Annemarie Verbeek Livres

Si le chien est le meilleur ami de l'homme, il peut parfois être le pire. C'est ce que vont découvrir John et Jenny Grogan, quand ils décident d'acheter un labrador peu de temps après leur mariage, afin de tester leurs capacités parentales. D'adorable petite boule de poils, Marley se transforme en un mastodonte de quarante-cinq kilos, qui détruit tout sur son passage, dévore quantité de nourriture et d'objets en tout genre, et témoigne d'un attachement aussi débordant qu'envahissant envers ses maîtres.

À la mort de Jock Witney, tyran domestique à la tête du plus grand vignoble d'Australie - le Domaine de Jacaranda -, sa famille se rend compte que les affaires vont en réalité très mal. Quand un groupe français fait une offre de rachat des plus alléchante, les membres du clan s'entredéchirent. Cornelia, la veuve de Jock, âgée de 90 ans, refuse catégoriquement de vendre. Elle aimerait convaincre Sophie, sa petite-fille, la prunelle de ses yeux, que la propriété familiale peut être conservée. Dans ce but, Cornelia l'entraîne à l'autre bout de l'Australie, dans la vallée de Hunter, sur les traces de ses ancêtres. Elle profite de ce voyage pour lui narrer l'épopée familiale. Du Sussex des années 1830 à l'Australie moderne, Tamara McKinley retrace la vie d'une famille de pionniers, marquée par de lourds secrets, des déchirures et une malédiction... Sophie saura-t-elle la briser pour réconcilier les deux branches de la famille et sauver le domaine ?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “[Kristin] Hannah is superb at delving into her main characters’ psyches and delineating nuances of feeling.”—The Washington Post Book World Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria’s heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family’s restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angie’s fortunes will drastically change yet again when she meets and befriends a troubled young woman. Angie hires Lauren Ribido because she sees something special in the seventeen-year-old. They quickly form a deep bond, and when Lauren is abandoned by her mother, Angie offers the girl a place to stay. But nothing could have prepared Angie for the far-reaching repercussions of this act of kindness. Together, these two women—one who longs for a child and the other who longs for a mother’s love—will be tested in ways that neither could have imagined. “Enormously entertaining . . . Hannah has a nice ear for dialogue and a knack for getting the reader inside the characters’ heads.”—The Seattle Times

After thirty years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun (of The Notebook), is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage. Desperate to win back his wife, Jane's, heart, he must figure out how to make her fall in love with him... again. Despite the shining example of Allie and Noah's marriage, Wilson is himself a man unable to easily express his emotions. A successful estate attorney, he has provided well for his family, but now, with his daughter's upcoming wedding, he is forced to face the fact that he and Jane have grown apart and he wonders if she even loves him anymore. Wilson is sure of one thing--his love for his wife has only deepened and intensified over the years. Now, with the memories of his in-laws' magnificent fifty-year love affair as his guide, Wilson struggles to find his way back into the heart of the woman he adores. Did You Know? The Wedding is a follow-up to The Notebook? The Wedding was inspired by a few unnamed couples that Nicholas knows well? The novel is set in the North Carolina town in which Nicholas now lives?

The second book in the Pleasures Trilogy - '...a steamy, satisfying romantic romp' - People Magazine

There are few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as his life seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettling and mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the course of this young couple's marriage . . .

Roxanne, Maggie et Candice travaillent ensemble dans un grand magazine de mode, ce qui ne les empêche pas d'être amies. D'ailleurs les trois copines ont une tradition : une fois par mois, c'est cocktails et gossips au Manhattan Bar. Aujourd'hui, c'est spécial : on fête le départ en congé maternité de Maggie. Qui fanfaronne mais n'en mène pas large à l'idée de se retrouver à la campagne avec un nouveau-né et sa belle-mère. Et on ne peut pas dire que Roxanne lui soit d'un grand réconfort, obsédée qu'elle est par son mystérieux amant marié. Quant à Candice, très perturbée par une histoire familiale compliquée, elle ne trouve rien de mieux qu'inviter la serveuse à partager leur table. Sans réaliser que cette dernière est loin d'être une inconnue bien intentionnée... Le cocktail club résistera-t-il à la trahison ?

A solid middle-class girl from Middle America, Jamie Whitfield isn't "one of them" but she lives in the wealthiest section of Manhattan. And she has most everything they have--a big new apartment, full-time help with her three children, as well as her very own detached Master of the Universe attorney husband. What she doesn't have is a full-time father figure for their struggling nine-year-old son, Dylan. Enter the manny. At first the idea of paying a man to provide a role model for Dylan sounds too crazy to be true, but one look at Peter Bailey is enough to convince Jamie that the idea may not be quite so insane after all. Peter reminds her of everything she once was, still misses, and underneath all the high-society glitz, still is. But will the new manny in her life put the ground back beneath her feet, or sweep her off them?--From publisher description.

Becca Reinhart's life is work, work, work. The youngest ever partner of Davis Capital, her job is her life and she has no intention of being sidetracked from it, especially not by all those, including her Jewish mother, who think that just because she is 31 she should be settling down. When Edward Kirkland isn't at his racquet club, attending charity dinners or gala concerts, he's being pursued by countless women who consider him to be the most eligible bachelor in town. But he has no desire to commit either, and his two dogs are his only constant companions. Two more incompatible people you couldn't hope to meet, but when Becca and Edward become joint guardians to a four-year-child called Emily, their lives collide with a bang ...