Alice Hoffmann Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

In diesem Pappbilderbuch entdecken Babys ab 3 Monaten einfach und klar gestaltete Kleinkindgesichter. Sie lernen spielerisch, Mimik und Emotionen zu unterscheiden. Sie sehen fröhliche, traurige oder überraschte Gesichter und können diese mit einfachen Gefühlsbegriffen verbinden. Ein liebevoll gestalteter Einstieg in die Welt der Emotionen – zum Staunen, Erkennen und Benennen.

"Babys erstes Buch" ist ein Pappbilderbuch für Kleinkinder ab 6 Monaten, das starke Kontraste und lebendige Farben nutzt, um die visuelle Entwicklung zu fördern. Mit 10 abwechslungsreichen Motiven, von Schwarz-Weiß-Mustern bis bunten Tieren, lädt es Eltern und Babys ein, die Welt zu erkunden. Ideal als erstes Buch und Geschenk für frischgebackene Eltern.

Weil die Augen kleiner Babys anders sehen. Wusstest du, dass die Augen eines Babys in den ersten drei Monaten Schwarz-Weiß-Kontraste am besten sehen können? Dieses Leporello zum Auffalten und Hinstellen ist perfekt, um deinem Baby die Bauchlage schmackhaft zu machen und dazu anzuregen, den Kopf zu heben. Die zehn kontrastreichen Schwarz-Weiß-Bilder sind auf die Sehfähigkeit von Babys in den ersten zwölf Lebenswochen abgestimmt. Das Pappbilderbuch im handlichen Format bietet Babys eine interessante Beschäftigung und lässt Eltern eindrucksvoll erleben, wie aufmerksam die Kleinsten ihre Umgebung wahrnehmen. Fünf Seiten zeigen grafische Muster und auf den anderen fünf Seiten sind stilisierte Tiere und vertraute Gegenstände zu sehen. Da findet ganz bestimmt jedes Baby ein Lieblingsmotiv. Ein Hingucker für Babys von 0 bis 3 Monate: kontrastreiche Schwarz-Weiß-Bilder. Zehn Illustrationen, die ans Sehvermögen von Neugeborenen angepasst sind. Sieh, wie die Bilder deinem Baby Freude machen und zugleich das Sehen trainieren. Statt Windeltorte und Schnuller: kreatives Geschenk für Baby Shower oder Gender Reveal Party. Bietet Eltern und Kind in den ersten Wochen viele anregende Kommunikationsanlässe für mehr Innigkeit. Empfohlen von Stiftung Lesen.

Ein Farbspektakel für Babys. Wusstest du, dass Babys ab drei Monaten neben Schwarz-Weiß-Kontrasten auch Primärfarben gut erkennen können? Dieses Leporello zum Auffalten und Hinstellen ist auch für Erwachsene ein Hingucker. Mit zehn Motiven mit Schwarz, Weiß und den Primärfarben ist es perfekt auf die Sehfähigkeit von Babys ab der zwölften Woche abgestimmt. Alice Hoffmanns Illustrationen bieten Babys eine interessante Beschäftigung und Eltern ein erstes Bilderbuch, das zusammen angeschaut werden kann. Fünf Seiten zeigen unterschiedliche Muster und die anderen fünf Seiten niedliche Tiere. Hier findet jedes Baby garantiert ein Lieblingsmotiv. Eine Augenweide, die nicht nur Babys ab drei Monaten viel Freude bereitet. Kontrastreich illustriertes Leporello mit Bildern, die Babyaugen wahrnehmen können und von den Kleinsten als spannend empfunden werden. Eyecatcher dank Primärfarben: Blau, Rot und Gelb plus Schwarz und Weiß – welches ist deine Lieblingsfarbe? Pappbilderbuch zum Ausklappen und Aufstellen auf dem Wickeltisch, der Spieldecke oder im Kinderzimmer. Moderne, skandinavisch anmutende Optik gefällt Babys und ihren Eltern – auch als Coffeetable Book sehr dekorativ.

A magical novel of women forging their own paths, love, friendship and the timeless power of books, from the bestselling author of Practical Magic.

