From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration
Frances Price – tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature – is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there’s the Prices' aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral litigator and world-class cad whose gruesome tabloid death rendered Frances and Malcolm social outcasts.
Putting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head for the exit. One ocean voyage later, the curious trio land in their beloved Paris, the City of Light serving as a backdrop not for love or romance, but self destruction and economical ruin – to riotous effect. A number of singular characters serve to round out the cast: a bashful private investigator, an aimless psychic proposing a seance, a doctor who makes house calls with his wine merchant in tow, and the inimitable Mme. Reynard, aggressive houseguest and dementedly friendly American expat.
Brimming with pathos and wit, French Exit is a one-of-a-kind ‘tragedy of manners,’ a riotous send-up of high society, as well as a moving mother/son caper which only Patrick deWitt could conceive and execute Views: 443
When Lori's son finally bring his girlfriend to meet his mom, Lori wants everything in her BnB--the whole town of Dusky Cove!--to be perfect. What she doesn't bargain on is someone from the girlfriend's past showing up in town--or him being murdered. Views: 443
asdasdNo means I have to travel with them to another planet—again. No means leaving all my friends fifty years in the past. Thanks, Einstein. Seventeen-year-old Lyra Daniels can't truly blame Einstein or her parents for their impending move across the Milky Way Galaxy. It's all due to the invention of the Q-net, which made traveling the vast distances in space possible—with one big caveat: the time dilation. But that never stopped Lyra's ancestors from exploring the Milky Way, searching for resources and exoplanets to colonize. What they didn't expect to find is life-sized terracotta Warriors buried on twenty-one different exoplanets. ... Make that twenty-two. As the Galaxy's leading experts on the Warriors, Lyra's parents are thrilled by the new discovery, sending them—and her—fifty years into the future. Her social life in ruins, she fills her lonely days by illegally worming into the Q-net. The only person close to her age... Views: 443
Levi is a "fixer" in a fix. The CIA needs his help. The Russian mob wants him dead. With enemies closing in and nowhere to turn, he learns that the one person who may hold all the answers ... is his dead wife. — Brief Synopsis: Levi Yoder is a member of the Mafia and a fixer of people's problems. He takes on issues where the law is otherwise unable to help. Unfortunately, Levi can't fix the problem he's facing. Having been diagnosed with a terminal case of cancer, Levi readies himself for death, but what he didn't prepare himself for was waking up one morning and learning that he's in complete remission. PERIMETER is a story of a man thrust back into a life he'd assumed was over. When he finds that he and the rest of his family are targets of what the CIA claims are elements of the Russian mob, Levi reluctantly agrees to help in whatever way he can. As Levi immerses himself... Views: 443
Is three the charm?
Lauren Cooper is on her way to her life's dream. She's financed and finished college and law school all on her own. And she's up for partner at the largest law firm in Indigo Bay. There's nothing to stop her from concentrating everything on achieving that goal. Until Jesse Brewster, the man who broke her heart twice, shows up sleeping off the night before on the beach, and she's called in to serve as his public defender.
Looking to make a new start after the racing accident that ended his lucrative motocross career and sent him spiraling into darkness, the former champion had envisioned an entirely different scenario if he ever saw Lauren again. That vision was more along the lines of the successful businessman he'd be once he rehabbed the seaside mansion he's inherited from his uncle and sold it to open a custom bike shop.
Sparks fly between them, and Jesse vows to fan those sparks once he's got the project successfully underway. But someone starts sabotaging it, putting Jesse behind on the deadline he has to meet to get the property off the Indigo Bay Planning Board's condemned property list. And Lauren has a sick suspicion that her bosses are somehow involved.
Jesse and Lauren had once promised they'd wait for each other while they pursued their career dreams. Despite that broken promise, neither can deny the love that's still between them. But now that they are on the cusp of reaching those dreams, are they willing to risk everything to renew that love?
Team Macachek: Fall in love with the strong women and fearless men of the motocross circuit.
This is the 12th novel in the Indigo Bay series, but all books can be read as standalones. Views: 443
Sie sind skrupellos, sexy, böse und verboten - aber es ist unmöglich, ihnen nicht zu verfallen Trent Rexroth ist kalkuliert und skrupellos. Einzig seine vierjährige Tochter Luna erwärmt sein kaltes Herz. Doch seit ihre Mutter vor drei Jahren sang- und klanglos aus ihrem Leben verschwand, spricht Luna nicht mehr. Egal, was Trent versucht - seine Tochter scheint sich völlig von der Welt zurückgezogen zu haben. Das Letzte, was Trent nun braucht, ist ein verwöhntes, reiches Mädchen wie Edie Van Der Zee als Praktikantin. Doch Edie wirbelt nicht nur seine Multi-Milliarden-Dollar-Firma durcheinander, sie baut als Einzige auch eine Verbindung zu Luna auf - und weckt Gefühle in Trent, von denen er glaubte, sie nie wieder spüren zu können ... "Das beste Buch des Jahres!" ANGIE'S DREAMY READS Band 3 der SINNERS-OF-SAINT-Reihe von USA-Today-Bestseller-Autorin L. J. Shen Views: 443
Fate and love defy a king
Sarah leaps through a doorway to save her dog, not change her life. Landing in 14th century Scotland has her facing life without her family, lost in time, and face to face with the most incredible Highlander, who shoots her in the arse with an arrow . Her skills as a psychologist and martial arts black belt become necessary to her survival, and allows her to aid the warrior ordered to marry another. Life as a time-traveler hasn’t turned out as dreamily as a romance novel. Fate has a nasty sense of humor.
Laird Conall of the Draig clan has heard the legends of travelers from the mythical land of Arizona his entire life. Commanded to marry another, he longs for Sarah, fantasizing that she has come for him. Time is short on his ancestral lands. Robert the Bruce waits for his sword arm to rejoin the fight. Fate and Sarah change the course of his life, much to his delight.
A love worthy of clan legends faces the ultimate challenge when the Bruce demands it must end.
A stand alone novel Views: 443
