Showing results for "Cities for Life" in Contemporary

Milly Grove, home of Kenneth 'Uno' Mills, has been run by his family for over a century. Commissioner by day and gangsta by night, he's the man in his city. Although he may hold a position in office, don't be fooled by the tailored suits. Disrespecting him will cost you your life. When the current mayor is exposed for misconduct, Uno steps in to make sure the position continues to be held by the Mills bloodline. His decision to run for Mayor leaves the family at odds. Once he receives the keys to the city, blood ties will be severed, lives will be lost, and new bonds will be forged.

Nicole Kessler never planned to fall for the rugged ski patrolman who keeps rescuing her on and off the slopes. Cameron is charming and protective, with a complicated life he's convinced no woman would ever accept. But when Nicole steps into his world, she starts to wonder... is she risking her heart for a man who's not ready to let her in?

My forties should have been when I thrived. Instead, I'm facing them as a divorced single mother in an unfamiliar city. Trying to reclaim my life led me to a new man's bed… then another… and another. It doesn't mean anything that they're my scent matches. I already lost two decades to the wrong man, and I'm not going to fall in line with someone else just because fate says so. It doesn't matter that when I'm in their arms, I feel alive for the first time in years. I can't gamble with my children's happiness after everything that happened with their father. Taking the risk isn't an option.

This Christmas, love is top of Florence Fairfax’s wish list 'Like eating a box of chocolates where every one is a violet cream' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'My only complaint is I can't put Sophia Money-Coutts' books down!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Hugely enjoyable novel from a mistress of the genre'...

Leo und Mila haben so viele Hürden gemeistert und sind nun endlich glücklich vereint. Doch das, was ihre Liebe vervollständigen könnte, erweist sich plötzlich als das, was die beiden voneinander trennt: der Wunsch nach einem Kind. Zwischen den Liebenden tut sich ein Abgrund des Schweigens auf, der unüberwindbar erscheint.

Leo sieht endlich wieder eine Zukunft vor sich: Er hat seine Krankheit besiegt, ist glücklich mit Mila an seiner Seite und als junger Modedesigner erfolgreich. Doch eine weitere Hürde liegt noch vor ihm. Wenn er Mila nicht verlieren will, muss er sich endlich mit den Schatten seiner Vergangenheit auseinandersetzen. Gemeinsam begeben sich die beiden auf die Reise nach Italien zu Leos Wurzeln und stoßen dabei auf eine Wahrheit, die alles verändert.

Fresh out of university in Manchester and struggling to climb the career ladder in London, Flick’s devastated when her boyfriend dumps her with no warning and leaves her looking for a new place to live. Being forced into a houseshare with three complete strangers isn’t exactly how Flick saw things going. But the residents of Carlisle Avenue are quickly on hand to help her navigate the ups and downs of the life she’s currently winging. With their help, along with her big sister, Flick manages to focus her energy on ticking off items that she’s added to her ‘twenties list.’

Libby Cooper hasn’t celebrated Christmas since the night her parents died in a terrible accident. She wants to forget that the season of goodwill even exists; but her grandmother has other ideas. It’s time for Libby to start living her life just as her parents would have wanted her to do. First stop New York! What better way to immerse herself in the celebrations, than working in her great aunt’s Christmas shop, just a few blocks from Central Park? Making new friends in the Big Apple is the easy bit, but leaving the past behind proves much harder than Libby imagined.

Inheriting a seaside cottage comes with strings attached in this touching romance where an introverted remote worker must leave her city apartment and learn to connect with others—and find love—in real life. Mallory Rosen loves working from home—minimum contact with others suits her just...

In una piccola strada di Parigi, percorrendo rue Bonaparte fino a scorgere la Senna e girando due volte l'angolo, si trova un luogo incantato: il Cinéma Paradis. È questo il regno di Alain Bonnard, l'appassionato e nostalgico proprietario del locale. Ed è qui che ogni mercoledì, al secondo spettacolo, va in scena "Les amours au Paradis", una rassegna dei migliori film d'amore del passato. In quelle sere il Cinéma Paradis è avvolto da una magia particolare.

