Ergebnis für "Cars" in Familienleben

"Jahrestage" ist ein Jahrhundertbuch. Es gibt keinen zweiten deutschen Roman dieser Art. Gesine Cresspahl lebt mit ihrer zehnjährigen Tochter Marie in New York. Ein Jahr lang, 1967/68, erzählt sie ihr täglich aus der Familiengeschichte. Jeden Tag wird so mitten im amerikanischen Alltag ein Stück deutscher Geschichte lebendig, werden die Schicksale einfacher Leute mit dem Weltgeschehen verwoben.

When Willow is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, her parents are devastated—she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. In this provocative story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, “Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance” (Stephen King)...

**The follow-up to the smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller, Alfie the Doorstep Cat. Alfie’s back – and more adventurous than ever!** Edgar Road used to be your typical London street; a road full of people who barely said a word to one another. Then Alfie came along – a big grey ball of fur...

Well-meaning do-gooder Clare Barker is back, and dealing with more office politics, troublesome clients and domestic dramas. Secretly regarding herself as a cross between Mother Theresa and Wonder Woman, she's got all the right jargon for every problem, but never any practical solutions. However, in today's 'Big Society' there are plenty of challenges out there for an involved, caring social worker (or even Clare). These six series find her struggling once again to control both her professional and private life.

"Julia London's writing is heartwarming and true." --Lia Louis, international bestselling author New York Times bestselling author Julia London returns with a story about forgiveness and second chances. After forty-two years, Lorna Lott is ready to learn where she's going with her life--even if...

A funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road trip Most days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime colleagues, whose playful bickering she mediates...

La famille Praline est une famille unie et pleine d'amour. Enfin... la famille Praline est une famille unie... Oui, bon... la famille Praline est... une famille. Le précédent Noël des Praline n'était pas simplement raté. Ce fut plutôt une catastrophe de taille cosmique, qui a laissé toute la famille traumatisée. Surtout les deux sœurs, Nathaline et Barbara, qui, après s'être battues à grands jets de lait de poule, ne se sont pas adressé la parole pendant un an. Hélas, inexorablement, la période des fêtes revient.

From a bright new talent, a witty, moving, and inspirational coming-of-age debut novel set in 1970s Brooklyn about a teenager and his abusive father whose obsession with broken down vintage cars careens wildly out of control. “Such a pleasure to read.... This is a coming of age story, but it...

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK A heartwarming and emotionally poignant time-loop novel about a stressed woman who must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate. It is an ordinary Monday and...

“If you enjoyed An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, read The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls...an absorbing commentary on love, family and forgiveness.”—The Washington Post “A fast-paced, intriguing story...the novel’s real achievement is its uncommon perceptiveness on...

Leisa Yeats has always defined herself by the things that are important to her - a good family, a loving relationship, and a meaningful job working with kids. Life is good. But within a span of a few weeks, all of that changes. She’s always known she was adopted, but newly revealed lies and secrets kept by her parents make her question everything she thought she knew about her beginnings. Her 10-year relationship with her partner, Nan, is unexpectedly on shaky ground when she discovers that Nan, too, has kept a secret from her all these years.

Step into the charming town of Heart's Bend, Tennessee, where dreams are stitched with faith, history, and romance in The Wedding Collection by New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Rachel Hauck. Linked by unforgettable locations and the enduring power of love, each story weaves the...

From New York Times bestselling author Courtney Cole comes “a raw, powerful, heart-wrenching read” (Robyn Harding, international bestselling author of The Party) about a son’s heroin addiction and its harrowing effects on both him and his mother, reminiscent of the #1 New York Times...

From “a writer at the top of her game” (The New York Times) comes a bighearted and sharply funny debut novel about two estranged sisters and the crossroads they face after becoming unexpectedly pregnant at the same time. Two years after the death of their mother, Jada and Maddy Battle both...

In the sun-bleached idyll of his Greek island home, seventeen-year-old Petros Castellanos’s future seems mapped out: he’ll inherit his father’s modest taxi fleet and continue his family tradition. However, his English mother sees a different path for her son, one that leads far from the watchful eyes of their small community. So Petros goes to London to stay with his mother’s cousin. The capital is an overwhelming city whose dazzling possibilities both terrify and enthral him.

Mack Anders will do anything for his wife, Daisy. Even die. With the woman he loves fading away from Alzheimer’s, Mack fakes his own passing. The insurance makes certain that Daisy will be taken care of with dignity and comfort until the end. In a lonesome cabin in the Wyoming wilderness, he lives off the grid with nothing but thoughts of the past to keep him company and the belief that Daisy is better off without him.

Con un estilo seductor y adictivo, Acerca de caer, primera novela de Juan Ramón Silva, relata las vicisitudes de los Sepúlveda, una familia de clase media chilena que, al igual que su país, deberá atravesar un siglo complejo, marcado por grandes revoluciones, catástrofes naturales y traiciones.

Fall in love with the brand new escapist Scottish romance from bestselling author, Julie Shackman! Daisy’s career hasn’t exactly been going to plan and the last thing she wants to do is stay home and wallow in self pity. So when an opportunity arises to escape her London home, and make some...

In rural Ohio, the last connections lonesome Felicity Lavigne has to her late mom are the blueberry farm she inherited and her mom’s old phone number—which Felicity still calls every day. Until she gets a call back. It’s the number’s new owner, Alex Norse, a surly, homeless teenager who has aged out of the foster care system with no one to turn to except the stranger who’s been leaving rambling voicemails for a dead woman. Felicity takes Alex in on one condition: She has to help scare off some kids vandalizing the fields.

"A story of deeply complicated people having a deeply human experience." --Laura Kate Whitney, Editor at Large, Good Grit Magazine It's never too late to find purpose. Woody Barker steps out of prison planning to live out his years on his houseboat docked on the Alabama Gulf Coast. As a...