Titres dans Littérature et fiction

As the former mayor of Smoky Vale, I hinged my campaign on getting rid of all bikers. They are everything that's wrong with our town. Everywhere they go they breed crudeness, chaos, and carnage. Then my son fell in love with not one, but two of them. Now I have no choice but to interact with the very people I tried to take down. My disapproval of their lifestyle wavers when a spawn of Goliath backs me into a wall, kisses me senselessly, and makes it clear in the most vulgar way possible what he wants to do to me.

Ellie Fisher loves most things about being a nurse in the emergency department . . . just not working with Regina Novak, an icy attending physician who acts as if she's God's gift to medicine. The dislike is completely mutual. Regina thinks Ellie is a starry-eyed romantic with a sentimental attitude that has no place at work. When Regina gets talked into volunteering at a singles auction, Ellie accidentally bids on her—and ends up winning. Oops! Since the money raised is for a good cause, they reluctantly decide to go through with the dates.

James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel with a new introduction. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while...

Marianne est une jeune femme conventionnelle, mariée, psychanalyste. Sa vie est gentiment réglée entre son mari, ses enfants, son travail et son amant. Rien ne semble pouvoir l'atteindre jusqu'à ce que Soraya, une jeune femme pulpeuse, sensuelle et exubérante franchisse le pas de son cabinet après avoir épuisé plusieurs psychanalystes. Dès leur première séance, Soraya se laisse aller à parler de ses aventures sexuelles les plus débridées en termes crus et outranciers.

Pixies are supposed to be petite, beautifully lithe creatures with gossamer wings. Sporting luscious, ombre pink hair and fluttering pink wings, Phil meets two out of three of those criteria. At over six feet tall, no one would dare call Phil petite. As a home-and-hearth pixie, Phil yearns to find a home and family he can bond to. When no one's willing to hire a pixie of his stature, Phil is forced to find work elsewhere. Turns out, pixies make terrible bouncers.

This is Alabaster Penitentiary... Where they send you when the world thinks you're dead. And trust me, you'll wish you were. We're the stain on society. The freaks, the creeps, your favorite Netflix documentaries come to life. They lock us up and throw away the key, because we deserve it. But not me. I'm just a lowly bank robber. I don't belong here, surrounded by psychopaths and killers with no remorse... At least, I don't think I do.

"Narrator Daniel Henning brings his signature versatility, emotional connection, and perfect comedic timing to the latest in the acclaimed Cerulean Chronicles series."—AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner) "Daniel Henning’s articulate, earnest narration winningly underscores Somewhere Beyond...

It's official: my step bro is the biggest himbo ever to himbo. He's a massive blond beefcake with a soft heart and an over-eager smile. The mere sight of him incites a shaking hot rage in me. He's everywhere. He's around me all the time. So sweet and gentle that it makes me feel wild. I see him and smell him everywhere. When I can't see him or smell him, I hear him. The wall between our bedrooms is paper thin. I can't help it—I hear what he does in his room when he thinks he's alone. I hear everything.

Hannah Dalton had a lot of expectations in her life. Growing up watching her mother struggle for everything they had, she resolved to make sure she did everything she could to make those hardships worthwhile. She would pursue the career she dreamed of, she would marry someone trustworthy and kind, and she would try to give her own daughter everything her mother gave her, only without the struggle. She just never anticipated the order in which it could all happen or the hardships that would inevitably come to pass. But, somehow, maybe it can all work out better than expected.

Up In Flames is an audiobook of poems written with a matchstick heartbeat and a mouth full of truth. This collection lives in the aftermath of broken love, political rot, spiritual disillusionment, motherhood under pressure, and the quiet exhaustion of surviving in a world that keeps asking you to be smaller, softer, quieter. Each poem is a spark struck against silence, a refusal to swallow rage just to keep the peace.

Ten years ago, at their senior year party- a night that was supposed to be one of the best of their lives- something horrible happened. Five friends promised to keep a secret no matter what, and to cut ties immediately- never to talk again.

