Ergebnis für "Collin" in Familienleben

Soley hat alles, was sie sich je erträumt hat: Erfolg, Geld, einen gutaussehenden Freund. Doch obschon von den Fans bejubelt, fühlt sich die Sängerin auf der Bühne so allein wie noch nie. Als nach dem Tod ihrer Großmutter Rose auf dem Familienanwesen das Ölgemälde einer Frau auftaucht, die aussieht wie sie, glimmt eine Sehnsucht in ihr auf. Sie muss herausfinden, wer diese Frau war und was sie mit ihr zu tun hat. Auf eigene Faust folgt sie den Spuren des Bildes nach Island, und sie taucht ein in die Geschichte eines Landes, mit dem sie tiefer verbundener ist, als sie es je hätte ahnen können.

Ein unvergesslicher Roman über die Kraft menschlicher Beziehungen und die Abgründe an dem Ort, den wir Zuhause nennen. Als Willa ein Teenager war, verschwand ihre Schwester Laika plötzlich spurlos. Auch zwanzig Jahre später gibt Willa die Hoffnung nicht auf, dass Laika noch lebt. Hartnäckig sucht sie weiter nach ihr und vernachlässigt darüber ihre Beziehungen zu den Menschen, die tatsächlich noch in ihrem Leben sind. Wann kommt Willa endlich im Hier und Jetzt an?

I've known Death a long time but now Death knows me. When their idyllic childhood is shattered by the sudden death of their parents, siblings Marty, Liz and Jules are sent to a bleak state boarding school. Once there, the orphans' lives change tracks: Marty throws himself into academic life; Liz is drawn to dark forms of escapism; and Jules transforms from a vivacious child to a withdrawn teenager.

Pour Dalia, le manoir de ses grands-parents en Cornouailles a toujours été sa maison. C'est là qu'elle a grandi, en l'absence de ses parents qu'elle n'a jamais connus. Là qu'elle a passé de nombreux étés avec ses cousines dans les champs de fleurs. Mais lorsque sa grand-mère Rose décède, les cinq cousines désormais adultes se réunissent dans le jardin de la maison et font une découverte qui va bouleverser la vie de Dalia : une lettre de son père. Pourquoi Rose lui a-t-elle caché qu'elle le connaissait ? En quête de réponses, Dalia décide de partir au Mexique pour retrouver sa trace.

Published in 1888, The Legacy of Cain is the last of Wilkie Collins’s completed novels. Two sisters, Helen and Eunice, are brought up by their father, Reverend Gracedieu. He has deliberately kept the girls in ignorance of their true ages, to disguise the fact that one of them was adopted after her birth mother was executed for the brutal murder of her husband. In time, both girls fall for the same man, Philip Dunboyne, but when he eventually chooses one of the sisters, events take a sinister turn.

From the Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama and author of Homeland Elegies, a "sparkling and combustible" play about identity in America after September 11 (Bloomberg). "In dialogue that bristles with wit and intelligence, Akhtar puts contemporary attitudes toward religion under a microscope...

Spanning 30 years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen's four children leave the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age, their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she's decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds.

Eight years have passed since Stella last saw Ivo, but when he returns, the reunion of their unconventional family will change the course of her ordinary life. As children, Stella and Ivo grew close as their parents embarked on an affair that would shatter both families. Later, as teenagers, their own relationship would be the cause of further scandal. Now, as adults, they set out on an odyssey to uncover the truth about another family’s past—and to understand their own.

When Maggie accepts one last commission before retiring from journalism, she’s given twenty-four hours on a remote tropical island to interview former Hollywood heart-throb Ed Cavanagh. There are just two problems: firstly, Ed doesn’t want anything to do with Maggie’s exclusive, and secondly, he’s the only man who ever broke her heart…

Nach der erschütternden Diagnose: Leukämie, sieht der 15-jährige Daniel Landon eine Parallele zu sich in den Worten von JD Salingers Der Fänger im Roggen. Inspiriert von Holden Caulfield, beginnt Daniel, die Absichten und die Autorität der Menschen um sich herum in Frage zu stellen, während er - dem Tod ins Auge blickend - nach seiner eigenen Identität sucht. Gelangweilt von seiner beengten Umgebung und den alternativen Behandlungsansätzen seiner Hippie-Eltern, folgt er den Spuren Holdens nach New York.

