Showing results for "Lou" in Literature & Fiction

On a warm spring evening, guests gather in a perfectly manicured garden to celebrate Maggie and Len’s twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Maggie leans against the apple tree, watching her fun-loving husband and darling children as her heart swells with pride. As the joyful party atmosphere disappears into the night, close by, the lifeless body of a young woman is pulled from a river. Slipping upstairs to find the special gift for her adoring husband, Maggie stumbles across something else hidden amongst the dusty boxes of family keepsakes.

In the Bible, this character has no name, but we know who she is. In the last chapter of Romans, the Apostle Paul sends her a greeting because he loves her like his own mother. Simon, her husband, is the last person who performs an act of kindness for Christ before the crucifixion. Her two sons, Alexander and Rufus, appear to be leaders in the early church. It seems she spends her later years in Antioch, home of the first people called Christians.

Call him man-hunter, tracker, or bounty hunter. As long as the cash was cold and the trail was hot, Lou Prophet would run his quarry into the ground before giving up the chase. He loved his work - it kept him in wine and women, and was never, ever dull. And his newest job sounds particularly attractive....Her name is Lola Diamond. She’s a showgirl, a chanteuse, and a prime witness in a murder trial that’s going on without her. Prophet is supposed to find her and "escort" her to the courthouse, whether she likes it or not.

Sie lebten für die Kunst, sie liebten mit ganzer Kraft. In diesem mitreißenden Sammelband werden die faszinierenden Geschichten einiger außergewöhnlicher Frauen zum Leben erweckt. Treffen Sie die unerschrockene Lou Andreas-Salomé, eine Rebellin, die für ihre Freiheit und ihre Liebe kämpft. Reisen Sie weiter nach Lissabon und in die USA und erleben Sie das schillernde Leben von Peggy Guggenheim, einer Muse und Kunstliebhaberin, deren Leidenschaft die Avantgarde-Bewegung ihrer Zeit prägt.

"Glaubt mir, die Welt wird euch nichts schenken. Wenn ihr ein Leben wollt, so stehlt es." Philosophin, Schriftstellerin, Rebellin: Lou Andreas-Salomé ist eine der klügsten und zugleich freiesten Frauen ihrer Zeit, die als Liebende stets ihr Herz für sich behält - bis sie dem jungen Rilke begegnet und mit ihm das "totale Ineinanderleben" erlebt, ihre erste Beziehung, in der sich intellektuelle, emotionale und körperliche Liebe vereinen. Doch Rilke psychische Verfassung wird immer labiler, und er engt sie zunehmend ein - muss Lou sich von der Liebe abwenden, um frei zu bleiben?

Lou est une fille ordinaire qui mène une vie monotone à souhait. Quand elle se retrouve au chômage, dans ce trou paumé de l'Angleterre dont elle n'est jamais sortie, Lou accepte un contrat de six mois pour tenir compagnie à un handicapé. Malgré l'accueil glacial qu'il lui réserve, Lou va découvrir en lui un jeune homme exceptionnel, brillant dans les affaires, accro aux sensations fortes et voyageur invétéré. Mais depuis l'accident qui l'a rendu tétraplégique, Will veut mettre fin à ses jours. Lou n'a que quelques mois pour le faire changer d'avis.

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She rode over us, not caring who was hurt. When the old playboy died, the truth came out about who was the strongest and smartest person in Horse Creek.

Lou Sanders is an internationally acclaimed comedian, regularly touring worldwide, as well as appearing on comedy shows. We’ll be chatting with Lou Sanders about her book, What’s That Lady Doing? and finding out about why she gave up alcohol, how she got into stand-up, and the mistake she still wishes she hadn’t made. Plus, has Keanu Reeves read Lou’s book yet?

Kriminalkommissar Alfred König bekommt es im Hungerwinter 1946/47 mit einer Frauenleiche im Schnee zu tun. Die junge Fotografin Lou Faber hat die Tote in den Ruinen gefunden und trägt mit ihren Fotos unfreiwillig zur Ermittlung bei. Während Heiligabend näherrückt, lassen Lou die gefalteten Hände der Toten nicht los. Mit ihrer Intuition hilft sie König und ahnt bald, dass hinter seinem Schweigen ein Geheimnis steckt, das sie verbindet. Der Fund weiterer Leichen setzt die Ermittler unter Zeitdruck und weist in eine neue Richtung, zurück in die finstere Vergangenheit.

