Women Saints

Au XIXe siècle, le périple d'une Française exilée en terre slave. Un destin tumultueux et aventurier marqué par un amour inconditionnel pour la Russie. "L'hiver revint avec ses troïkas, les chevaux résistant aux intempéries, frangés de glace, et soufflant des jets de fumée. Une foule massée sur les tribunes autour de cet immense champ nacré qu'était la Neva emprisonnée sous les glaces assistait aux courses de traîneaux sur patins d'acier. Sur la perspective Nevski, le collet relevé, en bonnet fourré et longue houppelande, les portiers enlevaient la glace. Ils veillaient ainsi toute la nuit."

Der Nationalfeiertag ist den Franzosen heilig. Die Leute feiern mit Paraden und mit Feuerwerk. Sie tanzen und sind stolz auf ihre Nation. Um so schockierender, wenn eine junge Frau tot auf einer neu eingeweihten Statue in Saint-Tropez gefunden wird. Die Lage eskaliert, als der Bürgermeister mit der Tat in Verbindung gebracht wird. Commissaire Lucie Girard ermittelt auf ihre feminin-unkonventionelle Art und lässt sich nicht von dem Druck, der von oben auf sie ausgeübt wird, beirren.

Nichts geht mehr im Casino von Monte-Carlo. Ein Croupier wird Opfer eines seltsamen Anschlags mitten in einem Rouletteturnier. Zu den Gästen gehört Madame la Commissaire Lucie Girard. Kommt Sie dem Mörder auf die Spur oder ist dieser nur eine Marionette in einem perfiden Spiel? Ein turbulenter Krimi, mitten in den wilden Siebzigern.

Facing a tight deadline on a computer security contract, Aimée responds to a telephone call from a stranger that leads her to an abandoned infant in a courtyard on the Ile Saint-Louis. She brings the baby home with her, calls her Stella, and awaits contact from the mother. But days pass, and no one reclaims the infant. Meanwhile, a group of environmental protestors is trying to stop the government from entering into a contract with an oil company notorious for pollution.

In My Badass Book of Saints, Johnson shares her experience as a first-generation Cuban-American, educator of at-risk college students, and caregiver for a husband with Lou Gehrig's disease. Through humorous, empowering, and touching portraits of 24 spiritual mentors who inspired her, Johnson describes how their bravery, integrity, selflessness, perseverance, and hope helped her and can help others have courage to reach for a closer connection to God.

Jack Flowers knew he needed to shake things up when he jumped into the Straits of Malacca and hitched a ride to Singapore. Deftly identifying the fastest route to fame along the seedy port, Jack starts hiring girls out to lonely tourists, sailors, bachelors — anyone with some loose change and...

Mit ihm lernten ihre Träume fliegen. Doch sie kamen den Sternen zu nah. Paris 1930: Als die junge Malerin Consuelo auf einer Party Antoine de Saint-Exupéry kennenlernt, ist es Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Die temperamentvolle Mittelamerikanerin wird zur Muse des enigmatischen Piloten, der eigentlich viel lieber Schreiben und Zeichnen möchte. Aus seinen unsterblichen Gefühlen für sie entsteht "Der kleine Prinz": Consuelo ist die über alles geliebte Rose, die der Prinz mit einer Glasglocke schützen möchte und an die er unentwegt denkt, auf welche fremden Planeten ihn seine Reisen auch führen.

When we last left her, West Point dropout Hailey Cain had defied a powerful mobster to protect a pregnant teenager and child. The events nearly cost Cain her life, but Thieves Get Rich, Saints Get Shot sees Hailey back in Los Angeles, second-in-command to rising gangster Serena “Warchild” Delgadillo. At the heart of this thrilling novel is a complex case of stolen identity, ruthless motives, and violent crime that puts Hailey back on the road, with her old friend Warchild by her side, to reclaim her name....

Pope Francis illuminates a new, vibrant way of experiencing the Gospel through moving, intimate, and deeply meditative reflections. We live in an unprecedented time that has threatened to upend our daily rhythms, our work, our homes, even our faith. More than ever, we need books like Reflections...

