Ergebnis für "Bitten" in Familienleben

Jaffa, April 1948. Der siebenjährige Salim Al-Ismaeli, Sohn eines palästinensischen Orangenzüchters, freut sich darauf, die ersten Früchte des Orangenbaums zu ernten, der zu seiner Geburt gepflanzt wurde. Doch der Krieg bricht aus und treibt die ganze Familie in die Flucht. Von nun an hat Salim nur noch einen Traum: Eines Tages zu seinem Baum zurückzukehren und im Land seiner Väter zu leben.

Spanning four decades and three continents, Bitter Honey is a story about a mother and daughter divided by long buried secrets, struggling to understand each other as they forge their own paths, from the internationally bestselling author of In Every Mirror She’s Black. 1978: A scholarship...

Rome, 2019. Wanneer Giuseppe Russo, een rijke antiquair, door een zware financiële tegenslag plotseling alles verliest, sleurt hij zijn gezin mee de afgrond in. Moeder Ginevra gooit na een tijdje de handdoek in de ring. Dochter Elena probeert het gezin overeind te houden in een afgedankte caravan aan de oever van de Tiber. Kort nadat ze op stelen wordt betrapt door sterrenchef Matteo Amato neemt haar leven een onverwachte wending.

Unknown human remains are discovered deep within the mosaic of rugged forests and interconnected waterways once home to the native Ojibwe people. More than 30 years later, fresh news of the cold case reopens old wounds for an Arizona family, from a time when gender stereotypes, racial bigotry, and small-town gossip led to tragedy. Now, three generations - a mother, son and granddaughter - embark on a cross-country journey in a search for truth and a hope of redemption.

The Royal Tenenbaums meets Fleabag in this hilarious and dizzyingly smart debut about an over-the-top evangelical Texan family—and the daughter at its center racing to finish her very important novel before her ex-boyfriend finishes his. It’s 2011, and twenty-three-year-old Joan West is...

A 2025 CHRISTY AWARD WINNER! "A poignant story of sisterhood, motherhood, and new love found in old places. McKnight's writing is as delectable as the Gullah cuisine at the heart of the novel." --Denny S. Bryce, bestselling author of The Other Princess and Wild Women and the Blues From the...

The lake in the middle of her father’s kitchen is only the first in a series of disasters in Zeina’s life. Nassar’s recent health crisis has seen his well-established community restaurant, Casablanca, losing ground and customers to trendier competition. Casablanca’s deterioration is not the only chaos in Zeina’s world but, unlike her husband who won’t speak to her, her best friend who is sliding towards self-destruction, and her cousin who is stealing Zeina’s life story for content, the restaurant is something she can fix. And Zeina, lonely and adrift, needs something she can fix.

“A stunning story about family and hope that unfolds unexpectedly but beautifully, like a Michigan summer sunset over an orchard.” —Viola Shipman, bestselling author of The Clover Girls and The Secret of Snow In cherry season, anything is possible… Everything Hope knows about the Orchard...

Colt Ballard is a professional team roper with the talent to go all the way, but the loss of his parents from a car accident during his childhood has him fighting an emotional obstacle that keeps him from reaching the pinnacle of success. After being pushed out by the PRCA, Colt realizes his dilemma and accepts the advice of his late father's friend to take a summer job helping out at a rodeo camp in New Mexico.

Stacy and Cord Harris had the perfect marriage. Their love, they thought, would see them through any troubles that came along. But a year after he survives a devastating plane crash, Cord is still confined to a wheelchair, bitterly lashing out at everyone around him-especially his wife. No matter how Stacy tries to reassure him, Cord can't accept her love as anything but pity. In a last-ditch effort to reach him, Stacy enlists the help of a physiotherapist.

Even after a decade of pain, Ivy remains closely tethered to Lily - her blind twin sister - and haunted by her mother’s admission the night their home burned, almost taking Lily’s life: “I’m sorry. Take care of your sister.” Years later, as Lily begins to navigate the world on her own, the police mistakenly toss the blind girl in a cell, and Ivy realizes she must find her twin at all costs…even if that means risking her own freedom.

Erna Meyer und Thea Rohde verbindet nicht nur die gemeinsame Schulzeit, sondern auch der Streit um einen Mann, der ihre Freundschaft zerstörte. Sechzig Jahre lang pflegen sie diese Rivalität, und bei jedem Klassentreffen geraten sie aneinander. Für das anstehende diamantene Treffen wird um die Begleitung durch einen Enkel gebeten, doch weder Erna noch Thea haben Enkelkinder.

In a dim, cluttered attic laboratory, Dr. Nathanial Grey, a genius chemist, crafts an elixir believed to compel absolute honesty from anyone who consumes it. Fueled by a mix of scientific curiosity and personal motivations, he tests this truth serum on various acquaintances, unveiling secrets ranging from the mundane to the deeply concealed. But it's when he decides to share this serum-laced drink with his wife, Elise, that the story truly unravels.

‘Fabulous’ – Daily Mail ‘Beautifully written, dark, twisted and often funny’ – Charlotte Levin ‘Dark and twisted, comic and toxic. I loved it!’ – Jenny Colgan ‘A witty exploration of humanity’ – People's Friend Ruth and Muriel are best friends. And often, worst enemies...