Resultados para "Laura" en Siglo XX

Una guerra. Dos familias. Un océano. Una historia cautivadora de amor y familia en tiempos de guerra. En 1940 las bombas alemanas no paran de caer sobre Londres, provocando muerte y destrucción. Millie y Reginald Thompson son padres de una niña de once años, Beatrix, y han tomado la decisión más dolorosa de su vida: enviar a su hija a Estados Unidos, lejos de los horrores de la guerra. En Boston, los Gregory acogen a Bea, que no tardará en sentirse parte de la familia y adaptarse a su estilo de vida acomodado.

An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction, Send for Me moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the powerful bonds of family.

È una calda sera di giugno del 1940 quando a Parigi viene dato l'annuncio dell'imminente invasione nazista. Il panico si diffonde, la popolazione si organizza per fuggire, ognuna cerca di portare con sé le cose più care. La mattina seguente inizia l'esodo mentre dal cielo continuano a piovere bombe. Il tempo si arresta, il futuro fa troppa paura. La Francia viene occupata. I tedeschi hanno vinto.

Wiesbaden, 1945. La joven Hilde apenas puede creer su suerte: la guerra ha terminado y el Café del Ángel se ha salvado milagrosamente. Hilde sueña con volver a convertir el negocio familiar en el glamouroso lugar que reunía a artistas y personalidades de la ciudad.

Pino Lella nu are nimic de-a face cu războiul sau cu naziștii. Este un adolescent italian obișnuit – pasionat de muzică, mâncare și fete –, dar sfârșitul inocenței sale e aproape. Când casa părinților săi din Milano este distrusă de bombardamentele Aliaților, Pino se alătură unei reţele clandestine care îi ajută pe evrei să se refugieze traversând Alpii din Italia către Elveția și se îndrăgostește de Anna, o văduvă frumoasă, cu șase ani mai mare decât el.

As the new housekeeper at Harbour House, Lily Turner and her teenage daughter Daphne have forged a resilient life since Lily’s husband Patrick abandoned them. But as war rages, Patrick, now vital to the war effort, is dispatched to Wivenhoe shipyard, forcing him to confront his past—and Lily—once more. He's no longer the reckless boy who deserted his family; hardened by the years, he’s determined to make amends.

Paris, 1923. Lily Levin boards a train with her baby daughter Mimi and American husband, leaving behind her beloved mother Chloe for a new life across the ocean. Carrying her mother’s precious diamond pin and the Yiddish lullabies she sings to Mimi, Lily faces an uncertain future in a country she’s never seen. In New York, as Lily struggles to fit in, she finds an unexpected ally in Gloria, a young mother hired to care for Mimi. The two women forge a friendship deeper than blood as they share dreams, fears, and their fierce love for their children. Then tragedy shatters their world.

The war continues to rage, but for now, Harbour House continues to keep the Roby family safe from harm. Not so for new lodger Richard Stoneleigh. As one of the few men who can captain a ship, Richard is called to help with the dangerous evacuation of troops from Dunkirk – it’s a perilous voyage that almost costs Richard his life…

Bei Abrissarbeiten in einer stillgelegten Brauerei wird eine Leiche entdeckt. Sie zeigt kaum Spuren der Verwesung aufgrund der Konservierungsmittel in den Kühlanlagen. Und doch lag die Tote über 50 Jahre hermetisch abgeschlossen in ihrem kühlen Grab. Allerdings entpuppt sich die Tote als ein verkleideter Mann. Er wurde erschossen. Welche Geschichte verbirgt sich hinter diesem Mordfall und dem anscheinenden Täuschungsversuch aus längst vergangenen Kriegstagen? Die Spuren führen die ermittelnden Beamten auf die tragische Liebesgeschichte zweier junger Deutscher in den letzten Tagen des zweiten Weltkriegs.

As the war clouds gather over Europe, the Roby family are thankful to have started their new life in Wivenhoe safe from German bombs…for the moment at least. And with the safe arrival of baby Grace, family life at Harbour House seems to be settling down. But Emily Roby finds life stifling. She’s not keen on her new baby sister, doesn’t like her new school and feels as though sometimes her parents still treat her as a baby, but also a grown up when it suits them! Emily’s only friend is Nancy, the new girl working at Harbour House.

