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Accidentalmente Casada con un Millonario (Parte #1)
by Sierra Rose Marta Correa BonitoEl millonario, Brandon Cates, está a punto de perderlo todo: desde su fortuna hasta su gran empresa. Su única esperanza es Marjorie Reynolds. El Director de Operaciones ha huido para dirigir la llamada fusión, un nombre bonito para definir una adquisición. La empresa conseguiría mantener su nombre y su marca bajo la seguridad de Power Regions Ltd. Probablemente, sería dirigida por un nuevo ejecutivo. Pero la fecha de caducidad de Brandon Cates está llegando y el juego está a punto de cambiar. Había fallado en intentar cambiar los términos del testamento, por lo que su malvada madrastra lo iba a adquirir todo. Lena Cates tenía un equipo de abogados a su alrededor como buitres. Para mantener el control, Brandon tenía que estar casado en su treinta cumpleaños. Cuando una borracha Marj Reynolds escucha su historia en una discoteca en Las Vegas, se les ocurre una idea loca que puede funcionar. Marj no se puede creer que haya aceptado una proposición así. Pero sabe que le dará a Brandon las llaves de su millonario reino. Marj lo hacía por luchar contra la opresión y la injusticia. Rechazaba que ganara la malvada madrastra, o como ella la llamaba la malvada reina. Porque si esta malvada reina ganaba, Marj perdería su trabajo también. Y ya tenía suficientes deudas. Brandon está seguro de que la tiene en el bolsillo. O eso cree… ¿Podrá Brandon convencerla de que siga con el papel de ser su nueva mujer? Algunos lectores puede que ya conozcan a Marjorie Reynolds del libro El Hijo del Jefe: https://www.amazon.es/hijo-del-jefe-Sierra-Rose-ebook/dp/B01LMH1PBC Ahora Marj tiene su propia trilogía. Para mayores de 18 años debido al contenido sexual.
The Accidentals: A Novel
by Minrose GwinFollowing the death of their mother from a botched backwoods abortion, the McAlister daughters have to cope with the ripple effect of this tragedy as they come of age in 1950s Mississippi and then grow up to face their own impossible choices—an unforgettable, beautiful novel that is threaded throughout with the stories of mothers and daughters in pre-Roe versus Wade America.Life heads down back alleys, takes sharp left turns. Then, one fine day it jumps the track and crashes.”In the fall of 1957, Olivia McAlister is living in Opelika, Mississippi, caring for her two girls, June and Grace, and her husband, Holly. She dreams of living a much larger life--seeing the world and returning to her wartime job at a landing boat factory in New Orleans. As she watches over the birds in her yard, Olivia feels like an “accidental”—a migratory bird blown off course. When Olivia becomes pregnant again, she makes a fateful decision, compelling Grace, June, and Holly to cope in different ways. While their father digs up the backyard to build a bomb shelter, desperate to protect his family, Olivia’s spinster sister tries to take them all under her wing. But the impact of Olivia’s decision reverberates throughout Grace’s and June’s lives. Grace, caught up in an unconventional love affair, becomes one of the “girls who went away” to have a baby in secret. June, guilt-ridden for her part in exposing Grace’s pregnancy, eventually makes an unhappy marriage. Meanwhile Ed Mae Johnson, an African-American care worker in a New Orleans orphanage, is drastically impacted by Grace’s choices. As the years go by, their lives intersect in ways that reflect the unpredictable nature of bird flight that lands in accidental locations—and the consolations of imperfect return. Filled with tragedy, humor, joy, and the indomitable strength of women facing the constricted spaces of the 1950s and 60s, The Accidentals is a poignant, timely novel that reminds us of the hope and consolation that can be found in unexpected landings.
