Women Saints

Nichts geht mehr im Casino von Monte-Carlo. Ein Croupier wird Opfer eines seltsamen Anschlags mitten in einem Rouletteturnier. Zu den Gästen gehört Madame la Commissaire Lucie Girard. Kommt Sie dem Mörder auf die Spur oder ist dieser nur eine Marionette in einem perfiden Spiel? Ein turbulenter Krimi, mitten in den wilden Siebzigern.

Quel était donc le secret de Marthe Robin, cette petite paysanne qui, malade, paralysée, vivant loin de la célébrité dans une discrétion absolue pendant 60 ans, a reçu plus de 100 000 personnes...

Die berühmten Flying Rockets geben ein Konzert am Plage Pampelonne. Doch ihr Auftritt, an einem Abend im August 1971, wird zum Desaster. Im ungezügelten Rausch sterben zwei Menschen. Waren die Drogen der Auslöser oder die Revolte der Bandmitglieder gegen ihren Leadsänger? Commissaire Lucie Girard hat das richtige Gespür für die exzentrischen Persönlichkeiten der Rockband und ermittelt mit Köpfchen und Charme.

1970. Saint-Tropez ist der Treffpunkt der Reichen und Schönen. Auf einer Yacht soll eine der größten Innovationen dieser Zeit an Investoren verkauft werden. Doch noch bevor der schwedische Erfinder Stefan Lindström seinen Deal abschließen kann, wird er tot aufgefunden. Ein neuer Fall für Lucie Girard, der zu einem Wendepunkt in ihrem Leben wird.

Ein Saint-Tropez Krimi mit Tempo und Esprit. 1970. Sex, Drugs, Fashion. Ein Model stirbt nach einer Foto-Session inmitten eines Blumenmeeres in einer Villa auf der Halbinsel von Saint-Tropez. Commissaire Lucie Girard ermittelt in der Zeit der Emanzipation und des gesellschaftlichen Umbruchs. Dabei wird sie selbst zur Gejagten. Fiebern Sie mit, und erleben Sie eine verrückte Zeit in den Siebzigern.

Sommer 1968. Eigentlich sollte es ein entspannter Urlaub an den Stränden von Saint-Tropez werden. Doch Aurélie und Serge können die Schönheit der Côte d’Azur nicht genießen. Obwohl sie die einmalige Chance haben, als Statisten bei dem Dreh von Swimmingpool dabei zu sein, passieren unerklärliche Dinge mit ihnen. Dann geschieht ein perfider Mord am Filmset…. Commissaire Lucie Girard ermittelt auf ihre französisch unkonventionelle Art. Gitanes-rauchend und mit femininer Intuition lässt sie die Verdächtigen zappeln....

Jude is the owner of a unique antiques shop in Cambridge. She makes it her mission to match customers with the special something that they are missing, a talisman to bring them what their heart desires. Unfortunately, Jude’s life is not overflowing with love. However, when she 'inherits' a niece that she never knew existed, doubling her meagre family overnight, Jude's life is soon set to get a lot less lonely and a lot more interesting.

1941. She is a celebrated writer stranded in Paris. He is an enigmatic foreigner with a dangerous secret. Together they must find a way to outwit the Nazis in order to survive. Armed with a precious first edition of Finnegans Wake and an even more precious stash of cigarettes to barter with, Eleanor Gorton Clarke joins the sea of refugees escaping Paris for the Spanish frontier. But when a stranger kills two German soldiers to save her life, Eleanor is forced on the run with her rescuer, pursued by a detective from the Wehrmacht.

Being married to a saint isn't what it's cracked up to be. Beth's husband won't be joining the family on vacation at the beach this year. Or even joining them in the house. Instead, Rick has holed up alone in the backyard shed. Nobody knows exactly what he's up to. Maybe he's immersing himself in prayer. Maybe he's lost his mind. Maybe he's even the modern-day prophet or the saint the neighborhood artist imagines him to be. But while "St. Rick" waits for an epiphany, Beth will have to figure out what to do with herself and their teenage sons, possibly for the rest of her life.

