As Stephanie Plum spirals & tumbles through the incendiary world of Plum, she can hardly catch her breath, let alone her man - even if she could decide which one to chase. Evanovich is also the author of 'Four To Score', 'High Five', 'Hot Six' & 'Seven Up'.
Elégante, compétente, autoritaire, Jackie gère au mieux, sans heurts apparents, son divorce avec Luke et le partage de la garde de leurs enfants, Anna, onze ans, et Ben, sept ans, jusqu'à l'arrivée, dans la vie de Luke, d'Isabel, jeune photographe de mode. Talentueuse, bourrée d'énergie, celle-ci n'a hélas rien d'une mère. Son "incompétence" exaspère Jackie, suscite l'hostilité des enfants, mettant le père dans une situation difficile. Mais bientôt éclate le drame. Atteinte d'une maladie incurable Jackie comprend que l'affrontement n'a plus de sens et qu'elle va devoir passer la main. Ensemble, par-delà leurs différences, les deux femmes vont relever le défi, devenir amies par amour pour Luke et les enfants. Un film drôle, sensible, émouvant, inoubliable. Réalisé par Chris Colombus et interprété par Susan Sarandon et Julia Roberts, éblouissantes de vérité.
Dans une petite ville de pêcheurs de la côte Est, Tim et Alan, deux frères, sont amoureux de Diane, la fille de la bibliothécaire. Diane choisit d'épouser Tim, mais ce dernier l'abandonne à la naissance de Julia, leur fille handicapée. Toujours épris de sa belle-sœur, Alan, devenu pédiatre, soigne sa nièce Julia. Lorsque Alan lui présente Amy, une adolescente en mal d'affection, c'est, pour Diane, une seconde fille qui lui tombe du ciel. Ravissante, fantasque, Amy parvient à communiquer avec Julia en inventant un langage secret. Peu à peu, sa présence oblige Diane à se remettre en question. Sortira-t-elle de son isolement pour retrouver le goût d'aimer ?
A woman forced into a plural marriage as a teenager with a man thirty-two years her senior describes the years of psychological abuse she suffered, her decision to escape with her eight children, and her successful battle with the church over custody of her children.
Un serial killer sème la terreur à Minneapolis. Ses crimes, il les signe Le Crémateur. Son modus operandi, c'est de décapiter et carboniser ses victimes, exclusivement féminines. Lorsque la police découvre que la dernière en date est probablement la fille d'un des plus riches industriels de la ville, une véritable psychose s'empare des habitants...
Two outcasts in medieval England are brought together and share a destiny of passion in the third of the Velvet Montgomery Annals Quadrilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Duchess. With her father murdered, her home burned, lovely Alyx Blackelt fled to the woods and found sanctuary in the camp of Raine Montgomery, a nobleman outlawed by the king’s edict. There she hid her beauty in the guise of a boy, and her sorrow in her work as Montgomery’s squire. But how long could such loveliness as hers be hidden? How long could such a gallant man’s desires be blind? And how soon—even as a blood feud raged between the Montgomery family and the Chatworth, as angry swords clattered in the name of family honor—one woman’s love would make all the difference...one woman’s love would inflame a hero’s passion, touch a kings pity, and raise a song of praise in every English heart.
Autobiografie van een Argentijnse politica die tijdens de Argentijnse 'vuile oorlog' van de jaren zeventig illegaal werd geadopteerd en pas op latere leeftijd te horen kreeg dat ze de dochter is van een politiek actief echtpaar dat om het leven werd gebracht.
Model Petra Nemcova's charmed life was changed forever when the tsunami swept her boyfriend away, and left her with a broken pelvis and clinging to a tree for nearly eight hours. All of her proceeds from this book will be donated to the Give2Asia/Happy Hearts Fund helping to rebuild the areas hardest hit.
It was just an argument, one of hundreds Daisy Tucker must have had with her teenage daughter, Sage, over the years. But this one had ended differently, with Sage gone from their Connecticut home the next morning, leaving behind only a brief “I have to go.” Daisy tried not to overreact, tried to remind herself this was different from what had happened thirteen years earlier to Sage’s twin brother, Jake. This was different from a three-year-old boy disappearing in the canyons of Wyoming, never to be found. Sage was sixteen and resourceful. She would be found.Years ago Daisy had traveled to Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains in search of inspiration for her art and had found a man with the wilderness inside him. James Tucker was a rancher, bound to the wild land he loved, and together he and Daisy created a small paradise for their family—until the day their little boy vanished without a trace. Now, as their daughter makes a dangerous cross-country pilgrimage to the father she longs for, Daisy will return to the place that took everything she had....Filled with a wild and unpredictable beauty, Dream Country is a novel you’ll never want to end—even as you can’t wait to finish it.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Mary Jane Moran is an out-of-work actress. She should have been a star. A brilliant off-Broadway success, she was too fat, too plain and - at 34 - too old for Hollywood. To cap it all, Tinseltown has also stolen the only man she ever loved. Mary Jane Moran is ready for revenge. Two years, 40 pounds and $67,000 worth of plastic surgery later, she gets it in the person of Jahne Moore - thin, drop-dead gorgeous and soon to be the hottest property in Hollywood. Buy Mary Jane finds that dazzling beauty and meteoric success bring problems of their own...
