Ergebnis für "Alice" in Frauenliteratur

'Feeney is psycho thriller royalty' Daily Mail 'A diabolically twisted thriller that will left me speechless' FIVE STAR Reader Review 'Mind-bending and engrossing! With so many great twists and turns, you have no idea who you can trust' FIVE STAR Reader Review * * * * * My name is Amber Reynolds...

A good mother will kill for her family. And, sometimes, for fun in this “wickedly dark and hilarious debut” (Alice Feeney, New York Times bestselling author of My Husband’s Wife). Meet Lalla Rook. Lalla has a lot on her to-do list: help her husband make partner by flattering his...

Broome 2023: When Saskia's free-spirited mother leaves her a caravan in her will, it doesn't make sense. Saskia is a schoolteacher, tied to plans and schedules, even if they are beginning to feel restrictive. Then she finds clues in the van about her mother's mysterious past, setting her on a...

“Gripping, gorgeously written.” —Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre “Extraordinary.” —Elizabeth O'Connor, author of Whale Fall “Vivid...Asking what it means to make art in an emergency.” —Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam Wood and The Luminaries Portrait of a Lady on...

The author of the “masterfully plotted, compulsive page-turner” (The Guardian) Our House takes you on a haunting and nail-biting journey of tragedy and revenge. The Heights is a tall, slender apartment building among warehouses in London. Its roof terrace is so discreet, you wouldn’t know...

Nora Silk doesn't really fit in on Hemlock Street, where every house looks the same. She's divorced. She wears a charm bracelet and high heels and red toreador pants. And the way she raises her kids is a scandal. But as time passes, the neighbors start having second thoughts about Nora. The women's apprehension evolves into admiration. The men's lust evolves into awe. The children are drawn to her in ways they can't explain.

The “queen of the sucker-punch twist” (Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author) and author of Our House weaves a suspenseful thriller about a commuter who becomes a suspect in his friend’s mysterious disappearance. Perfect for fans of the unputdownable page-turners by Christina...

In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer’s disease—only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate...

INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER One of NPR’s Books We Love for 2025 2026 Libby Book Awards Best Thriller For fans of Bunny and Yellowface, this razor-sharp debut thriller blends biting satire with chilling suspense, as a young woman steps into her deceased twin’s influencer life—only to...

An Observer Best Debut Novelist 2026 'An electric portrait of teenage friendship and fandom, bubbling with rage and yearning . . . empathetic, addictive and feverish as a Nirvana gig' Guardian 'I loved this book . . . raw, grungy and frenetic' Alice Slater, author of Let the Bad Times Roll 'Part...

Frau Hempels Tochter von Alice Berend ist ein Gesellschaftsroman, der uns in das Berlin des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts entführt. Laura Hempel, die zwischen den Erwartungen ihrer fleißigen und hingebungsvollen Mutter und ihrem eigenen Wunsch nach einem selbstbestimmten Leben hin- und hergerissen ist, wächst in einer bescheidenen kleinen Kellerwohnung auf und steht mit ihren sechzehn Jahren vor großen Veränderungen. Frau Hempel hat klare Vorstellungen von der Zukunft ihrer Tochter: eine standesgemäße Heirat soll für finanzielle Sicherheit und gesellschaftliches Ansehen sorgen.

Cheerful Gunnilde Payne is hiding a bruised heart behind her bright smile. When her friend invites her to spend some time away from her provincial home, she jumps at the chance. All is going well, until Gunnilde overhears herself rudely dismissed by two knights, as “nice, and eminently forgettable.” Poor Gunnilde is mortified. Then, she decides to take her future in her hands and seize the chances life puts before her. She will go to the royal court in Aphrany. She will attract the attention of the Queen and become one of her ladies-in-waiting!

*Now a Passionflix original film!* “An instant classic…highly recommended!” —Jennifer Probst, New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author A laugh-out-loud, deliciously steamy rom-com, Wallbanger turns thin walls, sizzling chemistry, and exasperation at first sight into an...

A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time. Alice Munro’s peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In...

Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series of love and loss, inspired by the mythology of the Seven Sisters constellation. Read by Fiona Button (This Is Not a Pity Memoir, Your Word Or Mine)...

Als gefeierter Weltstar ist die Musikikone Izzy am Ziel ihrer Träume – bis der Verlust ihrer Stimme ihr Leben erschüttert. Der Musik beraubt, beschließt sie, allem ein Ende zu setzen. Doch dann steht plötzlich Leila vor ihrer Tür, die den Auftrag erhalten hat, Izzys Biografie als letztes Geschenk an ihre Fans zu schreiben. Zwischen den beiden Frauen entsteht eine überraschende Verbindung, und zum ersten Mal seit langem keimt Hoffnung in Izzy auf. Doch reicht dieser Funke aus, um sie zurück in ein erfülltes Leben und zu einer neuen Liebe zu führen?

A seductive and mesmerizing story of obsessive love from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic. After nineteen years in California, March Murray returns to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up. For all this time, March has been avoiding her own troubled history...

Growing up, Violet was so busy helping others realize their dreams, she found little time to pursue her own. But five years ago, she took the chance of a lifetime, leaving the family bookshop on Brinkley’s Island, Maine, to attend culinary school in Paris. Now she’s working her dream job as a pâtissiere in an upscale Parisian restaurant—yet all she can think about is home.

Isabel, the long-lost Gibson sister, is finally back home on Brinkley’s Island, Maine. With Sophie and Violet, her sister and her niece, she’s got the family bookstore—and with Johnny Lenox, she’s got something even more special. But even as life settles, not everything is falling into place. Isabel and Johnny have set the date three times, baked three wedding cakes, invited the whole island to three parties, only to have each attempt at matrimony fall apart at the last minute.

“A magnificent storytelling feat” (The Boston Globe) story of lifelong friendship between two very different “superbly depicted” (The Wall Street Journal) women with shared histories, divisive loyalties, hidden sorrows, and eighty years of summers on a pristine point of land on the coast...