Showing results for "Adele!" in Literary Fiction

Violet Chase has always been off-limits. The girl I wanted... but could never have. In my teens, her father warned me to keep my hands to myself. Boys like me don't get girls like her. His family saved me, and I owed them. Her brothers, my best friends, made it clear where I stood: below them. We had one stolen moment of passion, then I ran. That was fourteen years ago, and I've regretted it ever since. Now, she's back in London, but life for both of us is very different. Her past decade has been filled with lies that she thought were true.

Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. But one day, she simply vanishes into thin air. When Georges Gorski, a detective haunted by his failure to solve one of his first murder cases, is called in to investigate the girl's disappearance, Manfred's repressed world is shaken to its core.

Qui aurait pu prédire le destin d’Anne, mère au foyer passionnée de couture qui propose ses créations en ligne, le jour où une star planétaire apparaît portant une de ses combi-shorts ? Certainement pas Blanche, patronne du magazine féminin Attitude, revenue de tout et de tous, pressurisée par ses actionnaires chinois, et déterminée à dissimuler ses fêlures. Peut-être davantage Myrtille, jeune styliste bourrée de talent et convaincue que les réseaux sociaux sont le nouvel Eldorado du secteur.

La réelle et fabuleuse histoire de Menie Grégoire, la première animatrice radio à donner le micro aux auditrices pour parler d’amour, de sexualité et de parentalité ! Ce magnifique roman choral témoigne d’un demi-siècle d’évolution de la condition féminine.

Dans la famille Verneuil, la jeune Emma découvre l'adultère de son père. Cet homme, si croyant et parfait, réagit en accusant sa femme, Adèle, d'être, elle-même, adultère. Il obtient le divorce à ses torts. Elle est alors considérée comme une "femme perdue"... Quel sera le traitement miraculeux du diable-médecin ?

Eva Leigh launches a seductive new series that sizzles with the dark secrets of London’s underworld... Years ago, the Duke of Greyland gave his heart—and a princely sum of money—to a charming, destitute widow with unparalleled beauty. But after one passionate night, she slipped from his...