Résultats pour "Pearls" dans XXe siècle

A distant land. A dangerous husband. A forbidden love. The year is 1912. Nineteen-year-old Maisie Porter watches from the deck of the SS Oceanic as England fades from view. Her destination is Buccaneer Bay in Australia’s far north-west. Her fate: marriage to distant cousin Maitland Sinclair, a...

When Ali inherits her great-aunt’s house, she immediately moves her whole family in, despite the warnings that there is something strange about the place. Unfazed, Ali begins redecorating, going through the rooms, making each one her own with the help of her daughter, Kelly. But when under the wallpaper in Kelly’s new room they discover a scrawled message from 1944, Ali begins to question the history of the house as she knows it.

A young sailor in bootcamp unexpectedly meets a young woman as he goes off to war. Their brief encounter in the per-electronic age was the inspiration for a lifelong relationship set in the backdrop of the World War II and the US Naval Campaign in the Pacific. Submarines and sailors came and went during this thirty month assignment. A few funny moments happened during the war. The Letters written from Pearl Harbor gives a quick look into the effects of the war, on the home front and in the battlegrounds.