Showing results by author "Iris" in All Categories

Il mio ex mi sta dando la caccia. È violento. Pericoloso. Non mi lascerà andare. Sto scappando da anni con il mio bambino. Ho bisogno di protezione. Un posto sicuro dove nascondermi. Qualcuno abbastanza forte da stare tra noi e il mostro del mio passato. Ransom Boyd è un ex soldato con cicatrici. Quasi vent'anni più grande di me. Un eremita che vive da solo in una cabana di montagna. Ma c'è forza nel suo silenzio. Sicurezza nella sua presenza. Qualcosa nei suoi occhi grigi stabili che mi fa fidarmi di lui. Ransom non è quello che mi aspettavo. Sotto le cicatrici e l'esterno burbero ...

Abby Davison only wants to focus on her career as a nurse, as she has no time for dating after a bad breakup over a year ago. When her mother presses her about settling down, Abby tells her a little white lie: She’s dating Mark Thornton, the handsome and gruff rancher who both frustrates and makes her heart flutter every time they meet. When Mark overhears Abby's lie, he decides to cut her a deal: to keep his silence regarding their make-believe relationship, she'll come to live with him on his ranch until his broken arm heals.

After taking a break from pop stardom to turn his musical hand to composing — earning both a Tony and an Oscar for his efforts — Rex Brody is making a triumphant return to performing with a sold-out, coast-to-coast tour. But he has one crucial stop to make first: his aunt’s home in New Hampshire.

After his last tour in the Marines, Seth Thornton finds himself adrift when he returns to Fair Haven, Washington. A capable soldier who moved up the ranks, Seth struggles to find his place in a town he once called home as the memories of war continue to haunt him - until the day he encounters the beautiful Rose DiMarco. Seth saves Rose when a man accosts her, yet to his surprise, she spurns his help. Her beauty and her headstrong ways captivate him, and he can’t forget about her.

You know when you meet your new professor, and he ends up being the same man you had a one-night stand with three months ago? Okay, maybe not. Let me explain. I hadn't intended to sleep with my professor. I might be known as the impulsive prankster daughter in my family, but I'm not insane. I just wanted to have some fun in Ireland at my sister's wedding - and maybe lose my virginity, too. When I met Lochlann Gallagher at a pub one night, I couldn't resist him. He was hot, Irish, and entirely set on seducing me.

Nara Johnson is mine. I know the moment I take her hand. She's brilliant. Curvy. Beautiful. A city girl from Chicago doing her PhD in my small town. And she's running from me as fast as she can. I can see it in her eyes. She's been hurt before. Badly. But I'm not those other men. I'm a 44-year-old farmer who knows what he wants. And what I want is her. She thinks she's going back to the city after graduation. Forgetting all about Blossom Ford. Forgetting about me. I'll prove her wrong. I'll be patient, show up. I'll prove I'm different. Because Nara Johnson isn't just passing through. She's...

For eight years, single mother Grace Archer has been living a picture-perfect life raising her daughter on a horse farm in the small town of Tallanville, Alabama. Watching Frankie grow into a talented and confident young girl has made Grace as happy as any mother could hope to be. Happy enough...

Gitel’s Freedom: A Novel by Iris Mitlin Lav is a deeply moving work of historical fiction that brings to life the struggles, resilience, and quiet courage of Jewish immigrants in early-twentieth-century America. Narrated with warmth and emotional depth by Catherine Divaris and produced and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, this audiobook offers an intimate and immersive listening experience.

Iris Radisch nimmt den Leser mit auf eine faszinierende Reise durch Camus' Leben und Werk. Dieser Autor ist kein Heiliger. Sein Leben und seine Bücher erzählen von der Sehnsucht nach den großen, elementaren Erlebnissen, vom Glück der Beschränkung auf das Essentielle, vom Zauber der Einfachheit. Camus verwickelt seine Leser in die grundlegenden Fragen nach richtig und falsch, nach gut und böse, und seine Werke fordern heraus zu einem neuen Nachdenken über die Natur des Menschen.

Executives and professionals speak different languages, as disparate as Swahili and Greek. Agendas, vocabularies, and cultural conditioning destroy meaningful communication between them. This book exposes selling myths and profit-killing gaps between illusion and reality.

