Résultats pour "The Heaven" dans 20e siècle

If only she had been a boy. What good is being fearless and wild at heart when her family’s rigid demands are suffocating her? Mary has an insatiable desire to break free, but in the upper echelon of Maltese society, repressed and painfully Catholic in 1937, there is no escape from her insulated, structured existence. A talented ballerina, she dreams of dancing and flying airplanes but instead is forced into marriage by her mother, her only other option to become a nun. When Mussolini drops his bombs relentlessly on the small yet mighty British colony of Malta, life is turned upside down.

The Tree of Heaven follows the fortunes of the Harrison family as the children grow up in the shadow of the First World War and Dorothy's brothers go off to the trenches, while she becomes involved with the suffrage movement, and later joins a version of the Women's Social and Political Union. 

A poignant coming-of-age story set in the early twentieth century, Heaven in a Wildflower explores the timeless question: Where is home? Kristin Thorsen struggles to put down roots on the Kansas prairie after she is sent to live in a country parsonage with her father, a pious Lutheran pastor so consumed by religion that he barely notices his only child. To avoid thinking about her mother’s nearby grave, Kristin retreats into her imagination where she finds solace in books, Swedish folktales, and stories of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK From the winner of a National Book Award and author of The Good Lord Bird, soon to be a TV series starring Ethan Hawke The year is 1969. In a housing project in south Brooklyn, a shambling old church deacon...