Showing results for "Sam" in Contemporary Fiction

Eine Tochter steht in der Wohnung ihrer plötzlich verstorbenen Mutter. Die Mutter ist fort, ihre gesamten Ersparnisse auch. Was bleibt, sind Fragen: Warum ist die Wohnung so chaotisch, der Briefkasten so voll? Und wie ist es überhaupt möglich, seine eigene Mutter an einen Heiratsschwindler zu verlieren? Sarah Kuttner erzählt die Geschichte einer Frau, die Liebe suchte und auf einen Love Scammer traf. Die sich verliebte und die Augen verschloss. Die nichts zurückließ, außer einem schier endlosen Chat mit dem Betrüger.

V audioknize Vítěz je sám Paulo Coelho předkládá čtenářům věrný obraz světa, v němž žijeme a kde se natolik upínáme k bohatství a úspěchu za každou cenu, že mnohdy neslyšíme, co nám říká naše vlastní srdce. Román plný napětí nás zavádí na Filmový festival v Cannes, kde se schází takzvaná Supertřída lidé, kteří se proslavili ve vysněném světě módy a filmu. Někteří z nich se dostali až na samotný vrchol a obávají se, že své skvělé postavení ztratí.

Årets mest opløftende bog. En rørende historie om en far og søn, der er faret vild i livet, men sammen finder en vej. En far der må genfinde kærligheden ... Alex elsker sin kone, Jody, men har glemt, hvordan han viser det. Han elsker sin søn, Sam, men forstår ham ikke. Han er kort sagt kørt fast og har brug for et spark for at komme ud af den sump, han befinder sig i. Det spark giver Jody ham, og Alex befinder sig nu på vennen Dans luftmadras. En søn der viser ham, hvordan man skal leve.

Two worlds, two timelines and one person's impact. Manhattan, 1963: weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy, fresh-faced Raymond Wallace lands in the New York Times newsroom on a three-month bursary from Cambridge University. He soon discovers his elusive boss, Bukowski, is being covertly blackmailed by an estranged wife, and that he himself is to assist the straight-laced Doty on an article about the ‘explosion of overt homosexuality’.

I walk slowly to the kitchen counter, staring out the window as Ceci rocks back and forth on the swing. My beautiful darling girl has been through so much already. How can I tell her that her life is about to change forever? When the woman from the hospital tells me that my husband Drew is in a coma my world comes crashing down. In an instant, I see our whole married life flashing before my eyes: the way our children ran into his arms when he came home from work, the way his face lit up when he read to them.

Från ett av Londons fattigaste områden till ett av de rikaste är det bara ett stenkast, fågelvägen. Men det är också Charlie Trumpers väg i livet. Hans farfar, som drog en grönsakskärra på gatorna, lär Charlie allt han kan om säljandets konst. Charlie visar sig vara en naturbegåvning och har stora drömmar. Men innan han hinner sjösätta sina planer drar första världskriget igång. I skyttegravarna kommer han att möta någon som kommer att bli hans fiende för livet ...

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An American is reunited with two Swedish friends 53 years after knowing them as a boy in Ankarra, Turkey. A mixture of the real and fantasy, this story features a terrorist attack, tea with the Swedish King and Queen, and a conversion about music appreciation from Mozart to Wagner. Information, humor, and implausibility keep the listener trying to sift fact from fiction, while learning about Stockholm, too.

An unexpected inheritance collides with a fatal diagnosis. Two longtime friends spend a week in Paris living each day as if it were their last, visiting sites, eating, drinking, and being merry, in spite of dire circumstances. Francophiles will relish the appreciation for all things French. This story is based on fact.

The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what has long been regarded as three of Melville's most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno", and "The Encantadas", his sketches of the Galápagos Islands.

"The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles" is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of ten philosophical "Sketches" on the Encantadas, or Galápagos Islands. It was collected in The Piazza Tales in 1856. The Encantadas was a success with the critics, and contained some of Melville's "most memorable prose". An anonymous narrator unites the ten disparate "Sketches", each of which begin with a few lines of poetry, mostly taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.

The Fletcher family doesn't have time for politics; they are just trying to love and look after each other. But as the UK dissolves into conflict, they find themselves in danger. Not just from dodgy neighbours with brand new machine guns, but from inside their own family. What would happen if the UK broke apart? One family faces Britain's next civil war.