Daniela ya no cree en el amor a primera vista. Daniel es corto de vista. Con estos elementos, cualquier historia romántica quedaría descartada. Pero Madrid, en primavera, respira por su cuenta, y desde los tejados conspira casualidades. De pequeña a ella le leyeron la fábula de la hormiga y la cigarra, y decidió construir su vida hoja por hoja. Y odiar a las cigarras. Él siempre ha sido una cigarra. Cuando era niño decidió ser mago y aprendió todos los trucos de los grandes maestros.

Growing up in Brooklyn, Samantha Bonti knew the writer's life she was meant to live waited across the bridge in Manhattan. Summoning the courage to break free from an abusive mobster boyfriend, Sam finally leaves Bensonhurst and begins her new life, working as a temp in a Wall Street brokerage firm. Quickly, she's swept off her feet by Wall Street player Alec DeMarco, a man of boundless energy, appetites, desires, and the wealth to indulge it all.

Dopo aver trascorso un periodo a Parigi, Rebecca, detta "Coco", è partita per New York, dove dovrà dirigere una delle filiali dell'agenzia per cui lavora. Coco affronta con grande entusiasmo il nuovo incarico e la vita nella Grande Mela, la città che ha rilanciato la mitica Chanel quando la sua carriera sembrava in declino. Ed è proprio tra le pagine del diario di una donna vissuta ai tempi della sua eroina che Rebecca si perde: storie che parlano di tempi lontani, scelte difficili e di una donna che forse era una spia...

The debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the book examines the lives and morality of American youth in the aftermath of World War I. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking.

"L'anno scorso, a novembre, un libro mi ha salvato la vita." Le coincidenze non esistono. Ne è sicura Aurélie Bredin, giovane e attraente chef che gestisce da qualche anno il eistorante di famiglia, Le Temps des cerises, a due passi da boulevard Saint-Germain. Un pomeriggio, più triste che mai, Aurélie si rifugia in una libreria, dove si imbatte in un romanzo intitolato Il sorriso delle donne. Incuriosita, inizia a leggerlo e scopre un passaggio in cui viene citato proprio il suo ristorante.

What if you got a second chance with your first love? What happens when you meet your teenage heart-throb - when you're both all grown up? When Cassie was fifteen, all she wanted was to marry Jesse Franklin, the bassist from her favourite band, Franko. Now she's single, in her late twenties and wondering what happened to that teenage dream. A chance encounter on Facebook soon leads to a transatlantic hookup, and soon, Jesse and Cassie are having a long-distance love affair spanning five thousand miles.

Addy Loest is harbouring a secret - several, in fact. Dedicated overthinker, frockaholic and hard-partier, she’s been doing all she can to avoid the truth for quite some time. A working-class girl raised between the Port Kembla Steelworks and the surf of the Illawarra coast, Addy is a fish out of water at the prestigious University of Sydney. She’s also the child of German immigrants, and her broken-hearted widower dad won’t tell her anything about her family’s tragic past.

Carla ha vent'anni e sogna la libertà. Odia l'amore da cui scappa per non esserne dipendente, odia la mancanza d'amore che la fa sentire sola e la costringe alla continua ricerca di altro, ma soprattutto odia la sua famiglia: collusa con la malavita, l'ha privata dell'amor proprio e dell'affetto di suo fratello Claudio, l'unico sentimento in grado di farla sentire completa. Giunta a Roma da un piccolo paesino del Salento, disillusa ma affamata di vita, Carla cerca sé stessa nella stravagante umanità che incontra.

What's more important—revenge . . . or the child you never knew you had? Jolie Chapman was my first love. Now she's my most bitter enemy. Screw me once, shame on you. Screw me twice . . . who am I kidding—I don't believe in second chances anymore. Tripp Montgomery was my first love. I gave him my innocence. Then he broke my heart. And I committed the ultimate betrayal. These Manhattan royals are out for revenge. Sweet, sweet revenge. But there's something they want more. Their daughter.

Hollywood movies are Beth's passion. She hopes her life will always be filled with 'movie moments', where things like serendipity and fate happen every day. Her boyfriend Danny has always been the embodiment of her perfect Hollywood hero—though after seven years together the initial silver-screen romance has settled into something more predictable. And then, one morning at work, Beth receives an anonymous delivery of a take-out coffee cup with a cryptic message suggesting a meeting at Tiffany's.