In 1933 Berlin and Munich, fifteen-year-olds Katarina and Maria, who have never met, share the same dream: to become nurses who care for all regardless of race, creed, or colour.
In the wake of September 11th, a man who grew up with his mother in Eastern European brothels comes to New York City searching for an adventure, identity, and home.
This book fills a lacuna in the English-language literature dealing with Norway and the Holocaust by focusing on how Norwegian Jews, and those who facilitated their rescue, remembered the experience of their departure and passage across hostile territory to sanctuary in Sweden.
In 1948 eight-year-old Kay is at Oakdale, the Lapeer State Home in Michigan where people of all ages with physical and mental aberrations come to live.
Aus diesem Leben konnte nur ein Roman werden, aber ein Roman wie kein zweiter: voller unbandiger Energie und leuchtender LebensgierEin Mensch, vielleicht am falschen Ort geboren, macht sich auf, frei und unabhangig zu sein: Tassilo, jung und verliebt in Musik und Manner, will raus aus der Rostocker Platte und rein in die Freiheit West-Berlins.
First published in 1963, A God and his Gifts was the last of Ivy Compton-Burnett's novels to be published in her lifetime and is considered by many to be one of her best.
A note from the author: 'All the characters in this novel are real people, revived from the pages of Yorkshire history to enact again their significant drama of love and strife, human strength and human weakness.
First published in 1951, this is a story of the unfolding secret of Margaret whose determination to be near and protect the orphan, Sweetie, is part of the crucial years at the Archbishop Bodkin Hospital.
Peter Trahier thought it was a small matter to walk out of his office without permission in order to talk with a man who might be able to further his political career.
Eine berauschende Dreiecksgeschichte und ein spannender Todesfall zwischen Illusion, Macht und Manipulation"e;Subversiv, phantasievoll, dunkel und mitrei end.
With literary ability, clarity of style, and astonishing inventiveness, Storm Jameson tells the story of people who - as may happen to any one of us at any time - are forced to make a supremely momentous decision.
Inmitten von Weihnachtslichtern die groen Gefuhle im winterlichen New York erleben mit dem neuen Roman der Bestseller-Autorin Mary Kay AndrewsKerry's Familie besitzt eine Weihnachtsbaumfarm in North Carolina, doch als sich ihre Eltern scheiden lassen, wird die Familie fruh auseinandergerissen.
In the summer of 2002, I began to chronicle my Daily events on a Major Label recording session with a bidding-war band, an infamous producer, and a seemingly limitless budget.
