Showing results for "Searching for Abby" in Literature & Fiction

The Majority always gets what it wants. Thomas Hill just wishes it didn't want him. There's no way to escape a galactic mob of mind readers, no way for him to blend in with his foster family and other average Americans. Because Thomas invented a way to save his own life. His custom medicine halts the progress of his degenerative neuromuscular disease. Newscasters proclaim him the next Einstein, but mere humans have no idea his bioengineered processing capacity rivals that of a supercomputer. They just think he's smart. However, there are other bioengineered supergeniuses in the Majority.

Twenty-year-old Abigail Turner has only known her mother, Claire - who died shortly after she was born - through letters, videos, postcards, and journals. Abby's father, Josh, has raised his precious daughter himself, but his overprotectiveness has become stifling. Abby longs to forge out on her own and see the world after a childhood trapped indoors: she suffers from bronchopulmonary dysplasia, which means a case of the sniffles can rapidly escalate into life-threatening pneumonia.

'No one does funny, emotional, life-affirming love stories quite like Abby Jimenez. She just keeps outdoing herself' EMILY HENRY 'Funny and poignant, relatable and aspirational, heart-tugging and satisfying. It is, in a word, perfect' CHRISTINA LAUREN 'Abby Jimenez's words . . . sprinkle humour...

New York City, 1943. From jazz clubs to back alleys, passion and peril collide in this slow-burn sapphic love story that simmers through every twist and turn. Nightclub singer–turned–OSS spy Kathryn Hammond has a past she can’t outrun and a mission she can’t afford to fail. But when fearless reporter Jenny Ryan becomes her assignment, sparks fly and everything starts to unravel.

Therapist. Client. Catastrophic chemistry. Dr. Nicola Forbes has spent years building a life defined by boundaries—clinical, emotional, ethical. But when Avery Hall, a rising Hollywood star, walks into her therapy office, Nic feels something she hasn’t in years: want. Avery is bold, brazen, and struggling under the weight of queer fame. Nic is grieving her wife, hiding behind professionalism, and failing—spectacularly—not to fall for her client. What begins with guarded glances and charged conversations becomes a line-crossing affair neither woman can walk away from.

Just back from her second tour in Afghanistan, NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli goes undercover to expose a ring of dirty cops. But when she's ordered to kill to prove her loyalty, she aborts the operation without having identified the leaders. Now, Corelli is the one exposed. With her brothers and sisters in blue ostracizing her, can she trust Detective P. J. Parker to watch her back?

'No one does funny, emotional, life-affirming love stories quite like Abby Jimenez. She just keeps outdoing herself' EMILY HENRY 'Funny and poignant, relatable and aspirational, heart-tugging and satisfying. It is, in a word, perfect' CHRISTINA LAUREN 'Abby Jimenez's words . . . sprinkle humour...

Los Angeles 1927. Auf der Williams Ranch ist Unruhe eingekehrt, die 16-jährige Tochter Betty möchte nicht länger das einfache Mädchen von der Ranch sein und strebt nach Glanz und Glamour. Da sie einen gefährlichen Weg wählt, nimmt Abby ihre Tochter mit auf eine lange Schiffsreise. Robert dagegen zieht es in seine Heimat, nach Utah, wo er wieder Butch Cassidy sein könnte. Schwierige Entscheidungen müssen getroffen werden, doch das Leben lässt sich nicht immer planen.

Butch Cassidy kehrt 1910 unerkannt in die USA zurück und sucht seine einstige Weggefährtin Abby auf, die seit 16 Jahren mit ihrer Familie in San Francisco lebt. Abby erkennt durch ihn, dass sie im Verlauf ihrer Ehe alles einbüßte, was ihr einst wichtig war. Als Butch ihr vorschlägt, mit ihm neu zu beginnen, fällt ihr die Entscheidung leicht, auch wenn ein Leben an der Seite des gesuchten Outlaws Verzicht und eine ungewisse Zukunft bedeutet. Zunächst muss Abby jedoch ihrer eigenwilligen Tochter Alison alle Wege ebnen und ihr zeigen, was wahre Freiheit bedeutet.

'No one does funny, emotional, life-affirming love stories quite like Abby Jimenez. She just keeps outdoing herself' EMILY HENRY 'Funny and poignant, relatable and aspirational, heart-tugging and satisfying. It is, in a word, perfect' CHRISTINA LAUREN 'Abby Jimenez's words . . . sprinkle humour...