El accidente
by Linwood BarclayEl plan era perfecto. Nada podía salir mal. ¿O sí? Un thriller estremecedor. Glen Barber no es la única persona en el pequeño pueblo de Milford, Connecticut, que tiene quebraderos de cabeza. La crisis económica ha puesto su negocio de construcción en una situación más que comprometida y, después de que un misterioso incendio redujera a cenizas una de sus obras, las cosas no han hecho más que empeorar. Su esposa, Sheila, tiene sus propios planes para sacarlos del atolladero, pero entonces tiene un accidente y los sueños de prosperidad se desvanecen en una neblina de desesperación, dolor y rabia. En busca de respuestas, Glen comenzará a indagar en las circunstancias del trágico incidente solo para descubrir el lado oscuro de la idílica vecindad de Milford. «¿Cómo he podido pasar toda mi vida sin Linwood Barclay? Con esta novela Barclay se sitúa en lo más alto del panteón del suspense.» Stephen King
El accidente
by Linwood BarclayEl plan era perfecto. Nada podía salir mal. ¿O sí?Glen Barber no es la única persona en el pequeño pueblo de Milford, Connecticut, que tiene quebraderos de cabeza. La crisis económica ha puesto su negocio de construcción en una situación más que comprometida y, después de que un misterioso incendio redujera a cenizas una de sus obras, las cosas no han hecho más que empeorar.Su esposa, Sheila, tiene sus propios planes para sacarlos del atolladero, pero entonces tiene un accidente y los sueños de prosperidad se desvanecen en una neblina de desesperación, dolor y rabia. En busca de respuestas, Glen comenzará a indagar en las circunstancias del trágico incidente solo para descubrir el lado oscuro de la idílica vecindad de Milford.«¿Cómo he podido pasar toda mi vida sin Linwood Barclay? Con esta novela Barclay se sitúa en lo más alto del panteón del suspense.»Stephen King
Accidente (Los Jet De Plaza And Janes Ser. #Vol. 245)
by Danielle SteelPage considers herself as having an idyllic life, but it all changes when her teenage daughter becomes seriously injured in a car accident. During the lonely and anxious nights spent by her child's hospital bedside, she meets a man who finds himself in much the same vulnerable situation.
El accidente de Lauren Marsh
by Guillem Morales«La gente suele correr para huir de un peligro. Lauren, en cambio, corría para caer en uno.» ¿Qué amenaza se cierne sobre los habitantes de la urbanización Century Europa? Lauren Marsh sale a correr, como cada mañana, y cae en un socavón mal señalizado en las obras de reforma de la urbanización Century Europa donde vive. Afortunadamente, la mujer no sufre heridas mortales, pero Cédric, el inspector de seguros encargado de la investigación, descubre indicios de que el accidente no ha sido fortuito. A partir de ese momento, se verán envueltos en una trama de misterio donde nada es lo que parece: sucesos sangrientos, vecinos que guardan secretos y una verdad oculta de la que es imposible salir indemne. Los accidentes en Century Europa no han hecho más que empezar... El accidente de Lauren Marsh, la primera novela del director de cine y guionista Guillem Morales, es una reflexión sobre la soledad, la culpa y el aislamiento en una gran ciudad, con la forma de un original y demoledor thriller de ritmo absorbente, trama retorcida y un final sorprendente incluso para los lectores más avezados.
El accidente que me llevó a ti
by Olivia Ness¿Puede un accidente llevarse por delante toda tu felicidad? ¿Puede cambiar la vida de una persona? Bríd piensa que su vida no puede ir a peor. Patrick, que es imposible que su vida sea mejor. Después de la muerte de su hermana, Bríd O'Sullivan decidió abandonar Enniskerry para labrarse un futuro prometedor en Londres como asesora contable, pero en realidad solo estaba huyendo. Años más tarde, volvió al pueblo donde creció para vender la casa de su familia, pero no esperaba ser atropellada en la puerta de su casa, perder su trabajo y descubrir que, tal vez, todo de lo que había intentado escapar hasta ese momento era lo que necesitaba para poder seguir adelante. Patrick encontró en su trabajo la manera perfecta de evitar admitir que no había tenido tanta suerte en el amor como esperaba. En su juventud fue el chico guapo del pueblo, pero años después todavía no había encontrado a la mujer con la que compartir su vida. Después de atropellar a una hermosa mujer, todos sus cimientos se tambalearon. Bríd y Patrick no se estaban buscando, pero se encontraron. A veces el amor surge de la manera más inesperada. ¿Se arriesgarán Bríd y Patrick a exponer su corazón para sanar el del otro y construir un futuro juntos? El accidente que me llevó a ti es una historia corta perteneciente a la colección Pequeños Momentos.
