Women Saints

Some say that Saint-Rémy-de-Provence is the most beautiful village in all of France. That’s especially true at Christmastime, when the scent of baked gingerbread mingles with the fragrance of evergreen boughs and wafts deliciously through the village’s quaint cobblestone lanes. It’s hard to believe anything sinister could be waiting in any of its many charming streets and alleyways.

Jude is the owner of a unique antiques shop in Cambridge. She makes it her mission to match customers with the special something that they are missing, a talisman to bring them what their heart desires. Unfortunately, Jude’s life is not overflowing with love. However, when she 'inherits' a niece that she never knew existed, doubling her meagre family overnight, Jude's life is soon set to get a lot less lonely and a lot more interesting.

Paris, July 1999. Private investigator Aimee Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when she is accosted by Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals. Back in Paris, Suzanne is convinced she's being stalked by a ghost - a Serbian warlord she thought she'd killed. She's suffering from PTSD, and her boss thinks she's imagining things.

Der Playboy Christian Richard ist durch einen Badeunfall mit einem Jetski querschnittsgelähmt. Seine Geliebte, die Schönheitschirurgin Docteur Boyer, pflegt ihn. Eines Morgens findet die Haushälterin das Paar ermordet in ihrer Villa. Ein herausfordernder Fall für Commissaire Girard, die nach einer Lebenskrise in ihren Beruf zurückkehrt.

Der Nationalfeiertag ist den Franzosen heilig. Die Leute feiern mit Paraden und mit Feuerwerk. Sie tanzen und sind stolz auf ihre Nation. Um so schockierender, wenn eine junge Frau tot auf einer neu eingeweihten Statue in Saint-Tropez gefunden wird. Die Lage eskaliert, als der Bürgermeister mit der Tat in Verbindung gebracht wird. Commissaire Lucie Girard ermittelt auf ihre feminin-unkonventionelle Art und lässt sich nicht von dem Druck, der von oben auf sie ausgeübt wird, beirren.

Im Frühjahr 1972 wird der französische Profitennisspieler Louis Lasalle erschlagen im Schuppen des Clubs entdeckt. Gibt es eine Verbindung zu den Nachwuchstalenten, die dort trainieren? Oder geht es um die lukrativen Prämien im weltweiten Tenniszirkus? Commissaire Lucie Girard schnüffelt mal wieder in elitären Kreisen und schlägt dabei so manches Ass.

Die berühmten Flying Rockets geben ein Konzert am Plage Pampelonne. Doch ihr Auftritt, an einem Abend im August 1971, wird zum Desaster. Im ungezügelten Rausch sterben zwei Menschen. Waren die Drogen der Auslöser oder die Revolte der Bandmitglieder gegen ihren Leadsänger? Commissaire Lucie Girard hat das richtige Gespür für die exzentrischen Persönlichkeiten der Rockband und ermittelt mit Köpfchen und Charme.

Where's Lorena Alger? This is what everyone in Ash Lake, Florida is asking about their most famous resident - a young girl about to be canonized as a saint, a young girl who hasn't moved from her grave in over 150 years. Now she is gone, and her grave is now occupied by the fresher corpse of the cemetery caretaker. Great grandniece Ronnie Lord is determined to aid the town sheriff in Lorena's safe return. She finds it isn't an easy task when a nosy reporter and stubborn relatives get in the way.

Au XIXe siècle, le périple d'une Française exilée en terre slave. Un destin tumultueux et aventurier marqué par un amour inconditionnel pour la Russie. "L'hiver revint avec ses troïkas, les chevaux résistant aux intempéries, frangés de glace, et soufflant des jets de fumée. Une foule massée sur les tribunes autour de cet immense champ nacré qu'était la Neva emprisonnée sous les glaces assistait aux courses de traîneaux sur patins d'acier. Sur la perspective Nevski, le collet relevé, en bonnet fourré et longue houppelande, les portiers enlevaient la glace. Ils veillaient ainsi toute la nuit."

St. Therese of Lisieux, largely unknown when she died in a Carmelite convent at the age of 24, became, through her posthumously published autobiography, one of the world's most influential religious figures. No less a luminary than Andre Gide modeled one of his characters after her in his novel Strait is the Gate.

