Ergebnis für "George" in Frauenliteratur

Zwei Frauen, verschieden wie Ebbe und Flut. Verbunden durch das Schicksal und die Hoffnung auf ein besseres Leben... Das dramatische Finale des neuen großen Zweiteilers von Bestsellerautorin Miriam Georg. Die Hafenmetropole Hamburg ist rettungslos überfüllt, es kocht wie in einem Kessel. Bei den Auswandererhallen werden mit den Hoffnungen der Menschen auf ein besseres Leben rücksichtslose Geschäfte gemacht. Hier arbeitet Ava – unermüdlich, Tag für Tag, nachdem ihre einzige Hoffnung zerschlagen wurde, in Amerika ihre Familie zu finden. Sie wurde gnadenlos hintergangen.

Das dramatische Finale des packenden Zweiteilers von Bestsellerautorin Miriam Georg. Hamburg, 1914. Rosa ist fort! Alice sucht überall nach ihrer kleinen Tochter, aber sie bleibt verschwunden. Zugleich muss Alice eine respektable Arbeit vorweisen, um vor Gericht die Auflösung ihrer Ehe zu bewirken. Die Situation scheint ausweglos … In ihrer Verzweiflung schleust Alice sich als Dienstmädchen in John Reevens Villa am Feenteich ein. Nun begegnen Alice und John sich täglich, ohne ein offenes Wort miteinander wechseln zu können.

Stadt der Tränen, Stadt der Träume – die Hamburger Auswandererhallen. Die neue dramatische Saga vor einzigartiger Kulisse von Bestsellerautorin Miriam Georg! Jeden Tag arbeitet die junge Ava bis zur Erschöpfung auf dem Moorhof im Alten Land. Jede Nacht träumt sie vom Meer. Die Erinnerung an ihre Familie ist von Jahr zu Jahr mehr verblasst, kaum weiß sie noch den Namen ihrer Mutter. Irgendwann will Ava sie in Amerika wiederfinden.

The international bestseller from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World * One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'* "Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person...

Novelist Anne George injects murder, mayhem, and laughs into her popular mysteries. Nominated for an Agatha Award, this hilarious tale of two “60 something” sisters reveals the deadly consequences of a hasty real estate purchase. Retired Alabama school teacher Patricia Anne thinks her older sister, flamboyant Mary Alice, has lost her cotton-pickin’ mind. On a whim, Mary Alice bought the Skoot ’n’ Boot, the local country western night spot where she and her boyfriend hang out. Mary Alice insists it will be easy to run the club - until the previous owner is found executed.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the greatest tragedies are not born from evil, but from ordinary hopes placed in the wrong hands? In *Middlemarch*, George Eliot creates one of the most profound portraits of human ambition, marriage, reform, and moral consequence in English...

Introducing your new crime thriller fix: Bristol detective DS George Cross, champion of the outsider, the voiceless and the dispossessed. DS George Cross can be rude, difficult, and awkward with people. But his unfailing logic and dogged pursuit of the truth means his conviction rate is the best...

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All new and original to this volume, the 21 stories in Dangerous Women include work by twelve New York Times bestsellers, and seven stories set in the authors’ bestselling continuities—including a new “Outlander” story by Diana Gabaldon, a tale of Harry Dresden’s world by Jim Butcher...

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Marianne Messman longs to escape her loveless marriage to an uncaring husband - an artillery sergeant major named Lothar. On a day trip to Paris, Marianne decides to leap off the Pont Neuf into the Seine, but she is saved from drowning by a homeless man. While recovering in hospital, Marianne comes across a painting of the tiny port town of Kerdruc in Brittany and decides to try her luck on the coast. In Kerdruc, Marianne meets a host of colourful characters who all gravitate around the restaurant of Ar Mor (The Sea).

Middlemarch is a novel by the English author Mary Anne Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. It first appeared in eight installments in 1871 and 1872. Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midland town, from 1829 to 1832, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Despite comic elements, Middlemarch uses realism to encompass historical events.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Lust by Roald Dahl, read by Mark Heap, Derek Jacobi, Richard E Grant, Gillian Anderson, Shane Rimmer, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Jessica Hynes. We fall not in love but in lust . . . Lust, in all its myriad forms, consumes us. What won't we do to achieve our...

Eine vornehm gekleidete Frau sitzt betrunken in einem Pariser Restaurant. Seit Tagen lässt sich die 28-jährige Betty durch die Lokale der Stadt treiben. Schließlich bricht sie zusammen und erwacht am nächsten Tag in einem Hotel. Das Nebenzimmer bewohnt eine ältere Frau, Laure Lavancher. Die gelernte Krankenschwester kümmert sich um Betty, die von ihrem Mann bei einem Seitensprung erwischt und des großbürgerlichen Heims verwiesen wurde. Ihre Kinder darf Betty nicht mehr sehen. Ihr Leben liegt in Scherben. Doch dank Laures Hilfe kommt Betty wieder zu Kräften.

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Brought to you by Penguin. The first ever collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Swing Time and White Teeth 'Zadie Smith is the best writer of our generation' Gary Shteyngart 'Her dialogue is pitch-perfect, her comic timing masterful... [And] she also delivers a...

*LONGLISTED FOR THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD 2025* From the No.1 internationally bestselling author comes a compelling new suspense novel, which will stay with you long after you've finished reading. A romantic trip that goes wrong… Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and...

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.

An inspiring and relatable heroine, Esther is a pious young servant girl who endures the terrible fate of becoming pregnant and leaving her workplace to face a desperate future... but she is tenacious and fiery, and dedicated to keeping her son and building her life against unfathomably poor odds. Society’s ills are laid bare, especially the addictive buzz, desperate drive and inevitable destruction of gambling on horses.

Listen to Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love reviewed on NPR In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her 2007 novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when...