Ergebnis für "hell" in Familienleben

"Dieses Haus, aus Papier gebaut, ist zu etwas Festem geworden, das der Zeit standhält. Dieses Haus, dieser Ort: alle meine Geheimnisse sind hier." Der amerikanische Nr. 1-Bestseller endlich in deutscher Übersetzung. Elle Bishop, Anfang 50, glücklich verheiratet, drei Kinder, urlaubt im Sommerhaus der Familie, das alle scherzhaft den Papierpalast nennen. Elle schwimmt ihre morgendliche Runde im See und denkt nach über das, was am Abend zuvor geschehen ist.

It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a 50-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at “The Paper Palace” - the family summer place she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: Last night, Elle and her oldest friend, Jonas, crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time, all while their spouses chatted away inside. Now, Elle will have to decide between the life she has made with her genuinely beloved husband and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love.

Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered. Sam believed it was God who sent Ernie Cantwell, the only African American kid in his class, to be the friend he so desperately needed. And that it was God’s idea for Mickie Kennedy to storm into Our Lady of Mercy like a tornado, uprooting every rule Sam had been taught about boys and girls. Forty years later, Sam, a small-town eye doctor, is no longer certain anything was by design.

On a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the pond below 'The Paper Palace'—her family's holiday home in Cape Cod. As she dives beneath the water she relives the passionate encounter she had the night before, against the side of the house that knows all her darkest secrets, while her husband and mother chatted to their guests inside.... So begins a story that unfolds over 24 hours and 50 years, as Elle's shocking betrayal leads her to a life-changing decision—and an ending you won't be able to stop thinking about.

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, masterful novel of suspense - the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past.

2018. La vie de Jo vole en éclats suite à ce qui ne semblait être qu'un banal accident sans gravité ; pourtant, un scanner révèle qu'un anévrisme risque de se rompre à tout moment. Le neurologue lui laisse le choix : elle peut être opérée, mais les risques sont importants. Persuadée qu'elle va mourir, Jo se réfugie chez Victor, son grand-père. Ce dernier va lui montrer un pendentif qu'il a reçu d'Angleterre quelques années plus tôt, avec pour seule explication ce mot griffonné sur une feuille : "De la part de Charlotte, qui n'a jamais oublié Gabriel".

Bridget Milligan has donned a uniform and joined the nursing services where she becomes intrigued with the miracles of modern medicine. She’s also torn between family loyalty, her new career and Lyndon O’Neill, the love of her life. Is it too impossible to hope that everything will come out right in the end? Phyllis Harvey is still serving in Malta where she sees the casualties of war first hand. Finally it seems like Phyllis is blessed with true in love, but fate can sometimes be a rocky road and nothing is that certain.

Denise Hilton, a young single mother, is driving through Edenton, North Carolina, when her car skids off the road during a storm. With her is her four-year-old son, Kyle, a boy with severe learning disabilities for whom she has sacrificed everything. When volunteer fireman Taylor McAden finds her she is unconscious and bleeding, but when she wakes an even more chilling truth becomes clear: Kyle is gone. When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, Taylor feels compelled to take terrifying risks to save lives, and the search for Kyle is no exception.

Peter Heller’s masterful coming-of-age tale, the story of a mother and daughter living on a Vermont apple orchard, escaping ghosts of the past. Hayley and her seven-year-old daughter, Frith, live in a rustic cabin with no electricity in the foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountains. A renowned...

In 1883, a young, newly married Mercy Reynolds begins a personal journal, filling it with thoughts of her young family. She records her opinions on women's suffrage, historic events, small town gossip and life in general, never imagining she will also be documenting incredible loss as well. Her writings remind us of how America's pioneers lived in a world now largely forgotten.

When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks to save lives. But there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bring himself to make: He can't fall in love...

