Résultats de "Chloé" dans Toutes les catégories

Die Gegner der Vampire gewinnen in Chicago immer mehr an Einfluss. Nun droht auch noch der Staat ein vampirfeindliches Gesetz zu erlassen. Als ein merkwürdiges magisches Phänomen die Einwohner Chicagos in Unruhe versetzt, fürchtet die Vampirin Merit, dass eine Panik ausbrechen könnte. Sie muss alle Hebel in Bewegung setzen, um herauszufinden, wer hinter der magischen Attacke steckt.

Gestaltwandler aus den gesamten Vereinigten Staaten finden sich zu einem Treffen in Chicago zusammen. Die Vampirin Merit erhält von Ethan Sullivan, dem Oberhaupt von Haus Cadogan, den Auftrag, den Anführer der Gestaltwandler als Leibwächterin zu begleiten. Dabei soll sie den Vampiren gleichzeitig als Spionin dienen. Ein gefährliches Unterfangen, denn bald findet sich Merit im Kreuzfeuer eines Konfliktes zwischen Gestaltwandlern und Vampiren wieder...

Nach ihrer Verwandlung in eine Vampirin zieht Merit in das Haus Cadogan ein. Im Auftrag ihres neuen "Meisters", dem Vampir Ethan Sullivan...

Die Studentin Merit wird nachts auf dem Campus von einem Vampir angefallen und schwer verletzt. Kurz darauf taucht ein zweiter Vampir auf...

Überall in Chicago kommt es zu Protesten gegen die Vampire. Eine mit Molotow-Cocktails bewaffnete Splittergruppe richtet große Verwüstungen an. Die Vampirin Merit und ihre Verbündeten müssen herausfinden, wer hinter den Angriffen steht, um die endgültige Zerstörung der Stadt zu verhindern.

The New Age Camp camp depicts the clumsy awkwardness and fragile self-discovery that being a teenager is all about. When Chloe, a young woman from New York State, takes a summer job working at camp for teens in Upstate New York, she has no idea what she's in for. And maybe that's a good thing. With a humor that is by turns self-deprecating and candidly critical of the world around her, Chloe describes a summer of Reiki healing, menstrual moon cycle charts, trance dances, junk food, borrowed clothes, teen girl angst, and ultimately emotional growth.

After a wild night out in Las Vegas with the boys, Ben can only remember one thing from his evening of drunken debauchery...dark, scorching eyes... Those eyes belong to a sexy bartender and former stripper named Mason, who shows up on Ben's doorstep a week later with a suitcase and a marriage certificate in hand. Their matrimony, a night of wild and dirty sex, is anything but holy...especially when Ben's fiancé finds out..

Sam, an aspiring mystery writer with more than a few OCD tendencies, purchases a little home in the country, hoping to find his creative genius in the peaceful solitude. Peace and quiet isn't in the cards when one cool summer evening, a mysterious and gorgeous stranger named Will shows up on his doorstep with a delicious chocolate cake and claiming ownership of the house. Instant attraction sparks between the two, but there's one big roadblock in the way of a blossoming romance; the deed to the house.

Autism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation. Understanding Autism, a social history of the expanding diagnostic category of this contested illness, takes a close look at the role of emotion - specifically, of parental love - in the intense and passionate work of biomedical communities investigating autism.

When a mysterious stranger gives failed actress Greta May his phone number, she dreams of adventure and plucks up the courage to call him. But the moment she enters his flat he, rips off her panties and spanks her bottom. At first shocked and humiliated, Greta grows bewildered as the pain turns to an overpowering feeling of pleasure. After being tied to the bed for a thrashing, she agrees with rising excitement to play a game where she will win a prize if she does everything Richard demands.

After being captured by people smugglers, on the perilous journey by boat along the African coast, the girl they call Chengi discovers from the sheik a taste for the whip and the perverse joys of discipline. As she sheds her rights, as well as her clothes, so she sheds her preconceptions. At the sheik's fort on the edge of the Sahara, she revels in being an object of desire and feels accepted in the harem when the women shave her body and tattoo her in the clan's blue spider.

