Showing results for "Ein Kind" in Literary Fiction

Jonathan Abernathy is a loser. Unemployed and behind on his student loan repayments, the only thing Abernathy has in abundance is debt. When a secretive government loan forgiveness programme offers him a job he can literally do in his sleep, Abernathy thinks he’s found his big break. Hired as a dream auditor, he finds himself entering the dreams of white-collar workers to flag their anxieties for removal at night so they'll be more productive in the day. If Abernathy can at least appear competent, might he have a chance at a new life?

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.

A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty is a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb-spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood-is shaken when a small grave is unearthed in the backyard, and determined to figure out why it's there. Liza, her stroke-ravaged mother, is haunted by choices she made as a teenager. But it is Jenny, Mosey's strong and big-hearted grandmother....

Was als harmloser Familienurlaub in der Bretagne beginnt, endet im größten Unglück ihres Lebens. Familie Reiter verliert jeglichen Halt, als ihr vierjähriger Sohn Maxi vor ihren Augen entführt wird. Die Polizei und der charismatische Jean-Marie versuchen fieberhaft das Kind zu finden. Vergeblich. Fast zehn Jahre später erscheint im Rahmen eines Schüleraustausches ein Jugendlicher, der das Herz von Monika, der Mutter des entführten Kindes, sofort berührt. Könnte dieser Franzose wirklich ihr Sohn sein?

From gilded youth to 30-something. Young gay couple Tom and Christopher are steering through the minefield of changes in social and sexual mores of the 1960s and ’70s. Experimentation is the keynote of the age and Tom and Christopher dive in with a will as they move in and out of relationships and jobs in Britain and France, Channel-hopping, and bed-hopping through the years.

Mike Hayes fought his way out of a brutal childhood and into a quiet if lonely life - before he met Verity Metcalf. V taught him about love, and in return Mike has dedicated his life to making her happy. He’s found the perfect home, the perfect job; he’s sculpted himself into the physical ideal V has always wanted. He knows they’ll be blissfully happy together. It doesn’t matter that she hasn’t been returning his emails or phone calls. It doesn’t matter that she says she’s marrying Angus. It’s all just part of the secret game they used to play.

Now, for the first time ever, a new complete edition audiobook original of the timeless classic by Richard Bach. This is the story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules, people who know there's more to this living than meets the eye: they'll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than they ever dreamed. Read by Marcus Lovett. Music composed by Ken Miller.

As a teenage girl, Ginny marries Linus Lancaster, her mother's second cousin, and moves to his Kentucky pig farm "ninety miles from nowhere." In the shadows of the lush Kentucky landscape, Ginny discovers the empty promises of Linus' "paradise" - a place where the charms of her husband fall away to reveal a troubled man and cruel slave owner. Ginny befriends the young slaves Cleome and Zinnia who work at the farm - until Linus' attentions turn to them, and she finds herself torn between her husband and only companions.

Inspired by a true story, A Land More Kind Than Home is a spellbinding, heartbreaking tale about cruelty and innocence - and the failure of religion and family to protect a child. It is thick with stories and characters connected by faith, infidelity, and a sense of hope that is both tragic and unforgettable.

A one-eyed chicken, a chimpanzee forgotten in a cage, a tormented daughter searching for a link to past lives. Everday madness and monsters are explored against the backdrop of an indifferent Lagos in Uche Okonkwo's dynamic debut collection. Across ten evocative stories, A Kind of Madness dips in and out of the lives of Nigerians, weaving through their lunacy and longing, unravelling the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, best friends, siblings and more.

A free woman of color in the 1830s, Margaret Morgan lived a life full of promise. One frigid night in Pennsylvania, that changed forever. They tore her family apart. They put her in chains. But they never expected her to fight back. In 1837, Margaret Morgan was kidnapped from her home in Pennsylvania and sold into slavery. The state of Pennsylvania charged her kidnapper with the crime, but the conviction was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. Yet, the heart of this story is not a Supreme Court ruling.

