Ergebnis für "The Star" in Saga

Glamour, Macht und bittere Intrigen: die Kopenhagener Hoteltrilogie. Als Erbe eines Hotelimperiums gehört Nikolaj Bjerregaard zur dänischen High Society und lebt in einer Welt von Wohlstand und Macht. Doch er will mehr. Aus dem Schatten des übermächtigen Vaters heraustreten, die Dämonen der Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen und mit seiner eigenen exklusiven Boutiquehotel-Kette expandieren. Als er die Hamburger PR-Expertin Emma Jakobsen kennenlernt, die ihm bei der Expansion helfen soll, ist die Anziehungskraft zwischen ihnen sofort spürbar.

An International Bestseller! A LibraryReads and Indie Next Pick! A trio of second-born daughters sets out on a whirlwind journey through the lush Italian countryside to break the family curse that says they’ll never find love, by New York Times bestseller Lori Nelson Spielman, author of The...

The three deadly Weirgates are destroyed but the threat of the Dark Lord remains. And so Elena and her companions have gone their separate ways to prepare for what is yet to come. Elena herself has journeyed to the beautiful city of A'loa Glen, there to recover her strength and spirit. Enter Harlequin Quail. Some might call him a fool, but the little man in the jester's suit claims to be a spy. And he comes fresh from the foul fortress of Blackhall itself, where the Dark Lord dwells.

One night changed them both forever. Their lives shattered, beyond repair, with jagged edges and pieces askew. Now, Everly has a chance to make things right. To bring healing to the place where everything fell apart. But it means facing the family her father almost destroyed, and the boy with the dark eyes - now grown - who still haunts her dreams.

David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas meets Octavia Butler’s Earthseed series, as acclaimed author Monica Byrne (The Girl in the Road) crafts an unforgettable piece of speculative fiction about where humanity came from, where we are now, and where we’re going—and how, in every age, the same...

“River of Stars is a major accomplishment, the work of a master novelist in full command of his subject.”—Michael Dirda, in The Washington Post “Game of Thrones in China.”—Salon.com Ren Daiyan was still just a boy when he took the lives of seven men while guarding an imperial...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER When a daughter and her famous mother return to Winthrop Island to confront their complicated past, they discover a secret trove of paintings that connect them to a mysterious woman who vanished on a luxury steamship two centuries earlier. From the New York Times...

Seit dem Tod ihres Bruders hat Rixa Hinrichs versucht zu vergessen: ihre Trauer, die stumme Melancholie ihrer Mutter und ihre verpatzte Solo-Karriere als Musikerin. Als Bar-Pianistin reist sie um die Welt, bis der Tod ihrer Mutter sie zurück nach Deutschland holt. Auch diese ist mit dem Auto verunglückt - fast an derselben Stelle wie Jahre zuvor Rixas Bruder. Die Suche nach einer Erklärung führt Rixa in das alte Pfarrhaus ihrer Großeltern nach Mecklenburg, wo ein streng gehütetes Geheimnis seine düsteren Schatten wirft.

Alan Corday, a smart yet desperate young man, is about to find out. His family fortune squandered and the woman he loves unattainable, Corday will go to almost any length to change his luck. But his desperation leads him into harm’s way—and into the hands of one Captain Jocelyn and his crew. Shanghaied from the spaceport at New Chicago, Corday is taken aboard the Hound of Heaven, a craft bound for the stars…on a journey through hell.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection): an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its devastating aftermath--based...

In this moving, emotional narrative of love and resilience, a young couple confronts the start of Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s, and a daughter searches for truth twenty years later. New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila...

In 1940, as the Nazis sweep toward Lithuania, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara defies his own government and secretly issues thousands of visas to Jewish refugees desperate to flee. After the war, Sugihara is dismissed and disappears into obscurity. Three decades later, in Australia, Rachael Margolin, her father and her grandmother live disconnected from one another and haunted by unspoken tragedies. When Rachel announces her engagement to a Greek Orthodox man, it detonates a long-held secret.

The earthy humor and the powerful emotional impact that set McMurtry's Terms of Endearment apart from other novels now rise to brilliant new heights with The Evening Star. McMurtry takes us deep into the heart of Texas, and deep into the heart of one of the most memorable characters of our time...

Wenn die Sehnsucht dich nicht loslässt, bist du zu einem Teil von ihr geworden... Katharina kann die Zeit in Andalusien und ihre Gefühle für Fernando nicht vergessen. Acht Monate, nachdem sie Spanien verlassen hat, um mit ihrem Mann Paul in Deutschland zu leben, kämpft sie mit ihren Zweifeln. Für die Hochzeit von Alba und Mateo fliegt sie nach Burgos, die Stadt, wo die Reise zu ihren Wurzeln und der rätselhaften Finca La Esperanza in Andalusien vor fast einem Jahr begann. Dort angekommen, verfällt sie erneut dem geheimnisvollen Zauber des Landes und fragt sich, wohin sie gehört.

Marjorie is the pretty one of the Preston sisters. So pretty that when a performer at her sister's music room breaks her leg, Marjorie is asked to fill in as the assistant to the singer Denby Sinclair. He offers to take her with him, away from Lancashire and into London theatres. It seems as if...

Volume Two of The Andersons are now in one long bundle. You get four books for one great price. Meet the family the world has fallen in love with as The Anderson Family Saga continues. Each book can be listened to as a standalone.

In the shadow of the London Blitz, artist Elsie Turner clings fiercely to her canvases, refusing to let war dim the colors that define her. The bombs test her nerve, but the struggle also stirs memories of her golden youth in India and of the long-lost love of her life.

When war threatened Europe, my parents sent me from our vineyard in France to safety in America, where I found a new life, with friends who become family. But even in a land untouched by the bombs, the shadows of war loomed over my heart. As secrets from my past emerge and the world around me is torn apart, I must confront the grief of loss, the weight of duty, and the delicate balance between love and loyalty.

When Pearl Aster takes a receptionist job at Wolf Motor’s, all she is hoping for is enough money to get out of her parents’ smoothing hold, and away from their rule dominated life. Her upper-class status and its expectations are nothing that she wants now that she’s seen the ugliness it conceals. Yet these rough and rowdy men aren’t like anything she’s ever experienced. Brash, bold, dirty, and completely honest, but still more respectful than the man that she’s expected to marry.

This is the story of one small-town family among millions in America who fought two wars from 1942 to the end of 1945: one on the battlefields, the other on the home front. They gave up their boys to the harsh realities of war while at the same time sacrificing the few luxuries of life that the poor and middle class could afford - anything that was required to support their fathers, sons and brothers in uniform was embraced in a spirit of patriotism America had perhaps never seen before and may never experience again.