Showing results for "Chance" in Literary Fiction

Kehidupan Flavia diisi utang tak berujung, kerja dari pagi ketemu pagi. Tiba-tiba dia mendapatkan kesempatan melunasi semua itu ketika ditawari pekerjaan bergaji besar yang tugasnya cuma menjadi pengasuh sepasang anak kembar. Masalahnya, majikan Flavia adalah duda bertato umur 28, berparas...

Tara, Katherine and Fintan have been best friends since they were teenagers. Now in their early thirties, they've been living it up in London for 10 years. But what have they to show for a decade of hedonism? Sure, Tara's got a boyfriend - but only because she's terrified of spending five minutes alone. Katherine, on the other hand, has a neatness fetish that won't let anyone too close to mess up her life. And Fintan? Well, he has everything. Until he learns that without your health, you've got nothing....

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For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pursuit of a "life of freedom." Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single blind turn of a card."

Under den store depression i 1930ernes USA samler den livlige amerikanske iværksætter Charles Flanagan 2000 løbere fra alle verdenshjørner for at løbe fra Los Angeles til New York for præmie på 150.000 dollars. Flanagans løbere står over for et umenneskeligt hårdt løb. 5000 km på tværs af Mojave-ørkenen og de iskolde Rocky Mountains og med en distance på 50 km om dagen i tre måneder. Den nationale amerikanske sportsorganisation er imidlertid desperat efter at knuse det, den ser som en professionel udfordring til OL i Los Angeles i 1932.

Mona's perfect world is shattered by sudden and serious illness - leaving her searching her past for answers. Fate has led her from a tough Brooklyn girlhood to a happy marriage with a wonderful man, but what has she forgotten along the way? In this classic New York novel of the 1980s, as Mona struggles to understand her own life story, she uncovers the shocking memory of a murder and traces the shape of her own mortality.

The Second Chance is a suspenseful tale of kidnapping, corporate espionage, and forgotten love that takes the listener from the red dirt roads of Alabama to the silver mines of Mexico.

A deadly mine cave-in at Real de Catorce, Mexico, changes Patricia Morelos' life forever. The disaster she faces as owner of the mine is overshadowed by personal tragedy. Her only child, 17-year-old Max, is kidnapped when he goes to help the victims.

No aeroporto, à espera de seu voo, Natalia encontra Felipe, o médico de cuidados paliativos de seu pai, Artur, que morrera alguns anos antes. A partir da conversa que se seguiu, a narradora reflete sobre a perda e retoma os acontecimentos que circundaram a morte do pai. Desde a notícia de que sua doença voltara, até os momentos finais de sua vida, acompanhamos os pequenos gestos e eventos que compõem o retrato do declínio físico de Artur e de seus efeitos na família.

Jenny Carpenter is the unrivaled pie-baking champion of Last Chance, South Carolina's annual Watermelon Festival and the town's unofficial spinster. With her dream of marriage and children on hold, she focuses on another dream, turning the local haunted house into a charming bed-and-breakfast...

Groom, best man, guests, even a bishop - but where is the bride? An orphan fresh out of convent school, Prue Pagan has no home and nowhere to go. Then a chance meeting with her worldly-wise friend Cleo lands her a summer job in the north of England at Mountjoy Castle, where generations of the Mountjoy family have loved, lusted, and scandalised their neighbours. Prue's innocence is no protection against the wickedness of the English upper classes.

Sonja og hendes veninder er endelig tilbage! Milliardæren Sonjas testamente forandrede hendes nærmeste veninders liv. Nu er Rebecka, Maggan og Susanne - og Sonja - endelig tilbage i en selvstændig roman fuld af varme og livsglæde. Syv år efter Sonjas død - og den arv, der blandt andet gav hendes bedste veninder et hotel i London, et fantastisk hus på Mallorca og en restaurant i Paris - kæmper Sonjas veninder med livet.

Ivy Rose Murphy dreams of a better future. For years she has set out daily from the tenements known as The Lane to beg for discards from the homes of the wealthy. Her fortune takes a turn for the better, but there are eyes on Ivy, and she is vulnerable as she carries her earnings through the dark winter streets. Jem Ryan, who owns the local livery, longs to make Ivy his wife, but she is reluctant to give up her fierce independence. Then a sudden astonishing event turns Ivy's world upside down.

When Kristin Stevens loses her administrative job in California' s university system, she and her husband, Cal, relocate to Massachusetts. Kristin takes a position at a smaller, less prestigious college outside Boston and promptly becomes entangled in its delicate, overheated politics. Cal, whose musical talent is nothing more than a consuming avocation, spends his days alone, fixing up their new home. And as they settle into their early fifties, the two seem to exist in separate spheres entirely.

In the mid-19th century, Leonie Russell works alongside her husband, Junius, an oysterman in the Washington Territory. At night she continues her father’s lifelong obsession - collecting artifacts and studying the native culture that once thrived in the area. On her 37th birthday, Leonie discovers a mummy protruding from a riverbank - a mummy that by all evidence shouldn’t exist. As Leonie searches for clues to the mummy’s origins, she begins to feel a strangely mystical connection to it. When Junius’s long-lost son, Daniel, appears one day, a native elder insists that Leonie wear a special shell bracelet for protection.

After she nearly ruins her family with a terrible misstep, Elena Spira is sent to Venice to escape disgrace and to atone by caring for the ailing Samuel Farber. But the crumbling and decaying Ca' Basilio palazzo, where Samuel is ensconced, holds tragic secrets, and little does Elena know how profoundly they will impact her.

American artist Joseph Hannigan and his alluring sister, Sophie, have arrived in enchanting nineteenth-century Venice with a single-minded goal. The twins, who have fled scandal in New York, are determined to break into Venice's expatriate set and find a wealthy patron to support Joseph's work. Joseph's talent soon attracts the attention of the magnificent Odilé Leon, a celebrated courtesan and muse who has inspired many artists to greatness. But her inspiration comes with a devastatingly steep price.

New York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates welcomes you to Copper Ridge, where a onetime bad girl comes home to small-town Oregon and reconnects with a cowboy from her past... Sadie Miller isn’t expecting any welcome-home parades on her return to Copper Ridge. Least of all from part-time...

Early one summer morning Isabel and her 11-year-old daughter, River, walk across Regent's Park. They come across a rain-soaked man sitting alone on a bench and ask him if he's okay. But he doesn't know. In fact he doesn't know the answer to any of their questions - not even his own name. Urged on by her daughter, Isabel takes the man to the hospital she works at, hoping that will be the end of it. But when the tests show there's nothing physically wrong with him, and yet he still can't remember who he is, she realises she can't walk away.

“人生はチャンスだ。結婚もチャンスだ。恋愛もチャンスだと、したり顔して教える苦労人が多いけれども、私はそうではないと思う。私は別段、例の唯物論的弁証法に媚びるわけではないが、少なくとも恋愛は、チャンスではないと思う。私はそれを意思だと思う。”昭和21年7月に『芸術』(初出)で発行された本作品は太宰治の恋愛や愛について書かれた作品である。今も昔も変わらぬ男女の関係。本オーディオブックで太宰治の恋愛感に浸ってみてはいかがだろうか。(C)青空文庫