Résultats de "Liza" dans Toutes les catégories

Für die einen ist die Prophezeiung vom goldenen Faden die größte Bedrohung für den Status quo. Andere aber sehen in der Weissagung die letzte Hoffnung, dass zwischen den Göttern von Asgard und den Menschen der Erde wieder eine fruchtbare Verbindung existieren könnte... denn andernfalls wären die Konsequenzen fatal. Als die Studentin Ray die mysteriöse Kára kennenlernt, ahnt sie nicht im Geringsten, wer Kára wirklich ist.

Writing in luminous prose, Liza Dalby, acclaimed author of Geisha and The Tale of Murasaki, brings us this elegant and unique year’s journal a brilliant mosaic that is at once a candid memoir, a gardener’s diary, and an enlightening excursion through cultures east and west. Structured according to the seasonal units of an ancient Chinese almanac, East Wind Melts the Ice is made up of 72 short chapters that can be read straight through or dipped into at random.

Liza was a healthy 34-year-old when she discovered she could not carry a baby. Like the one of every six women who hears this news, Liza and her husband, David, despaired that they would never be parents. They both had careers. Life would go on...in other ways.Then the unpredictable happened. Liza's cousin, Jennifer, offered to be the gestational carrier for Liza and David. This is the story of how two women and their husbands came to the incredible decision to put their faith, their lifelong friendship, and their hearts into the rigorous, uncharted and emotional science of creating new life.

Annika Bengtzon gilt unter ihren Kollegen als tough und unbestechlich. Sie liebt ihre Arbeit als Reporterin. Als sie zur Villa des Politikers Ingemar Lerberg gerufen wird, betritt sie eine andere Welt: wertkonservativ, traditionell und gediegen. Auf den erfolgreichen Geschäftsmann wurde ein Anschlag verübt. Für die Journalistin ist er kein Unbekannter, denn ein durch die Presse hochgeputschter Steuerskandal hatte Lerberg zum Rücktritt gezwungen.

In the aftermath of a devastating loss, Cal and Jenny Horigan's marriage is unraveling. Both are plagued by guilt, unable to seek comfort from one another. Burdened by remorse, they begin to lose sight of the love that once anchored them-together with their sense of right and wrong.As the Horigans try different ways to deal with their pain, a new acquaintance seems to offer the support they desperately need-though at times they are unsure whether his guidance is leading them back to each other or further apart...

After her traditional engagement to her high school sweetheart falls apart, Liza Monroy faced the prospect of another devastating loss: the deportation of her best friend Emir. Desperate to stay in America, Emir tried every legal recourse to obtain a green card knowing that his return to the Middle East where gay men are often beaten and sometimes killed was too dangerous. So Liza proposes to Emir in efforts to keep him safe and by her side. After a fast wedding in Las Vegas, the couple faces new adventures and obstacles in both L.A. and New York City as they dodge the INS.

A revolution is under way. Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. In The Richer Sex, Liza Mundy shows how this reality will transform the sexual, dating, marriage, and work habits of men and women worldwide. This flip in the economic order is inevitable, and Mundy demonstrates why it will also be a good thing for individuals and families. Both sexes will be free for the first time to make purely romantic choices - ones that have nothing to do with marriage as an economic partnership.

Michelle Obama har sin egen måde at sige tingene på så man tror, man kan alting. Humor, personlig stil, varme, hun kan være stærk og sej og alligevel ikke virke negativ. Hun har timing. Hun kan sende en et blik, så man bliver nødt til at le.

In einer Schneewehe liegt eine schöne Frau. Sie ist nicht die Erste, die in den vergangenen Monaten in einem Stockholmer Vorort erstochen wurde...

In a poem about a Mama Fox's unconditional love for her cub, this story describes the many moods of all children - from happy to frightened, bashful to silly, and more - and will reassure them of their parents' abiding affection and approval.