Barrett Everyone knows Montgomery men are doomed to love only one woman. Even if she hates the mountains, which we can’t leave without. I don’t believe in curses, however, I’m not the type of man to stake my peace of mind on flimsy serendipity. I choose a marriage of convenience. A cold contract devoid of the wrenching heartache of love that turned my father’s life into a living hell. Yet, the moment I lay my eyes on Keisha’s innocent smile and alluring curves, all I can think about is her. When my young, love-shy bride finds out the truth, will she stay or am I doomed to a life ...

Iris Johansen is a master storyteller whose thrilling novels go straight to the heart of suspense. Now the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Long After Midnight and The Ugly Duckling returns with her most nerve-shattering novel ever, a story of deadly greed and global terror. A...

The moving and inspiring story of a young Creole/Black woman born in 1936 in New Orleans. Stung by the ugly hatred of racism, young Iris Duplantier Rideau learned from her grandmother to pass for white, affording her better opportunities than her darker-skinned friends and family. Moving to California with her mother, Iris experienced horrors that no child should endure, leaving her a single teenage mother without a future at 17. What would have stopped most people, only made Iris more determined. She took a grueling job in a sweatshop to support herself and her baby. Needing more education...

A music therapist who thrives on helping others, Kendra Michaels cherishes the ordinary life she has achieved after stem cell surgery restored her sight. The skills she perfected during those sightless years - the ability to pick up the most subtle audio, olfactory, and tactile cues in the world around her - coupled with her laser-sharp mind - have made her a uniquely potent observer and problem solver. Kendra’s uncanny way of connecting the dots is as baffling to law enforcement as it is legendary.

Shirley Wolf and Cindy Collier met in a juvenile detention center and had known each other for only a few hours when they decided to escape and randomly kill a stranger. They would go to a senior condominium center in Auburn, California, where they would seek an elderly victim. They would find one in the 85-year-old Anna Brackett. They entered her home under the ruse that they needed to use the phone to call their parents.

Number-one New York Times best-selling author Iris Johansen offers listeners a classic tale of a love that seems impossible - and a hunger that is undeniable.

Jenny Cashman longs to escape the refined, rarified air of her exclusive Swiss education. At 19, she’s desperate for independence - and to once again see the man she loves. So she sells her belongings, leaves Europe, and heads to Las Vegas. The sight of Steve Jason’s newest palatial hotel and casino thrills Jenny - but not as much as the sight of the man himself....

Tras muchos años de trabajo y muchas sábanas revueltas en el ejercicio de amores desganados, el gran Charles Arrowby, famoso dramaturgo, director y figura destacada de las tablas londinenses, decide retirarse de las candilejas para ir a un apartado rincón de la costa británica y escribir sus memorias.

Angel Vingt-deux ans et infertile. Mon ex m'a quittée à cause de ça. Il a dit qu'il voulait ses propres enfants. Quand le Dr Liam Johnson me propose un mariage de convenance, je dis oui. Il a besoin d'une mère pour ses jumeaux. J'ai besoin d'une famille. Nous obtenons tous les deux ce que nous voulons. Sauf que je ne m'attendais pas à ça. La façon dont il me regarde de l'autre côté de la table du petit-déjeuner. Sa douceur avec ses enfants. La chaleur dans ses yeux quand il pense que je ne regarde pas. Il a quarante et un ans. Veuf. Toujours en deuil de la femme qu'il a perdue. Je...

Those bad habits that have stolen your productivity, your focus, and the fulfillment in your life have no more power than you give them. It may be hard to believe, but the truth is, habits are only hard to break if you go at them with the wrong perspective. In this guide, we'll be busting a lot of myths you've been told by society and dive deep into the truths of how to break free from bad habits and cycles of negative thinking.

Welcome to the world of Droll Tales, in which reality is a mutually agreed-upon illusion and life is painful, paradoxical, beautiful, and brief. With an oddball cast of characters who reappear in various guises throughout these interrelated stories, Smyles reveals an off-kilter world overlapping this one. And in giving us a tour of this enchanted, sometimes absurd place, with its own workings and ways of expression, she gives us a new way to understand our own.