Resultados para "Ein Kind" en Narrativa femenina

Beth Schaefer isn't just on the partnership track at her Portland law firm, she's in the lead. Unfortunately, she's about to fall at the finish line. When she makes a list of breakdown destinations, she can't even manage to choose between them. Which means she has to come home to Wild Horse, Idaho, for her breakdown. She has exactly 18.5 days of accumulated vacation time to devote to it.

Celebrities hold zero interest for photographer Jo Wilder. That's a problem, since snapping pics of the stars is how the pretty paparazza pays the rent. So when Jo attempts to catch a money shot atop the broad shoulders of a helpful bystander, the only thing she notices about the stranger she straddles is that he's seriously hot. Only later does Jo learn that he's also Micah Sinclair - one of rock's notorious bad boys....

After her scandalous May-December romance comes to an end, baby of the family Lilly Callaghan returns home to Trillium Bay braced for the torrent of “I told you sos” from her sisters and the rest of the tiny island community. Floundering both personally and professionally, she’s at an emotional crossroads but determined to figure out her next best steps. When a surprise job offer from her house-flipping sister reacquaints Lilly with handsome, free-spirited Wenniway Island transplant Matt Eastman, Lilly wonders if she’s ready for a new romance.

Berghebamme Maria hat in dem Landarzt Georg ihre große Liebe gefunden und führt gemeinsam mit ihm eine eigene Praxis. Um sich von ihrer Trauer abzulenken, beschließt sie, ein Wohnheim für verstoßene Schwangere zu gründen. Ein Unterfangen, das für große Missbilligung seitens der Dorfbewohner sorgt, denn ledige Mütter gelten als Schande.

As the youngest mayor Trillium Bay has ever elected, Brooke Callaghan wants to prove she’s up to the challenge. She’s stepping out of her practical teacher flats and into her sister’s treacherously high heels...with disastrous results. But if she’s going to (literally) stumble her first day on the job, why not fall into the arms of a handsome stranger? Leo Walker is a rarity on Wenniway Island. Not only handsome, he’s also single, funny, and - most importantly - interested in Brooke.

Emily Callaghan never expected to spend another summer on Wenniway Island. Yet here she is, back in her quaint northern Michigan hometown of Trillium Bay, divorced, flat broke, and dragging along her precocious 12-year-old. It's a simple arrangement: Emily, a house flipper, will renovate one of her grandmother's rental properties in exchange for a much-needed loan. Once a wild child, the reformed Emily also hopes to remodel her reputation and show her family she's all grown up.

It is dedicated to women everywhere who might have had some rough, tough life experiences. It is my hope that these particular stories will inspire and uplift. Each of the stories is about three unique women, the difficulties they faced, and the changes that happened for them when they challenged their circumstances and eventually found solace, instead of pain and joy in place of despair.

An inspirational story of recovery after loss. Looking for answers and desperate for change, Amanda goes on an awe-inspiring spirit quest in the Jemez Mountains. While in that remote location, she meets a wolf, a bear, a hawk, and a swarm of bees. These surprising personal totems lead Amanda to eye-opening and much-needed answers. Magically imbued with a desire to live again, Amanda understands where her path detoured. This heartwarming, magical realism adventure could be any one of us facing personal tragedy - whether the crisis is death, divorce, or loss.

Lorena di Stella, eine junge alleinerziehende Mutter, kämpft sich durch viele Lebenskrisen hindurch. Sie erlebt zahlreiche Höhen und Tiefen in ihrem Leben. Durch den plötzlichen Tod ihres Vaters — ein erneuter Schicksalsschlag - wird ihr die Endlichkeit des Lebens bewusst. Von da an begibt sie sich auf die Suche nach dem Sinn des Lebens.

The holiday season in New York City is supposed to be magical, but it's not yet Thanksgiving, and what's happening isn't that kind of magic. The fairy world seems to be bleeding into the human world. Strange white horses carry people into the Central Park lake. Children are disappearing from their beds. Unearthly snow flurries pepper the air while odd pockets of summer appear randomly in Central Park.

Constanze Manziarly war während des turbulenten letzten Jahres des Zweiten Weltkriegs die Leibköchin Hitlers. Von den am 1. Mai 1945 aus dem Führerbunker Geflüchteten ist sie die Einzige, die seitdem als vermisst gilt – man fand sie weder tot noch lebendig… bis jetzt.

