Bücher von Kristin Hannah

Two sisters. One must be brave. One should be afraid.

Kristin Hannah's Firefly Lane is a coming of age novel about a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by their choices. It is 1974 and the summer of love is finally drawing to a close. The flower children are starting to realize that you cannot survive on peace and love alone. Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the secondary school social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the 'coolest girl in the world', Tully Hart - the girl all the boys want to know - moves in across the street and wants to be her best friend. Tully and Kate became inseparable and by summer's end they made a pact to be 'best friends forever'. For thirty years Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship, jealousy, anger, hurt and resentment. Tully will follow her ambition to find fame and success. Kate knows that all she wants is to fall in love and have a family. What she doesn't know is how being a wife and a mother will change her. They think they've survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart. But when tragedy strikes, can the bonds of friendship survive? Or is it the one hurdle that even a lifelong friendship cannot overcome.Firefly Lane is a book for every woman who knows that her best friend is the only person who really, truly, knows her. And it is a book she will never forget.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes an epic novel of love and war, spanning from the 1940s to the present day, and the secret lives of those who live in a small French town.

A gripping novel of family dynamics, heartbreak and hope which tugs at the heartstrings, set against the beauty of the Alaskan wilderness, from the bestselling author of The Nightingale.

Wild is a powerful, moving novel by the international bestselling author of the global sensation The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah.

Kristin Hannah's Fly Away is the story of three women who have lost their way and need each other - plus a miracle - to transform their lives . . .Celebrity news reporter and presenter, Tully Hart, has hit rock bottom. Kate Ryan had been her best friend for more than thirty years. They'd lived, laughed, danced and cried together. Kate had been her anchor, and now Tully was cast adrift - not knowing how she was going to survive. Kate's daughter, Marah, was only sixteen years old when her mother died. Consumed with guilt over the fights they'd had during the last months of Kate's life, Marah runs away and becomes a drop-out in society, maintaining no contact with her family. Tully's mother, Cloud, a child of the Sixties, has lived a world of her own dependent on drugs for most of her adult life. She now wants to prove that she can help her daughter. But what will it take for Tully to forgive? And then something momentous happens which causes each one of them to realize what they've done, and what they have become.

&b>An epic, sweeping tale of love and loss set in the midst of the Great Depression in 1930s Amercia, by the multi-million copy global bestseller Kristin Hannah.&/b>

Sie dachte, nichts könne sie entzweien. Sie wusste nichts von der Liebe ...  Nichts kann die drei Schwestern Grey trennen, selbst der Tod der Mutter schweißt sie noch enger zusammen. Ihr Vater jedoch wird durch den Verlust seiner Frau unerbittlich. Nur Vivi Ann, die ganz in der Arbeit mit den Pferden der Ranch aufgeht, findet seine Anerkennung und Liebe; die Ältere, Winona, ringt vergeblich darum. Trotz allen Zusammenhalts geraten die Schwestern in immer größere Konkurrenz zueinander - mit verheerenden Konsequenzen. Dann wendet sich Vivi Ann gegen die väterliche Ordnung, und die Familie droht zu zerbrechen ... Ein großer Roman über drei Schwestern, die gegen die Grenzen ihrer Welt aufbegehren - von der Autorin des Weltbestsellers »Die Nachtigall«  »Kristin Hannah ist eine meisterhafte Erzählerin.« Delia Owens  »Das Geheimnis der Schwestern«: Diese Ausgabe des Romans wurde neu übersetzt und erscheint in neuer Ausstattung.

The missing. The forgotten. The brave... The women. From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. The Women is that rarest of novels-at once an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided by war and broken by politics, of a generation both fueled by dreams and lost on the battlefield. "Women can be heroes, too." When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America. The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on the story of all women who put themselves in harm's way to help others. Women whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has all too often been forgotten. A novel of searing insight and lyric beauty, The Women is a profoundly emotional, richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose extraordinary idealism and courage under fire define a generation.

Kristin Hannah's Night Road was selected for the UK's 2011 TV Book Club Summer Read.Lexi and Mia are inseparable from the moment they start high school. Different in so many ways - Lexi is an orphan and lives with her aunt on a trailer park, while Mia is a golden girl blessed with a loving family, and a beautiful home. Yet they recognize something in each other which sets them apart from the crowd, and Mia comes to rely heavily on Lexi's steadfast friendship. Mia's beloved, and incredibly good-looking, twin brother Zach, finds life much less complicated than his sister. Jude thought she'd never have to worry about her son, that he'd always sail through life easily achieving whatever he, and his family, wanted and expected - but then he fell in love. The summer they graduated is a time they will always remember, and one they could never forget. It is a summer of love, best friends, shared confidences and promises. Then one moment one night changes them all forever. As hearts are broken, loyalties challenged and hopes dashed, the time has come to leave childhood behind and learn to face the future.

