Showing results for "Joséphine" in Literature & Fiction

Harry always knew he would go back one day ... Eighteen years ago when he was a boy, he had made a decision that drove him from the place he knew and loved. In those early years, between boy and man, he had carved out a life for himself, and somehow, he had found a semblance of peace.Yet through every waking moment during those long aching years, he was haunted by what happened when he was a boy. He had never forgotten that warm, carefree girl with the laughing eyes.

When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Joséphine Cortès is left in an unhappy state of affairs. The mother of two - confident, beautiful teenage Hortense and shy, babyish Zoé - is forced to maintain a stable family life while making ends meet on her meager salary as a medieval history scholar. Meanwhile, Joséphine's charismatic sister Iris seems to have it all - a wealthy husband, gorgeous looks, and a très chic Paris address - but she dreams of bringing meaning back into her life.

"I'm 36 years of age; handsome and fit. I'm not as tall as I'd like to be, nor am I rippling with chest-muscles. But I reckon I'm a dead ringer for Hugh Grant. After years spent with 'the dreaded Laura' Ben is finally free! A new divorcee he can't wait to get back in the game and sets about writing a list of all the things he has to do.

It's a time of armed police in armoured Land Rovers and British Army check points. But it's also the time of Murder She Wrote, The Cranberries, Salt-N-Pepa, Doc Martens and The X Files. And while The Troubles may hang over her hometown, Erin has troubles of her own, like the fact that the boy she's in love with (actually in love with) doesn't know she exists. Or that her Ma and Aunt Sarah make her include her weirdo cousin Orla in everything she does. Or that head teacher Sister Michael refuses to acknowledge Erin as a literary genius.

A laugh out loud chick lit/romantic comedy about work, water and wine. Twenty-seven-year-old Ella Taylor is having a tough time. And now she's inherited a rundown cottage in a hick village with a bunch of conditions attached. A funny, quirky, and light-hearted British romantic comedy with a bit of a mystery on the side.

Nach der Geburt ihres vierten Kindes stolpert Frauenärztin Doktor Chaos sogleich von einem Ereignis ins nächste: Die neue Kollegin entpuppt sich als knallharte Konkurrentin und Ärzte verrückt machende Blondine. Mit Schwangerschaftsspeck auf den Hüften und Babykotze im Still-Dekolleté ertappt Josephine diensthabende Gynäkologen beim Sex am Arbeitsplatz, muss sich um die Schwangerschaft einer ungeliebten Chirurgin kümmern und riskiert durch den Streit mit einer Privatpatientin ihre Klinik-Karriere.

Als Frauenärztin schon wieder ungeplant schwanger?! Eine wahre Geschichte, noch lustiger als die Schwarzwaldklinik: "Ich schwöre: Ich bin lieb! Wirklich! Aber mit Nierenschalen zu werfen - das geht dann doch ein bisschen zu weit. Also schrei ich: "Frau Pharma? FRAU PHARMA! Es reicht jetzt! Pressen Sie mal, statt hier so rumzufurien!" Frau Pharma ist das aber so was von egal! "Ich press nich mehr, Frau Dokta! Ich will JETZT 'nen Kaiserschnitt! Abba sofoooort!" Dann wirft sie mir noch eine ganze Batterie an Schimpfwörtern an den Kopf, deren Bedeutung ich erst googlen muss, bevor sie - und JETZT wird es lustig - einfach aufsteht und davonstürmt..."

Spoken Word at its sparkling, hilarious best. Featuring excerpts from Mercury in Retrograde, a show critics describe as “cancelled due to clinical psychosis”, and The Scotsman called "Strangely gripping." God: tackled! Vegetarians: slain! Cults: joined! Drugs: differentiated! America: explained!

Lou is dressed up like Napoleon. He wants that part in a movie. Bud says he is not the type. Bud rehearses Lou on how to be romantic. Lou asks people if they would like him to be Napoleon. They enact the play with Melonhead being the director.