Showing results for "Seven" in Contemporary Fiction

"There's a secret to mastery that you may have never heard, a single little thing that only the very best in the world know how to do. In fact, I believe it is the only thing anyone can do to gain true mastery at anything, and it's an equal opportunity principle. It can be applied to fulfill your potential in business, in sports, in your relationships, as well as your overall life. Do you want to know what it is?"

It was Heather's silver wedding anniversary. But this important milestone did not mark her marriage to Tom, her often-absent airline pilot husband and father of their two teenage children. It was for her first marriage - a wildly romantic, secret affair, when she and Iain - 12 years older than her and the heir to a Scottish baronetcy - had eloped immediately after her final school speech day. She was just 16 at the time.

心から一歩も外に出ないものごとなんて、この世界には存在しない──君たち二人の運命が、ただの成り行きによってここで邂逅したわけではない。君たちは入るべくしてこの世界に足を踏み入れたのだ。

Brad spends his days swinging a hammer and his weekend nights pouring drinks just to keep his nose clean. At only 21, he's already had enough trouble to last him a lifetime. But when he realizes the boy upstairs has new injuries that coincide with loud shouting matches from that apartment, he knows he has to do something to help.

青豆に言わなくてはならないことがいくつもあった。しかし今ここで天吾にできるのは、ただ名前を口にすることだけだ。青豆、と彼は呼びかけた。

本当に心のこもったプレゼントとは？少年の万引きを目撃してしまった図書館の女性司書、厳しい校則に悩まされる天然パーマの少女など、今日も訳ありのお客さんがご来店！

Whitney and Mason's life was perfect. When Beth explained her Seven Year Theory. They scoffed at the idea of the seventh year of marriage being the make it or break it year for most couples. That theory didn't apply to them. They were the perfect couple. Their brand new house overlooked a spacious lake. Their brand new cars were state of the art. Their careers were taking off at an accelerated rate. Their sex life was incredible. Their lives were perfect.

婚活で裏切られた男、円満夫婦の離婚騒動……傷ついた心を癒すのは、おいしい料理と女将の“見える力”!?

They live in different parts of the country, and they each have something in common: pain. Five strangers spend seven hours on an airplane, not knowing how they got there or where they are going. Little do they know, the flight is a way for them to help each other heal. What can they take away from this dramatic, confrontational, humorous, healing, and loving experience?

The only real thing going for Kelinda Milliken is her grant work at the University of Texas in Austin, where she examines specimens day after day with a vaccine for HIV in sight. That is until Kelinda finds herself home in Edgewood, Maine to bury her mother and settle her very wealthy estate. Although Maine is the last place she wants to be, she finds herself trapped in her past while going through her mother's things to find all the secrets she'd kept from Kelinda for years.

I "Hambros Allé 7-9-13" følger vi beboerne i nummer 7, 9 og 13 på Danmarks dyreste villavej - først gennem en økonomisk optur og senere på den nedtur, der rammer hårdt og pludseligt. Romanen tegner et skarpt og underholdende portraet af livet under overfladen i villakvarteret, hvor vi følger tre meget forskellige par. Der stilles skarpt på kaerlighed, kønsroller, skilsmisse og magtkampe. Hambros Allé er tilsyneladende topmålet af civilisation og overskud, men hvordan reagerer beboerne, når alt det trygge og velkendte forsvinder under dem som en lem i gulvet?

"Hambros Allé 7-9-13" handler om sult, drift og overlevelse på Danmarks dyreste villavej. Romanen tegner et skarpt og underholdende billede af livet bag de velpudsede facader. Vi følger beboerne i nummer 7, 9 og 13 på en økonomisk optur og senere på den nedtur, der rammer hårdt og pludseligt. Line kæmper for at redde sit ægteskab med Kristian, der helst vil sidde alene i sin bil i garagen. Ingen ved, hvad han laver i den bil, og måske er han ved at tabe familieformuen gennem tre generationer på gulvet.

翌年5月に開催されるブライダルフェアに向けて、猫番館の人々は少しずつ準備に取りかかり始めていた。ブライダルフェアは、全館を貸し切りにした、一泊二日の宿泊プラン。

京都・祇園にある甘味処「もも吉庵」。女将のもも吉の人情の機微に通じた言葉は、悩みを抱えた人々の心の傷を癒していく――。

ホテル櫻葉に、女神が主催する「バザー」の招待状が届く。以前、ホテルで開かれたイベントに触発されて、女神や女妖怪も自分たちでなにかやってみたくなったのだという。

When the grief from losing her son is too much for Rachel to bear, she mentally breaks down, but then finds something Michael left behind that will help her take her revenge on her baby father.

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame or Notre-Dame de Paris is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The story is set in Paris in 1482 during the reign of Louis XI. The gypsy Esmeralda (born as Agnes) captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, but especially Quasimodo and his guardian Archdeacon Claude Frollo. Frollo is torn between his obsessive lust for Esmeralda and the rules of Notre Dame Cathedral.

寒気に包まれた檻の中で鮫島は意識を取り戻した―。

Strenggeheime Kuchenrezepte und Freundinnen, die eine Vorliebe für pinke Unterwäsche haben, lassen den Tag ungewöhnlich turbulent werden.

"Vom seidenen Faden zum gemeinsamen Strang" nimmt Sie mit auf den spannenden Entwicklungsweg der Unternehmerin Elke Jordan und ihres Führungsteams. Das Bauunternehmen Jordan Seniorenbauten ist aufgrund eines unklaren und größtenteils direktiven Führungsstils, schlechter Organisation und Personalmangels in Not geraten. Mithilfe der Unternehmensbeatmer und ihrem empathischen Beratungsansatz wird aus einer Gruppe zerstrittener Individualisten ein starkes Führungsteam, das kreative Reibung als Basis für effektive Zusammenarbeit und nachhaltiges Wachstum nutzt.