Ergebnis für "Margot" in Frauenliteratur

Malerisch, mysteriös und romantisch – ein fesselnder Roman über ein düsteres Familiengeheimnis und eine große Liebe von Bestsellerautorin Margot S. Baumann. Sie hat eine Schwester namens Undine? Electra ist fassungslos, als sie bei der Testamentsverlesung ihrer Großtante erfährt, dass sie keineswegs ein Einzelkind ist. Aber wo ist Undine? Eine alte Postkarte ist der einzige Hinweis. Entschlossen, das Familiengeheimnis zu lösen, macht Electra sich auf den Weg nach Devon.

An “exquisite” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) and “wonderfully Parisian” (Leila Slimani, author of The Perfect Nanny) debut novel of intrigue and deception. “Betrayal and desire fuel the story of Margot, the secret daughter of a twenty-year affair between a French...

Die Eröffnung einer Galerie in Valencia führt Elena in eine unbekannte Vergangenheit und eine verheißungsvolle Zukunft. Was für eine Karrierechance! In Valencia soll Elena eine Zweigstelle der renommierten Millennium-Galerie aufbauen. Schade nur, dass sie kein Spanisch kann: Ihr Vater lehnt alles ab, was ihn an sein Heimatland erinnert. Doch prompt gerät Elena in der Stadt am Río Turia mit dem smarten Innenarchitekten Carlos Torres aneinander. Seine Ideen für die Galerie sind ihr zu innovativ.

It's the mid-1950s and Margot Thornsen is growing up between a Park Avenue apartment in New York and her family's sumptuous Oyster Bay estate as the presumed heir to her late grandfather's steel fortune. Her domineering mother has charted a course for her-to forego education and marry well-but Margot is more interested in microscopes and beetles and books. When a devastating fire brings the family legacy crashing down and the sexual revolution dawns, a new path opens up.

The Baxter sisters come from a long line of women with disastrous luck in love. But this summer, Sunshine and Margot will turn disasters into destiny… As an etiquette coach, Margot teaches her clients to fit in. But she’s never faced a client like Bianca, an aging movie star who gained...

“A beautiful debut, funny, tender, and animated by a willingness to confront life’s obstacles and find a way to survive. . . . It celebrates friendship, finds meaning in difficulty and lets the reader explore dark places while always allowing for the possibility of light. Lenni and Margot...

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late-nineteenth-century Scotland “Bewitching and seductive.” —Rebecca Makkai, author of I Have Some Questions for You “A...

A sharply funny and moving debut in which a young woman accepts a job that takes her though the Italian Dolomites and into an international mystery far greater—and more personal—than she could have ever expected. For someone who hates secrets, Las Vegas hairdresser Lucy Rey is about to be...

In the heart of New York City, hidden in the back room of an old Laundromat, are nine rare and valuable plants. Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire tells the story of this legendary garden, and the distance one woman must travel—from the cold, harsh streets of Manhattan to the lush...

When your life changes in a moment, how do you rewrite your story? In 1940s Britain, with the Second World War raging, Alice is working in a laboratory developing a new miracle medicine. Made to leave school at sixteen and abandon her aspiration to be a teacher, she learns instead how curing people may be her destiny.

Two women take an impromptu road trip, just like old times. When the truth catches up, will they keep running or face the darkness they once left behind?

La vida es corta, y nadie lo sabe mejor que Lenni Pettersson a sus diecisiete años. Enfadada con el mundo porque el tiempo se le acaba, Lenni todavía tiene mucho que experimentar y demasiadas preguntas sin respuesta. Margot tiene ochenta y tres años. Cuando conoce a Lenni en el taller de arte del hospital le ofrece su amistad incondicional. A partir de ese momento, los días de Lenni se expanden como nunca hubiera imaginado: las historias que le cuenta la anciana le harán soñar todas las vidas que la enfermedad le negará. La novela más luminosa y conmovedora del año.

As the daughter of notorious serial killer Ed Finch, Margot has spent decades escaping her past—changing her name, her appearance, and building walls no one can breach, except her partner, Detective Wes Fox, whose growing closeness threatens the isolation she depends on. When her troubled brother shows up needing a place to stay, pressuring her to participate in a true crime documentary about their father, Margot’s carefully controlled world begins to unravel.

How well do you really know your best friend? Kat Grant and Alice Campbell have a friendship forged in shared confidences and long lunches lubricated by expensive wine. Though they’re very different women—the artsy socialite and the struggling suburbanite—they’re each other’s rocks...

In her best-selling debut, Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire, Margot Berwin brought us to the rain forests of Mexico—to a land of shamans, spirit animals, and snake charmers—in the search for nine rare and valuable plants. Now, with her hotly anticipated second novel, Berwin...

Buried secrets and past betrayals, old friendships and new beginnings are at the heart of this rich bestseller from the “real and endearing” (Los Angeles Times) Fern Michaels. Twenty years after a tragic childhood accident, Cady Jordan has returned to her Pennsylvania hometown to care for...