Shattergirl, Earth's first lesbian guardian - a brilliant but aloof alien superheroine who can hurl and destroy large objects - is refusing to save people and has gone off the grid. Lena Martin, the street-smart tracker with a silver tongue and a disdain for the rogue guardians she chases, has only days to bring her home. As the pair clash heatedly, masks begin to crack and brutal secrets are exposed that could shatter them both. 

Kalifornien 1918. Für Abby und ihren Mann Robert Williams, dem ehemaligen Banditen Butch Cassidy, könnte das Leben im Norden von Los Angeles nicht besser laufen. Sie fanden auf ihrer Ranch mit der lebhaften Tochter Betty eine neue Heimat, in der sie niemand aufspüren wird, denn man hält sie für tot. Doch allzu bald wird der Friede bedroht, nicht nur gefährliche Banditen treiben ihr Unwesen, persönliche Dramen und Unglücke erfordern allen Mut, Geschick und Einfallsreichtum. Und dann gibt es ja auch noch Abbys erste Tochter Alison.

Easy Nevada is a fortune hunter with an eye on a pyramid buried for 2,000 years. She'll do anything to get her hands on its untold riches, if she can just get past the deadly traps that protect them. Candice Cushing is an archaeologist born in Sudan and raised in Britain who is drawn to the mysterious pyramid that she sees as a piece of her heritage. Farouq Al-Jabbar doesn't see it as either history or treasure. The zealot has come to destroy anything that smells of blasphemy and anyone who gets in his way.

Utah, 1889. Wenige Tage vor ihrer arrangierten Hochzeit mit einem alten Mann verlässt die junge Abigail Clearwater zusammen mit dem Banditen Fynn ihr Elternhaus, um ein Leben in Freiheit zu beginnen. Sie entschließt sich, selbst gesetzlos zu werden. Als sie auf die später so berühmten Outlaws Butch Cassidy und Elzy Lay trifft, erlebt sie mit ihnen und Fynn viele Abenteuer, auch in der Liebe, und sie findet Freunde fürs Leben. "Ich kann tun, was ich will, ich bin frei!", wird zu Abbys Lebensmotto. Sie weiß, dass jeder für sein Glück selbst verantwortlich ist.

My name is Storm Redfield: Navy Commander, Special Forces. Born on Earth in the year 2057, I don't belong in the twenty-third century. Nevertheless, that's where I end up following the worst betrayal of all by my own people. During my time asleep, humanity has become a spacefaring civilization. We are no longer alone in the universe, and the galaxy is at peace . . . more or less. Now, I have a choice to make.

Nineteen-year-old Whit Conrad leaves her conservative Pennsylvania home for sunny California, looking for independence, a fresh start, and a place to stash her grief. She promptly finds a job at a tattoo parlor, a craptastic first apartment, and one friend - Ryan - who is a little less friend, a little more benefits. Deo Beckett is a soulful surfer with a passion for tattoos and beautiful women. On the eve of his twenty-second birthday, he finds himself living with his grandfather, recently unemployed, and seriously adrift.

What makes love stick? Is it the irresistible spark when you lock eyes across a piazza in Rome? Is it feeling the earth move under your feet? (Wait—that was an actual earthquake.) In these six serendipitous short stories, bestselling authors turn improbable first encounters into hopelessly romantic happy ever afters.

Brought to you by Penguin. Abi is a professional cleaner, so it’s ironic when she’s forced to move out because of an infestation in her building. Thanks, Apartment 2B! Declan is a busy man, working his way up at Hathaway Holdings. Which is why he’s never met the woman who cleans his...

All children's book illustrator Claire Turner ever wanted was to be a mother. After six years of trying to conceive, she and her husband, Josh, have finally accepted that she will never be pregnant with a child of their own. Yet once they give up hope, the couple gets the miracle they've been waiting for. For the first few months of her pregnancy, Claire and Josh are living on cloud nine. But when she begins to experience debilitating headaches, blurred vision, and even fainting spells, the soon-to-be mother goes to the doctor and receives a terrifying diagnosis.

Abby Mann's classic story about the Nuremberg trials, under which German leaders were found guilty of crimes against humanity in 1945 and 1946. Even today, the play remains a shattering indictment of the consequences of unchecked authority and the seductive power of group thought.