Showing results for "Wendy" in Literary Fiction

Een heerlijke roman vol liefde, vriendschap, geheimen, verdriet en humor Sofie Wolters houdt haar halve leven al van Jelle Martens, een vriend van haar tweelingbroer Nate, die trouwe lezers al kennen uit Brokers' roman Baguette met jam voor twee . Maar voor Jelle is Sofie nooit meer geweest dan het kleine zusje dat hij gewoon voor lief nam. In hun puberteit maakte een dramatische gebeurtenis een einde aan hun jeugd en onschuld. En toen ze daarna toch een keer met elkaar in bed belandden, liet Jelle vervolgens niets meer van zich horen.

In a chilling new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub, one woman looking for love online is entangled in a killer's terrifying scheme. In the moonlight, shovelfuls of earth fall on a wooden crate at the bottom of a deep pit. Soon the hole will be filled and covered...

As featured in The Boston Globe The New York Post Bustle Woman's World South Shore Home, Life & Style "Engaging...Add this to beach reads along with those by Elin Hilderbrand, Nancy Thayer, and Dorothea Benton Frank." --Booklist THE SEAFARER IS THE PLACE TO SEE AND BE SEEN IN THE SUMMER... With...

"Emily Brown, una estudiante aparentemente común, se va adentrando a un mundo que ni ella misma imaginó. De tantas chicas que hay en su clase, es ella la que tiene que pasar por una serie de situaciones que la ponen en peligro. Su vida está llena de secretos y, lamentablemente, de decepciones...

New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub returns to Mundy’s Landing—a small town where bygone bloodshed has become big business. Hair neatly braided, hands serenely clasped, eyes closed, the young woman appeared to be sound asleep. But the peaceful tableau was a madman’s...

From New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub comes the first in a terrifying new series set in a small town with a sinister secret The razor's gleaming blade slices effortlessly through skin and tendon, and he relishes the final anguished moments of his prey. There's only one thing...

A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra’s mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the proponents of revolution promised a better future. Now that she’s...

Ma sœur Dinah est tout ce qu'il me reste. Elle est ma seule famille. Pour nous offrir le meilleur, elle n'a pas hésité à nous embarquer dans une effroyable « chasse à l'homme fortuné ». Mais j’en ai ma claque de tout ça.

Set in the author’s native Belfast, the ten stories in Sweet Home lay bare the heartbreak and quiet tragedies that run under the surface of everyday lives. A lonely woman is fascinated by her niqab-wearing neighbours; a middle-aged teacher becomes obsessed with a young Gaelic football player; and an employer covers for his two employees caught having sex in a public toilet.

Melanie Henderson's life is a lie. The scandal of her birth and the identity of her true parents is kept from her family's small, conservative Colorado town. Not even she knows the truth: that her birth mother was just 14 and unmarried to her father, a local boy who drowned when he tried to take a shortcut across an icy river. Thirty-five years later, in Denver, Melanie dabbles in affairs with married men while clinging to a corporate job that gives her life order even as her tenuous relationships fall apart. She still hasn't learned that the woman who raised her is actually her aunt.

A contemporary thriller of rebellion and surrender, love and war. It is the present day. The foggy northern city of Port Angelsund is under occupation by the soldiers of Garrison. Sylvie is a young woman just trying to survive. When she is singled out for punishment at a Garrison checkpoint, a young lieutenant rescues her from torture. Though she knows the terrible risks of collaboration, she cannot stop herself from falling in love.

A gripping literary psychological thriller about a young woman and a peculiar taste for flesh, this is the spellbinding new book from the winner of the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award.