Resultados para "Susanna" en Narrativa femenina

This story involves adoption, searching for roots, passing for white, white supremacy, effects of prejudice on people of color. But it is, above all, a love story—love overcoming every obstacle. In 1932, during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl eras, an infant girl is abandoned by her mother, an unmarried teenager on the way to California with her destitute Oklahoma family. At the Clark Place Dairy near Mackenzie, Texas, she leaves a note giving the infant's name as "Susanna" and asking Mrs. Lupe Clark to raise her.

La lunga lettera-diario di Olga alla nipote ribelle e molto amata, l'ultima occasione per raccontarle le verità nascoste della sua vita e incitarla a seguire sempre la voce del cuore. Dal bestseller di Susanna Tamaro, la regista Cristina Comencini ha tratto il film omonimo con Margherita Buy e Virna Lisi.

Cosa ne è stato della nipote di Olga, protagonista di Va' dove ti porta il cuore? È tornata dall'America in tempo per incontrare la nonna, o ha trovato solo la lunga lettera a lei indirizzata? E se il destino le avesse riservato invece una terza ipotesi che esclude le precedenti? Una storia intensa e coinvolgente che non ha paura di affrontare temi eterni: l'esigenza di riconoscerci in un passato in cui affondare le nostre radici, la necessità vitale di coltivare con pazienza un senso del futuro.

La vita del giudice dell'Alta Corte britannica Fiona Maye è stata da sempre una difficile pratica di misura e sobrietà. In servizio presso la Sezione Famiglia ha cercato di restituire ragionevolezza a situazioni nelle quali sembrava esserci solo irrazionalità. Sposata da trentacinque anni e senza figli viene d'improvviso lasciata dal marito per un "ultimo giro" extraconiugale con la ventottenne Melanie. Umiliata, ferita, "abbandonata agli albori della vecchiaia", Fiona cerca rifugio, come d'abitudine, nel caso successivo.

Staring up at the magnificent, rose-covered walls of her grandmother’s house, Violet Fleury isn’t sure she’ll be welcome inside. After running from her hometown in Ireland to follow her dreams of acting, she’s back to play Irish legend, Kathleen O’Sullivan, in a local film. She’s vowed to tell the story of the woman her village is so proud of—and to build bridges with the family she drifted away from. But will they give her a second chance?

Der Palast der Träume. Berlin, 1909: Die junge Lehrerin Margarete hat gerade ihre erste Stelle angetreten, als sie Alfred begegnet, dem Sohn von Flora und Leonhard Tietz. Die beiden verlieben sich und wollen ein neues Leben in Köln beginnen. Doch Alfreds Familie steckt in Schwierigkeiten: Mehr und mehr Warenhausgegner haben sich gegen sie verschworen, und die Anfeindungen schlagen bald auch in Gewalt um.

Der Tempel des Konsums. Stralsund, 1885: Flora und Leonhard Tietz sind Eltern geworden. Doch nicht nur die Familie wächst, auch ihr Laden in Stralsund ist längst zu klein geworden. Händeringend suchen sie eine größere Immobilie. Schließlich finden sie ein geeignetes Objekt in Schweinfurt. Schon wenige Tage nach der Eröffnung muss der neue Laden wieder schließen - das Warenhaus Tietz ist ausverkauft. Von diesem Erfolg beflügelt, wagen Flora und Leonhard einen großen Schritt... Die Familiensaga rund um die Kaufhaus-Dynastie "Hertie" geht weiter!

Der Laden der Zukunft. Stralsund, 1879: Die junge Schneiderin Flora zieht mit ihrem Verlobten Leonhard Tietz in die schöne Hansestadt. Für ihr Brautkleid findet sie im Textilwarengeschäft eines alten Kaufmanns die feinsten Stoffe, doch der betagte Besitzer steht seit dem tragischen Tod seiner Frau kurz vor dem Bankrott. Flora beschließt spontan, ihm ihre Hilfe als Ladenmädchen anzubieten. Als es dann in Leonhards Beziehung mit seinem Jugendfreund und Geschäftspartner zu kriseln beginnt, treffen Flora und er eine Entscheidung, die ihr Schicksal für immer verändern wird...

Standing in the doorway of her grandmother Sylvia’s home, Rose Fleury thought returning here was the answer to all of her problems. She has no job and a broken heart, but Sylvia reminds her that Fleury women are strong and independent. Clutching a family heirloom—a beautiful topaz necklace—Rose promises to be brave like her relatives. Until she finds out that the jewels hide a terrible secret…

Bisogna prendersi cura dei doni come se fossero piccoli fiori selvatici: sbocciano senza il nostro aiuto, ma dobbiamo fare attenzione a non calpestarli, a non maltrattarli. E la piccola Livia di doni ne ha eccome. Come si fa a non accorgersene? Lei è una che quando si muove assomiglia a una nuvola trascinata dal vento, capace di rendere più colorato tutto quello che tocca. È timidissima, parla poco, però sorride a tutti. E poi ama scrivere, perché farlo la fa sentire diversa, nel senso di speciale, come se nelle sue vene al posto del sangue scorressero le parole.

