Résultats pour "marjorie" dans Littérature et fiction

Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. . . . So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Growing up in the modest farmlands of Battle Creek, Michigan, Marjorie was inspired by a few simple rules: always think for yourself, never take success for granted, and work hard—even when deemed American royalty, even while covered in imperial diamonds.

Marjorie Morningstar is a love story. It presents one of the greatest characters in modern fiction: Marjorie, the pretty 17-year-old who left the respectability of New York's Central Park West to join the theater, live in the teeming streets of Greenwich Village, and seek love in the arms of a brilliant, enigmatic writer.

Il y a 30 ans, les Super-Vilains se sont soulevés et ont tué tous les héros. Enfin, tous les héros qui comptaient. Seul survivant des Avengers, Hawkeye (Olivier Marchal) est maintenant une bête de foire, revivant le pire jour de sa vie pour un public qui paie pour voir ça. Il est bourru, brisé et perd la vue, mais il y a toujours en lui cette volonté d'être un héros et de prendre sa revanche en l'honneur de ses amis. Et il est prêt à faire ce qui doit être fait : se débarrasser de toutes les personnes responsables de la mort de ceux qu'il aimait le plus.

With her powerful debut novel, author Marjorie Celona has made a mark with critics and listeners everywhere. In Y, Shannon is abandoned as an infant on the doorstep of a local YMCA. Taken into the foster-care system, she endures years of abuse. But her luck finally changes when she’s sent to live with a kind single mom named Miranda. Even so, Shannon remains haunted by a burning question: Why did her birth mother leave her on the very day she was born?

Rome is a city divided, nobility and common-people locked in mutual suspicion. The patrician Caius Marcius, later called Coriolanus, is Rome's greatest soldier, but his proud refusal to accommodate himself to the demands of the plebeians leads to banishment and death. A Roman history as well as tragedy, Coriolanus is a complex and subtle exploration of the themes of absolution and compromise, both in the political world and in the life of the individual.

DARK ROMANCE L'un est en prison, condamné à l'injection létale tandis que l'autre s'accroche à la vie. » Lorsque certains s'aiment pour le meilleur, je suis davantage attiré par le pire. Joshua a tout juste quinze ans lorsque je pose un revolver sur sa tempe en lui laissant un choix : appuyer sur la détente ou m'aimer. J'ignorais que cette décision allait me conduire dans le couloir de la mort, à divaguer entre la violence et la folie.

It's New Year's Day, and the residents of a small fishing town are ready to start their lives anew. Leo takes his two young sons out to the lake to write resolutions on paper boats. That same frigid morning, Vera sets out for a walk with her dog along the lake, leaving her husband in bed with a hangover. But she never returns. She places a call to the police saying she's found a boy in the woods, but the call is cut short by a muffled cry. Did one of Leo's sons see Vera? What are they hiding from the police? And why are they so scared of their own father?

Lady Marjorie Snellthorpe has earned a reputation in her village as 'The Sleuth of the Manor' due to her knack for solving mysteries. When her friend Edna suspects foul play following the deaths of two residents from a prestigious retirement community, Marjorie goes undercover to investigate. Along with her trusted friends Horace, Frederick, and Edna, Marjorie must catch the killer before anyone else dies.

Football is the heartbeat of Brownwood, Texas. Now, the war has changed everything. Most of the Brownwood men over 18 and under 45 are off fighting, and in a small town, the possibilities are limited. Could this mean a season without football? But no one counted on Assistant Principal Tylene Wilson, who learned the game at her daddy’s knee. She knows more about it than most men, so she does the unthinkable, convincing the school to let her take on the job of coach.

Dickinson, North Dakota, 1965. It's a harsh winter, and freelance indexer Marjorie Trumaine struggles to complete a lengthy index while mourning the recent loss of her husband, Hank. The bleakness of the weather seems to compound her grief, and then she gets more bad news: A neighbor's 14-year-old disabled daughter, Tina Rinkerman, has disappeared. Marjorie joins Sheriff Guy Reinhardt in the search for the missing girl, and their investigation quickly leads to the shocking discovery of a murdered man near the Rinkermans' house.

October 1964: Just months after freelance indexer Marjorie Trumaine helped solve a series of murders in Dickinson, North Dakota, she is faced with another death that pulls her into an unwanted investigation. Calla Eltmore, the local librarian, is found dead at work, and everyone considers it suicide. But Marjorie can't believe that Calla would be capable of doing such a thing. Marjorie's suspicions are further aroused when she notices something amiss at Calla's wake, but the police seem uninterested in her observations.