When bestselling romance novelist Olivia Sackville arrives at Venice’s prestigious winter literary festival, she’s prepared for everything except seeing Leo Greene—Britain’s number-one crime author and the man who’s forever turning her life upside down. The festival’s demanding schedule keeps throwing them together, and in a city like Venice, there’s no escaping the past—or each other.

Now an Academy Award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage's acclaimed Western is "a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place" (Boston Globe) for fans of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain. Set in the wide-open spaces of the...

Meet Charlie. People think he's crazy. But he's not. People think he's stupid. But he's not. People think he's innocent...He's the Gamal. Charlie has a story to tell, about his best friends Sinead and James and the bad things that happened. But he can't tell it yet, at least not 'til he's worked out where the beginning is. Is the beginning long ago when Sinead first spoke up for him after Charlie got in trouble at school for the millionth time? Or was it later, when Sinead and James followed the music and found each other?

When Annie Wolff’s ex-husband dies unexpectedly, she breaks her self-imposed exile and returns home to Snohomish, Washington. Annie hasn’t seen her children, Grace and Connor, in eight years, and now, her in-laws are making a bid to adopt them. She only hopes the depression that once sent her running will remain in check. Annie is quickly drawn back into the lives of her now-teenage kids, under the skeptical supervision of their aunt. While Connor welcomes his estranged mother with open arms, Grace wants nothing to do with her.

I haven’t spoken to my mother or sisters in years, but everything changes when I lose my husband. And I know it’s finally time to tell them why I’ve pushed them away. But as I approach my childhood home, my heart drops at the sight of police tape across the porch, and it shatters when I’m told my mother’s body has been recovered from the lake behind the house. I’m too late. Pushing all our differences aside, my sisters and I desperately search her house for answers. But something isn’t right. Her clothes are missing, and everything is covered in a thick layer of dust.

Spring 1986, Oxford. Rachel has landed on her feet: engaged to handsome author Jonny, soon to be stepmother to his young daughter Teddy, and with a dream to open her own art gallery. It’s everything she wished for during her unsettled childhood. So when she meets candid and carefree American artist Gabe at a party and feels a familiar spark, she knows she needs to resist. But as her perfect life moves forward, Gabe is never far away, and there’s no denying the lure of the spontaneous, wildly adventurous existence he seems to offer.

From internationally bestselling author Benedict Wells, a sweeping novel of love and loss, and of the lives we never get to live “[D]azzling storytelling...The End of Loneliness is both affecting and accomplished -- and eternal.” —John Irving "An exquisitely wrought and utterly absorbing...

Dominic Drive is the coming-of-age story of Charlie Williams, a young man who has a difficult childhood but who remains optimistic and hopeful, told through the eyes of another young man who becomes as close as a brother to him. Set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it captures life in a post-WWII community.

Meet the Dearings, a crazy, loving, boisterous family in small-town Mississippi. There's mom and dad, three daughters and their families, and the youngest - 25-year-old Ben. Oh, and the family dog, a Yorkie who thinks she's royalty.

Julius Hutch has planned to spend his retirement years 'pottering' and worrying about his bills, but wakes one morning to discover a foreign merchant bank has put four million pounds into his account—and won't take it back. So Julius, a humble man, sets out to spend the money helping other people, and wooing Pauline, the local bank teller. Up against an enormous banking corporation and an unsavoury property developer, Julius soon discovers that rather than being crushed by these financial giants as he would have been in the past, he is rendered rather more delightfully impervious.