Showing results for "Melissa" in 20th Century

April McVey hasn’t a romantic bone in her body. So how has she found herself at the door of Mrs Hart’s Marriage Bureau, job application in hand? Matchmaker Martha hopes the lively Irish girl will breathe fresh air into a business struggling to keep with the times amid the tumult of 1930s Britain. So when lonely widower Fabian arrives at the bureau, the pair’s matchmaking skills – and professionalism – meet their first true test.

London, 1951. Nanette Blitz und John König lernen sich auf einer Party kennen. Sie, zutiefst traumatisiert als einzige Überlebende ihrer Familie. Er, ebenfalls Vollwaise, das Ticket für die Überfahrt nach Brasilien bereits in der Tasche. Die Begegnung ist ein Moment des Glücks und der Nähe, den beide nicht mehr für möglich gehalten haben. Fast zwei Jahre schreiben sie sich Briefe, bis Nanette sich entschließt, John nach São Paulo zu folgen. Es ist ein Buch über wiedererlangte Hoffnung und Lebensfreude und eine außergewöhnliche Liebe.

It is 1950 and Kitty Longthorne is now a Sister at Manchester's Park Hospital, and as busy as ever. With dizzying numbers of children with polio being admitted to the children's ward, a sharp uptick of major trauma from road accidents and growing political and racial conflict affecting her patients and staff, there's no shortage of drama at the hospital. But Kitty is determined that everyone is treated with respect.

Now that Marie has become used to her lonely life of helping transients through their worst times, she can forget about the intense sadness that plagues every waking moment, until she meets a drifter who changes everything. Jake Collins once had everything a man could ever want, a nice home, clothes, and a wife who loved him, until he threw it all away like a bad poker hand.

Just when Sarah Engels thinks things can't get any worse when her abusive husband threatens to take her life on almost a daily basis, she finds out that she's pregnant with his child. Mike Collins has failed once to protect a wife, and without a wife or the children he's always wanted, he becomes a hermit deep in the woods and lives every day with only his dog for company. When he stumbles upon a nearly dead beauty, he knows that his time for redemption has finally come, but he has no idea just how much he's in for when it comes to rescuing her and her unborn child.