When you've been to hell...new friends can bring you back. In this inspiring debut from Jill Hannah Anderson - Peyton Brooks, a newly-empty nester with a comatose marriage, loses her three best friends in a car crash, and reaches out to women in the to-hell-and-back club, hoping they’ll help resuscitate her life. Through the “Hell Club”, Peyton learns that it’s never too late to begin again. These been-there-felt-that women use their sense of humor, strength, and support to help pull her off the couch and back to living her life.

This is a story about one family's fight with a mentally ill mother and how as she gets further and further away from reality; how the family falls apart.

Evi Calibano är inte som andra flickor i den italienska landsby hon kommer från. Hon blir till efter en tragedi i andra världskrigets skugga och hon kan inte lära sig läsa som andra barn. Men Evi har en dold talang, som många år senare kommer att göra hennes familj både förmögen och olycklig. Släkten Calibano hemsöks av en mörk, våldsam hemlighet. Står den att finna i Evis barndom? Eller går den att spåra ändå tillbaka till förhistorisk tid, till en förbannelse som sträcker sig till en av de allra första människorna?

Cinquante ans de la vie d'une femme au bord du précipice. Vingt-quatre heures pour prendre une décision qui changera sa vie pour toujours... Tôt le matin, un étang qui s'éveille, un peignoir qui glisse, l'eau froide sur sa peau nue... Combien de fois Ellie, la cinquantaine, a-t-elle accompli ce rituel ? Au loin, tout le monde dort encore dans la maison nichée au milieu des bois. C'est ici, au cap Cod, que sa famille passe l'été depuis des générations. Mais ce matin, c'est différent. La veille, Ellie et Jonas se sont échappés quelques instants pour faire l'amour.

Denne fortælling om den kærligste og sværeste relation kommer omkring emner som familiers glansbilledhistorier om sig selv og fordomme over for andre, om halvskjulte alliancer i familien, om at give sin datter et godt selvværd med på vejen, om at skulle give omsorg til både sin store datter og sin ældre mor, om forventninger, skuffelser, konflikter, bekymringer, skyld og skam, og bag det hele ønsket om at skabe nære, givende relationer til vores mødre og døtre. En både stærk og rørende fortælling til mødre og døtre i alle aldre.

Hus og hjem er Helle Helles romandebut om en gruppe unge mennesker, der i deres ellers åbne og utvungne samvær kun vanskeligt nærmer sig hinanden. Anne vender hjem til sin barndomsby i provinsen efter mange år i København. Hun har købt hus sammen med kæresten Anders, som først ankommer senere. Anne har tænkt sig at male og indrette huset, mens hun venter på ham, men hun kommer ikke rigtig nogen vegne. De to skoleveninder fra dengang modtager hende med glæde. Andre i byen har svært ved at huske hende eller hendes afdøde forældre.

"Bordet er til deres datter; ifølge ham er det et fuldstændig overflødigt projekt, men kvindens lette skælven, når hun fortæller om det, rører ham, og han kan da sagtens gå til farvehandleren, det er altid morsomt, farvestriber på nethinden, lugten af selv at skabe en ramme om sin tilværelse. Imens går kvinden hurtigt videre langs sin grænse mellem sig selv og de andre, ude af stand til at formidle sit indre.

Susanne bor sammen med Kim, der vil være forfatter og derfor sidder hjemme og arbejder. En veninde går fra sin kæreste i højgravid tilstand og beder om hjælp, og de to unge lader hende flytte ind i den lille lejlighed - det får alt vendt på hovedet.

En fremmed kvinde på en bænk giver sig pludselig til at fortælle om, hvordan hun misrøgtede sin baby. Det unge par skal flytte, og ud af intet overvældes kvinden af tvivl, om hun egentlig skulle flytte med. Et lille øjeblik en almindelig dag udløser pludselig en ødelæggende jalousi. Disse realistiske noveller rammer med præcision de næsten umærkelige skift i forholdet mellem mennesker - de sorte huller der kan opstå i prøvede parforhold eller tilfældige møder.