Showing results for "Margot" in Women's Fiction

Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven farm, Lizzie Craig discovers as a small child that she can see into the future. But her gift is selective—she doesn’t, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family. As her “pictures” foretell various incidents and accidents, she begins to realize a painful truth: she may glimpse the future, but she can seldom change it. Nor can Lizzie change the feelings that come when a young man named Louis, visiting Belhaven for the harvest, begins to court her.

It's the mid-1950s and Margot Thornsen is growing up between a Park Avenue apartment in New York and her family's sumptuous Oyster Bay estate as the presumed heir to her late grandfather's steel fortune. Her domineering mother has charted a course for her-to forego education and marry well-but Margot is more interested in microscopes and beetles and books. When a devastating fire brings the family legacy crashing down and the sexual revolution dawns, a new path opens up.

The Baxter sisters come from a long line of women with disastrous luck in love. But this summer, Sunshine and Margot will turn disasters into destiny....

Die Eröffnung einer Galerie in Valencia führt Elena in eine unbekannte Vergangenheit und eine verheißungsvolle Zukunft. Was für eine Karrierechance! In Valencia soll Elena eine Zweigstelle der renommierten Millennium-Galerie aufbauen. Schade nur, dass sie kein Spanisch kann: Ihr Vater lehnt alles ab, was ihn an sein Heimatland erinnert. Doch prompt gerät Elena in der Stadt am Río Turia mit dem smarten Innenarchitekten Carlos Torres aneinander. Seine Ideen für die Galerie sind ihr zu innovativ.

La vida es corta, y nadie lo sabe mejor que Lenni Pettersson a sus diecisiete años. Enfadada con el mundo porque el tiempo se le acaba, Lenni todavía tiene mucho que experimentar y demasiadas preguntas sin respuesta. Margot tiene ochenta y tres años. Cuando conoce a Lenni en el taller de arte del hospital le ofrece su amistad incondicional. A partir de ese momento, los días de Lenni se expanden como nunca hubiera imaginado: las historias que le cuenta la anciana le harán soñar todas las vidas que la enfermedad le negará. La novela más luminosa y conmovedora del año.

Malerisch, mysteriös und romantisch – ein fesselnder Roman über ein düsteres Familiengeheimnis und eine große Liebe von Bestsellerautorin Margot S. Baumann. Sie hat eine Schwester namens Undine? Electra ist fassungslos, als sie bei der Testamentsverlesung ihrer Großtante erfährt, dass sie keineswegs ein Einzelkind ist. Aber wo ist Undine? Eine alte Postkarte ist der einzige Hinweis. Entschlossen, das Familiengeheimnis zu lösen, macht Electra sich auf den Weg nach Devon.

Evangeline grows up understanding the extraordinary effects of fragrance. Her grandmother Louise is a gifted aromata, a master of scent-making and perfume. When Eva was a girl, Louise carefully explained that lavender under her pillow would make her dream of the man she would marry; eucalyptus would make her taller; almandine, fatter; and jasmine, Louise promised, would wrap her life in a mystery. When Eva is eighteen, Louise leaves her the ultimate gift - a scent created just for her.

Twenty years have past since the incident involving six lonely children at a secret playground in Indigo Valley, Pennsylavania which left the town bully dead and 10-year-old Cady Jordan seriously injured. Now Cady has returned to the valley to care for her ailing grandmother Lola, the only person Cady has ever truly loved. While Cady has grown into attractive, intelligent, but overly cautious young woman, she has no memory of her childhood tragedy.