Annadel, West Virginia, was a small town rich in coal, farms, and close-knit families, all destroyed when the coal company came in. It stole everything it hadn't bothered to buy - land deeds, private homes, and ultimately, the souls of its men and women. Four people tell this powerful, deeply moving tale: Activist Mayor C. J. Marcum. Fierce, loveless union man Rondal Lloyd. Gutsy nurse Carrie Bishop, who loved Rondal. And lonely Sicilian immigrant Rosa Angelelli, who lost four sons to the deadly mines.

Read this "enthralling" portrayal of the measures a mother will take to right the wrongs she's created while reigniting her rough and tough Texan bravery (Kathryn Stockett, bestselling author of The Help). Rose Mae Lolley's mother disappeared when she was eight, leaving Rose with a heap of old...

Miami, Florida 1992: A few weeks after Hurricane Andrew wreaks devastation and havoc across South Florida, a father and his infant daughter crash their car into a canal. The man’s body is recovered, but his baby girl is never found. Twenty-three years later: After reports of alleged sightings of the girl, the case is reopened by police. Detective Maria Duquesne has been assigned to the case, but she has very little in the way of clues. Is it really possible that the girl has not died? Or is this simply the persistence of a desperate mother who will not accept the death of her daughter?

The 11th century was a dangerous time to be of the line unbroken of King Æthelred II Unread and his first queen, Æfgifu of York. Born in Hungary after King Canute III's failed attempt to murder her father, Edward the Exile, Margaret found her life turned upside down by King Edward the Confessor's discovery of her father's survival—and the resulting recall of her family to England.

Award-winning author Maria Morera Johnson follows up her best-selling book My Badass Book of Saints with a unique and daring exploration of the cardinal virtues through the saints and heroines of science fiction, fantasy, and comic books. Johnson will reignite your passion for your faith as she demonstrates the heroic in the sometimes mundane quest for good and reminds us that Catholicism is filled with adventure.

The new novel in Kimberla Lawson Roby's beloved New York Times bestselling Curtis Black series. "Roby's latest sizzles with scandal. A deliciously decadent beach read of temptation and the wages of sin." -- Kirkus Reviews Raven Black is bouncing back after her very public divorce from Dillon...

When grief shattered her world, Jill Siegal Chalsty boarded the Queen Anne on its maiden world voyage to find healing and purpose. Packets of Hope: A Journey of Healing and Rediscovery is a deeply personal memoir that follows Jill through twenty-six ports of call across the globe. With every stop—be it the spiritual resilience of Tonga, the harsh beauty of Namibia, or the hopeful faces of children in China—she weaves together intimate reflections, human connection, and her life’s mission to equip young people with essential life skills.

La Madre Teresa fue una de las mujeres más admiradas del siglo XX y su memoria continúa inspirando a muchos alrededor del mundo, pues incluso una santa puede amar los chocolates, hacer bromas o regañar al presidente de los Estados Unidos. Esta fue la mujer a la que Jim Towey conoció a mediados de los noventa — cuando era congresista y abogado de alto nivel—, la que iluminó el vacío que había en su vida. Durante más de una década, Towey viajó frecuentemente con ella, gestionó encuentros con políticos y donantes de Estados Unidos, y manejó muchos de sus asuntos legales y personales.

Luke Costas, the Saints' resident computer guru, preferred quiet nights and burying himself in digital investigating. But he wasn't alone. A mystery cyber-contact assisted when possible, becoming more and more integrated into Luke's thoughts...and dreams. One night he discovered a woman standing in his living room. And his dream became a reality. Charlie had been on the run for months after witnessing an assassination. Tired of going it alone she turned to the one person she knew could help her unravel the horrific conspiracy of a medical organization harvesting organs for sale.

A man who searches for facts: A former SEAL, Bart Taggart's career with Saints Protection & Investigations fills his need to take on any mission, see it to the end, and then enjoy his down time with his friends and easy women. A man who searches for facts has no room in his life for deceivers. His world is turned upside down, assigned to assist the FBI in searching for a kidnapped boy, he is paired with a dark-haired beauty, unlike any woman he has met.

Alors que sa grand-mère Elsa se meurt d'un cancer foudroyant et que tous ses proches se rassemblent pour adoucir ses derniers jours, Anna découvre que, derrière le mariage apparemment heureux de ses grands-parents, se cache un drame qui a marqué à jamais tous les membres de sa famille. Une vieille robe trouvée par hasard, et dont elle apprend qu'elle aurait appartenu à une certaine Eeva, va réveiller le passé.