Gwen Kingsman is the best young project manager in the business, but a spectacular professional failure has left her confidence shattered. A job offer in the high desert town of St. George, Utah, for a mysterious biotech firm named Interfusion working with the feds and the state, promises a fresh start—and a massive paycheck. The project: fast-track a $300 million state-of-the-art biomedical research facility. But as Gwen navigates the world of complex construction, her instincts tell her something is dangerously wrong.

Jim Thompson received a phone call from a dead man - a man he watched die one drunken, adulterous night while out of town on business. Jim's wife, Deirdre, doesn't know his secret. Neither does Detective Frank Gibbons, who is hot on the case of the year-old crime. In this supernatural thriller, Jim's past surfaces through his guilt and lies. As Detective Gibbons closes in on the truth, Jim and Deirdre must run from a malevolent stalker in this terrifying horror tale of deception and murder.

In Seattle, they're calling him The Pied Piper - someone who comes in the night and takes children away. To newly promoted police lieutenant Lou Boldt and police psychologist Daphne Matthews, it's clear this isn't about a single lunatic or random kidnappings: these crimes are well orchestrated, well executed, and, most chilling of all, occurring in cities across the country.

Daniel and Elizabeth Hadley, while mourning unexpected deaths, discover a fugitive family hiding on their property. They provide the runaways with food, medical help, and temporary shelter. Their act of compassion leads to unexpected challenges because this encounter changes their understanding of the inhumanity of slavery. The Hadleys must choose between clinging to the safety of past attitudes or embracing a new future full of unknown possibilities. Should they help the Davis family escape to Kansas Territory out of the easy reach of bounty hunters?

CLICK! is a series of video games rigged in life by our game-master, based not on truth but on the lie that our make-believe roles are only make-believe. Can we hack our game-master till he self-destructs, then starting from childhood have our counter-game cure our earlier mistakes, or will the TNT of repeated adolescence blow up the therpaist?

Jo vient de perdre l'amour de sa vie, son souffle, son rire et son appétit : Lou. Lors de ses funérailles, entouré de ses enfants, Cyrian et Sarah, avec qui il entretient des rapports distendus, le notaire lit le testament. Son « piroche » aura deux mois pour renouer avec Cyrian et Sarah, et surtout, les rendre heureux.

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond and Lying in Wait, a biting and masterful “dark jewel of a novel” (A.J. Finn, #1New York Times bestselling author) that explores the many ways families can wreak emotional havoc across generations—for fans of HBO’s...

In a Kingdom where descendants of the Nasinreth tribe are exiled or put to death, three sisters survive secretly in plain sight until the day they are forced between choosing guilt in freedom, or fight and be branded as traitors to the crown. Sirien, Amalie and Davina, each born with “ Blessed Blood”, hold a gift of the Nasinreth: Visionary, healer, wisdom beyond reason, and defender. Forced to adapt and survive, they suppress and hide their gifts from the world, and even one another.

Sechs Monate hatten Louisa Clark und Will Traynor zusammen. Ein ganzes halbes Jahr. Und diese sechs Monate haben beide verändert. Lou ist nicht mehr das Mädchen aus der Kleinstadt, das Angst vor seinen eigenen Träumen hat. Aber sie führt auch nicht das unerschrockene Leben, das Will sich für sie gewünscht hat. Denn wie lebt man weiter, wenn man den Menschen verloren hat, den man am meisten liebt? Eine Welt ohne Will, das ist für Lou immer noch schwer zu ertragen.

Millie doesn't color outside the lines. But when her badge-boasting ex-boyfriend hires her bestie to dogsit the hound that used to be theirs, law and order goes out the window. Day one and there's a pricey painting, the new girlfriend, and Millie's spotless criminal record on the line.