Resultados para "Lou" en Histórico

Tasmania, 1874. Growing up in the impoverished tenements along the Hobart Rivulet, Harriet Brown is used to doing whatever it takes to survive. Including, at just twelve years old, shearing off her hair and pretending to be a boy to secure a job as label-paster at the George Peacock and Sons jam factory. Four years later, the deceit becomes too much to bear and Harriet risks everything on the chance at a future with her ambitious friend and workmate Henry Jones. But this decision forces her into a new deception: play the role of expert jam maker, or else be cast out onto the streets.

It's 1921, and after years of working for Cadbury's at Bournville, Dorothy Adwell is on her way to a new adventure in the colonies, helping to establish the Firm's new Australian factory. A promotion and a fresh start are just what she needs after the horrors of the Great War and the loss of her beloved husband. During the long sea voyage, she meets Thomas and is immediately drawn to him. The war has left Thomas damaged, both mentally and emotionally, and Dorothy vows to help him—if only he will let her.

Daniel and Elizabeth Hadley, while mourning unexpected deaths, discover a fugitive family hiding on their property. They provide the runaways with food, medical help, and temporary shelter. Their act of compassion leads to unexpected challenges because this encounter changes their understanding of the inhumanity of slavery. The Hadleys must choose between clinging to the safety of past attitudes or embracing a new future full of unknown possibilities. Should they help the Davis family escape to Kansas Territory out of the easy reach of bounty hunters?

In rural post-Civil War Mississippi, the virgin woods offer cover for bands of outlaws. Underdeveloped roads provide limited transportation for the settlers. Most farmhouses stand miles apart. All Her Dreams of Love weaves tension into an inspirational romance set in a harrowing struggle to survive.

Trudy and Jeremy grew up in the same neighborhood, and they have always loved each other. She is a part of a large blended family living near a south Mississippi village. Jeremy, having lost all his family, makes his way through the world alone. At the beginning of World War I, he becomes so enthralled with his goals to succeed that he neglects Trudy, who has reached the stage in life where she wants to be loved.

Beth DuBard, a lovely, single author, moves to a new town after her uncle gives her a house and a newspaper business. Leaving an undesirable suitor behind, she takes wacky Aunt Genie, who demands constant attention while doling out witty sarcasm. Beth’s best friend, also a cousin and the family housekeeper, goes along and becomes a force of strength. Along the way, others join the household. The seven don’t always like each other, but they need to be together.

"Glaubt mir, die Welt wird euch nichts schenken. Wenn ihr ein Leben wollt, so stehlt es." Philosophin, Schriftstellerin, Rebellin: Lou Andreas-Salomé ist eine der klügsten und zugleich freiesten Frauen ihrer Zeit, die als Liebende stets ihr Herz für sich behält - bis sie dem jungen Rilke begegnet und mit ihm das "totale Ineinanderleben" erlebt, ihre erste Beziehung, in der sich intellektuelle, emotionale und körperliche Liebe vereinen. Doch Rilke psychische Verfassung wird immer labiler, und er engt sie zunehmend ein - muss Lou sich von der Liebe abwenden, um frei zu bleiben?

The Choko Travers Outlaw Gang with bounties on their heads for bank robbery, murder and rape kidnapped Rosie McKenzie and hightailed it into the wilderness of the Appalachian Mountains. If she dares to escape, she will face the possibility of attack from wild critters: wolves, cougar, or bear, death by hypothermia, injury, illness, or starvation. But better death than what awaits her at the hands of the ruthless outlaw gang. Half Cherokee Indian, Gabe Long Tree Sullivan, renowned tracker stands six feet eight in his sock feet.

Darius Copeland, an American, and now the Duke of Ellings, believes he has been taught all that is necessary for this new station in life. Lady Theresa "Tessa" Claxton will show him that there is so much more to learn.

Rendezvous im Mondenschein. Tom, Viscount Sidmouth, wurde von seiner geliebten Frau verlassen und hat daraufhin beschlossen, den Rest seines Lebens als glücklicher Junggeselle zu verbringen. Mit Herzensangelegenheiten will er nichts mehr zu tun haben. Und mit der betörenden Witwe von nebenan schon gar nicht... Nachdem sie jahrelang in einer lieblosen Ehe gefangen war, ist die verwitwete Hyacinth nach London zurückgekehrt, um nun all das zu erleben, was sie immer vermisst hatte.