Showing results for "Hunger" in Women's Fiction

Single mother Alice Chow is drowning. With a booming online cloth diaper shop, her resentful teenage daughter Luna, and her screen-obsessed son Luca, Alice can never get everything done in a day. It’s all she can do to just collapse on the couch with a bottle of wine every night.

Die Fortsetzung der bewegenden Geschichte um Noah und Jakobine – von Bestsellerautorin Ella Zeiss. Die Hoffnung auf Frieden. Die Sehnsucht nach Freiheit. Und die grenzenlose Kraft der Liebe. Sommer 1941: Statt seine große Liebe Jakobine zu heiraten, wird der junge Russlanddeutsche Noah in die sowjetische Armee eingezogen. Ein gemeinsames Leben rückt in unerreichbare Ferne, dabei wünscht Noah sich nichts mehr als das. Noch immer hasst er das Sowjetregime, dem er sich als Soldat ausgeliefert fühlt.

Hanna Sheehy Skeffington was a beacon of light in the early 1900s with her campaigns for women’s right to vote and right to education. Hanna was a prolific activist and organiser. She was the only woman to be chosen to be on the provisional government post 1916 Rising, if it had succeeded. She is a legendary figure for Irish feminism. This Play is about Hanna Sheehy Skeffington on hunger strike in Mountjoy. She is joined by James Connolly in Mountjoy prison. In 1913 both were in Mountjoy prison and both went on hunger strike. The people are real and of great historical importance.

Tony is just a breath away from redemption. But will he sacrifice the one who has claimed his heart to get it? After escaping the terrors of his dark cabal, Tony Harris craves redemption. With just one ritual, he could resurrect the mother he accidentally killed. All he needs is a Conduit - a being who holds endless magic. But when the Conduit turns out to be a quirky, optimistic woman named Faith, his world is turned upside-down. Now Tony must choose; bring Cybil Constance back to life or give his heart to someone who believes in him.

A newlywed Christian couple is “trying” to have a baby when the wife books a solo vacation. In a cabin far from home, she contemplates if she wants a baby with her husband, considering the way his white family and friends treat her. When she encounters an attractive stranger, she lets him take her out for a drink.