Evan never imagined anyone could notice him—let alone Dalton, the son of a wealthy hotel chain owner. While the two grew up together, they lived in different worlds. Evan, the son of a maid, did his homework in the supply room while Dalton lived a life of leisure. When their paths cross one fateful day, they find themselves drawn to each other as they navigate loss and inevitable change.

In 1896 London, Elias Bell measures life by gears and silence —until Henry Ashford tumbles into his shop with a broken pocket watch and a ready smile. Their chance meetings, lavender sprigs, and shared quiet moments kindle something neither expected: a tender, patient love that slowly rewrites the rules Elias kept so tightly wound. As fog thins, they choose one another —not to fix the past, but to begin a life whose pace they will set together, one careful, deliberate day at a time.

Als Timothy seinen einst besten Freund nach Jahren aufsucht, ist von Vertrautheit kaum etwas geblieben. Warren ist nicht länger der Junge von früher, sondern der unnahbare Duke of Evermoore. Ohne ein Wort hat Warren damals den Kontakt abgebrochen – und nun auch noch seine Verlobung mit Timothys Zwillingsschwester gelöst, wodurch ihr Ruf in der Gesellschaft auf dem Spiel steht. Für Timothy gibt es nur eine Antwort: ein Duell. Doch aus einem werden viele. Mit jeder Begegnung geraten nicht nur Stolz und Pflicht ins Wanken, sondern auch Gefühle, die nie verschwunden sind.

See Critical Role’s Mighty Nein through the eyes of nine of their friends and foes in this new anthology, with a foreword by Taliesin Jaffe. In these nine stories, the legend of the mighty adventuring party grows with tales from some of the most memorable characters who fought with – and...

Haar hele leven heeft Lara al het gevoel dat ze niet goed genoeg is. Ze staat in de schaduw van haar 'perfecte' broer, terwijl haar ouders zo ongeveer alles bekritiseren wat zij doet. Het leven op de familieboerderij heeft ze daarom zo snel mogelijk achter zich gelaten. Maar dan komt het moment dat haar ouders iemand zoeken om de melkveehouderij over te nemen. Hoewel ze absoluut geen voorkeur hebben voor Lara, voelt dit tegen beter weten in voor haar als dé kans om aan haar ouders te laten zien wat ze in zich heeft.

With no job, no apartment, and no money in the bank, unemployed chef Harley Plotkin didn't think her life could get any worse. Until she accidentally destroyed a high fashion photoshoot and got one of her best friends fired. Now she has exactly one chance to repay her debt and get her friend his job back. All Harley has to do is survive ten weeks working for Santana Torres, legendary fashion designer, control freak, and all-around boss from hell. Santana has the warmth of a glacier, and Harley will be at her beck and call, day and night, from Manhattan ateliers to the runways of Paris.

On a windswept island crowned by an old lighthouse, Elias arrives hoping to outrun heartbreak and finds himself seen too clearly by Rowan, the quiet artist who lives at the cliff's edge. As desire, vulnerability, and art begin to intertwine, their romance becomes a tender coming-of-age story about learning to be loved, to trust passion, and to recognize the beauty and talent that have been there all along.

Holden I hated high school. Mostly because of a mistake I made which led to the worst few months of my life. I breathed a sigh of relief when my bully left town, but I’d be lying if I said I haven’t thought about him for the last twenty years. I’m afraid knowing he’s coming back and the taunts might come with him, but what scares me far more is that my feelings might not have changed. Reece I hate small towns. As soon as I graduated high school I left mine forever, but when the invitation to the reunion comes I know it's my chance to right my wrongs. Will Holden want to see me?

A sly, thrilling novel of a murder that rocks Manhattan’s Black elite at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, making them question who they are, what they want, and where the bodies are buried—from the award-winning author of Conjure Women What I won’t tell 'em is this—...