Résultats pour "Lisa" dans Sagas

Brought to you by Penguin. From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a beautifully tender, heartbreaking, and moving story of four sisters over three decades Meet the Padvano girls. Best friends and sisters, they are thought of as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters. In their remote mountain village, Li-yan...

Con la muerte de Carlos IV se extingue la dinastía de los Capetos. El ascenso de los Valois al trono francés desatará la Guerra de los Cien Años... La semilla del enfrentamiento ha caído en la tierra fértil de las rivalidades económicas y personales, los embrollos jurídicos y los resentimientos históricos. Fatalidades colectivas y tragedias individuales se suceden en este sexto volumen de «Los Reyes Malditos».

The year is 1906. An old family feud forces the young Inga into a marriage blighted by hatred, betrayal and dark secrets. She must wed Niels Gaupås, a district court judge almost three times her age. The situation worsens when she also falls in love with Martin, the young son of a local farmer. Inga Svartdal is a series of twelve books in which we follow the intrigues in Vestfold, Norway, at the beginning of the last century. Sinful desire, humiliation and grief await in the pages of the books, as the beautiful young Inga experiences intense and forbidden love.

Liesi Thaler lebt mit ihrer neunzigjährigen Großmutter Filomena auf dem Apfelhof. Wie schon die Frauen vor ihr führt sie das Erbe ihrer Familie fort. Ihr Heimatort unweit von Meran ist ein beschauliches Fleckchen, seine Einwohner freundlich, das Leben von gegenseitigem Respekt geprägt. Doch dann kommt es zu eigenartigen Vorkommnissen auf ihren Apfelwiesen. Die Ernte, und somit ihre Existenz, steht auf dem Spiel. So geht sie auf den Vorschlag des Bürgermeisters ein und stellt ihren Hof als Drehort für einen Film zur Verfügung.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A gifted writer . . . explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience.”—USA Today In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars...

In apartheid South Africa, free-spirited young Amina has broken all the rules of her own conventional community by running a café. When she meets Miriam, a young traditional wife and mother, their unexpected attraction turns their world upside down.

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.

Set against the sprawling backdrop of 1930s Australia, Anna May Shahan is a wild child raised on a lush farm by the sea, always barefoot and playing in her neighbor’s secret garden. Her Aboriginal nanny teaches her the ways of the land, and she grows up to be a quirky, eccentric, and sweet woman. But she is not without her demons, as she struggles with bizarre behaviors and a haunting, dark side. Soon after marriage, Anna inherits Sugar Alexandria, her family’s sheep station, and she and her Irish husband James lead a simple, hardworking life.

In der neuen Welt kämpft sie ums Überleben und um ihre Liebe... Als die junge, unverheiratete Nellie Bernstein im Januar 1733 das sumpfig-wilde Marschland von South Carolina betritt, liegt eine lange entbehrungsreiche Schiffspassage hinter ihr. Ungewollt schwanger, wurde sie vom Vater verstoßen und sah für sich in Preußen keine Zukunft mehr. Wie viele andere war sie dem Aufruf des Visionärs James Oglethorpe gefolgt, der mit mutigen Auswanderern in Amerika eine Kolonie namens Georgia gründen will.

Una lectura cálida, intensa y con un sabor que nos devuelve a la tierra del origen del té. Capaz de combinar belleza poética con tramas cautivadoras, Lisa See ha ido construyendo en sus novelas, desde El abanico de seda hasta El círculo de mujeres de la doctora Tan, un fascinante universo literario en torno a la historia y la cultura chinas. En La joven del té, vuelve a sorprendernos con un relato conmovedor sobre familia, identidad y maternidad.

In this follow-up to South of Happily, Katy Kiss has moved on from the trauma of a failed marriage and the worst year of her life—at least that’s what she’s telling herself. So why is she having nightmares about a mysterious stranger lurking in the darkness? She’s agitated, her future is unsettled, and her relationship with Nickety-Nick is perplexing. They’re talking again, but does talking mean dating, or does it mean…well, she doesn’t know what it means.

München 1897. Anton und Therese Randlkofer führen den noch jungen Feinkostladen Dallmayr in der Dienerstraße. Während die Gutsituierten erlesene Pralinen, honigsüße Früchte und exquisiten Kaffee probieren, träumen vor den prachtvoll dekorierten Schaufenstern die einfachen Bürger vom schönen Leben. Ein jeder möchte Kunde im Dallmayr sein. Doch dem glanzvollen Aufstieg des Familienunternehmens droht ein jähes Ende, als Patriarch Anton ganz unerwartet verstirbt.

When Meg gets a terrible diagnosis, her only thought is for her family. How will her husband Simon and their beautiful, sweet-hearted, 14-year-old daughter Grace cope when she’s gone? She also knows that she has to finally tell Grace the secret they’ve kept from Grace her whole life. That, though Simon is Grace’s father, she isn’t Grace’s birth mother. Because Simon was married before, and his first wife, Cassie, hadn’t wanted to keep their baby.

In her beloved New York Times bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and, most recently, Shanghai Girls, Lisa See has brilliantly illuminated the potent bonds of mother love, romantic love, and love of country. Now, in her most powerful novel yet, she returns to these...

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....

München 1905. Mit ihrem Gespür für Delikatessen hat Therese Randlkofer Köstlichkeiten aus aller Welt nach Deutschland gebracht. Handverlesene Früchte von den Kanaren, feinster Blätterkrokant aus der Schweiz und goldgelber französischer Lavendelhonig zieren die Auslage des Dallmayr. Doch ihr missgünstiger Schwager und größter Kontrahent Max versteht sich darin, Zwietracht in der Familie zu säen – besonders bei ihren eigenen erwachsenen Kindern. Dabei bräuchte Therese deren Hilfe dringender denn je.

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.

"Deceptions, triumphs, passions and bloodshed will grip readers from the first page to the last page." –Authors Reading. Get ready for a thrilling adventure in the highly-anticipated third installment of the Second Son Chronicles by bestselling author, Pamela Taylor. In Pestilence, Alfred’s worst nightmare comes true when his brother John ascends to the throne, plunging the kingdom into chaos and uncertainty. As traditional allegiances crumble and a new style of rule emerges, Alfred is forced to confront his duty to both his personal honor and the kingdom he loves.