Annadel, West Virginia, was a small town rich in coal, farms, and close-knit families, all destroyed when the coal company came in. It stole everything it hadn't bothered to buy - land deeds, private homes, and ultimately, the souls of its men and women. Four people tell this powerful, deeply moving tale: Activist Mayor C. J. Marcum. Fierce, loveless union man Rondal Lloyd. Gutsy nurse Carrie Bishop, who loved Rondal. And lonely Sicilian immigrant Rosa Angelelli, who lost four sons to the deadly mines.

It’s the 1970s, and from hippie London to Warhol’s Factory in New York, reluctant aristocrat Loulou de la Falaise is desperately seeking adventure. Having escaped an early, unhappy marriage, she arrives on a whim in Paris—the champagne-soaked heart of the fashion world, where the rigid old world of haute couture and the fast-paced new world of ready-to-wear are vying for supremacy. Glamour, sex, and cocaine nights fuel the Paris fashion scene. Its crown prince is the soulful and intensely gifted Yves Saint Laurent.

This book deals with 10 of the most powerful women in the Catholic Church of yesterday and today, showing how they suffered rejection and discrimination because of their sex and how they overcame difficulties to make vital contributions.

Niki de Saint Phalle, französische Bildhauerin und Malerin der Moderne: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Meghan Decker is a woman who is attracted to women. She is also married to an amazing man, and together they are each committed to their faith, their covenants, and their testimony of Jesus Christ and his church. Growing up, Meghan could not see how her deep spiritual faith and her attraction to women could coexist. But after decades of shame, denial, and hiding, Meghan came to accept this part of herself. She realized that while she can't decide to change her sexual orientation, she can decide how to respond to the circumstances of her life.

In Saint behind Enemy Lines, Olga Kovarova Campora shares her experiences growing up, her first contact with Czech Latter-day Saints, her eventual conversion, and her experiences as a member of the Church today. She also describes that poignant moment when the Velvet Revolution officially brought a new life of hope and freedom to her homeland in 1989.

We are at the crossroads of hate and love between men and women in the United States, and right now, hate is winning. This audiobook explores some of the ways that we, as a nation, can be more on the side of love - first by defining what love is, and second, with suggestions on how men and women can make a difference in this battle. This audiobook speaks to the false information that is being decimated to the public through the media. It addresses the damage that radical feminism and the Me Too movement are causing between the sexes from a man’s point of view.

Where's Lorena Alger? This is what everyone in Ash Lake, Florida is asking about their most famous resident - a young girl about to be canonized as a saint, a young girl who hasn't moved from her grave in over 150 years. Now she is gone, and her grave is now occupied by the fresher corpse of the cemetery caretaker. Great grandniece Ronnie Lord is determined to aid the town sheriff in Lorena's safe return. She finds it isn't an easy task when a nosy reporter and stubborn relatives get in the way.

Radical Saints: 21 Women for the 21st Century features 21 saints who walked the earth in the 20th century and were canonized in the 21st. Each chapter tells the story of one woman’s radical gift and the world in which she lived. You’ll also find stories of everyday women who are living these gifts in ways large and small today.

In ancient Ireland, an island ruled by kings and druids, the nuns of Saint Brigid are fighting to keep their monastery alive. When the bones of Brigid go missing from their church, the theft threatens to destroy all they have worked for. No one knows the danger they face better than Sister Deirdre, a young nun torn between two worlds.

The 11th century was a dangerous time to be of the line unbroken of King Æthelred II Unread and his first queen, Æfgifu of York. Born in Hungary after King Canute III's failed attempt to murder her father, Edward the Exile, Margaret found her life turned upside down by King Edward the Confessor's discovery of her father's survival—and the resulting recall of her family to England.