Résultats pour "Julie Smith" dans Littérature et fiction

Phoebe West has been head-over-heels in love with her brother's best friend for as long as she can remember. Not that he's bothered to notice. Despite several mortifying attempts at seduction and a decade's worth of unrequited pining, nothing Phoebe does seems to make any impact on the man she's obsessed over since her bra-stuffing days. She knows that it's time to let him go, though just the thought is nearly enough to shatter her.

Beneath the glitter of Mardi Gras lies the sleaze of Bourbon Street; under the celestial sounds of JazzFest, the nightmare screams of a city once at war within its neighborhoods, but after Hurricane Katrina, seemingly at war with nature and the rest of the country as well. New Orleans is a third world country in itself, a Latin, African, European (and often amoral) culture trapped in a Puritan nation.

Gavin Guile, once the most powerful man the world had ever seen, has been laid low. He's lost his magic, and now he is on a suicide mission. Failure will condemn the woman he loves. Success will condemn his entire empire. As the White King springs his great traps and the Chromeria itself is threatened by treason and siege, Kip Guile must gather his forces, rally his allies, and scramble to return for one impossible final stand.

When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.

When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.

This collection includes ten plays by Arthur Miller. In The Crucible, Stacy Keach and Richard Dreyfuss lead an all-star cast in Miller’s searing play about witchcraft that famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip. Death of a Salesman follows Willy Loman, the iconic traveling salesman whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with greatness. In Incident at Vichy, in Nazi-occupied France, nine men are detained under a shadowy pretext and face a terrifying fate.

Italian shoes, a house in the hills, a gift for stretching the truth, and a petulant assistant to pick the scallions out of his Szechuan noodles - Hollywood producer Davis Mizlansky has it all. But he's about to lose it to the IRS unless he can pull off one more deal. A stellar cast performs this hilarious send-up of modern-day Hollywood.

While the Tribunal scours the land, determined to exterminate all wizards in Caithe, Athaya's camp swells with refugees, and the only person who can keep them from starving is the sage of far-off Sare.

Safely ensconced with a master magician who is teaching her wizardry, Princess Athaya realizes she must return to Caithe, from which she has recently escaped, to teach its citizens how to control the evil magic that is controlling them.

This book helps listeners develop practices that will result in deep, formative, and faithful reading so they can contribute to the flourishing of their communities and cultivate their own spiritual and intellectual depth. The authors present reading as a remedy for three prevalent cultural vices—distraction, hostility, and consumerism—that impact the possibility of formative reading. Deep Reading provides resources for engaging in formative and culturally subversive reading practices that teach listeners how to resist vices, love virtue, and desire the good.

Accompanied by scientist Eden Long, the companions endeavor to cross the dangerous territory of Baltimorgue to help their ally Doc Tanner to time jump home. However, they soon find themselves fending for their lives against the dangerous groups who inhabit the old city, each one set in brutal opposition to the others. When the companions get split up, they each become mired in the myriad of insanities that vie for survival in a city gone beyond the edge of reason.

Enlisted for a mission to retrieve the memory of a military satellite that’s been mistaken for an angel by in-bred locals, Ryan Cawdor and his companions head deep into the wild country of Kill Island, only to discover they are being pursued by an old foe harboring a deadly grudge. With enemies on all sides, Ryan and his allies rapidly run out of places to turn...and no way back. Meanwhile, Doc Tanner is offered a tantalizing possibility that could end his time with the companions forever.

In 'De nieuwe keukenmeid van de dominee' wordt dominee Änglund hopeloos verliefd op de nieuwe huishoudster. De dominee is al jaren getrouwd, maar zijn vrouw is door de tijd heen koud en afstandelijk geworden. De nieuwe huishoudster is jong, en bovenal heeft ze een bloedmooi lichaam. Hij kan zijn gevoelens voor haar maar nauwelijks verhullen. En wanneer zijn vrouw omkomt bij een ongeluk gaan alle remmen los. Zo ontstaat er een hete relatie tussen de dominee en zijn keukenmeid.

"Vijf mannen in leren broeken trippelden in het rond en droegen vreemde dierenmaskers. De maskers leken een beetje op van die dingen die je grote honden om hun snuit doet om te voorkomen dat ze bijten. Maar het werkte ook prima als verkleding... voor een faun. Het was mijn nimfenfantasie. Hij was werkelijkheid geworden. Toen ik naar ze had gekeken, was dat voor de vijf faunen duidelijk een teken dat ze konden beginnen. Want ik hoorde de lichte passen zwaarder worden.

Niets windt Ellie meer op dan de gedachte van handen – waar de lange, dunne vingers van een specifieke pianist aan vast zitten – die haar vingeren op een piano. Paul, daarentegen, lijkt onaangedaan door de ontdekking van de fantasieën die Ellie doen huiveren. Hij lijkt zelfs geïntrigeerd... Maar met geen piano in zicht, moeten ze het doen met een donker hoekje bij de drukke bar… Dit erotische kortverhaal heeft alle spanning en opwinding die hoort bij een verboden daad.

In dit deel van de LUST serie De Sterrenbeeldenserie: erotische korte verhalen voor Boogschutter vind je een speciale collectie van korte verhalen speciaal uitgekozen voor het teken Boogschutter. De speelse en vrije boogschutter is altijd in voor een nieuw avontuur, ook in de slaapkamer. Dit teken geniet van one-night stands en is soms ongrijpbaar. Net als de karakters in deze collectie korte verhalen, houdt de boogschutter van experimenteren met nieuwe partners en speeltjes!

The ultimate betrayal on his face when he sees that plug in my hand shatters my cybernetic heart. Helpless, my world turns to chaos, and I spiral downward, crushed by my very own actions.

1889, Paris. When Charles Zidler's extravagant pleasure palace, the Moulin Rouge, opens in bohemian Montmartre, he commissions local artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to create a series of posters to promote it. The striking lithographs Henri produces will make his name—and launch the careers of the performers he portrayed. This sparkling collection of plays introduces us to eight of those legendary artistes, whose lives were as vivid as Lautrec's paint.

Una colección de misterios humorísticos, cada uno con un final sorpresa.

Fiction River is an original fiction anthology series. Modeled on successful anthology series of the past, from Orbit to Universe to Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, the goal of Fiction River is to provide a forum for "original ground-breaking fiction of all genres". Each Fiction River volume will have electronic and trade paperback issues published by WMG Publishing, and will feature some of the best new and established fiction writers in publishing.