Accidents: A Novel
by Yael HedayaA captivating first novel of family, sex, love, and death from an "extraordinary" writer of "remarkable emotional power" (Maureen Howard, Los Angeles Times Book Review)For Shira Klein, Yonatan Luria, and his daughter, Dana, it is winter-winter at work, winter among friends, winter at home, and winter of the heart. Yonatan is a marginal writer, a fifty-year-old widower left to raise his child alone. When he meets Shira, a bestselling author paralyzed by stage fright, the thaw begins as man, woman, and girl enter a halting romance, alternately tender and belligerent, generous and withdrawn.To the accompaniment of a full chorus of voices-of friends, neighbors, ex-lovers, parents-speaking from the past as well as the present, this family in the making gropes its way toward the comfort of love while navigating through ordinary pains: a dying father, angry children, wounding moments, and a distressing difference in the writers' levels of success which they wish would vanish even as it grows. An ensemble story marked by Yael Hedaya's exquisite sensitivity, Accidents follows its cast through fragility, vulnerability, and joy, accruing the small events of unremarkable days to produce a grand vision of the shared life. Rarely has the fictional world of family been plumbed with such knowingness, humor, and love.
Accidents Happen
by J. Michael Deangelis John P. Dowgin Pete BarryCollection of short playsComedyWinner! 2009 NJACT Perry Award for Outstanding Production of an Original Play Seven of The Porch Room's best short plays collected together into an evening of comedy that proves that no matter what you plan for - accidents happen.Shorts include: Accidents Happen - Please beware of all safety procedures and take note of the emergency exits. Nine Point Eight Meters Per Second Per Second - Balthazar Kent, ejected from an airplane, tries to regain control of his life through his cellphone. Reunion Special - A desperate former child actor reunites with his now adult co-stars at a funeral. The Clive Way - A motivational speaker mistakenly tries to empower a group of newly rehabilitated anger-management patients. Hangman - A budding teenage philosopher-scientist searches for the truth by experimenting on his friend with a hallucinogenic cocktail. Tricks of the Trade - Ralph teaches Eddie how to sell your soul for success. The Banderscott - An infomercial marketer is pitched an astonishing product. The shorts can be performed together as a full-length show or on their own as one acts.
Accidents Happen: A Novel
by Louise MillarFrom Louise Millar, the acclaimed author of The Playdate, comes a gripping psychological thriller where one woman's streak of bad luck may be something far more sinister.A MAGNETIC AND CHILLING NEW THRILLER FROM HIGHLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR LOUISE MILLAR Kate Parker has weathered unimaginable horrors--her parents died in a traffic accident on her wedding night, and her husband, Hugo, was murdered in a tragic break-in gone wrong. All she has left is her young son, Jack, and determined to make a better future for him, she attempts to pull her life back together. But are she and her son safe?
Accidents Happen
by Louise MillarFrom Louise Millar, the acclaimed author of The Playdate, comes a gripping psychological thriller where one woman's streak of bad luck may be something far more sinister.Kate Parker lives her life in a state of heightened anxiety, constantly afraid that something terrible will happen to her and her ten-year-old son, Jack. She obsesses over statistics to make them safe. There's a reason for Kate's nervousness. She lost her parents in a freak traffic accident on her wedding night, and her husband Hugo was murdered. It's time for Kate to move on and start a new life. When Kate meets Jago, it feels like she's about to get that new beginning. Soon, though, her doubts return--despite the fact that everyone thinks she's irrational. But is she imagining things? Or does she have a real reason to worry? After all, accidents happen. Heralded as "a writer to watch" (Booklist) for her stylishly creepy and accomplished debut, Louise Millar skillfully layers suspense and twists in this taut and deeply suspenseful thriller.
