Winter Women

Die Welt befindet sich im Umbruch. Die Unzufriedenheit der Menschen, das kollektive Gefühl von „wir brauchen mehr Gerechtigkeit, Anerkennung, Wertschätzung“ war noch nie so hoch, wie heute. Fast alle Nationen sind ideologisch tief gespalten. Ein Teil der Menschheit will zurück in die Vergangenheit, die andere Hälfte in die Zukunft. Immer öfter wird die Frage gestellt: Diktatur oder Demokratie? Patriarchat oder Matriarchat? Hierarchie oder Heterarchie? Was ist besser? Was ist zukunftsfähiger? Wohin führt uns das eine und wohin das andere?

Friederike, die 1836 in Posen als Tochter jüdischer Eltern geboren wurde und später mit ihren Eltern nach Schlesien übersiedelte, arbeitete als Krankenpflegerin, engagierte sich immer wieder karitativ und verbrachte einen großen Teil ihrer Zeit damit Bittbriefe zu schreiben. Zum Beispiel an Kaiser Wilhelm I., dem sie die Einrichtung von Leichenhäusern vorschlug, damit künftig keine Scheintoten mehr bestattet würden. (Ein Problem, das im 18.und 19. Jh. auch Menschen wie J.W. Goethe oder E. A. Poe sehr erregte).

A must listen for couples more than 15 years apart in age. Best to listen prior to marriage but important to read if a marriage sours. Sam Margulies, who has mediated 4,000 divorces has found this group having specially identifiable issues that can be dealt with productively and fairly. The younger spouse, generally a woman, grows up during the marriage and seeks an equality not there in the beginning. The older, generally richer spouse, bargained for this kind of relationship and must now decide whether to change the status of the younger party or move on.

When Emma, a young English journalist, is required to babysit in a dark country house on the longest night of the year - the winter solstice, December 21 - she must confront both her fear of the dark and her unresolved grief for her much-loved late great-aunt Sophie. Where will she find the courage she needs to avoid risking an even greater loss?

Diamond is getting more and more disillusioned with her boyfriend. She certainly doesn’t feel like a priceless jewel when he keeps neglecting her! She’s right on the brink of breaking up with him, and when he cancels plans last minute, it’s the last straw. She sends an angry text, but she messes up and the text goes to the wrong person. When he shows up, things boil over, and Diamond ends up in a completely unexpected forbidden relationship with the most unlikely older man! What will happen next?

Paige is tired of feeling like a frumpy, nerdy young girl. She’s tired of being 20 with no experience with men at all. She decides to make a change, and it starts with a very, very sexy Halloween costume. She thinks this Halloween will be the first time anyone will notice her. She’s right, but the man who notices her first is her sexy neighbor, Mr. Raymond. He loves her costume but she loves when he takes it off her! Can her first incredible night of passion lead to more? Is there a sexy forbidden age-gap romance in her future?

She wants to control everyone around her, but this new adult is about to learn her rescuer can’t be controlled. He can most definitely take what he wants from her, and what he wants is all of her!