Ergebnis für "Villa America" in Literatur & Belletristik

Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos - all are summer guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy. Visionary, misunderstood, and from vastly different backgrounds, the Murphys met and married young and set forth to create a beautiful world. They alight on Villa America: their coastal oasis of artistic genius, debauched parties, impeccable style, and flamboyant imagination.

Der neue bewegende Roman über die Spuren der Vergangenheit von Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin Sibylle Weischenberg An manchen Orten hallen die Geheimnisse der Vergangenheit bis in die Gegenwart nach. Schloss Rosenhof 1964: Konstanze ist überglücklich, als sie den deutlich älteren Richard von Seelingen heiratet. Doch ihre Träume zerplatzen schnell: Sie merkt, dass es für ihn nur eine Vernunftehe ist. Erst eine Brieffreundschaft ändert alles. München 2024: Die alleinerziehende Maklerin Leonie trifft zufällig den attraktiven Augenarzt Leon, der in Vergessenheit geratene Orte fotografiert.

When Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy met and married, they set forth to create a beautiful world together - one that they couldn't find within the confines of society life in New York City. They packed up their children and moved to the South of France, where they immediately fell in with a group of expats, including Hemingway, Picasso, and Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald.

Sophia Giambelli has never worried about competition. As a savvy businesswoman, she knows she must be prepared for anything...but she isn't prepared for Tyler MacMillan.

50 Jahre Geisterjäger "JOHN SINCLAIR". Im Juli 1973 erschien die allererste Geschichte, in dem der mittlerweile berühmte Geisterjäger John Sinclair auf den Plan trat. Inzwischen handelt es sich um eine eingetragene Marke, die sich zu einem popkulturellen Phänomen entwickelt hat und die fast jeder kennt. 2023 wird DAS "John Sinclair"-Jahr mit vielen besonderen Produkten, Veranstaltungen und Überraschungen. Das Jubiläums-Hörspiel "Villa Wahnsinn" erscheint in doppelter Länge.

As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend.

Celebrated romance author Catherine Swift has topped the bestseller lists for decades, though her personal story hasn’t been quite so successful. Three failed marriages have left her relationship with her daughters strained, but that’s about to be rectified. Engaged yet again, Catherine is counting on this wedding to be what finally brings them together as a family, and she’ll do whatever it takes to make that happen.

Absorbing and escapist, The Villa on the Riviera is perfect summer listening for fans of Rachel Hore and Santa Montefiore. Polly Smith is struggling to make a living as an artist when her friend and patron, Oliver, invites her to the south of France. But her world is unexpectedly turned upside down when she digs out her birth certificate to apply for a passport. Her parents are not who she believed them to be - even her name is different.

Marvellously atmospheric tale of strangers summoned to a grand but neglected villa on the Italian coast. Each of them has been named in a will, but nobody knows their benefactress.... Four very different people are named in a will. Delia, an opera singer robbed of her voice by illness; George, an idealistic scientist who cannot face what his skills have created; Marjorie, desperately poor and unable to dislodge her writer’s block; and Lucius, ostensibly in control but whose personal life is in chaos.

Künzelsau, 1932: Der Holzhandel der Familie Hermann ist insolvent. Luise Hermann, die ihre Kinder Erika und Rolf zu ernähren hat, steht vor dem Nichts. Neue Hoffnung schöpft sie erst, als sie eine Näherei eröffnet. Doch dann kommen die Nazis an die Macht. Erikas Jugendliebe muss fliehen, und ihre beste Freundin Lia zieht es in das kriegsgebeutelte Berlin. Als Erika den jungen Offizier Albert Sefranek kennenlernt, ahnt sie weder, dass er ihre große Liebe wird, noch, dass ihnen eines Tages ein blauer Stoff in die Hände fällt, der die Mode in Deutschland revolutionieren wird.

The third novel in the Portuguese Irregular Verbs trilogy sees von Igelfeld suffering the slings of academic intrigue as a visiting fellow at Cambridge, and the arrows of outrageous fortune in an eventful Columbian adventure. Between trips, von Igelfeld returns to his beloved Regensburg only that to discover while he has been away his murine colleagues have been at play.

1968, Sicily. Just months after an earthquake has destroyed the mountain town of Gibellina, Enzo and his wife Irene Borgata are making their way back to the family home, Villa Alba. When their car breaks down, Enzo leaves his young wife to go and get help, but when he returns there is no trace of Irene. 2003. TV showman and true crime aficionado Milo Conti is Italy’s darling, uncovering and solving historic crimes. When he turns his attention to the story of the missing Irene Borgata, accusing her husband of her murder, Enzo’s daughter asks her friend for help to prove her father’s innocence.