Resultado narrado por "Gabriela Bobeș" em Todas as categorias

Liis Lindy este agent FBI. Ca să se dedice total meseriei sale, cere să fie transferată din Chicago la San Diego. Visează la promovări și laude pentru soluționarea cazurilor aparent imposibile. Agentul special Thomas Maddox este arogant, neiertător și crud. Vânează cei mai mari infractori din lume. Dar, deși a salvat multe vieți, nu poate face nimic pentru Travis, fratele său mai mic, învinuit pentru un incendiu cu zeci de victime. Thomas are o singură soluție: poate să-l recruteze pe Travis în FBI, pentru că acesta are niște conexiuni în lumea mafiei.

În secolul al XVI-lea, Anne, o tânără modestă din Bruges, fuge de acasă în ziua nunții pentru a nu fi victima unui destin pe care nu și-l dorește. În Viena lui Freud, Hanna von Waldberg, răsfățată a lumii bune, își părăsește soțul care o adoră pentru a se descoperi pe sine cu ajutorul psihanalizei. Iar în zilele noastre, la Hollywood, Anny Lee, o actriță a cărei frumusețe nu e întrecută decât de nevoia ei de a se autodistruge prin droguri și alcool, rupe tiparele industriei entertainment-ului și refuză stratagemele care ar transforma-o într-un adevărat star.

Jeanette Winterson, una dintre cele mai inventive și mai îndrăznețe voci narative contemporane, ne propune în acest volum 12 povestiri și 12 rețete îmbietoare pentru cele 12 zile ale Crăciunului.

The Go-Giver Influencer is a story about two young, ambitious businesspeople: Gillian Waters, the chief buyer for Smith & Banks, a midsize company that operates a national chain of pet accessory stores; and Jackson Hill, the founder of Angels Clothed in Fur, a small but growing manufacturer of all-natural pet foods. Each has something the other wants.

The family-owned business of Allen & Augustine has manufactured high-quality chairs for decades. Its people take pride in their work and feel loyal to their owners and management team. But this long-revered company is now at a crossroads, hurt by a tough economy, foreign competition, and a cash crunch. The air is filled with the scent of uncertainty, anxiety, perhaps even panic. Enter Ben, the ambitious young executive assigned by his firm to promote a merger that will rescue Allen & Augustine.

Ben is an ambitious young executive charged with persuading 500 employee shareholders to agree to a merger that will save their company. But despite his best efforts, he can't convince anyone to buy in to the deal. During his week at the company, Ben realises that his aggressive style is actually making it harder to reach his goals. Will Ben find a way to sway the shareholders before the climactic vote? The answer may surprise you, as you follow Ben on his journey to understanding that the path to genuine influence lies less in taking leadership than in giving it.

My name is Hedi Peacock and I have a secret. I'm not human, and I have the pointy Fae ears and Were inner-bitch to prove it. As fairy tales go, my childhood was damn near perfect, all fur and magic until a werewolf killed my father and the Fae executed my mother. I've never forgiven either side. Especially Robson Trowbridge. He was a part-time werewolf, a full-time bastard, and the first and only boy I ever loved. That is, until he became the prime suspect in my father's death....

In 1864, the frontier cavalry had been withdrawn to fight in the War Between the States, and the able-bodied men had enlisted to join the cause, leaving the families in the Brazos River valley very much on their own...and nearly defenseless. The Comanches and the Kiowas decided this was the perfect time to rid their land forever of the invaders who had threatened their very existence.