Ergebnis für "Power" in Familienleben

Wie kann eine Familie in einer unberechenbaren Welt überleben, ohne zu zerbrechen? Vater und Sohn allein: Der hochbegabte Robbie mit Asperger-Zügen kann den Tod der Mutter nicht verwinden. In der Schule unverstanden, will er die Mission seiner Mutter vollenden: Er malt Plakate, demonstriert auf den Stufen des Kapitols, um die Natur zu retten. Der verzweifelte junge Vater will ihm mit ungestümer Liebe alles geben. Als Astrobiologe sind ihm die Sterne nah, und auf Wanderungen entdecken sie, dass die Wunder vor ihren Füßen liegen und sie einander brauchen.

Es ist egal, wie schnell oder wie weit du läufst - die Vergangenheit holt dich ein. Immer! Etwas, das James Knight zu spüren bekommt, als er zum ersten Mal wieder in die Augen der einzigen Frau blickt, die ihm jemals etwas bedeutet hat: Ally Monroe. Die Schwester seines besten Freundes, dessen Blut an seinen Händen klebt. James ist verantwortlich für den Schmerz in ihren Augen, für das Leid und den Hass.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR The Seattle Times The Globe and Mail Kirkus Reviews Daily Mail The Vancouver Sun From the author of The Italian Teacher and The Imperfectionists comes a brilliant, intricately woven novel about a young woman who travels the...

Fünf Brüder, ein Junggesellenabschied in Las Vegas - was soll schon schiefgehen? Liam Knight ist es gewohnt, alles unter Kontrolle zu haben. Seine Entscheidungen werden nicht angezweifelt. Seine Worte sind Gesetz. Bis Emma Dawson, die neue Leiterin der Rechtsabteilung, eines Morgens ohne Termin in sein Büro platzt. Sie ist die erste Frau, die es wagt, Liam die Stirn zu bieten und damit ihren Job zu riskieren. Doch Emma kennt das unglaubliche Geheimnis des Familienoberhaupts, wodurch Liams perfekte Welt ins Wanken gerät.

Christian Knight ist bekannt als der Sonnenschein der Familie, an dem einfach alles abzuprallen scheint. Dabei ahnt niemand, mit welcher Gewalt die Dunkelheit versucht, ihn für immer zu umgeben. Selbst Christian will es nicht wahrhaben und spielt sein Spiel weiter, bis ausgerechnet seine neue Haushälterin hinter sein Geheimnis kommt. Er versucht, sie mit leidenschaftlichem Zwang zum Schweigen zu bringen, aber Brooke ist keine Frau, die schweigt.

Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: 33 stories drawn from three much-lauded collections and another 13 appearing here for the first time in book form.

National Bestseller * Dazed Best Book of the Year Spanning twenty years and one life-altering summer in Croatia, Slanting Towards the Sea is at once an unforgettable love story and a powerful exploration of what it means to come of age in a country younger than oneself. Ivona divorced the love...

Now an Academy Award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage's acclaimed Western is "a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place" (Boston Globe) for fans of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain. Set in the wide-open spaces of the...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell returns with a breathtakingly honest novel about a woman who lost everything — and isn't sure she wants it back. Everybody knows that Cherry's husband, Tom, is in Hollywood making a movie . . . Almost nobody knows that he isn't coming home...

She's a sexy white-collar executive with blue-collar roots, a bio that closely resembles that of her anonymous author. Morgan's professional life is taking off just as her personal life is bottoming out. Stung by a messy divorce from her Fortune 500 ex, Morgan is twice shy, but increasingly needy - and wanting. This doesn't mean Morgan lacks men in her life. In fact, there's too much testosterone in her orbit. Problem is, Morgan has a difficult time choosing, and there are both pleasures and pitfalls attached to each of Morgan's would-be men.

When David and Elizabeth fell in love, they discovered something even deeper than their passion for each other—the power of music to heal, inspire, and connect souls. Determined to share this magic, they founded Musico, a music school where melodies become life-changing journeys. They prove that music is more than notes on a page. It’s a language of the heart, a force that breaks barriers, mends wounds, and turns strangers into family.

For the five Reeves women, nothing is more important than keeping their family bond tight and their communication flowing. But honesty isn't so clear cut when it could blow up everything they've fought to build. Already reeling from betrayal, middle sister Coco is fed up with lies - including her own. If she has her way, someone else's neck needs to be on the line for a change. But soon, Coco's in deep trouble with the law, her future hanging in the balance....

My best friend may be the Cinderella type, but I’m not. While she swans around English castles, I work overtime. I took a weekend off to be her maid of honor as she married Alex, Duke of Fernborough, and planned to hot-foot it home again in time to punch the clock Monday morning. Fairy tale endings are for other girls.

A heartbreaking American epic about three sisters who unearth lifetimes of family tensions as they are forced to rescue one of their own from peril, testing the limits of sacrifice, sisterhood, and forgiveness from the author of the “profound work of great wisdom” (Alice Elliott Dark) The...

Heather Harrison sees ghosts. It's not something she brags about. In fact, she wished she didn't. Communicating (or not communicating) with the dead only leads to heartache, and for her it led to a divorce. For the most part, she's happy being single. She's got a good business, close friends, and a slightly overprotective brother. What more does a 40-something woman need? When her two best friends beg her for help in contacting loved ones, against her better judgment she can't say no to the séance.

An emotionally powerful debut with a magical twist, set between WWII France and present-day Appalachia, about generations of women in a family, their secret healing abilities, and the mysterious consequences they must contend with when they use their skills on someone they love “A profound...

Set against a layered Manhattan landscape, The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things explores a fractured family through the alternating perspectives of the mother, father, and brother of a young woman during the aftermath of her disappearance. A year of silent but collective anguish culminates in the fateful 30 hours after a body with a striking resemblance to hers is found, and we see her buttoned-up Upper West Side family spiral in different, dangerous directions.

Soul Sisters by Lesley Lokko is a rich, intergenerational tale of love, race, power and secrets which centres on the lifelong friendship between two women: Scottish Jen McFadden and South African-born Kemisa Mashabane, known to her friends as Kemi. Since childhood, Jen and Kemi have lived like...

1920s Liverpool is the beautifully portrayed setting for The Sisters O'Donnell - a delightful saga about three young Irish women building new lives for themselves, from best-selling author Lyn Andrews. Perfect for fans of Anne Baker, Dilly Court and Nadine Dorries. Throughout County Tipperary the three sisters were known as the Sisters O'Donnell. They all have red hair but little else in common. Together they move to Liverpool in the 1920s to make a new life for themselves - although each sister intends to go about it in her own sweet way.

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