Kully ist erst zehn, aber sie kennt schon Wien, Warschau, Prag und Paris, denn ihre Eltern sind auf der Flucht vor den Nazis. Kully weiß, wie schwer es ist, wenn man kein Geld, keinen Pass und kein Zuhause hat, aber sie lässt sich nicht entmutigen. Das hat sie von ihrem Vater, einem liebenswerten Luftikus, der als Schriftsteller quer durch Europa reist, um Geld für die Familie zu besorgen. Mutter und Tochter lässt er meist in Hotels zurück, wo virtuose Ausreden zu erfinden sind, wenn die Rechnungen eintreffen.

Sam Lattimore meets Elizabeth Church in 1970s Halifax, in an art gallery. The sparks are immediate, leading quickly to a marriage that is dear, erotically charged, and brief. In Howard Norman's spellbinding and moving novel, the gleam of the marriage and the circumstances of Elizabeth's murder are revealed in heart-stopping increments. Sam's life afterward is complicated. Sam has begun "seeing" Elizabeth - not only seeing but holding conversations with her, almost every evening, and watching her line up books on a small beach.

In Atlanta, Benjamin, a white-passing man of Nigerian heritage, is wondering what his life has been made up of, broken relationships, attempts to forge an identity from others’ memories. In Lagos, Margaret, a Nigerian single mother, is trying to decipher and finally destroy the mental malaise that has troubled her for as long as she can remember, by winding her way through a complex family history.

Harmon Tomeral and his friends wanted nothing more than to go to space, and they have beaten the odds, time and again. They developed a mech and won the Top Fleet Marine Competition. They brought back a battlecruiser from an unknown system and made it their own. They made allies who helped them achieve great victories, and they ultimately founded new colonies in what has become known as the Salvage System.

Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit für die Familie Hansen. Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin Ellin Carsta erzählt die Geschichte der nächsten Generation. Hamburg 1927: Amala Hansen, Auguste und Eduard setzen alles daran, ihr gemeinsames Lichtspieltheater mit Restaurant endlich zu eröffnen. Andere Familienmitglieder sind mit ernsteren Themen beschäftigt: Bernhard Siegl, Helenes Verlobter, sitzt im Gefängnis und hat kaum noch Hoffnung, der Vollstreckung der Todesstrafe entgehen zu können.

Herausfordernde Zeiten für die Hansens. Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin Ellin Carsta erzählt die Geschichte der nächsten Generation. Hamburg 1927: Die junge Generation der Hansens startet mit viel Elan in ihr Vorhaben, das alte Kontor in ein Lichtspieltheater mit Restaurant umzuwandeln. Doch die Bauarbeiten schreiten eher langsam voran und es gibt immer wieder unvorhergesehene Hürden. Gelingt es Amala und Auguste, ihren Traum zu verwirklichen? Helene Siegls Verlobter wird wegen Mordverdachts festgenommen. Niemand in der Familie kann glauben, dass Bernhard wirklich die Tat begangen hat.

Aufregende Zukunftspläne für die Hansens. Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin Ellin Carsta erzählt die Geschichte der nächsten Generation. Hamburg 1926: Amala Hansen ist auf gutem Weg, sich von ihrem Unfall zu erholen. Doch eins wird immer deutlicher: Sie muss sich von ihrer Traumkarriere als Schauspielerin verabschieden und im Leben neu orientieren. In Berlin zieht sie mit Eduard durch verschiedene Varietés und ist fasziniert von den Persönlichkeiten, mit denen ihr Cousin verkehrt, doch irgendwie spürt sie, dass dieses Milieu für sie nicht das richtige ist.

In late 1970, Oliver Desmarais drops dead in his front yard while hanging Christmas lights. In the year that follows, his widow, Virginia, struggles to find her place on the campus of the elite New Hampshire men’s college where Oliver was a professor. While Virginia had always shared her husband’s prejudices against the four outspoken, never-married women on the faculty — dubbed the Gang of Four by their male counterparts — she now finds herself depending on them, even joining their work to bring the women’s movement to Clarendon College.

Norwegen, 1941: In dem kriegsgebeutelten Land verlieben sich Lisbet und ihre Freundin Oda in die falschen Männer - in deutsche Soldaten. Ihre verbotene Liebe fordert einen hohen Preis, und die beiden jungen Frauen verlieren alles, was ihnen lieb ist. Ausgerechnet bei den deutschen Besatzern scheinen sie Hilfe zu finden, doch dann wird Lisbet von ihrer kleinen Tochter getrennt. Erst lange Zeit später findet sich ihre Spur - in Deutschland.