Maddie Alden has always longed for more than her small town could offer. Now that it's being overrun by wealthy New Yorkers looking for a respite from the city, Maddie has gotten herself a lucrative new job in real estate. And her first sale brings her a charismatic new friend who is everything Maddie longs to be. Little does Maddie realize that the glamorous Anne will shake up her quiet marriage - and will force Maddie to face the truth about the past, and the terrible secret she shares with her husband and his best friend....

Told with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, All Day recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island Academy, the high school for inmates detained at New York City's Rikers Island. A poet and an actress who had done occasional workshops at the correctional facility, Peterson was ill prepared for a full-time stint teaching in the GED program for the incarcerated youths.

"Sort perle" er en svimlende fortælling gennem fire kontinenter om magt og penge, og med en powerkvinde i front, der ikke står tilbage for Annika Bengtzon, når det gælder sandheden. Det er tidligt i 1990'erne på på Manihiki. En paradisisk atol i det sydlige Stillehav. Gennem generationer har øboerne levet af at dyrke perler, og sammen med sin familie lever Kiona på den isolerede ø og fridykker ned i dybet for at høste de dyrebare østers. Men når hun kan se sit snit til det, sluger hun alle de bøger, hun kan få fat i.

Andrew "Ace" Braddock is a player in every sense of the word. The center fielder for the Austin Lone Stars, he's also been at the center of numerous sports scandals involving beer, bars, and baseball bunnies. But when he takes the fall for a teammate, Ace wakes up in the hospital, injured and in serious trouble. He's sent to lie low and recover at his family ranch in Silverlake, Texas, where he's saddled with his worst nightmare: his high school nemesis - a beautiful nurse who refuses to play doctor with him.

Rhett Braddock swore to himself that he'd never return to Silverlake. But when the opportunity arises to buy a piece of his lost, happier youth, he's drawn to the community - and the family - he once loved. Mending fences might not be as hard as he thought - until he ends up in bed with his best friend's sister.

They drowned Victoire's mother, claiming she was a witch. Then, her father died beneath the wheels of a nobleman's carriage. Forced to leave her village, Victoire finds work in Paris. But domestic employment comes at a high price, and the orphaned girl suffers gruesome abuse at the hands of a diabolical aristocracy. Accused of a heinous crime, they imprison her in the depraved lunatic asylum, La Salpêtriere. With the help of ruthless seductress, Jeanne de Valois, Victoire must find the strength to join the revolutionary force storming the Bastille.

Vic Wood has her priorities: scrape by on her restaurant wages, take care of her younger brother Henry, and forget their mother ever existed. But Vic’s careful life crumbles when she discovers that their long-missing mother belonged to the Acheron Order—a secret society of witches tasked with keeping the dead at bay. What’s worse, Henry inherited their mother’s magical abilities while Vic did not, and he has been chosen as the Order’s newest recruit.

Welcome to Literacy Elevated: A TALE of Texas, the official podcast of the Texas Association for Literacy Education (TALE), an International Literacy Association state chapter. Dedicated to empowering educators, researchers, and literacy advocates. TALE is dedicated to promoting literacy in the education sector and consists of professional members committed to serving learners across the State of Texas. Our mission is to promote literacy that enhances the lives of all Texas citizens personally, socially, and economically.

Helen Hicks may not have any friends, but she does have a plan: prove her doubting, elitist parents wrong and become a literary sensation before she turns thirty. When she’s finally accepted into the esteemed Hayward Writing Intensive at twenty-four, Helen believes she’s right on schedule. At Hayward, Helen meets Cherry Stewart, a free-spirited, ambitious kid whose eclectic tastes skew far more pedestrian than Helen’s, but as Cherry’s champion and mentor, Helen decides they’ll set the publishing world on fire and go down as one of the literary world’s most iconic duos.

Growing up, I was mesmerized by a man soaring the skies. The greatest silk aerialist in the world, Chandler Moreau. The day before my parents died, they took me to see his circus, and it was then I knew my fate was sealed. I would do everything in my power to perform with them one day. To perform with him.