Ergebnis für "Sand" in Saga

Drei Frauen zwischen Hoffnung, Freiheit und Neuanfang. St. Peter an der Nordsee, 1953. Anni, Edith und Helena haben eines gemeinsam: Nach den Kriegsjahren wollen sie das Leben genießen und den Neubeginn wagen. Annis Traum ist es, das Hotel ihrer Eltern zu modernisieren, doch ihr Vater weigert sich, ihr sein Geschäft zu überlassen. Edith kämpft für die Rechte der Frauen, dann bekommt sie ein Angebot, das sie zwar finanziell absichern würde, aber ihren Idealen widerspricht.

Mitreißend und emotional - der fulminante Abschluss der Bestseller-Trilogie. St. Peter, 1958: Anni hat dem Hotel "Seeperle" eine neue Bestimmung gegeben, die nicht überall auf Zustimmung stößt - die lokale Presse reagiert sehr verhalten. Ihre Freundinnen unterstützen sie weiterhin, so gut sie können, doch die Ärztin Helena hat mit eigenen Problemen zu kämpfen, und Edith scheint von ihrem größten Geheimnis eingeholt zu werden. Nun muss sie kämpfen - um ihre Zukunft genauso wie um ihre Liebsten. Und dann bekommt auch noch Anni unerwarteten Besuch, der ihr Leben auf den Kopf zu stellen droht.

Drei Freundinnen auf der Suche nach Selbstbestimmung und Freiheit. Hamburg, 1955: Die junge Anni hat sich ein neues Leben aufgebaut, aber die Sorge um die Seeperle, das Hotel ihrer Eltern in St. Peter an der Nordsee, lässt sie nicht los. Schon bald ist sie gezwungen, einen folgenschweren Kompromiss einzugehen, der sie wieder zurück in ihre geliebte Heimat führt. Doch dort muss sie mithilfe ihrer Freundinnen Edith und Helena von Neuem um ihre Existenz kämpfen.

Werther in Westfalen, 1909: Anton Leyen ist am Rande der Verzweiflung. Seine Zuckerwarenfabrik läuft hervorragend, aber es fehlt ihm an Mitarbeitern. Ein Glücksfall, als Zuckerbäcker Fritz und seine Schwester Anna ihre Hilfe anbieten. Anton Leyen erlaubt Anna sogar, auch nach Feierabend in der Fabrik zu experimentieren und erklärt sich gern bereit, ihre Kreationen zu probieren. Über Zucker, Sahne und Butter kommen sich die beiden näher–bis Anna schließlich die perfekte Mischung findet.

FEAT DESC

Werther in Westfalen, 1933: Josephine, die jüngste Tochter von Anton und Anna Leyen, hat die Liebe zu Süßigkeiten geerbt und arbeitet in der Zuckerwarenfabrik ihrer Familie. Als sie den jungen Manfred kennen lernt, verliebt sie sich Hals über Kopf. Durch eine Idee von Manfred kreiert Josephine ein neues Bonbon, das einzeln verpackt und immer gleich groß ist – die ersten Markenbonbons sind erfunden. Die beiden heiraten, aber ihre Liebe wird auf eine harte Probe gestellt, als die Nationalsozialisten an die Macht kommen und Manfred, der jüdischer Herkunft ist, Repressalien ausgesetzt ist.

Colton Green weiß genau, was er mit seinem Leben anfangen wird. Er will die Red Widow Bourbon-Fabrik führen – ein Unternehmen, das seit Generationen im Besitz seiner Familie ist –, ein schönes Zuhause bauen, ein nettes Mädchen vom Land heiraten und eine Familie gründen. Dann trifft er Grace Baker, und all seine Pläne fliegen zum Fenster hinaus. Sie ist die letzte Frau, für die er sich interessieren sollte: eine Anwältin aus der Großstadt, die einen Fall gegen seinen besten Freund angenommen hat.

Jessica Steele and her family are finding their footing after a series of unexpected challenges. And a whirlwind of revealed secrets and joyous surprises has them finally feeling at home in the beautiful old beach house in Driftwood Key. But between her own financial uncertainty and the danger of the approaching hurricane, Jess is worried that the house might not be a home much longer. After all they've been through to get here, Jess and her girls are not ready to give up without a fight. And Jess knows that each one of them will have her back in the face of any storm.

