Showing results for "Jam" in Literature & Fiction

When Houston reporter Lucy Resnick cashes in her retirement to buy her grandmother's farm in Buttercup, Texas, she's looking forward to a simple life as a homesteader. But Lucy has barely finished putting up her first batch of Killer Dewberry Jam when an oil exploration truck rolls up to the farm and announces plans to replace her broccoli patch with an oil derrick.

Falling drunk into Stephen Hawking's wheelchair didn't seem to bother the 23-year-old Canadian. Considering he had already been tied naked to a roundabout and vomited into a vacuum cleaner, Antony was thinking his return to the UK was going quite well. But that all changed in the summer of 1993, when he visited his great-aunt, or what was left of her. Someone had wanted her dead, and whatever secrets she held, a brick to the head made sure she took them to her grave.

Living with an adulterous husband and a 15-year-old Goth is no easy life for 35-year-old Claire Porter. Trying her hardest to ignore her husband’s affair with his secretary, and doing her best to do her son’s homework to the best of her (and Google’s) ability, her life is a trial to navigate—particularly when her head is buried permanently in the sand to avoid having to confront anything. One morning during breakfast, Claire’s head comes hurtling out of the sand at warp speed after what she refers to as "the jam tart incident". It is the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Kurz vor dem 40. Geburtstag, geschieden, Single. Martina sieht dem neuen Lebensjahr kritisch entgegen. Langfristige Ziele hat sie nicht, aber wenigstens einen groben Plan: Alexander, ein ehemaliger Studienkollege und „rein zufällig“ ihr neuer Zahnarzt, soll der neue Mann an ihrer Seite werden. So verlässt sie seine Praxis zwar mit einem Weisheitszahn weniger, aber immerhin mit der Einladung zu einem Date.