Showing results for "Pure" in Genre Fiction

Disaffected ex-Mossad agent, Uzi, works as a security guard and low-level drug dealer in London. Frustrated with his life and haunted by his past, everything changes for Uzi when he gets the chance to expose the ruthlessness of his former employers by feeding information to WikiLeaks. But once it's out there, Uzi will be a marked man...

Die legendäre Originalversion der Lesung von Dirk Bach – pur, ungekürzt, virtuos. Man schrieb das Jahr 2002, als Dirk Bach ins Studio ging und seine charakteristische Stimme dem berühmten Käpt'n Blaubär, dem Held des ersten Romans von Walter Moers, seine Stimme lieh. Und so wurde der phantastische Kontinent Zamonien samt seiner Bewohner von Bachs leidenschaftlicher Virtuosität zum Leben erweckt:

Cosa succede quando ti abitui all'infelicità? Alessio non ci ha mai pensato, fino al giorno in cui Elena entra nella sua vita e gli mostra che esiste qualcosa di bello e luminoso al di là delle responsabilità sul lavoro e della routine. Ma poi Elena sparisce, così com'è arrivata. E Alessio entra in una strana crisi personale: ha 29 anni, vive a Milano e ha un lavoro che gli piace. Però manca qualcosa: qualcosa di suo e di nessun altro. I sogni di un tempo dove sono finiti?

Anna is a child of special, unknowable qualities. She is a happy child, always willing to smile at the world around her. But she also presents profound challenges. For her mother Jess, still in her early 20s, living alone in North London and hoping to embark on an adventurous career, her arrival will prove life-transforming. Over the course of decades, in ways large and small, Anna will affect the lives and loves of those around her. While Anna herself will remain largely unaltered by the passing years, she will live through a period of dramatic change.

From New York Times bestselling author of The Dollar Series comes the first novel in a dark romance duet. She is a woman divided. Her past, present, and future are as twisted as the lies she's lived for the past eight years. Desperate to get the truth, she must turn to the one man who may also...

Jessica Speight es una joven talentosa que estudia Antropología en el Londres de los años sesenta, pero cualquier previsión sobre su futuro se ve seriamente comprometida cuando, fruto de una relación con un profesor casado, se queda embarazada y debe afrontar, en soledad, las repercusiones...

"On s’apercevra peut-être un jour que c’est là mon meilleur livre", disait-elle. De fait, Colette tenait énormément à cet ouvrage de 1932 qu’elle réécrivit en 1941, à 69 ans, et qui est à placer au même rang que "Sido" et "La Naissance du jour". Pionnière de l’autofiction, elle offre ici une enquête sur les femmes, le plaisir et les hommes, où l’on croise la femme cougar, le don Juan, le gay, la lesbienne, celles qui se travestissent ou revendiquent une identité masculine, et des thèmes comme le fait de mentir sur sa jouissance, la jalousie, le triolisme, etc.

Mary Pershing's quest for the perfect man to complement her elite status as the mayor's beautiful daughter has stalled. Embarrassed that her younger sister will be married before her, she feels lost. Practically hopeless. Her failure to find a worthy husband has dampened her spirit. Almost. Dante Holbrook hits the sleepy town of Cutter's Creek, and Mary's world is immediately brighter. The high society man from Boston was most definitely worth waiting for. Dante is handsome and successful with practically every other trait Mary desires in a man.

The three dead geniuses who invented the atomic bomb - Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi - mysteriously appear in Sante Fe, New Mexico, in 2003, nearly 60 years after they watched history's first mushroom cloud rise over the New Mexico desert. One by one, they are discovered by a shy librarian, who takes them in and devotes herself to them. Faced with the evidence of their nuclear legacy, the scientists embark on a global disarmament campaign that takes them from Hiroshima to Nevada to the United Nations.

Emma è una giovane donna e ha una vita normale - un compagno, Orlando, una mamma, Corradina, e un fratello, Rocco, che sente di dover proteggere da quando il padre è morto in un incidente sul lavoro. Tutto sembra crollare dal giorno in cui scopre di essere affetta da una malattia degenerativa, curabile solo con un trapianto di cellule staminali. Tra i possibili donatori emerge un profilo con una compatibilità elevatissima, ma sembra essere sparito nel nulla. Risultano solo un nome, un cognome e un vecchio indirizzo.