In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet. These interconnected narratives are as intelligent as they are haunting, as luminous as they are unusual. Inside Blackbird House more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives.

Euddán and Vounée are joined by a hunter who has betrayed the Apostasy, unable to stomach their methods. She wants to find a new way to save the dragons, but not everyone trusts her. Dhaua and Thaaph remember all too well how Ruan fought with the Apostasy and conquered their home. Yet, their former enemy might be their only chance to reach their destination safely. Guided by Vounée's vision, they need to reach the vast desert known simply as the Sands.

It is 1977, and the anti-shah protests at Tehran University are intensifying, but Amineh is not like her peers who want a say in the future of their country. Her thoughts are on the beautiful literature of another era and her past of rose harvests and Sufi poetry evenings under the desert sky. A chance encounter with Farzad, an opposition leader and disarmament activist, will thrust her into a life she didn't ask for and didn't want. Nobody wanted the tyranny that is quickly turning worse than the tyranny it replaced. But maybe Amineh has been looking at her life all wrong.

An heir to an earldom on his Grand Tour. An archaeologist's daughter intent on spinsterhood. Uncovering secrets from the past may force them into a future neither wants. Accompanied by several family members, Lord Randolph Foster is continuing his Grand Tour with a stop in Athens, Greece. He certainly doesn't anticipate running into former classmates and second cousins—particularly not the woman clad in breeches, exuding an air of disdain, who he encounters in a temple on the Acropolis.

A quest to save the free world. In this third and final book in Jerry Sanders’s epic trilogy, Troy Kensington, a powerful and talented warrior, faces his most ambitious quest yet. A secret underground society of misguided but brilliant Ashkenazi Jews has but one mission: military domination. If they succeed, millions of people from England to Israel will be killed.

In Pursuit of His Wife They married for convenience. Will they stay together for the baby or for love? Nasira Edwards has come to Royal, Texas, to escape her past and stop her brother from making a terrible mistake. But her own marital mistake has tracked her down. Her husband, shipping magnate...

The bastard grandson of a marquess, Donald Slater has been on his Grand Tour for nearly a year, keeping copious notes with the intention of writing a book for others to use as a guide when they take their tours. He's visiting the last island on his itinerary—Sicily—when he comes face to face with his future. She's young, she's beautiful, and she's a flirt, at least according to her aunt.

Harald Bluetooth, the first king of a united Denmark, was a Viking with a conscience. When an English king slaughtered his daughter in a genocidal attack, the Danes took over the English throne. A thousand years later, the English returned the favor by freeing Denmark from the tyranny of the German Nazis. This historical novel alternates chapters between the two eras, following the Danish archeologist Mette Anderson as she struggles to help her Jewish fiance in World War I.

Widower Sir Adam Wilson has put off remarrying in favor of seeing to his textile business and the tenants farmers who work the fields. At thirty-five and a father of a young daughter, he can no longer ignore his need for an heir. When he discovers how his grandfather found his Lady Wilson, he decides to do the same—run a bride contest at the local fair.

Amy Logan’s family are poor but proud. They scrape a living by shrimping for the big Liverpool fish market, which Amy hates. It’s only because her beloved - and strict - mother rules her with a rod of iron that she mucks in. But Isobel Logan dies in childbirth, and Amy and her brothers start to run wild. Matters aren’t helped when her father marries Suzie Keagan from down the street. Until now, Suzie has managed to conceal a dislike for housekeeping, and she forces Amy to slave at chores. Desperate to escape, Amy leaves home to take her first job.

Brought to you by Penguin. Okay, but the afterlife? It’s nothing like it looks in the movies . . . A year after the death of her father, Aubrey Lamb receives a phone call from a distant cousin. She has inherited a share of a farm, down in the sun-streaked plains of Tennessee. Seeking...

Liverpool, 1958: nursery nurse Irene Miller falls for her friend Peggy's handsome older brother, Marty. But he is trapped in an unhappy marriage. Meanwhile, Irene's friend Peggy is desperate to marry her long-term boyfriend, Pete, but Peggy's staunchly Catholic parents would never accept a Protestant son-in-law. When her mother decides to remarry, her brother heads off to sea, and she loses her job, Irene feels utterly alone in the world. An unexpected job offer from America offers her a lifeline.