Meredith e Nina Whiston são tão diferentes quanto duas irmãs podem ser. Uma ficou em casa para cuidar dos filhos e da família. A outra seguiu seus sonhos e viajou o mundo para tornar-se uma fotojornalista famosa. No entanto, com a doença de seu pai, as irmãs encontram-se novamente, agora ao lado de sua fria mãe, Anya, que, mesmo nesta situação, não consegue oferecer qualquer conforto às filhas. A verdade é que Anya tem um motivo muito forte para ser assim distante: uma comovente história de amor que se estende por mais de 65 anos entre a gelada Leningrado da Segunda Guerra e o não menos frio Alasca. Para cumprir uma promessa ao pai em seu leito de morte, as irmãs Whiston deverão se esforçar e fazer com que a mãe lhes conte esta extraordinária história. Meredith e Nina vão, finalmente, conhecer o passado secreto de sua mãe e descobrir uma verdade tão terrível que abalará o alicerce de sua família... E mudará tudo o que elas pensam que são. A história que sua mãe conta é como nenhuma outra já ouvida por elas antes - uma história de amor cativante e misteriosa que dura mais de sessenta anos e parte da Leningrad congelada e devastada pela guerra até o Alasca, nos dias atuais. A obsessão de Nina por esconder a verdade as levará a uma inesperada jornada ao passado de sua mãe, onde descobrirão um segredo tão chocante, que abala a estrutura da família e muda quem elas acreditam ser.

Esposa e mãe perfeita, Annie vê o seu mundo desabar de uma hora para outra quando é abandonada pelo marido. A fuga momentânea é para Mystic, a pequena comunidade onde ela cresceu e onde o seu pai ainda vive. Lá, Annie começa a se reerguer novamente, descobrindo o amor por si mesma, por um velho amigo solitário e por sua filha, uma garotinha que acaba de perder a mãe. Tudo está se encaixando na vida de Annie. Nick e Izzy se tornaram uma parte importante de seu processo de cura, e ela também se tornou essencial para a sobrevivência da relação entre pai e filha. Até que o seu ex-marido reaparece... e a tranquilidade rapidamente dá lugar ao desespero. Kristin Hannah encanta mais uma vez com uma história comovente, sensível e verdadeira sobre perda, paixão e os fios frágeis que unem as famílias.

Wie die Liebe uns ins Leben zurückholt. Die Kinderpsychologin Julia Cates steht vor den Trümmern ihrer Karriere. Von Schuldgefühlen gepeinigt, kehrt sie zu ihrer Schwester in ihren Heimatort am Mystic Lake zurück, wo ein schwer traumatisiertes Kind auftaucht. Gemeinsam mit dem Arzt Max versucht sie herauszufinden, was dem Kind angetan wurde. Bis sich ein Mann meldet, der behauptet, der Vater zu sein. Julia muss alles riskieren, um zu verstehen, wer das Mädchen tatsächlich ist - und zu wem es gehört. Ein berührender Roman darüber, wie ein Kind, das Hilfe braucht, das Leben einer Frau verändert. Dieser Roman erschien erstmals unter dem Titel "Wohin das Herz uns trägt".

"Ich liebe dieses Buch - große Charaktere, große Geschichten, große Gefühle." Isabel Allende Zwei Schwestern im besetzten Frankreich: Vianne, die Ältere, muss ihren Mann in den Krieg ziehen lassen und wird im Kampf um das Überleben ihrer kleinen Tochter vor furchtbare Entscheidungen gestellt. Die jüngere Isabelle schließt sich indes der Résistance an und sucht die Freiheit auf dem Pfad der Nachtigall, einem geheimen Fluchtweg über die Pyrenäen. Doch wie weit darf man gehen, um zu überleben? Und wie kann man die schützen, die man liebt? »Kristin Hannah ist es gelungen, historische Ereignisse so emotional aufzubereiten, dass einem beim Lesen die Tränen kommen.« Freundin

From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . .In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "e;coolest girl in the world"e; moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all---beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable.So begins Kristin Hannah's magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn't know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she'll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she'll envy her famous best friend. . . .For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship---jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they've survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test.Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone's Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it's the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. It's about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you---and knows what has the power to hurt you . . . and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you'll never forget . . . one you'll want to pass on to your best friend.