Edwina is looking for a fresh start. So when a friend suggests she renovates a series of coastguard cottages in the tiny village of Sandy Cove, she wonders if the beautiful Irish seaside town might be her chance for a new beginning. Soon after she arrives, Edwina meets Shane O'Flaherty, a charming local doctor, with whom she feels an instant connection. As the pair walk the streets of the picturesque village together, Edwina's feelings grow stronger, and she begins to wonder whether Sandy Cove might be the place she can finally call home.

Allegra Casey is searching for a new beginning. So when she discovers an engagement ring buried in the sand near her home in Cape Cod, the last place she expects it to lead her is to the west coast of Ireland. But when she arrives in the tiny village of Sandy Cove, she finds herself falling in love with the crashing waves, the picturesque coast and the warm-hearted people. As soon as she settles into her cottage at the old coastguard station, Allegra meets her eccentric neighbours. 

In the tiny village of Sandy Cove in Ireland, Ella Caron is trying to recover. When she moved to a beautiful coastguard cottage on the sea, she wanted quiet and the space to grieve after her mother’s death. She never imagined that her mother’s best friend, Lucille, would insist on moving in to keep her company. With Lucille by her side, it soon becomes clear that Lucille has her own reasons for coming to Sandy Cove. But then Lucille’s son, Rory, comes to town and her dream is under threat: he wants her in Tipperary, where she can safely grow old in their family home.

Just as Laura begins to solve the mystery behind the painting, everything she thought she knew about Gino changes in a heartbeat when she discovers that he might have already given his heart away to someone else. Is their love story over before it ever truly began? And when Laura uncovers the truth behind her inheritance, she is left wondering whether the family secret should have remained forgotten. When the dust settles from her discovery, will she be able to rebuild her life in Sandy Cove with the one man she truly loves?

Twelve months after her younger sister Anahita's death, Mitra Jahani reluctantly returns to her parents' home in suburban New Jersey to observe the Iranian custom of "The One Year." Ana is always in Mitra's heart, though they chose very different paths. While Ana, sweet and dutiful, bowed to their domineering father's demands and married, Mitra rebelled, and was banished.

A heart-warming story about family secrets and one woman’s escape to dreamy Sandy Cove on the stunning west coast of Ireland. The picturesque beach of Wild Rose Bay is the last place Lydia Butler thought she’d be. But having just lost everything, the run-down cottage she inherited from her Great Aunt Nellie is the only place she can take her daughter, Sunny. Hidden away in a tiny Irish village, she can protect Sunny from the gossip in Dublin, and the real reason they have nowhere else to live.... 

If Miss Laura Hopkins desired a husband, her beauty, brains, and fortune would make it easy to acquire one. Instead, she prefers to put her charms to another purpose entirely. Using the alias Lady Sterling, she helps young women who have been mistreated or compromised by their employers. Some might see it as theft and blackmail. For Laura, it is a small measure of justice. But while in pursuit of her latest target, she is unexpectedly aided by a gentleman who announces that he is Lord Sterling.

When best-selling author Carrie McClelland visits the windswept ruins of Slains Castle, she is enchanted by the stark and beautiful Scottish landscape. The area is strangely familiar to her but she puts aside her faint sense of unease to begin her new novel, using the castle as her setting, and one of her own ancestors, Sophia, as her heroine. Then Carrie realizes her writing is taking on a life of its own and the lines between fact and fiction become increasingly blurred.

Mary Ruth Steinman ist ein Magnet für Kontroversen, aber sie ist gut fürs Geschäft. Zumindest bis meine chronisch schlecht gelaunte Perserkatze Poppy versucht, sie während einer Lesung zu beißen. Ab da jongliere ich zwischen PR-Krisenmanagement, Kratzspuren am Inventar und der Frage, wie ich sowohl meinen Buchladen Tattered Pages als auch meine Katze vor dem Nervenzusammenbruch bewahre.

Ich bin Dakota Adair, stolze Besitzerin von Tattered Pages, einer Buchhandlung für außergewöhnliche und skurrile Bücher. Nebenbei löse ich auch gelegentlich Mordfälle. Rein hobbymäßig. Meistens. Nach einem Vortrag über seltene Bücher sprudle ich nur so vor Ideen, wie ich meinen Laden erweitern könnte. Doch als die Vortragende kurz darauf tot aufgefunden wird, finde ich mich schneller in einem neuen Fall wieder, als ich „Kriminalroman“ sagen kann.