Showing results by narrator "Alice" in All Categories

Nach einem Schiffbruch strandet ein intelligenter Roboter namens Roz auf einer unbewohnten Insel. Er muss sich an die raue Umgebung anpassen. Doch die tierischen Inselbewohner scheuen die Anwesenheit des Neuankömmlings und fürchten sich vor ihm. Doch als er ein verwaistes Gänseküken findet, bekommt das Dasein des Roboters eine neue Berechtigung. Fortan kümmert er sich aufopferungsvoll um sein Ziehkind und versucht, ihm mit Überlebenstipps zur Seite zu stehen.

I'm Kira Fairwood—fox shifter, bane of the werewolves, and also their employee. My job isn't just a paycheck. It's a way to ensure my unborn niece's heritage won't work against her when she grows up. So I dive right in to bag a hot alpha werewolf who's reported to be using his bar as a front to murder human women. Unfortunately, I soon discover Thom is being framed.

The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show was one of radio’s brightest lights; a hilarious situation comedy featuring a friendly sardonic and sarcastic edge that set it apart from its contemporaries. Featuring Phil Harris, fresh off plying his comedic and musical talents on The Jack Benny Program, and his movie star wife Alice Faye. The show also starred Elliott Lewis as the remarkable Frankie Remley - one of radio’s most unforgettable characters - a humorously irresponsible con-artist with an endless thirst for the good stuff.

The never-before-published diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard - who spent her teenaged years living out World War II in Windsor Great Park with her close friends Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth, the future queen of the United Kingdom - provide an extraordinary and intimate look at the British royal family.

À San Francisco, au cœur de la Silicon Valley, Alain Damasio met à l'épreuve sa pensée technocritique, dans l'idée de changer d'axe et de regard. Il arpente « le centre du monde » et se laisse traverser par un réel qui le bouleverse. Composé de sept chroniques littéraires et d'une nouvelle de science-fiction inédite, Vallée du silicium déploie un essai technoppoétique troué par des visions qui entrelacent fascination, nostalgie et espoir.

Captain Ralph Crewe, a wealthy English widower, enrolls his young daughter Sara at Miss Minchin's boarding school for girls in London, to prepare her for a life in high society. Sara enjoys a special treatment and exceptional luxuries, and Miss Minchin openly fawns over Sara for her wealth. But all that changes when Captain Ralph suddenly dies after losing all his fortune, leaving Sara in poverty and in disfavor with Miss Minchin.

La nouvelle enquête de Lucia Guerrero ! Deux tueurs. Deux mondes. Et pour Lucia, une double menace. Dans cette nouvelle aventure, la lieutenante Lucia Guerrero ne connaîtra aucun répit. Elle va devoir enquêter sur non pas une, mais deux affaires bien différentes. La première en Galice sur la piste d'un mystérieux tueur en série qui s'en prend à des femmes se levant tôt pour aller travailler, la seconde à Madrid où un Robin des bois attaquent les ultra-riches déclenchant la panique au sein des plus hautes institutions du pays.

Jerry North, the suave and successful book publisher, is married to the resourceful, glamorous, and quick-witted Pam. This terrific twosome is just as comfortable dealing with blood stains and dead bodies as they are hosting dinner parties or going out for an evening of dancing. And that's a good thing...because each week finds them smack in the middle of a murder! Fortunately, these amateur criminologists always get to the bottom of things.

Born in Pevek, Russia, a decaying mining town, beautiful Vanessa Hathaway knew she was her family’s only hope for a bright future. Like a good daughter, she allowed her father to arrange her marriage to wealthy American industrialist Victor Clayton. The photos of Victor showcased a handsome man in his mid-40s. Vanessa steeled herself to fake happiness but in her heart she knew she could never love the dark-haired Texan.

Florence Day è la ghostwriter di una delle più famose autrici romance del momento. Ma ha un problema: dopo una rottura terribile, non crede più nell'amore. Quando Benji Andor, il suo nuovo, affascinante editor, si rifiuta di concederle più tempo per consegnare il romanzo, Florence si prepara a dire addio alla sua carriera. Ma le cattive notizie, si sa, non viaggiano mai da sole: sua madre la chiama per avvisarla che il padre è venuto a mancare. Così, torna nella cittadina di provincia dove è nata e dove la sua famiglia gestisce un'agenzia di pompe funebri.

