Ergebnis für "The Immigrant" in Liebesromane

Drei Frauen, drei Generationen − ein Garten am Meer. Ein Roman über Vergänglichkeit, Neubeginn und Hoffnung. Und darüber, was es heißt, in der Fremde Wurzeln zu schlagen. Magdas Leben verändert sich mit einem Schlag: Ihr Mann Alfred, Botaniker in Münster, verliert 1933 seine Professorenstelle, weil er Jude ist. Im fernen Istanbul lockt ein überraschendes Angebot: Republikgründer Atatürk will die Universitäten des Landes modernisieren, und am Bosporus soll ein prächtiger Botanischer Garten mit Pflanzen aus aller Welt entstehen.

This is a love story of great beauty and great tenderness, the kind of love story that entangles the listener in the lives of the characters, so that after the story is over, one continues to live with those characters. And fortunately, the listener will not have to say farewell to these characters, since it is the first in a series that will tell the story of three Californian families over the course of the 20th century.

Told in dual POV and set in 1913 Boston, a middle class girl and a Greek immigrant defy her parents and buck society by eloping, but when tragedy rips them apart they give up everything, including each other, for their love and for their child.

A young immigrant who can see the dead must find the place she most belongs—both in life and in love—as she navigates the underworld with a haunted, handsome man, in the second book of the gothic fantasy trilogy that began with Weavingshaw. Things are looking grim for Leena Al-Sayer after...

It’s 1863, nearly twenty years since Ida Lange came to New Zealand to change her life and realize a dream. With her best friend, Cat, she established a thriving sheep farm on the continental plains where their combined families settled - and succeeded. But the idyll of Rata Station could be reaching an end. The fires of change are coming again, and this time it’s Ida’s and Cat’s daughters - Mara, Carol, and Linda - who will get swept up in the ensuing chaos.

It’s 1837, and immigrating to a small New Zealand fishing village is an opportunity for Ida Lange’s family to build a better future. Yet for Ida, raised in a strict, religious, tight-knit German community, so much is still forbidden to a woman. Yearning for the poor day laborer she shared books with as a child, Ida is now trapped in a dire marriage to a man of her father’s choosing. 

'Smart, brave and often very funny . . . profoundly moving' Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus This morning Gigi left her husband and children. Now she's watching Real Housewives and drinking wine in a crummy hotel room, trying to work out how she got here. When the Twin Towers collapsed, Gigi...

“Perfect for fans of Terry Pratchett and Delilah S. Dawson.”—Library Journal, starred review Dive into the breakneck conclusion to the Slavic folklore-inspired Witch's Compendium of Monsters duology, which began with Foul Days Foul Days featured in Book Riot | Apple Books | Screen Rant |...

Ismael, a transplanted Singaporean, lives on a bucolic suburban Brisbane street. His job is to decide whether asylum-seekers get to stay in the country, a dilemma that never fails to remind him of his own immigrant status. But then his life begins to take on the hue of a nightmare: his neighbour...

The journey of a thousand miles begins with sequins and a beehive wig in this sharply funny and achingly tender debut novel about mothers, daughters, and the surprising power of Elvis. Grace Johnson can’t escape the feeling that her life is on autopilot—until her husband announces he’s...

Attorney Marc Mendes, the estranged son of a prominent Rabbi and a burned-out lawyer with addiction issues, plots his exit from the big city to a more peaceful life in idyllic Napa Valley. But before realizing his dream, the US government summons his Salvadoran life partner Isaac Perez to immigration court, threatening him with deportation.

In this escapist, swoon-worthy novel, a famous actress becomes embroiled in a fake tabloid romance, confronts the challenges of being a woman of color in Hollywood, and the notion that she might actually be in love. “A pure delight! Effortlessly cool, razor sharp, and crazy fun—I couldn’t...

Dive back into Nicole Najim’s life navigating family legacy and forbidden desires in this heartfelt contemporary romance from the author of Something Blue. After a series of tragic events, Nicole leaves Sydney and her tight-knit immigrant family to build a new life for herself in London. Two...

England 1819. Thomas Shield, a master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the child’s sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Helplessly drawn to Frant’s beautiful, unhappy mother, Shield becomes entwined in their family’s affairs. When a brutal murder takes place in London’s seedy backstreets, all clues lead to the Frant family, and Shield is tangled in a web of lies, money, sex and death that threatens to tear his new life apart. Soon, it emerges that at the heart of these macabre events lies the strange American boy. 

Havana, Cuba, 1947. Young Patricio flees impoverished Spain and steps into the sultry island paradise of Havana with only the clothes on his back and half-baked dreams of a better life. Blessed with good looks and natural charm, he lands a job as a runner at El Encanto - one of the most luxurious department stores in the world. Famous for its exquisite offerings from French haute couture to Arabian silks, El Encanto indulges the senses in opulent extravagance. It caters to visiting Hollywood stars, rising politicos, and prerevolutionary Cuba’s wealthiest power players.

A ranchero’s daughter in 1845 California fights for her home in a sweeping historical romance of rebellious love, family loyalty, identity, and sacrifice. California, 1845. Mexican rancheros reign, and while American ambitions threaten their future, the Ávila family’s rancho, El Sueño, is...

From the author of There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, this piercing, genre-bending debut follows two families in alternative timelines of the Salvadoran civil war in a stunning exploration of displacement, the mechanisms of fate, the gravity of the past, and the endurance of love. Cambridge, USA...

A young Palestinian American woman searches for joy, connection, and hard-earned independence in this unforgettable new romantic comedy. After a barrage of accusations and Arabic curses, Zahra announces to her family she's moving out. It's just another chapter in the twenty-five-year-old's...

A female immigrant psychiatrist from Muslim and Jewish background will take you on a journey to learn more about mental health, immigration, and cultures. In a heartwarming love story that will make you dance between East and West, you'll recognize what the media does not say about psychiatric illnesses, historical dilemmas, America's cultural problems, religions, and wars.

When her husband suggests a romantic break, Claire feels obliged to say yes but immediately regrets it. After the tragedy they've been through, how can one weekend in Paris save their marriage? Claire and Ronan aren't the only people on a make-or-break visit to the City of Love. There is a...