Ergebnis für "Ivy" in Familienleben

Ein Weihnachtstag im Haus der viktorianischen Familie Edgeworth 1885. Der Patriarch Duncan lässt keinen Zweifel daran, dass er der Herr im Haus ist, gegenüber seiner Familie verhält er sich anmaßend und tyrannisch. Als seine Frau stirbt, wird sie kurzerhand durch eine andere ersetzt, kaum älter als seine Töchter. Von dem Moment an, in dem die erste Teetasse umgestoßen wird, braut sich ein Sturm zusammen. Ivy Compton-Burnett entwirft eine Welt, in der unablässig die Tugend beschworen und bewundert und im selben Moment verhöhnt wird. Stets trägt das Laster den Sieg davon.

In a heartwarming novel of secret wishes and family lost and found, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels creates a timeless Christmas story to cherish.

A recluse and a young woman discover that the scars of life are no match against an act of love. Iowa, 1903. All of Monticello believes Otis Taylor has been away fostering his musical genius. But the truth is that his father exiled him long ago, rejecting Otis's appearance and the scars that...

All Zoey’s happiest childhood memories are of her great-aunt Ivy’s rickety cottage on Dune Island, being spoiled with cranberry ice cream, and watching the tides change from the rooftop. Now, heartbroken from a recent breakup, Zoey can see her elderly aunt’s spark is fading and decides to move to the island, so they can care for each other. When she arrives to find her cousin, Mark, sitting at the solid oak kitchen table, she knows why Aunt Ivy hasn’t been herself. Because Mark - next in line to inherit the house - is pushing Ivy to move into a nursing home.

Lillian Alexander’s father is dying of cancer. When he rambles on in a morphine-delirium, Lillian can’t ignore the feeling he’s trying to tell her something. At his funeral days later, she encounters ghosts from her past who stir long-suppressed memories from the day her mother died 27 years ago. Why, if her mother’s death was an accident, does Lillian harbor guilt, as though she were somehow to blame? When Lillian and her twin sister, Layla, learn the Stoney family fortune is gone, Lillian fights to save her ancestral home on Charleston’s prestigious East Battery.

This is a story about the things you think you'll never lose in life, the things you do lose and the things that get left behind, either accidentally or on purpose. But it's also a story about the things you think you'll never find in life, the things you do find and the things that get left behind by others that you pick up and make into yours. Jack had a family until the day when he didn't, and then what Jack had was a street. Jack lost one family but gained many more. Christmas is a very special time. Jack is a very special dog.

मनचाही शादी करने वाले पति सूर्यकांत शिंदे और पत्नी माधुरी के संबंधों में जब कड़वाहट आनी शुरू हुई तो वह बढ़ती ही गई.