Résultats pour "Marina" dans Sagas

Écosse, 1873. Ailis, Donna et Katrina, issues de la prestigieuse lignée des Hard, grandissent au sein de l’aristocratie écossaise. La tête dans les étoiles, les trois cousines s’imaginent parcourir le monde, bien loin des conventions imposées par leur famille et leur rang. Tandis qu’Ailis veut explorer le ciel, Donna rêve de voler en montgolfière et Katrina, elle, espère devenir actrice de théâtre. Le jour où elles sont admises à l’école St Leonards, le premier lycée écossais pour filles, leurs rêves semblent enfin à portée de main.

From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, a sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of one young woman. St. Petersburg, New Year's Eve, 1916. Marina Makarova is a young woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints...

Thanks to a cheating fiancé, Josephina Harrington's perfect life just crashed and burned. Moving in with her overbearing parents is definitely not an option. No, she needs to prove she can make it on her own. And she will - by turning her great-aunt's old plantation house into a destination getaway. She's just not expecting her contractor to be so hands-on - and so totally irresistible.

Medieval England Spring, 998 AD. Brother Galen of Yarmwick is desperate to return to friend and family. So after the triumphal unveiling of the king’s gem encrusted Book of Hours, he’s ready to rush home. But just as he thinks life will go back to normal, the Bishop of Crowland orders Galen to accompany him to Rome. Galen thought the journey to Lundenburh was gruelling. How will he face an epic voyage of thousands of miles?

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE ""An extraordinary work that will stand as blazing witness to the age that bore it.” -- Sarah Perry A ""masterpiece"" (Daisy Johnson) of mortality, passion, and human connection, set against the backdrop of a deadly global virus—from the...

The debut novel from an award-winning short story writer: a multigenerational saga spanning Lebanon, Iraq, India, the United States, and Kuwait that brings to life the triumphs and failures of three generations of Arab women. In 2013, Sara is a philosophy professor at Kuwait University, having...

A veces la gente inventa lugares habitables. Es el caso de la aldea que supieron fundar Mercedes, Luis Mariano y el Viejo Balía. Muchas mujeres y hombres aparecen en los 104 relatos breves que se engarzan en esta novela. El grupo de protagonistas, cada cual con su profundidad psicológica, se enfrenta a las amenazas de los cataclismos naturales y de la violencia política. Inspirada en los acontecimientos que vivieron personas reales, La aldea debajo de la montaña nos muestra lo que puede la literatura cuando juega con otros saberes.