Resultados para "Heidi" en Narrativa literaria

Heidi is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning and Heidi: How She Used What She Learned. It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her paternal grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book "for children and those who love children" (as quoted from its subtitle).

On a hot June day in 1965, two six-year-old boys, Gareth and Jack, compete to see who can climb higher up a tree. When Jack falls and loses his eye on a thorn bush, the accident sets off a series of events that will bind the boys together for the rest of their lives. When the best friends meet albino twins Clara and Blanca, a shared fate unfolds. With Gareth and Jack's help, the twins are able to reclaim their lives and leave their nightmarish past behind them.

Massachusetts, 1993. After making a grievous mistake that will change her life forever, Emily Robertson is sent away to live with her grandmother on Cape Cod. When Emily finds a timeworn photograph buried in a drawer, she realizes her grandmother has concealed a secret even bigger than her own. Massachusetts, 1916. Atta Schaeffer plans to marry the man of her dreams and whisk her little sister away from their abusive father. But when she is diagnosed with a dreaded malady, Atta is forced into a life of exile, leaving her sister in harm’s way.

"Schuldig." Nur dieses eine Wort steht auf dem Pappschild des jungen Mannes, der in Kopenhagen unter einer Straßenlaterne sitzt. Am nächsten Morgen liegt er leblos im Schnee, ermordet. Jensen, Journalistin bei der Zeitung Dagbladet, stolpert fast über seine Leiche. Sie ruft Kommissar Henrik Jungersen zum Tatort, ihren besten Kontakt bei der Kopenhagener Polizei - und ehemaligen Liebhaber. Es ist schon der zweite Mord an einem Obdachlosen innerhalb von zwei Wochen, und als kurz darauf eine dritte Leiche auftaucht, gehen alle von einem Serien-Mörder aus.

Germany, 1940. While struggling to survive at an orphanage, young Didi crosses paths with a rebellious, quirky girl who will either help her escape a life of abuse and uncertainty, or lead her down an even darker path.

In the Valley of the Oaks, seventy-two young women are chosen as Princesses. Every Friday at sunset they sing to the Great Oak. Their voices are the only thing standing between the valley and the Vanishers, who come on the winds twice a year and take whatever they please. A clock. A child. A husband. Whatever will break you. Hawthorne Arden has been a Princess for four years. Then the Vanishers take her song voice, and she’s known all along what that valley does to those the song cannot protect.

Born into a wealthy family in northern England and sent to boarding school to be educated by nuns, Ivory Frame rebels. She escapes to inter-war Paris, where she finds herself through art, and falls in with the most brilliantly bohemian set: the surrealists Torn between an intoxicating love...

This piece, set in the year 2024, follows the lovelorn travails of a hapless member of the Hungarian surveillance apparatus.

Aspiring novelist Molly MacGregor’s life is strikingly different from a literary heroine’s. Named for one of literature’s least romantic protagonists, Moll Flanders, Molly lives in Edmonton, a city she finds irredeemably unromantic, where she writes university term papers instead of novels, and sells shoes in the Largest Mall on Earth. There she seeks the other half of her young life’s own matched pair.

The daughter of a Danish immigrant and a black G.I., Rachel survives a family tragedy only to face new challenges. Sent to live with her strict African-American grandmother in a racially divided Northwest city, she must suppress her grief and reinvent herself in a mostly black community. A beauty with light brown skin and blue eyes, she attracts much attention in her new home. The world wants to see her as either black or white, but that's not how she sees herself.

Derrick Richards, a grizzled laid-off logger, inherited the B&B after his parents' untimely deaths. Making beds and cooking sunny-side-up eggs is hardly Derrick's idea of a man's way to make a living, but just as he's decided to shut the place down, Ginsberg Sloan shows up on his doorstep, pitiful and soaking wet, and Derrick can hardly send him packing.

Olivia Montag is a professor who doesn’t have all the answers. The devastating loss of a child ended her marriage, and she’s been overlooked for a job promotion one time too many. Not sure what comes next, she leaves it all behind and volunteers to teach English to schoolchildren in India. Ten thousand miles away, she connects with fellow volunteers and finds purpose in teaching. Until one by one, the girls in her classes stop showing up. Then she meets Mukesh, an Indian man with a heart for invention, who may be the only one who can help her students.

Vor tausend Jahren flüchtet eine Frau durch eine urzeitliche schottische Landschaft. Die Männer, die sie jagen, wollen sie töten – denn sie ist die Einzige, die zwischen ihnen und ihren blutigen Zielen steht. Im Mittelpunkt steht eine starke, charismatische Frau, die alles gibt, um das Richtige zu tun. Die Verluste erträgt und sich jeder Gefahr stellt, um die Intrigen rücksichtsloser und machthungriger Männer zu überstehen.

Die Zarin der Lust. Russische Hofgeschichten mit tiefer Sinnlichkeit und Erotik. Die Zarin als Despot und gnadenloser Herrscher einerseits und als Liebende, als schönste Frau ihrer Zeit andererseits - niemand anderer als Sacher-Masoch konnte besser über diese erregende Frau und ihre Geschichten erzählen.

Brillant, weiblich, rasant: Mit dem packenden Psychothriller Die Anwältin liefert Autorin und Juristin Bonnie Kistler authentische Hochspannung um eine erfolgreiche, knallharte Verteidigerin, die diesen einen Fall besser verloren hätte ... Kelly McCann ist brillant, knallhart und liebt es zu...

Schnitzlers wohl populärstes Werk beschreibt den Versuch eines Ehepaares im Wien der Jahrhundertwende, dem Ehealltag zu entfliehen: Fridolin und Albertine gestehen sich ihre gegenseitigen Phantasien ein, es kommt zu Eifersüchteleien und der Mann gerät während seines nächtlichen Herumtreibens sogar in eine geheime Orgie, bei der Eindringlinge nicht erwünscht sind... verfilmt in Stanley Kubricks letzten Film "Eyes Wide Shut".

Alex lives a quiet life in Edinburgh. Then she meets Dave—the perfect guy. But when her dreams pull her into magical realms with a mysterious man named Peter… her heart begins to question everything. Will she follow the path laid before her—or the one written in her soul? Welcome to Dreamscape. A romantic fantasy for dreamers and believers.

Als der jüdische Kaufmann Jacob Hirschvogl 1897 zum Königlich-Bayerischen Hoflieferanten ernannt wird, glaubt er sich und seine Familie als gleichwertige Mitglieder der Münchner Gesellschaft anerkannt. Zwar begegnet seine Frau Thea Jacobs Enthusiasmus mit einer gewissen Skepsis, doch der Erfolg des Kaufhauses belehrt sie eines Besseren. Tochter Lily übernimmt das Kaufhaus am Münchner Rindermarkt in den goldenen 20ern und wähnt sich am Ziel aller Wünsche.

Set against the sparkling backdrop of the theater world, this propulsive debut follows the relationship between an actress who refuses to abandon her career and the daughter she chooses to abandon instead. Sadie Jones, a larger-than-life actress and controversial feminist, never wanted to be a...

"Propulsive and affecting.... This is worthy of a standing ovation." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Set against the sparkling backdrop of the theater world, this propulsive debut follows the relationship between an actress who refuses to abandon her career and the daughter she chooses to...