Showing results for "Hunger" in Women's Fiction

Tony is just a breath away from redemption. But will he sacrifice the one who has claimed his heart to get it? After escaping the terrors of his dark cabal, Tony Harris craves redemption. With just one ritual, he could resurrect the mother he accidentally killed. All he needs is a Conduit - a being who holds endless magic. But when the Conduit turns out to be a quirky, optimistic woman named Faith, his world is turned upside-down. Now Tony must choose; bring Cybil Constance back to life or give his heart to someone who believes in him.

Not since Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan has a fiction writer explored with such powerful intensity the experience of being Asian American. The characters who inhabit this extraordinary fictional debut are caught between the burden of their past history and the fragility of their unchartered future. Hunger illuminates how first-generation immigrants from China, culturally and emotionally uprooted from their homeland, mistrust connection even as they hunger for attachment - and how the past affects and shapes their children.

A newlywed Christian couple is “trying” to have a baby when the wife books a solo vacation. In a cabin far from home, she contemplates if she wants a baby with her husband, considering the way his white family and friends treat her. When she encounters an attractive stranger, she lets him take her out for a drink.

Die Fortsetzung der bewegenden Geschichte um Noah und Jakobine – von Bestsellerautorin Ella Zeiss. Die Hoffnung auf Frieden. Die Sehnsucht nach Freiheit. Und die grenzenlose Kraft der Liebe. Sommer 1941: Statt seine große Liebe Jakobine zu heiraten, wird der junge Russlanddeutsche Noah in die sowjetische Armee eingezogen. Ein gemeinsames Leben rückt in unerreichbare Ferne, dabei wünscht Noah sich nichts mehr als das. Noch immer hasst er das Sowjetregime, dem er sich als Soldat ausgeliefert fühlt.