Lui ha quasi cinquant'anni ed è uno storico, in fuga perenne dal presente e da ogni obbligo; lei ha sedici anni, legge moltissimi libri e vuole sapere come funziona il mondo. Viaggiano insieme in Francia verso la Camargue, parlando di tutto ciò che passa loro per la mente: i sentimenti che legano un uomo a una donna, la famiglia tradizionale e quella frantumata, i problemi della specie umana, i loro ricordi personali, le loro similitudini e le loro distanze. Sviscerando la realtà, analizzandola, sezionandola e traendone regole generali, interrogandosi a vicenda.

The land of Condel is blessed, and Gaernod is not. Eofyn is king, and Spyre most certainly isn’t. When Spyre’s king threatens Eofyn’s kingdom and the source of its people’s power, Spyre sets out on a journey to save the Blessed Kingdom, not because he wants to, but because the other creatures of Curnen have threatened to kill him if he doesn't. It’s a long road ahead to save a kingdom he’s sure will hate him, and he’ll have to brave the many realms of Curnen to reach Condel and, regrettably, beyond to do it. The Fyre is going out, and the crystals are fading.

Although small town English teacher, Leah Morgan, is committed to making a difference for her students both in and out of the classroom, she is playing charades with her life. She looks like a Christian, acts like a Christian, and talks like a Christian, but she is on the run from her Savior. After her fiancé was killed in a car wreck on their wedding day, Leah inadvertently buried her relationship with God along with her future.

A harrowing, intense, powerful new novel that reads like a classic, from one of the great writers of his generation. Nineteen battles his way into the pros, becomes the quarterback, becomes the myth. Marries the owner’s daughter, touches greatness few will ever dream of, retires into what he...

A man takes a stranger into his house only to unleash a savage lesson from the past. A psychological crime novel about the past, the nature of justice, family secrets, the nature of forgiveness, revenge, identity, hunting, and predation.

In 11 captivating tales, Pure Hollywood & Other Stories brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. From an alcoholic widowed actress living in desert seclusion, to a young mother whose rejection of her child has terrible consequences, a newlywed couple who ignore the violent warnings of a painter burned by love, to an eerie portrait of erotic obsession, each story in Pure Hollywood is an imagistic snapshot of what it means to live and learn, love and hurt.

"Je trouvai aimables la couleur sourde et rouge des lumières voilées, la blanche flamme en amande des lampes à opium, l'une toute proche de moi, les deux autres perdues comme des follets, au loin, dans une sorte d'alcôve ménagée sous la galerie à balustres. Une jeune tête se pencha au-dessus de cette balustrade, reçut le rayon rouge des lanternes suspendues, une manche blanche flotta et disparut avant que je pusse deviner si la tête, les cheveux dorés collés comme des cheveux de noyée, le bras vêtu de soie blanche appartenaient à une femme ou à un homme."
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Ida has been taken away from her lovely childhood home, The Cottage on Ivy Lane, and forced to live with her unloving step sister. The only joy she has is going to school and church and believing that the boy next door will some day help her to return to the Cottage on Ivy Lane.

Lia Wilder, a barista with a flair for inventing specialty coffee, always enjoys the annual Battle of the Flowers parade held each summer in Headley Cross. All the local businesses get involved in the competition and build a float made entirely of flowers and colored lights. Lia has a not-so-secret crush on the local Christian DJ, Jordan Tanner, so when first prize of the Miss Battle title is a date with Jordan, Lia is railroaded into entering the contest.

As a repossession specialist, Gavin Sykes has the means to legally and morally do what he does best - take things that aren't his. He thrives on repossessing high-end merchandise, hoping to atone for his shadowy past. But even with all his experience, he never could have anticipated the future that awaits him. When Sabrina Grady is hired to expedite the repossession process, she finally has the means to fulfill a promise she made long ago.