Results for "Ein Kind" in World Literature

KinderSeid besonders!Entdecke die Magie in dir, denn „normal“ kann doch schließlich jeder! Besondere Jungs und Mädchen mit faszinierenden GeschichtenSpannende Alltagsgeschichten von besonderen Kindern....

An einem Frühlingstag im April landet Benjamin Merz in Catania. Merz ist Ethnologe, und er möchte die Lebensgewohnheiten der Menschen in Mandlica erkunden...

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.

Der neue Roman von den Gewinnern des Kindle Storyteller Award erzählt vom Mut einer Mutter und der Entschlossenheit einer Familie in dunkler Zeit Münster 1940: Die zweijährige Lotte Brinker ist anders - für ihre Familie ein Wunderkind, gesegnet mit einer außergewöhnlichen musikalischen Begabung, doch für die Nationalsozialisten gehört das seltsame Mädchen in eine Anstalt gesperrt. Lottes Eltern Anna und Gerhard ahnen, in welcher Gefahr ihre Tochter schwebt und tun alles, um sie zu schützen. Denn am Horizont ziehen dunkle Gefahren auf.

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘Where are the fragments of the life you have lived?’ 2005 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...

Nebra vor 4000 Jahren: Lange haben sich die Menschen der Willkür des mächtigen Fürsten Orkon gebeugt, der das Volk quält und ausbeutet, sich nimmt, wonach immer es ihn gelüstet. Jetzt endlich regt sich Widerstand. Die junge Priesterin Rana will Orkons dunkle Herrschaft brechen und die Menschen befreien. Das Werk ihres Vaters soll ihr dabei helfen: eine bronzene Scheibe, die den Sternenhimmel zeigt und eine geheime Botschaft der Götter enthält. Sie steht für die Göttin des Lichts, die dem Hass Liebe entgegensetzt. Doch Ranas Weg ist gefährlich, viel steht auf dem Spiel.

A riveting tale of forbidden love centered on an estranged couple brought together to reckon with the mysterious events that splintered their family. In 1960s Lagos, a city enlivened with its newfound independence, headstrong Margaret meets British-born Benjamin, a man seeking his roots after...

Brian Montgomery loved the life he lived as the son of Chuck and Vivian Alexander Montgomery. As the general manager of his family’s Alex-Mont Ranches in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, Mitchell County, Maryland, and Summer County, South Carolina, his days were what he wanted them to be. He wished for nothing and, although he didn’t know anything about his biological history, he relished the family who adopted him. No, he had everything he wanted - the love of family and friends. Women weren’t kicking him out of their beds, so he was content.

Thirteen-year-old Loyal Raines is supposed to stay close to home on a hot summer day in 1934. When he slips away for a quick swim in the river and finds a dead body, he wishes he'd obeyed his mother. The ripples caused by his discovery will impact the town of Beverly, West Virginia, in ways no one could have imagined.   

“[An] enthralling portrait of a woman daring to defy convention in the face of rigid social confines…filled with thought-provoking turns that explore timely subjects in a gripping light...its themes linger long after the final page is read.”—USA Today With echoes of Rules of Civility and...

Edward Hudson was a good and kind man. At least, he tried to be. Most of the time. He had gone through life thinking that nothing he did mattered or made any difference to anyone. After two careers and a busted marriage, with tattered relationships left behind him like a snail trail, Edward Hudson didn’t think his life’s story was worth the paper it was written on. He couldn’t have been more wrong.

Mackenzie Flynn is a successful author, but right now she’s got a bad case of writer's block. Grayson Kincaide comes crashing into her life-- quite literally; he is sarcastic, smirky and sure looks good in a suit and tie. He might just be the inspiration she’s been looking for. Will the...

Kind is the kind of poetry book that makes you think differently about our world and the beings that inhabit it. Primack explores all facets of our lives with other beings - the beauty, the tragedy, and the absurdity that surrounds her existence. Kind cuts to one’s emotional core to make us think and feel.

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.

Be ready to dive into the essence of women in Ode to My Kind. It is real and deep just like us; and even though the focus is on the woman, these are sentiments that can be felt by anyone. We are human first and I hope you are able to relate or be reminded of someone close to you as you listen to this poetry, my gift to all of you.