Three sisters raised in Michigan follow completely different pathways. The oldest, Nettie, threw away every advantage she had when she was still in her teens, and her mystified parents and siblings watched in horror as she spent years in squalor and degradation. Middle sister Ruth fell in love with a wealthy man and now has a life beyond all the dreams she spun in the cramped, upstairs bedroom of their parents’ old farmhouse.

Facing a tight deadline on a computer security contract, Aimée responds to a telephone call from a stranger that leads her to an abandoned infant in a courtyard on the Ile Saint-Louis. She brings the baby home with her, calls her Stella, and awaits contact from the mother. But days pass, and no one reclaims the infant. Meanwhile, a group of environmental protestors is trying to stop the government from entering into a contract with an oil company notorious for pollution.

In My Badass Book of Saints, Johnson shares her experience as a first-generation Cuban-American, educator of at-risk college students, and caregiver for a husband with Lou Gehrig's disease. Through humorous, empowering, and touching portraits of 24 spiritual mentors who inspired her, Johnson describes how their bravery, integrity, selflessness, perseverance, and hope helped her and can help others have courage to reach for a closer connection to God.

Mit ihm lernten ihre Träume fliegen. Doch sie kamen den Sternen zu nah. Paris 1930: Als die junge Malerin Consuelo auf einer Party Antoine de Saint-Exupéry kennenlernt, ist es Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Die temperamentvolle Mittelamerikanerin wird zur Muse des enigmatischen Piloten, der eigentlich viel lieber Schreiben und Zeichnen möchte. Aus seinen unsterblichen Gefühlen für sie entsteht "Der kleine Prinz": Consuelo ist die über alles geliebte Rose, die der Prinz mit einer Glasglocke schützen möchte und an die er unentwegt denkt, auf welche fremden Planeten ihn seine Reisen auch führen.

When we last left her, West Point dropout Hailey Cain had defied a powerful mobster to protect a pregnant teenager and child. The events nearly cost Cain her life, but Thieves Get Rich, Saints Get Shot sees Hailey back in Los Angeles, second-in-command to rising gangster Serena “Warchild” Delgadillo. At the heart of this thrilling novel is a complex case of stolen identity, ruthless motives, and violent crime that puts Hailey back on the road, with her old friend Warchild by her side, to reclaim her name....

Miami, Florida 1992: A few weeks after Hurricane Andrew wreaks devastation and havoc across South Florida, a father and his infant daughter crash their car into a canal. The man’s body is recovered, but his baby girl is never found. Twenty-three years later: After reports of alleged sightings of the girl, the case is reopened by police. Detective Maria Duquesne has been assigned to the case, but she has very little in the way of clues. Is it really possible that the girl has not died? Or is this simply the persistence of a desperate mother who will not accept the death of her daughter?

Annadel, West Virginia, was a small town rich in coal, farms, and close-knit families, all destroyed when the coal company came in. It stole everything it hadn't bothered to buy - land deeds, private homes, and ultimately, the souls of its men and women. Four people tell this powerful, deeply moving tale: Activist Mayor C. J. Marcum. Fierce, loveless union man Rondal Lloyd. Gutsy nurse Carrie Bishop, who loved Rondal. And lonely Sicilian immigrant Rosa Angelelli, who lost four sons to the deadly mines.

Award-winning author Maria Morera Johnson follows up her best-selling book My Badass Book of Saints with a unique and daring exploration of the cardinal virtues through the saints and heroines of science fiction, fantasy, and comic books. Johnson will reignite your passion for your faith as she demonstrates the heroic in the sometimes mundane quest for good and reminds us that Catholicism is filled with adventure.

La Madre Teresa fue una de las mujeres más admiradas del siglo XX y su memoria continúa inspirando a muchos alrededor del mundo, pues incluso una santa puede amar los chocolates, hacer bromas o regañar al presidente de los Estados Unidos. Esta fue la mujer a la que Jim Towey conoció a mediados de los noventa—cuando era congresista y abogado de alto nivel—la que iluminó el vacío que había en su vida.

Luke Costas, the Saints' resident computer guru, preferred quiet nights and burying himself in digital investigating. But he wasn't alone. A mystery cyber-contact assisted when possible, becoming more and more integrated into Luke's thoughts...and dreams. One night he discovered a woman standing in his living room. And his dream became a reality. Charlie had been on the run for months after witnessing an assassination. Tired of going it alone she turned to the one person she knew could help her unravel the horrific conspiracy of a medical organization harvesting organs for sale.