Die Hebamme einer neuen Zeit. Oberbayern, 1893: Maria kehrt auf Bitten ihres Jugendfreundes Max in ihr Heimatdorf zurück, um die Nachfolge der Berghebamme Alma anzutreten. Doch hier ist Maria als "Bankert" geächtet, und Alma weigert sich standhaft, für die junge, moderne Hebamme das Feld zu räumen. Gleichzeitig muss Maria nicht nur gegen das Kindbettfieber ankämpfen, das immer mehr Frauen das Leben kostet, sondern auch gegen ihre aufflammenden Gefühle für Max. Denn der ist verheiratet, und bei der Schwangerschaft seiner Frau kommt es zu immer mehr Komplikationen.

With the passing of a new state law, it becomes a felony to harbor an undocumented immigrant in Oklahoma. So when Robert John Brown, a churchgoing family man and respected community member, is caught hiding a barnful of migrant workers with no papers, he is arrested and sent to prison. Meanwhile...

From highly acclaimed author Alice Henderson comes the eagerly anticipated and electrifying fourth book in the Alex Carter series, in which the wildlife biologist encounters anti-immigrant vigilantes, rugged terrain, and threatening intruders in search of a sleek, powerful, and furtive...

Kathi und Effi sind seit Ewigkeiten beste Freundinnen. Beide wollen Kinder. Doch mit Mitte 30 geht der Wunsch nicht mehr so leicht in Erfüllung: Kathi erfährt, dass sie unfruchtbar ist. Also Adoption: In den kommenden zwei Jahren ziehen Kathi und ihr Mann sich vor den Familienbehörden bis auf die Unterhosen aus, füllen Papierberge aus und erdulden VHS-Kurse - während Effi tatsächlich schwanger wird. Sie kämpft in der Folge gegen übergriffige Ratschläge, Übelkeitsattacken und die ständige Sorge um das Ungeborene. Und Kathi hingegen wartet immer noch auf den Anruf, der sie zur Mutter werden lässt.

Anna Hohleitner ist eine ganz besondere Person: Ausgestattet mit der geheimnisvollen Gabe, durch Schmecken in andere Welten und Zeiten einzutauchen, wächst sie bei ihrer Mutter Marie und deren Ziehschwester Barbara in der rauen Bergwelt der Tauern auf. Das harmonische Verhältnis wird durch Annas Stiefvater Roman empfindlich gestört - durch seine Gier und Brutalität stiftet er steten Unfrieden. Selbst ein Gejagter und Gefangener seiner unglücklichen Kindheit und Jugend bei den Roma, bringt er Missgunst, Streit und Tod in die Familie. Und zwingt so jede auf ihre Weise zum Handeln.

Everyone knows that Addie Fullbright can’t keep a secret. Yet, twelve years ago, as her best friend lay dying, she entrusted Addie with the biggest secret of all. One so shattering that Addie felt she had to leave her hometown of Starlight, Alabama, to keep from revealing a devastating truth to someone she cares for deeply. Now she’s living a lonely life, keeping everyone at a distance. But when her beloved aunt gets a shocking diagnosis and asks her to come back to Starlight to help run the family bakery, Addie knows it’s finally time to go home again.

“A riveting and suspenseful debut. Copeland’s contemporary take on the balance of power in relationships, and the desire for control, is not to be missed.”—New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Karin Slaughter A gifted new suspense writer makes her sizzling debut with...

From the author of The Salt House and This Is Home comes a profound novel about the power of community and a small town’s long-buried secrets as a group of New England islanders come together for a recently orphaned girl. On Ichabod Island, a jagged strip of land thirteen miles off the coast...

To cool-headed, fastidious Pricilla Messing, Italy will be an escape, a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that's starting to feel like one long decline. Rescued from the bedside of her difficult mother, forty-something Cilla finds herself called away to Rome to keep an eye on her wayward teenage niece, Hannah. But after years of caregiving, babysitting is the last thing Cilla wants to do. Instead she throws herself into Hannah's youthful, heedless world - drinking, dancing, smoking - relishing the heady atmosphere of the Italian summer.