Résultats pour "Sophie White" dans Littérature et fiction

Sur une île au large de l'Irlande, Aoileann vit recluse avec sa grand-mère et sa mère, une présence inerte qu'elle appelle la "chose du lit". Lorsque Rachel, une artiste venue du continent, débarque avec son nourrisson, Aoileann découvre une douceur et une chaleur qui lui ont toujours été refusées. Mais sa fascination grandissante pour cette femme et son enfant se transforme bientôt en une obsession dévorante, réveillant les fantômes du passé et libérant des ténèbres qu'elle ne peut plus contenir.

Do you believe in fate? That Karma will even things out? Anita Simmons didn't, and now she must pay for her crime with her life. When Anita Simmons’ body is found on top of a grave, Whitton and Saint are perplexed as to why anyone would want to kill this woman. She’s a married mum of two who spends her life helping others. What could she have done to deserve this? As the team delves deeper, they uncover a lot more than they anticipated. And when more grave murders are discovered across the country, Whitton realises that this isn’t an ordinary killer they’re chasing.

After the tragic death of his wife, Alec Riley struggles to put his life back together. He and his three children are lost in their grief...until Sophie walks unexpectedly into their lives. Having left her native Czechoslovakia, she has discovered that this land that had seemed so bright with promise is far from her dream. A highly educated woman, she now finds herself keeping house for Alec and his family. How can Sophie find peace in her new job? Will God use her gentle spirit to help heal Alec's broken heart?

People and secrets from the past threaten to disrupt Nola Trenholm’s new life in New Orleans in the third novel of the Royal Street series by New York Times bestselling author Karen White. Nola is ready to focus on starting over in the Big Easy. She wants to get back to work on the renovations...

From Ronald H. Balson, author of Once We Were Brothers, Saving Sophie is the powerful story of the lengths a father will go through to protect his daughter and an action-packed thriller that will take you on an unforgettable journey of murder and deception, testing the bonds of family and love...

It's been fourteen years since Sophie Scaife tried to run away to Tokyo only to find herself seduced and stranded by an enigmatic stranger. Now thirty-two and a reluctant socialite presiding over a lavish Hamptons estate with that stranger and their partner, she's living a life she'd never dreamed of—and a love more perfect than she could have imagined.

Nola Trenholm is hopeful for a fresh start in the Big Easy but must deal with ghosts from her past—as well as new ones—in this first book in a spin-off series of Karen White's New York Times bestselling Tradd Street novels. After a difficult detour on her road to adulthood, Nola Trenholm...

A woman is haunted—both literally and figuratively—by ghosts of the past in this second novel of the Royal Street series by New York Times bestselling author Karen White. Nola Trenholm may not be psychic herself, but she’s spent enough time around people who are to know when ghosts are...

Wilkie Collins was one of Victorian England's best-loved and best-selling authors, and a crime-fiction pioneer. His enthralling 'sensation novels' such as The Woman in White paved the way for today's thrillers and his tour de force The Moonstone is one of the first, and greatest, modern-detective stories. This collection features dramatisations of these two masterpieces, with star casts including Toby Stephens (The Woman in White) and John Sharp (The Moonstone). Also included are adaptations of three of Collins' other major novels.

Manchmal führt der Weg zur wahren Liebe zurück in die Vergangenheit. Eine mitreißende Feelgood Romance über Neuanfänge und zweite Chancen. Nachdem sie viele Jahre im aufregenden New York verbracht hat, muss die Journalistin Riley widerwillig in ihre Heimat White Field zurückkehren. Das erfolgreiche Leben in der Großstadt hat ihr dabei geholfen, die Schatten ihrer Vergangenheit zu verdrängen. Doch zurück an der Westküste Kanadas wird sie mit ihrer Vergangenheit konfrontiert – vor allem mit ihrer ersten großen Liebe Jameson und der Trennung, die sie nie ganz überwunden hat.

Is it possible for books to dream? For books to dream within books? Is there a literary subterranean that would facilitate ingress and exit points through these dreams? These are some of the questions posed by David Keenan's masterly fifth novel, Monument Maker, an epic romance of eternal summer and a descent, into history, into the horrors of the past; a novel with a sweep and range that runs from the siege of Khartoum and the conquest of Africa in the 19th century through the Second World War and up to the present day.

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Audiobook performed by George Newbern, Karen White, Michael Crouch, Jenna Lamia, Sophie Amoss, and Allyson Ryan A debut short story collection in the tradition of writers like Kelly Link, Aimee Bender, and George Saunders—complex, imaginative, and refreshingly original—now on audio as part...

Motherhood, nurture and violence – these are the themes of Elske Rahill's remarkable first collection, In White Ink . Rahill brings to life the psychological and physical reality of mothering, pregnancy and childbirth in ways that few other writers have attempted. Here is a biting realism , in the relations between men and women and in the expectations and failures of their assigned roles. Each story is illumined by moments of harsh poetry. They are carefully crafted snapshots of our condition.

It's the day they've always dreamed about. But will it turn out to be a nightmare? Bel is in the midst of planning her perfect wedding when disaster strikes and everything she thought she knew is turned on its head. Can she hold it all together and, with the help of her friends, and a mysterious man she meets unexpectedly, turn disaster into triumph? Bel's friend, ice-cream parlour owner Violet, is engaged to Glyn, who is besotted by her although Violet fell out of love with him long ago.