検索キーワード： 著者 "Juliet" すべてのカテゴリー

Eine unbeugsame Frau, die immer nur eines wollte: frei sein. Für Stella Fortuna war der Tod schon immer ein Teil ihres Lebens. Ihre Kindheit ist geprägt von merkwürdigen Unfällen, die beinahe tödliche Folgen haben. In ihrem ärmlichen Dorf in Kalabrien gilt Stella ohnehin als seltsam: ebenso schön und klug wie frech und abweisend. Als die Fortunas vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg nach Amerika auswandern, hofft Stella auf eine neue Freiheit - und muss erfahren, dass ihre Familie ihr eines um jeden Preis verweigern wird: ihre Unabhängigkeit.

Eine Liebe zum Dessert. Immer wieder sonntags trifft sich Anna mit Familie und Freunden zum Essen. Meistens sind ihre drei Geschwister dabei, die geliebte Oma und sogar ihr Ex-Mann. Es wird geredet, gelacht, gegessen. Manchmal wird Wichtiges verschwiegen, manchmal fallen die falschen Worte, aber am Ende freuen sich alle auf den Nachtisch. An einem dieser Sonntage lässt Dauersingle Anna jedoch die Bombe platzen: Sie ist schwanger. Der Vater: ein One-Night-Stand. Auch wenn die Familie hinter ihr steht - mit einem eigenen Kind hat Anna nicht mehr gerechnet.

Kate liebt Charlie. Charlie liebt Kate. Aber es ist kompliziert... Schon auf der Party zu ihrem fünften Geburtstag hat der schüchterne Charlie der süßen Nachbarin seine Liebe gestanden. Vor allen! Auch vor Kates Cousine Becca. Zehn Jahre später ist sich auch Kate sicher: Charlie ist die Liebe ihres Lebens. Doch es ist die schöne Becca, die ihn schließlich heiratet. Vergessen können Charlie und Kate einander jedoch nicht. Immer wieder kreuzen sich ihre Wege.

Eine unbeugsame Frau, die immer nur eines wollte: frei sein. Für Stella Fortuna war der Tod schon immer ein Teil ihres Lebens. Ihre Kindheit ist geprägt von merkwürdigen Unfällen, die beinahe tödliche Folgen haben. In ihrem ärmlichen Dorf in Kalabrien gilt Stella ohnehin als seltsam: ebenso schön und klug wie frech und abweisend. Als die Fortunas vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg nach Amerika auswandern, hofft Stella auf eine neue Freiheit - und muss erfahren, dass ihre Familie ihr eines um jeden Preis verweigern wird: ihre Unabhängigkeit.

Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur a voulu célébrer ses deux mères : l'esseulée et la vaillante, l'étouffée et la valeureuse, la jetée-dans-la-fosse et la toute-donnée. La première, celle qui lui a donné le jour, une paysanne, à la suite d'un amour malheureux, d'un mariage qui l'a déçue, puis quatre maternités rapprochées, a sombré dans une profonde dépression. Hospitalisée un mois après la naissance de son dernier enfant, elle est morte huit ans plus tard dans d'atroces conditions.

Whistling Tor is a place of secrets: a mysterious, wooded hill housing the crumbling fortress belonging to Anluan - a chieftain whose name is spoken throughout the region in tones of revulsion and bitterness. A curse lies over Anluan's family and his people, and the woods themselves hold a perilous force whose every whisper threatens doom. Then the young scribe Caitrin appears in Anluan's garden, admiring the rare plant known as heart's blood. Retained to sort through entangled family documents, Caitrin brings about unexpected changes.

All her life, Ella Barrow has allowed others to make her decisions. Forced to stifle her artistic talents and stay in a loveless relationship with Clayton Kerrington, the man her mother believes to be her perfect match, Ella's life may be safe - but it's not her own. Paxon Nightwing, on the other hand, is anything but the safe choice. A charming and alluring dragon-hybrid Morgon, Paxon sees Ella for the woman she truly is. His bold confidence and protective nature ignites a passion she's never felt before.

In the Gladium Province, the boundaries between humans and Morgons, the dragon-hybrid race, continue to blur as a new generation surrenders to long-forbidden temptation.... Sorcha Linden does whatever she wants whenever she wants, and no one can stop her. Least of all a man. After all, they're good for only one thing - warming her bed. But then she meets Lorian Nightwing, brother of Lucius.

