Ergebnis für "Blind" in Familienleben

Wie kann man die eigene Familie schützen und sich gleichzeitig vor ihr bewahren? In Blinde Geister erzählt Lina Schwenk eine berührende Familiengeschichte von den 1950er-Jahren bis in die Gegenwart. Olivia, die Tochter von Rita und Karl, kennt seit jeher die Angst der Erwachsenen vor einem erneuten Krieg, obwohl seit Jahren Frieden herrscht in Deutschland. Beharrlich überprüft Karl die Speisekammer auf Vorräte, und immer wieder sucht die Familie gemeinsam Zuflucht im Keller, wenn der Vater den Einfall der Russen fürchtet.

Sixty years after the publication of his first novel, Cat Man, Edward Hogland is publishing his twenty-fifth book at the age of eighty-three. This capstone novel, set in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, introduces Press, a stockbroker going blind. Press has lost his job and his wife and is trying to figure out his next move, holed up in his Vermont cabin surrounded by a hippy commune, drug runners, farmers-gone-bust, blood-thirsty auctioneers, and general ne'er-do-wells.

At the Bounty Canyon Ranch in Southeastern New Mexico, the bodies of Luke and Deona Pruitt are buried in a manure pit and their 14-year-old son Leeland Pruitt is missing. Deputy Sheriff Greenwood is called out to investigate the missing Pruitt family and discovers the grim scene. Leeland’s brutal upbringing was an open secret overlooked by neighbors and teachers for years. The community turned a blind eye as Leeland was moved by his cruel father from one remote ranch to another. And so, Deputy Greenwood begins a twenty-four-hour hunt to find and save the boy suspected of murdering his parents.

Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesn’t belong. Not with his mother’s new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his father’s wife. Not at school, where he’s an outcast. After his best friend moves away, Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat he’s tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building who’s introduced herself with a curious question: Have you seen Luis Velez?

Two of J M Synge’s remarkable plays and an exploration of the man, his work and his life on the Aran Islands J M Synge was one of the giants of Irish theatre, and a leading dramatist of the Irish Literary Renaissance. Together with W B Yeats and others, he co-founded Dublin’s famous Abbey...

Since childhood, Chantel has idolized her older sister, Jett, a superstar performer. But she's seldom seen her Hollywood-based sibling. More on the shy side, Chantel is perfectly happy with her own modest singing career and quiet Missouri hometown life. But when their mother dies and Chantel's world is upended, she hopes that moving to Los Angeles will give her a fresh start - and a chance to know Jett better. But the truth is, she doesn't know Jett at all.

Investigating the death of her best friend, uptight accountant, Julie Tilling, discovers a world of adult nightclubs and Internet intrigue. When shock jock Damon Corey rocks her world in a wild night of lust, she wonders if she's found love...or the key to solving a murder.

On a perfect summer's day, at a school picnic beside a lake, four-year-old Gemma Anderson goes missing, leaving a family devastated and a community asking questions. Seventeen years later, Gemma's older sister Stephanie is practising as a psychiatrist. A new patient's revelations force her to re-examine the disappearance. Why are their stories so similar? Unable to let the matter rest, Stephanie embarks on a journey to find out what really happened to Gemma on that long-ago afternoon.

His life's work and ambition fulfilled, Francis Brimm believes the only metamorphosis left him is a slow, affable decline toward death. So he returns to the town of his youth and to his sister, Muriel, whose life has been as uneventful as Francis's has been exciting.But life is not about to let Francis go. Faces from the past haunt him, surprises in the present unsettle him. And suddenly, two people who thought their lives were over find themselves struggling not to be overwhelmed by new knowledge, hidden truths, and unexpected danger.

"Forræderiske hjerter" er en historie om et sommerhus, en stenstrand og en svigtende bikini. Men også om kærlighed og venskab og en mor, der ikke rigtigt kan finde ud af at være mor. Lasse er vild med Fillippa. Fillippa har kysset med Marcus, men ved ikke lige, hvordan hun skal få fortalt det til Lasse, som Alma satser på at score. Forvirret? Det er Filippa! Og det bliver ikke bedre af, at hun skal to uger i sommerhus med sin mor, der igen er blevet droppet af en taber. Som altid træder Lasse til og tager med, men alligevel bliver det en sommerhustur på godt og ondt, som Filippa aldrig vil glemme.