Ergebnis für "Stoner" in Familienleben

William Stoner is born at the end of the 19th century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments.

Im Mittelpunkt von "Stolz und Vorurteil" steht eine der hinreißendsten Frauengestalten der Weltliteratur, die kluge und lebhafte Elizabeth Bennet. Als zweite von fünf Töchtern eines nicht eben vermögenden Angehörigen der englischen Gentry, ist sie gezwungen, sich möglichst vorteilhaft zu verheiraten und muss doch ihrem Herzen folgen, das ihr verbietet, eine Ehe ohne echte Zuneigung einzugehen.

Vor neun Jahren wurde Brady O'Brien das Herz gebrochen. Seitdem hat er es nie wieder verschenkt. Als er auf Mallory trifft, ist es der absolut falsche Zeitpunkt, da seine Vergangenheit ihn gerade wieder eingeholt hat. Aber er kann sie auch nicht abweisen. Mallory Callahan hat nur ein Ziel: zwei Jahre mit ihrem furchtbaren Chef zu überleben, damit ihr eine steile Karriere offensteht. Eigentlich ein solider Plan, doch dann trifft sie auf Brady, der diesen einfach über den Haufen wirft. Noch dazu, weil in seinem Leben eigentlich kein Platz für eine Frau ist.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of The Covenant of Water: A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. “Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist.”...

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala’s long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time.

Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own...

When I wrote to Callum Rose five years ago, I never expected a response. He was an up-and-coming rock star, after all, and I was just a shy seventeen-year-old. He did write back, though, and through hundreds of emails, we became best friends. Until the day we unknowingly broke each other’s hearts. It’s been three years since our last email. I’m all grown up with a new job at Good Music and finally have my act together. But then Callum Rose walks in the door, and I’m instantly thrown back to the days when he meant everything to me.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The first novel in the beloved Big Stone Gap series, now a major motion picture written and directed by Adriana Trigiani, starring Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Benjamin Hickey, Jane Krakowski, Anthony LaPaglia, and Jenna Elfman ...

Two novels by the award-winning Canadian writer Carol Shields, dramatised for BBC Radio Carol Shields was one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary authors. Often compared to Jane Austen, her deft, witty and compassionate works depicting the everyday lives of ordinary people won her numerous...

Mientras la India celebra su flamante independencia, la abadesa de un convento de carmelitas en Madrás hace realidad uno de sus sueños más audaces: enviar a África dos jóvenes monjas enfermeras con la noble misión de transmitir el amor de Cristo ayudando a mitigar el dolor de los que sufren. Siete años más tarde, en el modesto hospital Missing de Adis Abeba nacen dos varones gemelos, Marion y Shiva Stone. El hecho no tendría nada de particular si no fuera porque su madre es una monja que muere en el parto y su padre un cirujano británico que desaparece sin dejar rastro.

An addictive domestic drama set during one hot Stockholm summer that marks the American debut of #1 Swedish bestselling author Moa Herngren. “The collapse of a thirty-two-year marriage is depicted with an even hand in this book, which amounts to two parallel novels: one about a woman 'feverish...

A warm, inventive, and multilayered novel about two families - one made up largely of scientists, and the other of artists and mystics - whose worlds collide in pursuit of a lost daughter Mette, a twenty-year old programmer of visual effects for video games, lives with her mother, Saskia, an...

Six generations of Mason Family men have maintained the black stone bridge that once led to the sugarcane fields of Dieffenbach Plantation, but now leads to a barbed-wire fence separating the town of Diffenbourg, Louisiana from Caesar Oil Company’s petroleum tank farm. Warren Mason was to be the bridge’s next guardian, but his departure has left its upkeep in the hands of his ailing father who has spent his life preserving it, and his myopic older brother who would sacrifice it to settle a class action with Caesar.

An intimate and riveting drama about family love, loyalty, secrets, and the consequences of betrayal. A young woman searches for answers from her parents’ secretive past and her father’s murder. What she finds is an unexpected new life filled with tenderness and heart-wrenching secrets. Mia Trovato never planned to be a mafia wife. In fact, her grandparents Tony and Ruth Russo did all they could to protect her from the dangerous world her father was a part of.

Thirty-two-year-old Jess Abbot has lost everything: her job, her apartment, and - most heart-wrenching - her eight-year-old son, Chance, to a tragic accident. Haunted by memories and grief, Jess packs what’s left and heads for the small mountain town of Pine Lake, where she takes a position as caregiver to an eccentric old woman. A rumored clairvoyant, Lucy is strange but welcoming and immediately intuits Jess as a “loose end” in need of closure. But Jess isn’t the only guest in Lucy’s large Victorian home.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting Christina’s World. ""Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the...

Everything changes for Kate, Moya and Romy when they receive word that Maeve Dillon, their mother, is critically ill. It is time to return from Dublin, London and New York to Rossmore and the old stone house overlooking the Irish Sea where they grew up. But ancient jealousies surface as each sister confronts the past and the decisions they have made.

A young Amish boy ventures from Pennsylvania to California in this richly imagined historical novel from the author of An Unseemly Wife. It's 1867. Growing up among the Pennsylvania Amish, 11-year-old Joshua knows that his father is a respected church deacon who has the ear of God. But he's also seen his father's weakness for drink and borne the brunt of his violent rages. In the aftermath of a disastrous fire, Joshua fears his father's reprimand enough to run away from home.

For more than thirty years, Elizabeth Stone has been an irreplaceable fixture in homes around the world, a food and lifestyle icon with a brand as warm and inviting as New England brown bread. Until, after her sudden passing, she leaves her legacy and her multimillion-dollar empire to her daughter, Juliet, who is expected to step seamlessly into her shoes.

Eat, Pray, Love meets Bridget Jones when a chaotic mum-of-three decides there's more to life than Celebrity Sandcastles and embarks on a journey of self-discovery, leading to an unexpected reunion with old flame, Monsieur Hôtel, and his chiselled jaw. But will cherishing her chakras, clearing the clutter, and communing with angels be enough to heal the scars of her past? What happens when she doesn’t just see the light, but becomes it? And why is her bra full of stones?