Resultados para "Ein Kind" en Literatura de género

Music has been the very essence of Daisy Holloway's life for as long as she can remember. Driven by a desperate need to make her father proud, she throws caution to the wind and embarks on a journey to Nashville. Her dream is a long shot, but with no backup plan in sight, besides her entire life's purpose, what does she have to lose?

Desperate times call for desperate measures. And there’s nothing more desperate than turning up to my ex’s wedding alone. My cheating ex. My current boss. The reason I hired a professional to be my plus-one. When I spot Mr. Temptation-in-a-Tux at the hotel, I assume I’ve found my man. Charming, attentive, and protective, he’s the perfect boyfriend experience. The way he looks at me has even me fooled. After the most passionate night of my life, I slip away before he wakes. But there’s a price to pay for all that pleasure…

Berlin, 1961. Rebecca Hoffmann erfährt durch Zufall, dass ihr Mann bei der STASI arbeitet, und damit bricht ihre ganze Welt zusammen. Ihr Schicksal - und das eines ganzen Volkes - scheint besiegelt, als die Regierung eine Mauer erbauen lässt, die jede Flucht unmöglich machen soll. Doch weder Rebecca, noch ihre Kinder geben auf! Und sie bleiben nicht alleine ... Boston, 1961. George Jake und Verena Marquand, zwei junge Schwarze, erfahren am eigenen Leib, was Rassendiskriminierung bedeutet - und wie falsch angebliche Freunde sein können

Erich Kästner, 1899 in Dresden geboren, begründete gleich mit seinen ersten beiden Büchern seinen Weltruhm: "Herz auf Taille" (1928) und "Emil und die Detektive" (1929). Nach der Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten wurden seine Bücher verbrannt, er erhielt Publikationsverbot, sein Werk erschien nunmehr in der Schweiz beim Atrium Verlag. Erich Kästner erhielt zahlreiche literarische Auszeichnungen, u. a. den Georg-Büchner-Preis. Er starb 1974 in München.

Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of black society, and when she falls for no-name Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves. In 1982, Evelyn's daughter Jackie is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband's drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family, he returns, ready to resume their old life.

Der 18-jährige Andrew Graham veranstaltet im Ferienhaus seiner Eltern am Holly Beach in Louisiana eine Party. Als er spät am Abend die Leiche seiner Exfreundin in der Garage entdeckt, kontaktiert er verzweifelt seinen Vater, da er befürchtet, Gegenstand der polizeilichen Ermittlungen zu werden. Die junge Frau wird vermisst, und die Kleinstadt Hackberry in Küstennähe gerät in Aufruhr. Lloyd sieht sich gezwungen, alles zu tun, um seine Familie zu beschützen.

Zwei rätselhafte Tode und ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit... Der atemberaubend fesselnde Kriminalthriller zum Mitfiebern! Regel Nummer 1: Sprich mit keinem Fremden. Regel Nummer 2: Folge niemals einem Fremden. Regel Nummer 3: Geh nie, unter gar keinen Umständen, in das Auto oder das Haus eines Fremden. Wenn du diese Regeln befolgst, wird dir nichts passieren. Das dachte Jakob zumindest, denn schließlich hatte er diese Regeln von seiner Mutter gelernt und ihr fest versprochen, sich daran zu halten. Doch schon bald muss er lernen, dass keine Regel der Welt ihn vor dem Bösen retten kann.

Ein Umzug. Eine neue Chance. Und dann der Albtraum. Der packende Thriller von Keller & Jensen. Nach der Trennung von ihrem Mann wagt Anja mit Tochter Mina einen Neuanfang. Sie zieht um, organisiert sich eine Tagesmutter und lernt Karsten kennen, der sie endlich wieder zum Lachen bringt. Doch immer deutlicher klopft die Vergangenheit an ihre Tür: Vor elf Jahren ist aus diesem Haus ein Kind spurlos verschwunden. Tagesmutter Nerina und ihr Sohn können sich gut an den Vorfall erinnern. Aber warum wird Nerina von Tag zu Tag nervöser? Selbst Karsten scheint ein Geheimnis zu verbergen.