Within this book you will find out a completely new, healthy, and powerful eating habit that will speed up your metabolism again, contrasting and delaying aging, to make sure to reach and keep the weight that you desire.

Research shows that "normal" infant sleep is not what most experts claim it is. In fact, many of today's sleep "problems" with young babies and children predominantly occur in the developed world. In Why Your Baby's Sleep Matters, renowned gentle parenting expert Sarah Ockwell-Smith demonstrates how nurturing babies at night helps their brain development, and covers the topics every parent of a new baby will need to know about, including naps, SIDS, night weaning, and coping with your own exhaustion - and even dealing with advice and criticism from others.

C'è nulla di più affascinante di un genio incompreso? La vita di Nikola Tesla fu questo: un'altalena di avvenimenti, dalla povertà alla ricchezza, dalla fama all'oblio, fino a una gloria postuma e tardiva. Scienziato brillante e inventore geniale, Tesla veniva chiamato a New York il "poeta della scienza", anche perché l'inventore della corrente alternata si dilettava a mostrare in maniera spettacolare i suoi giochi di luce, per incantare la ricca borghesia americana.

The French physicist, philosopher, and mathematician Blaise Pascal discovered a great secret of persuasion. Pascal saw that the surest way of changing false beliefs is by showing all sides to a question, including the side that the erring person missed. It is best when the beauty of reality reveals itself.

Cowboy Jace Mills has suffered fewer injuries from bucking bulls than he has from his ex-girlfriend. Following his best friend Tucker's advice, Jace is convinced it's time to move on. But with his ex's tight rein on him, easier said than done. Tara Jenkins learned a lot in her sports medicine courses, but not how to fix her broken heart. So when her brother Tucker suggests using her skills on the rodeo, it gives her the perfect opportunity to ride off into the sunset - or at least run away.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: when adopted midwife Mariam embarks on a project to protect an abandoned premature baby, she is forced to face her own abandonment years before. Time is running out before the baby is sent to the orphanage. Mysterious characters from the city surrounding the hospital will be crucial in determining the baby's fate, as will a workaholic British doctor with whom Mariam finds herself falling in love.

Ama i libri. Vive di letteratura. E risolve delitti. Torna l'irresistibile investigatrice creata da alice basso. Un gesto, una parola, un'espressione del viso. A Vani bastano piccoli particolari per capire una persona, per comprenderne il modo di pensare. Una dote speciale di cui farebbe volentieri a meno. Perché Vani sta bene solo con sé stessa, tenendo gli altri alla larga. Ama solo i suoi libri, la sua musica e i suoi vestiti inesorabilmente neri. Eppure, questa innata empatia è essenziale per il suo lavoro: Vani è una ghostwriter di una famosa casa editrice.

Pier Paolo Pasolini è stato un intellettuale a tutto tondo, che è sfuggito a qualsiasi tipo di classificazione. Artista poliedrico e dai numerosi interessi, Pasolini fu poeta, romanziere, giornalista e regista di altissimo livello. Fu anche regista di grande successo, restituì nelle sue pellicole le contraddizioni della vita di tutti i giorni. Spesso criticato per il suo particolare modo di osservare il mondo, in realtà Pasolini rivestiva un vero e proprio ruolo sociale, quello di dissacratore della morale perbenista borghese.

Comment trouver sa voie quand son cerveau fonctionne différemment ? Déficit de l’attention, hyperactivité motrice et impulsivité : Jessica McCabe a souvent été en lutte avec son cerveau. À 32 ans, sans argent, divorcée et vivant chez sa mère, elle parvient à développer des stratégies pour retrouver un rapport apaisé avec elle-même. Dans ce livre écrit par et pour des cerveaux TDAH, elle partage les outils qui ont changé sa vie.

Jared Connor lost his innocence at the age of 10 when his father poured gasoline around the family home and left his two young sons to die in the flames. Now an adult, he's carefully crafted a pretend life where he can hide his scars and his death row father behind the disguise of a caretaker's pickup truck and a pair of gardening shears. But when a beautiful woman with scars of her own barges into his quiet, solitary life, Jared finds it increasingly difficult to hide from what he really wants.