Ergebnis für "Christmas in the Snow" in Belletristik

In London, the snow is falling and Christmas is just around the corner - but Allegra Fisher barely has time to notice. She's pitching for the biggest deal of her career and can't afford to fail. And when she meets attractive stranger Sam Kemp on the plane to the meeting, she can't afford to lose her focus either. She learned to shut off her emotions long ago and only her sister and best friend Isobel knows why. But when Allegra finds herself up against Sam for the bid, their passion quickly turns sour.

Der alte Max hat alle Zeit. Draußen vor dem Fenster legt sich der Schnee wie eine Decke über das Dorf. Da dringt das Läuten des Totenglöckchens durch die Stille. Es schlägt für den Schorsch, der viel mehr war als nur ein Freund, ein Leben lang. So macht sich Max am Abend auf zur Totenwacht, wo die Alten zusammenkommen, um des Verstorbenen zu gedenken und sich zu erinnern. Eine ganze Nacht erzählen sie von den Freuden bei der Ernte, von Abenden in der Wirtsstube, vom kleinen Glück. Und vom Schorsch.

A must-listen holiday romance from the author of The Little Cornish House and Summer in the Scottish Highlands.

Im verschneiten Aspen soll Rosies Hochzeit stattfinden. Doch dem steht mehr im Weg, als alle ahnen: Die Eltern der Braut stehen selbst kurz vor der Scheidung und wollen nur genau bis nach den Feierlichkeiten den Schein wahren. Die Schwester der Braut hält die Eheschließung für einen Fehler und will Rosie davor bewahren, verliebt sich aber unsterblich in den Trauzeugen. Und die Braut selbst hat auch schon kalte Füße! Je näher der große Tag rückt, desto höher schwappen die Emotionen. Dieses Weihnachtsfest wird für jeden in der Familie unvergesslich!

Following years of lonely political exile in Western Europe, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral. Only partly recognizing this place of his cultured, middle-class youth, he is even more disoriented by news of strange events in the wider country: a wave of suicides among girls forbidden to wear their head scarves at school.

London in der Weihnachtszeit, ein Brief, der alles verändert und eine große Liebe, die nicht sein darf Holly ist in London als Waise aufgewachsen. Deshalb hält sie es zunächst für einen Scherz, als sie kurz vor Weihnachten einen Brief erhält, in dem ihr Großvater ihr offenbart, dass sie die zukünftige Königin einer kleinen Insel im Mittelmeer ist. So klein, dass Holly noch nie etwas davon gehört hat. Die tollpatschige Holly zählt weder in der Schule noch an der Uni zu den besonders beliebten Mädchen. Niemand sieht sie, so wie sie wirklich ist.

Draußen ist es bitterkalt. Drinnen wirst du immer beobachtet. Die Welt ist eingefroren. Nur die Stadt Snowglobe, eingeschlossen unter einer riesigen Kuppel, bietet noch ein komfortables Leben. Doch wer dort wohnt, bezahlt mit seiner Privatsphäre: Konstant wird ihr Leben für die weniger glücklichen Menschen außerhalb gefilmt. Die junge Chobahm träumt davon, eines Tages selbst in Snowglobe zu leben. Ihre Chance kommt, als eine der Schauspielerinnen unerwartet stirbt und Chobahm deren Platz und Leben einnehmen soll.

Izzy McBride had never in a million years expected to inherit an actual castle from her great uncle Bill but here she was, in the run up to Christmas, Monarch of her own Glen—a very rundown glen in need of a lot of TLC if her dream of turning it into a boutique bed and breakfast was to come true. But when Izzy’s eccentric mother rents a room to enigmatic thriller author Ross Adair and the Scottish snow starts to settle like the frosting on a Christmas cake, it’s a race to get the castle ready before they’re all snowed in for the holidays.

Uncover secrets amidst the snow-covered peaks of the Austrian Alps in this captivating winter romance from Sunday Times bestselling author Karen Swan. In Midnight in the Snow, award-winning director Clover Phillips is riding high when she encounters Kit Foley, a surfer and snowboarder as...

