Resultados para "Ein Kind" en Literatura de género

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.

After her scandalous May-December romance comes to an end, baby of the family Lilly Callaghan returns home to Trillium Bay braced for the torrent of “I told you sos” from her sisters and the rest of the tiny island community. Floundering both personally and professionally, she’s at an emotional crossroads but determined to figure out her next best steps. When a surprise job offer from her house-flipping sister reacquaints Lilly with handsome, free-spirited Wenniway Island transplant Matt Eastman, Lilly wonders if she’s ready for a new romance.

What it means to be the last of my kind: My nature as Spherit Folk is becoming more difficult to hide. I’m faced with a shocking truth: Only one race can produce a Holy Woman who can save the world, and I’m the last remaining descendant of that race! With the human war raging on and traffic to my family’s inn cut off during these tremulous times, I must set off to the Mythical Continent to discover my destiny!

In this spare novelette, acclaimed flash-fiction writers James Claffey and Tara Lynn Masih collaboratively create an original tale of loss and love, as The Bitter Kind deftly alternates between Stela, the daughter of a ship’s captain, burdened by her family secrets, and Brandy, a Chippewa orphan, haunted by ghost wolves and spirits. The authors cross genres and borders between historical and contemporary, speculative and realistic, presenting two unforgettable characters on a journey toward their inevitable, fateful destination.

Emily Callaghan never expected to spend another summer on Wenniway Island. Yet here she is, back in her quaint northern Michigan hometown of Trillium Bay, divorced, flat broke, and dragging along her precocious 12-year-old. It's a simple arrangement: Emily, a house flipper, will renovate one of her grandmother's rental properties in exchange for a much-needed loan. Once a wild child, the reformed Emily also hopes to remodel her reputation and show her family she's all grown up.

Addie ha 11 anni, è autistica e ha una missione: convincere i suoi concittadini a costruire un memoriale per le streghe condannate ingiustamente. Perché quando la storia viene dimenticata, è destinata a ripetersi.

Starting a cannabis company is supposed to be chill, right? George, Brandy and Marcus are about to find out just how sobering the cannabis business can be.

Al centro della vicenda l'Opera di soccorso "Kinder der Landstrasse", creata nel 1926 dalla Pro-Juventute, e definita nel 1998 dal consigliere federale in carica Ruth Dreyfuss "... un tragico esempio di discriminazione e persecuzione di una minoranza ...". Il protagonista Lubo, è uno zingaro naturalizzato, e sta prestando il servizio militare obbligatorio, quando riceve una notizia: i suoi due bambini sono stati presi dalla polizia e la moglie è stata involontariamente uccisa. E questo nel pieno della legalità.

Niezwykla historia mlodziutkiej Serafiny, która zycie wystawilo na ciezka próbe, pozbawiajac domu rodzinnego. Odpowiedzialnosc za jej los bierze w swoje chciwe rece postarzala ciotka Apolonia, wyznajaca zasade, ze nic tak nie wyniszcza kobiety jak praca i nadmierne myslenie, a najwiekszy kapital kazdej panny stanowi uroda. Ów kapital ma zapewnic Serafinie dostatnie zycie u boku godnego partnera - a godnym, zdaniem ciotki, moze byc jedynie mezczyzna stateczny, w wieku, w którym ma sie wieksze sklonnosci do sadla i kont bankowych, niz do kobiet.

Holiday Greetings from Sugar and Booze is a music-filled holiday comedy starring Ana Gasteyer and Maya Rudolph, with a jolly cast including Patti LuPone, Rachel Dratch, and Richard Kind. In this heartwarming story of love and friendship, we follow the journey of “Sugar” and “Booze” as they go from inseparable college buddies to busy working moms who mostly keep in touch with each other, and their close friends and family, through annual holiday letters.

Sidney Blumenthal, White House presidential adviser, renowned journalist and author of numerous books on American politics, takes us inside the well-groomed Washington Press Corps, who yawn when they hear about peace treaties - but snap to attention at the chance to uncover a little dirt on the First Dog.