Accidents Happen and Other Stories
by F.H. BatacanFrom the master of Filipino crime fiction, a genre-bending collection that documents murders, disappearances, and acts of violence in stories that range from procedural crime to horror to near-future noirF.H. Batacan&’s first novel, Smaller and Smaller Circles, was an instant classic when it was published in 1999, a masterpiece of Filipino crime fiction that won the Philippine National Book Award. In this extraordinary and far-ranging story collection, she explores the darkest corners of human experience, depicting with pitch-black humor the systems of class and politics that her characters are trapped in and the moments of violence—accidental or otherwise—that can, at any moment, shatter their lives. In particular, Batacan shines an unsparing light on the epidemic of violence against women in the Philippines.When a wealthy politician&’s twelve-year-old son disappears, the family&’s driver witnesses the aftermath. A field investigator for the World Health Organization travels the globe giving presentations about a biomedical enzyme that will lead to the extinction of the human race. And Father Augusto Saenz, the Jesuit priest and forensic anthropologist from Smaller and Smaller Circles, returns to investigate the murder of a woman whose secretive life holds the key to her death.Sure to confirm Batacan&’s status as a crime writer of global status, Accidents Happen is a relentless exploration of worlds where the smallest moments are infused with life and vibrating with menace, and death is always close at hand.
Accidents May Happen
by Charlotte JonesFrom Wheaties to telephones, microwave ovens to yo-yos, here are the inspiring and often funny stories of 50 mistakes and misunderstandings that helped bring about life as we know it. With hilarious cartoons and wacky facts, this fascinating compendium illustrates the adage "If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them."From the Trade Paperback edition.
Accidents of Composition
by Merlinda BobisIs it the sun a hole sucking in a bird or Icarus about to singe the sun? Which composes which? The poet asks as she circumnavigates the globe, history, and an inner universe. When it responds, there's the small shudder, the sprawl of a spin, or the quiet before and after a full circle. The eyes catch a black bird close to an eerie sun. Instantly, a poem: an accident of composition. Or a tree, rock, light from a story heard, dreamt, read or remembered returns as if it were the only tree, rock, light in the planet. The poet is caught, returned to her first heart: poetry. After four novels, Merlinda offers poems from the stillness of contemplation to the spinning of tales, then to passage across different histories. Glass becomes eternal greens underwater, fish gossip about colonisation, a gumnut turns dissident, and the dreams of Captain Cook and Pigafetta circumnavigate the globe leaving a trail of blood, beads, and the scent of cloves. But in between, the poet hopes: ‘there could be accidents / of kindness here.'
Accidents of Marriage
by R. S. Meyers'One of those rare novels that is both unputdownable and unforgettable. I just loved it' Liane Moriarty, bestselling author of The Husband's Secret 'An incredibly accomplished and satisfying read, with an important message' Jane Green Maddy is a social worker trying to balance her career and three children. Years ago, she fell in love with Ben, a public defender, drawn to his fiery passion, but now he's lashing out at her. She vacillates between tiptoeing around him and asserting herself for the sake of their kids - until the rainy day when they're together in the car and Ben's volatile temper gets the best of him, leaving Maddy in the hospital fighting for her life. RS Meyers takes us inside the hearts and minds of her characters, alternating among the perspectives of Maddy, Ben, and their fourteen-year-old daughter. Accidents of Marriage is a provocative and stunning novel that will resonate deeply with women from all walks of life, ultimately revealing the challenges of family, faith, and forgiveness.
Accidents of Marriage
by R. S. Meyers'One of those rare novels that is both unputdownable and unforgettable. I just loved it' Liane Moriarty, bestselling author of The Husband's Secret 'An incredibly accomplished and satisfying read, with an important message' Jane Green Maddy is a social worker trying to balance her career and three children. Years ago, she fell in love with Ben, a public defender, drawn to his fiery passion, but now he's lashing out at her. She vacillates between tiptoeing around him and asserting herself for the sake of their kids - until the rainy day when they're together in the car and Ben's volatile temper gets the best of him, leaving Maddy in the hospital fighting for her life. RS Meyers takes us inside the hearts and minds of her characters, alternating among the perspectives of Maddy, Ben, and their fourteen-year-old daughter. Accidents of Marriage is a provocative and stunning novel that will resonate deeply with women from all walks of life, ultimately revealing the challenges of family, faith, and forgiveness.
