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Sagaen om Emilie er en slægtskrønike fyldt med kærlighedsintriger og hemmeligheder. Vi følger den smukke husmandsdatter Emilie i 1880'ernes Trøndelag i Norge, et samfund med store kløfter mellem rig og fattig. Emilies rejse til Trondheim nærmer sig, til stor sorg for hendes mor.

Sagaen om Emilie er en slægtskrønike fyldt med kærlighedsintriger og hemmeligheder. Vi følger den smukke husmandsdatter Emilie i 1880'ernes Trøndelag i Norge, et samfund med store kløfter mellem rig og fattig. Emilie er på sommerbesøg hos Grace, da et velkendt ansigt dukker op i haven. Ola Teigen er fast besluttet på at rejse til Amerika, men Emilie er bange for, at hun er skyld i hans beslutning om at emigrere.

Your book is about Tasha, a resilient mother of three who finds herself at a painful crossroads: stay with her unfaithful, jobless, and emotionally abusive husband, Reggie, or risk becoming a struggling single mother. Reggie is not the biological father of her eldest child and constantly tears him down, while Tasha shoulders the entire household—working a full-time job, paying the bills, and providing for her kids.

From the award-winning “master of the short story” (The New York Times Book Review)—nine shattering, hilarious tales of men on the outskirts of America, habituating the motels, hot dog stands, and dive bars time forgot, grappling with a world that is swiftly changing, and dreaming of a return to the wooded shores of their youth

A road-trip takes a dark detour when Steve and Nancy decide to visit distant family, unwittingly opening a trove of family secrets that threaten to change everything they know about themselves and each other. From the author of The Trick and The Infection Party comes a neo-Southern Gothic tale that follows a surreal path to sinister museums in thrift stores, an ex-wrestler with an unspeakable appetite, time-bending government experiments, and finally a revelation about what’s hidden upstairs. Keep the location services turned on so you’re not the one who dies first.

Um 1912 als Tierärztin arbeiten zu können, heiratet Nellie ihren Jugendfreund Philipp De Groot, der die väterliche Praxis übernimmt. Sie liebt ihn zwar nicht, aber die beiden verbindet seit ihrer Kindheit eine innige Freundschaft. Nach ihrer Flucht aus Deutschland sind Nellie und Maria mit ihren Familien in Neuseeland endlich in Sicherheit. Australien, 1955: Daphne hat ihr Tiermedizinstudium beendet. Neuseeland: Helena sieht ihre Träume von der Übernahme des Gestüts zerplatzen, nachdem ihr Großvater auf einen männlichen Nachfolger zu setzen scheint.

Cubriendo los años desde 1950 hasta el siglo XXI, esta dramática conclusión a la historia de dos tomos explora las vidas de cuatro generaciones de mujeres. Cada una ha presentado un frente valiente para disimular heridas profundas, a menudo sin comprender el amor sacrificial de una madre por su hija.

Este es el primero de dos libros en una saga que explora las complicadas relaciones entre madres e hijas a través de cuatro generaciones. A finales del siglo XIX, la impetuosa Marta deja Suiza decidida a encontrar la vida bajo sus propios términos. Su educador viaje la lleva a través de Europa y Canadá, y finalmente la carga con la compañía de hijos y un esposo en el valle central de California.

Con este audiolibro-testimonio, J. J. Benítez completa el famoso diario del mayor norteamericano que "saltó" a los tiempos de Jesús de Nazaret. Si en "Jerusalén. Caballo de Troya 1"se afirmaba que los evangelistas no habían contado la verdad sobre el Nazareno, en esta nueva obra vuelve a demostrarse.

Princess Théra, once known as Empress Üna of Dara, entrusted the throne to her younger brother in order to journey to Ukyu-Gondé to war with the Lyucu. She has crossed the fabled Wall of Storms with a fleet of advanced warships and 10,000 people. Beset by adversity, Théra and her most trusted companions attempt to overcome every challenge by doing the most interesting thing. But is not letting the past dictate the present always possible or even desirable?

From the time she was a child, Mas Arai’s daughter, Mari, was completely gasa-gasa - never sitting still, always on the go, getting into everything. And Mas, busy tending lawns, gambling, and struggling to put his Hiroshima past behind him, never had much time for the family he was trying to support. For years now, his resentful daughter has lived a continent away in New York City and had a life he knew little about. But an anxious phone call from Mari asking for his help plunges the usually obstinate Mas into a series of startling situations.

Taita is a humble slave, an expert in art, poetry, medicine and engineering as well as keeping important secrets. He is the most treasured possession of Lord Intef. Yet when Intef's beautiful daughter, Lostris, is married to the Pharaoh, Taita is commanded to follow her and swiftly finds himself deeper than he ever could have imagined in a world of deception and treachery. But outside the palace, the great kingdom of Egypt is divided and in even greater danger. Enemies threaten on all sides, and only Taita holds the power to save them all....

"In The Falling World", Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud Court, has traveled with Chime and Balm to another Raksuran court. When she fails to return, her consort, Moon, along with Stone and a party of warriors and hunters, must track them down. Finding them turns out to be the easy part; freeing them from an ancient trap hidden in the depths of the Reaches is much more difficult. "The Tale of Indigo and Cloud" explores the history of the Indigo Cloud Court, long before Moon was born.

Back When We Were Grownups is about one woman's search for who she really is. Listen as a 53-year-old grandmother tries to recover her girlhood self and that dignified grownup she had once been.

In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, set in 12th-century England. Readers and listeners ever since have hoped for a sequel. At last, here it is. Although the two novels may be listened to in any order, World Without End also takes place in Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building their exquisite Gothic cathedral. The cathedral is again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge.

Sister Bernadette Ignatius has returned to Ireland in the company of Tom Kelly to search for the past and the son they left behind. For it was here that these two long-ago lovers spent a season of magic before Bernadette's calling led her to a vocation as Mother Superior at Star of the Sea Academy on the sea-tossed Connecticut shore.

Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals - for centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone. And suddenly, all his vampire rationale - everything he has come to believe and feel safe with - is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence.

Ginny Carter was once a rising star in TV news, married to a top anchorman, with a three-year-old son and a full and happy life in Beverly Hills - until her whole world dissolved in a single instant on the freeway two days before Christmas. In the aftermath, she pieces her life back together and tries to find meaning in her existence as a human rights worker in the worst areas around the globe.

Brilliantly executed and compulsively listenable, Unsheltered is the story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum, as they navigate the challenges of surviving a world in the throes of major cultural shifts. In this mesmerizing story told in alternating chapters, Willa and Thatcher come to realize that though the future is uncertain, even unnerving, shelter can be found in the bonds of kindred - whether family or friends - and in the strength of the human spirit.

In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.