The year 1964: Life on the North Dakota farm hasn’t always been easy for Marjorie Trumaine. She has begun working as a professional indexer to help with the bills - which have only gotten worse since the accident that left her husband, Hank, blind and paralyzed. When her nearest neighbors are murdered in their beds, though, Marjorie suddenly has to deal with new and terrifying problems. Sheriff Hilo Jenkins brings her a strange amulet, found clutched in the hand of her murdered neighbor, and asks her to quietly find out what it is.

Il la libérera de ses dettes... si elle accepte ses conditions. Kat Wilder est aux abois. Elle travaille comme serveuse pour soutenir sa petite sœur, mais l'argent manque toujours. Elle a besoin d'aide, et vite, sinon elle risque de perdre leur appartement. Arrive Blake Sterling. Le milliardaire en technologie offre à Kat une bouée de sauvetage. Un million de dollars en échange de sa main. Un million de dollars pour porter des robes de créateurs, sourire aux paparazzis et le regarder dans les yeux comme si elle était folle amoureuse.

Où sont les feeeeeeeemmmmmes ? Pour ce recueil de nouvelles érotiques, nous n'avons exceptionnellement sollicité que des femmes. 20 histoires écrites par 20 femmes avec des scénarios, des fantasmes et des styles certifiés 100 % féminins. Elles vous raconteront tour à tour un orgasme en pleine foule, une initiation au BDSM, une femme qui se découvre "fontaine", une étudiante qui met tout en œuvre pour séduire son prof, une première fois "entre filles."

Jamais deux sans trois... Le plan à trois est sans doute un des fantasmes les plus répandus, chez les hommes comme chez les femmes. Et il offre des possibilités illimitées. Découvrez-les au fil de ces 20 nouvelles érotiques qui vous conduiront tour à tour dans un pub en Écosse où un couple de timides français se laissent envoûter par un beau marin local, dans la salle de répétition d'un pianiste classique uni par un lien pervers aux deux musiciennes qui l'accompagnent.

Dans la collection "Osez 20 histoires..." Les pages "faits-divers" des journaux révèlent parfois des surprises bien épicées. C'est ce que vont vous montrer les plumes de la collection "Osez 20 histoires", reconverties le temps de ce recueil en détectives très privés sur les affaires les plus chaudes. Des quartiers chics aux banlieues sensibles en passant par les petites villes bourgeoises de province ronronnantes en apparence, leurs enquêtes vont vous révéler les dossiers sexuels les plus inattendus, troublants et excitants.

Briar, bodyguard for a body-stealing sorceress, discovers her love for Rose, whose true soul emerges only once a week. An apprentice witch seeks her freedom through betrayal, the bones of the innocent, and a meticulously plotted spell. In a world powered by crystal skulls, a warrior returns to save China from invasion by her jealous ex. A princess runs away from an arranged marriage, finding family in a strange troupe of traveling actors at the border of the kingdom’s deep, dark woods.

Jean Grey awakens in an unfamiliar room. She is weak, disoriented, stripped of her telepathic and telekinetic powers - and trapped in someone else's body. Also prisoner are her teammates Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, and Nightcrawler - their minds held hostage within the bodies of strangers. Who has brought them here, and for what purpose? The answers lead to a terrifying plan that threatens not only the X-Men, but all of mutantkind.

Il a besoin d'une femme. J'ai besoin d'un mari. Ce n'est que provisoire... qu'est-ce qui pourrait mal tourner ? J'ai toujours voulu un mariage de conte de fées. Pas pour la robe de princesse parfaite ni pour la grande fête, mais pour Papi. Mon grand-père. La seule figure paternelle que je n'aie jamais connue. Sur son lit de mort, il fait le souhait que je remonte l'allée à son bras. Non, non, pas de pression ! Je peux bien lui accorder ce souhait.

Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution, today's single woman is still mired in judgment or, worse, pity. But for one brief exclamatory period in the 1930s, she was all the rage. Marjorie Hillis was working at Vogue when she published the radical self-help book Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker-esque wit, she urged spinsters, divorcees, and old maids to shed derogatory labels, and her philosophy became a phenomenon.