Ergebnis für "Still" in Saga

Eine neue Zeit, eine große Liebe und eine mutige Frau, die ihren Weg geht. Um ihre Familie zu retten, folgt Elise von Achenthal ihrer Pflicht und heiratet den Londoner Fabrikantensohn Fletcher Cunningham. Die Hochzeitsreise führt sie über den Atlantik zu Plantagen im Süden der USA, wo Elise die Schrecken der Sklaverei aus erster Hand miterlebt. Doch Fletcher sieht in der Ausbeutung von Sklaven und Arbeitern nur seinen Vorteil. Und damit nicht genug: Um die schwangere Elise zu „schonen“, kauft er sich eine junge Sklavin und nimmt sie zu seinem Vergnügen mit nach England.

I'll be there. Through thick and thin. Ride or die. You can count on me. The promises people make. The vows we take. Assumptions of the heart. Emotion tells us how we feel, but life...life has a way of plunging us in boiling water, burning away our illusions, testing our faith, trying our convictions. Love floating is a butterfly, but love tested is an anchor. For Grip and Bristol, love started at the top of the world on a Ferris wheel under the stars, but when that love is tested, will they fly or fall?

Gerade erst haben sich Mimi Reventlow und ihr langjähriger Geschäftspartner Anton ihre Liebe gestanden. Und dennoch entscheidet sich die Wanderfotografin wie vor vielen Jahren schon einmal gegen den sicheren Hafen der Ehe und bricht stattdessen zu neuen Ufern auf! An der Westküste Amerikas - genauer gesagt in Hollywood - wartet ein spannender Auftrag auf sie. Für einen großen Bildband soll Mimi den derzeit größten weiblichen Stummfilmstar der Vereinigten Staaten fotografieren.

Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.

After the tragic death of her little brother, Josephine travels to the Black Forest to heal. There she discovers a feeling of freedom astride a brand-new invention called the "velocipede". The very idea of a woman on a bicycle is beyond taboo - it is indecent and even illegal - but Josephine will not be deterred. She simply needs to find a way to ride without provoking a scandal. Back home, Josephine has the brilliant idea of riding under cover of night, while the world is still asleep.

On the surface, all appears serene as the third generation of Kades in pioneer Utah grow up to take their parents’ place in the vast, rugged regions of the West. But fate - or is it divine providence? - suddenly steps in. Jessica Scott of Illinois finds herself waylaid among the Latter-day Saints in 1870s Utah while on a railroad trip to California. Alone and seeking assistance from her relatives, whose religious beliefs she scorns, 19-year-old Jessica meets her cousin of the same age, Ethan Kade, who is home for a few days from the cattle ranch where he is employed.

1918, London. Twenty-year-old Emily Burdon has been training as a nurse at St. Marylebone Infirmary, learning on the job as she tends to patients from the crowded poorhouses that ring the hospital as well as wounded soldiers returning from the war. She pours her heart into her nursing while she waits for happier times - peace in Europe and the return of her childhood sweetheart, Lewis, from the Western Front. But when the deadly Spanish Flu arrives in London on the heels of the war, Emily’s faith and courage are put to the test.

Working for America’s hottest rock band should be a dream come true for Phoebe Halstead. And it would be, if it wasn’t for lead singer Levi Hunter. Tortured... Brooding... Broken. He’s everything she should stay away from. Unfortunately for Phoebe, she’s exactly the kind of girl Levi needs. The light to his dark. The calm to his storm. He wants to be worthy of her; she knows he’ll never change. Everyone knows the greatest love stories end one of two ways...with a happily-ever-after or in heartache and ruin.

True crime icon Ann Rule presents a “must-read” (People) New York Times bestseller—and inspiration behind the Lifetime movie A House on Fire—following a woman whose apparent perfect life hides a harrowing and deadly madness. Debora Green, a doctor and mother in a picturesque and...

On the phone Hugh had said, “I’ve got something you have to see to believe. Get yourself out here.” One year after retiring as a master sergeant in the 75th Rangers, this was Roman Keane’s idea of the perfect way to spend his time: jump on a motorcycle and ride from Georgia to South Dakota to see his old friend, Hugh Early. Hugh had once been Roman’s sniper instructor and was now an internationally respected historian of military arms. Historians, of all people, should know that the past you thought was dead and gone has a way of rising up to finish what it started.