Showing results for "Anna" in Women's Fiction

When our story begins, Julia Child is an eager but inexperienced codebreaker longing to prove herself in the male-dominated world of intelligence, and Josephine Baker is, well, Josephine Baker—a world-famous entertainer who is now leading a double life as a spy for the French Resistance. When a golden opportunity arises to infiltrate a high-stakes Nazi gala in Vichy France, Julia must put aside her by-the-book mentality to assist her unorthodox new partner.

Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl’s face appears above the students’ desks—“a wild numinous face with startling blue eyes, a face floating on top of shapeless drapes of purples and blues where arms and legs should have been. Terror rushes through Nora’s body—the kind of raw terror you feel when there’s no way out, when every cell in your body, your entire body, is on fire—when you think you might die.”

Pretty, flighty Daisy Devreaux can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her. Arranged marriages don't happen in the modern world, so how did the irrepressible Daisy find herself in this fix? Alex Markov, as humorless as he is deadly handsome, has no intention of...

Wenn ein Ausflug nach Schottland plötzlich für die Ewigkeit ist... Der romantische Auftakt der Reihe "Ein Schloss in den Highlands". Carolina glaubt nicht mehr an die große Liebe. Sie hat in der Vergangenheit zu viele Enttäuschungen erlebt und hat außerdem am Scheitern ihrer langjährigen Beziehung zu knabbern. Gezwungen neu anzufangen, kehrt sie der Heimat den Rücken und nimmt das Angebot ihrer Freundin Sina an, bei ihrer Agentur Wedding Dreams anzufangen. Und schon sitzt sie im Flugzeug in Richtung Highlands, um dort eine Hochzeit zu planen!

When playing a game of wits, never ever go up against the woman they call the Hellion . . . LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD... Whether it's business or pleasure, Lord Robert Carlisle never backs down from a dare. But finding a husband for scandalous Mariah Winslow? It's one challenge he instantly regrets...

Matthew Hansen is the kind of handsome that has grown women whispering behind their hands and giggling like schoolgirls. Dark, tall and mysterious, he's a newcomer to our little town. He's a gritty, grease-covered mechanic, and a single daddy. Sweet, right? Plus, he's looking for a nanny—and I am desperately looking for a job. Sounds like the perfect deal. Only he's a jerk. An uncivilized, hulking brute. Zero manners. Zero interest in making me feel welcome in his home. Downright rude. But oh, so sexy. And I need the job. I can do this.

Antiikkiunelmia ja tunteiden kipinöitä. Anna-Lisa Johansson on päättänyt jättää tylsän toimistotyönsä Tukholmassa ja toteuttaa unelmansa omasta antiikkiliikkeestä entisen elintarvikeliikkeen tiloissa Roslagenin kylässä. Anna-Lisa nauttii täysillä maalaiselämästä ja saa kylästä nopeasti uusia ystäviä. Uusien tuttavuuksien joukossa on vihreäsilmäinen automekaanikko Johnny, joka tuntuu vierailevan Anna-Lisan putiikissa yhä useammin.

Three Lives was written in 1905/06 and published in 1909 at the author’s expense. The work consists of three independent novellas: The Good Anna, Melanctha, and The Gentle Lena. Each of the titular characters lives in Bridgepoint, a fictional town based on Baltimore.

In the summer of 1996, Tess Murphy’s mom gave her two rules to abide by: keep quiet and stay out of trouble. Her mother landed a new job as a cook at an affluent Virginia estate and didn’t want anything to risk the opportunity, least of all her outspoken teenage daughter. What no one saw coming was Tess falling deeply in love with the boy next door, high-society Grant Alexander.

Lila è scomparsa. Esagerata, come sempre, ha cancellato ogni traccia. Ed Elena, l'amica di tutta la vita, inizia a raccontare la storia del legame viscerale che le ha unite per sei decenni. Tra inconfessata rivalità e profondo affidamento, la ragazzina geniale e ribelle e l'amica studiosa attraversano gli anni dell'adolescenza, sullo sfondo di un rione della Napoli anni Cinquanta ritratta nella sua cruda epicità. Prima parte della tetralogia "L'amica geniale".

This classic tale from New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips is back to delight readers once again A British Lady, Lady Emma Wells-Finch, the oh-so-proper headmistressof England’s St. Gertrude’s School for Girls, is a woman on a mission—she has two weeks to lose her...

A Desperate Young Mother Rachel Stone's bad luck has taken a turn for the worse. With an empty wallet, a car's that's spilling smoke, and a five-year-old son to support, she's come home to a town that hates her. But this determined young widow with a scandalous past has learned how to be a...

Lovisa bor i en liten by i Småland, arbetar i hemtjänsten, tar hand om föräldrahemmet och umgås med katt och höns. I Stockholm lever Sofi ett till synes perfekt liv som framgångsrik chefredaktör, har snygg pojkvän och lägenhet i innerstan. Två kvinnor, två olika världar–men båda ställs inför frågan: Vågar de släppa taget och välja ett nytt liv?

The Windy City isn’t quite ready for Phoebe Somerville -- the outrageous, curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team. And Phoebe is definitely not prepared for the Stars’ head coach Dan Celebow, a sexist jock taskmaster with a one-track mind. Celebow...

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Anna Karenina, a literary masterpiece by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.

Un risveglio traumatico porta alla luce i tormenti più cupi di Francesca, una donna allo stremo delle forze dopo una lunga battaglia con la vita. La sua mente confusa le rievocherà un caleidoscopio di episodi, volti, amicizie, amori e ricordi che la ricondurranno alla realtà: quel che rimane del suo matrimonio, i suoi amati figli e la sua vita borghese. Sullo sfondo di una malinconica e nostalgica Trieste, la protagonista rivisita nella memoria le diverse fasi della sua vita alla disperata ricerca di una via di fuga e scenderà negli abissi più profondi della sua solitudine.

Rachel Smedling is not like the other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man. Without her, the household would fall apart, for her mother is ailing and her vicious drunkard father seems to hate her so much, he would happily offer money to any...

A funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road trip Most days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime colleagues, whose playful bickering she mediates...

""The female friendships here are ones we’ll all recognize, and in seeing myself in each of these women – their good moments and their bad - I felt implicated in their stories, and in this book. It’s an outstanding novel.”-- Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask...

‘You will fall for Noah and Lucy . . . this is one of those stories that will capture your attention and not let it go’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I couldn’t get enough of this story’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 29th February 2000. Lucy’s never met another leapling until she...