Menna van Praag Bücher

Goldie, Lyiana, Scarlet und Bea sind Halbschwestern. Geboren am selben Tag, sind sie die Töchter von verschiedenen Müttern und eines Vaters – des mächtigen Dämons Grimm. Getrieben von dem Wunsch, die Erde zu beherrschen, verlieh er jeder Tochter die Macht über ein Element: Erde, Luft, Wasser und Feuer. Um ihr volles Potenzial zu entfalten müssen sie als erwachsene Frauen in das Reich ihres Vaters zurückkehren. Kurz vor ihrem achtzehnten Geburtstag stehen die Schwestern Grimm vor der schwierigsten Entscheidung ihres Lebens: Streben sie nach der dunklen Macht ihres Vaters, oder wollen sie die Welt und die Menschen, die sie lieben vor dem düsteren Grimm retten?

Die perfekte Mischung aus 'Bridget Jones' und 'Der Alchimist': warmherzig, humorvoll und tiefsinnig Mayas großer Traum ist es, Schriftstellerin zu werden; aber statt etwas dafür zu tun, stürzt sie sich in hoffnungslose Männer-Geschichten und sucht Trost in süßen Leckereien. Eines Tages verändert eine schicksalhafte Begegnung Mayas tristen Alltag. Sie blüht auf und erkennt, dass das Leben, neben seinen Schattenseiten, so viele kostbare Möglichkeiten bietet, um sich voll zu entfalten. Es folgt die wertvolle Erkenntnis, dass wahres Glück – der Traumjob, der Traummann, die Traumfigur und vieles mehr – erst dann kommt, wenn man sich selbst so annimmt, wie man ist, und sich dabei einzigartig und wunderbar fühlt!

The Dress Shop of Dreams is a captivating novel of enduring hopes and second chances.

Distraught that her academic career has stalled, Alba is walking through her hometown of Cambridge, and finds herself in front of a house she's never seen before, 11 Hope Street. A beautiful older woman named Peggy greets her and invites her to stay, on the house's usual conditions: she has ninety-nine nights to turn her life around.

A sweet and touching true-life tale about love, success, weight loss, and enlightenment that shows what is possible when you listen to your heart, believe in yourself, and take inspired action in the direction of your dreams.

Jude is the owner of a special antiques shop in Cambridge. She finds all of the joy in her life matching people with the special something that they are missing, a talisman that will help bring them just what their heart most desires. Although Jude's life is certainly not overflowing with the love she would wish for...

In Cambridge a little shop stands where thousands of sheets of beautiful paper and hundreds of exquisite pens wait for someone who, with Clara Cohen's help, will express the true emotions felt to correspondents alive, estranged or dead. When Clara discovers a cache of wartime love letters, she follows them on the start of her own journey.

Born of bright-white wishing and black-edged desire, the Grimm girls each command a single element and wield it with great power. But a child born of a Grimm and a fallen star will have command over every element . . . and wield infinite power. At twenty-one, Goldie gave birth to a daughter by her dead lover. Now Goldie is nearly thirty and Luna almost nine. Conceived in the realm between life and death, Luna is part star-soldier, part Grimm and now those opposing forces are waging war within her. Terrified of losing her increasingly volatile child, Goldie goes on the run. Then an act of violence forces her to return and Luna is taken into care. Mother and child can still meet - in the haunted otherworld that is Everwhere. Desperate to reclaim her daughter, Goldie must also confront whatever is corrupting Everwhere. For fresh leaves are falling, and Grimm girls are dying. Fearing the return of her father, Goldie knows she cannot succeed alone and summons her sisters. But can the bonds of sisterhood bear the terrible price that will be paid . . .

And then there were three . . .Three years ago, the sisters confronted their demon father in that strange other-world called Everwhere. It was a battle that ended in a devastating loss, and the scars they carry seem to have slowly pushed the sisters apart . . .One sister, still raw with grief, is now a near recluse but determined to use her powers to resurrect what she has lost.Another has made the journey to learn more of her family, her culture and her roots.And another seems to have turned her back on what she is and opted to lead a more normal life.But now the sisters are about to be brought together once more. Because when the clock strikes midnight, when October ticks into November, when autumn wilts into winter, when All Hallows' Eve becomes All Saints' Day, the sisters Grimm will turn twenty-one and reach the zenith of their powers.And on this night, at this time, in this place called Everwhere, anything is possible . . .

The Cambridge University witches have been meeting for as long as the university has been around - over 900 years - although they meet mainly to discuss books. In 2014 the group includes Kat (a great spell-caster & professor of mathematics), George (a professor of Classics & all-round witch who seems to have no special skills), Amandine (retired French Literature professor and psychic, Kat's mother) & Noa (student of history - who sees people's secrets and can't help but say them). Cosima, Kat's sister, is also a witch and, when she begins casting spells to attract a mate, everything starts to go wrong.