Ergebnis für "Lotus" in Frauenliteratur

1941: When Nancy’s world is blown apart by the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, she volunteers to travel to the Philippines to serve at the front. She soon finds herself working in a field hospital on the Bataan Peninsula in the thick of the fighting, experiencing the horrors of war first hand.

Depuis l'âge de quatre ans, Petite Fleur se fait bander les pieds par sa mère. Si elle supporte la douleur, c'est pour avoir des lotus d'or parfaits, des pieds de dix centimètres, qui lui assureraient un mariage respectable malgré la pauvreté de sa famille. Mais à la mort de son père, Petite Fleur est vendue comme muizai à la riche famille Fong et devient la suivante de Linjing, une petite fille gâtée et cruelle.

Tara moves to the American South three years after her arranged marriage to tech executive Sanjay. Ignored and lonely, Tara finds herself regressing back to childhood memories that have scarred her for life. When she was eight, her parents had left her behind with her aging grandparents and a schizophrenic uncle in Mangalore, while taking her baby brother with them to make a new life for the family in Dubai. Tara's memories of abandonment and isolation mirror her present life of loneliness and escalating abuse at the hands of her husband.

As the Lotus Blooms is the fast-moving sequel to Logan’s first novel Finding Lien. The story follows Lien, traumatized from her ordeal as a victim of child trafficking in a Cambodian brothel, on her journey of recovery. Despite her recurring bouts of PTSD, this courageous young woman signs on with an NGO to work with a team to prevent trafficking and rescue victims.

A compelling novel that intertwines the stories of people from Ireland, India, and America, their lives touched by the untold stories of global immigration. Claire is the American wife of an executive in the World Bank, living in Dublin during the economic boom times. Brigid is a single Irish woman who, after spending most of her adult live working as a midwife on Native American reservations, is now returning home to Ireland. Padmaj is a man, originally from India and now an Irish citizen, who owns a restaurant in Dublin.

Nick Vitale, devilishly handsome, forbidding - and heir to a billion dollar fortune. Keyonna Hayes, beautiful, success-driven and ripe for love and passion beneath her ambitious shell. Blackmailed into marriage to the insufferably rich and gorgeous Nick Vitale, Keyonna is determined to teach him a thing or two about love which he so despises. Only things never really go as expected... Soon intrigue, heartbreak and betrayal ensue and Nick and Keyonna fight to regain a love that was always destined to be theirs.

Bikers, babes, and booze. Three things I lived for, all in one dirty package when I decided to throw my brother's bachelor party at the Panama City Bike Rally. Then she came along and screwed up everything. The plan was simple. Familiar. Take her home, wreck her for other men, and then kick her to the curb by daylight, spent and breathless. It would've been the perfect night making her scream my name if she hadn't hidden one little fact. She's Big Roy's property, and he owns her.

Several years before, Flint Mason committed the unthinkable, he left town and turned his back on his brothers and the Steel Infidels Motorcycle Club. When his best friend is murdered by a rival MC, he returns home determined to exact his own personal revenge. Veterinarian Dr. Kendra Shaw has never ignored an animal in need. So when a call comes in about an injured eagle she doesn't think twice about going alone to a secluded cabin to meet the caller. What she finds there sets her on a shocking path she never imagined...

Jasmine dreaded seeing pro football's hottest new star, Chris Hays, again after eight long years. Back in high school, he was the tall, blonde captain of the football team and had a reputation for sleeping his way through the cheerleading squad. Jasmine, on the other hand, was painfully shy, poor and lived on the "wrong side of the tracks". She knew there was never a chance he'd ever ask her out, but it never stopped her from dreaming.