Showing results for "The Baby" in Genre Fiction

On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering—with a jolt of fear—that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered Cassie’s world.

There are only three things in this world that are certain: death, taxes, and babies. Nobody knows this truth better than Emily McCoy, a third year resident working in Baby City, the affectionate nickname for the busy Labor and Delivery unit at a New York City hospital. On a typical day in Baby City, Emily delivers more babies than the number of hours of sleep she manages to squeeze in that night. And definitely more than the number of dates she's been on since she started her training in OB/GYN two years earlier.

Cynthia is 21, bored and desperately waiting for something big to happen. Unemployed and living with her father, her existence is self-absorbed yet meaningless; her days absorbed by reality TV, social media and an obsession with her striking fitness instructor Anahera. When Cynthia suggests they run away together, it’s not long before Anahera arrives at her door, ready to throw in the towel on her job and her marriage.

Toorop, a hard-boiled leatherneck veteran, has been hired to escort a young woman from Russia to Canada. But Marie is no ordinary girl. A schizophrenic and a possible carrier of a new artificial virus, Marie is bearing a mutant embryo created by an American cult, which dreams of producing a genetically modified messiah that will end all human life as we know it.

The day I was told I’d never be able to have a child, my world came crashing down. My husband says he still loves me, but I lie awake at night, wishing we could have a family. One morning, my husband’s side of the bed is cold and empty. I hear a noise and head downstairs. In the middle of the rug in my living room is a wooden drawer. Swaddled inside, with perfect rosy cheeks and beautiful round blue eyes, a baby gazes up at me.

Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse. A neighbor's son murdered in a drive-by shooting. Things that haven't happened yet. Kev, born while Los Angeles burned around them, wants to protect his sister from a power that could destroy her. But when Kev is incarcerated, Ella must decide what it means to watch her brother suffer while holding the ability to wreck cities in her hands. Rooted in the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is as much an intimate family story as a global dystopian narrative.

My life changes forever when my little girl appears in a basket on my doorstep, her long lashes fluttering, only a few hours old. She’s so tiny and precious; my heart is hers in an instant. My husband Tom and I have always longed for a child, so we agree not to tell the authorities. We won’t risk them taking her away. And I know if they find out my history, they’d never let me keep her…I’m so grateful to have my beautiful baby, who we call Daisy. But while Tom refuses to talk about it, I can’t stop wondering who her biological parents are and why they left her with us?

All my adult life, I've longed for a baby. We tried IVF. We tried everything. Now, we're waiting to adopt. We have a beautiful home and all the love in the world to give a child. But we're told it will take years. Then one day, at Rocky Point Beach, one thing leads to another. I make a split-second decision—and I come home with a baby. He has tiny red bow lips and the chubbiest cheeks. He's gorgeous. I call him Jonah.

बेबीची आई गेली, आणि तिचा भाऊ राघववर तिची जबाबदारी येऊन पडली. पण राघव मेंटल हॉस्पिटलला गेला, आणि तिथल्या वातावरणानं आतून पार पोखरून गेला. मेंटल हॉस्पिटलमधून सुटून येऊन तो आपल्या बहिणीला बेबीला येऊन भेटतो. तिला भेटल्यावर त्यांच्या भावा-बहिणीच्या नात्याचं काय होतं? आपण मुळात मेंटल हॉस्पिटलला का आणि कसं गेलो? याचा उलगडा राघवला कसा होतो?

P.J. O’Rourke began writing funny things in 1960s underground newspapers, became editor-in-chief of National Lampoon, then spent 20 years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly as the world’s only trouble spot humorist, going to wars, riots, rebellions, and other "Holidays in Hell” in more than 40 countries.

It's hard enough having a baby on your own. But for Imogen, 24 years old and blind since birth, it will be harder than most. Her journey will take her from heartache to hope and back again. But Imogen has never let blindness rule her life, and she isn't going to start now.... Inspired by a real-life story, this is a moving and gripping listen from number-one best seller Amanda Prowse.

L'inattendu pourrait venir tout bouleverser ! Il est 11h05, le monde continue de tourner. Célia n'est plus debout derrière sa caisse. Max ne lui sourirait certainement pas si elle y était. Et Roman ne fera pas son apparition comme par miracle. Célia est seule. Enfin, non. Célia n'est pas seule, Célia ne sera plus jamais seule... Elle doit désormais penser pour deux.

Michelle is back, and in this mind-blowing sequel to Baby Momma 2, she is by no means taking her losses lightly. She’s been broken down, restored, and at the hands of Honey, practically demolished. The woman that has emerged is hellbent on revenge, until an unexpected twist of destiny turns her world completely inside out.

L'inespéré pourrait finir par leur arriver ! Il est 11h05, le monde s'arrête de tourner pour Célia. Elle vient de perdre ce qu'elle a de plus cher. Malgré tous ses efforts, elle se retrouve vraiment seule cette fois-ci et ne voit plus comment reprendre sa vie en mains. Alors que le contrat signé avec Roman prend brusquement le contrôle de leurs destinées à tous les deux, le passé de chacun va ressurgir et les emmener au bord du précipice.

L'imprévu pourrait être sa plus belle surprise ! Il est 10h30 quand son patron arrive au café dans lequel travaille Célia. Il lui fait un sourire et l'invite une fois de plus à dîner. Mais Max est Français, et la réputation des Français pour briser les cœurs n'est plus à faire... Quelle excuse va-t-elle pouvoir trouver pour l'éviter ? Et si elle mettait ses préjugés de côté, Célia ne serait-elle pas surprise ?

The Greek's Surprise Christmas Bride All the billionaire wants for Christmas is…a wife! Greek tycoon Leo is a businessman, not a family man. Yet becoming guardian to his orphaned nieces and nephews leads him to make the ultimate sacrifice—finding a wife! And kindhearted Letty is the perfect...

Damien Whitfield lost his father when he was an infant, and then lost his mother when he was a young teenager. The only thing his mother left him was a thirst for vengeance. On her deathbed she made him promise to seek revenge for those she held responsible for her death. Damien grows up fast and conquers the business world, going from a homeless boy to a billionaire bachelor. He has no time for love in his quest for righting wrongs of the past. What he doesn't know is that love isn't something he can hide from.

How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves—even if we are unsure of who we are? That is the central question of international bestselling author Paulo Coelho’s profound new work, The Witch of Portobello. It is the story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who...

From bestselling author and international sensation Paulo Coelho, a novel set in a small village about a young, poor barmaid whose wager with the devil leads to a spiritual transformation. A stranger arrives at the remote village of Viscos, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and...

Fighting to survive, Misty Elton takes one look at the man standing in front of her and knows she needs to make a decision - does she want to live? After discovering that her boyfriend is storing enough drugs to supply a small country, she realizes she needs to escape, but he's standing in the doorway - standing in the way of her freedom. Managing to get past him, she flees and lands in Seattle, where she changes her appearance, her name, her life.