Tensions are rising in the Gladium Province. The boundary between humans and Morgons has begun to blur. While the human aristocracy strives to maintain distance between their daughters and the dragon-hybrid race, fate has other plans. As the daughter of the corporate king, Jessen Cade is duty-bound to honor her arranged marriage to a man she detests. Feeling trapped by family duty and a loveless future, she longs for more, straying to the Morgon side of the city.

Within the next three years, Juliet Blaxland's home will be demolished, and the land where it now stands will crumble into the North Sea. In her numbered days living in the Easternmost House, Juliet fights to maintain the rural ways she grew up with, re-connecting with the beauty, usefulness and erratic terror of the natural world. A stunning memoir, describing a year on the easternmost edge of England, and exploring how we can preserve delicate ecosystems, and livelihoods, in the face of rapid coastal erosion and environmental change.

Get ready for eight fantastic adventures in space and time with the Doctor and his companions, featuring stories from many of Doctor Who's most popular authors from the worlds of television, print, comics and audio as well as new talent and fresh voices...and read by your favourite Big Finish actors!

Australian journalist Juliet Rieden grew up in England in the 1960s and 70s always sensing that her family was different in some way. She longed to have relatives and knew precious little about her Czech father's childhood as a refugee. On the night before Juliet's father died, in 2006, Juliet's father suddenly looked up and said: 'The plane is in the hangar.' In the years after his death, Juliet comes to truly understand the significance of these words. On a trip to Prague she is shocked to see the Rieden name written many times over on the walls of the Pinkas Synagogue memorial.

Anya - a stoic, blue-winged angelic warrior - was bitten by a demon prince in battle, and now she has precious little time to find a cure for his deadly venom. But the only archangel with the power to stop the dark poison from corrupting her body and soul is missing. She’ll have to trust her guide, the outcast high demon Dommiel, who is as handsome as he is dangerous if she has any hope. An outcast of his own kind, high demon Dommiel stays under cover while the war between angels and demons rages on.

Anna Brisker is a 29-year-old graduate student in English at Collegiate University who can't seem to finish her dissertation. Her project: an intellectual history of inspiration. And yet, for the first time, Anna has found herself utterly uninspired. Rather than work on her thesis, she spends her days eating Pop-Tarts and walking the gritty streets of New Harbor, Connecticut. As Anna's adviser is quick to remind her, time is running out. She needs the perfect case study to anchor her thesis - and she needs it now.

When you do a good job for someone, there’s a strong chance they’ll offer you more work or recommend you elsewhere. So Daniel Mackmain isn’t particularly surprised when his boss’ architect brother asks for his help on a historic house renovation in the Cotswolds. Except Dan’s a dryad’s son, and he soon realises there’s a whole lot more going on. Ancient malice is stirring, and it has made an alliance in the modern world. The Green Man expects Dan to put an end to this threat. Seeing the danger, Dan’s forced to agree.

As Britain is pulled towards war, the secrets within two families threaten to tear them apart, in the new novel from Juliet West, The Faithful.... July 1935. In the village of Aldwick on the Sussex coast, 16-year-old Hazel faces a long, dull summer with just her self-centred mother, Francine, for company. But then Francine decamps to London with her lover, Charles; Oswald Mosley's blackshirts arrive in Aldwick; and Hazel's summer suddenly becomes more interesting.

Eighteen-year-old Liobhan is a powerful singer and an expert whistle player. Her brother has a voice to melt the hardest heart, and is a rare talent on the harp. But Liobhan's burning ambition is to join the elite warrior band on Swan Island. She and her brother train there to compete for places, and find themselves joining a mission while still candidates. Their unusual blend of skills makes them ideal for this particular job, which requires going undercover as traveling minstrels. For Swan Island trains both warriors and spies.

the tradition of Marisa de los Santos and Anne Tyler comes a moving debut about a young mother’s year of heartbreak, loss, and forgiveness—and help that arrives from unexpected sources.

The audiobook tells the story of Stella Fortuna, born into rural poverty in a mountainside Calabrian village in the early 20th century. After being abandoned by their father, who had left to seek his fortune in L'America, Stella grew up with her beloved mother, Assunta, her brother, Giuseppe, and her sister, Tina. Tough, vivacious, and fiercely loyal, the sisters were always inseparable, going on to support each other through immigration, marriage, children, loss - and the seven (or eight, depending how you count them) near-death experiences Stella suffered throughout her life.

As narrated on BBC Radio 4. All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers - the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother, Pepita; the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother, Victoria; the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother, Vita; her mother's Tory-conventional background. But then Juliet, a renowned historian, started to question. As she did so, she sifted fact from fiction, uncovering details and secrets long held just out of sight.