Résultats pour "Evan" dans Sagas

Bethan listened as her father explained to her mother the mission that he was giving to her brother, Lynn, and her Uncle Bryn. After she’s heard all of the details, she left the big house and returned to her small house where she began to pack. She was frustrated at being unable to apply the skills that she’d been learning from her father since she was just a young girl, knowing that if she’d been born male, she would have been sworn in as a deputy marshal within a year.

Doctor Turnbull had estimated that Kyle's mother had six months to live - that was three months ago. He felt guilty for playing a game as she suffered back at their small excuse for a house. She had insisted and knew that it was important to her that he spend time outside of the mechanized hell where he spent 60 hours a week earning his meager pay that kept food on the table and paid the rent. She had lost so much weight and was only able to tolerate a weak broth now, so he didn’t believe it would be that long.

Als Juliet den Schlüssel zu dem alten herrschaftlichen Anwesen ihrer Familie zugesandt bekommt, öffnet sich ihr die Tür in eine vergessen geglaubte Welt. Nightingale House hat viele Geheimnisse und Juliet ist entschlossen, jedes einzelne davon zu lüften. Warum verbrannte ihr Urgroßvater, ein gefeierter Maler, sein berühmtestes Gemälde? Was ist aus seinen beiden Kindern geworden, die darauf abgebildet waren? Bald schon muss Juliet erkennen, dass die Antworten auf ihre Fragen einen hohen Preis fordern. Denn etwas hat einst dieses Paradies zerstört.

When I started to write The Looking Glass, I intended to create a story about the healing power of hope and love. But as this story developed, a message began to emerge that I had not foreseen, a message about the distorted mirror in which we view ourselves, binding ourselves with shackles of...

It is 1938, and the threat of war looms on the streets of London. But when the lights go down in the cinema aisles, usherette Daisy Blake is transported to a world of glamour and romance. Among the staff there is much merriment, and Daisy soon falls in love with the handsome organist, Al Dawson. Then war is declared, and, just after Al leaves for the front line, Daisy discovers she's pregnant.

From the award-winning “master of the short story” (The New York Times Book Review)—nine shattering, hilarious tales of men on the outskirts of America, habituating the motels, hot dog stands, and dive bars time forgot, grappling with a world that is swiftly changing, and dreaming of a return to the wooded shores of their youth