Résultats pour "Flora" dans Fiction

Nous sommes en 1938. Ce troisième tome nous plonge en plein drame alors que le magasin général Marquis, au cœur du village de Sainte-Cécile, est la proie des flammes. Le sinistre aura un impact majeur sur les Gélinas qui, faisant preuve de charité chrétienne, offrent d’héberger la famille Marquis le temps que le commerce se reconstruise. La cohabitation ne sera pas de tout repos!

Madrid, 1936. En una ciudad arrasada por el hambre, María Álvarez lucha por sobrevivir junto a su hermano pequeño. El amor inesperado por Pedro Díaz Montero, un joven idealista de familia acomodada, le trae un destello de esperanza en medio de la guerra. Pero la tragedia los separa, y María, embarazada y sola, cruza el océano en busca de un futuro en Argentina. El exilio se convierte en una nueva oportunidad, aunque el pasado la acompaña siempre. Décadas después, Rafael Becerra, su nieto, viaja de Buenos Aires a Madrid para desentrañar los silencios y misterios que su abuela guardó con celo.

El compromiso político más profundo y la denuncia más contundente a la sociedad japonesa de principios del siglo XX se dan cita en estos tres relatos autobiográficos de la escritora Miyamoto Yuriko. Tres cantos en contra de la guerra, de los horrores de la bomba atómica y de sus consecuencias, a través de la experiencia de una mujer que es en realidad todas las mujeres japonesas de su época.

To søstre - tvillinger er de oven i købet - og voksne - er sammen i bil på vej til en ferieby et sted i Sydeuropa. Deres mål er at besøge en onkel, der vistnok opholder sig på en slags hospital, angivelig fordi han lider af noget, der ligner paranoia. Under alle omstændigheder er han patient og under behandling eller opsyn. Og efter planen skal søstrene bo i hans lejlighed og derfra besøge ham på hospitalet i nærheden.

Lark Rise is Flora Thompson's childhood memories of a north Oxfordshire village, the people who lived and worked in it, and a way of life that has totally disappeared. The story is built around Laura and her brother Edmund, through whose eyes are seen 'old Sally', whose grandfather built the house she lived in before the enclosure of the heathland, children's games, the interaction of village and gentry, and the way in which the seasons governed life.

It's 1944 and Flora Knox is enjoying a beautiful spring morning in the Swiss mountains, waiting on a railway station platform for a train. As Flora watches, a cattle train draws closer to the station, pulling a fleet of slatted trucks behind. But the trucks don't contain animals. From within come the sounds of humans, groaning, pleading, on a desperate journey across the Swiss countryside.

In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trades in bodies. An anathema in a world that prizes procreation above all else, she is an outsider everywhere she goes, including the thriving all-female city of Shy. Now navigating a blighted landscape, Flora, her friends, and a sullen young slave she adopts as her own child leave their oppressive pasts behind to find their place in the world.

Un relat sincer que mostra que quan necessites escoltar-te, una bona manera és escoltar els altres. Una dona en crisi s'instal·la en una casa a les muntanyes amb l'esperança de poder-se refer escrivint en solitud. No preveu, però, que les persones ferides es reconeixen i s'ajuden, i és així com serà acollida per una família després d'una vivència colpidora.

December 1941. War has erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an American expat living in Manila. When the Japanese invade and her husband goes missing, Gina flees with her daughter to the Zambales Mountains to avoid capture - or worse. Desperate for money, medicine, and guns, the resistance recruits Gina to join their underground army and smuggles her back to Manila.

When Margie Bauer joins the Army Nurse Corps in 1941, she is delighted to be assigned to Manila - the Pearl of the Orient. Though rumors of war circulate, she feels safe - the island is fortified, the airbases are ample, and the Filipino troops are well-trained.

Deirdre Green is no stranger to losing it all. Nearly two decades after her father's mysterious disappearance, her boyfriend, her job, and her London flat all go up in smoke. But when she suddenly inherits what’s left of her family’s publishing business, Deirdre is shocked to discover the cryptic magical conspiracy revealed in its remains.

The players in the field spent their time picking the grass or picking their nose. Suddenly, contact was made and the boll rolled forwards three times. Whopper, who was not mobile, charged after it, tripped over home plate, and landed on it with his gut.