Entdecken Sie die Welt von Alice Hoffmann! Mit ihrer Rolle als „Hilde“ in der ARD TV-Serie „Familie Heinz Becker“ und in ihren zahlreichen Bühnenprogrammen als „Vanessa Backes“ hat sie Generationen zum Lachen gebracht. Nun präsentiert sie ihre besten Geschichten in diesem Buch. Lassen Sie sich von der „Kittelschürze der Nation“ erheitern und freuen Sie sich auf die lebhaften Geschichten und Weisheiten aus ihrem saarländischen Alltag.

The stunning conclusion to the beloved Practical Magic series

Where does the story of the Owens family begin? With a baby abandoned in a snowy field in the 1600s. Under the care of Hannah Owens, little Maria learns about the "Unnamed Arts." Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. When Maria is abandoned by the man she loves, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. Here she invokes the curse that will haunt her family. And it's is here that she learns the rules of magic and the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life. Love is the only thing that matters.

In Berlin in 1941 during humanity's darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marriage of Opposites Alice Hoffman.

The stunning prequel to Alice Hoffman's bestselling and most beloved novel ever, Practical Magic, taking us into the lives of Jet and Frances Owens.

A young woman must redefine herself after a tragic road accident in a powerful story of love, family and fate.

"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro the Father of Impressionism"--

Alice Hoffman can write about love like no-one else Jodi Picoult Twig lives in a remote area of town with her mysterious brother and her mother, baker of irresistible apple pies. A new girl in town might just be Twig's first true friend, and ally in vanquishing an ancient family curse. A spellbinding tale of modern folklore set in the Berkshires, where rumours of a winged beast draw in as much tourism as the town's famed apple orchards.

Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a Coney Island boardwalk freak show that thrills the masses. An exceptional swimmer, Coralie appears as the Mermaid in her father’s “museum,” alongside performers like the Wolfman, the Butterfly Girl, and a one-hundred-year-old turtle. One night Coralie stumbles upon a striking young man taking pictures of moonlit trees in the woods off the Hudson River. The dashing photographer is Eddie Cohen, a Russian immigrant who has run away from his father’s Lower East Side Orthodox community and his job as a tailor’s apprentice. When Eddie photographs the devastation on the streets of New York following the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, he becomes embroiled in the suspicious mystery behind a young woman’s disappearance and ignites the heart of Coralie.

A cloth bag containing ten paperback copies of the title and a discussion folder.

On the night that Arlyn Singer's father dies, she is certain her destiny will find her. Some hours later a young man shows up at her door. Lost in a strange town, John Moody is an architectural student, serious, reserved, and deliberate. And he has no inkling that the tall, red-haired girl whom he has asked for directions will haunt him for the rest of his life. John Moody takes Arlyn to live in a house made of glass, the Glass Slipper. Her life there is not the romantic destiny she envisaged. She dreams of escape for herself and her children, Sam and Blanca, but her eventual escape, too, is not the one she dreamed of... Years later, Arlyn is gone, and Meredith Weiss arrives at the Moody house. Sam, now a teenager, is careening down a path of drug-fuelled self-destruction, while John Moody is tormented by visions of a red-haired woman in white. Meredith sets out to try to save this troubled family. But will her devotion be enough to pull them back from the fate they seem to have chosen for themselves? Glass breaks, love hurts, and families make their own rules and have their own secrets. Told with Alice Hoffman's signature grace and originality, SKYLIGHT CONFESSIONS is a shimmering, powerful story of passion, heartbreak and families.

The author of "Here on Earth"--an Oprah Book Club selection--and "Aquamarine"weaves a magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of threewomen in love with the wrong men.

Best-selling author Alice Hoffman's luminous tale of nostalgia and enchantment, for readers both young and old. Hailey and Claire are spending their last summer together when they discover something at the bottom of the murky pool at the Capri Beach Club. There in the depths is a mysterious and beautiful creature with a sharp tongue and a broken heart: a mermaid named Aquamarine who has left her six sisters to search for love on land. Now, as this mythological yet very real being starts to fade in the burning August sun, a rescue is begun. On the edge of growing up, during a summer that is the hottest on record, Hailey and Claire are discovering that life can take an unpredictable course, friendship is forever, and magic can be found in the most unexpected places.

