Showing results for "Clarissa" in Genre Fiction

Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies in his favourite vessel the Surprise, pondering on middle age and sexual frustration. He soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of his ship: to his astonishment he finds that in spite of a lifetime's experience he does not know what the foremost hands or even his own officers are thinking.

Ren Ishida is nearly finished with graduate school when he receives news of his sister Keiko's sudden death. She was viciously stabbed one rainy night on her way home, and there are no leads. Ren heads to Akakawa to conclude his sister's affairs, still failing to understand why she chose to abandon the family and Tokyo for this desolate town years ago. Haunted in his dreams by a young girl who is desperately trying to tell him something, Ren struggles to find solace in the void his sister has left behind.

When Shouji Arai crosses one of his company's most powerful clients, he must leave Akakawa immediately or risk his life. But his girlfriend Youko is nowhere to be found. Haunted by dreams of drowning and the words of a fortune teller who warned him away from three women with water in their names, he travels to Tokyo, where he tries in vain to track Youko down. But Shouji soon realizes that not everything Youko told him about herself was true. Who is the real woman he once lived with and loved, and where could she be hiding?

Dans le petit village de Vallenot, au coeur des Alpes, Émeline trépigne d’impatience à l’approche des fêtes de fin d’année. Au programme, l’inauguration d’une magnifique grande roue sur la place du marché et le concours de la plus belle vitrine de Noël qu’elle aimerait bien remporter. Mais entre son job de serveuse à L’Edelweiss et un bébé qu’elle élève seule, les journées filent et les nuits sont courtes.

New York City, 1832. Clarissa Tanner is carefree and lighthearted until the sudden death of her parents. Forced to pay off family debts or lose her horse farm, she’s given one choice: auction off her beloved horses or reluctantly enter 1830s New York Society social season to face the dreaded marriage market. Nicholas is a man on a mission, searching for his missing brother. Fearing Liam may be the victim of foul play, Nicholas needs to keep a low profile while conducting his search.

Beaten and left for dead in the English countryside, clergyman and reformer Tom Cross is rescued and nursed back to health by Miranda and Simon Thorne, reclusive siblings who seem to have as many secrets as he does. Tom has spent years helping the downtrodden in London while lying to everyone he meets, but now he's forced to slow down and confront his unexamined life.

Clarissa is the story of a courageous German girl, who thwarted a communist plot to infiltrate NATO during the Cold War and found her true love. During the partition of Germany, intrigues between the East and the West flourish amid kidnapping, theft, and espionage schemes. As Clarissa participates in a high-stakes operation in which she is the target, she wonders, will the romantic Canadian Aurthur Lundy rescue her from adversity?

"Il me reste quelques rêves à réaliser et le moment est venu de m'y atteler. Je vous aime très fort. À très bientôt ! Maman." Léna n'en revient pas. Comment sa mère, qui l'a convoquée pour passer Noël dans la maison de son enfance, a-t-elle pu disparaître en ne lui laissant que ce message sibyllin ? La voilà donc coincée dans le petit village de Vallenot au cœur des Alpes de Haute-Provence et condamnée à passer la fête qu'elle hait plus que tout, entourée de sa famille pour le moins... haute en couleur ! Mais les fêtes de famille ont le don de faire rejaillir les secrets enfouis.

It’s Christmas Eve in Baltimore, and you know what that means: snow. Lots of it. Join our dynamic duo as they battle the elements, quirky friends and family, and two marauding dogs in their annual ill-fated attempts to enjoy a quiet Christmas alone.

2015, Nice. 30 ans, est en pleine dispute avec sa conseillère Pôle Emploi lorsque sa vie bascule. Ses parents viennent d'avoir un grave accident de moto. Son père est décédé sur le coup, sa mère est trop grièvement blessée pour espérer survivre, mais encore assez lucide pour parler. Elle va révéler à Zoé qu'elle lui a menti depuis toujours : l'homme qui l'a élevée n'est pas son véritable père. Elle donne un seul indice à sa fille pour retrouver son père biologique : "La Plage de la mariée".

