Ergebnis für "George" in Familienleben

Die Vergangenheit unserer Mütter, die Zukunft unserer Töchter: der neue große Roman von Bestsellerautorin Miriam Georg (Elbleuchten). Laura hat ihre Großmutter Änne oft von dem Gefühl des Sommers in Schlesien erzählen gehört. Über die Menschen in ihrer Vergangenheit jedoch wollte Änne nie sprechen. Als ihre Großmutter schwer erkrankt, scheint es Laura auf einmal zu spät für all die Fragen, die jahrzehntelang unausgesprochen geblieben sind. Dann macht sie eine Entdeckung, die ein ganz neues Licht auf das Leben der Frau wirft, die ihr so vertraut war.

Hamburg in den Jahren 1912-1914. Alice arbeitet auf dem Vergnügungsmarkt Hamburger Dom. Voller Hoffnung, einem Leben in Armut zu entkommen, ging sie eine Ehe ein. Doch das Leben mit ihrem Mann ist unerträglich. Das wenige hart verdiente Geld behält er ein, Eifersucht und Jähzorn treiben ihn in die Raserei, ihre Tochter Rosa kann sie kaum beschützen. Als Rosa in einen schrecklichen Unfall verwickelt wird, wird Alice dafür verantwortlich gemacht. Wie soll sie je den Schaden begleichen, der ihr zur Last gelegt wird?

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.

Von Sehnsucht, Sinn und Sinnlichkeit: ein intensiver, poetischer Roman von Bestseller-Autorin Nina George über die Liebe und das Leben vor der beeindruckenden Kulisse der bretonischen Küste. Die angesehene Pariser Verhaltensbiologin Claire sehnt sich immer verzweifelter danach, zu spüren, dass sie noch lebt und nicht nur funktioniert. Die junge Julie wartet auf etwas, das sie innerlich in Brand steckt – auf des Lebens Rausch, auf Farben, Mut und Leidenschaft. Ein Sommer in der Bretagne, am Ende der Welt, führt die beiden unterschiedlichen Frauen zusammen.

The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century--a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity...

Ihr ganzes Leben lang wurde Maddie Wright gesagt, wer sie ist. Für ihre ghanaischen Eltern ist sie Maame, diejenige, die sich um die Familie kümmert. Die in die Mutterrolle tritt. Die Betreuerin ihres an Parkinson erkrankten Vaters. Diejenige, die den Familienfrieden bewahrt – und die Geheimnisse. Es ist Zeit für sie, ihre eigene Stimme zu finden. Als sie endlich die Chance bekommt, von zu Hause auszuziehen, ist Maddie fest entschlossen, die Frau zu werden, die sie sein möchte: Eine Frau, die einen knallgelben Anzug trägt, mit Männern ausgeht und sich mutig ihrer Chefin entgegenstellt.

The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls. They share the bewilderment over how things went so wrong and come to wonder where to go from here. Told entirely through the letters of two comforting strangers and those of two illicit lovers, Evidence of the Affair explores the complex nature of the heart. And ultimately, for one woman, how liberating it can be when it’s broken.

Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page. Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother’s absence.

Considered one of the great English novels, George Eliot's Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life follows myriad characters and their lives in the eponymous town, Middlemarch, in the 1800s. Utilizing a realistic style, Eliot considers issues such as religion, education, and the status of women—to name just a few.

Unabridged readings of four fictional masterpieces Contained in this collection are four more enduring classics, read in full by some of the very best audiobook narrators. With over 32 hours of irresistible storytelling, tracked by chapter for ease of navigation, this is the perfect way to...

After searching for his purpose through several eventful lives, Buddy is sure that he has found and fulfilled it. Yet as he watches curious baby Clarity get into dangerous mischief, he is certain that this little girl is very much in need of a dog of her own. When Buddy is reborn, he realizes that he has a new destiny. He's overjoyed when he is adopted by Clarity, now a vibrant but troubled teenager. When they are suddenly separated, Buddy despairs - who will take care of his girl?

From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known and Admission, a twisty new novel about a college president, a baffling student protest, and some of the most hot-button issues on today's college campuses. Naomi Roth is the first female president of Webster College, a once...

The Sunday Times bestseller is back, with his biggest adventure yet. The perfect read for fans of A Street Cat Named Bob. As the residents of Edgar Road know, Alfie is no ordinary cat. Since his arrival in the street, he's made every house his home, helping this group of neighbours to become...

From “America’s librarian” and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotional, “Anne-Tyler-esque” (Library Journal) debut novel about an unlikely marriage at a crossroads. George and Lizzie are a couple, meeting as college students and marrying soon after graduation, but no one...

Following on the heels of his New York Times–bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh...

One of the most beloved novels in recent years, Plainsong was a best-seller from coast to coast—and now Kent Haruf returns to the High Plains community of Holt, Colorado, with a story of even more masterful authority. When the McPheron brothers see Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother...

Henning Mankell's first novel, never before released in English, explores the reflections of a working class man who has struggled against the constraints of his station for his entire life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. The year is 1911. The young rock blaster Oskar Johansson has been killed in an...

Oregon, 1925. Like his semi-reclusive parents, ten-year-old George Graham doesn’t have friends, preferring to live inside the safe and predictable world of his books. This all changes when his classmate Louise Pearson, new to town, befriends him. Curious about his family’s secrets, and with plenty of her own, the pair become an irrepressible, inseparable team, bantering and bickering their way through what turns out to be an unforgettable summer.

From the author of the “lyrical and compelling” (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope. For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his...

When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she...