Résultats pour "Lisa" dans Sagas

It's 1938 in San Francisco: A world's fair is preparing to open on Treasure Island, a war is brewing overseas, and the city is alive with possibilities. Grace, Helen, and Ruby, three young women from very different backgrounds, meet by chance at the exclusive and glamorous Forbidden City nightclub. Grace Lee, an American-born Chinese girl, has fled the Midwest with nothing but heartache, talent, and a pair of dancing shoes. Helen Fong lives with her extended family in Chinatown, where her traditional parents insist that she guard her reputation like a piece of jade.

München 1933: Lotte Randlkofer wünscht sich sehnlichst, dass die Räume des Delikatessenhauses in der Dienerstraße erfüllt werden von dem Duft nach Kaffee. Die feinen Bohnen, die über die Weltmeere den Weg nach Hamburg und Bremen finden, sollen ihren Zauber nun auch in München entfalten. Eine eigene Kaffeemischung soll das Haus Dallmayr bekommen. Denn nichts könnte die erlesenen Pralinen aus Frankreich und der Schweiz, die im Mund wie zarte Butter zergehen, besser begleiten als der nussige Geschmack von Kaffee.

Growing up poor in Texas, Vera Lomax used every gold-digging trick in the book to land a rich husband. Now living in the lap of luxury in San Francisco, her only job is to fawn over her much-older husband, so it's been easy for her to balance a life of shopping and affairs with younger men with a major secret: the 16-year bribery of one of her husband's mistresses to keep her pregnancy under wraps. Vera figures that a little hush money every month will ensure her husband's fortune is hers alone....

The Peacock Feast opens on a June day in 1916 when Louis C. Tiffany, the eccentric glass genius, dynamites the breakwater at Laurelton Hall - his fantastical Oyster Bay mansion. The explosion shakes both the apple crate, where Prudence, the daughter of Tiffany’s prized gardener, is sleeping and the rocks where Randall, her seven-year-old brother, is playing. Nearly a century later, Prudence receives an unexpected visit at her New York apartment from Grace, a hospice nurse and the granddaughter of Randall, who Prudence never saw again after he left at age 14 for California.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours comes a heartfelt novel about the bonds of family and the power of second chances. When Kate Bowman temporarily moves to her grandmother’s Missouri farm with her husband and baby son, she...

Do you know what it's like give to 100 percent and still feel like it's not, and you're not, enough for anybody? To be caught between caring for an aging parent and raising young children? Ivy Schneider lives in this place, too, and she isn't at all happy about it.

This second audiobook in the Northern Lights series continues the saga of the group that left Norway to travel to America for their freedom and prosperity. Hear what's happening in the lives of Tora, Elsa, Pedor, Karl, and Kaatje.

People think they know Jase Connors: former front man for Kings Quarters, successful solo artist, consummate playboy. They’re unaware of his humble roots, unmatched generosity, and affection for his family. But Jase is tired from road life. Tired of road life. Just plain tired. He’s seeking solace and someone who likes him for who he is and not what he became.

Drei Generationen, verbunden durch die tiefe Sehnsucht danach, Wurzeln zu schlagen – in ihrem großen Roman erschreibt sich Joana Osman ihre eigene Familiengeschichte. Sabiha und Ahmed sind fest verwurzelt in ihrer Heimatstadt Jaffa. Hier eröffnen sie ein eigenes Kino, um in der letzten Reihe bei Filmen mit Shirley Temple zu weinen, und ziehen ihre Söhne groß. Doch 1948, mit dem ersten arabisch-israelischen Krieg und schließlich der Gründung Israels, beginnt für die Familie eine Odyssee. Sie fliehen in den Libanon und weiter in die Türkei, stets auf der Suche nach einem neuen Zuhause.

Joanne DuPree had no reservations about following her best friend to Cricklewood Cove. How could she when Amy and her daughter Cammie were as close to family as she had? JT Williams has come back home to Celebration with his daughter to connect with old friends. When JT and Deklan prepare to open their new art gallery together, the pieces quickly start falling into place.

Finley Parker loves working in catering but hates her boss and her life in Middletown. When Robin Landry steals her away to work for Heart of the Family Catering in Cricklewood Cove, Finley is ready to cook up a new life. An accident in the kitchen finds Robin laid up and Finley must take over the planning of a wedding for a nightmare bride. It doesn't help that sitting beside the spoiled woman is a tempting and tasty morsel of a man.