Ashley Davison, a graduate student in California, desperately wants to spend the holidays with her family in Seattle. Dashiell Sutherland, a former army intelligence officer, has a job interview in Seattle and must arrive by December 23. Though frantic to book a last-minute flight out of San Francisco, both are out of luck: Every flight is full, and there's only one rental car available. Ashley and Dash reluctantly decide to share the car, but neither anticipates the wild ride ahead.

The Sunday Times bestseller! 'There’s nothing quite like a Karen Swan novel to get you in the festive mood – Seasonal escapism at its best' – Woman & Home Snowed in for the holidays, old truths rise to the surface. Christmas by Candlelight is a cosy Christmas story from Karen Swan...

Ivy loves Christmas. As the owner of Christmas Every Day, the year-round festive store, you'd expect nothing less! The only thing missing in Ivy's life is a dash of romance – something her twin sister Holly will not let her forget… When her mother passed away, Ivy vowed to take over the running of her mother’s store and keep the Christmas spirit alive in the idyllic seaside town of Marram Bay. But all this changes when an enigmatic businessman moves to the town, threatening to bulldoze her beloved shop to make way for a holiday complex. Can Ivy save her shop before Christmas?

Caroline Cliburn was to be married next Tuesday, and yet she suspected that gratitude was the wrong reason to become a bride. Perhaps that was why she and her younger brother Jody had taken the long drive north to Scotland in search of her missing brother Angus.... When a sudden spring blizzard leaves them stranded by the roadside, it is the snow that gives both her and a lonely young Scot one last chance to find the healing warmth of love.

Elle is rudderless, jobless and she's soon to be homeless. When she spies an advert that looks like it could answer all her problems she's devastated to see one huge catch. Elle definitely does not love Christmas. On Mistletoe Square, an eccentric elderly woman and her unconventional housekeeper have an enormous Christmas tree and a box of delicate decorations collected over what must be centuries. With each decoration comes a story and with each story a breath-taking glimpse of a Christmas past.

The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to investigate troubling reports of suicide in the small and mysterious city of Kars on the Turkish border. The snow is falling fast as he arrives, and soon all roads are closed. There's a 'suicide epidemic' amongst young religious women forbidden to wear their headscarves.

Alex Hyde is executive coach par excellence. She's the person the great and the good turn to when the pressure gets too much; she can change the way they think and how they operate. Her waiting list is months long, but even she can't turn down the unorthodox but highly lucrative crisis call that comes her way a few weeks before Christmas, regarding the troublesome - and troubled - head of an esteemed whisky company in Scotland: Lochlan Farquhar, a maverick, an enigma and a renegade.

On the tiny, beautiful, and remote island of Mure, halfway between Scotland and Norway, a new hotel opening is a big event. New mother Flora MacKenzie and her brother Fintan are working themselves half to death to get it ready in time for Christmas. The new hotel’s impressive kitchens throw together two unlikely new friends: Isla Gregor is the hardworking young girl who has been a waitress in the island's cafe, dreaming of a bigger, better life. Konstantin Pederson is working his way up in the hotel's kitchens too…but he is also, secretly, the only son of the Duke of Utsire.

Christmas on the remote Scottish island of Mure is bleak, stark - and incredibly beautiful. It's a time for hunkering down, getting cosy in front of whisky barrel wood fires and enjoying a dram with the people you love - unless, of course, you're accidentally pregnant to your ex-boss and don't know how to tell him. In what should be the season of peace and goodwill on earth, will Joel think Flora is a bearer of glad tidings?

Christmas has come early to the town of Paterson, New Jersey, in the form of a snowstorm that dumps two feet of snow on the ground. Lawyer Andy Carpenter likes snow – white Christmas and all that – but it can cause problems for the walks he takes his dogs on every day. When Andy’s golden retriever, Tara, goes to play in the snow and instead discovers a body, Andy ends up on the phone with the local newspaper editor. The murder victim is Mayor Alex Oliva, who had an infamous relationship with the newspaper.

Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington to L.A. in time for Christmas. Forced to take the train across the country because of a slight 'misunderstanding' at airport security, he begins a journey of self-discovery and rude awakenings, mysterious goings-on and thrilling adventures, screwball escapades and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives pulling him across America will actually take him into the rugged terrain of his own heart....