Ergebnis für "Poe" in Familienleben

In Polish: Charlotte, a prewar inhabitant of Berlin and daughter of a famous antiquarian, falls in love with much older Adolf Ziegler. He's a painter, womanizer, and Hitler's protege who paints nudes of “real, German women”. When Charlotte becomes Adolf's lover, she rejects Kristian's advances. However, Kristian is unable to forget about her...Piotr Adamczyk, the author of The House of Longing, this time presents a sensational, Polish-German epic with great love, politics, art, betrayal, and mystery in the background. It plays out in Nazi Germany and today's Poland.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult, tells the “compelling” (USA TODAY) novel about a girl who sues her parents for the rights to her own body. Featuring fan favorite Jesse, who appears in the upcoming novel Hollow Bones. Anna is not sick, but she...

Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is, here, once more our guide to the great American midway. Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colourful lives — sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent — Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all; caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS.

The extraordinary debut novel that became a modern classic Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose remarkable gift for...

From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of...

Brought to you by Penguin. In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to leave the family for another woman - will change...

Calvin Sidey - steely, hardened, with his own personal code - is one of the last cowboys. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a trailer on the prairie when his adult son, Bill, seeks his help. A mostly absentee father and grandfather, Calvin nevertheless agrees to stay with his grandchildren for a week. He decamps for his son's house in the small town where he once was a mythic figure, and soon enough problems arise: A boy's attentions to 17-year-old Ann are increasingly aggressive, and a group of reckless kids portend danger for 11-year-old Will.

It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle’s imagination has gotten him into trouble … again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with their two best friends and their three dogs, are setting off for Wisconsin’s northwoods, where they hope to make a fresh start—and, with a little luck, discover what it takes to live a life of meaning, purpose and adventure. But the place they are headed for is far stranger and more perilous than they realize, and it will take all their ingenuity, along with a few new friends—human, animal, and otherworldly—to realize their dreams.

Eccoci all’ultimo atto della saga dei molinari Scacerni. Molto è cambiato dal 1812. Realizzata quasi per intero l’unità del paese e presa anche Roma, l’esigenza di dare alla neonata Italia una qualche interna coesione e di modernizzarne il sistema economico spinge le istituzioni dello stato e la lotta politica fino agli strati più emarginati e incolti, trascinandoli a forza in un universo fin lì estraneo e ignoto. La resistenza è durissima, tuttavia. Conduttrice del San Michele e del Paneperso insieme ai figli, Cecilia Scacerni si oppone riottosa alla natura pubblica di questo nuovo universo fino all’ultimo dei suoi giorni.

Pierwsza część barwnej sagi rodzinnej, osadzonej w realiach współczesnej polskiej wsi. Liliana Kłosowska-Maj po pięciu latach trwania w toksycznym małżeństwie postanawia uciec z wielkiego miasta, by jej córeczka mogła wychowywać się w innym, pozbawionym wiecznego strachu, środowisku. Wprowadza się do rodzinnego dworku, gdzie spędziła dzieciństwo. Nawiedzony dwór prababki Rozalii, zwanej "Czarownicą z Ogrodowej", staje się spokojną przystanią dla matki i córki.

Jak zasłużyć na miano ślubnej sabotażystki? Udaje się to Renacie, dziewczynie z Gościeradowa, dla której katastrofalny wieczór panieński koleżanki będzie dopiero początkiem ciągu szalonych i niefortunnych wydarzeń. Zupełnie niechcący wplątuje się w rozgrywki pewnej arystokratycznej rodziny, co zdecydowanie pokrzyżuje jej własne plany... Co zrobi, gdy prawie cała wieś obróci się przeciwko niej? Czy będzie musiała opuścić ukochane okolice i szukać szczęścia w wielkim mieście? I dlaczego miłość tak często przychodzi zupełnie niespodziewanie?

To drenge bliver forbyttet på fødegangen i Bureå i 1934. Seks år senere opdages misforståelsen, og drengene må vende tilbage til deres rigtige forældre. Det bliver skæbnesvangert for alle de involverede: for fortælleren der må vige pladsen for Johannes, for Josefina som begge drenge opfatter som deres mor og for plejebarnet Eeva-Lisa. Romanen er en fabel, som søger svaret på en gåde, i et grænseland hvor fantasien beskytter mod virkeligheden, men afspejler sandheden.

Family members interact with powerful governmental, financial, and religious forces at a time of seismic cultural shifts in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain are falling. Crises arise within and outside the family.

A son receives an inheritance from his father and tries to dispose of it before it destroys him. Inherited Disorders tells this elemental story in over 100 hilarious, witty variations.