"Stai bene attento a quello che desideri. Lo dico per esperienza. I desideri sono cose brutali, che non perdonano. Ti bruciano la lingua nell'istante in cui vengono pronunciati e non puoi più ritrattarli". Si apre così questo elettrizzante romanzo di Alice Hoffman, una delle più importanti scrittrici viventi in lingua inglese. A otto anni la protagonista del romanzo ha espresso un desiderio terribile. E questo si è avverato, con conseguenze disastrose. Presa coscienza del suo terrificante potere, la protagonista capisce di essere un pericolo per gli altri e decide di fuggire da tutto e da tutti. Trova lavoro in una piccola biblioteca di periferia e ne fa la sua tana. Morendo un po' per volta, in preda a deliri di morte e paranoia. Finché un giorno non rimane vittima di un suo stesso desiderio disperato, mortale: è colpita da un fulmine. Ma questo non la uccide. Anzi, le cambia la vita per sempre.

Growing up the daughter of an Amazon queen who shuns her, Rain rebels against the ways of her tribe through her sister-like relationship with Io and her feelings for a boy from a tribe of wanderers.

From the great May storm in 1778, when John Hadley and his sons slip the British blockade off the Massachusetts coast only to vanish at sea, the lives of those in the wooden farmhouse on the cape intertwine through time. Young Isaac Hadley is captivated by his pet blackbird and star charts in The Practical Navigator, showing little interest in building the house. A century later, Violet, with her stained face and ghostly bird, reads the same book, discovering the ease of tricking a learned man but the challenge of catching one. Larkin Howard is willing to sell his soul for the farm until he meets a woman who hears the whales cry on the beach, while a young Farrell boy witnesses more than he should on a snowy night. The pond behind the farmhouse remains dark and unforgiving beneath its golden lilies. By the 1950s, the farmhouse is part of a community filled with steady men, wayward boys, and women who make jam yet still feel the ghostly presence of Cora Hadley. As summer visitors from the cities flood the countryside, the house struggles to contain its ghosts, and the tragedies continue. With an uncanny sense of place and vividly real characters, this work masterfully weaves together lives across space and time, creating a haunting narrative.

Hoffman's most magical novel to date features three generations of the extraordinary Sparrow women with unusual gifts who are driven to unite in crisis, and discover the rewards of reconciliation and love.

The courage to face the unthinkable is at the core of this magnificent novel. How do we manage to confront the truths in our lives and find forgiveness in the most unforgiving of circumstances? When Ethan Ford fails to show up for work on a brilliant summer morning, none of his neighbors would guess that for more than thirteen years, he has been running from his past. His true nature has been locked away, as hidden as his real identity. But sometimes locks spring open, and the devastating truths of Ethan Forda (TM)s history shatter the small-town peace of Monroe, affecting family and friends alike.

For a century, the town of Haddan, Massachusetts, has been divided as if by a line,separating those born and raised in the village from those who attend the prestigious Haddan School. But sudden death is an equalizer and a revealer of secrets.

Jody ist 16 Jahre alt und unsterblich verliebt, Amanda elf und von einer heimtückischen Krankheit heimgesucht. Einfühlsam und anrührend beschreibt Alice Hoffman, wie beide Mädchen die Menschen in ihrem Umfeld verändern und dabei selbst zur Persönlichkeit reifen.

Told from Gretel's sly and knowing perspective, this story charts her progress as she navigates from childhood to the brink of womanhood, picking her way through the tragedies and absurdities of everyday life in the Samuelson family that is rocked by disaster, bad judgement and fierce attachments.

March Murray returns to the small town where she grew up for a funeral and finds herself being drawn back into an intense and dangerous love affair which she had thought was over, a love affair which threatens her marriage, her family and even her own identity. Brilliantly evoking the tempo of small-town life and the mysterious, marshy countryside all around, this is a beautifully written, engaging and disturbing novel which draws the reader right inside a consuming love affair and its history, and the ripples it causes. And at the same time it conjures up an unforgetable cast of characters - both hilariously funny and touchingly sad - delicately exploring a network of overlapping relationships, each with its own secrets and surprises.

