Showing results for "Angie" in Genre Fiction

She expects to get the job done and return to Boston without complication. As Christmas approaches, Lacey is surrounded by nostalgia, as she tries to balance work and her personal life. Further adding to her growing list of distractions is her college boyfriend, Mason Peters. Will sparks fly when she runs into the man she left behind? When faced with the choice to stay or go, which path will she choose this time?

Sierra Blake has returned home to Mill Hollows, Virginia. She's lost her job as a hotel marketing executive. She knew getting romantically involved with the son of the franchise owner was a bad idea. Turning down his marriage proposal left Sierra updating her resume and needing a change of scenery. Returning to the small football-loving town located in view of the Blue Ridge Parkway is definitely a change of scenery from the sultry heat and water sport enthusiast city of Tampa.

Olivia Shields is back in Carlisle Bay, Connecticut, after having traveled the world as a professional ballet dancer. Dancing was her life. Chasing performance dreams is all she's ever known or planned for. One summer she spent in Carlisle Bay before heading to Juilliard left her both heartbroken and more focused on her career than ever. A back injury has forced some changes. She'll take on a new role as the manager of her aunt's coastal boutique. After all, she's completely over the boy who broke her heart forever ago.

Elise Jacobs is ready for a change. A new beginning. Recently divorced, she relocates to her hometown of Landover, Maine to operate a bed and breakfast she inherited from her grandmother. After growing up with the fondest memories of her childhood being spent there, she relishes the chance for a fresh start and an opportunity to revive the inn. As summer gives way to Autumn, the inn is returning to its grandeur. A handsome guest sets out to challenge Elise at every turn. She knows the wealthy narcissistic type...or does she?

Settle in with your favorite cup of cocoa and a warm blanket for this swoony holiday romance that includes a peppermint festival and characters that are sure to warm your heart this Christmas. Deals require negotiations, but for Cole Stevens, this could be the riskiest deal of his lifetime. Holland Jenkins has been disappointed so often that she questions her purpose and her talent as an artist. The cabins she helps lease for her family is the one constant in her life.

This is the final part of the memoirs of Detective Inspector Peter Johns. Angie comes to Britain from Jamaica, intent on finding help for her brother, who has cerebral palsy. A murder at the nurses' home where she lives brings her into contact with Peter, who comes in to investigate. Peter is clear that the color of a person’s skin is of no significance, but others do not agree - as Peter and Angie find out to their cost.

Tis the season...for ghosts. Verity Long has come to terms with the fact that she can see spirits, and talk to them, and...she's actually making cookies for one of them. But she's drawing the line at any more ghost hunting or mystery solving. Until a dear friend needs help locating a missing antique at the party of the year. Not one to leave a friend in need, Verity straps on her sparkly heels and sneaks in to see what she can find - only to uncover a startling secret that will change everything.

Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn’t matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year’s Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in Washington Heights.

When Alison Hayes walks into her storm-darkened trailer the afternoon of her 16th birthday, she has no idea that it will be the beginning of a year like no other. Her mother has lost her job again, the most stable man they've ever had in their lives is looking for the nearest exit, and her best friend is dating the prom queen. She can't remember the last time anything good had happened to her. If the rails still passed through town, she would definitely be on the wrong side, always looking across to everyone else.

As I’ve gotten older, I recognize that life is full of terrible irony. Lying undetected on the fringes of our day-to-day schedules, it’s everywhere - like with the love that blindsided me and destroyed my entire family. I had spent long, hard years waiting and longing for the time to come when I would be allowed to leave home, to finally escape my tyrannical crime boss mother. Then Angie filled my heart with her love, and I hated it each time that I had to leave.

Ana Canción, de quince años, nunca soñó con mudarse a Estados Unidos, como lo hicieron las niñas con las que creció en el campo dominicano. Pero cuando Juan Ruiz propone y promete llevarla a la ciudad de Nueva York, ella tiene que decir que sí. No importa que tenga el doble de su edad, que no haya amor entre ellos. Su matrimonio es una oportunidad para que toda su familia unida pueda eventualmente emigrar.

Stacy Linde is a wife and mother living in a friendly neighborhood in Northern Florida. She has a wonderful life. When her mother dies, Stacy’s life is disrupted and spirals swiftly into chaos when she uncovers dark secrets about her origins. Who are you when everything you thought you knew was a lie? When Stacy’s history crashes into her present, she must reconcile with the secrets her mother kept and understand why she kept them...or risk losing everything, including her life.

Alison Hayes is set to fly or flee. When she follows her friend, Cici, to California she hopes it will be the beginning of a new, perfect life. She has spent her days trying to do something better, trying not to repeat the mistakes made by her alcoholic and broken mother. Yet, she is haunted by the only "right thing" she has ever done being the one thing she couldn't keep.

Alison Hayes is antsy - that’s what her mother would have said. The ghosts from her past are walking, and something is coming. For 10 years, she has stayed on the fringe of society, living a quiet, nearly invisible life, working nights as a nurse at the hospital and sleeping days. When her volunteer work at the Crisis Clinic sets her on a collision course with a pregnant teen, Alison finds herself plunging without a parachute. She must reconcile her own history as her obsession with the girl mounts.

Katherine Browne dreamed of being a doctor, but twenty years and two children later, Kat is a stay-at-home-mom, complete with a handsome husband and the perfect house. Despite her efforts to be satisfied with all she has, Kat finds herself resentful, and dreaming of the life she could have had. She longs for a little excitement, for something to spice up her long, lonely days.

Warten auf Angie: Viele Leute in der Szene reden von Adolf Hitler. Dabei haben sie gar keine Ahnung von ihm. Zum Beispiel weiß kaum jemand von denen, wann Hitlers Freundin Eva Braun geboren wurde. Ich schätze, sie müsste jetzt 75 oder 80 Jahre alt sein. Genau weiß ich es selbst nicht. Für mich spielt das auch keine große Rolle. Ich bin ein Gabba, Technoszene. "Gabba" steht für "freundschaftlich neutral", und das bin ich eigentlich auch.

Sonia und Bea sind beste Freundinnen. Sie sind zusammen in einer Kleinstadt aufgewachsen und waren immer füreinander da. Doch je älter sie geworden sind, desto seltener haben sie sich gesehen. Schließlich fassen sie einen Entschluss: Ein gemeinsamer Sommerurlaub auf einer Baleareninsel soll ihre alte Freundschaft neu beleben. Aber die Reise entwickelt sich ganz anders als erwartet. Sonia entdeckt, wie sehr sie sich nach Freiheit und Abstand sehnt, nicht nur von ihrem Alltag zu Hause, sondern auch von Bea.

Viele Leute in der Szene reden von Adolf Hitler. Dabei haben sie gar keine Ahnung von ihm. Zum Beispiel weiß kaum jemand von denen, wann Hitlers Freundin Eva Braun geboren wurde. Ich schätze, sie müsste jetzt 75 oder 80 Jahre alt sein. Genau weiß ich es selbst nicht. Für mich spielt das auch keine große Rolle. Ich bin ein Gabba, Technoszene. "Gabba" steht für "freundschaftlich neutral", und das bin ich eigentlich auch.

Ich konnte heute an keinem einzigen Laden vorbeigehen, ohne im Schaufenster nach meinem Spiegelbild Ausschau zu halten. Normalerweise will ich nicht eitel wirken, aber heute habe ich mich vor den Glasscheiben gedreht wie vor richtigen Siegeln. Ich habe auf offener Straße die Arme in die Hüften gestemmt und stolz den Kopf in den Nacken geworfen.