University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or whom, was she running from? To Ryusei, a fellow student at Waseda; Chie, Miwako's best friend; and Fumi, Ryusei's older sister, Miwako was more than the blunt, no-nonsense person she projected to the world. Heartbroken, Ryusei begs Chie to take him to the village where Miwako spent her final days.

I didn't realize I was hooking up with my student, but once I saw his hockey-player body, I couldn't help myself. If anyone finds out, I'll be out of a job. Unlike most college boys, he's mature in all the right ways and completely knows how to turn on a woman.

Adulthood comes all too quickly when the baker’s son sets his sights on her. Offered a blood orange, Oliva—haunted by her mother’s warning, “a girl who smiles has already said yes”—spurns the fruit. Yet, this act sets into motion an unwanted courtship that will force Oliva to fight for the right to choose her own path, even though the odds of winning are steep. While America and Europe are in the throes of social change, Sicily fiercely clings to its rigid traditions, including the custom of fuitina–by which kidnappings could be disguised as elopements–which is accepted and enshrined in law.

Jemma Larsen needs money. Quick, fast and in a turbo hurry! If she doesn’t earn enough to support her little brother, the lights will be off and social services will be at her doorstep, snatching her brother into the system faster than lightning in a storm! She’s his only family left after the death of their parents. As a lifestyle blogger, she’s constantly bombarded by fans to interview handsome reality star, Daniel Starke, to give her blog just the boost it needs to go mega viral!

Autumn finds it hard not to give into Hunter's advances, even though it all seems like a game to him. Trying to understand him is impossible, because he shrouds himself in mystery.

What she doesn't know is that Hunter has more baggage than anyone should have to carry. When she discovers he's in an illegal frat club to save the one person that matters to him, Autumn realizes this could mean the end of her undeniable connection to him. Even their lives are at risk.

Jemma Larsen has blogged her way into the job of her dreams! As a writer for a mega magazine, she earns big ka-ching, which provides a crazy good living for her and her brother, Robbie. However, the rest of her life can use a little TLC - she and her boyfriend, Hollywood hunk, Daniel Starke, are seriously on the outs. To make matters worse, his ex, Lexi, is stirring up trouble again, not only derailing Jemma's livelihood, but jeopardizing her custody of Robbie. And Jemma has had enough!

Ever since she met Daniel, Jemma’s life has been a hot mess! Whenever she and the reality show hottie are in the same room, the temperature soars to a blistering heat wave that drives Jemma and Daniel crazy for each other. Unfortunately, Jemma and Daniel’s relationship sparks jealousy with a capital J in an angry rival blogger as well as Daniel’s skanky ex, Lexi. Now, Jemma and Daniel are plastered all over the web, newspapers, and television.

She was a smart, snappy, lighthearted girl who knew it all at 14 and let television audiences everywhere know it. Now a woman in her late 20s, her searching blue eyes are more serious but mostly amused by the people around her. The gap-toothed smile that made her seem younger than she really was is gone, but she still lightens up the room. Her unpredictable wardrobe rocks just like when she was a kid, but her fashion sense has evolved, and it makes men and women turn their heads.

Road Trip Feeling, Romance & US-WahlkampfClarissa ist vor 10 Jahren nach Europa ausgewandert. Weil es mit dem russischen Ivan nicht klappte, flieht sie in ihre amerikanische Heimat, wo sie sich vom Liebeskummer erholen will. In Miami ist von Erholung allerdings keine Spur: Denn Clarissa findet sich mitten im amerikanischen Wahlkampf wieder, in den sie sich mehr und mehr (romantisch) verstrickt. Wunderbar ironisch zeichnet Irene Dische das Portrait einer jungen Emigrantin, die von sich selbst sagt: "Sich verlieben können ist eine Begabung, und ich habe sie."

Abby a besoin de souffler. Depuis qu'elle essaye désespérément de tomber enceinte, ses relations avec son mari sont de plus en plus tendues. Alors, sur un coup de tête, elle fait ses valises pour la région de Cork, en Irlande, à la recherche de sa mère Caitlin, qui l'a abandonnée quand elle était bébé. Mais en retrouvant Caitlin, elle découvre aussi une valise remplie de cassettes audio enregistrées par sa grand-mère, Lucy. Celle-ci y raconte sa vie d'Irlandaise émigrée à New York au début du XXe siècle.