For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well: As children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One would do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they shared, even into adulthood, brought them back--almost as if by magic...

Robin begins to realize the intricacy of what it means to be human when she rescues an innocent man mistaken for a beast and takes him home with her.

Die Geschichte einer jungen Mutter in Los Angeles, die sich trotz grosser privater Probleme zu einer selbstbewussten Frau entwickelt.

The New York Times bestselling author of Turtle Moon delivers "an affecting love story, laced with humor" (Booklist). Natalie, a talented therapist, is great at solving other people's problems, but her own life is another matter. Then new client Michael walks in with an incredible story--and a lesson on love.

Turtle Moon trasporta il lettore a Verity, Florida, un luogo dove tutto può accadere nel mese di maggio, quando le tartarughe marine in migrazione arrivano in città, scambiando il bagliore dei lampioni per la luna. Una giovane madre single viene assassinata nel suo appartamento e il suo bambino scompare. Keith, un ragazzo di 12 anni nello stesso condominio - autoproclamatosi "il ragazzo più cattivo" della città - scompare anch'esso. Nella ricerca del bambino, il ragazzo e l'assassino, si uniscono la madre divorziata di Keith e un poliziotto che un tempo era considerato il ragazzo più cattivo della città. La loro indagine li conduce lungo le umide strade della Florida, popolata quasi esclusivamente da persone provenienti da altrove; rifugiati emotivi in cerca di un rifugio lungo la costa paludosa.

Nora Silk moves to a typical suburban community in the 1950s, determined to raise her two children without a husband and with a liberated spirit that foreshadows the decade ahead.

Vonny lives on the island of Martha's Vineyard with her husband Andre and son Simon. Alice Hoffman's ability to fuse the domestic and the mythic in a narrative of such gentle yet magnetic force confirms her stature as one of the most gifted of American novelists.

Upper middle class family's daughter is diagnosed with AIDS.

Teresa wuchs mit Träumen von dunkeläugigen, furchtlosen Helden auf, die eines Tages kommen würden, um sie zu retten. Die Männer, von denen ihre Mutter ihr erzählte, waren eine besondere Art – Regeln galten nicht für sie oder für ihren Bruder Silver. Ihre intensive Bindung wird eher zum Stoff von Albträumen als von Märchen. In einer gefährlichen Welt muss Teresa sich selbst retten und ihre Familienmythologie neu schreiben, bevor sie ihr Leben ruiniert.

Das fesselnde Debüt einer bedeutenden amerikanischen Schriftstellerin. In der Nacht des Wolfes fahren die Waisen auf der Avenue nach Süden, um ihre rivalisierende Gang, das Pack, zu jagen. An der Spitze steht McKay, ihr nachdenklicher, mutiger Präsident. Zurück im Clubhaus wartet das Eigentum der Waisen, taffe Mädchen in Mascara und Leder, die ihre Loyalität zur Crew erklärt haben. Heute Nacht hat ein neues Mädchen ihren Reihen beigetreten. Sie wartet nur auf McKay. Drag-Rennen, Drogen, Messerstechereien auf der Straße. Für die siebzehnjährige Heldin von Alice Hoffmanns beeindruckendem Erstlingswerk ist die raue Welt der Avenue schön und fesselnd. Doch ihre Liebe zu McKay ist eine Sucht – eine, die niemals befriedigt wird und die unmöglich abzulegen ist. Immer tiefer fällt sie, bis zu dem Wintertag, an dem sie beschließt, den Bann ein für alle Mal zu brechen. Eine auffallend originelle Geschichte über die schmale Grenze zwischen Liebe und Verlust, die „Property Of“ präsentiert die lebendige Bildsprache, Lyrik und emotionale Komplexität, die die Markenzeichen von Alice Hoffmanns außergewöhnlicher Karriere sind.