Ergebnis für "Das Tor" in Familienleben

Coralin ist Reedertochter aus gutem Hamburger Hause – doch sie muss aus ihrem alten Leben fliehen und findet sich von einem Tag auf den anderen als Hauslehrerin im Seebad Norderney wieder. Schon in der ersten Woche geraten sie und ihre Schülerin Emmi bei einem Ausflug in Seenot. Der Tagelöhner Onnen versteht diese Ignoranz der Badegäste einfach nicht … Kein Respekt vor Meer und Gezeiten! Bald schon merkt Cora, dass der verschlossene Onnen ihr von Tag zu Tag mehr bedeutet. Regelmäßig verschwindet er jedoch und kehrt erst Tage später missgelaunt zurück.

Monika legt ihren letzten Wunsch in Heddas Hände: Die junge Schriftstellerin soll die Geschichte ihrer Eltern Ottilia und Eduard niederschreiben. Die Geschichte einer großen Liebe, die sich dem Druck des Nationalsozialismus und einer alten Familienfehde entgegenstellte. Als Ottilia an pöbelnde Braunhemden gerät, kommt ihr ein junger Mann zu Hilfe, der ihr nicht mehr aus dem Sinn geht. Es ist Eduard, der Sohn der Galberts, mit denen Ottilias Familie seit jeher im Streit liegt.

"Das Verschwinden der Linnea Arvidsson" ist ein fesselnder Roman, durch den wir erfahren, wie stark Geschwisterbande sind, wie es ist, in einer der ärmsten Gegenden von Malmö aufzuwachsen, und wie die Liebe uns dazu bringen kann, Dinge zu tun, die wir nie für möglich gehalten hätten. Dani geriet als Jugendlicher in falsche Kreise, verbrachte sogar einige Zeit im Malmöer Gefängnis. Seine Schwester Lydia ist die einzige Familie, die er noch hat, und er hat ihr versprochen, nie wieder ein Verbrechen zu begehen.

Nora Steinfeld arbeitet in einem Seminarhotel und soll ihre Chefin für vier Wochen vertreten. Kurz nachdem sie die Herausforderung angenommen hat, erhält sie die Diagnose Hirntumor, inoperabel. Und nun? Sie beschließt vorerst niemandem davon zu erzählen. Unbeabsichtigt betritt sie einen der Seminarräume. Ein Professor der Psychologie hält gerade einen Vortrag über die Seele des Menschen. Was sie da hört, ist völlig neu, rüttelt sie auf und führt sie schließlich zu einem ungewöhnlichen Plan.

Zwei Frauen aus unterschiedlichen Zeiten, die ihren Träumen folgen, auf der Suche nach Gerechtigkeit und wahrer Liebe. "Für die schönste und wertvollste Rose. Deine Liebe lässt mich alles Dunkel vergessen." Mit all ihrer Leidenschaft ist Hannah dabei, ihren großen Traum zu verwirklichen: Ihr Café "Zur Schokoladen-Symphonie" in der Nähe des Bayreuther Festspielhauses. Beim Stöbern auf dem Dachboden stößt sie auf ein mit Rosen und zwei verschlungenen Initialen verziertes Holzkästchen, ein Tagebuch aus den 1920er-Jahren und eine Mappe mit Klaviernoten.

Three generations of women in the Ferrari family must heal the broken pieces of their lives on a trip of a lifetime through picturesque Italy from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst Workaholic, career-obsessed Francesca is fiercely independent and successful in all areas of her...

For fans of The Nightingale and Brooklyn comes an exquisite and unforgettable novel about friendship, love, and redemption in a circle of immigrants who flee Europe for 1930s-era New York City. "Carter's warm and beautiful prose brings us love, tragedy, mystery and hope in a moving celebration...

Il vecchio Tollak è un uomo pieno di contraddizioni: orgoglioso e furioso, giusto e tenero. Ormai vecchio e solo, non fa che imprecare contro il mondo che da tempo, per lui, ha smesso di avere senso. Solo una cosa lo teneva attaccato alla vita: sua moglie Ingeborg, amatissima, scomparsa diversi anni fa. I suoi due figli, ormai adulti, hanno abbandonato la vita desolata della provincia remota da cui provengono, e passano a trovarlo di rado; soltanto Oddo è rimasto con lui: Oddo lo scemo, come lo chiamano i vicini, di cui Tollak si prende cura da quando, ancora bambino, è stato abbandonato dalla madre.

