Ursula Hegi
Author
Language
English
Description
Friends since earliest childhood, Annie, Jake, and Mason have a special bond. When Annie's parents die on the same night that she and Mason get married, the three friends decide to raise Annie's infant sister, Opal, together. Not surprisingly, their bonds of intimacy, already deeply entangled, become strained. As Annie struggles to be both a sister and a mother to Opal, and a wife and friends to Mason and Jake, events take on a momentum of their own....
Author
Series
Burgdorf Cycle volume 4
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Protecting her beloved students from the devastating world outside of their 1934 Berlin classroom, Thekla Köppen sacrifices some of her personal freedoms to retain her teaching position until activities within Hitler's early regime test her moral courage.
4) Sacred time
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of an endearing, but flawed Italian American family, spanning three generations from the Bronx of the 1950s to contemporary Brooklyn, New York.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From beloved bestselling author Ursula Hegi, a new novel about three mothers, set on the shores of the Nordsee, perfect for fans of Water for Elephants and The Light Between Oceans. In the summer of 1878, the Ludwig Zirkus has come to the island Nordstrand in Germany. Big-bellied girls rush from St. Margaret's Home for Pregnant Girls, thrilled to see the parade and the show, followed by the Sisters who care for them. The Old Women and Men, competing...