Showing results for "Mama" in Genre Fiction

வீட்டை விட்டு ஓடிப் போய் காதல் திருமணம் செய்து கொண்ட வந்தனா; பல வருடங்களுக்குப் பிறகு, கிராமத்திலிருந்து அவளை பார்க்க வரும் அவளது அண்ணன்.

Eine Tochter steht in der Wohnung ihrer plötzlich verstorbenen Mutter. Die Mutter ist fort, ihre gesamten Ersparnisse auch. Was bleibt, sind Fragen: Warum ist die Wohnung so chaotisch, der Briefkasten so voll? Und wie ist es überhaupt möglich, seine eigene Mutter an einen Heiratsschwindler zu verlieren? Sarah Kuttner erzählt die Geschichte einer Frau, die Liebe suchte und auf einen Love Scammer traf. Die sich verliebte und die Augen verschloss. Die nichts zurückließ, außer einem schier endlosen Chat mit dem Betrüger.

Alicia Woodman was born into a home that should have been filled with comfort and joy. Her mother Elizabeth was bright and vivacious, Humphrey Woodman was a prosperous businessman. But Alicia was not Humphrey’s child and he would have nothing to do with her, and before long Elizabeth, too, turned her back on her daughter. It was left to Polly Ford, widow of a dock labourer, to bring Alicia up, to teach her to say ‘Yes, Mama’ and to give the child the love she so desperately needed.

So-nyo, una mujer de sesenta y nueve años y algunos achaques, desaparece en medio de la multitud al separarse de su marido cuando se cierran las puertas de un tren abarrotado. Su familia emprende una búsqueda desesperada, consumidos por la culpabilidad, el dolor, y las recriminaciones del pasado. Mientras discuten sobre los carteles de «Se busca» que cuelgan por toda la ciudad, sus hijos se dan cuenta de que nadie tiene una fotografía reciente de su madre.

The linked stories in Mama Said are set in Louisville, Kentucky, a city with a rich history steeped in tobacco, bourbon, and gambling, indulgences that can quickly become gripping and destructive vices. Set amid the tail end of the crack epidemic and the rise of the opioid crisis, Mama Said evokes Black family life in all its complexity, following JayLynn, along with her cousins Zaria and Angel, as they come of age struggling against their mothers' drug addictions.

Robyn and Aries are "The Murder Mamas", contract killers from Los Angeles who take no prisoners. It doesn't take them long to link up with Hollywood's biggest drug kingpin, who hires them to take out a snitch and a judge. But the plans backfire, and they complete only half the job. Robyn is caught and put on death row, and Aries goes on the run. She winds up in the islands, where she takes up a new life as a mother and wife and tries to forget who she once was.

Die Welt der russisch-jüdischen Familie aus Hamburg, um die es in Maxim Billers neuem Roman Mama Odessa geht, ist voller Geheimnisse, Verrat und Literatur. Wir hören aber auch ein kluges, schönes und wahrhaftiges Hörbuch über einen Sohn und eine Mutter, beide Schriftsteller, die sich lieben, wegen des Schreibens immer wieder verraten – und einander trotzdem nie verlieren.

"Paulette es una señora de alta alcurnia o “GCU” (gente como uno) que pisa los sesenta años. Divorciada de un marido “de toda la vida” que la abandonó para casarse con una mujer más joven, dolorida y sola por primera vez, decide un día bajarse de la calesita de alcohol y pastillas que la mantiene en vacilante funcionamiento.

Con un hijo internado por sobredosis, otro acusado de violencia de género y una hija que casi no le habla, intenta salir adelante con la ayuda de Alcóholicos Anónimos y una buena cuota de sexo que, para su sorpresa, se le ofrece a cada paso sin gran esfuerzo de su parte...

Growing up together in the Surra section of central Kuwait, Katkout, Fahd, and Sadiq share neither ethnic origin nor religious denomination - only friendship and a rage against the unconscionable sectarian divide turning their lives into war-zone rubble. To lay bare the ugly truths, they form the protest group Fuada’s Kids. Their righteous transgressions have made them targets of both Sunni and Shi’a extremists. They’ve also elicited the concern of Fahd’s grandmother, Mama Hissa, who cautions them that should they anger God, the sky will surely fall.

Baby Girl McCoy was given her name when her mother couldn’t even be bothered to give her another one in the hospital after she gave birth. Baby Girl was the product of rape, and she spends her life in a quest for a father figure. Never in a million years did she imagine that she’d find it in the man that she does.

Blackboard best-selling author of Caught Up in the Rapture, Sheneska Jackson returns with the moving story of Madison Maguire, an attractive, modern woman with unique strengths and weaknesses. At age 30, strong-willed Madison, also known as Li’l Mama, always follows her "rules of dating." But even within the safe confines of her rules, she always seems to get herself into some kind of trouble - man trouble to be exact. Unable to cultivate true intimacy after the loss of her first love, Madison is as vulnerable as she is independent.

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Nach den großen Erfolgen von "Russendisko", "Militärmusik", "Reise nach Trulala" und "Mein deutsches Dschungelbuch" widmet sich Wladimir Kaminer in seinem neuesten Buch mit glaubwürdig unglaublichen Geschichten seiner Mutter und beweist, dass die Familie Keimzelle der verrücktesten Begebenheiten und Erkenntnisse ist - die Fortsetzung der Erfolgsgeschichte Kaminer.

Frank Slaughter and his wife, Martha, with their two children arrive at their new homestead. Martha, a city girl, fears the wilderness and the unknown, not just for herself but for the entire family. Frank leaves them alone one fine day to head to town a day away for lumber to build their new house. But weather in the Rockies tends to be fickle. Soon a late spring snow storm arrives. Frank becomes lost in the snow and desperately tries to find his family, now alone, terrified and helpless.

Set in Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, Gunsmoke aired on CBS Radio until June 1961. William Conrad starred as U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon, and he was joined by three other regulars: Howard McNear as "Doc" Charles Adams; Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell; and Parley Baer as Chester Proudfoot. This episode originally aired on November 11, 1956.

The Cartel runs Miami, and loyalty to their organization runs deep, but when someone breaks the rules, things may be beyond repair. A snitch in the crew has dismantled the notorious Cartel, and now disloyalty threatens to tear the family apart. Young Carter is in the fight for his life as he faces drug kingpin charges due to the treachery of his best friend, Ace. Kidnapping, murder, deception, and seduction fill this thrilling sequel. Will Zyir find out that Breeze is still alive? Will Mecca be exposed as his brother’s killer?