Showing results for "DIRT" in Genre Fiction

Ich bin auf den Geschmack gekommen. Sie kann sich ruhig wehren. Es bringt ihr ohnehin nichts. Wenn ich etwas will, kenne ich keine Gnade und keine Zurückhaltung. Außerdem muss ich dringend mit ihr über die Sache mit dem Skalpell reden. Das war wirklich nicht nett und hat mir aufs Gemüt geschlagen. Sie weiß, wozu ich fähig bin, wenn ich gute Laune habe – und deswegen hätte sie sich wirklich vorher überlegen sollen, ob es klug ist, mich wütend zu machen…

Johnna LaGrange photographs death for a living. But when she gets the call that her younger sister Ori has vanished from their hometown of Sweetwater, North Carolina, the decay she's drawn to becomes chillingly personal. Returning to a town that never forgave her for surviving, Johnna finds her family in tatters—her mother drowning in vodka, her brother partying like nothing's wrong. Only Shannon, her ex turned detective, is willing to help. But as they dig into Ori's disappearance, buried memories start to surface.

Georgie Jutland is a mess. At 40, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrimination. One morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she sees a shadow drifting up the beach below - a loner called Luther Fox, with danger in his wake.

Le roman en tête des ventes aux USA ! Des coups de feu, des cris, des pleurs, des bruits de pas... Lydia tente d'étouffer les bruits en pressant la paume de ses mains sur les oreilles de son petit garçon, Luca. Ils n'ont aucune idée de ce qu'il se passe au-delà de la porte des toilettes dans lesquels ils se sont réfugiés. Quand le silence revient, ils sortent et découvrent le massacre. La fête de famille a viré au drame, tous les convives de la quinceanera sont morts, baignant dans leur sang, transpercés par les balles du cartel le plus puissant d'Acapulco.

Nach dem Tod ihres Mannes bringt Eileen ihre Tochter allein durch und verzweifelt fast, als sich die Geschichte wiederholt und auch ihre eigene Tochter jung und unehelich Mutter wird. Doch in den Frauen der Familie Aylward stecken Kraft und Mut, und es reicht ihnen längst nicht, nur eine Nebenrolle im Leben zu spielen.

To move forward, she'll have to face the past. Paige Bennett is fulfilling her childhood dream of working and living on the land as a station hand on Whitetail Ridge. Getting her hands dirty, riding horses, working with cattle and kicking up red dust. Life can't get much better. Or so she thinks...

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Annie McIntyre has a love/hate relationship with Garnett, Texas. Recently graduated from college and home waitressing, lacking not in ambition but certainly in direction, Annie is lured into the family business—a private investigation firm—by her supposed-to-be-retired grandfather, Leroy, despite the rest of the clan’s misgivings.

Red Dirt Country features the thrilling return of Detective Dave Burrows, now a member of the stock squad in Western Australia. Recovering from an undercover case in outback Queensland, Dave Burrows finally returns to Perth, to join his pregnant wife, Melinda, and their small daughter, Bec. Things have been off-kilter between Mel and Dave for some time and nothing he says or does seems to make it right.

Em uma agradável vizinhança de Acapulco, um massacre. Uma chacina vitima dezesseis membros de uma mesma família, durante uma festa de quinze anos. Os únicos sobreviventes são Lydia e seu filho Luca, de oito anos. O marido de Lydia, Sebastián, foi o jornalista responsável pelo perfil jornalístico do homem que controla o cartel de drogas mais poderoso da cidade. E agora, como a maioria dos seus parentes, ele também está morto.

John Valby sings "Three Blind Crabs", "Who Gives A F**k", "F**king USA", "Little Penis", and many other funny songs guaranteed to make you and your friends laugh till you cry.

Estamos nas cabeças de três personagens. São três filhos, mas são menos filhos que irmãos e são menos irmãos que pessoas, e são um completo abandono, mas ainda não sabem. Na aridez de fato e naquela identitária, ouvimos o que nos contam Mosquito, Rita e Mirna. Em comum, a mesma mãe bêbada, castigada e louca, que tem como descanso o amor do pai dos seus filhos que lhe ampara com o perdão eterno diante dos vexames ou dos escapismos como reação à brutalidade do nada que é a vida naquela esquina apagada do mundo.