Showing results for "Beautiful" in Literature & Fiction

For the first time, James Malory and his Anderson in-laws agree on something: It's payback time for the culprit who kidnapped James and Georgina's beloved daughter, Jack, from her American debutante party and whisked her away to the Caribbean, no matter that she escaped unscathed. James figured out who masterminded the dastardly plot and is leading a fleet of ships to the West Indies to deliver some Malory-style retribution.

This selection of essays by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) demonstrate the varied power of his genius. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these writings show that beneath his trademark wit and love of paradox, Oscar Wilde was an original and remarkably modern writer.

I've always been a tough North Shore girl. Fighting is in my blood, survival in my DNA. But two years ago, Caden King broke me, and he has proof of it. Now he wants to blackmail me into doing a job for him. The kind that puts my chance of escaping the North Shore at risk. The kind that means betraying my own crew.

Mickey Bloom: five-foot tall, dyslexic, and bullied at school. With a mostly absent and hostile father, Mickey feels she's no good at anything. Until she discovers running. Mickey's newfound talent makes her realize she's everything she thought she wasn't—powerful, strong, and special. But her success comes at a cost, and the relentless training and pressure to win leaves Mickey broken; her dream in tatters. Years later, when Mickey is working in a dead-end job, her mother becomes ill. While nursing her, Mickey realizes the only way she can overcome her grief—and find herself—is to run again.

Harper Cloud used to love the gilded glamour of Las Vegas, but on the far side of prison, she sees the cracks in the veneer. These days, she keeps her head down and focuses on the elderly patients in her care. She tries to brush off the feeling that she's being watched, but when she's followed home one night and her pursuer gets within a hair's breadth of grabbing her, she knows it's time for a change. Her new wealthy boyfriend, Derrick, doesn't judge her for the secrets in her past. He offers her a job caring for his grandfather in Maryland, and she decides to trust him.

Ever since she was a child, Ivy has been gripped by visions of strange realms just beyond her own. But when her sister goes missing, Ivy discovers the truth is far worse - her hallucinations are real, and her sister is trapped in a parallel realm. And the one person who believes her is the dangerously attractive guy who's bound by an ancient legacy to betray her. Adrian might have turned his back on those who raised him, but that doesn't mean he can change his fate, no matter how strong a pull he feels toward Ivy.

Hulde is a queen’s daughter and lives in a palace. But her life is lonely. Growing up atop the glass mountain, she knows only her violent and autocratic mother and a household of terrified servants. Then a white bear named Rune comes to visit, and Hulde learns what kindness is. But the queen has a plan for Hulde. When she turns 16, she will wed the most beautiful man in all the world. Hulde has never met her intended husband, and her mother refuses to explain the arrangement.

Un bellissimo esordio in Italia. Un'autrice da 100.000 copie. Un incidente, un volto sfigurato, un romanzo autentico. Bello come la sua protagonista. Maisie è, a detta di tutti, una ragazza carina e fortunata. Ha una vita normale, una famiglia che le vuole bene e un fidanzato. Proprio durante una corsa, il suo sport preferito, la sua esistenza cambia in modo drammatico. Vittima di un incidente, si ritrova con il viso deturpato.

L'esprit vif, bosseuse et volontaire, Chloé Mills n'a qu'un seul problème, son patron : Bennett Ryan. Exigeant, direct, dépourvu de tact, ou d'une quelconque considération à l'égard d'autrui, il est absolument... irrésistible. Un salaud magnifique.

The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty...

Published in 1922, Fitzgerald's second novel chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful wife, Gloria, as they await to inherit his grandfather's fortune. A devastating satire of the nouveaux rich and New York's nightlife, of reckless ambition and squandered talent, it is also a shattering portrait of a marriage fueled by alcohol and wasted by wealth. The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald wrote to Zelda in 1930, "was all true."

ಈ ಕೃತಿ ನಿಮಗಾಗಿ ಅಲ್ಲ, ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸಂತೋಷಗಳು ಬೇರೆಯೇ ಇವೆ. ನೀವು ಅದರಲ್ಲೇ ಸಂತೋಷಪಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡಿರಿ. ಆದರೆ, ಅದರಿಂದಾಚೆಗೂ ಸಂತೋಷ...

He was dangerous, infamous, scandalous...and the most beautiful man she'd ever seen. Fighting for her land, widowed Kerry McKinnon can't believe the handsome Arthur has come to seize her home and leave her to a terrible fate. Yet from the moment they meet, a scandalous passion ignites between them—impossible to resist. Then a crime will force Kerry to flee with Arthur to England—where a challenge to their love could drive them apart forever....

సోషల్ వర్క్ లో పి.జి. చేసి కొన్ని ఎన్.జి.ఒ.ల్లో, కార్పొరేట్లలో పని చేసిన రచయిత కథలు, కవితలు , కొన్ని ఇంటర్వ్యూలు, పుస్తక పరిచయాలు, కాలమ్స్ తో పాటు చిన్న వయసులోనే ఎవరెస్టు అధిరోహించిన పూర్ణ మాలావత్ ప్రస్ధానాన్ని నవలగా ఇంగ్లిష్ లో రాసారు.గీత దాటకుండా జీవితాన్ని చక్కదిద్దుకొమ్మని సూచిస్తారు విజ్ఞలు. అసలు గీత గీసేందేవరో, దేనికోసమో తెలియకుండా బరిలోకి దిగడమెందుకో అని రచయిత మనసు విసుక్కుంటుంది. ఒకవేళ గీతలోనే ఆడాలి అంటే మన గీత మనమే గీసుకోవాలి, దాని కోసం బరిదాటాలి. ఆ దిశగా చేసిన ప్రయత్నమే ఈ కథ

Who says you can’t go home again? Philadelphia real estate broker Devyn Winters is at the peak of her career, closing multi-million dollar deals and relishing it. She’s pretty much blocked out her formative years in Dreamer’s Bay, where the most exciting thing to happen was the twice a year bake sale. Unfortunately, a distress call hauls her back home and away from the life she’s constructed. Now the question is just how long until she can leave again? And when did boring Elizabeth Draper get so beautiful?

Bukowski's mad immortal origins, surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of audiences who've recognized Bukowski as one of America's greatest realist writers and poets. Audible Studios narrator and OBIE winner Will Patton ( Remember the Titans, The Good Wife, Armageddon) gives a tour de force performance of Bukowski's greatest work in his prime.

A Best Historical Fiction of Spring Pick by Amazon, PopSugar, AARP, and BookBub! A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the terrible injustice that tears them apart, by the USA Today bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things and The Last Year of...

À tous les amateurs de belles histoires, grâce à qui un rêve est devenu le livre que vous avez entre les mains.

Ethiopian émigré Dinaw Mengestu is a skilled observer of people who offers a colorful debut work of fiction. Insightful and swiftly paced, this novel evokes past and present in the course of its compelling narrative. It's the `70s, and one D.C. neighborhood is undergoing big changes. In the mix is Ethiopian grocery owner Sepha Stephanos - a man with a complex past who fled his homeland after seeing his father brutalized by themilitary. He hopes for new prospects in D.C.'s gentrification process.

I'm the daughter of a ruthless criminal on a quest to outrun my past. He's the undercover detective I'm trying to put in my rear view. After a lifetime of being tailed by my father's bodyguards, all I want is my freedom and independence. Illegal street racing gives me the rush I crave. I live for the speed, the hint of danger, and being just on the edge of losing control. So the last thing I need is to run into Deacon Ramsey when I'm breaking the law. Again. I don't care how hot he is or how tempted I am to kiss him. Again.