Nearly a decade ago, iconic magician Violet Volk performed her greatest trick yet: vanishing mid-act. Though she hasn’t been seen since, her hold on the public imagination is stronger than ever. While Violet sought out the spotlight, her sister Sasha always had to be the responsible one, taking over their mother’s hair salon and building a quiet life for her beloved daughter, Quinn. But Sasha can never seem to escape her sister’s orbit or her memories of their unresolved, tumultuous relationship.

The tight-knit residents of Blue Moon Mountain, nestled high in the Colorado Mountains, form an interconnected community of those living off the land, stunned by the beauty and isolation all around them. So when, at the onset of winter, the town veterinarian commits a violent act, the repercussions of that tragedy will be felt all across the mountainside, upending their lives and causing their paths to twist and collide in unexpected ways.

In vivid, poetic prose, Nancy Kricorian’s The Burning Heart of the World tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during, and after the Lebanese Civil War. Returning to the fabular tone of Zabelle, her popular first novel, Kricorian conjures up the lost worlds and intergenerational traumas that haunt a family in permanent exile. Leavened with humor and imbued with the timelessness of a folktale, The Burning Heart of the World is a sweeping saga that takes listeners on an epic journey from the mountains of Cilicia to contemporary New York City.

When Hannah packs up her past and moves to the cottage next-door to her sister, she hopes the luxe neighborhood and close family ties will be the perfect escape for her son and the shadows that trail them. But when a young girl goes missing days after they unload their final boxes and her son is quickly thrown under suspicion, Hannah must do whatever it takes to protect her child. Even if that means pointing the blame her sister's way instead.

One sunny morning in 1969, near the end of her first trip to Miami, twenty-six-year-old Frances Ellerby finds herself in a place called Stiltsville, a community of houses built on pilings in the middle of Biscayne Bay. It's the first time the Atlanta native has been out on the open water, and she's captivated. On the dock of a stilt house, with the dazzling skyline in the distance and the unknowable ocean beneath her, she meets the house's owner, Dennis DuValand, a new future reveals itself.

David and Judith's fragile marriage is threatened by the sudden death of their beloved 13-year-old daughter, Melanie. As they struggle to cope with their loss, they confront bewildering challenges. But instead of turning to each other, they find comfort with others. David is drawn to Nancy, a colleague and single mother, and a survivor of her own personal tragedy, while Judith grows close to Jeffrey, a recently widowed physician whom she meets through her volunteer work at a thrift shop, itself the scene of multiple daily dramas.

Hope. Glamour. Independence. A new era has begun… ‘A wonderfully absorbing tale of friendship, rich in period detail’ Stylist ***** With the Great War behind them, four friends are ready to live again. Lydia, a society beauty, has everything – wealth, status and a husband who survived...

The two principal stories at play in Wintering are bound together when the elderly, demented Harry Eide escapes his sickbed and vanishes into the forbidding, northernmost wilderness that surrounds the town of Gunflint, Minnesota - instantly changing the Eide family, and many other lives, forever. He'd done this once before, more than 30 years earlier in 1963, fleeing a crumbling marriage and bringing along Gustav, his 18-year-old son.

Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. At three Helen lost her mother and the beloved grandmother who raised her has just died. A fiercely imaginative child, Helen is desperate to keep her house intact with all its ghosts and stories. Flora, her late mother's twenty-two-year old first cousin, who cries at the drop of a hat, is ardently determined to do her best for Helen.

From New York Times bestselling author Susan Issacs, a “deliciously wicked” (Publishers Weekly) story of three cousins and a fortune. Imagine King Lear as a comedy… At seventy-nine, Gloria Garrison must plan for the future of Glory, Inc., the beauty-makeover business that she has grown...

Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gallagher is trying to escape: from her parents' ugly divorce, and from the vicious cyber-bullying of her former best friend. Adrift, confused, she is a girl trying to find her way in a world that seems to either neglect or despise her. Her salvation arrives in an...

The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle). Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and...