Olga: 832 books

For anyone interested in what life was really like in the USSR this is a must-read biography. From the Russian Revolution through the graphically described tragic destruction and death wrought by Nazi Germany in WW2 the book brings to life how people survived those sad times under Communist rule....

Add panache to your dining table with these delightful napkin folds! Whether you're a caterer looking to liven up your client's next event, a host planning a luncheon for friends, or a home cook hoping to jazz up the family dinner table, you will find folds for any occasion! Charming drawings, easy-to-follow...

Featuring: Gyrdir Eliasson (Iceland) - Frode Grytten (Norway) - Micheal O Conghaile (Ireland) - Danielle Picard (France) - Mehmet Zaman Saclioglu (Turkey) - Ingo Schulze (Germany) - Roman Simic (Croatia) - Jean Sprackland (England) - Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) - Mirja Unge (Sweden)  What do we...

Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her country town, and her three infant children, and try her luck in the big smoke. Life in wartime Sydney is far from easy, but for Amy there are the hard-won satisfactions of an office job and a house of her own....

Een uit de hand gelopen affaire in Stroomversnelling van Olga van der Meer. Elines huwelijk is niet wat het geweest is. Ze ontvlucht de benauwende sfeer thuis in de armen van Raymond, die haar wél het gevoel geeft dat ze de moeite waard is. Maar ze zou hem in een oogwenk opgeven als ze een stabiel...

OLGAS LOVING GRANDMA is a story full of emotions. You will appreciate how a young girl overcame physical, financial and civil war difficulties with the love of a caring community but overall with the tender care of a loving grandma. In this delicately written narration in memory of Mama Cata, you...

Eine Liebe, die alle Grenzen überwindet. Als die Gestapo den jungen ungarischen Diplomaten Julius verschleppt, beschließt seine 20-jährige Verlobte Olga, ihn zu suchen. Damit beginnt eine verzweifelte Odyssee, die die junge Frau Tausende Kilometer durch das von den Nazis besetzte Europa führt,...

Sibirien; Anfang der neunziger Jahre: Die russische Ärztin Olga Kharitidi verläßt ihre Klinik in Nowosibirsk, um mit ihrer kranken Freundin Anna in das Altai-Gebirge zu den dort lebenden Schamanen zu reisen. Nach einem stundenlangen Marsch in den tiefverschneiten Bergen Sibiriens erfahren die beiden...

" … Carlisle’s life emerges as stimulating, self-aware, and culturally rich. Many readers will hope for a sequel." - Kirkus Reviews Olga Andreyev Carlisle has never lived in Russia, and yet throughout her life Russia has never been far. Far From Russia captures the enduring grip...

The Home Girls is a collection of candid, witty stories about rural and suburban life. Set in the mid-twentieth century, these are tales of ordinary people and domestic life. Masters was, as the Advertiser remarked, 'a natural storyteller'. Between the publication of The Home Girls,...

The true story of a woman's incredible journey into the heart of the Third Reich to find the man she loves. When the Gestapo seize 20-year-old Olga Czepf's fiance she is determined to find him and sets off on an extraordinary 2,000-mile search across Nazi-occupied Europe risking betrayal, arrest and...

Horror - racconto lungo (34 pagine) - Quando l’amore è oltre ogni limite… Antonio è legato alla moglie da un sentimento indissolubile. Loretta adesso è molto cambiata ma, riprendendone le parole, “l’amore è doloroso: ti abbatte, ti fa strisciare, ma è in questo modo che fa girare...

"My husband whispered of palms and tropical nights....what woman in my cicumstances, wouldn't have been swayed? So we left Europe and all we had known and sailed through the Suez Canal, which you could still do at that time, for Australian shores. It was an exciting time. Little did we know that...

Olga Greenlaw kept the War Diary of the American Volunteer Group--the Flying Tigers--while those gallant mercenaries defended Burma and China from Japanese aggression during the opening months of the Pacific War. Returning to the United States in 1942, she wrote The Lady and the Tigers, which war...