Resultados para "Anna" en Política

The novel focuses on love, society norms, and freedom, centered on Anna’s affair with Count Vronsky.

Australian soldier Toohey returns from Baghdad in 2003 with shrapnel in his neck, crippled by PTSD and white-knuckling life. In the Iraq of a decade earlier, aspiring pianist Nasim falls from favour with Saddam Hussein and his psychopathic son Uday, triggering a perilous search for safety. In Melbourne as the millennium turns, Robbie, faced with her father’s dementia and the family silences that may never find voice, tests boundaries. And in the present day, Gerry seeks to escape his father Toohey’s tyranny and heal its wounds. 

Als der ehemalige Betriebskindergarten gut zehn Jahre nach der Wende verkauft werden soll, weckt das den verloren geglaubten Gemeinschaftsgeist in der alten Belegschaft - und völlig unvermittelt ergibt sich eine Chance, den Lauf der Dinge zu ändern. Nach der Abwicklung des Brandenburger Chemiewerks im Jahr 1994 sind Erika und ihr Mann Mitte 50 und schlagartig arbeitslos. Ihre Tochter kehrt ihnen den Rücken und zieht nach Berlin.

In the summer of 1996, Tess Murphy’s mom gave her two rules to abide by: keep quiet and stay out of trouble. Her mother landed a new job as a cook at an affluent Virginia estate and didn’t want anything to risk the opportunity, least of all her outspoken teenage daughter. What no one saw coming was Tess falling deeply in love with the boy next door, high-society Grant Alexander.

Il protagonista del racconta, che è un uomo anziano e parla in prima persona, ad una festa di matrimonio ottiene una deroga alla sua ferrea dieta ed esagera con il vino e il cibo. Il vino, invece di dargli allegria, lo renderà irascibile e ridicolo. Oltre a litigare con parenti amici, il pasto e il vino troppo abboondante gli causeranno insonnia e incubi.

In rural Turkey, Meryem is raped by her uncle. Outcast for shaming her family, she is expected to kill herself. Her commando cousin instead tells her he will take her to Istanbul. By chance, they meet Irfan, a celebrity professor who has left his wife, and the three embark on a journey that shows what unexpected things can happen in the space between wounded people.

"You're in a slump." Nick Lasseter's boss is talking about his job performance as a reporter for the Waterloo Weekly, but he might as well be talking about Nick's whole life. His current assignment, a profile of a legendary liberal ex-congressman, is in trouble even before the subject abruptly dies.

'A high-octane, page-turning thriller' JENNIE GODFREY 'Brilliantly pacy' DAILY EXPRESS 'I loved it' T.M. LOGAN 'A tense and fast-moving thriller' GUARDIAN 'Zips along like a high-end Netflix drama you can't help but binge' JANE CASEY A MURDERED GIRL. A DEADLY COVER-UP. Alex risks losing her job...

Mens forberedelserne til Gøteborgs 400-års jubilæum er i fuld gang, findes bygmesteren Ernst Rosbäck død på taget af byens første skyskraber. Desuden er hans 14-årige barnebarn, Nadja, sporløst forsvundet. For politibetjent Dennis Wilhelmson og hans kolleger går efterforskningen langsomt: Lige indtil de finder et spor, der peger mod 1980’ernes Berlin. Men fremgangen stoppes snart af en frygtet virus, som skånselsløst hærger i Europa...

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Anna Funder's All That I Am, a powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance. Read by Judy Bennett and Saul Reichlin. One September morning, elderly Ruth Wesemann wakes to the sound of a parcel being...

A globe-spanning thriller of love and betrayal about a mysterious first lady with an explosive secret. Paris, 1974. Lara Orlov and her family arrive from Moscow at the height of the Cold War, thanks to her father’s position as a diplomat. The years pass, and Lara becomes more and more enamored...

Die Geschichte der ersten Linienflugkapitänin der Welt. Deutschland in den Siebzigerjahren. Katharina Berner stammt aus einer gut situierten Unternehmerfamilie, geht aber seit jeher ihren eigenen Weg. Dass sie Jura studieren wollte, statt eine Familie zu gründen, haben weder ihr Vater, der alte Patriarch, noch ihre Mutter oder Schwestern je verstanden. Doch sie hat sich durchgesetzt und arbeitet in einer großen Kanzlei in Köln – glücklich ist sie allerdings nicht. Die männlichen Kollegen machen ihr den Alltag zur Hölle, am liebsten würde sie sich selbstständig machen.

Miriam grows up in the loving arms of her strict religious family in first-century Israel. Tender-hearted yet strong, Miriam finds great difficulty in suppressing her opinions, particularly about the Romans who occupy her village. Mama repeatedly cautions her not to rush too quickly into the mysterious parts of life she does not yet understand, but Miriam has definite views regarding her life and a strong desire for adventure.