Tecla e Laura hanno una cosa in comune: il compleanno. Sono nate entrambe il primo gennaio, ed è proprio quello il giorno in cui si incontrano per caso sulle scale del palazzo in cui entrambe abitano. Qui, però, finiscono le somiglianze perché Tecla ha tredici anni ed è alle prese con la tesina per l'esame di terza media, mentre Laura di anni ne ha novantacinque ed è alle prese solo con i suoi ricordi. Solo? In realtà non è poco, perché quella non è un'anziana signora come tante.

The women of Mulberry Lane anxiously wait for news. Peggy doesn’t know if she’ll ever again see Able, the American father of her twins, while a very odd letter from estranged husband, Laurie, threatens to set the cat among the pigeons. Rose can’t stop loving Jimmy, while Tom can’t stop loving her. Will Gordon ever again be the man he once was? Can he be a proper husband to Maureen, and if he can’t, what will become of their marriage?

Laura was raised to hide who she was. She'd been told repeatedly to never reveal her Cherokee heritage or the fact that she'd been attacked by her own father. And no one should ever know she had the second sight, or they might think she was crazy or possessed. Somehow, Laura built a life on her own, married a good man who adored her, and had children, all while managing to keep her secrets. She was determined to raise her children in a home filled with love and support, rather than in an atmosphere of fear and pain like the one she'd known.

Lords of the Air continues the gripping battle between the two airship teams. The whole future of the airship program in Great Britain rests on the famous flight of Cardington R101. Will politics play too large a role? Will Charlotte be able to handle the very real stress of being married to an airshipman? Will her psychopath stalker, Jessup, triumph? Will Princess Marthe say yes to Lord Thomson’s proposal of marriage?

Laura Baldinis fesselnder Roman über die junge Emmi Pikler (1902–1984), die unter den Nazis um ihr Leben fürchtete und von den Eltern ihrer Schützlinge gerettet wurde Emmi Pikler war eine ungarische Jüdin, die in Wien Medizin studierte und eine herausragende Kinderärztin wurde, die Eltern bis heute inspiriert. Wien, 1930er Jahre: Die frisch promovierte Emmi ist begeistert von den modernen Ansätzen der Kindermedizin, denn Ärzte, Analytiker und Pädagogen arbeiten zum Wohle der Kleinsten zusammen.

During World War II, a girl makes an unbreakable connection with a boy sheltering in her family’s Tuscan villa, where the treasures of the Uffizi Galleries are hidden. A moving coming-of-age story about the power of art in wartime, based on true events. As Allied bombs rain down on Torino in...

Aufwühlender historischer Roman auf zwei Zeitebenen – Beruhend auf wahren Ereignissen, erzählt SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autorin Laura Baldini von einem berühmten Kinderarzt, seinen kleinen Patienten und einer mutigen Krankenschwester, die alles für die Kinder riskiert. Als die junge Psychologin Sarah 1986 zu Forschungszwecken nach Wien zieht, kommt sie der erschütternden Geschichte einer Klinik während der Nazi-Zeit auf die Spur: Wien, 1926: Erich ist acht Jahre alt, als er in die Uniklinik zu Dr. Hans Asperger kommt. Erich sieht die Welt nicht wie andere Kinder.

In a race across Nazi-occupied Italy, two women—a German photographer and an American stenographer—hunt for priceless masterpieces looted from the Florentine art collections. In the summer of 1943, Eva Brunner is taking photographs of Nazi-looted art hidden in the salt mines of the Austrian...

As German bombs fall over London in 1940, working-class parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make an impossible choice: they decide to send their eleven-year-old daughter, Beatrix, to America. There, she’ll live with another family for the duration of the war, where they hope she’ll stay safe. Scared and angry, feeling lonely and displaced, Bea arrives in Boston to meet the Gregorys. Mr. and Mrs. G, and their sons William and Gerald, fold Bea seamlessly into their world. She becomes part of this family, learning their ways and their stories, adjusting to their affluent lifestyle.

From the acclaimed author of The Night Portrait comes a stunning historical novel about two women, separated by five hundred years, who each hide Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa—with unintended consequences. France, 1939 At the dawn of World War II, Anne Guichard, a young archivist employed...