Ndiya Grayson returns to her childhood home of Chicago as a young professional, but even her high-end job in a law office can't protect her from half-repressed memories of childhood trauma. One evening, vulnerable and emotionally disarrayed, she goes out and meets her equal and opposite: Shame Luther, a no-nonsense construction worker by day and a self-taught piano player by night. The love story that ensues propels them on an unforgettable journey from Chicago's South Side to the coast of Kenya as they navigate the turbulence of long-buried pasts and an uncertain future.

One Night at The St. Nicholas: To escape her stepmother's plot to marry her off, Texas heiress Jacqueline Hartman spends Christmas Eve sharing a hideout with an accused bank robber. After a night in Nathanial Ward's arms, Jacqueline is certain she has met her match after all. But will his heartfelt promise of love lead to his demise at the hands of the law?

Thirteen-year-old Loyal Raines is supposed to stay close to home on a hot summer day in 1934. When he slips away for a quick swim in the river and finds a dead body, he wishes he'd obeyed his mother. The ripples caused by his discovery will impact the town of Beverly, West Virginia, in ways no one could have imagined.

Cressida Tarbet loves her job at an animal rescue centre, even if it means she’s resigned herself to scrimping to make ends meet - a lifestyle far removed from her best friend Ivo’s, in his ancestral gatehouse stuffed with antiques and art. But although their upbringings were different, Ivo has held Cress’s heart ever since she clapped eyes on him at university. The trouble is – she has never told him. So, when a mystery and a baffling crime throw Cress and Ivo together, she can’t help but wonder if fate is telling her something.

In this spare novelette, acclaimed flash-fiction writers James Claffey and Tara Lynn Masih collaboratively create an original tale of loss and love, as The Bitter Kind deftly alternates between Stela, the daughter of a ship’s captain, burdened by her family secrets, and Brandy, a Chippewa orphan, haunted by ghost wolves and spirits. The authors cross genres and borders between historical and contemporary, speculative and realistic, presenting two unforgettable characters on a journey toward their inevitable, fateful destination.

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.

For twelve-year-old Martha "Sonny" Creech, there is no place more beautiful than her family's cotton farm. She, her two brothers, and her parents work hard on their land - hoeing, planting, picking - but only Sonny loves the rich, dark earth the way her father does. When a tragic accident claims his life, her stricken family struggles to fend off ruin - until their rich, reclusive neighbor offers to help finance that year's cotton crop.

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.

Brian Montgomery loved the life he lived as the son of Chuck and Vivian Alexander Montgomery. As the general manager of his family’s Alex-Mont Ranches in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, Mitchell County, Maryland, and Summer County, South Carolina, his days were what he wanted them to be. He wished for nothing and, although he didn’t know anything about his biological history, he relished the family who adopted him. No, he had everything he wanted - the love of family and friends. Women weren’t kicking him out of their beds, so he was content.

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.

How does a Mexican American, the son of poor immigrants, leave his border home and move to the heart of gringo America? How does he adapt to the worlds of wealth, elite universities, the rush and power of New York City? How does he make peace with a stern, old-fashioned father who has only known hard field labor his whole life? Troncoso tells his luminous stories through the lens of an exile adrift in the 21st century, his characters suffering from the loss of culture and language, the loss of roots and home as they adapt to the glittering promises of new worlds that seem so empty.

What it means to be the last of my kind: My nature as Spherit Folk is becoming more difficult to hide. I'm faced with a shocking truth: Only one race can produce a Holy Woman who can save the world, and I'm the last remaining descendant of that race! With the human war raging on and traffic to my family's inn cut off during these tremulous times, I must set off to the Mythical Continent to discover my destiny!