree to co-parent a stray puppy with his too-serious, workaholic neighbor, Erika? And why is he so annoyed when she suddenly starts dating some tool named Doug? And why can’t he stop finding excuses to see her and touch her and kiss her and… She’s not his girlfriend, right?

Brought to you by Penguin. Carrie Soto is the greatest player the world has ever seen. But six years after her last match, she watches a young British tennis player steal her world record - and Carrie knows she has to go back and reclaim her rightful place at the top. Even if the world doesn't...

Here are the excruciatingly funny adventures of Suzanne Vale—a young film star and drug addict—who survives a rehab clinic only to rejoin the equally harrowing world of Hollywood. Out there on the edge, despair flips into hilarity, and we're left laughing as Suzanne struggles to come to...

Nick Harkaway's bestselling take on George Smiley is back, and this time the iconic spy is on the trail of a traitor right at the top of American intelligence… It is 1965, and the Cold War has never been colder. The Circus – the secret centre of British intelligence – has one prize asset...

Les Cenci conte la révolte, le courage et le drame de Beatrix Cenci, abusée par son père, sorte de Don Juan sans scrupule. Par cette chronique italienne, Stendhal nous livre sa vision du mythe de Don Juan et nous fait pénétrer dans la violence des passions de l'Italie renaissante. Si le thème est éminemment romantique, l'analyse précise des sentiments et des mobiles de chacun est d'une grande modernité.

In The Angel Of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr...

As read on BBC Radio 4 A Sunday Times Best Book of the Year An Observer Best Debut of the Year 'Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment' - Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses 'A joy . . . vivid, loving and genuinely funny' - The Sunday Times 'I didn't want it to ever end' - Jennie Godfrey...

This is the legend of Saint Frank, and the great deeds he what did to earn that Sainthood, not born a Saint, in the beginning he was just, Frank, but not long after some stuff that took long, he became Sir. Frank. Sir. Frank may or may not have slayed a Dragon, if he did then this is the Tale of how Sir. Frank became Saint Frank, and if he did not then this is the story of nearly a Saint Frank and a triumphant Dragon.

In a reimagined Byzantine empire, a runaway courtesan and her disgraced suitor are on the hunt for ancient treasure. But in Kathleen Carr Foster’s glittering debut, what they find will be far more troublesome . . . Raised for the most luxurious pleasure house in mountain-ringed Corlivo, Anna...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. De una cárcel a otra… De un desierto a otro. Ataviada al estilo de una novia ejemplar y tradicional, Zoe Martin esperaba a su futuro esposo, el jeque Nadir. La joven huérfana era la vergüenza de su familia adoptiva y, después de soportar...

Forged in blood, this is how legends begin. . . From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr brings the worlds of special operations and CIA paramilitary units into direct collision in the jungles of Vietnam with his explosive new thriller introducing young Navy SEAL Tom Reece. 'Jack...

From the author of Call the Canaries Home comes a young woman’s journey through grief and resilience when the loss of her son forces her to start over—until a face in a crowd changes everything. The disappearance of her fiancé in World War I left Ruth Beddingfield well acquainted with grief...

When everything is at stake, how far would you go to save your neighbor? When German forces invade the Channel Islands and the citizens of Jersey are cut off from the rest of the UK, the islands’ residents bond together to resist the enemy. East London native Helen Bowman was never meant to be...

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women while plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom. "Such a vivid...

A moving historical novel inspired by the German occupation of the Channel Islands during WW2. This is a story of courage, resilience and everyday acts of defiance from ordinary people forced to live in an extraordinary time. The USA Today bestseller! June 1940 While her little sister Rosie is...

The year is 1970. Emma Gable, a blind teenager coming of age in a small industrial town in Western New York, is about as far from the seismic cultural transformations rocking campuses and city streets across America as a person can get. Emma escapes the chaos of her dysfunctional family by dialing up random numbers on the phone in her bedroom, just to see who'll answer.

They call them Crown Vic and Baby Blue… From the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Atmosphere, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a daring story of two friends chasing their biggest score yet – and risking everything that holds them together. As any good...

« Mina de Vanghel naquit dans le pays de la philosophie et de l'imagination. » Ainsi commence l'histoire d'une jeune fille noble de Koenigsberg qui, au XIXe siècle, décide de vivre pleinement « le feu qui l'anime ». Mais si elle réchauffe un cœur, la passion peut aussi bien le consumer lentement. À la vie, à la mort ! Pour sentir cette brûlure même un instant, Mina s'engage jusqu'au crime. Reprenant la question de l'amour, Stendhal (1783-1842) poursuit son étude de la « cristallisation » des sentiments.

One of Amazon's Best Romances of the Month! For fans of "You’ve Got Mail," a young woman juggles pursuing her dream job in radio while helping her family compete with the new halal restaurant across the street, in this sparkling new rom-com by the author of Ayesha at Last. Sales are slow at...