Ergebnis für "E²" in Frauenliteratur

Wünsche und Karma sind so eine Sache. Eben hat sich Jaz, Vegetarierin, Yogalehrerin und Hundefreundin, mehr Abwechslung in ihrem Leben gewünscht und im nächsten Moment fliegen ihr Kugeln um die Ohren. Nachdem selbst der Polizei von Seattle nicht zu trauen ist, flüchtet sie zu ihrer Großmutter nach Independence, Colorado und lässt Job und betrügerischen Freund hinter sich. Nur Königspudel Rambo nimmt sie mit auf ihre Reise.

Dies ist meine Geschichte, die Geschichte einer Frau im Krieg. Spätsommer 1939. Elke, eine junge deutsche Frau, hat alles: ein sicheres Zuhause und eine wunderbare Familie, ihren liebenden Ehemann Ulrich und ihren siebenjährigen Sohn Klaus, der sorglos am Strand spielt. Doch die Ruhe wird durch den ausbrechenden Krieg ersetzt, der die ganze Familie mitreißt und ihr Leben für immer verändert. Nachdem ihr Mann zur deutschen Wehrmacht eingezogen wird, bleibt Elke allein zurück, um den kleinen Familienhof zu führen.

Als die Frauen das Radfahren entdeckten: Hanna Caspians historischer Roman Im Takt der Freiheit entführt ins Deutsche Kaiserreich zu einer jungen Frau, der das Fahrrad den Weg in ein selbstbestimmtes Leben weist – und zu ihrer großen Liebe. Berlin, im Dreikaiserjahr 1888: Als Tochter eines Eisenbahn-Tycoons hat Felicitas Louisburg scheinbar unendliche Möglichkeiten und kann sich leisten, was immer ihr Herz begehrt. Nur eines ist in ihrem Leben nicht vorgesehen: persönliche Freiheit.

Special Agent Nikki Hunt feels her chest tighten as she looks down at the body sprawled beside the lilac bushes. This morning, her ten-year-old daughter Lacey witnessed the murder of local mother Elle Harper. Out riding her bike, Lacey saw the killer escape from the house and rushed inside to protect Elle’s daughters Maisy and Maya. Nikki promises Lacey she’ll do whatever it takes to help the poor innocent girls who now sit in her house clutching their teddies. But before she has a chance to return them to the safety of their stepfather Tim, he’s reported missing.

Marlene Beckmann ist 31 Jahre alt und lebt das Leben, das sie sich gewünscht hat. Auf die Frage, wie es ihr geht, antwortet sie meistens: "Super, und dir?" Marlene hat sich äußerlich im Griff. Bis sie ihren ersten richtigen Job als Social Media Managerin in einem multinationalen Unternehmen antritt. Bis sie vor lauter Überstunden kein Privatleben mehr hat. Bis der Druck schließlich zu groß wird.

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina's relationship with her obsessive best friend and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention....

Ein herzerwärmender, lustiger, und gleichzeitig ernster Roman über eine junge Frau, die sich der harten Realität des selbstständigen Lebens stellen muss. Margo braucht Geld. Seit sie ungewollt von ihrem Collegeprofessor, der sie jetzt mit dem Kind alleinlässt, schwanger wurde, mehr denn je. Wie Margo es auch dreht und wendet, kein Job scheint passend zu sein, oder könnte auch nur ansatzweise ihr Leben mit einem Baby finanzieren.

Matt Smith is an earnest ER physician who has built a fragile new life with his recovering wife. When Olivia's newborn dies during an emergency delivery and she nearly follows, the hospital staff make a desperate choice: tell a lie to keep her alive.

Brides of Bold Street is filled with beautiful, brand-new ivory gowns. But dressmaker Sabrina loves it when brides-to-be wear vintage, family heirloom dresses. Seeing wedding day photographs of future mothers and grandmothers beaming—as if knowing the happiness they feel will be passed down to their daughters—is a bittersweet reminder of the mother she's never known.