From Chloe Hooper, author of the phenomenal The Tall Man, comes a brilliant novel about sex and money. The Engagement is a taut psychological thriller in which the deft blurring of reality and dark fantasy rivals that of Luis Bunuel's classic Belle de Jour. Liese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: to stay with Alexander Colquhoun, the well-mannered heir of a pastoral dynasty, at his property in western Victoria. Liese, an English architect in flight from the financial crisis, now works at her uncle's real-estate business in Melbourne.

From the author of the Chicagoland Vampires novels, a new series about a boarding school filled with something worse than homework. Lily's parents have sent her to a fancy boarding school in Chicago filled with the ultra-rich. If that wasn't bad enough, she's hearing and seeing bizarre things on St. Sophie's creepy campus. Her roommate, Scout, keeps her sane, but keeps disappearing at night. When one day Lily finds Scout running from real-life monsters, she learns the hard way that Scout is involved in a splinter group of rebel teens.They protect Chicago from demons, vamps, and dark magic users....

Lily Parker is new to St. Sophia's School for Girls, but she's already learned that magic can be your best friend - or your worst enemy. That's why Lily has to learn how to control her newly discovered paranormal abilities while fighting the good fight with her best friend Scout as they take on Chicago's nastiest nightlife - including the tainted magic users known as Reapers....

Protecting Chicago from the dark side of life can be an exhausting job, especially when you're in high school. So when the girls of St. Sophia's start gearing up for Sneak, their fall formal, Lily decides to take a break from fighting to get ready for the event. But when a Reaper unexpectedly crashes the party prep and Lily's firespell fails, she realizes that she has a much bigger problem than a full social calendar....

Legs Get Led Astray is a provocative collection of essays that vividly rockets the listener through one young woman's life. Chloe Caldwell beautifully and bluntly escorts you through her childhood dreams, her first loves, her most unguarded sexual exploits, bookstore crushes, babysitting jobs, heartbroken wanderlust, and the suicide of a lost lover. Caldwell's writing remarkably explores the genre of personal non-fiction and has been featured in numerous publications.

If you’ve ever wanted to add a little savoir faire to your badinage, or chutzpah to your spiel, then fear not, help is at hand. A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi is an entertaining jaunt through the legions of words, from aficionado to zeitgeist, that we English-speakers have pilfered from across the globe. It includes fascinating derivations and witty examples, as well as all the stories of just how and why we absorbed such exotic imports.

Forse non sarebbe successo niente se non fossero stati nel cuore dell'estate, con un mese e mezzo di noia umida alle spalle e un altro mese e mezzo davanti. In casa non c'è aria condizionata e quest'anno - l'estate del 1969 - sembra che stia succedendo qualcosa a tutti tranne che a loro, i fratelli Gold. Mentre gli altri si sballano a Woodstock, New York non offre loro altro che un incontro con una veggente che, si dice nel quartiere, sarebbe in grado di predire la data di morte. I quattro ragazzi ci vanno, per gioco, per vestirsi di paura, per fare la rivoluzione a modo loro.

Wenn du wüsstest, an welchem Tag du stirbst: Wie würdest du leben? New York 1969: die Geschwister Simon, Klara, Daniel und Varya legen ihr Taschengeld zusammen und suchen eine Wahrsagerin auf. Die kann angeblich den Tag des Todes vorhersagen. Aufgebracht, ungläubig, schulterzuckend reagieren die Kinder auf die Prophezeiung - und doch wird das Wissen ihr Leben beeinflussen. Während Simon sein Glück im liberalen San Francisco der 80er Jahre findet und Klara sich ihrer Leidenschaft Magie verschreibt, suchen Daniel als Arzt und Varya als Wissenschaftlerin sicheren Boden. Und die Antwort auf die Frage, ob die Wahrsagerin recht behalten würde.

Wenn du wüsstest, an welchem Tag du stirbst: Wie würdest du leben? New York 1969: Die Geschwister Simon, Klara, Daniel und Varya legen ihr Taschengeld zusammen und suchen eine Wahrsagerin auf. Die kann angeblich den Tag des Todes vorhersagen. Aufgebracht, ungläubig, schulterzuckend reagieren die Kinder auf die Prophezeiung - und doch wird das Wissen ihr Leben beeinflussen. Während Simon sein Glück im liberalen San Francisco der 80er Jahre findet und Klara sich ihrer Leidenschaft Magie verschreibt, suchen Daniel als Arzt und Varya als Wissenschaftlerin sicheren Boden.