Accidents of Marriage
by R. S. Meyers'One of those rare novels that is both unputdownable and unforgettable. I just loved it' Liane Moriarty, bestselling author of The Husband's Secret 'An incredibly accomplished and satisfying read, with an important message' Jane Green Maddy is a social worker trying to balance her career and three children. Years ago, she fell in love with Ben, a public defender, drawn to his fiery passion, but now he's lashing out at her. She vacillates between tiptoeing around him and asserting herself for the sake of their kids - until the rainy day when they're together in the car and Ben's volatile temper gets the best of him, leaving Maddy in the hospital fighting for her life. RS Meyers takes us inside the hearts and minds of her characters, alternating among the perspectives of Maddy, Ben, and their fourteen-year-old daughter. Accidents of Marriage is a provocative and stunning novel that will resonate deeply with women from all walks of life, ultimately revealing the challenges of family, faith, and forgiveness.
Accidents of Marriage
by Randy Susan MeyersMaddy is a social worker trying to balance her career and three children. Years ago, she fell in love with Ben, a public defender, drawn to his fiery passion, but now he's lashing out at her. She vacillates between tiptoeing around him and asserting herself for the sake of their kids - until the rainy day when they're together in the car and Ben's volatile temper gets the best of him, leaving Maddy in the hospital fighting for her life.RS Meyers takes us inside the hearts and minds of her characters, alternating among the perspectives of Maddy, Ben, and their fourteen-year-old daughter. Accidents of Marriage is a provocative and stunning novel that will resonate deeply with women from all walks of life, ultimately revealing the challenges of family, faith, and forgiveness.
Accidents of Marriage: A Novel
by Randy Susan MeyersFrom the bestselling author of The Comfort of Lies, an engrossing look at the darker side of a marriage--and at how an ordinary family responds to an extraordinary crisis.Maddy is a social worker trying to balance her career and three children. Years ago, she fell in love with Ben, a public defender, drawn to his fiery passion, but now he's lashing out at her during his periodic verbal furies. She vacillates between tiptoeing around him and asserting herself for the sake of their kids--which works to keep a fragile peace--until the rainy day when they're together in the car and Ben's volatile temper gets the best of him, leaving Maddy in the hospital fighting for her life. Randy Susan Meyers takes us inside the hearts and minds of her characters, alternating among the perspectives of Maddy, Ben, and their fourteen-year-old daughter. Accidents of Marriage is a provocative and stunning novel that will resonate deeply with women from all walks of life, ultimately revealing the challenges of family, faith, and forgiveness.
Accidents of Nature
by Harriet Mcbryde JohnsonJean has cerebral palsy and gets around in a wheelchair, but she's always believed she's just the same as everyone else. She goes to normal school and has normal friends She's never really known another disabled person before she arrives at Camp Courage. But there Jean meets Sara, who welcomes her to "Crip Camp" and nicknames her Spazzo. Sara has radical theories about how people fit into society. She's full of rage and revolution against pitying insults and the lack of respect for people with disabilities. As Jean joins a community unlike any she has ever imagined, she comes to question her old beliefs and look at the world in a new light. The camp session is only ten days long, but that may be all it takes to change a life forever.
Accidents Of Providence: A Novel
by Stacia Brown"Wonderfully detailed and keenly researched, it is a moving portrait of a courageous woman caught between a disastrous affair with a charismatic revolutionary and the draconian laws of the land that would put her to death because of it."—Kathleen Kent "Dangerous Liaisons: A seventeenth-century heroine for our times . . . [A] delightfully seditious heroine...Proof that a historical novel can be educational and entertaining, and nothing like homework."—O, The Oprah MagazineLondon, 1649: King Charles has been beheaded for treason, Cromwell is in power, the Levelers are demanding rights for the people, and a new law targeting unwed mothers presumes anyone who conceals the death of her illegitimate child is guilty of murder. Glovemaker Rachel Lockyer is locked in a secret affair. But while her lover is imprisoned in the Tower, a child is found buried in the woods. Rachel is arrested. So comes an investigation, a trial, and an extraordinary cast of characters all brought to reckon for this one life. Spinning within is a remarkable love story and evidence that miracles come to even the commonest lives. &“The best kind of historical fiction--a combination of love story and murder mystery, with a sprinkling of intriguing historical snippets and wonderful writing.&”—Library Journal, starred review"[A] marvelous story written in searing prose. Don't miss it!"—Sheri Holman "Heart-poundingly vivid [and] intellectually provocative . . . A romping good read . . . Historical fiction at its best."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
The Accommodated Animal: Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales
by Laurie ShannonShakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds. But the word “animal” itself only appears very rarely in his work, which was in keeping with sixteenth-century usage. As Laurie Shannon reveals in The Accommodated Animal, the modern human / animal divide first came strongly into play in the seventeenth century, with Descartes’s famous formulation that reason sets humans above other species: “I think, therefore I am.” Before that moment, animals could claim a firmer place alongside humans in a larger vision of belonging, or what she terms cosmopolity. With Shakespeare as her touchstone, Shannon explores the creaturely dispensation that existed until Descartes. She finds that early modern writers used classical natural history and readings of Genesis to credit animals with various kinds of stakeholdership, prerogative, and entitlement, employing the language of politics in a constitutional vision of cosmic membership. Using this political idiom to frame cross-species relations, Shannon argues, carried with it the notion that animals possess their own investments in the world, a point distinct from the question of whether animals have reason. It also enabled a sharp critique of the tyranny of humankind. By answering “the question of the animal” historically, The Accommodated Animal makes a brilliant contribution to cross-disciplinary debates engaging animal studies, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies.
The Accommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton
by Kathy LavezzoEngland during the Middle Ages was at the forefront of European antisemitism. It was in medieval Norwich that the notorious "blood libel" was first introduced when a resident accused the city's Jewish leaders of abducting and ritually murdering a local boy. England also enforced legislation demanding that Jews wear a badge of infamy, and in 1290, it became the first European nation to expel forcibly all of its Jewish residents. In The Accommodated Jew, Kathy Lavezzo rethinks the complex and contradictory relation between England’s rejection of “the Jew” and the centrality of Jews to classic English literature. Drawing on literary, historical, and cartographic texts, she charts an entangled Jewish imaginative presence in English culture. In a sweeping view that extends from the Anglo-Saxon period to the late seventeenth century, Lavezzo tracks how English writers from Bede to Milton imagine Jews via buildings—tombs, latrines and especially houses—that support fantasies of exile. Epitomizing this trope is the blood libel and its implication that Jews cannot be accommodated in England because of the anti-Christian violence they allegedly perform in their homes. In the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, and Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, the Jewish house not only serves as a lethal trap but also as the site of an emerging bourgeoisie incompatible with Christian pieties. Lavezzo reveals the central place of “the Jew” in the slow process by which a Christian “nation of shopkeepers” negotiated their relationship to the urban capitalist sensibility they came to embrace and embody. In the book’s epilogue, she advances her inquiry into Victorian England and the relationship between Charles Dickens (whose Fagin is the second most infamous Jew in English literature after Shylock) and the Jewish couple that purchased his London home, Tavistock House, showing how far relations between gentiles and Jews in England had (and had not) evolved.
Accommodations
by Nick HallNick Hall . Full Length, Comedy. . Characters: 2 male, 2 female . Interior Set. Lee Schallert, housewife, feeling she may be missing out on something, leaves her husband, Bob, and her suburban home and moves into a two room Greenwich Village apartment with two roommates. One roommate, Pat, is an aspiring actress, never out of character or costumes; but through an agency mix up, the other roommate is a serious, young, graduate student male. The ensuing complications make a hysterical evening. . "An amusing study of marital and human relations. . . . A gem." Labor Herald. . "The audience laughed until it hurt." News American. . "Superior theatre.... It is light comedy at its best." The Sun, Baltimore.
Accompanied by a Waltz
by Andrew GreyJonathon Pfister's life has settled into a maudlin existence since the death of Greg, his lover of seventeen years. But Greg's daughter Jeana has decided she's had enough, so she rents a small apartment in Vienna for him as a Father's Day present. Jonathon agrees to go, against his better judgment. Surprisingly, Jonathon finds the change of scenery refreshing, and he even makes a young friend in Hans, his landlady's son. Then Hans's older brother returns home, and Jonathon begins to truly awaken. Fabian touches something inside him, especially when the younger man takes it upon himself to woo Jonathon in full Viennese style, with a waltz. But shadows of the past and expectations for the future loom over them both and will have to be banished for their lovers' dance to stay in step.