In the summer of 2020, social justice protests and the removal of Confederate monuments rock the city of Richmond, Virginia, as the marriages of two estranged sisters implode. When Cynthia’s husband, Bobby, can no longer hide his dire financial situation, their union finally ruptures. Melissa, her sister, has dedicated herself so fully to racial justice activism that she becomes alienated from her own Black husband.

Physics wunderkind Fleur Robins, just a little odd and more familiar with multiple universes than complicated affairs of the heart, is cast adrift when her project to address the climate crisis is stalled. Worse still, her Ethiopian-born fiancé Assefa takes off right after her 21st birthday party to track down his father, who’s gone missing investigating Ethiopian claims to the Ark of the Covenant. Fleur is left to contend with the puzzle of parallel worlds, an awkward admirer, and her best friend Sammie’s entanglement with an abusive boyfriend.

After running from her mother's seaside cottage ten years ago following a devastating loss, Sarah returns to the village of Dovecote to fulfil her father's dying wish. As she opens the gate of her childhood home, long-buried emotions rise to the surface. Having drifted from the close-knit community, she can't bear to face those she hurt when she left.

In the heart of Notting Hill, editor Hannah Bennett reluctantly agrees to a blind date arranged by her meddlesome friend and loving mother. What she expects to be a tedious afternoon quickly turns into something disarmingly warm when she meets Kevin Anderson—a man whose charm feels as genuine as it is hauntingly familiar. But as laughter turns to curiosity, and curiosity to unease, Hannah senses a shadow lurking behind his perfect smile. When a mysterious stranger appears with a scar and a badge, her idyllic date unravels into a web of deceit, danger, and fate.

Yes, that Hester—the fallen woman who bore the Scarlet Letter while raising her daughter on her own. She is looking back, across that clearing, and 150 years, at her fateful lover. Less a retelling or transposition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic than a repurposing of the materials to tell a different version, Hester in Sunlight, revolving around the relationships between the (unnamed) narrator; her husband Sonny and gender fluid child Luna; her sister Dani and her two kids; and their parents, is a heady and stimulating riff on contemporary motherhood and parenting.

Blindsided by her mother’s sudden death and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she has been writing for six years. At 31, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life.

A gripping and twisty new psychological thriller about every mother’s worst nightmare. Perfect for fans of Sue Watson, S.E. Lynes and Freida McFadden. Natasha was plunged into every parent’s ultimate nightmare when her son was taken from hospital shortly after his birth. Worse still, in the...

Die Freundinnen Susa, Wilma und Laura haben sich nach dem plötzlichen Tod ihrer Freundin Betsy eine kleine Auszeit in dieser Ferienanlage genommen. Es gibt so viele Fragen und sie wollen auch den Vater von Betsys Tochter suchen, den sie hier in Casalappi vermuten. Inmitten von Weintrauben, Sonnenblumenfeldern und Oliven wird ihnen bewusst, wie sehr sich der Alltag in ihrer aller Leben geschlichen hatte. Und wie wichtig ihnen ihre Freundschaft ist, nicht zu vergessen, die Liebe.

A twisty, high-stakes thriller in the breathless, page-turning style of Ruth Ware, Lisa Jewell, and Claire Douglas, in which nothing is as it seems and saving the day is only the beginning. Claire Fitzroy was on the way home to London when her train from Manchester was hijacked by a group of...

When a sinkhole nearly swallows her whole, burned-out history professor Philippa Flynn takes it as a wake-up call. Leaving her carefully planned but unfulfilling life behind, she moves into an old seaside house she inherited from her grandmother, a bestselling author of swashbuckling romances. Philippa expects the clutter, disrepair, proximity to the family she deliberately moved away from, and reclusive writer she’ll be sharing the house with. She doesn’t expect that writer to also be the cover model who personified Iris Flynn’s bare-chested, cavalier-booted pirate king.

From the author of Adelaide comes a bittersweet, deeply felt story that follows the start and unraveling of a seemingly unbreakable bond between two young women. Lina and June’s friendship shouldn’t make sense. June has her future planned to a T; Lina takes life day by day, party by party...