Showing results for "Emma" in Contemporary Fiction

For 13 years Pen and Cara have had a tumultuous relationship crammed with bickering and intimacy, recrimination and desire. When Cara dies in a car crash, Pen is left to cope with a secret widowhood. Along with that burden comes a hidden story of painful and pleasurable memories. With humour and poignancy, Hood follows Pen through the week of Cara’s death; through the paralysis of grief and the ecstasy of nostalgia to a point where mourning and making a new life melt into one.

This “beguiling, addictive read” (People, Book of the Week) and Belletrist Book Club pick about a blue-blooded single mother raising her daughter in rarefied New York City is a “carefully observed family story [that] rings true to life” (The New York Times Book Review). Laura hails from...

Mitch Lavin was raised by his great-aunt when his parents were killed when he was six years old. At 17 years of age, Mitch gets a full scholarship to Widmark College, where he plays center midfielder on the school's soccer team. In his senior year, two beautiful coeds so severely mistreat him that he flees the school to take a job with Mining Consortium International (MCI) as an overseas mining expert.

Nord de la Californie, fin des années 1960. Evie Boyd, quatorze ans, vit seule avec sa mère. Fille unique et mal dans sa peau, elle n'a que Connie, son amie d'enfance. Lorsqu'une dispute les sépare au début de l'été, Evie se tourne vers un groupe de filles dont la liberté, les tenues débraillées et l'atmosphère d'abandon qui les entoure la fascinent. Elle tombe sous la coupe de Suzanne, l'aînée de cette bande, et se laisse entraîner dans le cercle d'une secte et de son leader charismatique, Russell.

Två år efter den livsförändrande pilgrimsvandringen till Santiago de Compostela har Emma lyckats bryta sig ur ekorrhjulet och lagt det mesta av sitt emellanåt destruktiva beteende bakom sig. När vi möter henne i "Sånger i skymningen" har hon just lämnat Fårö efter en sommars arbete på Solgården. Att driva ett pensionat var långt jobbigare än hon väntat sig och hon bestämmer sig för att återigen pilgrimsvandra i Spanien, dels för att få en smula lugn och ro, men även för att få rätsida på tankarna kring Olle, den tjugo år äldre läkaren hon är kär i.

EMMA, eine Katze auf Zeit, hält ihre vorübergehende Gastmutter in Atem. Dennoch, die Gastmutter kann keine Minute davon vergessen und schreibt an Emma diese Liebesbriefe. Vielleicht lässt sich Emma damit ja überreden, nochmal zu Besuch zu kommen... Eine bezaubernde Tiergeschichte erzählt in Form von Liebesbriefen

Two years apart, but he’s never stopped watching. Now, he’ll do whatever it takes to make her remember him. She doesn’t remember me. I know that. Hell, how could she? It’s been two years. But I’ve never stopped thinking about her, never stopped wanting her. I went to prison for her. Took the fall, took the heat, all for her. And now I’m out. Free. But the second I hear she’s going to Daytona Beach for Spring Break, something inside me snaps.