Showing results for "The Nineties" in Genre Fiction

Ninety-Three is the story of the Marquis de Lantenac, an exiled French nobleman snuck back into France to raise a Royalist army which will make the English invasion possible, Gauvain, Lantenac's great-nephew leading the Republican army to thwart him, and Cimourdain, a former priest and Gauvain's teacher and mentor, tasked to keep Gauvain on the right path. And in the end, who will face the guillotine?

Readers and critics alike raved over USA Today bestselling author Sally Thorne’s smash hit debut novel, The Hating Game—which sold in over 20 countries. Now she’s back with an unforgettable romantic comedy about a twin sister and brother struggling over an inheritance—and the sexy best...

Nothing escaped the eye of the satirical eye of Britain's phenomenally successful all-Asian sketch show that was Goodness Gracious Me. The complete BBC Radio series 1-3 fore-ran the award-winning BBC TV series that ran in the late 1990s, and features the same cast. Prepare for your heart to pound in the Indian recreation of Brief Encounter, sing along to the profound words of wisdom with Fifty Ways to Leave your Mother, and enjoy pop classics such as Hindi People and Punjabi Girl.

Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize ""Confessions is a remarkable debut. A complex and compulsive read that unravels the intricate twists and revelations among three generations of women with elegance and urgency."" —Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace A...

小説というものの輪郭が、いわば地球を覗く窓の形が、本書によりまた大きく更新されました。それはつまり、この本の中で初めて寛げる人がいるということです。救済と爆弾は同じ姿で在れるのだと気付かされました。

From New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan comes a hilarious romantic comedy about a down-on-her-luck florist whose future begins to bloom when she takes on the challenge of helping to transform her nerdy roommate. Holly is a frustrated florist whose life doesn’t seem to be coming up...

Danske Maj har en krop som en supermodel, og bag det smukke ydre gemmer sig både talent og ambitioner, så da hun bliver ansat i Monsieur Christians berømmede modehus, ved hun, at det kun er et spørgsmål om tid, før designeren får øjnene op for hendes evner som modeskaber. Ikke alle vil hende det dog godt. Anton Carmen, Monsieur Christians højre hånd, er ude af sig selv af jalousi på den unge kvindes raketkarriere. Også skønheden Kerit føler sig truet af Maj. For Kerit er forlovet med den unge jurist Carl Bang, der er nabo til Maj, og som alle dage har været hendes gode ven. Og Maj har selv et

This title was previously published in 2018 with the original title, 'The Lonely Hearts Cinema Club' 'The characters jump right off the page and into your heart.' Reader review Nineteen-year-old Jennifer is regretting her hasty move into Sunset Promenade, an unusual retirement home taking in...

Erica Ryan is flying home from London after a disastrous business trip. Free spirit Abby Hayes is flying into New York City to visit her mother before jetting off again. Both end up in Gander, Canada, when their flight is diverted because of 9/11. For ninety-six hours they share a rollercoaster of emotions and find themselves drawn to one another. Will their nascent connection survive everyday life when they return home?

تقدم الرواية تحديداً ذيول الحرب الأهلية اللّبنانية من منظور حداثي. تمتد أحداث الرواية بين لحظة مفصلية في مجزرة صبرا وشاتيلا أيلول 1982 ونيويوك عام 2000 ويستند السرد...

When Tom's girlfriend walks out on him the day before Christmas, he feels humiliated but not necessarily heartbroken. Sadie wasn't, after all, The One. If we're being precise, she was number 85. And so, for reasons that are only mostly wrong, Tom embarks on a mission to bring his number of encounters up to a nice neat 100. Over the course of his quest he sleeps with a colleague, a colleague of a friend, a friend of a friend, a friend of a friend's wife, the estate agent selling his flat, and several more besides.

This is the story of the great stampede of gold seekers to Alaska, written from the eyewitness viewpoint of the author. Not just a spectator, the author was among the first gold seekers who took part in the initial mining activities in the northland.

Stormen i 99 handler om mennesker på InWears lager på Amager. Om tøjplukkeren Anton, der bliver kæreste med Nanna fra returafdelingen, men ikke vil være ved det. Om kantinens bundliderlige kok, der fantaserer om sin filippinske køkkenmedhjælper. Om finnen, der kun har duften af honningmadder tilbage af Finland. Om ukraineren med mareridt. Om obsternasige lagerarbejdere og pressede mellemledere, om kiksede fester, rockergæld, joints og steroider, om liderlighed, vold og kærlighed. En roman om Danmark op til den store skæbnesvangre decemberstorm i 1999.

The complete first and second series of the Orwellian sitcom starring Robert Lindsay and David Threlfall. In this parody of George Orwell’s dystopian classic, everyman Edward Wilson finds his life taking a sinister turn when he becomes embroiled in mysterious government machinations.

Small ranchers in Harmony, Oregon, are up against it with the price of cattle down and Skull Ranch, owned by a syndicate, trying to buy them out. Dan Riley spends a month trying to find a bank to help them, but he fails. When the editor of The Clarion is shot, the ranchers blame Black Mike Sand, the manager of Skull, in spite of the circumstances of the shooting. As pressure mounts, Riley is determined to find out who is really in charge of the syndicate, and the only man willing to help him is Andrew Daniels, a former newspaper man whose courage comes from a bottle.

"Mi innamorai del calcio come mi sarei poi innamorato delle donne: improvvisamente, inesplicabilmente, acriticamente." La passione per il football e l'amore per la squadra del cuore possono, si sa, essere così intensi da trasformare radicalmente la vita di un uomo, e così è stato per Nick Hornby, tifoso dell'Arsenal fin da bambino. In Febbre a 90' racconta in prima persona, con tono ironico e affettuoso, appassionato e divertito, gli entusiasmi e le depressioni, le impagabili emozioni e le cocenti delusioni vissute da un "ossessionato» del pallone.

Bares y otros lugares para conversar y lo que se tercie cuando uno tiene 20 años. Mientras languidecen los 80 y arranca una nueva década incierta, Pepe, un veinteañero perdido, confuso y desconcertado, hace como que estudia Filología para aprovechar el inglés que ha aprendido en California, trabaja en lo que le sale siempre que no suponga mucho esfuerzo y se entrega, con inquebrantable constancia, a los bares, la cerveza, la música y la posibilidad de ser rechazado por todo tipo de mujeres.

"I'm not much of a letter-writer. As the sheriff here, I'm used to writing incident reports, not chatty letters. And I've got plenty to keep me occupied, like the unidentified remains found in a cave outside town. And the fact that my friend, Judge Olivia Griffin, is fighting cancer. And the break-ins at 204 Rosewood Lane -- the house Faith, my former girlfriend, happens to be renting from Grace Harding...."

Charlotte Smith's future is planned to the last detail, and so was her sister's - until Phoebe became a disruption. When their parents commit Phoebe to a notorious asylum, Charlotte knows there's more to the story than madness. Shedding her identity to become an anonymous inmate, "Woman 99", Charlotte uncovers dangerous secrets. Insanity isn't the only reason her fellow inmates were put away - and those in power will do anything to keep the truth, or Charlotte, from getting out.

Fifty humorous little stories, inspired by Hollywood horror flicks, featurning werewolves, vampies, mummies, zombies, ghouls, and ghosts. But the writer, Meatball Fulton, has bent these in quite a different direction. Some of the titles speak for themselves: "Zombie Al's Big Night Out", "When the Wolf Woman Wets Her Whistle", "Loathsome Sally Under the Texas Moon", "Detective Barney Big Butt Meets Little Marvin the Midget", and 46 more.